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This week marks my first trip away from my daughters. I have come to stay with my grandmother and her husband to help them as she starts recovering from her recent stroke. Her prognosis looks good, but every difference between “before” and “after” is difficult.

Being here feels very right, as I sit in rooms filled to the brim with books. My heart is full.

Internet connectivity is spotty, as is email, but I’ll be back on Monday with some book reviews, reviews of some new Gluten-Free/Dairy-Free products, recipes, a review of a Solar Science lab, and more random musings.

Go stock up on the Buffy collector’s set, or the Angel complete set! Half price. Wow. Think of it, in the long run, you’re saving money to buy more fantasy and paranormal books books!

As a book reviewer, I’m on the fringes of the publishing world, but I see the sheer quantity of memoirs and novels published; the information in Wednesday’s On Point helped me understand how a bogus memoir could make its way into print, as most publishers don’t do in-depth fact checks, they trust the author. Copy-editing is performed to ensure accuracy enough to avoid libel, but one would think the publisher could double check that the author’s basic identity and story is accurate as well. I wish Margaret Seltzer/Jones had written her “memoir” as fiction, as it sounds like an engrossing book that would fit beside the wonderful novels of fictionalized reality, True to the Game I & II. But because she lied and cheated, we won’t have the opportunity to read the book as a novel. As I was looking into falsified memoirs, nothing has explained my burning question: why would someone write fiction and publish it as if it was a factual memoir?

I am disappointed and appalled that an author would do this, and it boggles my mind that anyone would try to sell a false memoir as fact. I can completely understand why someone would want to be published, and that if the memoir market is hot, authors aim for publication in the hot market. However, I can’t understand why someone would risk everything by lying so profoundly about their lives, with the hubris of believing they wouldn’t get caught, when in truth it was relatively easy to disprove their story. Read more

Check out this video of the authors – they are hysterical!

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While you’re awaiting your copy of The Outlaw Demon Wails, be sure to read our (spoiler free) book review, as well as our (also spoiler free) interview with Kim Harrison.

Don’t forget to pick up the mass market paperback of For a Few Demons More, it has a Rachel & Kisten short story at the end that is absolutely worth the price of the book!

Congratulations! This was so hard, so many good friends entering, so I couldn’t rig it! I wrote all the names down on paper, and MG drew one out of a bowl.

There will be another giveaway soon, so please check back!

Addendum: When we finished the series, the girls thought that Book 2 becoming available in May for BG’s birthday was perfect. They also said that it was the best book I had read to them – even better than Harry Potter! They now want to become shape-shifters when they grow up…

• I worked in conjunction with Felicia Sullivan of Writers Revealed to interview Carol Muske-Dukes. Carol is the author of Channeling Mark Twain: A Novel, which I reviewed here. My interview, conducted via email, is now available.