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Moving...

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Happenings

Okay, dear readers, we are within a gnat's whisker of a mostly-functioning new site. The plan is for new posts to go up both here and on the new site until the end of the week, after which they will only appear on the new site. (We'll leave a link up here, of course.) The last remaining hurdle—and it's a big one—is that we need to fix every single internal link in every single post we've ever written (*sobs*), so... uh, please be patient with those. They're gonna take a while.

Note: If the ads on the new site are floating around your monitor, screwing up the formatting, try a hard refresh (Press Shift key + F5). Hopefully that will fix it!

Labels: Wordcandy main site

Housekeeping

As you may have noticed, the Wordcandy main site is currently down. (Well, it's mostly down. You can click over if you want a sneak peek at the new colors and logo, but there's no actual data there.) This would be because we are finally working on our transfer over to the new site, and transferring seven years' worth of literature-related ranting takes time. Here's hoping we'll have everything up and running by the end of the week!

Labels: Wordcandy main site

Get out your magnifying glass and deerstalker

If you're interested in Tighter, the Turn of the Screw modernization by Adele Griffin currently featured on the Wordcandy main site, Ms. Griffin has written an iClue mini-mystery featuring two of the book's minor characters. Solving the mystery gives you a password that you can use to enter a drawing for a grand prize of an iPod Touch.

Labels: Book Reviews, mysteries, Wordcandy main site

Do they bind them in gold or what?

Ever since finishing Obernewtyn (our current Featured Book), I've been sulking over the discovery that author Isobelle Carmody's US, UK, and Canadian publishers chose to split her final two books in this series into four, meaning that readers in those countries have to pay twice as much. But I finally looked up the Australian price for the combined titles, and I officially take back my sulking: unless I'm screwing up my currency conversion, even a paperback version of her book The Stone Key costs more than $20 US dollars. Is that typical? Anybody reading this in Australia? And if so, how does anybody afford to buy books?

Labels: Australia, Isobelle Carmody, Wordcandy main site

The Forest of Hands and Teeth book trailer

Okay, as book trailers go, this one isn't too bad, actually:

And isn't it a relief to know that eyeliner is still available, even after the zombie apocalypse?

Labels: Book trailers, Wordcandy main site

New Absolute Witch

Huh. How did we miss the second part of Absolute Witch chapter seven? I mean, it's been out since December, and I even helped with the quality check. Seriously, how absent-minded can I be?

Anyway, both the second and third parts of chapter seven are now up on our scanlations page. Enjoy!

Labels: Scanlations, Wordcandy main site

Blue Bloods: the animated primer

If you're interested in reading our current Featured Book, Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Bloods 3: Revelations, but you're too broke to shell out for the first two installments in the series, she's put together a helpful (and fairly well-made, for an online book commercial) mini-movie summing up the background story:

Labels: Bookmercials, Wordcandy main site

Who comes up with these?

The literary powers-that-be have made one of those bizarre commercials for our current Featured Book, Lisa McMann's highly entertaining YA fantasy Wake. Behold:

I don't have a television, so I'm totally out of the loop on these mini-movies. When did this trend start? Do they actually air on TV? (Frankly, they don't look big-budget enough for TV, but maybe I'm wrong...)

Note: And in other Wake-related news, Ms. McMann very kindly sent us an e-mail, letting us know that the sequel (2009's Fade) will be a solid 40 pages longer than Wake, thereby eliminating my major objection to the book.

Labels: advertising, TV, Wordcandy main site

Updates all over the place

If you're a fan of the two scanlated series we host, we are happy to inform you that we just posted new chapters of both Banhonsa and Absolute Witch on our Scanlations page. And if you're not following these series, why not? C'mon: they're A) awesome, and B) free. What's not to love?

Labels: Scanlations, Wordcandy main site

New and improved

We've been talking recently about coming up with an updated version of our Wordcandy Guide to the Best Shojo Manga. We think our original list is still pretty solid (although Pheromomania Syndrome, sadly, hasn't been seen or heard from in ages, and I take back the rec for Parfait Tic—I know it still has a lot of fans, but I just can't take that stupid heroine anymore), but it doesn't include any of the great stuff that's come out recently. What about my current favorite series, Uwasa no Midori-Kun—a delightfully frothy, funny, R-rated series about a girl who's seduced and abandoned by her soccer-star childhood friend, and swears to get her revenge by disguising herself as a boy and trouncing him on the field? (Seriously, dear readers: learn to use IRC. It's worth it for Uwasa alone.) And there's tons of other awesome titles, none of which we've had time to properly celebrate on the site: Skip Beat, Cynical Orange, Angel Diary, Gakuen Alice, Gokusen, Nodame Cantabile...

Labels: manga, Wordcandy main site

Friday, February 17, 2012

Moving...

Monday, February 13, 2012

Happenings

Monday, January 30, 2012

Housekeeping

Monday, May 23, 2011

Get out your magnifying glass and deerstalker

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Do they bind them in gold or what?

Monday, August 24, 2009

The Forest of Hands and Teeth book trailer

Thursday, March 05, 2009

New Absolute Witch

Friday, November 14, 2008

Blue Bloods: the animated primer

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Who comes up with these?

Monday, June 16, 2008

Updates all over the place

Thursday, February 21, 2008

New and improved