Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! Ana here writing from NY where we Book Smugglers are having our first State of the Union meeting of 2015. THE PLANS, THEY HAVE BEEN MADE. But let’s get down to business. Giveaway winners:…
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“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
It’s that time of year again – awards season is here! Today we will be talking about the Hugo Awards! The Hugo Awards are among the most prestigious under the SFF umbrella, and each year the winners are announced…
Old School Wednesdays: Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising #1) by Susan Cooper
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
From the Page to the Screen: All You Need is Kill / Edge of Tomorrow
Hello everyone! For this edition of From the Page to the Screen, we will discuss All You Need is Kill / Edge of Tomorrow. The official timeline: 2004: the book, All You Need is Kill, a Japanese science fiction…
TIME magazine recently published their lists of Top 100 Young Adult & Top 100 Children’s Books of All Time. The lovely Candlewick Press has 6 titles on the Young Adult list – and they are pretty great and include…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
Over at Kirkus: Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine
It’s Friday, which means we Book Smugglers are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana, having started the frantic reading for awards season, is talking about a novella by Genevieve Valentine (author of one of Ana’s top of 2014: The Girls…
The results for our February Old School Wednesdays Readalong are in! After 118 votes, the book we will be reading is HIS MAJESTY’S DRAGON by Naomi Novik. Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as…
A Smugglerific Cover (& Giveaway): The Wand & the Sea by Claire M Caterer
Today we are delighted to unveil the cover for a middle grade novel, The Wand & the Sea by Claire M Caterer! BEHOLD! The smugglerific cover! About the Book A year has passed since Holly and Ben Shepard have…