Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Here's wishing you fun, friends, family and lots and lots of books. 

It takes so many people to put out this blog day in and day out, so I have volumes of people to thank. First of all I'd like to thank our regular contributors, Kim and Kerry Hammond.

Kerry brings us the Crime & Beyond Book Club Reviews and everything from great book swap party ideas to speakeasy reviews and so much more, including great book signing reports. 

Kim is the queen of mystery gifts and bling, shares interviews with audio book stars, and is very very crafty, not to mention her Bcon updates and book reviews. I guess I just mentioned them.  

Photo by Janet Kuchler

Big thanks go out to our photographer extraordinaire, Janet Kuchler, our researcher, Pat Hernas and logo designer, Paula Smail. 

Photo by Janet Kuchler

More thanks go to my fabulous guest bloggers Amy Ball, Kate Carlisle, Mia Bard, Daryl Wood Gerber, Cathi Stoler, Diane Vallere, Keith Raffel, Emily Fox, Nancy Keith Kelly, Lyndee Walker, Amanda Flower, Michele Speck, Rebecca Lugones, and Jo Ann Gaglione. Forgive me if I have missed anyone. 

I'd also like to thank everyone who participated in our Summer Reads with Drinks Series. You can click on the book reviews and recipes on the name below. 

• Catriona McPherson - Dorothy L. Sayers and The Perfect Cup of Tea
• Gerald So - Ace Atkins and Smooth Sweet Tea
• Bella McGuire - Stephen King's Joyland and Lavender Lemonade
• Siobhan Nash - Josie Prescott and a Champagne Mint Julep
• Cathi Stoler - Time and Again and a Whiskey Cocktail
• Ingrid Willis - Dan Brown's Inferno and the Aperol Spritz
• Patti Tierney - Key Lime Pie Martini
• Clare Toohey - Phantom Tollbooth Cocktail with Bonus Tardis Variation
• Kim Hammond - David Baldacci and Lemonade Punch
• Kendra Kelley - The Wave and a Blue Drink
• Amanda Flower - A Forensic Mystery and A Mud Cooler
• Laura K. Curtis - Sangria and Little Black Book of Murder

We'll be doing that again this summer.

Last but not least, I would like to thank Bella McGuire at A Prairie Girl Reads, Lori at Escape with Dollycas and the folks at TLC Book Tours for all of their hard work on book tours this year. 

Here's to a terrific 2014!