The International Giveaways Café (47)

Welcome to the Saturday evening edition of the café. After a hard day of holding a garage sale I have a bit of (what should be obvious) wisdom: if you’re planning on stopping by the café patio on a hot, sunny day, make sure you have lots of sunscreen on and find a nice place to sit under an umbrella. I say this because I have been accidentally burnt to a crisp today and because I care 😉 Enough thinly veiled complaints from me though, lets move on to the book giveaway business:

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 …

The International Giveaways Café (46)

Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! So, you know how I’ve been waxing all poetic about the beautiful summer weather and the joys of reading outside? Well, today, here, it’s rainy and humid…the ugly parts of summer converged into today’s forecast :p We just have to make the best of the yucky weather and read, I guess 🙂 What do you all have planned for the weekend?

And, 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 …

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 …

The International Giveaways Café (44)

Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! Have you seen our new logo? Isn’t it all kinds of cool? The café button has been updated to match, so if you have our old one, we’d love it if you switched up too 🙂

Also, 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 …

Elements in Lit 201: The Publishing World

Up until now, we’ve talked about book content, genres, and other things of the sort. Thanks to some of the other BLI’ers, today we’re going to take a look at the business behind the books that we love. Publishing involves a whole lot more than just writing a book, getting it into print, then into the readers hands. As book reviewers, we have our own place in the process now, but let’s see what else is involved in the wide world of publishing:

Publishers come in all shapes and sizes. Within publishers, there are also “imprints”. For our purposes here, we’re going to discuss the definition of imprint that refers to the trade name that books are published under (though there are several different meanings, as can be found on the Wiki page). These are usually grouped into similar styles of books, like Tor, part …

The International Giveaways Café (43)

Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! In certain parts of the world (like mine), this weekend is the celebration of Queen Victoria’s birthday. What this means is an excuse for a long weekend, with the potential for a whole extra day of reading 😉 But even if you’re not part of this holiday celebration, here’s hoping that your weekend is filled with great weather and books!

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 …

Dual Review: Chairman of the Whored by Lucy V. Morgan

Format read: ebook
Release Date: 20 February 2011
Publisher: Lyrical Press Inc.
Series: Book #1  in the Whored series
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

Dark. Debauched. Delicious.

Is she ready to go under his knife?

Leila Vaughn is a tax lawyer at a prestigious London law firm. And a whore. Leila didn’t take the night job just to pay off her debts–an affair with an older man once stirred a pit of darker desires. Now her year as an escort is almost over, she’s ready to lock up her alter-ego, Charlotte, and be normal once again.

What’s bad is that her colleague, Matt, just caught her out.

What’s worse is that their boss, Joseph, is with him.

Matt wants to rescue Leila. She should want what he does–monogamy and escape from the city–if she’s going to be normal, right? But Joseph is as familiar …

Interview with Lucy V. Morgan + Giveaway

Today we welcome Lucy V. Morgan to Book Lovers Inc. Lucy is here to discuss her latest release, The Chairman of the Whored, an erotic tale of passion and self-discovery. There’s also a giveaway, so be sure to read through the interview for your chance to  win.

BLI: Hi Lucy, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Hello, and thank you for having me 🙂

I’m from England. I like to bake. I like the little, beautiful, terrible things about people, the stuff lots of people never notice. All three things inform my stories.

BLI: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?

Lucy: A planner—I suck with the pantsing. I drop my daughter off at school, run a few errands, do my admin and probably do some editing work. I …

The International Giveaways Café (42)

Happy Saturday morning all and welcome back to the café! This looks like a promising weekend, weather wise, so I’m looking forward to sitting outside on my veranda, reading a good book with a nice summer themed tea, like Twinings Lady Grey. What’s your favourite summer beverage while reading?

Also, 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 …

The International Giveaways Café (41)

Good morning all and welcome back to the best place in the web for accessing international book giveaways! I woke up this morning to a slightly cool breeze but a whole lotta sun. As long as it stays like this, my weekend will include as much time spent outside…with a good book, of course 😉 What does your weekend have in store?

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 …