Susanna Carr’s Red-Hot and Royal is due out in just over two weeks!

Upcoming reviews, in no particular order:

• “Baking with Agave Nectar,” Ania Catalano (cooking)
• “50 Hikes in Maryland”
• “An Explorer’s Guide to Maryland, Second Edition,” Leonard M. Adkins
• “On Borrowed Wings,” Chandra Prasad
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slow-Cooker Cooking (cooking)
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Spices & Herbs (using)
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cooking Substitutions (using)
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming (reading)
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cheeses of the World
• The CIG to Alchemy
• The CIG to Trees and Shrubs
• “A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action,” LuAnn McLane
• “If Wishing Made It So,” Lucy Finn
• “Mystic Rider,” Patricia Rice
• “Real Vampires Get Lucky,” Gerry Bartlett
• “My Lord and Spymaster,” Joanna Bourne
• “Hot Property,” Susan Johnson
• “Ghost Moon,” Rebecca York (reading)
• “Taking the Heat,” Kathryn Shay
• “Highland Rogue,” Tess Mallory
• “Gone with the Witch,” Annette Blair
• “Because Your Vampire Said So,” Michele Bardsley
• “Dark Obsession,” Allison Chase
• “Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely,” Davis Liu, MD
• “Hard to Get,” Alyssa Brooks
• “The Art of Desire,” Cherie Feather
• “Running Wild,” Sarah McCarty
• “Sea Witch,” Virginia Kantra
• “Private Places,” multiple authors
• “Dangerous Pleasures,” Bertrice Small
• “First Blood,” multiple authors
• “Pleasure U,” Carole Hart
• “Sly Mongoose,” Tobias Buckell
• “The Power of Love,” various
• “The Cat,” Jean Johnson
• “The Sleeping Beauty Proposal,” Sarah Strohmeyer

Tate Hallaway’s Romancing the Dead is coming out in just over a week!

Also, if you’re looking for an online reading group, try Reading with Becky!

If you like reading challenges, check out the third annual 48-hour book challenge.

If you’re as addicted to cookbooks as I am, check out a challenge I can finally find the time for: Soup’s On!

3/12: Yes, I did the six-word memoir meme.

3/13: This week’s Booking through Thursday post also includes some thoughts on the romance genre.

3/14: Dewey’s Negativity Meme & More addresses negative reviews, honesty in reviews, and more.

3/24: Don’t forget the March Bookworms Carnival!

3/27: Go enter Shiloh Walker’s Monthly Ebook Giveaway, and read the awesome excerpt she has up!

My take on the You Make My Day Meme includes plenty of book-related links. I’ve also done the non-fiction meme. For that matter, care to weigh in on the question of e-books?

I just noticed this morning that we’ve officially passed the 550-review mark. Whoo!

I’m currently reading Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain, and hope to review The Great Country Inns of America Cookbook sometime today.

And finally, I wanted to share a few book- and writing-related T-shirt designs with you. As some of you may know, we have a couple of Cafepress stores we run. One carries designs for geeks and gamers, while the other carries everything else, particularly related to books, writing, food, cooking, and general humor. Our best-selling designs at the latter store have always been our book- and writing-related designs, such as:

I’d say “Word Nerd” has been our most popular.

As you can see they come in much more than T-shirts thanks to Cafepress’s wide array of print-on-demand products. Buttons, magnets, mugs, stickers, posters, you name it. Other than their “Value T-shirt” I’ve always experienced and heard great things with regard to the quality of their items, and we avoid posting designs on the value shirt for just that reason. Anyway, since people have enjoyed those so much, I thought we’d start providing more book-related designs. Two more went up last night and this morning:

Since there’s been interest with “Word Nerd” in buying bulk items (the hundred-packs of buttons and magnets that Cafepress offers), we’ve posted those for these designs too, and discounted all the hundred-packs over these book-related designs. I imagine they’d make fun giveaways for book clubs, libraries, and other book-related events. More to come soon—both T-shirts AND reviews!

Since I’ve taken to collecting links here to the more informal book blogging posts I make over at Errant Thoughts every so often, I thought I’d start this one off with a link to a challenge I might actually participate in for once:

The hidden side of a leaf is holding a 24 Hour Read-a-Thon in October. I’m tentatively planning to take part, with updates posted at Errant Thoughts and reviews of anything I finish posted here. There are prizes involved, so go sign up!

The latest Booking Through Thursday entry is up: Sunshine and Roses (9/20).

Followed by: Friendship (9/27) and Decorum (10/4).

Also, A Bookish Meme (10/3).

Time to start collating another round of book-related blogging posts from Errant Thoughts, starting with this week’s Booking Through Thursday meme:

• Statistics
• Goldilocks (9/6)
• Comfort Food (9/13)

The Superfast Reader tagged me to do the book cover meme, which came out better than I could have imagined! (9/9)

Also, while I’m waiting for Jeffrey to have the free time to add a few things to the sidebar, please consider voting for us or rating us on the following sites:

Spicypage (The widget doesn’t seem to want to work inside the post, so I’m going with a straight link.)

And, here’s a handy feedburner subscription link, which will also eventually make it into the templates:

Subscribe in a reader

I’ve started doing the Booking Through Thursday book-related challenge questions over at my personal blog, but I thought I’d collect the links here occasionally:

• Letters! We get letters
• Multiples
• Monogamy
• Indoctrination (8/23)

In particular though, I wanted to link to the second edition of the Bookworms Carnival, Surviving the Dog Days. I couldn’t even begin to list all the wonderful articles and reviews it links to, so go check them out for yourself! If you’re looking for a way to take your mind off of the summer heat, this carnival certainly delivers.

We’re in the process of importing the blogs over to the new site. We’ve imported the posts, but haven’t yet prettied everything up enough to put in the redirects. Thus we won’t be posting anything significant here until that’s ready. I expect it to be set probably sometime next week. Thanks for your patience!

UPDATE 5/29/07: We ran into a few technical glitches that’ll delay switching over for a little longer, so I’ll continue posting here for now.

UPDATE 6/13/07: Live from ErrantDreams.com now!