The International Giveaways Café (45)

Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! The time seems ti be flying by so quickly right now. I hope you are all able to set aside some well deserved reading time this weekenf 🙂

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 to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
2. Add your link below, in the format shown. (Please use the URL for the contest post, not a general blog URL; you don’t want to make it tricky for …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post, and we have more news on the DOJ and publishers over agency pricing, Stephen King’s new book and more wtfery about authors behaving badly again.

The remaining two publishers, Penguin and Macmillan are facing a lawsuit with the Department of Justice in the US over alleged collusion about Agency pricing, have submitted more information about their defence. Both Penguin and Macmillan have stated that their meetings with other publishers were part of social gatherings and had nothing to do with collusion. Apple will also be facing a lawsuit with the DOJ – Random House is the only publisher who isn’t facing an investigation and a lawsuit since they never initially joined the other Big 5 publishers when they adopted Agency pricing.

Because of the ruling that this was deemed  unlawful, it looks like remaining 3 publishers who did settle with the DOJ, Simon and Schuster, Hachette …

Review: The Cinderella Blues by Obren Bokich

Format Read: ebook from author
Number of Pages: 294 p.
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Publisher: CreateSpace
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Formats Available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: : Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

The Cinderella Blues (Thuh Sin’-dur-rel’-uh Bluze)
n.
1.
The phenomena whereby otherwise intelligent, capable, successful professional women are convinced they need rescuing by a prince.

My Thoughts:

The Cinderella Blues starts out in the middle of some of the cheesiest, I swear, the most cliché-ridden, bodice-ripping drivel ever written.

And I could have sworn this was supposed to be a contemporary romance. It said so right there on the label.  A couple of pages later the heroine dropped out of her daydream and into an auto body shop. She was daydreaming this stuff.

That made way more sense. Haven’t you done that? I’ve done that. Drifted off in my head to fanfic-land. My fantasies aren’t half that cliché-full. At least, I hope not.

Kat, …

We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start

The winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for May is … Sullivan McPig who commented on our The Good, The Bad & Are You Kidding Me post:

Sullivan McPig May 22, 2012 at 5:28 pm Mine also says Angels’ Flight. I must confess I never thought of it as a typo, but thought it meant there were more than one angel in flight.

Congratulations! An email will been sent to you. Please email us back in the in the next 72 hours to claim your price.

We will now start counting for June. Here again the rules:

We thought long and hard about how we should show you, the readers of Book Lovers Inc how much we appreciate your input and interaction. We are happy and grateful for every comment cuz we know how it is to be a “blog-hopper”. We enjoy reading …

Review: Impulse Control by Sara Brookes

Format read: ebook
Release Date: 22 July 2011
Number of pages: 28 pages
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Series: Book #1 in the Sypricon Masters series
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, B&N, Decadent Publishing, All Romance eBooks

Blurb:

Planetary Deputy Chief Marshal Selene Orasova is looking for a reminder pleasure still exists in the universe. Fresh off her latest case, she heads to Tawse, a BDSM club on the planet Sypricon. However, upon her arrival she finds the club almost empty as nearly all the staff has been hired out for the night. Disappointed, she starts to leave, only to walk face first into a wall of muscle.

Vaughn, one of the few Doms at the club Selene hasn’t been under the command of, is immediately intrigued by the hard edged cop. A few instructions and she’s easily under his guidance. However, Vaughn quickly discovers Selene …

My Wishlist: The Absolutely-Must-Have-Now Urban Fantasy Edition

Hi Everyone!

It’s been a long time since I last did a My Wishlist post as I was trying to be good and not make my pleading TBR pile explode, but you know how it is with us bookaholics, we just can’t stop or say no for that matter… So take a look at all the new releases I have been coveting and yearning for, I know that my creaking TBR pile will understand and be happy to welcome these new additions, I mean who wouldn’t be ecstatic to get their hands on these fantastic books?

So let me show you which books I can’t wait to add to my shelves!

Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent

Book #2 in the Unbound series

If you live in the dark long enough, you begin to forget the light…

Kori Daniels is a shadow-walker, able to travel instantly …

Romance and Me: Venturing into m/m Land

I am a kinda m/m virgin (you’ll see why the “kinda” below).

Those who have been living under a rock and don’t know what m/m is, here is a very official (insert sarcastic snicker) definition: “m/m stories are romance stories with male protagonists” as in hero&hero instead of a hero and a heroine. 

Lately m/m stories are in a boom and now not just specific publishers like Dreamspinner Press are releasing this romantic subgenre, but mainstream publishers like Harlequin as well (their Carina Press imprint has a wide variety of m/m novels. Be it contemporary, historical or supernatural m/m you’ll find it.).

I first heard of this set-up in romance novels and that it had its own subgenre qualification through blogging: some of my favourite romance bloggers like Sophia from Fiction Vixen and Mandi from Smexy Books are big fans of this subgenre, but until recently, …

Review: Endless Heart by Emma Lang

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #31 in Heart series
Genre: historical western romance
Release Date: 29th May 2012
Number of pages: 170 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Samhain, Barnes & Noble

Book Blurb:

She’s learning to live. He’s forgotten how. Love will be their teacher.

Heart, Book 3

Lettie Brown has lived in the shadow of violence. After escaping her brutal past, she’s finally at home in Forestville, Wyoming, where she would live a normal life—if she knew how. She’s content working at The Blue Plate and printing the town newspaper, if not happy. Then a stranger stumbles into her world and turns everything upside down.

Shane Murphy is a shell of a man, destroyed by the aftermath of the war, his personal tragedies and a penchant for cheap whiskey. When he lands, literally, on Lettie’s feet, his future takes a hard right turn.

As they fumble through a relationship …

Guestpost “Why, yes, I do cry when I write” by Emma Lang + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome Emma Lang aka Beth Williamson here at Book Lovers Inc today. Her latest Emma Lang release, Endless Heart was released yesterday and let me tell you I gobbled this book up. It’s wonderful heartfelt and soul-warming book. Makes me all warm inside just thinking about it. Today Beth will tell us a bit about emotions in books and how those actual find their way into one of her novels. Please give her a warm welcome and be sure to answer her question for you chance to win her giveaway. 

Hi, my name is Beth and I cry when I write my books. It’s true, so very true, and I always have a box of tissues nearby. My hubby has looked at me and said, “Why are you crying, these people aren’t real. You made them up!”
But he’s wrong, they are real to me. …