Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Cool Web 2.0 Book Sites
Posted by: Crystal King on: August 15, 2008
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In the event you haven’t stumbled on any of these yet, I thought I’d share a few of the cool new bookish/literary sites that I’ve run across.
LIbraryThing
I’m on there as Crystallyn if anyone wants to friend me. The best site (in my opinion) for cataloging books, reviews and talking with other book lovers. The book [...]
Ridonkulously Expensive Books
Posted by: Crystal King on: August 3, 2008
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A lot of the Roman history books that I want to use for my book are extremely costly. Many of them are textbooks so they are often upwards of $75 or more. Drives me crazy.
I was really hoping that being able to download some of them to my Kindle would save me some $$, and [...]
Group Motivation – The Perks of a Writing Group
Posted by: Crystal King on: July 31, 2008
At the beginning of the year I joined up with one of my fellow classmates in the novel-in-progress class that I took last summer, deciding that we would meet up every other week to crit and talk about our books. We added two more lovely women in the last few months and now we have [...]
Kindling My Reading Habit
Posted by: Crystal King on: July 24, 2008
- In: Books
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This week I acquired a shiny new toy!!! I scored an award from my company so FINALLY I could satiate my lust. My joy started with the box, pictured here. I’m such a sucker for gorgeous packaging and this was one of the best presentations I’ve seen thus far. The box was like a book [...]
No Longer a “Silent, Shrinking Maiden”
Posted by: Crystal King on: February 26, 2008
I am very excited about this book coming out soon!!!
LeGuin, one of my favorite writers, decided to tackle one of my current favorite places–ancient Italy. She’s delving back even further than I am in my book about Apicius, however, giving voice to Lavinia, who is unspoken in Virgil’s famous epic.
From Publisher’s Weekly: In the [...]
I Am Coveting:
Posted by: Crystal King on: February 5, 2008
this wonderful but pricey lamp (woe is our defeated American dollar!!!!) from Dutch company Studiomeiboom:
via Neatorama.
Win a Spot in Holly Lisle’s First Writing Teleconference
Posted by: Crystal King on: October 27, 2007
I’ve been a huge Holly Lisle fan for a long while now, not just because she writes great, engaging fiction, but because she’s also been an invaluable resource for me as a writer. Holly is someone who doesn’t just pop out a novel every few years–she is a career writer, writing every day, publishing on [...]
Thousands and Thousands of Color-Coordinated Books
Posted by: Crystal King on: October 24, 2007
- In: Writing
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Not sure how on earth you would find what you wanted but dang it looks cool!
clipped from www.superherodesigns.com
Chris Cobb’s piece at Adobe Books, Canon Digital Rebel
Chris Cobb, a local San Francisco artist did something amazing to a bookshop called Adobe Books- he arranged every single one of the 20,000 books by color. {Can [...]
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