Guestpost and Giveaway with Author Lila DiPasqua

Today we are happy to welcome Lila DiPasqua on Book Lovers,Inc! Lila’s debut novel Awakened By A Kiss will be released on August 3rd! You don’t want to miss those 3 sexy tales. Let’s give a warm welcome to Lila who will talk about Titles & Book covers!

Awakened by a Kiss – Book Cover and Title…And how they came to be…

I’m so delighted to be here on Book Lovers Inc!

I write historical romance – with sinfully seductive rakes, strong smart heroines and scorching-hot love scenes – for Penguin/Berkley. My debut novel, AWAKENED BY A KISS, will be released on August 3, 2010. It’s been a year since I sold this book to Berkley, and I’ve watched it transform from a mere manuscript to a finished book.

An author works hard at writing a compelling novel. It’s our …

Review: Naked by Megan Hart

Format Read: eARC Number of Pages: 384 pagesRelease Date: August 1st 2010 Publisher: Harlequin SpiceFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, BookDepository(US), BookDepository(UK)

I received this book as a review copy from the publisher through netgalley.

Book Blurb:

No strings. No regrets. And no going back.

I didn’t think he wanted me. And I wasn’t about to get involved with him, not after what I’d heard. Sure, Alex Kennedy was tall, dark and unbearably hot, but I’ve been burned before. When I solicited him to model for my erotic photography book, I didn’t expect such a heated, passionate photo session. And now that we’ve crossed that line, our bodies aren’t the only things that have been exposed.

But I can’t give my heart to a man who’s so… unconventional. His last sexual relationship was with a …

Review: Awakened by a Kiss by Lila DiPasqua

Format Read: Print ARC Number of Pages: 368 pagesRelease Date: August 3rd 2010 Publisher: Berkley Trade Formats Available: Paperback Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, BookDepository(US), BookDepository(UK)

Book Blurb:

HISTORICAL ROMANCE – Three classic fairytales—“Sleeping Beauty,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Little Red Riding Hood”—cleverly retold with enough sensual twists to prove wickedly ever after does exist…
Sleeping Beau: Five years ago, the notorious rake, Adrien d’Aspe, Marquis de Beaulain, was awakened by a sensuous kiss—and experienced a night of raw ecstasy that was branded into his memory. Years later, he spots his mysterious seductress—and this time, he has no intention of letting her go…
Little Red Writing: Nicolas de Savignac, Comte de Lambelle, has been assigned by the King to uncover the secret identity of the author writing scandalous stories about powerful courtiers. He never expected his …

Review: Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 250Release Date: May 11, 2004Publisher: PuffinFormats Available: Paperback and eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, BookDepository(US), BookDepository(UK)

Book Blurb:Strange, sleepy Rogerson, with his long brown dreads and brilliant green eyes, had seemed to Caitlin to be an open door. With him she could be anybody, not just the second-rate shadow of her older sister, Cass. But now she is drowning in the vacuum Cass left behind when she turned her back on her family’s expectations by running off with a boyfriend. Caitlin wanders in a dream land of drugs and a nightmare of Rogerson’s sudden fists, lost in her search for herself.

Why do so many girls allow themselves to get into abusive relationships–and what keeps them there? In this riveting novel, Sarah Dessen searches for understanding and answers. Caught in a …

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: The Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 368Release Date: June 2010Publisher: Allen and UnwinFormats Available: Paperback Purchasing Info: The Book Depository.co.uk, The Book Depository.com, Good Reads, Allen and Unwin

Book Blurb:

Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness.

Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town’ s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah.

It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their …

Bookish Eye Candy: John Matthew – Lover Mine

Well this week if we are going in order it is suppose to be Rehvenge from LOVER AVENGED. *squeeeee* which is so my favorite book of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. But as I have already done Rehvenge (SEE HERE) i will move on to the next book. Which is the newest edition to the black Dagger Brotherhood series.

LOVER MINE
by: J.R. Ward

In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. Long divided as a terrifying battleground for the vampires and their enemies, the city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.

John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those …