Category Archives: Book Recommendations

Current Favorite Reads: a Michael Crichton Binge

By Susan | Published: April 26, 2013

I’m out of town (yay! Visiting friends in warm ol’ Texas and TOMORROW IS EDGEFEST!!!), so I thought I’d make today’s post simple. A month or so back, a reader asked, What are some of your current favorite reads? Well, as of this week, I’ve been on an “old-books-I-read-but-don’t-remember” kick. I started on Sunday, with [...]

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Happy World Book Night Eve!

By Susan | Published: April 22, 2013

Tomorrow is World Book Night in the US–an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading! As the website for World Book Night declares, World Book Night is about giving books and encouraging reading in those who don’t regularly do so. But it is also about more than that: It’s about people, communities and [...]

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Pub(lishing) Crawl: Interview with Wendy Higgins, author of Sweet Evil

By Susan | Published: January 14, 2013

Woohoo! We’re kicking off this second week of Pub(lishing) Crawl post-apocalyptic insanity with an interview from the amazing Wendy Higgins. If you haven’t read Sweet Evil, then you guys are really missing out. Seriously, there’s a reason this book has been making waves all over the blogosphere (and beyond!), and that reason is that it’s awesome. Also, [...]

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Pub(lishing) Crawl: We’re Glad We Survived the Apocalypse For THESE Books!

By Susan | Published: January 7, 2013

We’re back! And we made it through the apocalypse with only a few minor cuts and bruises. To kick off a brand new year at Pub(lishing) Crawl, we’re sharing some books we’re glad we survived the apocalypse for! Also, if you scrollllllll down, you can enter in a HUGE GIVEAWAY to celebrate this new 2013! Don’t [...]

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Blood Red Road: a book recommendation

By Susan | Published: December 17, 2012

5 out of 5 stars. This book took me completely by surprise. Like, when Erin Bowman recommended it to me with gushing praise, I was expecting Moira Young’s Blood Red Road to be good… I was not expecting it to be a single-sitting read or one of my favorite reads of ALL TIME. Saba has spent her whole [...]

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The Next Big Thing Slam Book

By Susan | Published: December 14, 2012

So it’s not really a slam book…but sometimes blog memes remind me of those awesome notebooks we used to send around in junior high. By “we” I mean all two friends and me. ANYWAY, the lovely and wonderful Marie Lu tagged me in this fun little meme, and I thought I’d hop on…and tag three [...]

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My Favorite Books on Writing

By Susan | Published: October 26, 2012

So, as promised for our next round of NaNoWriMo help and inspiration, I’m going to share some of my favorite books on writing/revising/inspiration/etc. And if you swing by Sarah’s blog today, she’ll also be posting with NaNo goodness. In other news, my dear, dear friend Meredith McCardle sold her book! I am so, so, SO happy [...]

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If you liked Something Strange and Deadly…

By Susan | Published: October 19, 2012

…then I think you might like these books, too. I’ve had a number of people email/tweet me for other books they might like after finishing Something Strange and Deadly. Since–ya know–there’s a full 9 months before A Darkness Strange and Lovely releases, so I am more than happy to comply. 1. The first book I would recommend–even [...]

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Throne of Glass is finally here!

By Susan | Published: August 7, 2012

So, this is one of those posts that’s hard to write primarily because I don’t even know where to start. Today is a Big Day–not just for Sarah J. Maas and all of her thousands and thousands of fans–but for us here at Pub(lishing) Crawl too. Sarah was one of the founders of Let the [...]

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Assassin and the Empire. Read it.

By Susan | Published: July 20, 2012

As a fan of the THRONE OF GLASS novellas, it’s kind of hard to see the last one release today… To know there won’t be more stories before we’re thrust into the actual series of THRONE OF GLASS… It actually makes my heart ache. Sure, I am absolutely elated at the prospect of the series beginning…but [...]