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jimhines ([personal profile] jimhines) wrote2010-06-22 09:30 am
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8 Books in 8 Weeks: Week Seven

Looking back, it was exactly two weeks before the official release of The Mermaid’s Madness that I started to see copies trickling into the bookstores.

It is now exactly two weeks until the release of Red Hood’s Revenge [B&N | Mysterious Galaxy | Amazon].  I’m just sayin’…

(If you do decide to rush out and search for the book, I strongly suggest calling the bookstore beforehand.  The official release date isn’t until July 6, so most stores probably won’t have it in stock yet.)

Anyway, I’m counting down to July 6 by giving away another book every week.  Congratulations to Marla Rudas, who won last week’s giveaway with her entry, “The Stepsister Scheme: Kills bugs dead!”

For this week’s giveaway, I want to know where you learn about new books.  Friends and family?  The library?  Online reviews?  Little book gnomes?  Conventions?  If there’s a specific resource you’d like to share, please do!  (If it’s one I’m unfamiliar with, maybe I’ll try to send a review copy.)

I’ll pick one commenter at random to win their choice of the following:

14 days and counting…

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.

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[personal profile] cofax7 2010-06-22 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I get book recommendations from the tiny invisible people who live inside my computer! They're so smart, and even though they're invisible they manage to read (and sometimes write!) great science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, and mysteries, and then tell me when I would like them. Sometimes they even send me books that they think I'll like--I'm not sure how they manage to lift the book up to the counter at the post office, though, since they're so small.
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[personal profile] lea_hazel 2010-06-23 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Most of my friends are voracious readers, so anything that they mention reading and liking goes on an invisible list in my brain. If I hear good things about a book more than once, it gets bumped up the list. There are also a bunch of specific book blogs I follow. I like the Book Smugglers a lot, they're my favorite book bloggers right now. I also like Tia Nevitt's book blog, because she specifically highlights debuts, which are usually books I wouldn't hear of anywhere else.