Congrats to Beth, who won Training Cats (2nd ed) by PD Singer! (A book title completely not endorsed by Chaos.)
Congrats to sere, who won The Battle for Galerir (The Galerir Saga #2)Â byAnna Lee!
Congrats to Megan W, who won Unbreak My Heart by K-Lee Klein! Unbreak My Heart will be released by Amber Allure on August 25.
Randonymity
- It’s amazing how exciting it is to have overhead light in the kitchen again, after the old, crappy, dangerous, burned out fixture was replaced last weekend.
Contest(s)
- The Novel Approach is giving away an ebook copy of Freeman (2nd ed) by Clare London. Closes 11:59 pm PDT, August 25.
- Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of Just a Cowboy and His Baby by Carolyn Brown. Closes August 31. US & Canada.
Bookity
- New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance)
- Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
- Tor.com on HP Lovecraft. Plus Lovecraftian maps! (via Tor.com)
- “Do readers secretly wish to be writers?” (Thanks, Experiment BL626!)
Ebookity
Think, Do, Make, Learn
- Some mobile feed reader options. (I like gReader [Android] better than the native Feedly app.)
Cookity
- Greek garbanzo salad. (via The Kitchn)
- Stone fruit sangria. (via The Kitchn)
Gluten Free
Crafty
Cool
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
- Butter sculptures. Somewhere I’m sure I still have a photo of the Butter Palm (Pilot) from the Minnesota State Fair a while back…
LOL
- xkcd on risks. xkcd on the excess of online chat systems. (Hover your cursor for additional text.)
Teh Cute
Reading Update
- You’ll never guess… 😉
“‘Draw me like one of your French girls’? What does that even mean, Mom?” -Mayhem
Chris- The weather is cooler here, thank goodness.
Cherry Poke cake- yummy.
What does a prisoner do if his butt starts ringing?
A recent post from lorraine..Ten On Tuesday- 10 Favorite Kitchen Gadgets
I like the diversity piece, but I feel that with the YA fantasy I read that there is a fair amount of diversity there. It might just be my favorite authors, but maybe it is easier to write from the perspective of the past when portraying other cultures rather than trying to get current cultural norms/mores to flow for a story. Interesting either way.
A recent post from Seanna Lea..Swapping everything
I must make the garbanzo bean salad. I may even try to cook my own. Outside. Where the heat can stay.
A recent post from marylou..Drive By with Lightning Bugs
Wow my country is so tiny on that map
A recent post from blodeuedd..Review: Lord of the Fading Lands – C.L.Wilson
*Squints at map* who stole Scandinavia?
Experiment BL626, this reader hates to write, like really, really hate it
I saw a butter statute of Yoda with a mustache somewhere on the web this week, but I cannot find it now. Gone forever, I guess…
Eeek – we have three Subways in our town and it isn’t big!!