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What are the top 5 websites or blogs you visit to find out about new books, romance, erotica, paranormal/urban fantasy?
NOT INCLUDING amazon, or ebay, or Barnes and noble or Borders.
What are the top 5 websites you check for new book information??
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Honestly I check Here and Ellora’s Cave, Samhaimn’s Website as well. I also follow the authors that I love and their websites and look from there. But mostly for a Variety I will just check out a few blogs. RexReadingRobots. Larissa’s Life are among the few hope that helps.
Thank you that is a great help!
I have a blogger account, so all the new posts of the blogs I follow will show up on my dashbord. I use that as far as reviews go. I review on my blog as well. [http://sexywomenread.blogspot.com]
but amazon.com is a pretty good site. they usually have an exepert for just about everything.
writerspace.com is AMAZING! They have contests galore, new authors, author chats. They seriously rock.
But mostly, I get my information from Facebook, being that I’m friends with the majority of my favorite authors on there.
Hope that helps, BBB!
There isn’t one website I go to. Since I’m on Twitter, and follow many authors, agents and book sites, I get my info from there. You, others like you, and authors all post links, which I then follow.
But I don’t frequent a specific website to get my information.
I look at so many blogs its not even funny…my favs are:
-Jkays blog (http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/) and
-Ms. Smexy (http://smexybooks.blogspot.com/)
I also look at J.R.Ward’s forum for upcoming releases
http://jrwardbdb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30019
Yeah…I drop by paperbackswap.com some times since I get some good info there as well and the bookblog group on Ning.
If you guys get a cool comprehensive list of sites to check it that would be super sweet! Ill keep a look out.
Thanks
Monica
I find a lot of new books via The Story Siren, J.Kaye’s Book Blog, and posts on the blogs I follow. And I get recommendations from Twitter and Goodreads as well. Shelf Awareness has good recommendations every now and again in their newsletter.
There’s no one main site I check for new books, but I always check the book synopsis at the sites you said not to mention.
Hope this helps, but I think your site is pretty good as is!
Jessewave
Well Read
DIK (Desert Island Keepers)
SciFiGuy.ca
Literary Escapism
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Dear Author
SciFiGuy.ca
All Things Urban Fantasy
Babbling About Books
Fang Fur Fey
(as well as some author ljs/blogs)
Like Elaine, I follow the updates on Twitter and on Facebook. I also follow a number of blogs which offer information on upcoming novels.
Linda
http://www.lindalaroque.com
http://www.lindalaroqueauthor.blogspot.com
other than here?
goodreads, Facebook and Twitter
The Science Fiction Book club, (because I am a member)
my favorite authors’ own blogs and websites.I also rely a lot on newsletters
Besides here:
Scifiguy
and my twitter pals - authors etc.
Smart Bitches is great also.
I didn’t know there were book sites except Amazon, I usually just went to my favorite authors website to see what they had coming out. I also get an email from a bookclub or booksite I think I have to wait until Tuesday to tell you what it is and they would tell me what was coming out. Otherwise I would just go to Wal-Marts book section and see what they had out. That’s why I love this booksite so well I have found a ton of authors I’ve never read that are just fantastic. Now I get information from bittenbybooks, goodreads, and writerspace thanks to your site. I also belong to more authors as friends so they send me e-mails about their up and coming books.
Honestly,I am only on here and Nightsofpassion.wordpress.com. I have a folder in my favorites for all my favorite Authors that i check. I will not buy a book that i can not at least read part of the story from, because i am very picky, so a good way for me to find authors that hold my intrest is to read a short story from them out of a book that i have purchased for a story from one of my favorite Authors in a Book with multiple Authors. Does that make sence? It does in my head! LOL
Oh wait i lied! i have been on Avon books to look! Sorry
I go to BBB, Amberkatze’s Book Blog, SciFiGuy, All Things Urban Fantasy, but Twitter most of all. I get a lot of newsletters as well, and check books out on Amazon.com a lot.
Besides here
goodreads
http://www.vampireromancebooks.com/
http://writesthoughts.blogspot.com/
Can I count my own?
