Interview with author Jenna Black + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome Jenna Black to BLI today! I fell in love with Jenna’s writing when I discovered her Morgan Kingsley series. It’s one of my all time favorite urban fantasy series and yes perhaps I was a bit teary eyed when it drew to an end last year. But now she is back with a new series: her new Descendant series sounds very promising and she is here today to tell us more about them- especially about Dark Descendant which comes out today. Congrats! Please give Jenna a warm welcome and be sure to stay tuned for your chance to win. 

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

Jenna: I’m a full-time writer of urban fantasy, young adult fantasy, and paranormal romance. I graduated from Duke University with a degree …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s newsy post which is a bit brief because its been a bit quiet this week but we do have some interesting tidbits and goodies for y’all!

First up – some interesting new developments from Amazon which may help the Kindle to become the prominent format/reader in the DRM and format wars.
Amazon has announced that it will team up with Overdrive who hosts and offers e-books to libraries. Previously epub was the only format that was available for library ebook lending. I think this will herald the Kindle/Mobi as the winning format since one of the main reasons for getting an epub book was borrowing ebooks from libraries and it looks like Amazon has offered another arrow in their quill for choosing a Kindle!

It looks like the rumours about a tablet is gaining …

Guestpost "What if" by Marcella Burnard + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome science fiction romance author Marcella Burnard here at Book Lovers Inc today. I discovered her books this year while trying to achieve my goal to read more scifi in 2011 and her first novel, Enemy Within blew me away. So no wonder I jumped at the chance to get her over to our little place of the internet. Today she will tell us about What If’s and what they have to do with writing. Please give her a warm welcome and be sure to answer her question at the end for you chance to get an ARC of her next book Enemy Games.

Do you ever play ‘what if’ games? You know, silly stuff, like what if the Mayans were right and the world ends in December 2012? What would that …

Bookish Rants or Raves: Queer is NOT Weird!

I just want to get one thing off my chest, I am a proud supporter of the gay community. I avidly hate any and every type of prejudice and won’t stand for it, in any instance. 

I felt I needed to say that to get to my point LOL. we’re talking about books, so i wanted to talk about gay characters in UF and PNR and how much I love them!

They can be the gay best friend or the gay secondary character that steals the show, these people usually just make a story pop and give a much brighter realism to the fantastic worlds we get to read about constantly.

Who is is not dying to read Qhauy’s HEA? 

A sub genre that showed up more recently that rocks, is the M/M PNR. There …

Romance and Me: Unconventional Heroes and Heroines

Hey Everyone!

I have been pondering this matter for a while now and decided to make a post to get your opinion on the issue.Namely, that in most romance novels (in about 99.9% of them) the hero and heroine are always extremely attractive. The hero is tall, muscular, with lush hair, strong facial features and an overall pleasant physique, while the heroine is usually willowy and beautiful.

We never encounter a hero who is bald or has pot-belly. Or one who is short and puny. Sure, there are the regency heroes who sometimes have scars, but these are usually described as adding some charm to their roguish features and if it wasn’t for the scar they would be too perfect and called beautiful, so the scar only helps to make them manly.

And as far as the heroines go, we never find one who is overweight, or who looks masculine or whose hair …

New Releases: April 18 – 24

Eona – Alison Goodman (Eon #2)

Where there is power, there is betrayal…

Once she was Eon, a girl disguised as a boy, risking her life for the chance to become a Dragoneye apprentice. Now she is is Eona, the Mirror Dragoneye, her country’s savior—but she has an even more dangerous secret.

She cannot control her power.

Each time she tries to bond with her Mirror Dragon, she becomes a conduit for the ten spirit dragons whose Dragoneyes were murdered by Lord Ido. Their anguish floods through her, twisting her ability into a killing force, destroying the land and its people.

And another force of destruction is on her trail.

Along with Ryko and Lady Dela, Eona is on the run from High Lord Sethon’s army. The renegades must find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona’s power if he is …

Guestpost Author Kieran Kramer + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. Kieran Kramer the wonderful author behind the beloved historical romance series: the Impossible Bachelors series!

The 3rd book in the series Cloudy with a Chance of Marriage is to be released on 26 April and Kieran is here to start the celebrations early and share with us some background secret about her novel! So all of you curious readers, scroll down and there is also a giveaway waiting for you at the end.

Please give a warm welcome to Kieran Kramer! 

Weather. It’s there. Most of the time we don’t notice it. It can be boring to talk about, and when the local news station mentions it, how many of us listen? Most of the time, we only pay half attention–until the weather begins to seriously impact …

Explore This!: New Jersey

Today we are heading States side, to visit New Jersey in all its mutli-facted character. I’ve had a few books cross my path recently that take place in Jersey, so I thought it would be neat to take a look at the landscape. “What books?” you might ask…well, I have recently given Holly Black’s Red Glove rave reviews and of course, Snooki’s A Shore Thing is out there on the shelves too.So here’s a state wide look at some of the sights you might find on a trip to New York’s neighbour.

From pretty ocean views…

..to sporting arenas, New Jersey really goes to extremes.

I get the sense of hustle bustle, when it comes to the boardwalks,
but there are obviously …

Interview: Kevin Hearne + Giveaway

Today BLI is thrilled to welcome Kevin Hearne, the Author of the critically acclaimed and highly anticipated Iron Druid Chronicles. HOUNDED, the first book in Kevin’s series of stories about the adventures of Druid Atticus O’Sullivan is to be released on May 3rd. Book 2 ~ HEXED will be published on June 7th. Fans of Kevin’s series won’t have to wait long because HAMMERED, Book 3 of the series is scheduled for publication on July 5th!

Kevin! Thank you so much for joining us today, it’s such a pleasure to be able to chat with you. 🙂

Kevin can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

I teach high school English and raise my daughter in the finest traditions of modern geekery. She loves her Star Wars, Monty Python, and Doctor Who, which means she uses the Force to help …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Well this week we have had some interesting developments with Amazon and some goodies with new covers and blurbage from long awaited books!

First up – Amazon is going to offer a new Kindle that will be cheaper than the current Wifi/3G models the Kindle will be around $114 which is $25 cheaper. But to make up with the lower price it will host ads in the screensaver mode or at the homepage. They have stated that the ads wont be intrusive and will hope to reach a wider audience with a cheaper price. Now I am not sure about this because I am not a fan of ads even if is on a standby mode and I am not sure if this will catch on because its only 25 dollars cheaper but who knows!

February wasn’t a …