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Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post – albeit it a bit late due to server issues which we have been experiencing the past day or so. Hopefully things will settle down and we apologise for any inconvenience! In this week’s edition, we have more news on J.K Rowling and the lawyer who leaked her penname, while the DOJ is still looking at Apple but this time at their practices to ensure the ebook collusion doesn’t happen again and much more!
J.K Rowling has won a sizeable donation for charity from the lawfirm that leaked the confidential information that she was Robert Gabrailth and the book she wrote under his penname, THE CUCKOO’S CALLING. She sued Chris Gossage who is a partner at the firm,told his wife who then passed on the information to a friend who leaked it on twitter won damages. All the parties involved have apologised to Rowling …
News,The Smutty Lover 
3 Aug 2013
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The Book Lovers Pick of the Litter for July
Otherwise known as the “squee on me, people” post. Read carefully, I did NOT say “pee on me”. This is the “picks” post and not the “pans” post. If we ever decide to do a snarky “pans” post, Cass is going to have to write it.
I thought we’d try a “which books we squeed over the most this month” post. This is it. The books The Book Lovers loved in July. What we read in July, not necessarily what was published, or what we reviewed.
Fangirling was permitted and even encouraged. Oohing and aahing begins here.
Anna: Less than a Gentleman by Kerrelyn Sparks: I may not have yet read Sparks’ very famous pnr series but I’m definitely in love with her Historical Romance one! I read last year the first book in the Historical series and I immediately fell in love with Sparks’ writing style and her ability to …
featured,Pick of the Litter,The Rocket Lover 1 Aug 2013
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New Releases: Jul. 29 – Aug. 4, 2013
Title: Magic Rises
Author: Ilona Andrews
Series: Kate Daniels, #5
Genre: urban fantasy
Release date: July 30, 2013 by Ace
Description:
Atlanta is a city plagued by magical problems. Kate Daniels will fight to solve them—no matter the cost.
Mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate, Curran, the Beast Lord, are struggling to solve a heartbreaking crisis. Unable to control their beasts, many of the Pack’s shapeshifting children fail to survive to adulthood. While there is a medicine that can help, the secret to its making is closely guarded by the European packs, and there’s little available in Atlanta.
Kate can’t bear to watch innocents suffer, but the solution she and Curran have found threatens to be even more painful. The European shapeshifters who once outmaneuvered the Beast Lord have asked him to arbitrate a dispute—and they’ll pay him in medicine. With the young people’s survival and the Pack’s future at stake, Kate and Curran know they must accept …
New Releases,The Needy Lover 30 Jul 2013
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Guest post by Kimberly Kincaid + Giveaway
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I am a huge fan of culinary romances, so it is with great pleasure that we welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. culinary romance author Kimberly Kincaid, who stops by to tell you a behind the scenes secret about her brand new release Outside the Line! So please give her a warm welcome and if you answer the question at the end, you could even win a copy of her book! 😀
The Story That Almost Wasn’t
by Kimberly Kincaid
Each book has a story, a wonderful tale of evolution about how it went from the glimmer of an idea to a swirling of thoughts to a cohesive map of characters and events and arcs. The process never fails to astound me, since the simplest things can serve to inspire entire books (case in point: my first novella, Love On The Line, …
Book Lovers Book Club: Reminder – Voting and Link up your reviews
Good morning everyone!
This is just a quick reminder about the book club.
1. Voting! – the August theme is Dragons!
2. Link up’s – Don’t forget to link up your reviews for the July books for your chance to win a $10 Book Depository voucher
That’s actually pretty much all from me.
In other news I’m growing an herb garden in my kitchen.
^ That’s not it but I’ll post a pic in a few weeks if it manages to survive my enthusiastic over-watering.
What did the green grape say to the purple grape?
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“Breathe Idiot!”
Thank you thank you…
Happy Monday everyone
Book Lovers Book Club,The Winged Lover 29 Jul 2013
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Sunday Cravings
Hello my fellow Book Lovers everywhere in the world! How is your weekend? The heat currently in Greece is insufferable so probably when this post will go live I will be reading a cool story while sunbathing at a beach trying to forget how hot this whole week was 😛
The last week of July is here and there’s a huge variety of books being released. And that’s a good thing because July was a pretty slow month bookwise. So, let’s see which are our Sunday Cravings for this week 🙂
Stella: Hero’s Redemption by Georgie Lee
London, 1817
Devon, the Earl of Malton, is a hero for his deeds at the Battle of Waterloo. But he suffers terrible nightmares, and drinks himself to sleep most nights. A habit he vows to break when he awakes one morning to find a woman sharing his bed, no memory of how she got there, …
featured,Sunday Cravings,The Coffee Lover 28 Jul 2013
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The International Giveaways Café (101)
Happy Saturday all and welcome back to the best place to share internationally available bookish giveaways. We’ve got a couple that end today here at BLI, so if you haven’t already checked them out, you need to get on it! And, feel free to add in your own links below too, of course 😉 Here’s hoping the rest of your weekend is a winning one!
And, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! As book lovers, we’re happy to spread the word…and the love 😉 Good luck to everyone!
Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, the rules are simple:
1. The giveaway MUST be available to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
2. Add your link below, in the format shown. (Please use …
The Int'l Giveaways Café,The Quirky Lover 27 Jul 2013
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Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s bookish news and in this edition we have news that Penguin has settled with the EU who have now ended their plans to investigate Agency pricing collusion, another plagiarism case but this time with more wtfery and more book news!
Earlier in the year I reported that Penguin has offered to stop using Agency pricing in the EU who had instigated an antitrust investigation into the reports of collusion. With the recent cases in the US which ruled that Apple and the big publishers were guilty in collusion – it looked pretty obvious with the evidence stacking against the companies that the EU decision will face a similar result. Well this week it looks like that the EU is accepting the settlement with Penguin’s offer to stop using Agency along with the other publishers who have gone back to the wholesale model. However if any of …
News,The Smutty Lover 26 Jul 2013
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Book Lovers for the Prevention of Supporting Character Neglect: InCryptids
We’re back for another meeting of the Book Lovers for the Prevention of Supporting Character Neglect! Where Book Lovers from across the world stand in solidarity for the supporting cast. Those individuals that make the story and keep us coming back even when the protagonist needs a good smack (cough Sookie Stackhouse cough). Hear our anthem! Because everyone deserves top billing now and then.
Secondary Characters by Original Cast Recording on Grooveshark
For this round we’re diving into a relatively new series: Seanan McGuire’s InCryptids. Our previous two outings focused on long-standing series with multiple novels and the correspondingly massive supporting cast to choose from. However, Seanan McGuire wasted no time in building up a multi-generational family epic. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, we actually have two separate protagonists: Verity Price (here in the now), and her …
Guest Post by Christine S. Feldman + Giveaway
Please give a warm welcome to Christine S. Feldman, who stops by Book Lovers Inc. to celebrate the release of The Bargain! Christine is a tomboy wannabe just like me and here she talks about Tomboys & Romance and why it works so well. Join us and if you answer Christine’s question at the end you could even win a copy of The Bargain! Christine, take it away!
I am not a tomboy, not really. Nor am I a girly-girl, although I do occasionally like to sneak a fancy gown into a dressing room and try it on just for fun, even if I can’t even begin to think of anyplace I’d ever wear something like that (although part of me thinks it would be fun to get all dolled up with a tiara or something and go grocery shopping, just to see the looks on other people’s faces. Is …
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