Congrats to Lea W, who won Impossible to Resist by Em Woods and Keeping House by Lee Brazil!
Contests
- Blodeuedd’s giving away two copies of The Legend of Michael by Lisa Renee Jones. Ends May 20. (US & Canada)
- Bloeuedd’s also giving away two copies of Carolyn Brown’s Love Drunk Cowboy. Ends May 23. (US & Canada)
Bookity
- New releases and more: Literary Escapism (UF/PNR), AAR (romance), Katiebabs (UF/PNR/romance), and Book Lovers Inc (UF/PNR/romance).
- Book/publishing news and more: Dear Author and ReadReactReview.
- If you like to read urban fantasy and you don’t know about Bordertown, catch up now (well, on May 24). I love how similar the book’s cover is to this photo that I posted a few years ago and thought looked like it belonged in the Borderland.
- VacuousMinx on reading outside your comfort zone (and don’t miss the cool comic about how hard it can be to write romance!).
- Paperback Writer highlights the free application Story Lite (Windows, Mac, Linux soon), which authors and editors might find useful.
- The Author Fan Letter Blog Crawl kicks off on June 1! I’m not participating this year – I’m pretty sure nothing will ever top my experience last year. I posted about Charles de Lint; his wife read my post and then she and Charles donated a signed special edition book for me to give away!
Ebookity
- Dear Author has an indepth look at the Amazon and Google Cloud Players, which aren’t making the music industry very happy.
- If you were a fan of the ElfQuest comics, they’re all available to read free online.
- The New York Public Library has released a free iPad app that lets you browse their 1939-1940 World’s Fair materials.
Think, Do, Make, Learn
- Want to vacuum seal stuff without any specialized supplies or equipment? Try ziploc bags and a bike pump.
- Netflix streaming makes up more online traffic than piracy – I’d really think about this if I was one of the studios opting out of Netflix…
- The Center for Disease Control let us know that they’ll have our backs in case of a zombie apocalypse…
- Flowchart on proper office coffee-making etiquette – perhaps you could post this near the coffemaker?
Cookity
- Literal cup-cakes. (Thanks, CursingMama!)
- Ladybug cupcakes! (Do not contain actual ladybugs.)
- Converse sneakers cake. (via The Kitchn) (Does not contain actual sneakers.)
Crafty
- Knitted clock frame. (I might need to buy a clock for this project!)
- Gnome socks! (Thanks, Juni!)
Cool
- Interesting way to save wineglasses from the evils of the dishwasher – if enough preorders are placed to make the product a reality.
- Photo of Endeavour’s launch – make sure you read the first comment. 🙂
Cool or Wha…?
- A computer mouse made out of felt?! (Prototype only.)
Wha…?
- Fair is fair: pejazzling has arrived.
LOL
- Whoops. Apparently the TSA at the Minneapolis-St Paul Airport forgot to notify the local police that it was running a bomb detection test…
- Found a website that you think would look better with a piece of bacon? Like Google maybe? Here’s how to add bacon to any website. (Thanks, Jase!)
- Flying spider marmoset! (Thanks, Jase!)
Teh Cute
- Kitten! Pesky cheetah cub! Safe kittens! Fox kit! Kitten! Fox! Kitten! Polar bear and cubs! Kittens! Ferret! Cat and kitten! Tiger! Opossums! Kitten! Baby mongoose! Kitten! Baby platypus! Kittens! Tigers! Kitten! Baby ferret! Kitten! Lion cub! Baby fennec! Lemur and baby! Koala twins! Black cats and kittens!
Reading Update
Camwolf by JL Merrow. ebook. Very good paranormal m/m romance about a Cambridge fellow who becomes fascinated with one of the students – a student with secrets and a past darker and more painful than his own.
Lonewolf by JL Merrow. free ebook short. Good short m/m paranormal romance about Carl (who turned the main character from Camwolf into a werewolf) as he tries to find the man who turned him into a werewolf.
Riley’s Regret (Lost Shifters #11) by Stephani Hecht. ebook. Very good paranormal m/m romance about Eagle shifter Riley, whose behavior has become increasingly unpredictable and erratic.
