The Geekish Reader

In honor of the Canada Day Blog Hop - every day until July 2nd I will have interviews with several amazing Canadian authors!  To start things off today we have Aislinn MacNamara!! About Aislinn: They say that once you reach your forties, you undergo some sort of mid-life crisis. That must have been what happened to Aislinn Macnamara when she finally made up her mind to set down some of the stories that had been accumulating dust in the dark recesses of her brain for years. As space becomes available, other plots and characters have developed the pesky habit of moving in to take their place. Aislinn lives in the wilds of suburbia outside Montreal with her husband and two teenaged daughters. When not writing, she looks for other excuses to neglect the housework, among them knitting, reading and wasting time on the internet in the guise of doing research. She is represented by Sara Megibow of Nelson Literary . AT:   Where in Canada do you live?  Tell us what you love a

  Ladies and Gentleman!! Welcome to the first annual Canada Day Blog Hop !! Co-hosted by Aislynn of Knit Purl Stitch Read &Cook & Chrystal of Snowdrop Dreams of Books June 29th to July 2nd We have a great group of Canadian Bloggers taking part in this hop.  Everyone will be hosting their own giveaway running from 12:00am on June 29th until 11:59pm on July 2nd.  Each blog will have their own set of rules and regulations for their giveaway.   So make sure to check them out before you enter! Winners will be announced on most blogs on July 3rd. During the hop, Chrystal and I have some interviews with some amazing Canadian Authors as well as some guest posts.  Also participating are some fabulous Canadian Publishers! Make sure to come check these out! Now onto the fun stuff!!  ***************************** I am giving TWO books to one lucky person! Winner will get to select the two books  (by fabulous Canadian authors of course!) Pick from:  Tiffany Clare, Deborah Cook

Welcome to Knit Purl Stitch Read & Cook's weekly feature!! A Day in the Life of.. This is where us bloggers & fans get a glimpse inside the typical day of some of our favorite authors! This weeks guest is fabulous YA author Holly Schindler !! About Holly: I can’t remember the last time I left the house without a spiral notebook or some pages folded up in a back pocket. And I don’t think I've ever returned without fresh ideas, titles, or poetry fragments climbing every one of those pages, racing up the margins, crisscrossing in as many different directions as the highways and interstates on a road map of Missouri (my home state). I ’ve spent my life making these notes in the margins—even as a little girl, my favorite summer activity was to write books bound by strips of red ribbon…and to scrawl comments next to my paragraphs like the most critical of editors. (Lessons learned from this childhood pastime served me well, even in graduate school,

Welcome to Knit Purl Stitch Read & Cook's new weekly feature!! A Day in the Life of.. This is where us bloggers & fans get a glimpse inside the days of our favorite authors! This week we have science fiction author Michael Hicks! About Michael: Call me Mike. Only my mom calls me Michael. And that’s when I’m in trouble…   I suspect that the roots of my writing career actually began early in my elementary school years, when I got to sleep over at my grandparents’ place on the weekends. After Grandma and Grandpa went to bed, I would stay up until all hours watching movies like The Blob , The Abominable Doctor Phibes , and Forbidden Planet . At home during the day, I was glued to TV series like Star Trek , Lost In Space , and Space: 1999 , along with every war movie and series I could sneak in behind Mom’s back (Dad feigned ignorance, bless his soul). And lest you think I did nothing but watch the tube, I spent far more time reading every sci-fi, horror, and

Thank you again Ashley for joining us last Wednesday for the debut of A Day in the Life of..  And thank you to everyone who stopped by and entering Ashley's giveaway!! The winner was randomly selected from the comments. And our winner is....... Our winner Rita, has asked me to select another winner :) She has a copy of Ashley's book and would love for someone else to enjoy it as well!  So our new winner is... Sarah from The Brazen Bookworm Please email your contact information to Ashley (ashley(at)ashleymarch(dot)com   -~-

Weekly meme from The Story Siren . The idea is to post the books you got this week,whether you bought them, got them as a gift, from the library, or received them to review. A day late I know! For review via NetGalley:   Won: (via. the ladies at Romance Lately !) Bought:  (via my local used bookstore!) R.A.K. ( Random Acts of Kindness program via The Book Soulmates ) I got this from the lovely Cassay @ Vamps, Weres and Cassay Oh My!  -~-