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Romance Novel Reviews, Author Interviews, Commentary
Interview with Amanda Ashley + Giveaway
Today, we are pleased to have Amanda Ashley stop by BLI and chat with us. Amanda has numerous books under her belt, writing under the name Amanda Ashley as well as Madeline Baker. Here she shares with us a little insight into her latest release, Desire the Night, and how it differs from other vampire novels. So, please help me give a warm welcome to this lovely author!
Stella: Hi Amanda, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
Amanda: Well, I’m married. We have three grown sons, the greatest grandkids in the world, a dog, a wild house sparrow, and a tortoise. I love to read, go to movies and plays, and collect all things Star Wars, Phantom, and Beauty and the Beast. And I love to write, of course, but that’s a given.
Stella: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?
Amanda: Definitely the seat of my pants. …
The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?
Welcome back to our new edition of The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? This week we decided to talk about look-alike covers. We’ve all at some point stumbled upon a cover that looks very very similar to another one. Sometimes it’s only 2 covers using the same Stock photo but doing 2 different thing with it…but sometimes it’s exactly the same cover. We’ve dig up a few example (mostly Historical romances because these are the ones I remembered the most) to show our point. It seems to happen a LOT with foreign (or UK) editions. It’s also often the case with YA covers but we didn’t go there today (it’s just too vast a field). So take a look and tell us what you think…
Libertine’s Kiss by Judith James Vs Ruthless by Anne Stuart (UK/Mills and Boon)
Susi: I like the Judith James version more. The whole setting …
Guest post by Jessica Scott + Giveaway
Today we are very happy to welcome back to BLI Jessica Scott whose debut novel Because of You stunned us by being such an incredibly emotional romance story that it became a favourite read of ours (you can check out my review here). So of course we are excited that the release date of the 2nd book Until There Was You is fast approaching (mark your calendars it’s October 7th!) and Jessica even has a fantastic giveaway for you to make the wait more bearable 😉
Thanks so much for having me on Book Lovers Inc! I’m here today to talk about vices and boy do I have several.
My biggest vice is coffee. My youngest daughter came into my bedroom a few weeks ago and said “Mommy, it’s time to get up. Do you want me to go make you some coffee?” She’s five. I couldn’t help but …
Sunday Cravings
Hello Book Lovers and Happy Month! Summer is officially behind, and so does the insufferable heat (at least it seems so 🙂 ). For the first week of September there aren’t that many scheduled releases but there are still enough to make us want to spend our monthly budgets from the first days of September 😛
So, here are our Sunday Cravings for this week:
Marlene: The Lost Night by Jayne Castle
The New York Times bestselling author delivers an all-new novel set on the mysterious Rainshadow Island.
With the ability to detect the auras of dangerous psychic criminals, Rachel Bonner has found peace and quiet on Rainshadow Island with her dust bunny companion. Then Harry Sebastian, the descendant of a notorious pirate, arrives to investigate strange developments in the privately owned woods known as the Preserve. Rachel can sense the heart of darkness within him— and the stirrings of …
featured,Sunday Cravings,The Coffee Lover 
2 Sep 2012
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The International Giveaways Café (57)
Welcome back to this week’s list of great bookish giveaways from around the world. Can you believe it’s September already?! Here’s hoping that the after this long, hot summer the nice weather will stick around for a while yet, right? Anyway, check out the great giveaways listed below and add in your own too! The more, the merrier 🙂
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 …
The Int'l Giveaways Café,The Quirky Lover 1 Sep 2012
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We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & New Start
The winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for August is … Aliyah who commented on our Bookish Rants or Raves: Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Dragons post:
Aliyah on Aug 8, 2012 @ 4:07 Okay, I see your logic with most of these books, but, I have to say that as a child I loved the Harry Potter books (and I still do as a guilty pleasure). So I have to argue that although there is abuse of dragons in this one and in the seventh book, the storytelling is great (there is no rape unlike the other books) and I advise people to read this book.
Congratulations! An email will been sent to you. Please email us back in the in the next 72 hours to claim your price.
We will now start counting for September. Here again the rules:
We …
Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post! We have a bunch of updates about Amazon’s upcoming new Kindles, Dorchester authors find a new home as well as our book news and covers to look out for!
The big news this week is some developments with Amazon who have just finalized their deal in buying the rights of Dorchester’s authors. Around 1000 contracts were acquired and the authors have been offered backdated royalties as well as new homes in Amazon’s own publishing imprints such as Montlake Romance and Science Fiction and Fantasy to 47 North. However some authors such as Brian Keene has reported that whilst his own rights have reverted back to him, he’s seeing that that a couple of his books along with others who found new homes being listed under the old Dorchester imprint, Leisure. Whether this is a mistake or not remains to be seen but hopefully this saga …
News,The Smutty Lover 31 Aug 2012
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Bookish Rant: Reviewing the Review
You take your coffee with cream and sugar. But how do you take your book reviews?
Judging from the proliferation of book blogs and book collection sites like Goodreads and LibraryThing, it seems like folks love a good book review. These resources are seemingly more earnest and “pure” in their origins and aims—after all, no one pays Goodreads users to record their random book thoughts. I assume that, because such (hobby/informal) book reviewers are in it for the love of reading, the reviews are meant to express honest thoughts about one’s reading experiences, free of clever lines deliberately included for just to be blurbs for book covers.
But when one chooses to share their book opinions in a public forum, I’d also think the opinions of the review readers matter.
SO that brings me back to the original question of what characteristics you most favor (or dislike) in your book reviews. As …
Bookish Rant or Raves,featured,The Needy Lover 30 Aug 2012
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Guest Post: Katie Porter + Giveaway!
Katie Porter (Writing Duo Lorelie Brown & Carrie Lofty)
We are delighted to welcome Katie Porter a.k.a. writing duo Lorelie Brown & Carrie Lofty to BLI today to celebrate the release of INSIDE BET the second book in their Vegas Top Guns series, which was released by Samhain this past Tuesday, August 28th. I read INSIDE BET and can honestly say was absolutely WOW’ed (my full review will be featured at BLI later today). Hot fighter pilots, sin city and dares followed by kinky sex…INSIDE BET has it all!
About Katie Porter:
Katie Porter is the co-writing team of Lorelie Brown and Carrie Lofty, friends and critique partners of six years.
Both are multi-published in several romance genres. Carrie has an MA in history, while Lorelie is a US Army veteran. Generally a high-strung masochist, Carrie loves weight training but …
featured,Giveaways,Guest Post,Katie Porter,The Danger Lover 30 Aug 2012
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Guest Post: Kaily Hart + Giveaway
Good day, dear book lovers! We here at BLI are pleased as punch to welcome romance author Kaily Hart for a visit. Kaily, who writes a range of stories from many different sub-genres, is stopping by the blog today to talk about one of our favorite subjects: love scenes in romance books. We all have our preferences, turn-offs, and levels of reading engagement…and Kaily shares some of her own, as both a writer and reader. Please join me in welcoming her to BLI today!
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How Do You Like Your….Love Scenes?
I write hot. Steamy, burn the bed [or insert alternative] down hot. They’re romances first and foremost though. For me, I really believe the love/sex scenes of a book are crucial to the developing relationship in a romance novel. Yeah, you guessed it. You won’t find any closed doors in my books LOL. It’s during these most intimate moments …
Guest Post,Kaily Hart,New Releases,The Needy Lover 29 Aug 2012
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