New Releases: July 18-24, 2011

 Love Story by Jennifer Echols

She’s writing about him. he’s writing about her. And everybody is reading between the lines.. For Erin Blackwell, majoring in creative writing at the New York City college of her dreams is more than a chance to fulfill her ambitions–it’s her ticket away from the tragic memories that shadow her family’s racehorse farm in Kentucky. But when she refuses to major in business and take over the farm herself someday, her grandmother gives Erin’s college tuition and promised inheritance to their maddeningly handsome stable boy, Hunter Allen. Now Erin has to win an internship and work late nights at a coffee shop to make her own dreams a reality. She should despise Hunter . . . so why does he sneak into her thoughts as the hero of her latest writing assignment? Then, on the day …

Interview: Stephanie Tyler + Giveaway

It’s our great pleasure to welcome multi-published New York Times Bestselling Author Stephanie Tyler to BLI today. Stephanie wowed lovers of military romantic suspense with her Hard To Hold trilogy in late 2009 and early 2010. Then in October 2010, Lie With Me, the first book of her awesome Shadow Force series was published which was followed quickly by book II Promises In The Dark. Fans have had to wait a while but I’m delighted to say, In The Air Tonight, Mace Stevens and Paige Grayson’s story is to be released on July 26, 2011, and Stephanie keeps up the sexy, riveting, fast paced storytelling she established in the first two books of her series. Dell Books is the publisher for the Hard To Hold Trilogy and Shadow Force series. Stephanie has also co-written the …

The International Giveaways Café (3)

Welcome back to our weekly meet up here at The International Giveaway Café! It’s been crazy hot around here this week, so I’m going to grab an Iced Coffee before sitting back and checking out all the international giveaway links we’ve been collecting here. After my weekly clean up, a lot of the links had expired, so now’s the time to get your link up! I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next and exciting.

If you’re looking for more information about our motivation for this post, check out the original post here. Otherwise, I’ll just go ahead and restate our guidelines, then we can get down to the business at hand: contest linking & entry. Oh! And coffee, there always has to be coffee or tea involved, right?…..Bottoms up!

Guidelines:

If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

I hope everyone had a great week! This week’s news has some interesting tidbits about new publishing deals and more on Amazon’s new tablet albeit its all rumour.

First up, it looks like the US arm of Borders which has entered into administration is looking like they will enter full liquidation. I don’t really think at this point, that Borders can survive. which is a huge shame.

In a surprising and a worrying move there was an announcement by Ellora’s Cave, that author, Laurann Dohner has signed a 75 book deal with e-publisher. Now this seems to be beyond crazy with that amount of books, especially since many of the established longterm authors such as Cheyenne McCray and Lora Leigh have left the publisher. and I doubt any respectable agent would advise their client for this amount of books. However …

Romance and Me: I’m a Gang Member Baby, so Why Don’t You Love Me?

Hey Everyone!

Today to tie in with Jill Sorenson’s guest post and latest novel (The Edge of Night) we are talking about gang love stories.That is, those novels where (at least) one of the characters is a gang member and which detail is crucial either because it shaped that character’s personality and outlook on life/love/relationships or because it causes difficulties for the couple.

I have Caro here to help me with today’s topic as she has recently read a few stories fitting this category, so I’ll give it over to her:

Caro: I haven’t read many gang books but the only ones I read were fantastic. I read Perfect Chemistry (and the following in the series) by Simone Elkeles, it’s a YA romance series and it features gangs. I LOVED it to pieces. Why? Well first the hero is part of a Mexicano Gang, he’s …

Guestpost: Everybody Loves Eric by Jill Sorenson + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. the wonderful Jill Sorenson, author of the romantic suspense novels Stranded with her Ex, Set the Dark on Fire, Crash Into Me and Dangerous to Touch just to name a few.

Jill is here today to share with us some behind the scenes inspiration for her latest release The Edge of Night and how she incorporates some of her real life experience into her novels.

Please give a warm welcome to Jill and read on to enter the giveaway to win a copy of Jill’s latest release: The Edge of Night!

The most common complaint about The Edge of Night is that Eric Hernandez, a secondary character, steals the show. Eric is a 20-year-old gang member who sells drugs, stocks groceries, and tags …

New Releases: July 11 – July 17

Once Every Never – Lesley Livingston

Clarinet Reid is a pretty typical teenager. On the surface. She’s smart, but a bit of slacker; outgoing, but just a little insecure; not exactly a mischief-maker… but trouble tends to find her wherever she goes. Also? She unwittingly carries a centuries-old Druid Blood Curse running through her veins.

Now, with a single thoughtless act, what started off as the Summer Vacation in Dullsville suddenly spirals into a deadly race to find a stolen artifact, avert an explosive catastrophe, save a Celtic warrior princess, right a dreadful wrong that happened centuries before Clare was even born, and if there’s still time—literally—maybe even get a date.

This is the kind of adventure that happens to a girl once every… never.

Review: Liam’s Perfect Woman, by Beth Kery

Format Read: e-ARC submitted by author for review
Length: 224 Pages
Series: Home to Harbor Town Book #2
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Publisher: Harlequin Special Edition
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook, eBook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon Canada, Book Depository, Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble, eHarlequin, Books-A-Million, Powell’s, IndieBound, Chapters, Kindle, Nook, eHarlequin ebook

Book Blurb:

IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER…

The moment Liam Kavanaugh first glimpsed the exotic beauty dancing across a moonlit beach, he was smitten. But he was in for the surprise of his life when she turned out to be Natalie Reyes! The big-city cop had returned to Harbor Town to be the chief of police. Instead, he was battling an intense attraction to the woman who was forcing him to confront his past….

The lone survivor of the …

Explore This! Tempe, Arizona

This week’s tour takes us to the home of my newest literary crush, Atticus, and his Irish wolfhound, Oberon (I may have an even bigger crush on the dog; what a wit!). These, of course, are the main characters of Kevin Hearne’s The Iron Druid Chronicles, of which I’m currently reading the second book in the series, Hexed.

When I think of Arizona, I always think of Phoenix or Scottsdale and the accompanying images of whitewashed buildings, arid desert landscapes, and golf. With all the crazy happenings in Atticus’ life, I thought it was time to see what Tempe looked like…and here it is:

Of course this area will also have its fair share of palm trees.

This is a hotel in Tempe which brings together …

Interview: Juliana Stone + Giveaway!

It’s our great pleasure to welcome Juliana Stone, Author of the critically acclaimed Jaguar Warrior series to Book Lovers Inc. today. The first book in Juliana’s series, His Darkest Hunger, was published to rave reviews in March 2010. His Darkest Embrace, Book II in the series was published in October 2010! Juliana is here to celebrate the upcoming release of Book III, His Darkest Salvation, which will hit the stands on July 26, 2011! The Jaguar Warrior series is published by HarperCollins Avon and it chronicles the lives and loves of the Castille brothers who are jaguar shifters. Juliana also writes a time travel series for Samhain Publishing called Black Opals, and the first two novellas in that series are available now.Lea: Juliana! Welcome to Book Lovers, thank you so much for joining us here today!

Juliana: Thanks for having …