SCAM artist alert

Apparently there is someone calling themself "Luigi Calloway" out there who is claiming to be associated with the Mount TBR Reading Challenge. He is contacting authors and telling them if they pay him, then their books will be used for the challenge. It's possible he's also telling people they must pay to participate in any way. Please know that there is absolutely no charge associated in any way with this reading challenge and that this person does NOT represent me or anything associated with my blog. I DO NOT endorse anything that he claims.There will NEVER be a reason for anyone to have to pay for participation in any way for any of my challenges. If only people who exert this much time and effort on scamming people would put it into something worthwhile....like reading their own books! A message to Luigi: Please cease and desist contacting authors (or anyone) in my name or claiming to represent this reading challenge. You absolutely DO NOT.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Booking Through Thursday: Thankful


This week's Booking Through Thursday has a Thanksgiving theme: What authors and books are you most thankful for?


Wow. That's a difficult one. All of the authors I like. Every single one of them. But if I've got to give a list...here we go (in no particular order other than how they pop into my head):


Dorothy L Sayers, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, David Lodge, Julian Barnes, Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew started my love affair with books and mysteries), Edna St. vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Lewis Carroll, Katherine Anne Porter, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Louis Stevenson, A. A. Milne, Michael Innes, Cyril Hare, S. S. Van Dine, Amanda Cross, Scott Sanders, Daphne du Maurier, John Dickson Carr, Robert Silverberg, Georgette Heyer...and many, many more!

3 comments:

Stephen said...

That's the second time I've seen Silverberg today, but I only know him in conjunction with Asimov (working on the Nightfall novel, for instance). I take it you enjoy him? Does he write chiefly SF?

Bev Hankins said...

Yes, Silverberg writes mostly SF--a few have a more fantasy feel to them. He's one of my all-time favorites (I have a tendency to like the classic SF authors...haven't really read much of the recent stuff).

Melissa Wiebe said...

Great responses.