The Sunday Post {Readathons, Author Drama, & Outlander}

Posted on 09/14/2014 in Sunday Post / 9 Comments

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Recently & Coming Up

Recently:

Review: The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen

Review: The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Review: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Jennifer Got Married!

Discussion: Jennifer hates getting Goodreads notifications now!

Coming Up:

Discussion: Domain migrations

Some reviews, but we still need to write them! #slackers

Book Haulin’!

Jennifer received for review:

The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

Surrender to Temptation by Lauren Jameson

We’d like to thank the following publishers for our review copies this week:

Penguin Audio/Simon & Schuster

Purchased

In Other News

It’s so great to be back! Thank goodness for Jessica, who was writing all the reviews while I was gone! You may have noticed that we moved domains; more on that tomorrow.

BookShelfery has it’s own Goodreads profile! Make sure you friend us! We did this so we could use the UBB Goodreads plugin, which so far rocks. We’re going through old reviews and clicking the button. Could take awhile…

Also, our Tips page on how to center images side-by-side in WordPress has been updated.

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Well, per the retailers, that started in June. I was in a Hobby Lobby early in the summer and they were already putting Christmas stuff out! But now it really is that time of year which means, the Ho Ho Ho Readathon is back, and by popular demand! Grab you warm cup of delicious, some holiday reads and cozy up from November 6 – 11 and maybe win a great prize, too! Click the button for sign-ups.

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Book News You Can Use

I would be remiss if I didn’t bring this up here, even though I did talk about it on the blog’s Facebook Page, but some authors have absolutely no consideration or graciousness for the readers who keep their books on the shelves and money flowing into their pockets. In this case, on September 3rd, Chelsea Cain, author of ONE KICK (released August 2014), became fed up with excited readers asking her about the order of book series, for help with their e-readers, and other perhaps asinine, but benign questions. These were her responses:

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Authors are people, too. But as public figures, they do have an obligation to their readers – or perhaps we should call them their customers – to treat them kindly as they would if they were a shop owner depending on them for business. As much as I applaud writers who write for the love of the written word, I also understand that being a published author means you are your own business. And that means treating your readers as customers.

Currently Reading

Perhaps now that I’m reading Outlander, Steph will let me sit at the cool kids table?

Have a great week, peeps!

Tags: author drama, New Books, Stacking the Shelves, The Sunday Post, updates

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