Exciting news! My publisher HarperCollins has just launched a new online community! Here’s the scoop:

Do you enjoy talking about your favorite books or authors? Do you have strong opinions about book cover designs and book descriptions?

Join our new READERS’ ROOM, where you can take surveys on books before they’re published and earn FREE ebooks or audiobooks just for participating! It’s an exclusive space for passionate, opinionated readers like you, and we’d love to have you on board.

As a member you will:

• Be HEARD: You’ll shape the future of publishing by voicing your views on all things books.
   
• Be an INSIDER: You’ll see behind the scenes and have the chance to read about books before they’re published.
   
• Be REWARDED: You’ll have regular opportunities to earn ebooks or audiobooks … all you need to do is participate.

Interested? Click here to get going!

. . . into the next stage of production for The Redemption of Philip Thane: second-pass galleys! I read ’em on my Kindle and it’s starting to look like A REAL BOOK!

Want to learn more about The Redemption of Philip Thane, and check out all the preorder options in print, audio and ebook? Click here.

I relate to several of these Reader Personality Types — but NEVER, NEVER “D”!

via Mia Sosa

What about you? :)

Podcast alert! If you’d like to listen in on a conversation between my amazing Avon editor Lucia Macro and me, in which we yak about the creative process, how I came to write You May Kiss the Bride, why romance novels have claimed their well-deserved place at the literary table, my upcoming The Redemption of Philip Thane, and more, click here!

Isn’t this a delightful comic? It fills my bookish heart with joy. ♥

Reading IS magic!

Truth!

My childhood in a nutshell. ♥

The artists who created this glorious illustration are Trindles & Read. More about them here.

I am NOT a bibliophobe, a biblioklept, a biblioriptos, or (shudder) a biblioclast . . .

via @retroculturati on Twitter

. . . although I AM a bibliophile and, I hope, a bibliosopher. :)

For those of us who like to read more than one book at a time!

Via @HaggardHawks on Twitter: “Invented by the Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli in 1588, a bookwheel is a rotating library.”