Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

USA Today reports that its bestselling list will begin to feature ebooks this week and notes that since the holidays which many people have been gifted with an ereader for Christmas. That the top six books on the list, the ebook versions outsold their print counterparts while in the top 50, nineteen books sold more ebooks than print. Whether this trend will grow or remain static remains to be seen but it does lead credence that Ebooks are becoming the new Mass Market as the print sales for that format has fallen in recent months.

A few weeks ago an author claimed and wrote a book that there was a way to manipulate Amazon Kindle charts, however this would involve buying your own book everyday as well as posting reviews and voting for them. I personally didn’t think it …

Review: Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning

Series: Sinners On Tour Book 1Format Read: Trade Paperback Number of Pages: 384 pagesPublisher: Sourcebooks CasablancaRelease date: October 1, 2010Formats Available: Trade Paperback & e-BookSource: Gift from friend.

Purchase information: Goodreads, Barns & Noble, Amazon, Borders, The Bood Depository, Books A Million, Author Website

Book Blurb:

Human Sexuality Professor, Myrna Evans, wants nothing but a weekend of hot, no-strings-attached sex with Sinners’ sensual lead guitarist, but Brian Sinclair is looking for something more permanent than a one-night stand. Unable to compose music for months, when Brian makes love to uninhibited Myrna, he hears exquisite guitar riffs and finger-burning solos.

In Myrna, he’s found his muse.

My Thoughts:

There are many excellent reviews of this book posted already and it is well documented that for …

Interview Author Patricia Briggs + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome author Patricia Briggs on Book Lovers Inc! Patty’s new book Wolfsbane will be released this week. This is the 2nd book in the Sianim series. The first book Masques was re-released last month. We want to thank the hurog board for helping us with the interview questions! THANK you! Let’s give a warm welcome to Patricia!

The Charmed Lover: can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Patty: Hah. I’m older than I think I am — and fatter too. I have two hobbies — books and horses. I am currently getting my toes wet breeding Arabian horses with a lovely and sweet Kadraj NA daughter who is in foal to Varian Arabian’s stallion, Audacious PS. Next spring, I plan on breeding two other mares. I have …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Great news for Tolkien fans! The Hobbit movies have been greenlit by New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers and it will be filmed in New Zealand, despite previous issues with unions who had a disagreement about working conditions in the country. The movies have been dogged with problems, such as disagreements about rights and schedule clashes that led to the original director, Guillermo Del Toro who had to drop out, but led to Peter Jackson who take the helm. The two movies will be filmed back to back and will star, Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield.

Ang Lee is attached to the Book prize-winning book, Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It will be shot in 3D and will star an unknown in the lead role, Suraj Sharma. Shooting …

Guest Post: Author Pati Nagle + Giveaway

We are very happy to have Pati Nagle, author of The Betrayal, here with us today. She has written a fascinating look into how she created the world of the aelven. She is also offering a giveaway of two books set in the aelven world, The Betrayal and Many Paths, so be sure to read to the end of the post for the details!

Creating the Ælven World

I fell in love with Tolkein’s elves in Lord of the Rings, which I first read before my teens. Like many readers, I snapped up other fantasy novels after I was out of Tolkein, but usually the heros were humans. Elves, if they appeared at all, were relegated to supporting roles. Eventually I got tired of seeing elves always in the background, and along with the …

Review: The Betrayal by Pati Nagle

Format Read: MMPB

Number of Pages: 373
Release Date: March 2009
Publisher: Del Rey
Formats Available: Paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s website

Book Blurb:

The noble and magical aelven were riven by war when a rogue clan embraced a forbidden source of magic: the drinking of blood. In the bitter fighting that ensued, the vampiric Clan Darkshore were cast out of the aelven and driven across the Ebon Mountains. Stripped of their various clan colors, they were thenceforth known only as “alben,” hated and shunned. An uneasy peace now holds over the land, but it is whispered that Shalár, the beautiful and bloodthirsty queen of the alben, is readying a surprise attack to win back all that was lost–and none can say where or when she will strike.

The fate of the clans will depend on two young aelven lovers, Eliani and Turisan, who …

Review: Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 342Release Date: March 30th, 2010Publisher: AceFormats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author Website, Bookdepository

Book BlurbWhen mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she’d previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down.

It seems the book contains secret knowledge-and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn’t take enough of Mercy’s attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side-leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam’s life forfeit.

All in all, Mercy has had better days. And if she isn’t careful, she might not have many more to live…

My ThoughtsIt’s no secret whatsoever that I am a huge fan of Patricia Briggs and …

The Sexy Book Lover: My Wishlist & Giveaway

Hey all! Missed me? Happy April! I hope everyone has been doing good. Today I am going to share with you a series that I really love and can’t wait to get my next dose of. I don’t say much this time. We don’t want to spoil those who haven’t read this House of Night Saga.The House of Night series by P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast

First up…

Marked

After she is Marked, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is mis-using …