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Interview with Charles Sheehan-Miles + Giveaway
Today we are happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc. Charles Sheehan-Miles, who besides being a war veteran, ex-restaurant manager, nonprofit activist and IT guy is also a romance author! Join us as I got to interview Charles on how it is to be a male romance writer, and you could even win a copy of his emotional romance novel: Just Remember to Breathe!
Stella: Hi Charles, welcome to BLI! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Charles: Thanks so much for asking me to interview today! I’m a forty-ish writer, but I’ve had several careers up to this point. I spent some time as a soldier, I’ve run a restaurant, and several non profit organizations. I live in Bethesda, Maryland, with my wonderful wife and two monstrous—I mean lovely—children.
Stella: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?
Charles: I’m up at 4:30 every morning, and write until …
Romance and Me: The Halloween Romance Edition
Hey Everyone!
Happy Halloween! To get in the festive mood what kind of creepy story are you reading?
As you can see in our dual review this year Marlene and I, we read the Entangled anthology which features 11 paranormal novellas from plenty of fantastic authors and all proceeds of the sales go to breast cancer research, so if you haven’t read it yet, take a look, we enjoyed it a lot!
And while most paranormal romances/urban fantasy novels suit the genre and mood of Halloween, here are a few of our own selected favourites:
The Shifter series by Rachel Vincent, and if I already mentioned one of her series I should also recommend the other one as well: her Soul Screamers series. The first is an action packed adult urban fantasy series with a strong romantic …
4 1/2 Stars, 4 Stars, 5 Stars, Cynthia Eden, Dual Review, Edie Ramer, featured, Jennifer Estep, Lori Brighton, Michelle Miles, Review, The Latin Lover, The Rocket Lover 
31 Oct 2012 Dual Review: Entangled – a spooky and healthy anthology
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 7 September 2011
Number of pages: 434 pages
Publisher: Authors4theCure
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Only $2.99 at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, All Romance eBooks, Smashwords, Read an excerpt
Blurb:
Ghosts, vampires, demons, and more! Entangled includes ten suspense-filled paranormal short stories from authors Cynthia Eden, Jennifer Estep, Edie Ramer, Lori Brighton, Michelle Diener, Misty Evans, Nancy Haddock, Liz Kreger, Dale Mayer, and Michelle Miles, plus a Seven Deadly Sins novella by Allison Brennan.
Stacia Kane contributed the foreword. Formatting and cover art were also donated to the project by Lori Devoti and Laura Morrigan.
All proceeds go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Stories include:
HALLOWEEN FROST by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Estep (author of the Mythos Academy, Elemental Assassin, and Bigtime series) — It’s Halloween at Mythos Academy, but Gwen Frost and her friends are in for more tricks than treats when they run into a mythological monster …
31 Oct 2012 Guest post by Paige Cuccaro + Giveaway
Today we welcome to Book Lovers Inc. Paige Cuccaro, who is celebrating the big splashy re-release of her Hellsbane series with the introductory prequel novella Commencement, showing heroine Emma Jane Hellsbane (great name for an urban fantasy heroine!) graduating college. Commencement will be followed by the paperback re-release of the first book in this kick-butt urban fantasy series, named after its heroine. Of course, that first book is titled Hellsbane. If you want a chance to get in at the start of this urban fantasy series, there’s a giveaway at the end of this post. Today being Halloween (I hope you all have some spooky and fun events planned!), Paige shares with us one of the most scary events of her life. Take a seat and continue reading, but do keep the lights on! Just saying…
I have my own creepy ghost story I’d love to share.
Okay, so it …
The Working Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
You might remember that I was giddy and happy last week to announce that I had a 4 day long holiday weekend, well the disadvantage of that is that we had to work this Saturday 🙁 Yep, bummer. So my weekend is only 1 teeny tiny short day long 🙁
But anyway, we have lots of winners to announce today so let’s start, shall we?
