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Title: The Ex-Debutante Author: Linda Francis Lee Pages: 341 Genre: chick-lit Plot Basics: Carlisle Wainwright Cushing goes home to h...

Title: Big City, Bad Blood Author: Sean Chercover Length: 294 pages Genre: mystery Plot Basics: Chicago PI Ray Dudgeon is hired to prot...

Title: Water for Elephants Author: Sara Gruen Length: ~390 pages Genre: Literary fiction Plot Basics: Jacob Jankowski never intended to...

This must sound like a never-ending tale of woe, what with Word Nerd writing another post about how she's still editing the middle of h...

Word Nerd found this great book meme on Worderella's blog and decided she should play along. Hardcover or paperback, and why? Word Nerd...

Title: Dead Beat (Dresden Files, bk. 7) Author: Jim Butcher Length: 393 pages Genre: urban fantasy/paranormal Plot Basics: Harry Dresde...

Title: Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga, bk. 4) Author: Stephenie Meyer Length: 754 pages Genre : YA paranormal Plot Basics: Bella Swan is d...

July was another bumper month for reading. Here's the totals: July 2008 10 books 3100 pages avg. 100 pages/day YTD 61 books 20,422 pages...

There are few things in life that make Word Nerd wish she was 16 or 17 years old again. As a whole, those were tough years of high school wi...

A little life-lesson in why everyone needs a proofreader. At Word Nerd's work, the summer interns found some old fortune cookies in a d...

Title: Madhouse Author: Rob Thurman Length: ~370 pages Genre: paranormal/urban fantasy Plot Basics: Cal Leandros and his brother Niko ...

Word Nerd's new writers group met again on Saturday and it was great to really get into the critiquing. It's a neat bunch of people...

To send you over here. Starfish Initiative VISTA This is what's up for Word Nerd right now.

So, Word Nerd decided she wanted to re-read all the Stephenie Meyer Twilight books before "Breaking Dawn" comes out on Aug. 2. Tha...

Title: Treason's River (The Reluctant Adventures of Lt. Martin Jerrold, bk. 3). Author: Edwin Thomas Length: 354 pages Genre: Histor...

Title: Feast of Fools ( Morganville Vampires, book 4) Author: Rachel Caine Length: 242 pages Genre: YA paranormal Plot Basics: SPOILER...

Title: Stealing Shadows Author: Kay Hooper Length: 356 pages Genre: thriller Plot Basics: Cassie is a psychic, with a scary gift -- bei...

Title: Dead Until Dark Author: Charlaine Harris Length : 292 pages Genre: mystery/paranormal Plot Basics: Sookie Stackhouse works as a c...

Saturday is it. Word Nerd's new writers group is officially starting. She is excited and nervous about this all at the same time. First...

The Editing Meter over there --> shows that Word Nerd has edited half her novel-in-progress. This is deceptive. What's been happening...