All YA Love: Judging a Book by it’s Cover #2 – Opposites

There were so many releases in YA during the month of March, it was so hard to narrow down the top 10. All credit to this post goes to my bestie, Jackie! I hope you enjoy it! It was fun to make 🙂 For more info, click on the title and/or author name.

SWEET VS SOUR

It’s Raining Cupcakes                              by Lisa Schroeder                                 

The Pickle King
by Rebecca Promitzer

GOOD VS EVIL

Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene
by Beatrice Gormley

                                                      The Dead-Tossed Waves       by …

New Releases: March 9, 2010

March 9

The Vampire and the Virgin by Kerrelyn Sparks

Genre: Paranormal Romance
“New York Times” bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks continues her popular “Love at Stake” series with battle-weary vampire Robby MacKay who finds love while on vacation. Olivia’s packing list: 1. Sunscreen 2. Bathing suit 3. Flip-flops 
FBI psychologist Olivia Sotiris is looking for a cool ocean breeze, sand between her toes, and a break from her crazy, and sometimes dangerous, life. But when she escapes to the Greek island of Patmos, all she gets is a meddling grandmother trying to marry her off. None of the men there interest her—except a mysterious Scotsman named Robby MacKay. 
Robby’s packing list: 1. Synthetic blood 2. More synthetic blood 3. Jogging clothes (even a Vamp has to stay in shape!) 
Robby needs to cool …

Geekdom of Books: Staying Up-to-Date

Thanks to the wonderful pattepoilue I discovered a new wonderful way to keep on track with all the series I read. I already tried Shelfari and LibraryThing and discovered  that I’m more a Goodreads gal myself.
But although I use Goodreads daily I sometimes forgot that a new book in one of loved series came out and I nearly got a stroke when I noticed. So now we have this new site: fictfact.com

What is so great about it?
You can search the database for author, book title or series name and it list all the books in this series, even the soon to be released ones. You can now click on follow this series and fictfact will remind you of the new releases in this series. Sounds easy to me.

Okay I admit it was totally annoying to put all the series I read in there but those 30 minutes …

Interview: Author, Destiny Blaine & a Giveaway!

BLI: Hi Destiny. Huge fan here! I am so glad to be interviewing you for Book Lovers, Inc.Destiny: Hey there. Thanks very much for inviting me over today. I’m thrilled to hear you like my work. BLI: You have a very busy life I hear with having a family and full time writng career. What is the hardest for you to do more: writing or being there for your family?Destiny: Finding time to write. My son graduates from high school this year. My daughter is a sophomore. They’re active in sports and on the move all the time so it’s hard to find quiet time to really buckle down and write. BLI: What is your writing process like? Do you have a daily or weekly word count that you try to meet?Destiny: It varies from day to day, from one manuscript to the next. …

Randomly Booked: Don’t Stop Me Now by Mcfly

The song Don’t Stop Me Now by Mcfly made me think of Cat and Bones in Halfway to the Grave. When Cat meets Bones shes out looking for a vampire and manages to get Bones to come with her. Then Bones manages to change the circumstances and Cat thinks she is in deep trouble. Bones has a really good time trying to seduce Cat and please her. This song depicts the relationship of Cat and Bones especially during the beginning of their relationship but basically throughout.

Don’t Stop Me Now by McFly

tom
Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive
And the world is turning inside out, yeah
I’m floating around in ecstasy so 
So Don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me cause I’m havin’ a good time
I’m havin’ a good time

danny
I’m a shooting star leaping throught the skies
Like a tiger defying the …

Bookish Rants or Raves: eBook Publishing Fail

I have a bone to pick with publishers about eBook publishing. Something happened recently that really pissed me off. I am sure that I am not alone in being upset about the different release dates when it comes to releasing a book in electronic format verses release dates for hardcover or paperback.

The newest book in Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan series was released February 23rd and I had pre-ordered it about a week before. On release day I found out that it had been pushed back a week and I was only going to be able to get it on March 2nd. When I went to the eBook online store where I bought it, I had the surprise of finding out that it had been pushed back once again to April 9th. WTF!?!?

That is so disrespectful to readers! I understand that publishers …

On Our Bookish Minds: Lets Talk About Book Covers

The old saying of never judge a book by its cover is true most of the time. However, there have been instances when there is a bad cover or even those which do not illustrate the characters realistically, such as the recent controversy about the whitewashing of protagonists in several YA books.

Often these are still good books, just bad cover choices.

I don’t usually let bad covers put me off to a book, but there are times for each of us I am sure it happens for better or worse. Beautiful covers can be misleading sometimes though and I have been burnt several times when I picked up a book that I thought would be good just because of …

And the Winners are…

It’s time for another big winner celebration post and today we won’t tease you too long. We had 3 giveaways ending this week and I’m just coming back from the God of Luck aka Mr. Random.org to proclaim the chosen ones.So without further rambling, here they are:

~Wanda~

wins a copy of My Everything by Julia Rachel Barrett.

~Amanda Leigh~

wins a paperback or e-book copy of  Ashes of the Red Heifer by Shannon Baker.
~mariska~

is the winner of last week’s Sexy Book Lover “My Wishlist” post and wins a copy of“Witch and Wizard” by James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet.

We will contact the winners ASAP.

Thanks to everyone who entered and commented on these posts! We appreciate you all.
Special thanks to author’s, Julia Rachel Barrett and Shannon Baker for their posts and for generously offering a copy of their books to our Book …

All YA Love: Guest Post by Debut Author, Swati Avasthi

I’m excited to be here on Book Lovers Inc. Thanks for the invite. My debut novel, Split, will hit the shelves in March 9th and is narrated by 16 year old Jace Witherspoon, who has just run 1300 miles after hitting his father back. He hasn’t seen his brother, Christian in five years, but with nowhere else to go, he shows up on Christian’s doorstep with bruises and a secret. Split is about what happens after you get out.

When I first spoke to my editor, she said that she promised herself she wouldn’t ask me whether I had any personal experience with domestic violence and I realized that I was going to get that question a lot. Luckily, my answer is no. The follow up question to that is then, why did I …

Interview: Debut Author Skyler White & a Giveaway!

Book Lovers Inc: What is your favorite color and what do you think it says about you or how does it represent you?

Skyler White: I don’t really have a favorite color. Green, probably. Or black. I imagine what that says about me is that I’m somewhat non-committal. Or that I like spring and growth. Or winter and death. 😉

BLI: What is your favorite type of music?

SW: Gak, I’m going to be non-committal throughout, looks like. I like a lot of different kinds of music, depending on my mood. I love the sound of the cello, but I also love the terrible music I grew up with in the 80’s. I’m an old-school U2 fan, but I’m loving Lady Gaga right now.

BLI: Many authors talk about the music they listen …