Sunday Cravings

Hello my fellow Book Lovers! How was this week for you? Hope you all spend a wonderful weekend and you are ready now to face a new week with your batteries full!

The coming week is again full of some really exciting new releases that again, we had a hard time picking just one! So let’s start and see which are our Sunday Cravings for the week to come 🙂

Lea: Breakaway by Deidre Martin

They had it all planned out: college, marriage, happily ever after. But it didn’t quite work out that way…

Erin O’Brien was everyone’s favorite in Ballycraig, while Rory Brady was the town’s golden boy: the local lad who moved to America and became a professional hockey player. Rory promised to return to sweep Erin away to the life of her dreams in New York. But the bright lights and late nights turned his head and …

The International Giveaways Café (31)

Welcome back to the café! Sadly, we were closed last week due to medically induced forgetfulness, so I apologize profusely. (Darned cold meds!) But now, it’s back to business as usual.

I hope everyone has had a great week and will be able to find some well needed reading time over the weekend. Personally speaking, there never seems to be enough time in the day to get things done, so I appreciate it all the more when I get the quiet time needed to read and relax. It’s just pure bliss!

Now’s the time to list your giveaway and I’m sure that there will be a lot out there that are romance themed. We’re a mushy bunch here at BLI, so we love the lovin’ 😉 And remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently that you’ll get the chance to read now. The Book Lovers would …

Around the Bookish World : News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and we have a humdinger of an edition this week. With news of the editor leaving Dorchester who are struggling, Barnes and Noble refusing to stock any books being published by amazon and a slew fest of news on books and new series on the horizon!

First up, the major news this week broke that Chris Keesler who was the only remaining editor at Dorchester has left the struggling publisher. Dorchester has also reportedly failed to pay royalties and other payments to past authors and in some cases caught selling copies of books whose rights have been reverted to the author. I think this is pretty sad because Dorchester was behind a few of my favourite authors and books and I got a funny feeling that it wont exist for long according to what I am hearing about the publisher. But I would also be …

Guestpost “Virtual Reality” by Author Ann Mayburn + Giveaway

Today the wonderful Ann Mayburn is here to celebrate the release of her newest title Sodom and the Phoenix. She will tell us about her Virtual Seduction series and how she came up with the idea. She also brought a hunky dude so prepare yourself for a bit of drooling.Make sure to answer her question at the end of the post for your chance to win your own copy of the book. Please give Ann a warm welcome. 

Ten years ago if you had told me that I’d have a computer as thin as a kids book with a touch screen I would have told you to stop smoking crack. What if ten years from now you find yourself making a reservation at a 5 star resort devoted to making your every fantasy a reality, virtual reality. Sounds crazy, but with as quickly as our world is …

Kink In Erotic Romance: Guilty Pleasure or Forbidden Fruit – Part 1 + GC Giveaway!

Welcome to Part I of BLI’s new four part series:

“Kink in Erotic Romance: Guilty Pleasure or Forbidden Fruit?”

This weeks segment is entitled:

Ménage à Many Your Cup-of-Tea or No?

We are chatting about (you guessed it) ménage themes in romance and I’m thrilled to welcome and offer a big thank you to Mary, our special guest visiting from Mary’s Naughty Whispers Blog!

First, just a little info about the series:

This will be a biweekly event during February and March.
There is a Giveaway opportunity and all the details noted below!
Every 2 weeks there will be different topics/thems discussed related to Kink in Erotic Romance!
And for the last 2 posts in March we will be welcoming a special guest author!!

Undercover by Lauren Dane

I’m not a huge fan of ménage themes, in fact I’ve gotten extremely picky recently regarding this …

Interview Author Darynda Jones + Giveaway

We are unbelievable happy to welcome the wonderful Darynda Jones here at Book Lovers Inc today. Darynda is the author of the hilarious and just amazing Charley Davidson series and the latest addition, Third Grave Dead Ahead just released this week. I just finished my copy today and OMG it’S such a great read- I already know it will be in my top 10 of 2012. So yes, we were pretty excited when Darynda agreed to answer our question all around herself and her writing. Please give Darynda a warm welcome and don’t miss your chance to win a great read at the end of the post. 

BLI: Darynda can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Darynda: I’m a full-time writer and the author of the Charley Davidson series. I’ve been seriously writing for about nine years, now, but I consider myself a lifelong lover of writing. …

Elements in Lit 201:

We talked a while back about the British peerages, but when reading through historicals, we quite often see the French titles mixed in with the British (English?) ones. The reason for this comes mostly from the royal families attempting alliances through the marriages of their sons and daughters.

In my first search through the information, names popped up like “Cleves”, which was the surname associated with the Count of Nevers. It’s also familiar because it was connected to one of Henry VIII’s wives, though Anne of Cleves was of German desent. (Henry VIII was considered to be “King of England, France, and Ireland” so it’s no surprise that his name would pop up, but also because he’s a subject I’ve looked into a lot over the last year :-p ) I’m sure though, that somewhere in Anne’s family tree, a connection would be made to that French house …

We Love Your Comments Giveaway Winner & new Start

This winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for January is……

Diane

who commented on our post: ‘My Wishlist: The Stuck on my Shelf (Romance) Edition“‘

I haven’t read any of them but they certainly look good.

Congrats hon! I just sent you an email. Please email us back in the in the next 72 hours to claim your price.

We will now start counting for Febuary. 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 …