On Compulsion

And just like the tumblers in a lock events occur that make me purchase more books.
I was contemplating placing an order with Neil over at Clarkesworld Books since he is closing up shop and he needs to get his inventory moved. Who am I to not help the guy out.
This order [...]

On the differences of Collecting and Accumulating, Part 3

The core of my book collecting is Horror fiction. Though I collect (not to much extent other than to read) science, science fiction, and history I do not search for fine editions of those books. Horror became the core of my collection by being the one genre, other than science fiction, that I [...]

On the differences of Collecting and Accumulating, Part 2

In the post prior to this one I commented about accumulating. That practice of just buying any and all books that you come across. Accumulating does not make a collection. It makes a mass of books with no direction or purpose.
Collecting is completely different.
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Must Haves

I run the Horror Fiction News Network. It is what the title suggests a news site for horror fiction. An off shoot site is The Reading Room@HFNN which hosts excerpts of horror novels, reviews by me, and now something new.
Building a collection of books is a time consuming hobby. Deciding what should [...]

Some Early Xmas Gifts for the Crazy Book Nut

As I stated earlier I would get a list of the new acquisitions to my collection.
A little background about the two major acquisitions first.
Neil, over at Clarkesworld Books, put out a call for sanity about two weeks ago. He was putting a huge portion of his stock on sale to save his [...]