Guestpost by Ann Stephens + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome author Ann Stephens here at Book Lovers Inc today. She writes Historical Romance novels and her latest novel, Her Scottish Groom was released last week. Today She will tell us how being published feels and what it will or will NOT change in your life. Please give her a warm welcome. And be sure to answer her question at the end for your chance to win.

“Before Enlightenment, carry water and chop wood. After Enlightenment, carry water and chop wood.” 

-The Buddha
First off, let me thank all the Book Lovers for inviting me here today! I look forward to meeting everyone.
Second, I’m not Buddhist, but I’ve always liked the saying above. It gives a good idea of what writing is like. Just substitute ‘publication’ for ‘enlightenment’ and ‘write, edit, write some more’ for ‘carry water and chop …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Wow this week we have had major news shaking up publishing and ebooks, so it is a bit jam packed issue in today’s news post.
The biggest and most contraversial announcement though has to be HarperCollins’ announcement that their ebooks would be restricted with a 26 borrowed limit. As you can imagine this has ignited the ire of many librarians and their patrons about this because the limit is set at such a low level.

HarperCollins have responded in an open letter to libraries and library users to explain this new measure by saying this would be a way to protect ebook growth and market. Below is an extract of an open letter explaining this and click here for the full statement:

We have serious concerns that our previous e-book policy, selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine …

Interview: Author Keith Melton + Giveaway

We are very happy to have author Keith Melton here at Book Lovers Inc today. He’s the author one of the funniest books I ever read—The Zero Dog War was released last month and I still have to smile just thinking about it. Keith is here today to talk about himself, humor and his books. Please give him a warm welcome.

Book Lovers Inc: Keith can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Keith Melton: Typically I ride wyverns and fight against alien invaders while wearing a hat like Indiana Jones. That’s a bit of a hobby, though. When back on my meds, I write speculative fiction, mostly Urban Fantasy. And the rest of the time I spend chained to a cubicle, staring at a screen and muttering to myself—not about staplers, but about how no one ever cleans …

Review: Act Like We’re in Love by Christi Barth

Format read: ebook
Release Date: 8 October 2010
Number of pages: 258 pages
Publisher: Damnation Books
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

When two people make beautiful music together onstage, can their love survive once the curtain falls? Linnea Larson is willing to do anything to keep her family’s Minneapolis dinner theatre from going under. Anything, that is, besides accepting a date from the Hollywood hunk her father hired to inject a dose of star power into their production of Guys & Dolls. It’s a toss up whether his greatest claim to fame is playing a superhero on screen, or a super stud off screen. Neither fact convinces her he’s got what it takes to share her stage. And thanks to a life long pact with her best friend, she never dates actors.

Luke Powell has fame, fortune, and …

Review: Wilder’s Mate by Moira Rogers

Format Read: Ebook provided by the authorsNumber of Pages: 100Release Date: March 1st 2011Publisher: Samhain Publishing Formats Available: E-BookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Samhain

Book Blurb:

Think a vampire-hunting bloodhound is dangerous? Try threatening his woman.

Bloodhounds, Book 1

Wilder Harding is a bloodhound, created by the Guild to hunt down and kill vampires on America’s frontier. His enhanced abilities come with a high price: on the full moon, he becomes capable of savagery beyond telling, while the new moon brings a sexual hunger that borders on madness.

Rescuing a weapons inventor from undead kidnappers is just another assignment, though one with an added complication—keeping his hands off the man’s pretty young apprentice, who insists on tagging along.

At odds with polite society, Satira’s only constant has been the aging weapons inventor who treats her like a daughter. …

Review: Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

Format Read: E-ARC provided by NetgalleyNumber of Pages: 435Release Date:  January 4th  2011Publisher: Harper TeenFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Blurb:

Clara Gardner has recently learned that she’s part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn’t easy.Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place—and out of place at the same time. Because there’s another …

Review: Tempest’s Legacy by Nicole Peeler

Format Read: Paperback
Number of Pages: 341
Release Date: 1 January 2011
Publisher: Orbit
Formats Available: Paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Blurb:

After a peaceful hiatus at home in Rockabill, Jane True thinks that her worst problem is that she still throws like a girl – at least while throwing fire-balls. Her peace of mind ends, however, when Anyan arrives one night with terrible news…news that will rock Jane’s world to its very core.

After demanding to help investigate a series of gruesome attacks on females – supernatural, Halfling, and human – Jane quickly finds herself forced to confront her darkest nightmares as well as her deepest …

Interview Author Lori Handeland + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome author Lori Handeland here at Book Lovers Inc today. When I found out that Lori started writing Nightcreature novels again I was more than thrilled. And even more so when she agreed to being interviewed about them So here we are today talking Nightcreatures in celebration for her new release Moon Cursed, which will be out in stores tomorrow. Be sure to ask her a question and you might win an awesome prizepack!The Geeky Lover: Lori can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Lori: I live in Wisconsin (which is still painted green and gold due to the Packers winning the Superbowl-wooh, hoo!) with my contractor husband. Both our boys are in college.
I’ve been writing since 1991 and have sold over 50 novels to seven different publishers in multiple genres. I am …

Review: Breathe by Sloan Parker

Format Read: Ebook provided by the AuthorNumber of Pages: 254Release Date: November 16th 2010Publisher: Loose IDFormats Available: EBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Loose ID

Book Blurb:

Lincoln McCaw lost everything — his home, his job, his partner — after he caused a fatal accident. A year later, he’s drowning the guilt and despair in whiskey, but he needs to move on. His sister and her kids are counting on him. Then he meets a man who ignites a passion Lincoln thought he’d never find. Too bad one night is all they can have together. Now he needs to figure out how to turn away from the only person who makes him feel alive…before whoever is sending him threats decides Lincoln needs to suffer more than he already has.

Jay Miller is surrounded by grief …

Review: Lady Doctor Wyre by Joely Sue Burkhart

Format Read: e-Book ARC provided by Author for reviewLength: 107 pagesSeries: A Jane Austen Space Opera #1Release Date: March 29th 2011Publisher: Samhain PublishingFormats Available: e-Book, KindlePurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads,Amazon

Book Blurb:

A dangerous technology could conquer the universe. Love could set it free.

Charlotte, Duchess of Wyre, once held the Queen’s highest confidence—and the technological secret that keeps the royal heart beating. Fearful of what atrocities that Britannia might commit with her research, Charlotte turned to the galaxy’s most infamous assassin, Lord Sigmund Regret, to stage her own death.

Even without the simplest of luxuries, seven years hiding in the Americus colony is preferable to one day in the Tower of Londinium. Until a bounty hunter’s bullet forces her to revive her research. Now the same nanobots that keep the Queen alive also run rampant in Lord Regret’s …