I get a little click-happy on Amazon whenever I go away, particularly when there’s a long flight in the offing. And this purchase I blame partly on the pre-flight click-fever, and partly on the fact that I was looking for good back cover copy examples. It turns out that Oddjobs by Heide Goody and Iain…
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Launch Day for Baking Bad – A Cozy Mystery with Dragons
Okay lovely people. I know you’ve heard me carrying on about cozy mysteries (or a particular cozy mystery with dragons) for quite long enough now, but today is launch day, so bear with me. Before we get into it, though, I have some huge thank yous to say. Firstly to all of you who have…
Reading Aloud from Baking Bad – Cozy Mysteries, Dragons, & Over-Excitement
In which I demonstrate why I should never try to do an audiobook, and also get very over-excited by the sight of the first copy of Baking Bad. Which has a slightly different cover from the one I went for in the end, but is no different at its heart – which, like all good…
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: a Universe of Possibilities, Beauty, & Optimism
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos is one of those books that’s been on my TBR for more years than I care to mention. I’ve had the book that accompanied the original TV series since I was ten or eleven, so it’s not like I haven’t had plenty of opportunity to read it. I’ve even read his The…
H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu, & problematic reading
It’s October, and you know what that means, right? No. Not pumpkin spice. I’m not American. I only just figured out that pumpkin spice is actually just a spice flavour, not a pumpkin one. I spent a lot of years confused about why everyone wanted their coffee to taste like soup. But October does mean…