Interview: Author Leslie Dicken

The Crazy Lover: First of all, We’d like welcome you to Book Lovers Inc.!

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Leslie Dicken: I’m a wife and mother of three kids. A teenager and twins. I live in Maryland, the DC suburbs. I still work a full-time job. That’s the boring stuff. 😛

The Crazy Lover: What’s your favorite book at the moment?

Leslie Dicken: The most recent books I read were Tessa Dare’s first series. They were awesome. I have so many books on my shelf I still need to get to!

The Crazy Lover: What do you think is the difference between a reader and a real Book Lover?

Leslie Dicken: A “reader” will read when they are told to (for school, for instance) or because they need something to do while on a long plane ride. …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Borders.com announced their eBook store will be opening in June with ebooks available for a variety of devices.  They are also offering the Kobo ereader for preorder at $149.99 (US).

Borders Australia online has started offering a guarantee that they will beat the price (with shipping included) of Amazon.com books shipped to Australia.

Wired.com has an interesting article on how Amazon handles typos in Kindle eBooks.

Angry Robot Books has split from HarperCollins UK.

Variety reports that Tyra Banks has a three book deal for a young adult fantasy series.

GalleyCat reports that Gerald Posner has hired a lawyer to fight against claims of plaigarism.

Publishers Weekly writes that the Amazon Kindle bestseller list will soon split into two as Amazon makes separate bestseller lists for free and paid eBooks.

PublishingPerspectives has a short article about books being …

Guest Post: Author Sara Brookes +Giveaway

We are really happy to have Author Sara Brookes here again. This week her new book Midnight’s Ghost, book 1 in the Starr Runner Series was released and she is here today to talk a bit about women and Science Fiction. Please give her a warm welcome. And don’t forget to check out her giveaway at the end of the post. Women don’t like science fiction.

Right off the bat, I have to say that sentence above is a lie. However, a vast majority of people will try to tell you otherwise. See, at some point in time, someone drew a conclusion that women don’t like science, math, astronomy, comic books, etc. Those things were considered innately “dorky” and something women wouldn’t be drawn to. I suppose their logic was women were the caretakers and therefore too prim and proper?

Now …

My Wishlist: Vampires!!!

Hey all and welcome to another what’s on My Wishlist segment.  Today’s posts is dedicated to Vampires i.e. in counting down hours until the season finale of The Vampire Diaires.. *cough* Damon *cough*

The reason I chose these books/series is because I already worn out my copies of these books and new to replace them. Wish me luck trying to come up the the money to repurchase these all, hehe!

Here’s my top five series that I want, I crave, I must have, I need and the kind I would bleed you dry, type of books. *sigh* Damon *sigh*

Without further ado…. Here’s my top five, counting down from #5:

#5 The Undead Series by MaryJanice Davidson…Really no explanations as to why its on my list except for the fact the heroine is one great fun and full of sarcasm.  

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Review: Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea Campbell

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 352 pagesRelease Date: May 11, 2010 Publisher: Egmont USA Formats Available: HardcoverPurchasing Info: amazon.com

Book Blurb: Damien Locke knows his destiny–attending the university for supervillains and becoming Golden City’s next professional evil genius. But when Damien discovers he’s the product of his supervillain mother’s one-night stand with–of all people–a superhero, his best-laid plans are ruined as he’s forced to live with his superhero family.

Going to extreme lengths (and heights), The Rise of Renegade X chronicles one boy’s struggles with the villainous and heroic pitfalls of growing up.

My thoughts::

Damien (aka Renegade X) is not just some punk with a cocky attitude who wants to be a villain, he’s real and likable and although he may not want to admit it, he has a conscience. I loved the way Chelsea captured Damien’s inner struggles and included …

All YA Love: Interview with Dawn Miller

Please give a warm to welcome Dawn Miller today! Her latest book, The Prophecy was released earlier this month.

The Monster Lover: Can you tell us about The Prophecy?

Dawn Miller: The Prophecy is the story of five unlikely heroes that are thrown into the middle of an angelic war breaking out across the planet…that no one else can see. The problem is, while they aren’t aware that they are the five prophesied about, the fallen know and put a bounty on their heads to take them out before they can become a threat to their plan. Thrown into a deadly race against time, the five are forced to search for the key to their past that unlocks the power to fight the fallen as they move into position for the final strike against mankind. …

Review: Brains: A Zombie Memoir by Robin Becker

Format Read: ARCNumber of Pages: 192 Release date: June 1, 2010Publisher: Eos Books Genre: Urban FantasyFormats Available: Trade PB, EbookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Borders Author’s website Book Blurb: Forget contemporary American literature–former college professor Jack Barnes has a new passion: Brains. It’s in his nature…he’s a zombie. But he’s not your normal, vacant-eyed, undead idiot. No, Jack Barnes has something most other victims of the zombie apocalypse don’t have: sentience. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbing–yet strangely heartwarming–one. Convinced he’ll bring about a peaceful coexistence between zombies and humans if he can demonstrate his unique condition to the man responsible for the zombie virus, Howard Stein, Barnes sets off on a grueling cross-country journey to meet his maker. …

New Releases – May 10-16, 2010

May 10 – 16

Fever Dream by Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Genre: Fiction, Thriller

At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen’s tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead…and why?

With Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta’s assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife’s murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James …

We Love Your Comments Giveaway

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 your thoughts and we love to start a good discussion with you. This blog is all about spreading the love for books and without you that mission would be lost.

We pondered how to give some of the love, you give to us with your comments, back.So our new “We Love Your Comments Giveaway” was born.

But what can you win?

We will buy you a book ($10 tops) at The Book Depository. You can choose whatever you want and get one title off your wishlist.

The giveaway is open to everyone who can receive books from …

Review: Some Dream for Fools by Faiza Guene

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 176 pagesRelease Date: Jun 3 2009Publisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtFormats Available: Hardcover, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Book Depository

Received from the Publisher;

Book Blurb:

Ahleme, a young woman living on the outskirts of Paris, is trying to make a life out of the dreams she brought with her from Algeria and the reality she faces every day. Her father lost his job after an accident at his construction site. Her mother was lost to a massacre in Algeria. And her brother, Foued, boils with adolescent energy and teeters dangerously close to choosing a life of crime.

As she wanders the streets of Paris looking for work, Ahleme negotiates the disparities between her dreams and her life, her youth and her responsibilities, the expectations of those back home and the limitations of life in France.

My Thoughts:

I will admit, I had never heard of Faiza Guene before or her first book, Kiffe, Kiffe Tomorrow, though …