The International Giveaways Café (14)

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Welcome back to another Saturday morning get-together, where we have the chance to discuss book giveaways, link up our own giveaways, and enter all the others.

Today is a yucky day here in my part of the world, so I’m looking forward to a day filled with hot tea, a cozy blanket, and some great reading. How about you? Have you won anything recently? We’d 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 🙂

As always, 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 …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

This week’s news post is going to be mainly dedicated to the huge announcement by Amazon this week with their new Kindle devices and the long rumoured new tablet, although we also have new covers and book news too!

My twitter feed was alight on Wednesday during Amazon’s news conference about their new devices and tablet and I have to say that the new Kindles look really pretty and Kindle Fire tablet is a great entry to the market.
Amazon unveiled three devices –

The first one was the Kindle Basic Wifi which costs $109 without the special ads and $79 with the ads screensavers. Although it has a smaller memory compared to the Keyboard Kindle (renamed Kindle 3) and battery – it is much lighter and and smaller compared to the Keyboard Kindle. For more …

Review: Amber Moon by Ann Mayburn

Format read: review copy provided by author Release Date: 26 July 2011Number of pages: 38 pagesPublisher: Decadent PublishingFormats available: ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Decadent Publishing,  B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, AReBook Blurb:

Sabrina Wayne yearns for the perfect mates to fill the void in her heart. As a werepuma Beta, she is driven to find the strongest Alpha to submit too, or in her case, Alphas. Sabrina craves the delicious softness of a woman as well as the rugged strength of a man. She has almost given up finding the right couple when she takes a leap of faith and allows Madame Evangeline of the 1Night Stand matchmaking service to set her on what Madame Eve promises will be an evening she’ll never forget. 

Alphas Nick and Madeline Turea have been searching for a woman like …

Guest Post: 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Ashley March

Today we’re very happy to welcome Ashley March on Book Lovers Inc. Ashley is the author of sensual and innovative historical romance novels. Her new book, Romancing the Countess was released earlier this month. If you haven’t read it yet then Ashley is giving you a chance to win your copy! Please let’s give a warm welcome to Ashley!  
Thanks so much to the Book Lovers for having me today as part of the book tour to celebrate my newest release, ROMANCING THE COUNTESS!
In most of the blogs I’ve been writing for my book tour, I’ve been talking about my book. Today, I decided to change it up a little and tell you a little about the author behind the book. =)
So, without further ado, here are 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Ashley March (or if you …

Review: Golden by Joely Sue Burkhart

Format read: review copy provided by author Release Date: 29 August 2011Number of pages: 72 pagesPublisher: Carina PressFormats available: ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Carina Press, B&N, Kobo, Powell’s

Book Blurb:

Golden-eyed Jin has spent her life preparing to be the Emperor’s consort. She knows her destiny is to serve the Emperor by indulging the dark desire that he has buried deep inside his heart—the desire to give pain.

Only she can take the pain he yearns to give, and transform it into the most unimaginable pleasure. But to enjoy all the Emperor can give her, she must survive assassination attempts from those who would keep them apart. Seducing the Emperor is risky…but it’s the only way to fulfill her destiny.

My Thoughts:

I was prepared to be thrown into a story like non I read by Burkhart …

Guest Post: Gracen Miller Interviews Madeline Wescott + Giveaway

Please join us in welcoming Gracen Miller to Book Lovers Inc. today! Gracen is here to celebrate the publication of her latest story Pandora’s Box, which received rave reviews when released from Decadent Publishing on August 18, 2011. Gracen describes herself as a hopeless daydreamer masquerading as a “normal” person in southern society and notes many of her creative worlds are spawned from coffee highs.

Gracen has two previously published books to her credit including Elfin Blood, available from Nobel Romance Publishing and Fairy Casanova, published by Decadent Publishing. Gracen has a fun interview with Madeline Wescott, the heroine of Pandora’s Box and she is offering a generous Giveaway opportunity!

Take it away Gracen!

*last minute touch-ups on hair as the producer counts down with his fingers…three…two…one…is cued to begin with a red light on the camera*

BL: *sitting straight with …

Genres 101: Today’s Lesson – The Adventure Novel

I turned on the TV one day and found the film The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus was playing. Unfortunately, it was more than halfway through already but as I was discussing The Night Circus with Mel at He Followed Me Home, I was mentioning that the premise of the book reminded me of the movie. When I started looking in Adventure literature, the subgenre of Imaginary Voyage, set today’s post in motion.

While adventure novels could be included in SciFi or Paranormal or many other genres with their content, they have a certain aspect that defines them in this category: action. For me, when I think adventure, I think pirates and the high seas. But this is only one type of adventure novel among a few variations. Let’s take a look:The Epic adventure …

Review: After Midnight by Sarah Grimm

Format Read: eARC provided by Author for review
Length: 284 pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: Midnight Series Book I
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Publisher: Wildrose Press
Formats Available: e-Book, Paperback, Kindle
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Publisher e-Book, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle
Book Blurb:

Thirteen years—that’s how long Isabeau Montgomery has been living a lie. After an automobile accident took her mother’s life, Izzy hid herself away, surviving the only way she knew how. Now she is happy in her carefully reconstructed life. That is until he walks through the door of her bar…

Black Phoenix singer/front man Noah Clark came to Long Island City with a goal–one that doesn’t include an instant, electric attraction to the dark-haired beauty behind the bar. Coaxing her into his bed won’t be easy, but he can’t get her pale, haunted eyes nor her skill on the piano out …

New Releases: Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2011

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.

It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.

There is.

She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love.

She’s wrong.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker
The Darkest Surrender by Gena Showalter 

If I Die By Rachel Vincent
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Lost in Time by …

Review: Mistress by Marriage by Maggie Robinson

Format read: eARC provided by author
Series: Book #3 in the Courtesan Court series
Release Date: 30 August 2011
Number of pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Kensington Brava
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository

Blurb:

Too late for cold feet

Baron Edward Christie prided himself on his reputation for even temperament and reserve. That was before he met Caroline Parker. Wedding a scandalous beauty by special license days after they met did not inspire respect for his sangfroid. Moving her to a notorious lovebirds’ nest as punishment for her flighty nature was perhaps also a blow. And of course talk has gotten out of his irresistible clandestine visits. Christie must put his wife aside—if only he can get her out of his blood first.

Too hot to refuse. . .

Caroline Parker was prepared to hear the worst: that her husband had determined to divorce her, spare them both the torture of passion they …