[Burningvoid-announce] Site update #7--reviews of writers' books and cookbooks; notes

[Heather Grove]

A little less went up on the site this week; at least in part you can 
blame World of Warcraft. I didn't spend quite as much after-hours time 
working on web site stuff as usual since instead I was off playing the 
game. ;)

However, there's a review of the amazing "1,001 Low-Fat Recipes" from 
Sue Spitler and Surrey Books:

http://www.burningvoid.com/review/2005/1001lowfatrecipesspitler.php


There's also a review of "1,001 More Low-Fat Recipes," which was almost 
as good as the first book:

http://www.burningvoid.com/review/2005/1001morelowfatrecipes.php


There's a review of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine 
Articles" from Alpha Books, which I highly recommend:

http://www.burningvoid.com/review/2005/cigpubmagazinearticles.php


And "Some Writers Deserve to Starve! 31 Brutal Truths about the 
Publishing Industry" by Elaura Niles, an absolutely hilarious and 
scathingly helpful book:

http://www.burningvoid.com/review/2005/somewritersdeservetostarve.php


I received a nice bunch of books from F&W Publications/Writer's Digest 
Books, so there's a great set of reviews of writers' books coming up. A 
company that makes sauces and seasoned salt sent me their cookbook to 
play with, someone else sent me a rather unusual-sounding novel, Adams 
Media sent me a couple of psych books and a couple of cookbooks, and, 
in general, I'm getting all the review material I can handle!

I've been working slowly on adding "other books by this author" or 
"other books on this subject" or "other books in this series" sections 
to the ends of the reviews. I know when I become interested in an 
author's work it's often nice to be able to find out what else they've 
done. Similarly I've been adding "related reviews" links; for example, 
in the review of a Christmas cookbook I might link to our other 
Christmas cookbook reviews, or I might link to reviews of other books 
by the same author.

It turned out that there were a few odd bits of font weirdness here and 
there on the site caused by improperly closed header tags; until I 
upgraded my OS to Panther this weekend it looked normal to me when I 
looked at the web pages so I had no idea this was the case. If you spot 
anything like this on our site, please do let me know what the URL is 
so I can fix it; thank you!

Heather

Heather Grove
heather at burningvoid.com
http://www.burningvoid.com/

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