So, I’m reading a new ebook called Dragon Actually over the weekend and really enjoying it. I mean laughing and giggling my way through it and not in a bad way. Then it occurs to me that I know these characters.
I’m sitting there happily reading along and suddenly absolutely sure I do know this wacky family of dragon shifters. Only I’m scratching my head trying to figure out whether I’ve read this specific story before or not. I mean it was just weird. Because I knew I hadn’t read the author before.
Or so I thought.
Anyway I kept reading. And then it hit me. I really did know the characters. Those exact characters. Just not the story. I went straight to my eBookwise Librarian and pulled out the other book that they’d appeared in by another author The Distressing Damsel by Shelly Laurenston, which I might add I also giggled my way through.
At least I thought it was another author, until I checked Laurenston’s site and whatdaya know? Apparenly, she’s rewriting/rereleasing these old dragon stories under this new name at a new publishing house. The rerelease of the second book as About A Dragon comes out in December ‘08. And with print and ebook versions, no less. Joy. 
Guess what’s going on my calendar?
November 11th, 2008
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About a year, maybe more ago, I had an idea of trying to do something to more or less catalog all the shifter books I’d been reading during my “shifter phase” as I was so fondly calling it at that time. Catalog and more or less dedicate the site to talking about them. Well, apparently I’m still in that phase and going strong. Life, however, threw me a curve and I didn’t quite get around to getting them all catalogued.
So, anyway, the number of books I have along those lines has now gotten completely and totally unmanageable. To the point that I’m currently in the middle of a serious project off-line attempting to get them all cataloged into my Readerware database. It wouldn’t be that difficult if most of them weren’t electronic and not easily automatically entered into the program.
The biggest problem isn’t entering them initially, however, but figuring out how to fill out the rest of the information. I don’t mean the basic book information. I mean the specifics of interest to myself related to both the shifter sub-genre and the fact that most of them are erotic romances. Do you realize how little specific information is available pre-purchase, even from review or even point of purchase sites? Have you ever bought a book and thought you were getting one thing and actually got something completely different? Somehow, simply saying it’s sizzling just doesn’t cut it. ;p When one is talking erotic romances in today’s market, that can mean a lot of things.
More on all this as I work through cataloging and blogging in earnest.
November 7th, 2008
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Is this thing working any more?
Just checking. 
November 7th, 2008
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Well, almost done. As you can see, I have the blog itself moved but the main part of the site is down. I’m in the process of working with tech support to get the new program for it loaded. That should be in place within the next day or so and then I’ll start playing with it. I hope.
So I’m going to start posting again. For the time being, I’ve renamed the blog part of the site to Bev’s Notes, the name I used back on Blogger a couple of years ago. There is method to my madness, I promise.
One of the oddest things happened to me the other day, I think mainly because I wasn’t ready yet to start blogging yet but maybe not. I found myself posting on the AAR forum. I honestly do not know how many years it has been since that’s happened. Seriously. But you know, I actually think I like their new boards a lot more than the old ones so that might be part of it, too.
My son is currently holding my eBookwise reader hostage so I’m, gasp, having to read paperbacks. Mostly. I’m also managing to reread the occasional ebook on the monitor and it’s a pain, let me tell you.
March 22nd, 2008
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I almost didn’t post this but decided to go on and let everyone know just in case there were some still coming by. In a few days, it may appear that this blog will disappear. It will still be here but I’m moving it to a lower level on the site so that I can do some remodeling of the upper levels with a different program. At present, I’m not sure if I’m going to keep my present blog archive as a Wordpress one or incorporate it within the new stuff on the site, so I can’t give you any redirect information yet. Just keep checking back on the base bevsbooks.com domain and once everything settles down, I’ll let you know what my plans are.
February 19th, 2008
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