ScifiGuy
Dark Faerie Tales
Michelle’s Book Blog
Tez Says
Lurv a la Mode
Those are the five that immediately spring to mind.
here
goodreads, Facebook and Myspace
The Science Fiction Book club
my favorite authors’ own blogs and websites.
authorisland.com
I check loads.
Here’s my main list of sites I read before buying (and often buy after reading): BittenByBooks.com SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com Writeminded.com Samhainpublishing.com GoodReads.com MidnightMoonCafe.com RavenHappyHour.com AccessRomance.com HowlingGoodBooks.com BlazeAuthors.com and various blogspot review sites I subscribe to. Hope that helps xxxxx
I like dearauthor.com for a lot of it. And I like Scifiguy.com. I’ll be honest though, with your site, sometimes it’s hard to find the recent reviews v. the promotions. I wonder is listing both separately on the main page would be good. Part of it is that your site is updated so very often, that if I miss even a day, so much goes past that I don’t know about (I’m lazy) that I know I’d like to know about. So having a list of the most recent 15 or 20 entries would make it less likely for me to miss them, especially if they were dividedinto reviews and not reviews. I like your reviews because there’s a lot of detail about the plot and what you like and don’t like.
I’m trying to think of the other websites i troll and right now, my head fails . . .
I usually check this website. I belong to a few newsletters but only come here for reviews.
I follow Kim Harrison’s blog
I’m a member of a reading group on Tribe.net
I follow tons of authors and bloggers but the sites I go to for new release and reviews are (besides BBB)
Anna’s Book Blog
SciFiGuy
Donna [Fantasy Dreamer's Ramblings]
Patricia’s Vampire Notes
(all of these sites have new releases listed for the month as well as interesting reviews and interviews.)
I belong to many sites that offer newletters, and I receive a lot of information that way.
Other than BBB:
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Dear Author
Literary Escapism
Amberkatze
SciFiGuy
Lurv a la Mode
Vampire Wire
Beside BBB,
Literary Escapism- Really great…always discovering new books.
Amberkatze
scifiguy.ca
dirtysexybooks
all things urban fantasy
Other than author sites? (I’ve got a lot saved to my favorites and I check them once a month usually)
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com
http://community.livejournal.com/fangs_fur_fey/
But, I usually check out Amazon Listmania or So You Like to Guides to find out about new books (I have my own lists which is why I check out author sites once a month). If someone has gone to the trouble to make one of those things on Amazon then reading the book was at least worthwhile to that person.
However it’s not Amazon I like, it’s the way items are linked together there. I can go to the page of I book (or DVD or MP3) I already know I like and find a whole bunch more like it very easily. There’s also a whole lot more user input over at Amazon also.
My primary source for information about new books is Wikipedia.org, as I like it’s simple design that loads fast, and it usually has helpful links. I do heavily rely on Amazon, especially for reviews.
I also find many new books by browsing ‘Related editions’ on BookMooch.com, where I’m a member (my BM ID is dova113).
Apart fom BBB, I also follow http://fashion-piranha.livejournal.com/
I forgot to add writerspace and fictionwise.
Well Bitten by Books is one.
Reviews by Brooke
Deadline Dames
Fantastic Book Review
Patricia’s Vampire Notes
Book Reviews by Jess
Starting Over
Do author websites/blogs count? The list gets really long then.
Fantastic Fiction UK is a great site
fantasticfiction.co.uk
BBB, of course.
thebooksmugglers
smexybooks
writerspace
twitter, facebook & goodreads
Well for new books of authors that I already follow I have them as favorites and will pursue there websites at least once a month to find out whats coming out next.
For new authors I may visit a couple of bookstores: fictionwise/samhain/amazon/goodreads and than I will go to there individual websites before buying.
For catching up on all the new reads and gossip I go to
Paranormal Romance
Shapeshifter Romance
I Do Not Want to Wait, I Want the Book Now
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
The Bradford Bunch
International Heat
I do check through a bunch, and some are just the author’s own sites, but here’s the list:
League of reluctant adults
Deadline Dames
Scifi Guy
all things urban fantasy
scifiChick
VampireWire
I’m sure I’m missing some, but those are the main ones.
