Blogging Tips: How to Find Upcoming Book Releases

Blogging Tips: How to Find Upcoming Book Releases

I used to wonder how people were able to find out about upcoming books months in advance. Backlist books are great, but hyping up and getting excited about upcoming books is fun too, and I wanted to join in! So I started figuring it out, and I thought I'd share my methods of finding upcoming releases. There are, of course, many different ways to find out about books, but, well, these are mine,...
 
Bookish News: More January/February 2019 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Releases (+ Kickstarter Opportunities) to Get Excited About

Bookish News: More January/February 2019 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Releases (+ Kickstarter Opportunities) to Get Excited About

I do a second post for each set of months when I do these upcoming releases posts because there are always books I miss in the first one. Surprisingly, this time there are only three! Are there just not as many books published in January and February? Maybe it's just coincidence that there aren't that many books I'm interested in? Since three books made for a very short post, so I decided to add...
 
Update: Life and Books (Jan 2019) + I Made Art!

Update: Life and Books (Jan 2019) + I Made Art!

This is my first update post of the new year, and as you can probably tell, I've committed to just doing these as monthly wrap-up posts since that's basically what I've been doing anyway. I have no news about the dentist since I had a CT scan in December, and it took my current dentist four whole weeks, despite my multiple phone calls, to talk to the endodontist about the results before I was...
 
Book Review: Blue Fire (The Healing Wars Book 2) by Janice Hardy

Book Review: Blue Fire (The Healing Wars Book 2) by Janice Hardy

To some she's a fugitive, to others she's a hero, but all Nya wants to do is save the Takers and keep herself and her friends safe from those who are after her. But then Nya ends up with the last group of people she wanted to be with and learns things she never knew about her own family, and things only get more complicated as she comes closer to figuring out the Duke's...
 
Book Review + Giveaway: Undercurrent (Under Book 2) by M.N. Arzu

Book Review + Giveaway: Undercurrent (Under Book 2) by M.N. Arzu

It's been several months since merfolk were discovered by humans, but now the surface merfolk have another problem on their hands: someone is killing their kind, doing so in ways that shouldn't even be possible, and he's targeting the newest member of the Brooks family. Amidst dealing with the UN and trying to keep their identities secret from the press, the Brookses and their allies will have to...
 
Book Recs: 10 Books about Characters with Unique Hobbies/Passions

Book Recs: 10 Books about Characters with Unique Hobbies/Passions

I love reading about characters who have a hobby or something they're passionate about, especially when it makes a big appearance in the book. Usually these are things I don't know much about, so they're really interesting to me. And of course they add another layer to the character and help me understand them more. That's why I've compiled a list of ten books I've read about characters who...
 
Book Review: Captain (Never Land Book 1) by Artie Sievers

Book Review: Captain (Never Land Book 1) by Artie Sievers

Seventeen-year-old James wants adventure, so when his father tries to push him into a life of banking, he stows away on the Jolly Roger and accidentally becomes part of a pirate crew on their trip to Never Land. Between brewing faerie tensions, murderous pirates, near-death experiences, and love, he certainly gets an adventure, but it doesn't turn out to be quite the one he'd hoped...