Heart in Hand (Warder #3) by Mary Calmes. ebook. Very good paranormal m/m romance about a hearth who’s in love with his warder, but doesn’t want to burden him and so hasn’t been completely open with him. And then it’s almost too late, as things take a nightmarish turn. This went way too quickly, but I didn’t want to put it down.
The Trouble With Angel by JM Cartwright. ebook. Very good m/m romance about a pro baseball player who suddenly has two kids to take care of, so he shanghais his agent’s assistant into helping him with the kids.
Back Home by RJ Scott. ebook. Very good m/m romance about an architect from Vermont who’s been living in London to avoid his brother’s boyfriend, even though his brother died two years ago. Then his dad gets sick and his sister begs him to come home to help salvage the family construction company…
Galaxy’s Heart (Sutter’s Bay #3) by Shawn Lane. ebook. Good m/m romance about an artist who moves to Sutter’s Bay with his traumatized brother, hoping it will be a good place for his brother to get better, and runs into someone from his past. Here’s hoping we don’t have to wait too long for Leo’s book… 🙂
Language Lessons by Jay Bell. ebook short. Sweet short m/m romance about a promiscuous high school senior who doesn’t really understand what love is.
Trust in Me by Lori Toland. ebook. Good m/m romance about a guy who unexpectedly runs into the first guy he slept with, and it brings up all sorts of memories and issues for him. (I did get a titch frustrated by the Big Misunderstanding.)
Remember Me? by Lynn Lorenz. ebook. Very sweet (occasionally a bit too) m/m romance about a doctor who recognizes a nearly dead man in the ER as his first love from ten years ago.
Cover Art by Caroline Stephens. ebook short. Sweet short m/m romance about a brutally shy romance writer who has a crush on the cover model who’s on all his books.
Off the Page by Ryan Loveless. ebook short. Cute short m/m romance about a writer who finds himself writing his interactions with his roommate into his historical romance. I had one niggle about the actual sex scene, which lacked any sort of prep, lube, or condom.
Doing Love Right (Beach Duo #2) by Diana DeRicci. ebook. Good m/m romance about a wedding planner, recently dumped, who wakes up after a party to discover a strange man in bed with him… a strange man who know an awful lot about him. This would’ve been better without the near-purple prose during the sex scenes. (Eyre, there’s an orphan!)
Man Whore (Personal Demons #1) by Pia Veleno. ebook. This so-so paranormal m/m romance consisted of two storylines that took way too long to converge, giving the book an incoherent and disjointed feel. The first storyline was about an artist who slept with a different man or woman every night. The second storyline was about a bunch of demons who seemed to be up to no good.
Cum for Now, Stay Forever by P. Lee. ebook short. Meh short m/m paranormal about a guy staying at a beach house who has a hot encounter with a mysterious stranger. The euphemisms, they hurt me.
“What? Can’t a girl hang out in her toy basket without being disturbed?!” -Mayhem
Oh parents, really, like?!
And awwww, how cats perceive themselves 😀
A recent post from blodeuedd..Interview and contest- Carolyn Brown – Love Drunk Cowboy
Dear lord woman! Pejazzling o.0 I didn’t even know about Vajazzling. What is the world coming to?! Okay, you don’t have to answer that but I was a bit flabberghasted and then had to laugh my ass off when a guy stated he used a BeDazzler and it hurt a litle….”ya think mister!” 😉
With a title like ‘Cum for now, Stay forever’ it’s no wonder that m/m romance has such a reputation for mindless erotica. Please tell me that the title was tongue in cheek?
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1. That’s such a strange photo of May…she looks like a black blob with eyes.
2. The non-painting photo is absolutely crazy. How beautiful is that??
3. I’ve always wanted an actual VW bus camper to refurbish.
4. Re: Rapture–further actions from people that do nothing more than make Christians look stupid. FTR, I’m hanging out with my grandma Saturday and am pretty sure there’ll be some frightened/disappointed people in churches on Sunday;)
A recent post from Melanie..Ten Years Above Ground!!
Double Triple Oreos? You’d better eat just one!
Chris- Triple Double Oreos- better get a big glass of milk!
A recent post from Lorraine..Out And About
Love the rapture flowchart – I was fooling with outlook meeting invitations for 6:00 Rapture, accept or decline? and 6:00 where? GMT? MidAmerica? Safe to say I’ll be left behind. And Sulu rocks.
