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Hello everyone and apologies for getting this post up late! I’m out of town and ended up forgetting to schedule my post in advance. Fortunately the lovely bloggers running Bout of Books have posted some of the challenge info but here are the giveaway details.

Bout of Books is such a fantastic way to interact with and support other bloggers, I thought it would be nice to share that love with our favorite authors too. As described on the Bout of Books site, you can tweet about an author you love using the hashtag #showauthorlove. You can also share in the comments one thing you have done to show an author some love today, whether that’s writing a blog post about an suthor you love or following an author on social media. I will then use a random number generator to pick one winner from Twitter and one winner from the comments to each win a ten dollar gift card to Amazon or a book worth up to ten dollars from the book depository. Again thanks for your patience with the late post!

Non-Fiction Friday is a link-up where you can find all of the awesome non-fiction happenings of the week. Be sure to link-up your non-fiction posts too!

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Congrats to Keely, winner of the hour 15 mini-challenge!

Hello everyone and congrats on making it to hour 15 of Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-Thon! Today I have a challenge for you inspired by one of my favorite Pinterest projects, a board where I pin pictures that match how I picture the world in a book. For this challenge, share a picture that captures the way you imagine a particular bookish world. Bonus points for not picking a picture intended to portray the book it reminded you of Not sure where to start? I find some of my best bookish world pictures on deviantart.com and, of course, on Pinterest. For some examples, you can check out my Fantasy Worlds Pinterest board. After you find an image, come back here and share a link to the image you found in a comment, then let me know what name you commented under in the Rafflecopter widget.  I’ll announce the winner at the end of hour 17.

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I should warn you upfront that this post is going to get a tiny bit technical and a tiny bit spoilery. However, I have high hopes that a reader from any background will find it interesting and intelligible, so please bear with me and give it a try. The reason I think this post is important is because I think authors who take the time to get the science right should be celebrated. I also personally feel passionate about it because readers being misinformed by bad science bothers me deeply. Likewise, it makes me a bit sad to see so many reviewers disbelieving the premise of this book when I think it’s scientifically sound. To give you an idea of where I’m coming from, I’m a bioinformatics PhD student who works on a protein with synthetic biology applications, so the topics this book covers are at least tangentially related to the science I’m becoming an expert on. Continue reading →