I’ve been incognito of late.  I haven’t talked to you good folks in a while so I crawled out of my hole to have a whine and whinge, and to see how many of you are in the same situation. It’s the start of a new year – a year I know will have a [...]

So here’s the deal with all this review blog stuff.  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided that blogs and other similar opinion websites should disclose when a reviewed item has been supplied by the manufacturer/vendor/seller/etc., or when a manufacturer/vendor/etc. has paid for said review.  A “full disclosure” kind of thing. 

It should come as no surprise to any of you that I am a fan of science-fiction.  I love it in all mediums – books, movies, television, manga, graphic novels, and good ol’ comic books.  It’s all good to me. Love Heinlein, Bradbury, LeGuin, Asimov, Herbert, Zelazny, etc.  And lately, I am finding sci-fi romances [...]

If anyone asked Nathan Kamp, ubiquitous (and delicious) cover model, he’d answer: Oh just creating my own web show about cooking, family, and living.  Go here to watch this beautiful man cook up a storm.  You’ll drool for multiple reasons. 

I stumbled on this link via a twitter by The Girl With a One-track Mind.  It’s an amazing article on erotica covers that made me go “Hmmmm…”
I would like to see more beefcake on my hetero erotica covers, now that I think about it (notwithstanding the craptastic Ellora’s Cave covers).  It would be nice to [...]

And Sybil wonders why I like my paper books.  This kind of puts things in perspective…

Some people are just too creative for their own good.
Seriously.  “Overly” creative people seem to be driven mad by their creative genius.  Just look at Van Gogh and Basquiat.
What is it that makes a sculptor, author, actor, etc., go insane? (And for the purposes of this Pondering, I’m lumping all creative types under the heading [...]

As you know by now, we’re hosting a TGTBTU TBR Pile Beauty Contest.
All you have to do to win is take a photo of your TBR pile – in costume, in drag, or just in disarray – and email it to redwyne @ gmail . com (minus the spaces).  The ducks will pick finalists and [...]

Welcome to…
TGTBTU’S FIRST (and probably last) ANNUAL
TBR PILE
BEAUTY CONTEST  !! 
Never let it be said that we ducks here at TGTBTU can’t laugh at everyone else ourselves.  By now, everyone has seen Sandy’s TBR pile.  Thinking of her pile, and my own, I started to wonder how many TBR piles are out there and [...]

Go back and look on the main TGTBTU page, in the lower left corner at Duck Sauce Theater.  You’ll see a short interview with “Usain Bolt” – the Fastest Man on Earth.
I swear – it’s real!  No really!

Just in case you are wondering, Gwen broke the sidebar.
We are working on fixing it.
Sorry about that….

My kind of guys, s’all I’m sayin’.  Listen to the NPR Morning Edition short blurb here.
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Vandals in Hot Water for ‘Fixing’ Typo on Historic Grand Canyon Sign
Saturday , August 23, 2008
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When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense.
Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a more than 60-year-old, [...]

I recently read this blog post about a reader/writer who has fallen in love with their Kindle. It’s making me rethink my thunk on Kindle: No way – don’t like a book retailer dictating a reader to me; feels too oligarchical to my silly American feelings; and Amazon “cheats” by releasing books on Kindle three [...]

Here’s a link to a quick television interview of Angela Knight, author of Warrior (reviewed here – terrific book, by the way). It’s complete coolness to see authors in real life and to hear their take on things.
I found this on Nalini Singh’s blog. Another wonderful person.
Just wanted to share.  Carry on…

This just in…
Lilith Saintcrow, Marjorie Liu, C.E. Murphy, and other urban fantasy/paranormal romance writers will be at the San Diego ComiCon tomorrow. Here’s who is going to be at an absolutely stupendous panel: