The International Giveaways Café (100)

Happy Saturday all and welcome back to the best place to share internationally available bookish giveaways. We’ve got a couple that end today here at BLI, so if you haven’t already checked them out, you need to get on it! And, feel free to add in your own links below too, of course 😉 Here’s hoping the rest of your weekend is a winning one!

And, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! As book lovers, we’re happy to spread the word…and the love 😉 Good luck to everyone!

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 …

Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! I think everyone must have heard about J.K Rowling’s secret identity being leaked online, Goodreads sued for copyright infringement and much more news in the world of books and publishing.

The huge news this week is all about J.K. Rowling’s secret identity as being debut Mystery writer, Richard Galbraith who wrote THE CUCKOO’S CALLING which was released earlier this year.  But the whole story behind how her real identity being leaked is just as interesting which ranged from theories of the publisher intentionally outing the author to increase sales to Rowling herself. But the real reason was uncovered yesterday when her law firm confirmed it was leaked by one of their lawyers who told his wife who then told her BFF. The BFF then posted a coy tweet which others and papers like The Times managed to prove it was Rowling who …

Book Lovers for the Prevention of Supporting Character Neglect: The Mercy-verse

Welcome back to the Book Lovers for the Prevention of Supporting Character Neglect! Where Book Lovers from across the world stand in solidarity for the supporting cast. Those individuals that make the story and keep us coming back even when the protagonist needs a good smack (*cough Buffy Summers cough*). Hear our anthem! Because everyone deserves top billing now and then.

Secondary Characters by Original Cast Recording on Grooveshark

This week we are tossing life-rafts out into Patricia Briggs’ Mercyverse. Patricia has already taken great strides to save one of the original supporting cast, with the Alpha & Omega spin off series. Tragically the spin-off (vastly superior to the Mercy books in case anyone was wondering) has only served to highlight just how fascinating all the people not-Mercy (or Adam. or Sam) truly are. This whole series …

Words and Music: The Casual Vacancy by J.K Rowling

Words and music is a new feature I am starting here at BLI, I previously used to do it at my own blog Storywings but now we would like the opportunity for you guys to share as well.

Do you ever hear a song and immediately think of a book? Do you ever see a book that immediately reminds you of a song…well I do.

Every time I see the book: The Casual Vacancy by J.K Rowling

I think of this song:

This happened more towards the middle to end of The Casual Vacancy as the characters true natures and situations started to come into the light. I started singing These Days in my head and now everytime I see Casual Vacancy on my bookshelf (which is a lot because it’s got a prime spot) I think of this Bon Jovi song.

Guest Post by Karen Erickson + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. Karen Erickson on who we can count on to provide us with our daily romance ratio: be it sweet or sexy, Karen has it. Today she stops by to tell you about her brand new romance series about three Italian brothers, the Renaldis (of course this series is sexy, how could it be with some Italian hunk of heroes? ;-)). Please give her a warm welcome, read on to discover this new series and you could even win yourself a copy of the first book, Tempted by Her Boss! 😀

Loving the Boss

There is something so forbidden about falling in love with your boss, right? He’s the man in authority, he’s usually powerful and commanding and extremely handsome. Attentive. A little gruff, but always with good intentions. And did I mention sexy?

Okay fine, this was …

New Releases: July 15-21, 2013

Title: Mist
Author: Susan Krinard
Series: Mist #1
Genre: urban fantasy
Release date: July 16, 2013 by Tor

Description:

Centuries ago, all was lost in the Last Battle when the Norse gods and goddesses went to war. The elves, the giants, and the gods and goddesses themselves were all destroyed, leaving the Valkyrie Mist one of the only survivors.

Or so she thought.

When a snowy winter descends upon modern-day San Francisco in June, Mist’s quiet existence starts to feel all too familiar. In quick succession, Mist is attacked by a frost giant in a public park and runs into an elf disguised as a homeless person on the streets…and then the man Mist believed was her mortal boyfriend reveals himself to be the trickster god, Loki, alive and well after all these years.

Loki has big plans for the modern world, and he’s been hanging around Mist for access to a staff that once belonged to the great …