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Book Review: Blood Song by Anthony Ryan

Juli Monroe — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:30:22 +0000

I stumbled across Blood Song by Anthony Ryan from a Books on The Knob post. She said it was at the upper end of her “bargain” category, and at $4.99 I had to agree with her. However, I was in the mood for an epic fantasy, and I decided to give it a look and [...]

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Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey (Review)

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:21:18 +0000

We’ve all heard by now about the success of the latest e-book indie darling, Hugh Howey—when his self-published Kindle series became a Kindle best-seller, he made a deal with the big publishers—but in a ground-breaking twist, the deal included only the print rights, and Howey continues to sell the e-books himself. Howey is also notoriously anti-DRM and I dig [...]

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Review: The Twelve by Justin Cronin

Juli Monroe — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:00:13 +0000

I recently reviewed The Passage by Justin Cronin, the first book in his Passage series. As I said in my previous review, I had enjoyed the first book and was eagerly awaiting the sequel, The Twelve. I’m happy to report that the second book is every bit as good as the first. The e-book version [...]

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Review: The eBook Design and Development Guide by Paul Salvette

Juli Monroe — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:30:20 +0000

So you may have read my review of How to Format your eBook for Kindle, NOOK, Smashwords, and Everything Else. You remember that one, where I sort of missed that the book was no longer for sale? The author was kind enough to send us a review copy of his revised book, The eBook Design [...]

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Book Review: Tears in Rain by Rosa Montero

Juli Monroe — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:00:32 +0000

Sometimes a book comes along that is so good you know it’ll stay with you forever. Tears in Rain is one of those books for me. I found it by accident. It showed up on my Kindle with Special Offers earlier this month. I saw it was about replicants and was Prime Lending eligible. I [...]

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Book Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin

Juli Monroe — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:33:02 +0000

I read this one back in 2010, when it was first published, and I enjoyed it then. The sequel recently became available from my library in e-book format, and I decided to re-read the first one while I waited through the hold period for the second one. I read Justin Cronin‘s The Passage as an e-book, [...]

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Review: How to Format your eBook for Kindle, NOOK, Smashwords, and Everything Else – UPDATED

Juli Monroe — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:00:12 +0000

If you’re a do-it-yourself kind of author, you’ve probably encountered the “fun” of formatting your book for the various sites. I had no problems uploading my fiction book to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I created a clean HTML file and followed all the prompts. Presto! Published. My non-fiction book was similarly easy to upload [...]

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Review: This is Not the End of the Book, by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:31:49 +0000

This is Not the End of the Book is a fascinating and intriguing find that I browsed at the bricks-and-mortar bookstore—and then came home and bought for my Kindle. Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière, both authors and academics of note in their native countries, spend the book in breezy, gentle dialogue about books, publishing, literature [...]

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E-Book Review: Echoes of Honor (Honor Harrington #8)

Chris Meadows — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:15:35 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but I still mean to get the whole series reviewed so it’s time I got around to another one. As with prior reviews in the series, in each review I’ll include spoilers for previous books or stories but not spoil the ending of the current [...]

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E-Book Review: In Enemy Hands (Honor Harrington #7)

Chris Meadows — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:15:08 +0000

As I mentioned in my review of Honor Among Enemies, with In Enemy Hands the Honorverse series changes from a pure space navy series to something more politically-based. While there are still plenty of naval battles in the offing, at times the space combat takes a distinct back seat to all the political maneuvering. I [...]

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E-book review: Of treecats and grapeshot (Honor Harrington short stories)

Chris Meadows — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:27:12 +0000

Next up, chronologically, in the Honorverse are a pair of short stories. Although they have nothing to do with each other, they both cover events that become important in the next book. And they both involve events of great change to their respective worlds—one not violently, but the other very much so. Previously: Introduction Treecat [...]

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E-Book Review: Honor Among Enemies (Honor Harrington #6)

Chris Meadows — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:58:41 +0000

As I continue my series of Honor Harrington reviews, in the hope of eventually reviewing the entire almost-completely-free e-book series from start to finish, I notice some news from David Weber has popped up lately: Weber and an unnamed CGI/3D movie studio are in the process of finalizing negotiations over the movie rights (Baen Bar [...]

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E-book Review: Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington #5)

Chris Meadows — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:29:11 +0000

Previously: Introduction Treecat Trilogy A Beautiful Friendship Young Honor and Elizabeth Prince Michael rescues and Honor dances On Basilisk Station The Honor of the Queen The Short Victorious War Irresponsible captain, itinerant noble Field of Dishonor Continuing my review of Honor Harrington stories and novels in chronological order: Flag in Exile by David Weber And [...]

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E-book Review: A Beautiful Friendship (Stephanie Harrington #1)

Chris Meadows — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:22:15 +0000

Previously: Introduction Treecat Trilogy Young Honor and Elizabeth Prince Michael rescues and Honor dances On Basilisk Station The Honor of the Queen The Short Victorious War Irresponsible captain, itinerant noble Field of Dishonor Continuing my review of Honor Harrington stories and novels in chronological order: A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber For this book, we [...]

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E-book review: Little Fuzzy vs. Fuzzy Nation

Chris Meadows — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:00:57 +0000

Lately, I have been working my way through the works of science fiction writer H. Beam Piper. Piper was one of the great science fiction writers of the fifties and early sixties, and, tragically, he committed suicide right before his works’ popularity really took off. Perhaps as a result of the disorder brought about by [...]

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