The International Giveaways Café (89)

Hello all and welcome to a another great Saturday morning, filled with awesome bookish giveaways! Hope you all manage to squeeze some reading time into your weekend, even if it’s just checking out the awesome list below 😉

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 …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! We have news on Kobo’s new ereader device, Penguin may relent on Agency pricing in the EU as well as book and author news!

Amongst the heels of the Sony rumoured new ereader – Kobo has launched a new ereader model called the Kobo Aura, which is bigger than their previous readers. It also boasts a HD e-ink screen which produces sharper and crisper resolution and no glare. It also has an SD slot which adds additional storage to the 4 gig memory and it is claimed the glow-lighting tech is much better than the Kobo’s Glo and the Paperwhite. I think with a 6.8 inch screen it will be a perfect device to read mangas and comics especially with the crisper and HD quality e-ink.  It is available for order right now and the price range is around $170/£130 – for more details and …

Interview with Kimberly Kincaid + Giveaway

You all know how much I love cooking and baking and what a huge fan I am of culinary romances, so it is with great pleasure that I welcome to Book Lovers Inc. and introduce you to foodie romance author Kimberly Kincaid, who stops by to tell you a bit about her brand new release Love on the Line! So please give her a warm and delicious welcome (with chocolate chip cookie and cinnamon latte ;-)) and if you share with us your favourite treat you could even win a copy of her book! 😀

Stella: Hi Kimberly, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Kimberly: I write contemporary foodie romance (where the characters are involved in food in some way—chefs, caterers, restaurant owners, etc.), both for Curtis Brown Digital and Kensington Books. I’m also a food nut, a yoga instructor, and a …

Romance and Me: The Horror of the Episode Novels

Hi Everyone!

You might have encountered this new trend that seems to be spreading recently, namely that a story is told in several shorter instalments. These are not “series” in the classic sense of the term, where the individual books were full-length 300 or more pages long, no in these new episode-novels the individual instalments are between 25-120 pages usually and end with (often cruel) cliffhangers to entice the reader to pick up the next instalment.

Many recent erotica stories used this form like Beth Kery’s Because You Are Mine series or Maya Cross’ brand new Alpha Group books, and even Eloisa James released her latest historical romance With This Kiss in this format.

Many readers object to this new trend because 1) the story or the different storylines don’t get resolved at the end of the individual episodes, 2) they have to suffer …

Interview with Tracy March + Giveaway

You know how much I love sport romances, so I am very happy to introduce you to newcomer romance author Tracy March, whose debut novel The Practice Proposal, a contemporary romance novel featuring a sexy baseball player just got released by Entangled Publishing. Take a seat and get to know Tracy and learn more about her Suddenly Smitten series, and she also has some very sweet treats for you at the end, so don’T forget to enter the giveaways! 😉 

Stella: Hi Tracy, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Tracy: I like to write, whether it’s romantic thrillers influenced by my career in the pharmaceutical field, and my interest in science and politics, or lighthearted romances inspired by my real-life happily ever after. (Lucky me!)

Always up for travel and adventure, I’ve flown in a stunt plane, snowmobiled on the Continental Divide, ziplined …

New Releases: April 15-21, 2013

Title: Taken
Author: Erin Bowman
Series: Taken, #1
Genre: urban fantasy (YA)
Release date: April 16, 2013 by HarperTeen

Description:

There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone.

They call it the Heist.

Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive.

Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side??

 

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After Hours by …

Interview with Tessa Bailey + Giveaway

Today we are very excited to welcome author Tessa Bailey in celebration of her debut release with Entangled Publishing, Protecting What’s His. Tessa stops by today to tell us all about her debut title and to answer a couple of our questions. Protecting What’s His is a sexy and sweet story about a woman who stops at nothing to protect those she cares for and a man who will show her just how sexy law enforcement can really be 🙂 Like always, don’t forget to check at the end of the post for our contest details.

Stella: Hi Tessa, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Tessa: Sure! Thank you for having me! I am a 29-year Brooklynite. I drove to New York from San Diego the day after high school graduation and never looked back. I have a lovely husband with …

Guest Post by Ophelia London + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers author Ophelia London in celebration of her newest release with Entangled Publishing, Abby Road. Abby Road is a sweet romance that combines two of my favorite things in this world: music and a heartwarming love story! What more could I ask from a story? Ophelia stops by today with a very interesting guest post, sharing with us some great songs that fit her story that I just have to check out later! Don’t you? So, let’s welcome Ophelia and don’t forget to check at the end of the post for our contest details 🙂 You can also check the full Blog Tour schedule here.

Hi Book Lovers Inc! I’m so excited to be guest blogging today. I was asked by Stella to share some songs that go with the characters in my new novel ABBY ROAD. …