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Bookish news and publishing tidbits 24 January 2012

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RIASS is open to guest posts and interviews this year. If you'd like to be featured on the blog, drop me a line at readinasinglesitting@gmail.com. (Please note that I do not consider purely promotional posts. And yes, I can tell if you're trying to trick me.)

Recently on RIASS:

A review of Windfall'by bestselling author Penny Vincenzi

Read in a Single Sitting is now on'Pinterest! We're also on'Youtube'(forgive me while I figure out this 'channel' business), and'on Facebook'if you'd like to hang out with us there, too. Also'Google +! Goodness, aren't I the social media butterfly?

Other bookish news:

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Mammoth NYC has sent a Hunger Games movie poster my way. Click here to download it.

If youve moved to ebooks and youre looking for something to do with all those print books (kidding! kidding!) how about this bookcycled lampshade?

If youre a Mad Men fan, you might be interested in this ebook of the shows Untold History

4th ABR Fellowship: $5000 to create a major article with an Asian focus

Connie Willis will be receive the'Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award'for her contributions to SFF.

RUSA's 2012 Reading List highlights must-read titles in women's fiction, mystery and other genres

On the dangers of lending books

New trends in ebooks (warning: Comic Sans alert)

Unglue.it Crowdfunds Unlimited Licenses for Beloved E-books

Romance author Maisey Yates on having your stuff together (or not). See also our interview with Maisey here.

As fan videos go, this ones pretty impressive

Heinlein and Hemingway? They go waaaay back.

E-book library borrowing hits record pace

10 legendary bad girls of literature

How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books

Dos and donts for your young adult fiction protagonist

Alex Miller on reading something youve always known but havent yet expressed

Thoughts on how festivals can create and shape literary culture

The 10 Most Expensive Books in the World'

15 of the Greatest Literary Moustaches

The'Newbery, Caldecott & Printz winners for 2012 have been announced'(covers below):

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4 comments

  1. I signed up for Pinterest as well couldnt resist :)

  2. Stephanie /

    Yay! Prepare for an onslaught of pretty pictures and wonderful bookish things!

  3. The Comic Sans warning made me laugh!

  4. Stephanie /

    Still, better safe than sorry where Comic Sans is concerned!

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