2008 Bram Stoker Awards Where & When: World Horror Convention, Salt Lake City, Sat 29 Mar 2008
Eligibility Year: 2007

NOVEL

The Guardener’s Tale, Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot Publishing)

Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow)

The Missing, Sarah Langan (Harper)

The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)

FIRST NOVEL [...]

2008 Hugo Award Nominees
Published on 21 Mar 2008 at 12:09 pm.
The full list of nominees for this year’s Hugo Awards, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, is as follows:
Best Novel
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)
Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor; Analog Oct. 2006-Jan/Feb. [...]

Here are the books we will be discussing in April
Small Favor - Jim Butcher
This is book ten in the wonderful Dresden Files series. Find out what Harry gets up to in this book and join in the discussion with us next month.
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
A favourite childhood book for many a [...]

The Penguin/Orange Broadband Readers’ Group Prize is the UK’s only annual prize for reading groups.
Established in 2002, groups can win visits from authors – the Penguin Ambassadors – and books shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction as well as a trip to Penguin’s offices in London to meet authors and editors.
All reading groups [...]

Harry Potter: the last battle
On one side: global-celebrity author JK Rowling. On the other: an amateur fan site devoted to the world’s favourite boy wizard. At stake: the soul of Harry Potter. John Crace on the court case that has the publishing world holding its breath
She doesn’t court publicity. She doesn’t flaunt her wealth. She [...]

Literature.org - The Online Literature Library
Free e-books are available from them only for authors who have been dead for 75-90 years, due to copyright restrictions.  Here is a list of their current authors:
* Aesop
* Louisa May Alcott
* James Matthew Barrie
* L. Frank Baum
* Anne Bronte
* Charlotte Bronte
* Emily Bronte
* Edgar Rice Burroughs
* Lewis Carroll
* [...]

I hope you are all enjoying the free e-book downloads from Tor!
Well now along with the free books, they are now offering two free wallpapers each week in a variety of sizes to suit all desktops.
The first two on offer are by Donato Giancola John Jude Palencar and shouldn’t be missed

Con Appearances
Madicon
March 7-9, 2008
Harrisonburg, VA
Mobicon
May 16-18, 2008
Mobile, AL
Polaris
July 11-13, 2008
Toronto
MileHiCon
October 24-26, 2008
Denver, CO
Small Favor signing tour
SEATTLE - TACOMA, WA
Tuesday, April 1, 7:00 PM PST
UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
PORTLAND, OR
Wednesday, April 2, 7:00 PM PST
POWELL’S CITY OF BOOKS
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd
Beaverton, OR
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Thursday, April 3, [...]

Well now that all our discussions are staggered, it’s not so easy to post updates for each month, since some of the books start in one month and finish in the next!
Here are books we are reading for March and April 2008:
New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
Ill Wind - Rachel Caine (author joining us for [...]