aka: A Better Way to Contact Me

Like most book bloggers I get my fair share of authors, publishers and publicists making use of my contact form to try to get me to read/promote their latest book.
By far the most common request I get is some variation on the standard ‘form’ letter, now there’s nothing wrong [...]

Publishers need to ‘re-masculate’ books if they want to get more men reading.
Interesting article in todays Guardian about the imbalance between male and female literary habits and what can be done about it.
It turns out in the important “Page Turners” bracket (the avid reader) 48% of the women surveyed fell into this category, while only [...]

This weeks Booking Through Thursday asks: Why Buy?
If you usually buy your books, tell me why. Why buy instead of borrow? Why shell out your hard-earned dollars for something you could get for free?
I’m going to offer up a couple of pictures before I begin, that will help illustrate my first point, that just like [...]