Tooting Your Trumpet #3

Some people toot their own trumpet. I mean to toot yours. On the first Sunday of every month, I'm sharing your posts, your sites, anything interesting I stumble upon during my internet vagrancies. This month on TYT...

• TUNNELVILLE (a YA novel, the second installment in the Mad World series by Erin Callahan & Troy H. Gardner, that recently got a makeover)
• LIBRARY MISCONCEPTIONS (a funny post on Shayna's blog Clockwork Bibliotheca - and the first one in her "library series" - where she discloses all the weird things librarians get told on a daily basis/people assume about them)
• FEEDBOOKS (a site where you can find copyright-free books to download!)
•  DIVERSE BOOKS (a list on Kristen's blog Metaphors and Moonlight)

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Tunnelville (book) - by Erin Callahan & Troy H. Gardner

Please note: the link above will bring you to my review of the old version (while the links below are for Amazon purchase). Nothing major has changed since then, but the book feels more together in the new version, though I loved some of the vignettes that have been forgone in the name of pace.

The three YA books Erin and Troy have co-authored so far (Wakefield, Tunnelville and Perfection) are the first half of the Mad World double trilogy, originally published by a small press. After Book 3 came out - that is, in June 2013 - the two of them have been working at refining their craft, while also tending to their individual projects. Now, since the rights for the first three installments were reverted to them, Erin and Troy have decided to go indie, and to kick off Wakefield, Tunnelville and Perfection again, before they start publishing the second half of the series. This involved a whole rebrand, of course, starting with the covers. But it also involved a lot of trimming cutting in order to make the books tighter and get a better hold on the pace (mission accomplished!).  Both Tunnelville and its predecessor Wakefield are a strong and entertaining mix of adventure, conspiracy and magic in a contemporary set.

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Library Misconceptions (post) - by Shayna

Shayna (a.k.a. Prototype_SR04) is a librarian who blogs at Clockwork Bibliotheca. To my delight, she recently decided to start a post series about library life, and the one linked above is her first, where she shares some of the most common ideas she's heard from people about library work/workers, and challenges them (in a funny and non-judgmental way of course!).

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Feedbooks (site)

Feedbooks is a site where you can not only buy ebooks, but also find a selection of DRM-free titles to dowload. There are five languages to choose from (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) and a whole lot of genres. Public domain books are, for obvious reasons, mostly old, but some of them are classics - I was pleasantly surprised to find a couple of Agatha Christie's thrillers among them, because apparently, those are public domain titles in the US (go figure). There are even a few Doctor Who novelisations!

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Diverse Books (list) - by Kristen

Kristen just added a new tag to her blog's menu: Diverse Books (in the sci-fi/fantasy genre, that she specialises in). It's divided into sections (Books with LGBTQIA+ Rep, Books with POC Rep, Books with Disability Rep, Books with Religion Rep, Diverse Books I Haven’t Reviewed, Diverse Games❗, Blog Posts I Have About Diverse Rep, Other Resources), most of which, in turn, are broken down into categories. Along with her already established Books with Disability master list (again, sci-fi/fantasy-related), a useful and always updated resource!

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That's all for now folks! See you the first Sunday of every month for more!