Awards & Reading Lists

TRIPLE FEATURE FRIDAY Readers are always asking me if I have any gift ideas for a certain age group. Recently I’ve had several inquiries about 6 -10 year olds who... Authors & Interviews Oct 16, 2026

The Flutterfly Effect by Hannah Fay and Mag Takc - ADVISABLE The Flutterfly Effect (Fairy Scout Friends #2) by Hannah Fay and Mag Takc, 117 pages. CHAPTER BOOK. Little Simon, 2026. $8 Content: G BUYIN... Publishing Industry Oct 14, 2026

ABSENT An upper middle grade story with three distinct alternating viewpoints. Each main character shares the reasons for their frequent absences f... Children's & Young Adult Oct 12, 2026

Daily Finds: Tuesday, October 6th I don’t want to alarm anyone but Prime day deals have already started. I think I’ll camp out here today and make a few posts. Here’s #1. Publishing Industry Oct 06, 2026

Honors Students Explore Special Collections This past month, a team of Loyola Marymount University librarians and archivists introduced 56 Honors students to the William H. Hannon Libr... Publishing Industry Oct 05, 2026

Tribes of the Vampire – NEW AUDIO Dark Romantasy series COMPLETE Tribes of the Vampire series is now in Audiobook ✓ Morally Grey Heroes✓ Forbidden Love✓ Enemies to Lovers✓ Dark Romance✓ Gothic Vib... Publishing Industry Mar 26, 2026

Publishers Weekly on Platform Decay Platform Decay by Martha Wells “The lethal but good-hearted security robot that narrates Wells’s Hugo and Nebula award–winning Murderbot Dia... Publishing Industry Mar 23, 2026

The British Women who Flew in World War Two  The Second World War was the first in which women played a role in aviation. Russian women flew combat missions as bomber and fighter pilot... Publishing Industry Aug 19, 2023

review: The Education of Little Tree Set during the Great Depression, this story covers a variety of experiences a Native American family faced living on the fringes of an Appal... Publishing Industry Aug 04, 2023

British Women at War: Womens' Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)  The youngest and arguably the most dynamic and egalitarian of the womens' services was the WAAF. While the other women's services were graf... Children's & Young Adult Jul 29, 2023

British Women at War: The Women's Royal Navy Service  The smallest and most elite of the women's services in the U.K. was undoubtedly the Women's Royal Naval Service or WRNS. Because its number... Children's & Young Adult Jul 08, 2023

British Woman at War: The Contribution of Factory Girls to Victory in WWII As in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and, indeed, the United States, by far the largest number of women mobilized in support of the war effo... Publishing Industry Jun 14, 2023

Four interesting facts about Henry VIII Part of a blog series about 'I am Henry,' the new novel and award-winning short film of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, by Jan Hendrik Verstaten... Book Reviews Apr 19, 2023

Sleeve Puffs, Lace Ruffs, and The Queen's Wardrobe by Sandra Byrd "Queen Elizabeth was so fond of her clothes that she would never part with any of them, and it is said that at her death ther... Publishing Industry Feb 07, 2023

Elizabeth I at Table  by Sandra Byrd "Queen Elizabeth was an intellectual," Colin Spencer tells us in his book British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of H... Authors & Interviews Feb 03, 2023

review: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Rebecca has been on the to-read list for ages, and thanks to Book Club, it has been marked off (and was much enjoyed)! First, a short and sp... Publishing Industry Jan 23, 2022

review: The Night the Lights Went Out The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White This is another book club read, and I was pleasantly surprised to find it included sections tha... Genre Fiction Feb 28, 2021

Author Marketing Challenge: Online vs Real World (part 1) Guest post written by Lynne M. Spreen (pictured right). Lynne writes coming-of-age stories about people who are age 50 and over, including h... Publishing Industry Oct 18, 2017