Book Lovers Book Club: Series Read-Along Selections

Good moaning every one (see the Allo’ Allo’ reference I just did there),

Here are the choices for our series read-along – the secondary book club feature we will be doing every month. Poll is down the bottom and on the side bar!

There is also a poll for the June 2013 selections on the sidebar too.

Happy Voting!

Jane True Series by Nicole Peeler

In the tiny village of Rockabill, Maine, Jane True—26-year-old bookstore clerk and secret night swimmer—has no idea that her absent mother’s legacy is entry into a world populated by the origins of human myths and legends.  It is a world where nothing can be taken for granted: vampires are not quite what we think; dogs sometimes surprise us; and whatever you do, never—ever—rub the genie’s lamp.   For Jane, everything kicks off when she comes across a murder victim during her nightly clandestine swim in the freezing winter ocean.  This grisly discovery leads to …

Sunday Cravings

Hello my fellow Book Lovers everywhere in the world! How are you this weekend? Are you ready for the last week of May? I just can’t believe that summer is already here… And to be honest, I can’t wait for it to officially start 🙂

This week is a really busy one book wise. There are quite a lot of books scheduled for release the days to come so I seriously hope that you saved some money because chances are you’re gonna need them!

So, let’s start.

Marlene: Wounded Angel by Stacy Gail

A descendant of the Angel of Vengeance, Nate da Luca was gifted with an uncanny ability to find things. It made his job as a detective a breeze—until he learned the hard way that some things should remain hidden. After that, his powers vanished, along with his belief in himself. Which is going to make tracking down …

Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! In this week’s edition we have news of Amazon’s launch into licensing fanfiction with Alloy Entertainment,   and more author and book news!

With the recent successes of pulled to publish fanfiction like 50 Shades of Grey and Gabriel’s Inferno, has certainly helped paved the way. But Amazon has now joined forces with Alloy Entertainment, a book packager who is behind popular franchises like The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girls and Pretty Little Liars. Fanfic writers who have written stories based in these worlds belonging to Alloy Entertainment which is a subsidiary of Warner brothers, are invited to submit to sell their works via a license which Amazon and will be sold under an imprint called Kindle Worlds. Unlike the KDP programme which allows authors up to 70% of royalties, fanficcers can only get around 35% for each story sold. There is also restrictions …

New Releases: May 20-26, 2013

Title: The Red Plague Affair
Author: Lilith Saintcrow
Series: Bannon & Clare, #2
Genre: steampunk
Release date: May 21, 2013 by Orbit

Description:

The service of Britannia is not for the faint of heart–or conscience…

Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: to find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, is only too happy to help. It will distract him from pursuing his nemesis, and besides, Clare is not as young as he used to be. A spot of Miss Bannon’s excellent hospitality and her diverting company may be just what he needs.

Unfortunately, their quarry is a fanatic, and his poisonous discovery is just as dangerous to Britannia as to Her enemies. Now a single man has set Londinium ablaze, and Clare finds himself in the middle of distressing excitement, racing against time and theory to find a cure. …