I find a lot via http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/, and also authors site i loved and twitter.
I go to the authors sites and get all of their newsletters.
1.GoodReads.com all the way. I visit daily, many times a day.
Book Blogs I follow:
2. thestorysiren.com
3. reviewsbybrooke.blogspot.com
4. bookreviewsbyjess.blogspot.com
5. aleapopculture.blogspot.com
And of course, Bitten By Books.
Other than here
Goodreads
Mystery Loves Company newsletter
fantastic fiction
Other than this site:
Goodreads
fantastic fiction
Facebook
author’s sites
Library Thing site
Hi Rachel,
I check out Vampchix.com,
1.I am on Black Velvet Seductions.com/readers_blog, alot, Laurie,she runs the site, is wonderful. She is always there talking to you and she also runs contest everyday.
2.I also use Seattle Mystery Bookshop,
3.A Book Blogger’s Diary, they also have a great site w/ authors, 4.Writerspace.com is also one of my favorites, they have a chat every Sat. evening, they just had one w/ Christina Dodd, I won one of her books,
5.vampirewire.blogspot.com is good,
6.www.vampire-books.com
7. Goodreads,com is very good also
8. I also find books on blood bank.com
I hope this help. some of these sites are very good and i really enjoy them.
HeidiS.
1. Night Owl Romance http://nightowlromanceblog.blogspot.com/
2. Vamp Chix http://vampchix.blogspot.com/
3. Romantic Times http://www.romantictimes.com/
BBB (mainly for interviews, some reviews)
The League
SciFiGuy
Literary Escapism
various author newsletters/site it subscribe to
Here are my top enablers to my book addiction.
TheBookSmugglers : http://thebooksmugglers.com/
Bitten by Books: You know where you are ;o)
Angieville: http://angieville.blogspot.com/
Fantasy Literature: http://www.fantasyliterature.com/
SciFiGuy: http://www.scifiguy.ca/
I also find alot on Goodreads but the sites above are what I got to for fun author interviews and giveaways.
Mostly I use BBB
Goodreads is the other site I visit every day
Deadline Dames
The league of Reluctant Adults
And I receive emails and check the websites and blogs of all of my favorite authors.
Well when it comes to new book sites, I usually got to Ellora’s Cave or Sanhain Publishing. But there’s this site that might be helpful for you that I’m part of called Goodreads.com Oh and I don’t know if you’d consider it a book site but I’ve come across a lot of new authors and books that are listed on this site called writerspace!
Hope this helps you out a bit!
Goodreads
FantasticFiction
Paperbackswap forums
I check several
Smart Bitches
EREC
Fresh Fiction
Dear Author
Mrs.Giggles
Shapeshiter Romance
Genreality
Romance Junkies
Plus a host of author blogs.
I subscribe to Romantic Times Book Review Mag - which has a website that I check. I also check my individual author’s websites. Then I’m subscribed to Access Romance, Fresh Fiction, writerspace and other reviewing sites that have a wide collection of work - so I can discover new authors!
I go to the authors sites and get all of their newsletters. I check BBB every day.
Smart Bitches
Genreality
paranormalromance.org
fantasydreamersramblings.blogspot.com
reluctantadults.blogspot.com
darkfaerietales.com
yabookblogdirectory.blogspot.com
FreshFiction.com
theundercoverbooklover.blogspot.com
literaryescapism.com
fantasticfiction(check this primary to to keep up with books that are in a series but it also list new books by a particular author)
1. Bitten By Books
2. All Things Urban Fantasy
3. Romance Junkies
4. Romantic Times
5. Deadline Dames
6. The Book Smugglers
I Also Go To Author’s Sites And I Utilize Face Book,Blog Spot,Twitter,Myspace And More.
Most visited: ChaptersIndigo.ca - I am Canadian
Second: BBB
I also watch for Rachels posts on FB.
