The Misadventures of Super_Librarian

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First, my apologies to Ms. Killion , who sent this book to me ages ago for a review. My Slump From Hell is a really terrible excuse, but it's the only one I have. Highland Dragon is the autho...

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It's days like this that I wish I married a geek. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, it has come to my attention that Hughesnet hates librarians. Well, that's not fair. They just hate ...

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Part of my job as a collection development librarian is ordering books in advance. Yeah, pre-ordering. I'm usually working anywhere from one to three months ahead of time, and keeping upcoming b...

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Today is November 1, which means it's once again time for NaNoWriMo . For those of you who think I'm talking more nonsense than usual, that stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal is t...

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I absolutely loved Kate Lyon 's previous release, Hope's Captive , which was a straight-up historical western romance with one of the worst covers to ever scald my retinas. Despite having a simi...

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I used to order quite a few of my Dead Tree Harlequins via their web site , and when I did - I always tried to order on Fridays because of their weekly free book offer. I've since gone digital f...

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The older I get, the less tolerance I have for stupid people. It never ceases to amaze me how romance readers can be their own worst enemies. We bitch, we moan, we rail at all the ignorant non-...

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Every year my employer wants me to take on a special "project." Essentially something that goes above and beyond my normal job duties. In the past I've done everything from weeding, to committee...

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Yeah, I basically unplugged this weekend. No bloggie for Wendy. Did y'all miss me? Heh - probably not. Anywho, unplugging also meant that my brain was on vacation, which means no post on one sin...

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This is what happens when you flit in and out of Twitter . You miss brouhahas. There was apparently one yesterday, courtesy of a New York Times article. The uproar stemmed over (what else?) the ...

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Today is the day the Bat Cave announces the winner of the super-awesome-neat-o Bronwyn Parry Contest. The winner will receive copies of both As Darkness Falls and Dark Country. Thanks to the ...

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Anyone else been following the Walmart/Amazon/Target hard cover bestsellers pricing wars with interest? I know I was pretty excited about the possibilities of $9.99 (and now $8.99 ) bestsellers...

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Today we're going to talk about the one aspect of library work that generally horrifies the public and that some librarians drag their feet on. Yep, I'm talking weeding. That process where libra...

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Best known for her book, Forever Amber , author Kathleen Winsor , who passed away in 2003 , would have been 90 years old today. In honor of her work, her life, and her all-around awesome-ness, o...

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As some of you may recall, last year I reviewed Bronwyn Parry 's debut romantic suspense novel, As Darkness Falls . The catch being that it was published in Australia and wasn't available in th...

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For those of you who know me in my mild-mannered librarian guise, you know that I'm the last woman on the planet to ever get excited about kitchen gadgets. I'll be blunt. I don't really thrive i...

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Yep, two guest blogging stints in one week. Today finds me over at the Borders TrueRomance blog blathering on about one of my favorite topics: Romance Heroines. Love 'em! Can't get enough of ...

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Since the FTC has now revised their guide on endorsements (and if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out Dear Author's posts on the topic ), I figured what the hell? Everybody else is ...

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First things first, I'm over at Romancing The Blog today talking about Great Moments In Romance Genre History. OK, maybe it's not quite that involved. Still, I spent a fair amount of time bangi...

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Brace yourself. I'm going to whine. I've been mired in a horrible reading slump. The kind of slump where I don't feel like picking up a book. At all. I'm trying to power my way through it, but ...

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For those of you who thought about me this weekend, why yes - the Detroit Tigers are trying to kill me. Instead of, oh I don't know, playing some offense and actually, oh I don't know, hitting t...

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I have a bit of a soft spot for romance author Ruth Ryan Langan . She wrote the first romance novel I ever read, which incidentally (and this shocks no one) happened to be a western romance. I wo...

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First things first. My apologies to all of you who subscribe to the RSS feed for my Upcoming Historical Romances wiki. I was at work, went in to update a few things using Internet Explorer, an...

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The American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week is going on right now, September 26 - October 3. I encourage you to visit the ALA web site , where you can find oodles of information...

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