Interview with Michele Hauf + Giveaway

Today we are happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc. beloved paranormal romance author Michele Hauf, who stops by to answer all my burning questions regarding, among others, her newest release: Forever Werewolf! So read on to get to know more about Michele and her latest novel and you could even win a copy of Forever Werewolf! 😉

Stella: Hi Michele, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Michele: I’ve been writing since the early 90s. I spend a lot of time behind the keyboard but try to get away and exercise when I can. I love to muddle about in my tiny little succulent garden, and dread the oncoming winter because cabin fever sucks. Fortunately my stories do entertain me, so I can pretend I’m walking the streets of a summery Paris, even as the snow blasts my windows just over my shoulder.

Stella: Describe a typical day …

Guest post by Melissa Bourbon Ramirez + Giveaway

Today we are happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc Melissa Bourbon Ramirez whose latest release is a sexy paranormal romance Deceiving the Witch Next Door, which debuted Entangled Publishing’s new Covet line! Melissa stops by today  while surfing the blogosphere with her virtual blog tour, please give her a warm welcome and answer her question for a chance to win a copy of Deceiving the Witch Next Door!

Photo by Maylett

My husband and I are trying (desperately) to buy a 1900 Victorian home just off the square in a neighboring town. I don’t think the deal will go through, unfortunately, but I’m hopeful that it will. I’m hopeful that in a few short months, we’ll be patching up walls and cleaning hundred year old floors and sleeping in a creaky house with double hung windows. When I walk in that house, I feel the history and …

Review: The Space Between Us by Megan Hart

Format read: ebook provided by publisher through NetGalley
Release Date: September 4th 2012
Number of pages: 384 pages
Publisher: Harlequin
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

Tesla Martin is drifting pleasantly through life, slinging lattes at Morningstar Mocha, enjoying the ebb and flow of caffeine-starved customers, devoted to her cadre of regulars. But none of the bottomless-cup crowd compares with Meredith, a charismatic force of nature who can coax intimate tales from even the shyest of Morningstar’s clientele.Caught in Meredith’s sensual, irresistible orbit, inexpressibly flattered by the siren’s attention, Tesla shares long-buried chapters of her life, holding nothing back. Nothing Meredith proposes seems impossible—not even Tesla sleeping with Meredith’s husband, Charlie, while she looks on. After all, it’s …

Review: I Own the Dawn by M.L. Buchman

Format Read:ebook from NetGalley
Number of Pages:416 pages
Release Date:August 1, 2012
Publisher:Sourcebooks Casablanca
Series: The Night Stalkers #2
Genre: Military Romantic Suspense
Formats Available: ebook, Mass Market Paperback
Purchasing Info:Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)  | Author’s Website | Soucebooks 

Book Blurb:

Kee Smith battled through a difficult childhood to work her way up the ranks of the U.S. Army. When she finally makes it into the elite Night Stalkers, she feels thrilled, honored, and vindicated…until she finds out she’s been assigned to the “girlie-chopper” piloted by the only other woman in the regiment.
Kee is determined to show Lt. Archie Stevenson, one of the male co-pilots, that she is just as tough as the guys. Throughout their special mission, Archie doesn’t know whether to make love …

Interview with M.L. Buchman + Giveaway

Good Morning Book Lovers! I say good morning because I’d like to welcome today’s guest to Book Lovers Inc, military romance author M. L. Buchman. The latest book in his series about the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) is I Own the Dawn, so see, morning! But also, as you’ll read in my review later today, very terrific. (The first book in the series, The Night is Mine, was equally marvelous. If you’re curious, catch my review at Reading Reality)

Let’s hear from the man with the many pseudonyms, M.L. Buchman…

Marlene: Hi Matt, welcome to Book Lovers Inc.! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Matt: I’m a male who writes romance. I’m a recovered computer nerd who can design and build a house or single-hand a 50′ sailboat. I’m a driven type-A about work and a total romantic mush in my real life. I’ve consulted …

Review: Turned by Morgan Rice

Format read: ebook
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Release Date: 24 January 2011
Length: 129 pages
Publisher: Morgan Rice Publishing
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

Eighteen year old Caitlin Paine finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous New York City high school when her Mom moves again. The one ray of light in her new surroundings is Jonah, a new classmate who takes an instant liking to her.

But before their romance can blossom, Caitlin suddenly finds herself changing. She is overcome by a superhuman strength, a sensitivity to light, a desire to feed–by feelings she does not understand. She seeks answers to what’s happening to her, and her cravings lead her to the wrong place at the wrong time. Her eyes are opened to …

Review: Tempest’s Fury by Nicole Peeler

Format read: paperback
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Release Date: 26 June 2012
Length: 337 pages
Publisher: Orbit
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

Jane’s not happy. She’s been packed off to England to fight in a war when she’d much rather be snogging Anyan. Unfortunately, Jane’s enemies have been busy stirring up some major trouble – the kind that attracts a lot of attention. In other words, they’re not making it easy for Jane to get any alone time with the barghest or to indulge in her penchant for stinky cheese.

Praying she can pull off a Joan of Arc without the whole martyrdom thing, Jane must lead Alfar and Halflings alike in a desperate battle to combat an ancient evil. Catapulted into the role of Most Unlikely Hero …

Guest Post by Mallory Kane + Giveaway

Today we are happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc Mallory Kane who just released a sexy romantic suspense novel, No Hero in Entangled Publishing’s new category romance imprint: Deadly Sexy. Please give her a warm welcome and read on to win a copy of No Hero! (pst. with such a handsome cover model, who in my opinion looks totally like Josh Hartnett, who wouldn’t want to discover if he really is no hero? 😉 )

With a mother who was a librarian and a father who was a master storyteller, I naturally was reading from the time I was three years old and sat in my mother’s lap, making her sound out words for me. I wasn’t much older when I wrote my first story. However, it did take me a little longer to get published. My first e-book (WAY before e-readers) was published in …

Guest post by Melissa Bourbon Ramirez + Giveaway

Today we are happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc Melissa Bourbon Ramirez who just released a sexy romantic suspense novel, Sacrifice of Passion in Entangled Publishing’s new category romance line: Deadly Sexy. When glimpsing the blurb of this novel the first question that arises in every reader’s mind is why did Melissa include a mythical creature, the chupacabra in a contemporary romantic suspense story? Well read on to hear about her inspiration and if you comment you could even win a copy of the book!

I’ve always been fascinated by legends, and I have a natural-born love of the Mexican culture. My husband is Mexican-American, we try hard to instill the Mexican culture into our kids’ lives. When I starting writing, I wanted to bring in elements from this culture I so love being a part of (I like to say I’m Latina-by-marriage). …

Review: Archer’s Lady by Moira Rogers

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #3 in the Bloodhounds series
Release Date: July 3rd, 2012
Number of pages: 137 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Links: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Samhain | Author’s Website

Book Blurb:

Accused of betraying the Bloodhound Guild, Archer’s only chance to regain the trust of his fellow hounds is to earn it–one dangerous job at a time. Crystal Springs may be the worst yet. The town has been deserted by all but the poor and the desperate, yet the vampires stalking the edges of the settlement haven’t closed in for the kill. Question is, why?

Grace Linwood, professional liar, has been hiding under the guise of a border schoolteacher for so long, she’s almost fallen for her own con. The frontier was supposed to be her chance at a respectable life, but now the cowardly part of her …