Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter/Passover break! This week has been an interesting one for WTFERY and developments.

An interesting report from the US has found that ibooks store is not the success that Apple aims it to be, this is partly due to the fact that people who have ipads aren’t using it to primarily read ebooks and that only 40 percent of ipad users have read a book. Another 45 percent has stated they would prefer reading an ebook on their macs or PCs.

Agents are now stipulating that price escalators for ebook royalties should be implemented more widely, due to the rise of ebooks, especially when they have overtaken Mass Market print books earlier this year. 

Self Published author Stephanie Mcafee has joined the ranks of Amanda Hocking into mainstream traditional publishing as she scored …

WTH – the Wyatt Truman Hearing by Kelly Meding + Giveaway

Today was supposed to be an Author takeover, but Kelly Meding decided she’d rather come with us on vacations than make a post.*g* We did find someone to fill in, please welcome the star of Kelly Meding’s Dreg City series …Evy Stone! She will interview WYATT- the one and only. Please give them a warm welcome and don’t forget to answer of the questions at the end for your chance to win.
Congrats to the Book Lovers on the first anniversary of their amazing blog! Great job! And thank you for inviting me to hijack said awesome blog today. I don’t get to speak out much, beyond the confines of the Dreg City books, so it’s nice to be able to spread my wings a bit. Metaphorically, of course—Phin’s the one with wings.

Anyway, I’m kind …

Review: As Lie the Dead by Kelly Meding

Format Read: eARCNumber of Pages: 416Release Date: July 27th, 2010Publisher: DellFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon.com, Bookdepository.com, Bookdepository.co.uk

I received this book as a review copy from the author.

Book Blurb:Evangeline Stone, a rogue bounty hunter, never asked for a world divided between darkness and light…

…or the power to die and live again in someone else’s borrowed body. After a murder plot meant to take her out leaves an entire race of shapeshifters nearly extinct, Evy is gnawed by guilt. So when one of the few survivors of the slaughter enlists her aid, she feels duty-bound to help—even though protecting a frail, pregnant shifter is the last thing Evy needs, especially with the world going to hell around her.

Amid weres, Halfies, gremlins, vamps—and increasingly outgunned humans—a war for supremacy is brewing. With shifters …

Interview: Author Kelly Meding + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome author Kelly Meding here at Book Lovers Inc today. Her new novel, As Lie the Dead, book 2 in the Dreg City Series will be released on Tuesday 27th and she’s here to celebrate her upcoming release. Be sure to check out the giveaway at the end of the post. Willkommen Kelly! The Geeky Lover: Kelly, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Kelly: I am a moderately shy homebody, born and raised in southern Delaware near the beaches, and now live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. As a child, I entertained myself by creating elaborate stories for my She-Ra figures and Barbie dolls to enact, and now I tell stories for a living. Chocolate and coffee are my oxygen, and I am mother to the world’s most resilient kitty …

Review: Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 405 pagesRelease Date: November 24th, 2009Publisher: DellFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, Amazon.com

Book Blurb:

They’ll never see her coming. . . .

When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue—in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there—her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night she and the two other members of her Triad were the city’s star bounty hunters, mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives but also convinced the city’s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor—and she can’t even remember what it was.

Now she’s a …