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Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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August 8, 2016

How I Learned to Love to Read --- Guest Post by Michael Seidlinger, Author of FALTER KINGDOM

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By Michael J. Seidlinger
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There are all sorts of different readers out there, from voracious bookworms to more reluctant readers who need a bit more time to find the book that really speaks to them. Although he is now a book publicist and book reviews editor, author Michael J. Seidlinger fell into the latter category. As a teen, Seidlinger was much more likely to be found jamming out to to heavy metal or playing videogames than reading, but then he found a book that made him broaden his horizons. Today, Michael is the author of a few adult novels and FALTER KINGDOM, his first foray into YA. He has written the blog post below to describe how books changed his life and how reluctant readers can learn to really love books.

Michael J. Seidlinger

Michael J. Seidlinger is the author of a number of novels including THE STRANGEST, THE FUN WE’VE HAD, and THE LAUGHTER OF STRANGERS. He serves as Electric Literature‘s Book Reviews Editor as well as Publisher-in-Chief of Civil Coping Mechanisms, an indie press specializing in innovative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. FALTER KINGDOM is his first YA novel. He lives in Baltimore, MD.

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August 8, 2016

Harry Potter Midnight Release Parties

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Posted by Rebecca M
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It was a sunny, balmy Saturday evening when, all across the boroughs of NYC, six Harry Potter fans with their appropriately themed apparel on and their wands at the ready walked into their favorite bookstores not knowing what the night would have in store for

Iris Johansen, author of Night and Day: An Eve Duncan Novel

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan risked it all to protect Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead. The journey has led them from California to a remote mountain in the Scottish highlands --- and earned Eve the distinction of becoming their next target. When, despite all precautions, Cara is taken, Eve must hunt down the very people who want to kill her in order to save the young girl. At a time in her life when she has more at stake than ever before, she unhesitatingly puts it all on the line in a pulse-pounding mission of rescue and survival.

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John Connolly, author of A Time of Torment: A Charlie Parker Thriller

Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings, but destroyed himself in the process. In his final days, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death, but was saved; of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined stockade. Parker is not like other men. He died and was reborn. He is ready to wage war. Now he will descend upon a strange, isolated community called the Cut, and face down a force of men who rule by terror, intimidation and murder. All in the name of the being they serve.

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