Hide-a-Book.com http://hideabook.com Stylish & Fun Covers to Hide and Protect Your Books Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:27:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Free Library Card Printable http://hideabook.com/free-library-card-printable http://hideabook.com/free-library-card-printable#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:27:48 +0000 admin http://hideabook.com/?p=372 Like to lend your precious books to friends? Keep track of who’s “checked it out” using these adorable owl library cards. They’re a free download from Love vs. Design.

Owl Library Card

]]> http://hideabook.com/free-library-card-printable/feed 0 Cute Bookmarks http://hideabook.com/cute-bookmarks http://hideabook.com/cute-bookmarks#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:08:55 +0000 admin http://hideabook.com/?p=373 This super cute quirky bookmark would make a great gift for young readers or fans of The Wizard of Oz.

Wizard of Oz Bookmark

Find this one and more styles at My Bookmark.

]]> http://hideabook.com/cute-bookmarks/feed 0 How-To: Book Page Pockets http://hideabook.com/how-to-book-page-pockets http://hideabook.com/how-to-book-page-pockets#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:01:12 +0000 admin http://hideabook.com/?p=368 This is a great book craft project from the Just Something I Made Blog:

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]]> http://hideabook.com/theres-more-to-life-than-books/feed 0 Romance Writing as a Feminist Act http://hideabook.com/romance-writing-as-a-feminist-act http://hideabook.com/romance-writing-as-a-feminist-act#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:43:59 +0000 admin http://hideabook.com/?p=355 I really admire author Angela Knight, she’s such a smart well-spoken woman. Today she wrote a fantastic post on her blog about the true value of romance novels. Here’s an excerpt:

I’ve always had a suspicion that romance novels are actually underground feminist literature. After all, the writers are women, the readers are women – even the editors at Big Six publishers are women, as are the vast majority of e-publishers.

And romance is the 800 pound gorilla of the book market. As Marla Bustillos notes in her article at the Awl.com, “romance is by far the most popular and lucrative genre in American publishing, with over $1.35 billion in revenues estimated in 2010. That is a little less than twice the size of the mystery genre, almost exactly twice that of science fiction/fantasy, and nearly three times the size of the market for classic/literary fiction, according to Simba Information data published at the Romance Writers of America website.”

(This is a great article, by the way. She seemed to view romance the same way I always have. Which is what inspired me to write this blog.)

Yet despite the undeniable popularity of romance, everybody absolutely SNEERS at the genre. Why? That’s simple….

Read the rest of Angela’s though provoking post at her blog Knight Errant. Enjoy!

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