Reviews, Guest Spots, and Great Book Blogs

There are so many great book blogs out there and lots and lots of opportunities to win books and to read about current or upcoming novels. I have had the pleasure of being a guest or having Silverweed reviewed by a few of these blogs in the last couple of weeks.

This week, Jan 9 – 16, I am the guest author on Amberkatze Book Blog. Amberkatze features an author every week, as well as lots of contest and book reviews. My Little Mermaid inspired short story, "His Soul Inspiration", is being featured, and I'm giving away an eBook copy of Silverweed. The contest ends Sunday 16, 2011.

(BTW  "His Soul Inspiration" originally appeared on, Enchanted Conversation. The fairy tale magazine is now taking submissions for its "Rumpelstiltskin" edition.)

A big thank you to Tiger of All Consuming Book for reviewing Silverweed. Tiger’s blog mainly focuses on YA and Urban Fantasy, and one cool feature of her blog is Shakespeare Saturday. She has a way of writing great summaries without giving away too much of the plot. You can read her review of Silverweed here:
 http://tigersallconsumingbooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/review-silverweed-by-dorlana-vann.html

I also wanted to thank Desilula of Paperback Dolls for reviewing Silverweed. The Dolls are six women from all over the world who bring their unique views about the book world to one cool spot. They always have gobs of reviews and some sort of awesome contest going on. You can read Desilula’s review of Silverweed here:
 http://paperbackdolls.blogspot.com/2010/12/review-silverweed-by-dorlana-vann.html

Let us know if you know of a great review/book site, even if it is yours. :)

Fantasy Poetry by Charlotte Beard

Appleseeds
by Charlotte Beard

I
Somewhere Jimmy Crack Corn is King James of the Stalks, on his little head
a copper crown with a single emerald. He peels
a husk on his throne of straw and damns scarecrows
to underground basements to eternally
find needles in haystacks and weave them into Rapunzel's long braid.

II
What about my life, Appleseed?
Send me the shoes to walk through your
windless lined orchard, disorganized as your
stick-slung pack.
From my desk,
from a rolling chair,
I split an apple right down the middle.
That gas invisibly filled the orbit
with wavy lines. It smelled like your hair
when we danced barefooted,
bodies pressed as I never saw you again
and had your impression on me
ever after.

III
How do short girls
observe their standing partner? I can't be
taken seriously, the one who dreamed them, between
kissing and leaning firmly the defined hip bones like
the ends of a book. Unless leaning against
a brick wall or immaculate
feathered pillow I perform
quite sloppily - after all, the tall ones
have seen my scalp and I haven't.
Does my hair grow straw-like and course from
dandruffed origins? Or smooth like it was spun
by the miller's daughter in Rumplestiltskin's kingdom?
I dreamed it was golden. I dreamed you knew.

Charlotte Beard is a writer and clinician working in the Bay Area. Her previous work has been published in New Forum, the Undergraduate Creative Writing Journal at UC Irvine, Dark Lady Poetry, and the Meadowland Review. Her poetry is generally whimsical and based on the concept of the self and the other.

Charlotte's Blog: http://robotsmasquerading.blogspot.com/

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