Review: The Light of Asteria by Elizabeth Isaacs

Format Read: E-bookNumber of Pages: 380 pagesRelease: Date: March 2010Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.Formats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble (e-book)

Book Blurb:

If Nora Johnson hadn’t been on campus that day she would have never known her true destiny. Helping her friends move into the dorm that she wanted to call home, Nora accidentally collides with mysterious stranger, Gavin Frey. His very first touch sends flames through her heart. The world seems different-something within her has changed.Nora tries to resume her mundane life, but she is now consumed with the one whose very presence ignited her soul, the one with eyes of emerald. Nora soon learns that an energy buried deep within has been unleashed. She now wields unimaginable power and has become Gavin’s source, his strength. Her newfound joy is shaken when …

All YA Love: The Accidental YA Reader + Giveaway

Image Credit: Of ceiling wax and cabbage, blog

 I read all different kinds of books, every type, every theme, every style, every genre; if it’s a good book I will read it. That is unless it is a YA Book. In that case the type, theme, style and genre still don’t matter; I’m not going to read it. The last time I read a YA book I was about 12 years old. At least that is what I thought until about a week ago, when I discovered that statement wasn’t quite so true anymore.

(Yes, for those of  you keeping score that does mean I have not read the Twilight Series.) 

When I was working I sat at a little table outside and read during my lunch break everyday. One morning I was running late and didn’t have any unread books on my e-reader. So, I jumped onto Barnes&Noble.com to download one real …

Bookish Rants or Raves: My First Book Conference!

When I first started book blogging at the end of last year, I never thought I would have gotten as far as actually going overseas to attend a book conference.

Well, here I am, a Brazilian staying at a friend’s house in Upstate New York fresh out of the Authors After Dark Romance Unlimited Conference.

One of the first people I met online was author Stella Price. We became online buddies and she started talking about this conference she was organizing and right away my ears perked up and I felt like this was something I’d love to go to.

At the time I was living in Israel, but I had already started making plans. By April I had moved back to Brazil, but the plans kept on building and as fate would have it, it all turned out great.

Going to The …

Talking Covers: a Photographer’s Take

As a photographer I tend to look at things from a slightly different eye than most people – I don’t have my pricing set up like a “typical” studio, I don’t “make” clients pick certain photo’s, I do my best and THEY get to pick which photo’s they like best out of maybe 15-20 of the best shots…

The reason? What I would pick, is almost 100% NOT what the parent likes best…

One shining example I got just today…I worked with little beautiful little boy, and today his parents ordered the photo’s they wanted from our session – me, I would have picked this one as my favorite…

But his parents, they picked this one….

Now don’t get me wrong, the one above is great, I love it too BUT …

Guestpost Author J.K. Beck + Giveaway

We are very happy to have author J.K. Beck (aka Julie Kenner) here today. Her new novel When Blood Calls came at the end of August and next week is the official release of book 2, When Pleasure Rules. Today she is here to tell us about the line between Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy. Be sure to check out the end of the post for your chance to win When Pleasure Rules. Please give JK a warm welcome. THE SWINGING DOOR BETWEEN PARANORMAL ROMANCE & URBAN FANTASY

I had a booksigning for WHEN BLOOD CALLS a week ago, and afterwards, my husband reported that he overheard a woman wandering the aisles complaining to her husband: “Vampires! All these books about vampires! When are they going to stop?”

Interview Author Stephanie Julian

We are really happy to have Author Stephanie Julian here at Book Lovers Inc today. Her new novel, Size Matters was released last week and she is here to tell us more about this book and her new series The Fringe. Please give Stephanie a warm welcome.

BLI: Steph can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Stephanie: I’m a writer, have been all my life. I’m also the mother of two sons, which is always an adventure, usually a smelly one, and the wife of a great guy. I’ve always been a reader and I sold my first book in 2002, a sweet romance. But sweet was so not my style and I turned to the dark side. Erotic romance is the perfect fit. Hot guys, hot sex, who can argue with that?

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

Stephanie: Well, …

All YA Love: What They Had To Say…

Yesterday, Susi and I took to the Twitter highways to ask several authors (most YA) a question…

If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?

And here’s what they had to say…

“A Tale of Two Series”

– Cassandra Clare – Author of Clockwork Angel

“The Insomnia Solution”
– Cyn Balog – Author of Sleepless

“Shake It Up!”
– Denise Jaden – Author of Losing Faith

“SPARKLE HARD AND HOPE FOR THE BEST?”
– Susan Adrian – Young Adult Author

“Nasty, Brutish and Short”
– Brendan Halpin – Author of Shutout

“Seriously?”
– Monica Burns, Author of Assasin’s Heart

“Don’t Put That In Your Mouth, You Don’t Know Where It’s Been.” – The Saundra Mitchell Story”
– Saundra Mitchell – Author of Shadowed Summer

“Life is Short and So Am I: Wisdom from the Underside of Five-Feet Nothing OR High Heels and Handtrucks: My Life Among the Books”
– Lauren Baratz-Logsted – Author of The Education of Bet

“And They Let You Write For Children?”
– William Kostakis – Author of Loathing Lola

“In All Things, …