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This week, we look at a multi-generational tale of a mother's love from yet another new-to-me Lake Union author. This week, we look at

This week, we look at an excellent historical fiction novel from yet another new=to-me Lake Union author. This week, we're talking about The Victory

One of the singular most common questions one will encounter in almost any group of readers where one member of the group mentions having recieved an ARC is "How can I get one?". It is a question asked with somewhat alarming regularity, to the level that some authors have recently spoken up about writing being a business - and they are not wrong.

As we saw in the discussion of the business justification for Advance Review Copies, ARCs are, when used ideally, loss leaders for the publishing agent

In the next few days, I am going to write an article with my answer to the age old question: "How can I get an ARC?".

But in thinking about my answer to that question, I realized that there is a more critical topic that needs to be discussed before we can intelligently look at how to obtain an ARC - "What are ARCs and why do they exist?"

Quite simply, Advance Review Copies are the literary equivalent of an early screening of a movie - they exist as part of a marketing strategy to build word of mouth (aka "buzz") about a particular book in the days/ weeks/ sometimes even months before its release. But the goal is always

This week we are looking at a tale of three friends getting together to spend one last perfect summer together in a former monastery in the En

This week, we look at an intensely dark and gritty new police procedural story that is intended to launch a new series. This week, we look at The Memory Man by Steven Savile.

This was one of the darkest, grittiest books I've read in quite a while. It

Last month, I wrote about a troubling trend I've been made aware of recently among Advance Reader Copy (ARC) readers. Continuing discussions around ARCs, mostly with fellow ARC readers this time, has revealed another troubling topic.

Specifically, the question has come up in multiple discussions on different walls and groups regarding what to do with ARC copies once you are done with them and in particular whether it is acceptable to share them.

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This week, we're talking about yet another new-to-me Lake Union author's newest book, the first in a new

This week we look to an excellent post Apocalyptic zombie tale by a promising debut author. This week, we look to

This week, we look at a book that introduces a new spinoff series from a well established world. This week, we look at Ghost of Himself by