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Leon and Lulu Books & Authors

FINALLY it’s time to spill the beans about the BIG NEWS we’ve hinted at over the last couple of posts!

Live in Metro Detroit? Have friends or family there, or could maybe drive yourself to Metro Detroit? Listen up!

Leon and Lulu (aka “the best place to find THE PERFECT GIFT for that person who is impossible to buy for”) is having their Books & Authors event Sunday the 26th, and Twintype Books is going to be there!!!!

You can find out more info here, and despite our book cover not being on the ho...

Bits & Pieces

Sooooo…I thought that would be a clever blog post title, considering the content and also since I love oldies…until I put the song on in the background and remembered how depressing a cheerful song can be. Well…at least I didn’t bust out with any Gary Puckett! *shudderbarf*

Bits & Pieces #1: Yet another fabulous book blogger has reviewed Pistils! Go check out D A Bale’s website and leave her some love!!!

Bits & Pieces #2: Dixie Minor, we got your Social Media Tag, and will be pouncing on it ASA...

Kate’s Book Review…”Real Happy Family: A Novel”

As I mentioned a while back, I’m going to start including a few book reviews here and there, mostly because I’m interested to see if any of you have read the same books and what your thoughts were. As I am a Goodreads junkie, I’ll just be copying/pasting them from my account there.

For those of you giving me a squinty “Umm, Kate I’m friends with/follow you on Goodreads, and you don’t review diddly-squat” look, I actually have two accounts. I primarily review on my personal/tied-with-Facebook a...

Kate’s September Kindle First/Lending Library Picks!

It’s a new month! Picking out two new books to read for free is one of my favorite things about Amazon Prime (and trust me, I LOOOOVE and use my membership daily), so here are my September Picks!

Kindle First Pick: The Moonlight Palace by Liz Rosenberg

Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange...

In Case You Missed It…the Novella…umm, I Mean Novel…

So the other day as I was on one of my “Oh my God life is good I CAN’T STOP WRITING” binges, I had an epiphany. Apparently I was the last to have it, because Vivian (yes, the fictional character) was standing behind me and gave me a good head-smack for being so slow to pick up on it.

Vivian isn’t going to be a novella. It’s going to be a novel.

In my excitementI tweeted about it (props toDrea for giving me a RIGHT ON GURL!), then I started wrapping my brain around it.

Originally, Vivian was trul...

A Quote from “Vivian”

So because I’m feeling both lazy and creative (quite the combination, eh?), here’s a quote from the novella-in-progress. Remember, Vivian’s story takes place before Pistils (don’t worry, there are no spoilers here).

I had a fleeting last-minute wish that I’d been able to call and share the weird twist of events with Parker, but she was studying for her last few exams, and I hadn’t wanted to bother her. Confidence, though. Vivian, you have confidence in spades, I could almost hear her telling m...

Crazy Popular is Crazy Popular, So Say the Masses

Perhaps second only to the 50 Shades of Blah movie in terms of OMG TEH BOOK IS NOW A MOVIE!!!!!! is Gone Girl.

I had very…ummm…mixed feelings about the book, and my review reflected that. Well, perhaps not so mixed just…polarized. Most people who have read it have very distinct “before the…” and “after the…” reactions to it. To tell you more would be to spoil it. And watch the trailer without fear, it doesn’t give away much…except that Ben Affleck is Nick? Well…alrighty then. I’m sure he fits...

No Wire…err…Cliffhangers!!!

Some quick news…Twintype Books has a Facebook fan page now! Won’t you pretty please come on over and Like us? As with our Twitter, we promise not to spam…instead you’ll get a notification when there’s a new blog post, and we’ll be putting up pictures and other fun random stuff there too. It’s a great way to interact with us (we especially love book recommendations, comments, and pictures from YOU!) if you don’t use Twitter.

Next up…so the last two books I finished reading ended with a *dun dun...

Pistils Now Available in the Kindle Lending Library!

Good news!!! Starting today, through the end of October, Pistils will be available in Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library! What does this mean?

Well, if you’re an Amazon Prime member (and if you’re not, they DO offer a free 30-day trial, and I personally think it pays for itself almost immediately), it means you’ll be able to borrow a copy of Pistils at no additional charge! It’s basically like going to the library and checking out our book…if you’re broke (and we’ve all be...

Surrounded by Inspiration, Happy Birthday Detroit, and “IT”

In honor of Friday-Eve, I think I’ll go in reverse order of the title of this post!

“It,” aka the trailer at least one person on your Facebook went bonkers over today…we know there are two or three of you wondering what Britt and I thought about the 50 Shades of Blah trailer, right? You followed us over from the Watchalong, right? Well duh, obviously we’re going to cowatch it (we’ve scheduled it in for Sunday), and maybe post a mini-recap. For some reason we feel we’re a lot funnier in chat (r...