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This week we're looking at a book that is a master class in how to take a tale that could veer into the prosaic and at least somewhat uninteresting and elevate it into

A Realist Looks To The Future. I've read several books in the last few years covering the general real-world end of the world scenarios and/ or

Solid Sophomore Effort That Doesn't Live Up To The Author's Debut. With this book, Dickey gives a solid story that has elements across several genr

Raw. Brutal. Not A Name-Dropping Hollywood Story. Like so many others, I first "met" Haynes when he showed up

For this blog tour, we're looking at an atypical tale of WWI that pulls no punches. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Sea Nurses by Kate Eastham.

Atypical Tale That Pulls No Punches. While the WWI period isn't *quite* as common in historical fi

This week we're looking at an action packed series starter from a thrilling scifi author. This week we're looking at

This week we're looking at a remarkable book about healing and finding your way, even at your very lowest point. This week we're looking at

Reacher Fans, Meet Tess, Po, and Pinky. This is a somewhat standard mystery-with-badass-heroes where there is a baddy (in this case, a

For this blog tour we're looking at a fun and flirty foodie romance that packs a bit of bite when it wants to. For this blog tour we're looking at A Proposal They Can't Refuse by Natalie Cana.

Here's what I had to say about it on Goodreads:

Fun, Flirty Flight With Serious Undertones. This is one of those books where you take two cultures known for their passions - in this case, the Irish and the Puerto Rican -, mix in a lifetime of not only knowing each other, but having both families remarkably intertwined (platonically) and add a heaping of tragic backstory... and watch everything come together beautifully. The mix of romance tropes works well here, our primary couple is particularly well fleshed out while giving most all of the side characters at least some time to shine, and we even get a clear sense that a series is brewing to boot. This book really does fire on all burners, and when the gut punches of the tragic backstories hit, they land like haymakers. Ultimately a fun book even with the haymakers, this is very much recommended.

After the jump, an excerpt from the book followed by the "publisher details" - book description, author bio, and social media and buy links.

Kamilah Vega stomped up the short entryway and yanked the heavy glass door open with more force than necessary. A strong wind, the type only ever experienced in Chicago, grabbed a hold of the door and pushed it back so roughly that it made a loud bang. The front-desk secretary jumped and gave her a dirty look, but Kamilah barely noticed. Her attention went immediately to the two bodies slumped in the love seat outside the director’s office.

She tried her best to keep the anger out of her voice because she already knew how t

If you've been on social media much in the last couple of weeks (and in various reading circles therein) in particular, you've probably seen the meme at the top of this post floating around.

Me being me, I decided to take a look at both of its claims - one, that a reader paying more for a book does anything overly beneficial for the author of that book and two, that the author will significantly benefit from a singular sale of a book.

The reason I wanted to look at these claims is because they directly speak to a couple of issues I've wanted to look at some hard numbers on almost since the beginning of this blog, and am only now actually sitting down to do, based on some Facebook comments I made about this very meme. Specifically, how the volume of books a reader reads directly impacts the price point they can reasonably afford per book (inversely) and just how critical word of mouth and reviews are for independent authors in particular in reaching any kind of livable income as an author.

First, let's look at the total cost of acquiring new books based on how many books a reader is rea