All YA Love: Interview with Bonnie Doerr

It is our pleasure to have had an opportunity to talk with Bonnie Doerr, author of Island Sting.

Tell us a bit about ISLAND STING.

Telling about a novel I wrote should be an easy thing for me to do, right? But the book has been described so many ways by readers that I often don’t know how to approach this request. And, honestly, it’s more about what the book is to readers than what it is to me. So first I’ll use the thoughts and words of others to talk about it.

To ground the story, ISLAND STING is a contemporary adventure/mystery novel set in the Florida Keys. Though it’s often included on lists of YA reads (these days YA seems to stretch up to college age), it’s more for younger teens and tweens.

I get a kick out of stringing …

Review: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Format Read: Hardcover

Number of Pages: 480 
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Formats Available: Hardcover, eBook, Audio
Purchasing Info: Author Website, GoodReads, BookDepository

Book Blurb:What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all—looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12th should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it’s her last. The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. In fact, she re-lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she had ever imagined.

My thoughts:One night Samantha Kingston was a typical teenager, out with friends. She was part of the ‘in’ crowd and everyone was headed to a house party. But on the …

Important Notice to Grand Opening Giveaway Winners!

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO WINNERS!

It has recently been brought to our attention that some of the winners of the Grand Opening Giveaway have not yet received their books. We have been in contact with Book Depository where almost all of the books were ordered from and there have been some issues on their end: Books lost in the post, orders canceled for no apparent reason, etc…

Given this information, we would like to verify that all of the winners have indeed received the books they won. So if you are one of the winners from the Grand Opening Giveaway and have not received your book (s) – please contact us via the “contact us” button or leave a comment on this post, so we can get this situation resolved.

Book Depo has offered to resend any of the books that have not …

The Sexy Book Lover: My Wishlist

Hey All! Happy Thursday!! Here’s my wishlist for today!

Welcome to another installment of The Sexy Lover’s reading Wishlist!

My Reading Wishlist:Every two weeks I put together a list of new releases and some not so new releases that I want to read and ask you for recommendations from your wishlists.Make sure to be here when I post “My Wishlist” because you never know what books you may get a chance to win.Today I’m choosing a new series as my wish list.

The Blood Lines Series by Maria Lima

Matters of the Blood If you thought your family was strange…Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, …

Randomly Booked: Books into Movies

I was filming a movie for a college project the last two days. Its a very intense process and sometimes its fun. As I was thinking about what to write I thought about talking about books that were made into movies. There are so many books that are made into movies especially in the last few years.

Most of the adapted books that I watch are fantasy. Filming those movies is so hard because normally there are creatures that need to be inserted through animation and if there is flying it needs to look real. So everyone knows about the blue and green screens that one needs to film in front. But there is a lot more that needs to be done. The actors have to be convincing about whats happening when actually nothing really happens next to them.

The hardest part …

All YA Love: Guest Post on Fate by Irene Latham

It is our pleasure to have with us today Irene Latham, author of ‘LEAVING GEE’S BEND’.Fate, destiny, serendipity… whatever you want to call it, YES, I’m a believer.  I even wrote and published a poem once entitled “Creed,” which proclaimed, among other things, “I believe in serendipity,/ coincidence, random/ accidents that defy explanation/ because there is no explaining pain/ or the lack of it.”  And when I think about how I came to write LEAVING GEE’S BEND, I see all sorts of fateful occurrences, as if this story was inside me all along, waiting for me to finally get to a …

New Releases: March 16, 2010

March 16
Forget Me Not by Vicki Hinze

Genre: Romance Suspense/Religious Fiction MysteryTHEIR ELUSIVE ENEMIES TOOK EVERYTHING. NOW THEY WANT MORE. 
Crossroads Crisis Center owner Benjamin Brandt was a content man—in his faith, his work, and his family. Then in a flash, everything he loved was snatched away. His wife and son were murdered, and grief-stricken Ben lost faith. Determination to find their killers keeps him going, but after three years of dead ends and torment, his hope is dying too. Why had he survived? He’d failed to protect his family.

Now, a mysterious woman appears at Crossroads seeking answers and help—a victim who eerily resembles Ben’s deceased wife, Susan. A woman robbed of …

All YA Love: Judging a Book by it’s Cover #2 – Opposites

There were so many releases in YA during the month of March, it was so hard to narrow down the top 10. All credit to this post goes to my bestie, Jackie! I hope you enjoy it! It was fun to make 🙂 For more info, click on the title and/or author name.

SWEET VS SOUR

It’s Raining Cupcakes                              by Lisa Schroeder                                 

The Pickle King
by Rebecca Promitzer

GOOD VS EVIL

Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene
by Beatrice Gormley

                                                      The Dead-Tossed Waves       by …

New Releases: March 9, 2010

March 9

The Vampire and the Virgin by Kerrelyn Sparks

Genre: Paranormal Romance
“New York Times” bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks continues her popular “Love at Stake” series with battle-weary vampire Robby MacKay who finds love while on vacation. Olivia’s packing list: 1. Sunscreen 2. Bathing suit 3. Flip-flops 
FBI psychologist Olivia Sotiris is looking for a cool ocean breeze, sand between her toes, and a break from her crazy, and sometimes dangerous, life. But when she escapes to the Greek island of Patmos, all she gets is a meddling grandmother trying to marry her off. None of the men there interest her—except a mysterious Scotsman named Robby MacKay. 
Robby’s packing list: 1. Synthetic blood 2. More synthetic blood 3. Jogging clothes (even a Vamp has to stay in shape!) 
Robby needs to cool …

Guest Post: Author Shiloh Walker

I’m trying to figure out when I started listening to music as I wrote, because you know, I didn’t always.

Even as short as eighteen months, two years ago, I’d have the TV on and just block it out. Then I had to start focusing more and I realized something—I didn’t block out the TV as much as I’d liked to think and I was wasting precious writing time (come to think of it, I probably waste a lot of time now on twitter…hmmm). Anyway. I had to focus more because I’d recently signed a contract with a new publisher and my workload had pretty much doubled. So TV off.
But the house was too quiet.
I’ve got kids. The house is never quiet. When they are at school, I’ve always had the TV going and now without the TV, the house was so …