Interview: Author Julia Barrett + Giveaway

We are so happy to have Julia Rachel Barrett here today She’s a multi published author and a person you all should be happy to meet. Her new erotic science fiction romance, Daughters of Persephone: Exile & Return, will be released next week and I got the chance to ask her everything I want. Muahah! And be sure to check out the end of the interview for a chance to win her new book.

Please give Julia a warm welcome!

The Geeky Lover: Hey Julia, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Julia: Thanks, Susi! I love talking with you, especially during the World Cup! Let’s see…a little about me…I’m married, a mom, a registered nurse, and a writer. As you know, I’m also an animal lover. I began writing poetry when I was quite …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Have you ever wondered what Curran was thinking in important key scenes in the Kate Daniels Series? Well Ilona Andrews is giving away the free Curran point of views that been posted at their blog and has been compiled in a wonderful short omnibus. It is available for download at Smashwords – link here. Good news is that there will be more key scenes in the future!

Janet Evanovich has left St Martin Press due to the collapse of discussions about the renewing of her contract for which she received around 10 million dollars for each book. But due to several reports her son who is also her agent is negotiating for 50 million dollars for the next four books. Whether another publisher will pick her up with these new terms is up in the air especially when most publishers …

Bookish Rants or Raves: Let’s Talk About Clichés!

As a book lover and avid reader, I am quite proud to say that I have read a lot of books. I have never hid the fact that my favorite genres are Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance and that I am an absolute sucker for anything Supernatural.

However, as with addiction there is always a downside and the one that I have found after reading so many books and following over 100 book series (and adding to that daily), are the clichés.

How many times can you read about Sexy Vampires with magnetic eyes, werewolves with possessive behaviors, kick-ass heroine, the girl next door that gets caught up in the paranormal or the half-human / half-faerie (vamp, shifter, etc)?

Don’t get me wrong, I still love to read about all of the above and now and then, a book or series comes along …

All YA Love: Why I love the Vampire Academy Series

Now I will be honest with you, I never really pictured myself as a YA reader, sure, I read Twilight a couple of years ago and it was ok with its whole high school love thing, but it was a little too teenagery for my tastes.
I was put off not only by YA but by reading after that, not Twilight but The Host (which isn’t YA, I know), I hadn’t picked up a book in 10 months and I was going through a pretty rough patch life wise until one relatively normal day, I was on a holiday in north Queensland for a few weeks and I walked into their smaller of only two newsagencies. This newsagency was a reseller for Angus and Robertson (Australia’s version of Barnes and Noble) and there on the shelf was a set of three …

New Releases: Week of July 12 – 18, 2010

Blood Fever (Rebirth #2) by Sara Brookes

Genre: Paranormal RomanceEvande walked out on her lover, Quinn, fifty years ago without looking back because he wanted too much from her. Now, after she saves a dying human by turning him into a vampire, a wanted notice shows up demanding her death and she knows Quinn is the only one who can help her.

Standing on Quinn’s doorstep with Logan, she quickly finds herself fighting her attraction to both men. Thing is, both men don’t make a secret of the fact they want her. As if that wasn’t enough to deal with, she also learns she isn’t the only one the Elders are after.

Deception, secrets and corruption.

Evande’s survived worse – but this time it may just kill her.SilverLiquidBooks

Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus

Explore This! Yellowhead

For this week’s virtual travel, I get to show you a bit of my own country, Canada! I recently read Tay John by Howard O’Hagan, which is the legend of a man born in the late 1800’s and of his cursory attempts to meld into society, as the Western parts of Canada were being developed and the trains were being extended to our West Coast.

I’ve personally never visited these areas before, but as you can see from the pics, there’s still a lot of wilderness here; so much that remains untouched by man. What I have for you today are images of Yellowhead Lake, which according to O’Hagan’s novel was named after Tay John’s people (Tay John was a mispronunciation of “Tete Jaune”, as he was a yellow haired native.) I’ve also included the Athabaska river, which features prominently …

Bookish Eye Candy: Phury – Lover Enshrined

LOVER ENSHRINED

by J.R. Ward

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other—six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. And now, a dutiful twin must choose between two lives…

Fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race, becoming the male responsible for keeping the Brotherhood’s bloodlines alive. As Primale of the Chosen, he is to father the sons and daughters who will ensure that the traditions of the race survive and that there are warriors to fight those who want all vampires extinguished. As his first mate, the Chosen Cormia wants to win not only his body but his heart for herself- she sees the emotionally …