Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this edition of  our news post and for a quiet week, it has definitely ended with  a huge bang with the announcement that Amazon has purchased Goodreads.  We also have our usual book and author news as well books to watch out for!

My twitter stream last night was ablazed with the news of Amazon purchasing the social reading site Goodreads. I am not really surprised by the move of Amazon buying Goodreads. It makes a lot of sense, because it is the popular reading social site compared to the other sites like Library Thing and Shelfari (which Amazon owns). Although Goodreads in an interview stated there wont be any huge changes, I do suspect there will be more integration with Amazon’s online store and their buy buttons will be prominently displayed. And Library Thing’s, Tim Spalding states the same thing and is asking members of …

Guest post by Allie A. Burrow + Giveaway

Please join us in welcoming to Book Lovers Inc. Allie A. Burrow YA and contemporary romance author, whose first foray into steamier waters just got released in the SERVICED anthology, featuring several sexy novellas about hot men in uniform! 😉 So curious to know how daunting and exciting it was for Allie to pen her first sexy story? Join us as she shares the story of her experience (also don’t forget to enter the TWO giveaways at the end)! 

Have you been SERVICED lately?

I am delighted to introduce you to the SERVICED anthology, released by Breathless Press earlier this month. With nine talented authors, ten great short stories, lots of men in uniform, and hot hot HOT romance, there is something for everyone.

So how did I get involved in the anthology?

Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret: Allie A Burrow is a bit of a fake—sssh…don’t …

Market Garden Tour: Guestpost by L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov + Giveaway

Today we’re very happy to welcome L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov  on Book Lovers Inc.  Their new series the Market Garden was written in collaboration. They are here today to give us a glimpse at how this series (and others) came to be. I can honestly say this is one of the hottest series I’ve ever read.  I couldn’t be more happy about this collaboration =)  Let’s give a warm welcome  to these wonderful authors and don’t forget to comment to be entered in the giveaway.

Aleksandr Voinov and L. A. Witt, and we’re thrilled to stop by and talk about If It Flies, the newest story in the Market Garden universe!

Comment on this post to enter in a drawing for a choice of two eBooks off my backlist (excluding If It Flies or Covet Thy Neighbor**) and a $10 Riptide Publishing store credit. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on March 17th, …

Guestpost: My Most Embarrassing Musical Moment by Aubrie Dionne + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome author Aubrie Dionne here at Book Lovers Inc today. Aubrie is not only a writer, she’s also a very musical person and plays and teaches the flute. Her newest release, Playing the Maestro is a contemporary tale about musicians and their entanglements. Today Aubrie will tell us an embarrassing story about herself. Make sure to tell us about one of yours in the comments to win your own copy.

Playing the Maestro starts out with Melody’s most embarrassing musical moment, and something I’ve always feared- not having your music on the first day of rehearsal. In fact, sometimes I check to make sure I have my music two or three times before I leave the house! In Playing the Maestro, the violinist, A.K.A. Melody’s ex claims he sent her the music and she lost it. See- he has a sister who …

Review: Playing the Maestro by Aubrie Dionne

Format Read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Number of Pages: 190 pages
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Author’s Website | Publisher’s Website | Goodreads

Book Blurb:

Melody Mires has sworn off dating musicians, but when the sexy European conductor Wolf Braun takes over her struggling symphony, her hesitation almost flies out the window with the notes of her flute—until he opens his mouth. Wolf is arrogant, haughty, and seems to have a personal vendetta against Melody. Oh, and he’s her boss. If she wants to keep her job as principal flutist, she’ll have to impress Wolf while simultaneously keeping her undeniable attraction to herself.

Wolf came to America to get as far away from his past as possible, and to …

Dual Review: Holding Out for a Hero by Christine Bell, Ella Dane, Tamara Morgan, Nico Rosso, Adrien Luc-Sanders

Format read: ebook copy provided by the publisher for review
Release Date: 14 January 2013
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Number of pages: 550 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

Scarlett Fever, by Christine Bell and Ella Dane

After five years in training, it’s finally time for Scarlett Fever and her fellow superheroes to leave the United Superhero Academy and test their powers out in the real world. There’s only one problem. She’s been assigned to partner with arrogant, by the book, and irritatingly hot, Blade of Justice.

Blade’s whole life has gone according to plan, and he’s more than ready to move on to the big time, protecting a metropolis of his own. But his perfectly ordered life is derailed when he’s teamed up with the fiery maverick, Scarlett Fever.

Sparks fly the moment they arrive in Plunketville, Oklahoma, as they each set out to force the other …

Interview with Addison Fox + Giveaway

Think the boardroom couldn’t possibly be as sexy as the bedroom? Think again–and author Addison Fox knows exactly why. Today it’s our pleasure to welcome Addison to Book Lovers Inc, where we get the chance to chat a bit about the characters and characteristics of Tempting Acquisitions, the first book in her new contemporary romance series from Entangled Publishing. It’s going to bring a whole new meaning to the notion of mergers and acquisitions. ^_^ (Be sure to stay tuned for a chance to win a copy of Tempting Acquisitions)!

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Stella: Hi Addison, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Addison: Thanks so much for having me!!

I’m a romance writer across genres and have been published in paranormal and contemporary as well as series length contemporary and, coming up in July, series length romantic suspense. I absolutely love romance in all forms and am an …

Review: Blessed Isle by Alex Beecroft

Format read: ebook copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley
Release Date: December 31st 2012
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Number of pages: 103 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Riptide Publishing, Amazon

Blurb:

For Captain Harry Thompson, the command of the prison transport ship HMS Banshee is his opportunity to prove his worth, working-class origins be damned. But his criminal attraction to his upper-crust First Lieutenant, Garnet Littleton, threatens to overturn all he’s ever worked for.

Lust quickly proves to be the least of his problems, however. The deadly combination of typhus, rioting convicts, and a monstrous storm destroys his prospects . . . and shipwrecks him and Garnet on their own private island. After months of solitary paradise, the journey back to civilization—surviving mutineers, exposure, and desertion—is the ultimate test of their feelings for each other.

These two very different men each record their story for an unfathomable …