The International Giveaways Cafe (87)

Welcome back to another Saturday morning filled with great bookish giveaways! There have been TONS listed here recently; here’s hoping you all win something fabulous!! (I’m feeling a bit peppy this morning, so lot of exclamation points for me, lol.) Enjoy the rest of your weekend including as much reading time as possible 😉

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!

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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 …

Around The Bookish World: Week-in-Review

 I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend  and welcome to this week’s edition of Bookish news! This week we have news about another struggling publisher which may go bankrupt, sad news concerning SF writer Iain Banks and much more author and book news!

Another year and another publisher heading into trouble, this time it is Night Shade books which primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles. This week they announced they will be selling to Start Publishing and Skyhorse Publishing but this hasn’t gone down well with their authors who are understandably upset and irked by the mismanagement of the publisher. This  has led to the SFWA to state to its members who are signed with Night Shade to let them go under Chapter 7 bankruptancy instead of agreeing to this potential sale which will allow them to regain their rights or another body like Amazon if they are interested in purchasing …

Guest post by Eleri Stone + Giveaway

If you love your shifters and would like to try a paranormal romance series a bit different I would recommend you try Eleri Stone‘s Lost City Shifters featuring jaguar shifters from the wilderness of the Amazonian rain forest! Eleri is celebrating the release of Rebellion, the 3rd book in her Lost City Shifters series published by Carina Press and stops by to tell you a bit more about it, and for a chance to win one of her books answer her question at the end.  😉

Thank you Book Lovers for inviting me today to talk a little bit about my new release, Rebellion and the Lost City Shifters!

I’ve been watching the Vikings show on the History channel and the first couple of episodes are about whether it’s possible to “sail West” with common wisdom being that there’s nothing out there but the end of the world and certain …

Guestpost: Author Zoe Archer + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome Zoë Archer on Book Lovers Inc!  Join us to celebrate the release of Sinner’s Heart, the 3rd book in her Hellraisers series. If you haven’t read this series yet, here is your chance to win a copy! This is a series you don’t want to miss.  Let’s give a warm welcome to Zoë!

When thinking of historical Britain, most people’s minds run anywhere from the castles of the Middle Ages, to wild elegance of the 18th century, all the way to the strict propriety of the Victorian period. Not too many people think about the England that predated all of this. Roman Britain.

In 55 BCE., Julius Caesar made his first invasion of Britain. His forays, however, didn’t last long nor achieve much. Nearly a century later, Rome tried again, and this time, they were much more successful. Though the entirety …

Romance and Me: Healing the Mad Hero

Hi Everyone!

In the past week I have come across and read two historical romances featuring “mad” heroes which made me consider this, in my opinion, not too frequently explored trope.

In classic literature having a crazy wife/madwoman as a secondary character is quite common (like in Jane Eyre), but to have your hero or heroine suffering from a mental illness is quite difficult and challenging to pull off and not have them come off as unstable, crazy or plain scary.

But it seems that nowadays more and more historical romances explore the possibility of the hero producing some symptoms and episodes making him fear he is suffering from a mental illness, which is incapacitating him; and the heroine not giving up and trying to find a cure and heal him. I wasn’t aware that this was a recurring theme until I’ve read

Q&A with Robyn Carr + Giveaway

Please join us in giving a warm BLI welcome to #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Robyn Carr! Robyn is known for her wildly popular Virgin River Series. Today she is here to tell us more about the first book in her new Thunder Point Series– The Wanderer.

Robyn is taking time out of her busy schedule to share a Q & A with us today & there’s also a chance to win something at the end of the post.

Q: Does the title of “#1 Bestselling Author” put extra pressure on you when you’re writing new novels? Or do you have a writing groove you get into where you can just shut the rest of the world out and immerse yourself in the book you’re working on?

A: It probably puts extra pressure on my editor, but for me, my happy place is the same—making up the stories! Developing …

New Releases: April 1-7, 2013

Title: Rising Darkness
Author: Thea Harrison
Series: Game of Shadows, #1
Genre: paranormal romance
Release date: April 2, 2013

Description:

In the hospital ER where she works, Mary is used to chaos. But lately, every aspect of her life seems adrift. She’s feeling disconnected from herself. Voices appear in her head. And the vivid, disturbing dreams she’s had all her life are becoming more intense. Then she meets Michael. He’s handsome, enigmatic and knows more than he can say. In his company, she slowly remembers the truth about herself…

Thousands of years ago, there were eight of them. The one called the Deceiver came to destroy the world, and the other seven followed to stop him. Reincarnated over and over, they carry on—and Mary finds herself drawn into the battle once again. And the more she learns, the more she realizes that Michael will go to any lengths to destroy the Deceiver.

Then …

Guest post by Victoria James + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. Victoria James, whose debut novel The Billionaire’s Christmas Baby became a favourite read of 2012. Victoria is on a blog tour celebrating the release of her latest novel A Risk Worth Taking, the first book in her new Red River series, and let me tell you it was just as delightful as her first book! (Take a look at my review to see.) Victoria stops by to tell us a bit more about the story and the inspiration behind it. Join us and enter the giveaway for a chance to win some great prizes! 😉

Thank you so much for having me today!

In my current release, A RISK WORTH TAKING, my heroine Holly has to return to her childhood home and renovate it. The home is vacant, except for the stirring memories from …

We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start

The winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for Marchis … KellyM who commented on our post: Sunday Cravings:

I’m loving Winterblaze so far.

Really looking forward to Along Came Trouble by Ruthie Knox. I love her books!

We will now start counting for April. Here again the rules:

We thought long and hard about how we should show you, the readers of Book Lovers Inc how much we appreciate your input and interaction. We are happy and grateful for every comment cuz we know how it is to be a “blog-hopper”. We enjoy reading your thoughts and we love to start a good discussion with you. This blog is all about spreading the love for books and without you that mission would be lost.

We pondered how to give some of the love, you give to us with your comments, back.

So our “We Love Your Comments Giveaway” was born.

But what can you win?

We will buy you a book ($10 limit) …

Sunday Cravings

Hello Book Lovers all around the world! How are you this weekend? This Sunday Cravings post will be quite exciting and a little bit long just like I promised you last week! Well, we can’t help it! There are like a ton of great books scheduled for release this week, so it’s only natural that we have a long list of books we die to get our hands on 🙂 So, let’s start right away!

Stella: A Noble Groom by Jody Hedlund

A New Historical Romance from Fan-Favorite Jody Hedlund

Recently widowed Annalisa Werner has the feeling her husband was murdered but can’t prove it. Alone with her young daughter in 1881 Michigan, she has six months left to finish raising the money needed to pay back the land contract her husband purchased, and the land is difficult to toil by herself. She needs a husband. With unmarried men …