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*Updated a 4:15 p.m. EST because Word Nerd finished reading a book at work she wasn't expecting to. Happy Leap Day! That aside, time for...

Title: Getting the Girl Author: Markus Zusak Genre: YA Length: 250 pages Plot Basics: Cameron Wolfe dreams about girls. A lot. He's...

Title: The Painter of Battles Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte Genre: Literary fiction Length : 210 pages Plot Basics: For thirty years, Fal...

Title: Private Demon (Darkyn bk. 2) Author: Lynn Viehl Genre: Paranormal Length: 287 pages Plot Basics: A few spoilers here from book 1, s...

Title: Summer Knight Author: Jim Butcher Genre: fantasy Length: 371 pages Plot Basics: Chicago's only wizard, Harry Dresden's l...

Word Nerd's day might have just been made. A copy of Arturo Perez-Reverte's "A Painter of Battles" is now listed in transi...

This week's author is writer Kristin Hannah . Her newest book, Firefly Lane, recently hit shelves. For more on Hannah, check out her web...

Title: The Tea Rose Author: Jennifer Donnelly Genre: historical fiction Length: 544 pages Plot Basics: Fiona Finnegan has only ever kno...

Title: News Blues (Advanced Reader Copy) Author: Marianne Mancusi Length: ~300 pages Genre: chick lit Plot Basics: Maddy Madison is a p...

USA Today is reporting that Stephenie Meyers' fourth and final book in her Twilight series will be out this summer. For the full scoop, ...

This week's featured author is Karen Miller. She has written the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duology and has also some Stargate SG-1 related ...

Time once again for checking the bibliometer readings. January: 7 books 1962 pages 63 pages/day average Looking back over past years, Januar...

Title: Eclipse Author: Stephenie Meyer Genre: YA/paranormal Length: ~640 pages Plot Basics: Bella Swan is rapidly approaching her gradu...

Title: The Kill Author: Allison Brennan Genre: Romantic suspense Length: 407 pages Plot Basics : Trace Evidence scientist and former FBI...

Title: If Angels Burn (Darkyn, bk. 1) Author: Lynn Viehl Genre: Paranormal Length: 298 pages Plot Basics: Dr. Alexandra Keller is one o...

Word Nerd first interviewed Marcus Sakey last year around the time of the release of his debut novel, "The Blade Itself." Sakey i...

Word Nerd accomplished her goal this weekend of finishing the rough draft of the novel. The novel, though partly contained still in handwrit...

So. Since yesterday afternoon, Word Nerd's written more than 5,000 words and she's got one more definite scene to go. This next scen...

In August 2006, Word Nerd announced she was hibernating for a weekend and was going to finish her first WIP . In that post, she was pretty d...

This week's guest is historical and YA fiction author Jennifer Donnelly . Her first novel, "The Tea Rose" garnered lots of pra...