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Guest post by Ros Baxter + Giveaway
We are happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc. Ros Baxter, author of Fish Out of Water, a mermaid story unlike any other you know! So join us as Ros tells us about her fascination with mermaids and how HER kind of mermaid is nothing like Ariel 😉 Ros, take it away! 😀
The best thing about children…
…is that they haven’t yet been told there is stuff they can’t do.
At least mine haven’t.
So when I asked my daughter (4) the other day what she wanted to be when she grew up, she told me with that trademark don’t-you-remember look on her face: “A pirate, of course.” Ah, of course. Silly me.
Pirate
And when I asked my son (7), he shot me an almost identical look (genes are scary) and said: ”Rock star, remember?”
Image courtesy of MR LIGHTMAN/freedigitalphotos.net
For me, it was always a mermaid.
What was …
Bookish Rant or Raves: Negative Review or Personality Disorder?
I fervently adore negative reviews. A negative review provides the perfect framework to fully interact with a book. That pissed off reviewer hates things about a book that I loved, is outraged by something I completely missed, or shares in the absurdity of the so-called worldbuilding the author alleges to have undertaken.
On any given day, I have to listen to an abusive oil lineman convince a Judge that the wife cut the brakes in her own car, or a Napoleonic landlord claim it was a violation of the lease for a family to light a fire in the fireplace in Alaska in the winter.
I want to read something cathartic; wherein the assholes get what’s coming to them. Alternately, I’m interested in something that gives me hope for the human condition. Either/Or. When I don’t get that…..
I. Am. Pissed.
But I fly right passed …
New Releases: May 6-12, 2013
Title: Dead Ever After
Author: Charlaine Harris
Series: Sookie Stackhouse, #13
Genre: urban fantasy
Release date: May 7, 2013 by Ace
Description:
Sookie Stackhouse has one last adventure in store.
Life has taken her from a waitress in Merlotte’s Bar, Bon Temps, to part owner; from social outcast to the heart of her community; from a vampire’s girlfriend to the wife of one of the most powerful vampires in the state. She has survived earthquakes, revolutions and attempts on her life. Sookie has endured betrayal, heartbreak and grief . . . and she has emerged a little stronger, and little wiser, every time.
But with life comes new trials . . .
The question is, in the end: who will love, who will live, and who will be dead ever after?
Sookie finds it easy to turn down the request of former barmaid Arlene when she wants her job back at Merlotte’s. After all, …
New Releases,The Needy Lover 
7 May 2013
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Guestpost: Author Amara Royce + Giveaway
Today we’re happy to welcome Amara Royce on Book Lovers Inc. Her new historical romance, Never Too Late , was released last week. Let’s give a warm welcome to Amara! And don’t forget you can win a copy of her book!
Thank you so much to Book Lovers, Inc. for having me here! I’m very excited that Never Too Late is now “out in the wild.” It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the heroine of Never Too Late, Mrs. Honoria Duchamp, and to explain how she came into existence.
I am a ravenous reader of historical romances, and I noticed a few years ago that older heroines are rather rare in the genre. In fact, “older” in a Regency or Victorian tends to be a woman’s late twenties, when she has been out on the “marriage mart” for a few seasons and is slipping toward …
Amara Royce,Giveaways,Guest Post,The HEA Lover 7 May 2013
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Book Lovers Book Club: Coming Soon! Suggestions needed!
Hello everyone!
So the girls and I have been throwing around the idea of doing a book club for a little while now and naturally we would love to get all of our wonderful readers involved.
The book club will be a monthly event, a new book will be chosen (by you guys) every month within a different genre. But first we need some suggestions!
Each book that you suggest must be either a stand alone or the first in a series. You can suggest any genre, any author, any anything! Just leave your suggestion Tile + Author in the comments below. I want all kinds of genres! Nothing is off limits here. (Please someone suggest some graphic novels! I have fallen in love with them, and I would love for the rest of the girls to fall in love with them also)
We are also going to do a secondary book club …
Book Lovers Book Club,The Winged Lover 6 May 2013
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Sunday Cravings
Hello my fellow Book Lovers everywhere in the world and Happy Easter to whomever is celebrating it along with me 🙂 Have a great Sunday everyone else 🙂 As you can guess I’m quite in a joyful mood lately and how could I not when the weather here in Greece is just perfect! Well, it’s a little bit hotter than we expect at this time of year but hey, I’m not complaining! We were tired of all that cold 😛 Anyway, we’re here for another week to celebrate all the books that are scheduled for release as of tomorrow and not the perfect weather 😛 This week, there are quite a few interesting titles being published, some of them, titles we were awaiting for like forever! So, let’s start!
Marlene and Amanda: Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse has one last adventure in store.
Life has taken …
featured,Sunday Cravings,The Coffee Lover 5 May 2013
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The international Giveaways Café (91)
Welcome back to another Saturday morning filled with great bookish giveaways. Hope you all have a great weekend and squeeze in as much reading time as possible 🙂
And, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, the rules are simple:
1. The giveaway MUST be available to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
2. Add your link below, in the format shown. (Please use the URL for the contest post, not a general blog URL; you don’t want to make it tricky for others trying to enter)
3. Expired contests will be removed …
The Int'l Giveaways Café,The Quirky Lover 4 May 2013
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Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post and in this edition we have an epic authors behaving badly, Penguin facing another lawsuit, as well as our usual author updates and publishing news!
Anne Rice is no stranger to dramallamas on the internet, in fact I think there should be a special entry for her because when she’s in the midst of one they are truly epic. Last week a blogger called Miss Articulate who felt that Rice’s Pandora wasn’t that impressive and turned it into book art because the book was falling apart and it was an old copy. Anne Rice on her facebook page linked to the blog post and all hell broke loose. I liked how Miss Articulate fared with the critical onslaught and a few of Rice’s fans were disgusted by the attacks too and the fact that she made the book into art fares better than what I’ve heard …
News,The Smutty Lover,Uncategorized 3 May 2013
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Q&A with Lori Foster + Giveaway
Today we are very excited to welcome back to Book Lovers author Lori Foster in celebration of her newest release in the Love Undercover series, Bare it All. Like with every single book written by Lori Foster, Bare it All is a sinfully sexy story with a couple of characters that will manage to stick to your mind long after you’re finished reading their story. Lori stops by today to answer some questions and as always don’t forget to check at the end of the post for our giveaway details 🙂
Q: How did you come up with the idea for your book?
A: No idea. The ideas are just… there. I’m so amazed by authors who can teach this stuff, because it’s impossible for me. I’ll be minding my own business (often working on a different book) and bam! I get hid upside the head with characters who want on the …
Romance and Me:The Truth About Cravings
Hi Everyone!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that cravings are real and they don’t only exist during pregnancies. Oh no. I bet that you all have at one time had the urge to snack on something, but today I would like to talk to you about book cravings. Cravings related to reading. When you are “just in the mood for” a particular trope (yes, heroine won in a card game historical romance), or the hero having a certain job (give me some fire-fighter hunks), or a setting (anyone want wedding romances?).
It happens to me all the time. When I finish a book and I’m at that moment of deciding what to read next I ask myself: what am I in the mood for? And sometimes it’s just general guidelines like I want a historical romance to shake things up a bit after the 4 or …
featured,Romance and Me,The Latin Lover 1 May 2013
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