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Reading:   Games of Adversaries by Susan Curnow Writing: Sebastian (English and Dutch), Lily Marin-the book Promoting: Hilda – Magic on the Rocks, Green Haven a Rafflecopter giveaway


Preferred ways of reading.

Dear reader, What is your favourite medium to read from? Do you prefer books? Tablets? E-readers? Your telephone? The Daily Telegraph posted an interesting article on this topic a little while ago: Electronic readers ‘better than books’ for older people Elderly people should use e-readers or tablet computers rather than books because they place less strain on the eyes while… (more…)


Indie promotion – Lyon’s Legacy

Dear reader, It is Monday. I shall therefore persist in my habit of presenting to you a new Indie Promotion. Today: Lyon’s Legacy: Catalyst chronicles book 1 by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan Ebook Short Description: Sometimes being a geneticist isn’t enough to understand your family…. Joanna Lyon is the great-granddaughter of the legendary TwenCen musician Sean Lyon. She may have inherited her… (more…)


A fun bit of hardware

Via TheDigitalReader I found this interesting article: Meet the Trekstor Pyrus Mini. There are no English language reviews of this ereader yet, so I am going to post a rare first impressions post in order to give my readers at least some info. This beauty is shorter, narrower, and thinner than the beagle, and it weighs in at only 111 grams, beating… (more…)


Book review – Song of the Fairy Queen

Title: Song of the Fairy Queen Author: Valerie Douglas Genre: Fantasy Rating:  Song of the Fairy Queen. A spectacular book in which very much is brought together. Adventure, love, loyalty and trust, battle, betrayal and the worst that people can bring up, all forged into a story that made it hard to put the book down even when my eyelids… (more…)


Indie Promotion – The Shadow Seer

Dear reader, Once again we live to see Monday, so I present to you today’s Indie Promotion: Ellenessia’s Curse Book 1: The Shadow Seer by Fran Jacobs Ebook Short Description: For generations prophets have foreseen the birth of the Shadow Seer, the oracle of dark visions and fallen kingdoms. But by the time of Sorron, King of Carnia, their warnings have… (more…)


The book of Lumis

Dear reader,   For a change, and for the start of this new year, here is something you might not expect. I am presenting the first chapter of a work from Christopher Hunter. (All with permission of course.) Here is the first chapter of his book “The book of Lumis“.     CHAPTER ONE - THE BIRTH OF ARING In the… (more…)


APG indie promotion

Dear reader, It is Monday again, so I present to you: today’s Indie Promotion: Feeding the urge by Alexandria Publishing Group author Jeffrey Kosh Ebook Short Description: In Prosperity Glades, a small town on the shores of Lake Okeechobee, you can run across Dr. Axel J. Hyde, the County’s Assistant Medical Examiner. He’s an eye-catching man, yet hides a dark… (more…)


Self-Publishing: No Longer Just A Vanity Project

Dear reader, Via NPR.org I found this interesting article on self-publishing: They used to call it the “vanity press,” and the phrase itself spoke volumes. Self-published authors were considered not good enough to get a real publishing contract. They had to pay to see their book in print. But with the advent of e-books, self-publishing has exploded, and a handful… (more…)


A Christmas Present for all Hilda fans.

1. Laughing with the king Two very disapproving cats regarded the two soggy magical humans they pretended to look after. The wet king next to the two, sitting in the fountain in front of his palace, was of less interest to them, but these two people in their dark clothing were behaving in an outrageous manner, which could affect the… (more…)


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