To be honest, that’s about it for right now. I am still looking for another site or two.
(Other than Amazon, where I research almost everything…)
Bittenbybooks.com is actually my top review site. Because I found you on http://www.kimharrison.net ,I have won contests, talked to fun authors (who I now want to read more) and “met” some fun readers, too. I REALLY like it.
I also check out Laurell K. Hamilton’s site every so often.
I came here because of Kim, love the contests and stayed for the discussions.
This site of course.
Goodreads
I either a fan or friend with a lot authors on facebook & twitter.
I also get many author newsletters.
Writerspace
Fresh Fiction
I know I am missing saying some. LOL.
Besides this site, I go to….
Goodreads
Fantastic Fiction = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
Paranormal Romance Junkies = http://paranormal-romancejunkies.webs.com
Vampire Genre = http://www.vampiregenre.com
Rach,
I go to:
1. BBB (of course)
2. Author sites
3. Publisher Sites like Tor, Roc, Penguin etc.
4. http://www.romantictimes.com/ (I’ve always loved the magazine & they cover the gamut of Romantic fiction, including Christian)
The 5 web sites I visit every day would be of course the BBB, my bank account so I know how much I have to spend on books lol, Facebook, Yahoo and ARE.
What are the top 5 websites or blogs you visit to find out about new books, romance, erotica, paranormal/urban fantasy? NOT INCLUDING amazon, or ebay, or Barnes and noble or Borders.
Other than BBB, various blogs (mostly author blogs), but mainly http://idonotwanttowaitiwantthebooknow.wordpress.com/ (my friend Lillie helps the owner of the blog, so I’ve been helping her a time or two pimp out the blog) ; http://mybookaddictionandmore.wordpress.com/, and off and on Writerspace (yeah they have contests and chats, but the two chats that I had won something from, I have never received my prize; my friend won something from a chat (a Roxanne St. Claire ARC of Hunt Her Down and never received her prize either). I use to follow AuthorIsland, DeNita use to have awesome weekly chats with authors, and that rocks.. but mainly that is for ebooks.
Sites on my favourites list: All Romance Ebooks, Ellora’s Cave, Liquid Silver Books, Loose-Id, New Concepts Pub, Phaze Books, eXtasy Books/Devine Destinies & lots of author sites & Goodreads.
I have lots of blogs that I think are great but this is really the only paranormal one I follow regularly. Working a 50+ hour a week job, work live theatre at night, writing a bokk and keeping up with my own blog & reviewing is about all I can fit in to 24hr days. I wish I had more time to visit other bloggers but the ones I do read are the ones who have email subscription. If it’s not coming to my inbox I really don’t have time to surf. I feel bad about it but that’s just the way it is.
Fictionwise, Fresh Fiction, Samhain Publishing, International Heat author blog, Writerspace, TRS. are the ones I visit most often.
BittenByBooks.com or course! I don’t have a lot of time either, so I visit BBB most often, and these others about 1-2 times a month:
TheBookSmugglers.com
PresentingLenore.blogspot.com
eHarlequin.com
freshfiction.com
barnesandnoble.com/romanticreads
oh, and I mostly use Facebook to follow authors,publishers,book groups and find stuff out that way the easiest.
Honestly the only place I check for new books, aside from author pages, is here. This is where I get all my info.
I normally check out Samahain publishing, Smexy Books blog, Jojos Book Corner blog,Smokin Hot Books blog and I individual author websites and Twitter. I also review and add new releases to my own blog.
One more really good one is Good Reads (www.goodreads.com)
Along with BBB i check these blogs:
Drey’s Library
Deadline Dames
Fantasy & SciFi Lovin’ News & Reviews
Fanlitfrankly
SciFi Guy
All Things Urban Fantasy
I also follow my favorite publisher and authors on twitter and Facebook
The first site I visit is BBB then I’ll check Goodreads and Fantastic Fiction. I also visit some author forums like Charlaine Harris (great section on upcoming releases and also what everyone’s reading). I tend to read alot of authors blogs too.