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Guest Post by Annie Seaton + Giveaway
Today we are very pleased to welcome Annie Seaton to Book Lovers Inc. Annie’s first two books Holiday Affair and Winter of the Passion Flower both released on March 15th! Annie is here today to talk about the inspiration for her beautiful locales in her stories.
Stella: Your descriptions of the exotic setting were very evocative and vivid, have you been to the Whitsunday Islands on a sailing trip? (If not, why did you choose this exact location? any special reason? What inspired it?) Or did any other of your own experience, travels inspire details of the novel?
Annie Seaton: I am so pleased that my description of the exotic setting in the Whitsunday Islands evoked a response and my words translated into vivid pictures for the reader
Every July for the past ten years or so, my husband and I …
Annie Seaton,featured,Giveaways,Guest Post,The Latin Lover 
26 Mar 2012
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Sunday Cravings
The last Sunday of March is here!!! How time passes is beyond me, mind you. Especially when you have a great time 🙂 And being here with you surely qualifies as spending great time for me.
So, this might be the last week of March, but the publishers are yet again taunting us with all those great releases that we’re waiting to hit the shelves, especially on March 27th. Among the highlights of the week are Sacrificial Magic by Stacia Kane, Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward, The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens and so many, many others I can’t possibly list them all.
So, let’s start, with our Sunday Cravings 🙂
Susi and Jackie: Sacrificial Magic by Stacia Kane
When Chess Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss—who also happens to be her drug dealer—to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic, she …
featured,Sunday Cravings,The Coffee Lover 25 Mar 2012
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The Lonely Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
As I’m squeezed dry tired (in case you were wondering what that is, that’s how an orange must feel after spending excruciating hours in the juice machine, and yep, tiredness may have affected my brain faculties ;-)) having worked all week late hours and even had to work all day yesterday, it’s a good thing that today I only have to announce one lonely winner,
the lucky person who wins a $25.00 Gift Card from the online Bookstore of her choice (as long as it can be ordered from outside the US) thanks to The Kink in Erotic Romance post series! (If you somehow missed them, you can find them HERE.) is
Cathy M
Congratulations to Cathy and a special thank you to all those who stopped by and commented for BLI’s Kink Series! An extra special thank you to Mary …
The Latin Lover,Winners 25 Mar 2012
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The International Giveaways Café (37)
Hello all and welcome back for another week of great giveaways! I thought I would link back to the original post once more, for those of you that are new to the café, to better understand why we do this every week: Week 1. (Or, to summarize it in a few words: we love to share!) Are you caught up now? 😉 Just add your own giveaways below, for greater exposure. It’s a total win/win, right?
Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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 …
Around the Bookish World: News-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news edition! Not much has gone on this week but we have some great trailers from Game of Thrones and the upcoming adaptation of The Host which was written by Stephanie Meyers. There was also smoky going ons at St Martins Press, Book Blogger Con controversy and the usual upcoming covers to watch out for!
The big and very unlikely story coming out this week, is the news of a shipment of weed which was sent to the NY offices of St Martins, however it was incepted by the authorities after reports of a strange smell coming from the two packages. The packages which had a street value of 70 thousand dollars, were addressed to a Karen Wright but no one of that name exists or is employed by St Martins. When the news broke on Monday about this, I have to say that my twitter …
News,The Smutty Lover 23 Mar 2012
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Review: Weekend Agreement by Barbara Wallace
Format read: ebook provided by publisher
Release Date: 15 March 2012
Number of pages: 194 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Entangled Publishing
Blurb:
Some deals were meant to be broken…
Cynical billionaire Daniel Martinetti works hard; plays harder and has one ironclad rule. Never trust a woman. Bad news for historian Charlotte Doherty who shows up at exactly the wrong time. Like every other woman in Daniel’s life, Charlotte wants something from him–the deed to her family farm. Daniel agrees, but only if he gets something in return: Charlotte’s company for the weekend!
The property is Charlotte’s only link to the mother she never knew. Desperate to keep her history alive, she’ll accept Daniel’s indecent proposal, but not without a few terms of her own. Namely, a propriety clause. No flirting. No kissing. …
4 1/2 Stars,Barbara Wallace,featured,Review,The Latin Lover 23 Mar 2012
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Guest Post by Diane Escalera + Giveaway
Today we are happy to welcome back to BLI Diane Escalera, author of steamy latino romances, who stops by to celebrate the release of her latest release Still Hot For You (you can read my review here)! Read on to learn more about the story, read a muy caliente excerpt and enter to win a copy of Still Hot For You! So please give a true Book Lovers welcome to Diane! 🙂
Thank you so much for hosting me. I really appreciate this awesome opportunity!
Let’s start with a quick introduction: Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, I relocated to South Florida, a sultry paradise I instantly fell in love with. I’m married, have two children and a super cute dachshund I can’t get enough of. I write hot contemporary romance, and I’m published with Kensington Publishing and Lyrical Press. Still Hot …
Diane Escalera,featured,Giveaways,Guest Post,The Latin Lover 23 Mar 2012
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Bookish Rants and Raves: MG & YA Book-to-Film Adaptation
So, a person would have to be living under a rock these days not to have heard about the impending release of the film version of smash hit The Hunger Games. Though the film is not out until March 23 in most markets worldwide, there’s already a slew of raving reviews and talk of the movie being projected to top $140 million in its U.S. opening weekend. Wow.
The Hunger Games films are just the latest in what seems to be a rampant streak of middle grade (MG) and young adult (YA) film adaptations. Sure, it’s not a completely new development, but it sure does feel like the percentage of young-adult targeted movies based on blockbuster books is at an all-time high. Framed differently, it also seems like almost every well-loved YA series gets optioned for film adaptation…sometimes immediately following its release. Not all are successful (critically or monetarily), but …
Bookish Rant or Raves,featured,The Needy Lover 22 Mar 2012
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Review: Still Hot For You by Diane Escalera
Format read: ebook provided for review by the author
Release Date: 19 March 2012
Number of pages: 78 pages
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Lyrical Press
Blurb:
Want to get your man talking? Give him booty!
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Shay LaCosta is pretty desperate. She’s wrecked her blissful marriage of five years by demanding she and her husband Dylan have a baby. What the hell was she thinking? She knows she was wrong and she’s ready to set things right, if only Dylan will let her. Bet he can’t shun her Booty Camp offer: delicious, white-hot sex in exchange for what’s going on inside his brain.
Dylan may be macho and stubborn, but he really does miss his wife. A little of Shay’s pushing gets him past their estrangement and into her web of seduction. She seems …
3 Stars,Diane Escalera,featured,Review,The Latin Lover 22 Mar 2012
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Elements in Lit 201: Victorian Era, Gothic, and Steampunk
We’ve covered a little bit of all three items mentioned in the title in previous Genre and Elements posts, but as I’m reading Wicked as They Come by Delilah S. Dawson, the main character makes a statement about “[being] transformed into a curvy Victorian bombshell. Or a Gothic bombshell…” She continues on to describe the Gothic as “decidedly dark and sexy…” It got me thinking about the subtle differences between these styles of dress. Moreover, the book has a definite Steampunk overtones, with each ‘Bludman’ or ‘Pinkie’ having a clockwork animal in their charge. What better way to experience the differences (or similarities) than with pictures!
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So, let’s start the comparison: The Victorian Era coincides with “Queen Victoria’s reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901” (source: Wiki) …
Elements in Lit,The Quirky Lover 21 Mar 2012
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