A recent post from Mary Lou..Vintage Buttons
Seriously—is there anything George Takei does that ISN’T awesome? He could probably make reading the phone book out loud interesting. 🙂
That udon noodle dress? EWWWWWW!
she looks soooo little!
Great linkity as always – off to read all those tabs I opened.
I just bought the first in the Lost Shifters series by Hecht – hopefully I’ll be reading all of them soon.
I liked the Christmas story that RJ Scott wrote – I’ll have to look into this one.
Remember Me sounds good. I like “lost loves” stories.
I like Jay Bell – I’ll have to look into getting that one.
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Who knew making coffee was so complicated. That’s why I have my own personal machine on my desk. No touchy.
Those “cup”cakes are genius.
Cake shooters are cool. I hate cake pops in Toronto. Yummy.
Gluten free is really becoming more interesting to companies as they realize the market. We were told it’s a real growing trend in the food industry.
I’d love an “It’s okay to be Takei” mug. I can’t believe that bill passed. *bangs head on desk*
That bus tent is kind of cute.
I saw a video on pejazzling quite a while ago. Just make sure you shave well first or ouchy.
I envision poor baby Like asking her friends and teachers to call her Amy about Grade 2.
I can always count on Damnyouautocorrect for a laugh.
I haven’t read too many of those although I definitely need to get Camwolf soon. And your Eyre comment made me snort out loud. LOL
May is so cute in her basket.
A recent post from Tam..How a Dare Turns Into More
Let’s see, I’ve ordered Borderworld and now I am contemplating starting a lego jewelry factory, considering there is a metric ton of it in my home.
Also? I already knew I was out of this whole rapture thing…
Romance is any permuatation…….yawn.
Dark chocolate & bacon? So wrong.
Cool “cup”cakes!! Cool embroidered magnets too. Funny romance cartoon. Funny kitty strip. ARGH!! Lots of linkety! Oh yeah, I can guess the mystery knitter! Your hair is longer. Or down.
A recent post from Carrie#K..Shouldnt It Rain Less in May
Sir Ian can do a great thing like talk about GLBT equality to kids, but teachers can’t say “gay” in part of the US. So sad.
Poor little Like. Some people should not be allowed to name their own kids.
A recent post from Eyre..Levi Kreis
BTW, Tam, what’s wrong with orphans? 😛
A recent post from Eyre..Levi Kreis
I would have never thought to put Nookie in a ziplock bag (or 2) to waterproof him. Seems kind of cruel in an odd sort of way, you know?
And yes, I did have to click on the ‘literal cupcakes’ link to figure out why they were literal. *literal?? head tilts to one side*
A recent post from Ava March..Deliberately Bound – free story
That non-painting photo was incredible!!!
LOL at the VW bus tent – I think it’s cute, not that I’d use it (or any tent, really) to camp.
Loving both Sir Ian and George Takei even more. 🙂
I want those gnome socks! Those are awesome, but the Beowulf ones are still my faves. 🙂
Can’t wait for the new Borderlands book and I love that picture you took!
A recent post from Bronwyn Green..Riding in Cars with Boys – Part Eleven
All it takes is one of your linkity posts to feel (at least a little bit) updated again about what’s going on in the virtual world. 🙂
I’m reading Doing Love Right atm because I couldn’t wait to read it after finishing The Charlie Factor. I’m not sure what ‘near-purple prose’ is, but my thoughts keep drifting off with this one, but maybe it’s just me and my lack of concentration these days…
A recent post from Janna..Wicked Weekend Sweets
I keep trying to imagine the scene for the non-painting photo and I just can’t do it. It’s an amazing photo.
Love the gnome socks and the knitted clock!
Those plush kitties are so cute too.
But that udon noodle garment is down right scarey.
Linkity – thank you Chris!
Ohhh, the cuteness of May!
A recent post from orannia..Trumpeting
It’s you in the photo! Am I right??
As usual, fine links. I laughed at the Scrabble comments, too.
A recent post from Lorette..Recipe of the Week
Thank you for the comments about what the cake did or did not contain. That made me laugh. However, I’m curious if the turtles are real turtles or not…
And I love the space shuttle pic (and LOTR reference)! Thanks for the link to that.
Lastly, does this mean we finally have proof that you still knit? 😉
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