Review: Seven Souls A Leaping by K. F. Zuzulo, Lisa Pietsch & Heather Long

Format Read: e-Book ARC provided by Author for reviewLength: 271 PagesRelease Date: January 3rd, 2011Publisher: Sapphire Blue PublishingFormats Available: e-BookPurchasing Info: K.F. Zuzulo’s Website, Lisa Pietsch’s Website, Heather Long’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon.com, Publisher’s Website, All Romance Ebooks

Book Blurb:

Seven Souls A Leaping is an anthology of three interconnected tales of love, danger and a war against evil written by Lisa Pietsch, K.F. Zuzulo and Heather Long.

At the New England New Age (NENA) Investigations, no case is too weird. The paranormal detective agency relies on the familial talents of siblings Duncan and Samantha MacDougal and their cousin Tara Conroy. While Duncan and Samantha tend to the field work, Tara mans the office tapping sources in both the physical and spirit world. Fate takes a hand …

Interview Author Bronwen Evans + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome Regency Romance author Bronwen Evans here at Book Lovers Inc today. Her debut novel Invitation to Ruin was released this week and she is here to tell us a bit about her love for Regency and what her books are all about. She will also come over and answer any questions you might have and she got a prize in tow. Please give Bron a warm welcome. 

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

Bronwen: I’m a born and breed Kiwi (New Zealander) who cannot live without a book being in her hand. In particular romance books. I live in Wellington, New Zealand and I have four sisters, one is my twin! We used to have a lot of fun at school with confusing teachers and boyfriends – not so much …

Does this blurb make my book look good? Or bad? – The Realm of Misleading Book Descriptions

Today I noticed something rather disturbing. A book description that actually tells false facts about a book. This really disturbed me because this isn’t only bad for us as the readers, it can actually also really hurt the author.

What if the blurb says something that makes the book look like something it isn’t? Let’s take a look at the offending part of the description I’m talking about:

Pushing her Boundaries by Julia Rachel Barrett 

“In Minneapolis, Maggie heads to a restaurant with her sister, only to find Mace waiting. Worse, she learns he’ll soon be her brother-in-law.Stuck in her sister’s apartment with Mace, Maggie offers him one night of sex, anything goes. No obligations, no recriminations. Mace agrees…he wants more than Maggie’s body, he wants her heart. “

I loved …

Cat & Bones Squeefest + Giveaway

Today is the day we waited for soooooo long. It’s the release day of This Side of the Grave by the one and only Jeaniene Frost. This Side of the Grave is the 5th book in Night Huntress series and we, here at Book Lovers Inc, can’t wait to read what Cat & Bones will have to fight next.
In honor of this special date we thought we should tell the world why we love this series so much and because only our crazy talk wouldn’t actually say much we invited some twitter peeps to help us spread the love. We asked our followers on twitter why they love this series and why they would love to get a …ahem…signed….ahem….copy of This Side of the Grave and here we will share the best answers with you. I hope …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

After last week’s epic news post and the authors gone HULK, things have been quite subdued this week, with some depressing and sad news of bankruptancy and deaths.

The biggest announcement has to be Borders filing for Chapter 11 insolvency and will be entering administration. Sadly 200 of their 600 megastores will be closing and around 6000 employees will face redundancies. This will also affect publishers which Borderes owes millions of dollars of debt and in turn as this article highlights will affect authors, because the majority of books being sold are via stores like Borders.

Another struggling mega store chain owner REDgroup is also facing bankruptancy, but this time its in Australia. Ironically enough they also own the Australian arm of Borders as well as, Angus and Robertson and Whitcoulls in New Zealand. This shows that traditional brick …

Review: The Zero Dog War by Keith Melton

Format Read: ebook ARC provided by authorNumber of Pages: 278 pagesRelease Date: February 15th, 2011Publisher: SamhainFormats Available: various ebook formatsPurchasing Info: Author website, Goodreads, Amazon, BooksOnBoard

Book Blurb:

The first bullet is always free. After that, you gotta pay.

Zero Dog Missions, Book 1

After accidentally blowing up both a client facility and a cushy city contract in the same day, pyromancer and mercenary captain Andrea Walker is scrambling to save her Zero Dogs. A team including (but not limited to) a sexually repressed succubus, a werewolf with a thing for health food, a sarcastic tank driver/aspiring romance novelist, a three-hundred-pound calico cat, and a massive demon who really loves to blow stuff up.

With the bankruptcy vultures circling, Homeland Security throws her a high-paying, short-term contract even the Zero Dogs can’t screw up: destroy a capitalist necromancer bent on …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

This week, we’re taking you to Germany and its covers. After our deep view into the french way today you are introduced to the Lederhosen and Bretzel way of book covers (and yes I can make prejudiced fun of it). As every other country we have the good and the bad and here are some of them. Let us know what you think about them.

Susi: I really like the German cover of Shades of Gray BUT I like the first one more. Why? First this one is blue and I’m not very fond of this color and second why is there a blue woman on the cover? I don’t get it. But yes it’S pretty …

When Authors Go Mad and Mad AND HULK

This week has heralded another entry (actually make that TWO- I just received breaking news whilst writing this post) for authors behaving badly. In fact we have had to make this a special post because, this would overshadow the general news post and I think that would be a disservice to it because I think after reading this post – it can never be stressed enough. Don’t react this way when you’re an author, a reviewer or a blogger.

Chiclit author, Sylvia Massara blogged about unprofessional reviewers who reviewed one of her books and created a huge backlash. My fellow Book Pusher – MinnChica gives a great summary of this brouhaha here at our blog . However she wrote this before Massara re-edited her post to remove her linking to Book Binge and another reviewer who also reviewed the …

Review: Metatropolis: Cascadia by Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes & Karl Schroeder

Format Read: AudiobookNumber of Pages: 12 hours 45 minutesRelease Date:  November 16th, 2010Publisher: Audible FrontiersFormats Available: AudiobookPurchasing Info: Audiobook’s Website(audible.com), Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

The provocative sequel to the Hugo and Audie Award-nominated METAtropolis features interconnected stories by today’s top speculative fiction writers, performed by a galaxy of Star Trek ® stars.

As the mid-21st century approaches, the Pacific Northwest has been transformed — politically, economically, and ecologically — into the new reality of Cascadia. Conspiracies and secrets threaten the tenuous threads of society. The End of Days seems nearer than ever. And the legend of the mysterious Tygre Tygre looms large.

METAtropolis: Cascadia is the creation of Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Jay Lake; Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; New York Times best-selling author Tobias S. Buckell; Hugo Award winner Elizabeth …

Guestpost: Living In The Past by Vanessa Kelly + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome regency author Vanessa Kelly here at Book Lovers Inc today.  One of her stories is part of the Invitation to Sin anthology which was released this month. Today she will tell us about her love for Regency Romance. Please give Vanessa a warm welcome and be sure to answer her question at the end for the chance to win your own copy.

I freely admit that the past holds an irresistible lure for me. As an author of Regency-set historical romance, this fascinating era provides the opportunity to bring my stories to life in settings that seem familiar but exotic, glittering and gritty, and full of endless possibilities for drama, passion, and conflict.

And I love the research. Okay, I realize that loving research so much qualifies me as a serious geek, but I like nothing better than sitting down with a …