New Releases Sep 5 – 11

Midnight by Ellen Connor

Second in a stunning post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy. Three years of wandering the postapocalyptic wasteland has stripped Dr. Chris Welsh of hope. A harrowing loss drove him from his home, and he hasn’t stopped moving-until he encounters Valle de Bravo, a haven of civilization amid the chaos of the Change. Soldiers take their orders from Rosa Cortez-the iron hand within a velvet glove. The last thing Rosa needs is a feral loner upsetting the town’s tentative balance. However, for the good of her people, she lets Chris stay, and as bloodthirsty raiders strike again and again, Chris and Rosa battle hellhounds and dust pirates while also fighting desperate attraction. To save them, love must overcome the pain of the past-and build a future in this brutal Dark Age…

Explore This!: Palm Springs, California

Today, we are whisking away to the sunny locale of Palm Springs, California. When I think of this area, arid temperatures, golf, spas, and the rich and famous all come to mind. What doesn’t equate with Palm Springs is vampires, which is strange when my inspiration has derived from reading Bloodlines by Richelle Mead. In the story, an alchemist is pulled into protection duty for a vampire princess and this seems the perfect spot considering no one would suspect the undead to be found in this hot, sunny city.

The book is filled with some of the references from above, with the rich students attending a private school, where Sydney Sage and the gang are hiding out. In seeing the sites of Palm Springs, I think this would be a great place to be put on assignment, regardless of …

Review: Red by Kait Nolan

Format read: ebook provided by author for reviewRelease Date: 14 August 2011Formats available: ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, All Romance EBooks, Amazon UK, Amazon DE,

Blurb:

Every fairy tale has a dark side…

Elodie Rose has a secret. Any day, she’ll become a wolf and succumb to the violence that’s cursed her family for centuries. For seventeen years she’s hidden who and what she is. But now someone knows the truth and is determined to exterminate her family line. Living on borrowed time in the midst of this dangerous game of hide and seek, the last thing Elodie needs to do is fall in love. But Sawyer is determined to protect her, and the brooding, angry boy is more than what he seems. Can they outsmart a madman? And if they survive, will they find a way …

Interview with Author Kait Nolan + Giveaway

Today I am very happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc. an author whose adult story has enchanted me with her vivid storytelling and original worldbuilding, so when I heard that she decided to take a paranormal spin on Little Red Riding Hood and give us an urban fantasy retelling of it, I was excited and curious. And now, having read Red, I am happy to tell you about it and its wonderful author: Kait Nolan! So read on to learn more about Kait and her stories and there is also a giveaway waiting for you at the end! 

Hi Kait, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
 
Kait: I am a grade A, 24-carat, control freak, workaholic, dog lover, food blogger, and Scrabble champion.

 
Stella: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?
 
Kait: 100% planner. I’m an incredibly busy …

Summer may be over but I still have winners to announce

well yeah, just change it to Overprotective Big Sister

Hey Everyone!

Though it is still hot and sunny, it is becoming more and more obvious that summer is over: the days are getting shorter (I’m acknowledging with deep regret that the sun goes down at 8pm now instead of 9-9:30 pm like it did a couple of weeks ago), the nights are getting chillier (one now needs that safety sweater) and school started again. Traffic is busier, and kids are everywhere. My little sister’s holiday is drawing to and end and she’ll be leaving to go back to university next week. I already miss her. Will be weird to be the only “kid” living at home. No more late night movies while we laugh so hard we have to stop the movie because we miss minutes of the dialogues, no more sister lunch dates near my office and no more shopping …

International Giveaways Café (10)

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It’s Saturday morning, again. Our time for a little coffee (mine is already on hand) and the chance to submit the links to your international book giveaways or to enter said giveaways.

As the summer wanes, now is the perfect time to stock up on books to prepare for the long, cold winter ahead. It’s even better when you can win them! If you don’t have a months of snow and bitter frost to look forward to, well, there’s never really a bad time for books, is there? (And, can I come stay at your house? 😉

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 …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and gosh cannot believe it is September! This year has FLOWN past – in this week’s edition we haz news on the upcoming Amazon Tablets, and if you are a fan of Stephen King, you will be pretty please with an upcoming adaptation of a book.

First up! Waterstone is ending its 3 for 2 deals by the end of this month, this has been a major selling approach for the past ten years but it seems that the new owner of the flailing brand wants to rehaul its marketing approach. Instead, staggered prices of £3, £5 and £7 of selected books will take its place.

An interesting development has emerged for Amazon’s takeover for The Book Depository, The quango that is in charge of mergers, The OFT (Office of Fair Trading) …

Review: Paradise 21 by Aubrie Dionne

Format Read: ebookNumber of Pages: 247Release Date: August 2, 2011Publisher: Entangled Publishing LLCFormats Available: Paperback, ebookPurchasing Info: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Diesel ebook store, Books On Board, Goodreads, Author’s website

Book Blurb: 

Aries has lived her entire life aboard mankind’s last hope, the New Dawn, a spaceship traveling toward a planet where humanity can begin anew-a planet that won’t be reached in Aries’ lifetime. As one of the last genetically desirable women in the universe, she must marry her designated genetic match and produce the next generation for this centuries-long voyage.But Aries has other plans.When her desperate escape from the New Dawn strands her on a desert planet, Aries discovers the rumors about pirates-humans who escaped Earth before its demise-are true. Handsome, genetically imperfect Striker possesses the freedom Aries envies, and the two connect on a level …

Guest post: An American Abroad by Kenneth Rosenberg + Giveaway

Today I am very happy to welcome back to BLI Kenneth Rosenberg (you’ll be in on the secret as to the special reason for that once you read his guest post ;-p)! Kenneth is celebrating the release of his latest novel: Sweet Ophelia and the Tinseltown Blues, and he is here today sharing with us his thoughts and experience about being an American author living abroad.  Please give him a warm welcome and there is also a giveaway waiting for you at the end! 

In his memoir, A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan.” As an American writer living in Budapest, I can see where he was coming from. Somehow being in a completely different environment from that which your story takes place seems to clarify all of the details. Things that you might have otherwise …

On The Booklovers’ Shelves

Welcome to the second in a series of posts in which us Booklovers are giving readers a peek at the bookshelves in our home. Our Quirky Lover (Jackie) kicked things off a couple of weeks ago and I was in awe of how tidy and organized her beautiful shelves were – I want another bookshelf!! LOL

I did dust (an event) and reorganize my shelves for these pictures, otherwise I would have been too embarrassed to show them.

This is my big shelf in the downstairs family room. I have the majority my keepers stored on this one. On the right is a small picture of the entire book case and on the left are the shelves up close (forgive my poor photography skills – yikes).