Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

This week it has been pretty quiet, but there has been quite a few long awaited book covers being released with blurbs and excerpts for the next year or so. So we will start with that this week. =)

First up – Shannon Delany has announced and posted the title of her followup to 13 to Life. Secrets and Shadows will be out February 15th 2011.  You can also check out the excerpt here which will help to cope with that cliffhanger from the first book!Karen Mahoney who has written short stories in The Eternal Kiss and Kiss Me Deadly anthologies has posted the cover for her upcoming full novel The Iron Witch here, which looks absolutely gorgeous.

While the final book in the Weather …

Interview: Author Karin Harlow + Giveaway

Today we are very excited to welcome Karin Harlow Author of the L.O.S.T. Series to Book Lovers, Inc. with her newest release Enemy Lover. You can read my review here. So please join me in giving Karin  a warm welcome!

 
The Cornered Lover: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Karin Harlow: Yes but first I want to say, thank you for inviting me to hang out with you, JoJo! 

The Cornered Lover: Your very welcome Karin! We are so happy to have yo here today!

Karin Harlow: Ok, so, a little bit about me: I’ve been happily married to my very own hawt alpha for almost 30 years.  We have four grown children. I love my job, I love animals, and I love gardening (it has become an obsession!)

The Cornered Lover: What’s a typical writing …

Bookish Rants or Raves: Bookish Distractions!

I have been thinking about things that distract and bother me when I’m reading. I’ve come to realize that there are two types of distractions that can get on my nerves:

1 – Environmental Distractions
2 – In-Book Distractions

1 – I really need silence when it comes to reading. i can’t have music on the TV on and if my dad is watching TV in the next room, I have to close my door to avoid the sound to bother me.

I also need to feel comfortable when reading. I read mostly laying down on my bed, but I can also deal with reading on my desk from time to time.

2 – Now, these are more subtle distractions. I’m talking about things in a book that just make you scratch your head and that most of the time you have to …

All YA Love: My Favourite YA Couples + a winner

Before I talk about this weeks topic we have a winner to proclaim. The winner of Birthmarked  by Caragh M. O’Brian is….
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Giada M
Congrats! We will email you know to get your shipping info!
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When I think of my favourite couples in YA, it’s not because of their hotness, kick-ass status or sheer awesomeness. The perfect couple in YA is a mature one, and one that betters both parties. One sidedness in anything doesn’t work for me, and lack of growth or change doesn’t work either.

Which is why I have picked the following couples, they went in either broken or lost and came out whole with a partner that not only complimented them, but helped them to become a better person.

Alex and Brittany – Perfect Chemistry

A perfect example, and …

New Releases: Week of August 9 – August 15

Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

Genre: Paranormal

Karen Essex turns on the heat in this transporting and darkly haunting new tale of love and possession that puts forth the question: What if everything you knew about Dracula . . . was wrong?

From the shadowy banks of the River Thames to the wild and windswept coast of Yorkshire, the quintessential Victorian virgin Mina Murray vividly recounts in the pages of her private diary the intimate details of what transpired between her and Count Dracula—the joys and terrors of a pas sionate affair and her rebellion against a force of evil that has pursued her through time.

Mina’s version of this timeless gothic vampire tale is a visceral journey into the dimly lit bedrooms, mist-filled cemeteries, and locked asylum chambers where she led a secret life, far from the …

Explore This! The Australian Outback

I’ve been reading all sorts of speculative fiction recently which presents issues when it comes to actual places we could virtually visit for this week (it’s hard to find real pics of post-apocalyptic Earth, right?). I hit up my best friend, Mel at He Followed Me Home for an idea. She gave me inspiration in the form of Stolen (A letter to my captor) by Lucy Christopher. I’ve included the book trailer here for more info (since I personally haven’t read the book) and then our tour begins. It looks like another stunning place I have yet to visit. Enjoy!

Bookish Eye Candy: Eidolon – Pleasure Unbound

So last week I brought to the table the Delish Eidolon from Larissa Iones Demonica series. And let me just say, for those of you who haven’t read this series yet *eyes bug out* OMG what are you waiting for?!?! Books # 5 comes out towards the end of this month!!! But in the mean time i’m gonna share some hotties with you!!!!

Pleasure Unbound
By: Larissa Ione

In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life…

She’s a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure—but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life.

Two lovers will dare …