Recently on RIASS:
A review of'Mysterious Island'by Jules Verne'(in which I assert somewhat cheekily that Verne was a Mountain Dew swilling gamer)
A review of Before She Dies'by Mary Burton (in which I wonder why crime novels are so filled with violence against women)
Other bookish news:
Ooh, a DIY book clutch'
Whatever Happened to Interstellar Travel in Sci Fi?
Henry Miller's 11 Commandments for Writing
A dramatic letter from Douglas Adams in 1965, when he was just 12
The Mary Cunnane Agency is looking for the names/contact details of freelance ebook'cover designers in Australia.
ABA Says No to Amazon Publishing
William Gibson about'writing for Hollywood and Twitter
Sally Nielsen talking about Sammy, I Love You
Have too much time on your hands? Try book dominoes
Pinterest boards for book lovers
Where the Wild Things Are Bedroom
Why foreign bestsellers often fail in Japan
The hard work of publisher restructuring begins
Books You Definitely Shouldn't Give to Your Valentine
Book launches:
Spinifex Books will be launching their book'Fish Hair Woman'at Readings Books in Carlton on Tuesday the 6th of March. RIASS will be there, too!
Melina Marchetta will be launching Margo Lanagans new book in Kinokuniya, Sydney, 16th Feb
The trailer for Pure'by Juliana Baggott (my review will be up next week. In the meantime, you can pick up the book here)
Amazon Freebies:
My buddy Don Walters is also offering a free download of his book'Second Intelligence'from Feb 9th-12th. You can pick up a copy'here'(US) or'here'(UK). Heres the blurb:
Robert Wilder learns in 1960 that he's been visited often since 1940 by a wise and compassionate alien, Kuro the Magnificent, who dates back to Shakespeare and occasionally quotes him. Robert has extraordinary instincts, or as Kuro calls them, a second intelligence.'Robert's introduction to Kuro's protege, the beautiful Bel-Ledera, coincides with his discovery of an impending attack by the monster ClayBak, a failed U.S. military experiment cast off as trash into outer space ' and which is now hellbent on destroying Earth. Wilder and Bel-Ledera throw themselves into Kuro's preparations for the Impassioned Battle To Save The World.'Very little goes according to plan, however, when ClayBak reinvents itself as Lord of the Flies and soars to Earth with an armada of powerful weapons at his command.
Books I have my eye on:
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