Top 5 Wednesday – Auto-Buy SFF Authors

"Top 5 Wednesday" is a weekly meme currently hosted on Goodreads by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes, where you list your top 5 for the week's chosen topic. This week's theme is: your auto-buy authors that write SFF. I used to buy a lot of books on their release date without reading samples or consulting reviews. …

“Champions of the Genre” – Explanation and Examples

As I write more and more reviews on this blog, you'll see a small notation/badge (that I've yet to design) sometimes appear beside the review score: "Champions of the Genre." You'll also notice an identically-named shelf on my Goodreads page. It's a designation plagiarized from inspired by video game critic Jim Sterling from the Jimquisition. …