This week congratulations are in order to
the lucky winners of a copy of From Notting Hill with Love… Actually by Ali McNamara are:
Barb K
Chelsea B
Di
the lucky winners of a paperback copy of Run the Risk by Lori Foster are:
Maria D
Phyllis Marshall
the lucky winners of a paperback copy of Savage Hunger by Terry Spear are:
Katrina Whittaker
rubyswan
the lucky winner of a shiny swag pack put together by Carrie Ann Ryan is:
margie subia
the lucky winner of an …
Interview with Lee Adams + Giveaway
Today we are happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc. Lee Adams, who is celebrating the release of her fictional debut novel, Strawberry Wine! Join us as I sit down with Lee to sip some delicious strawberry wine and talk country music, books and dogs, among other things 😉 You could also win a copy of Strawberry Wine, so make sure to leave a comment at the end.
Stella: Hi Lee, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Lee: Hi Stella! Thank you! I was born and raised in Baltimore MD before leaving at 18 to go to college in PA. From the age of 7 on up, I studied the Korean martial arts and find it a great way to release stress, learn discipline, and learn to protect oneself. I also grew up playing music in the school …
The Exhausted Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
As you can see from today’s title the situation of my tiredness has escalated and I’m not merely tired but exhausted. The past two weeks have been crazy busy at work, if I got home by 10 pm at night I counted myself lucky for arriving home “early”, so yeah, I’m at the end of my reserves. So I’m really thankful the weekend is finally here, especially since it will be a 4 day-long holiday weekend for us, so yay! On the planning menu I have: reading and sleeping a lot and recharging those batteries before I have to get back to work. (But knowing myself I’ll be baking some as well 😉 And how is your weekend shaping up?
This week’s winners are:
Congrats to
the lucky winners of paperback copies of Backstage Pass and/or Rock Hard by Olivia Cunning are:
Angela Love Lexi
Claudia GC
Kristilyn
the lucky winner …
19 Oct 2012 
Comments Off on Review: Beauty and the Bounty Hunter by Lori Austin Review: Beauty and the Bounty Hunter by Lori Austin
Format read: ebook
Series: Book #1 in the Once Upon a Time in the West series
Release Date: 2 October 2012
Number of pages: 336 pages
Publisher: Signet
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, Read an excerpt
Blurb:
Cathleen Chase is no killer—but as Cat O’Banyon, she is a ruthless bounty hunter who always gets her man. Catching one lowlife after another, she continues her search for the only man she really cares to locate. The one whose voice she will never forget; the man who murdered her husband. She’ll stop at nothing to find him. Con artist Alexi Romanov taught Cat every trick she knows. He is a master of deceit, disguise, and desire. He’s difficult to trust, and even more difficult to resist, but he has news she can’t ignore. The man she’s after has placed a …
Romance and Me: I HEART Series!
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As you can see from the title I LOVE series! Be the individual novels connected via the characters (siblings, friends, etc.) or a place (the residents of a small town, co-workers of the same restaurant, etc.) I just love it. Why? Well there are several reasons for that.
First and foremost because if I enjoy an author’s writing style and loved one of their books I just want more of the same goodness 😀
Secondly because once an author has established a world with well-developed (secondary) characters, I want to revisit the place and see how their life is going and what happens to them. Also, I just find it a great bonus to have an epilogue HEA to the previous book’s couple and see what they have been up to since we waved them goodbye at their happy ending. 😀
And …
Review: Worth the Challenge by Karen Erickson
Format read: ebook
Series: Book #3 in the Worth It series
Release Date: 16 October 2012
Number of pages: 199 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Samhain, iBookstore, Read an excerpt
Blurb:
Together, they’re magic. Now to capture it in a bottle…
Book #3 in the Worth It series
For once in his errant life, Rhett Worth is ready to prove to his older brothers he’s more than good looks and a woman-melting smile. Except he’s screwed up. And it’s about to hit the fan as he prepares to tell them he’s failed to deliver the master perfumer, Michel Durand, to create Worth Luxury’s signature scent.
Then salvation walks through the boardroom door, all wrapped up in a petite, seductive package.
Gabriella Durand is prepared to beg the Worths to give her capricious father another chance. Instead, she finds …
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