Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to another week of bookish news!  There were a couple of interesting new bookish hashtags on Twitter this week.  If you missed them before you can click on the hashtags here to go to the searches for #booksthatchangedmyworld  and #badnamesforbookimprints.The Internet Archive, a repository of public domain eBooks, has added a “Send to Kindle” link.  They have lots of great free eBooks over there.  I download books from there onto my Sony Reader every week.

eBookNewser had an interesting article about Austria’s national library cutting a deal with Google to digitize 400,000 of their books.  Scanning is set to start next year.

Borderzine has a piece on teen authors self-publishing their books.  It was an interesting read.  I’ve read about authors self-publishing their books, but I hadn’t thought about teenagers doing that.

The New York Times …

Promo & Giveaway: Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh

We are so proud to give you the chance to win an early copy of Bonds of Justice here on Book Lovers Inc. The official Release Day is July 7th so you get the chance to read it before everyone else.About the book:
Bonds of Justice is book #8 in the Psy/Changelings seriesMax Shannon is a good cop, one of the best in New York Enforcement. Born with a natural shield that protects him against Psy mental invasions, he knows he has little chance of advancement within the Psy-dominated power structure. The last case he expects to be assigned to is that of a murderer targeting a Psy Councilor’s closest advisors. And the last woman he expects to compel him in the most sensual of ways is a Psy on the verge of catastrophic mental fracture.

You can read reviews of Bonds …

Bookish Rants or Raves: Drawing The Line! What’s Ur Limit?

I was reading a post about Train Wreck Books at Mama Kitty Reviews blog and I started thinking about my limits when it comes to subject matters in the books I choose to read or that are offered to me for review.

I have to admit that I pretty flexible, I usually am open for mostly anything. I love reading M/M Romance, have read a lot of Paranormal Erotica and have no qualms about delving into a book with BDSM elements.

That being said, there are some subjects out there where I simply feel the need to draw the line. I haven’t read any books with them, but I have read about them in blogs and on twitter.

I remember reading on twitter and subsequently on a blog about a book where the woman has sex with a tree… *a moment of silence, please* …

All YA Love: Guest Post on Fathers by Shannon Delaney

Welcome to Shannon Delany’s Start Your Day with Serial Tour! Shannon’s debut novel (and first in her YA paranormal series) 13 to Life started as a winning cell phone novel written in serial segments. During the tour you can read bits of the book in order. Miss a day? Hop to Shannon’s blog and check the link to the blog tour calendar in her sidebar.

There will also be a contest that will close at the end of the tour. Winners get a bunch of stuff.

Fathers. We all tend to have one. Some have more. For me, one has always been the perfect number (I cannot imagine more than one if that more is anything like my father!). 😉 My father is one of those larger-than-life characters. He’s a tale-teller (so blame him for my love of stories).

In my debut …

New Releases: Week of June 14 – June 20, 2010

June 14

The Bloodgate Guardian by Joely Sue Burkhart

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

Worlds within worlds await through the Maya Bloodgate…

Dr. Jaid Merritt doesn’t do digs. The last time she ventured into the jungle, someone died. Now she’s content to decipher Maya glyphs from pictures sent to her by her famous archaeologist father. But when he goes missing while trying to perform a ritual based on her translations of an ancient codex, Jaid must put aside her fears and travel to Guatemala to find him.
After misusing the Bloodgates to bring his twin brother back from the afterlife, the Maya priest known as Ruin was cursed by the gods to stand as the guardian for all time. He was unable to stop Dr. Charles Merritt from opening the gates, and now demons roam this world. The last thing he wants to do …

Explore This! Sweden

This week’s tour takes us to Sweden. I decided upon this destination for a few reasons: I have a contest running over at my own blog for a copy of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Played With Fire (click here to enter….after reading this post 🙂 I’m also a big fan of Eric (played by Alexander Skarsgard, a native of Sweden) in the HBO series True Blood, which had its season premiere last night. Let’s just say it left quite the impression, to say the least…

I’ve realized that in previous posts, I had neglected to include a map, so I’ve corrected that issue here.

Interview: Author Chloe Neill + Giveaway

Hey everyone! We at Book Lovers Inc. would like to give a very warm welcome to Author Chloe Neill. I, The Crazy Lover, am a huge fan of her Chicagoland Vampires series and the Dark Elite series (YA)… I am really excited about the new book coming out soon, Twice Bitten.Chloe Neill is here today for a Giveaway and Interview, YAY! The details for the giveaway are at the bottom of the post!Enjoy!The Crazy Lover: First of all, We’d like welcome you to Book Lovers Inc.!

Chloe Neill: Thanks so much for having me!

The Crazy Lover: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Chloe Neill: Sure. I was born in the Southern U.S., but now live in the Midwest with my two dogs, Baxter and Scout. I love to bake, and I have a dayjob, and I’ve been writing fiction for about five …

Bookish Eye Candy: Butch: Lover Revealed

Lover Revealed

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. Now, an ally of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
will face the challenge of his life and the evil of the ages.

Butch O’Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard living, ex-homicide cop, he’s the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world- to engage in the turf war with the lessers. He’s got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who’s way out of his league. If he can’t have her, then at least …