Guest Post: A Girly Look at Superheroes by Susan Bischoff + Giveaway

Today I am very happy to welcome one of THE authors who restored my faith in the YA genre and proved to me that stories about teenagers can be just as well written and entertaining for an older public (=older than teens) as adult books. Please welcome Susan Bischoff, author of the Talent Chronicles series, the second novel of which Heroes ‘Til Curfew was just released!
 
I lurrved Book #1 Hush Money (you can read my review here)and when I heard about the release of the second book I just had to ask Susan about something I have been wondering about for some time: Superheroes aren’t usually deemed as “girly.” How come you were inspired to write a story about them?
I’m a child of the 1970s. For us, the world was not supposed to be pink and blue. My mother has often told me …

New Releases Sep 5 – 11

Midnight by Ellen Connor

Second in a stunning post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy. Three years of wandering the postapocalyptic wasteland has stripped Dr. Chris Welsh of hope. A harrowing loss drove him from his home, and he hasn’t stopped moving-until he encounters Valle de Bravo, a haven of civilization amid the chaos of the Change. Soldiers take their orders from Rosa Cortez-the iron hand within a velvet glove. The last thing Rosa needs is a feral loner upsetting the town’s tentative balance. However, for the good of her people, she lets Chris stay, and as bloodthirsty raiders strike again and again, Chris and Rosa battle hellhounds and dust pirates while also fighting desperate attraction. To save them, love must overcome the pain of the past-and build a future in this brutal Dark Age…

Explore This!: Palm Springs, California

Today, we are whisking away to the sunny locale of Palm Springs, California. When I think of this area, arid temperatures, golf, spas, and the rich and famous all come to mind. What doesn’t equate with Palm Springs is vampires, which is strange when my inspiration has derived from reading Bloodlines by Richelle Mead. In the story, an alchemist is pulled into protection duty for a vampire princess and this seems the perfect spot considering no one would suspect the undead to be found in this hot, sunny city.

The book is filled with some of the references from above, with the rich students attending a private school, where Sydney Sage and the gang are hiding out. In seeing the sites of Palm Springs, I think this would be a great place to be put on assignment, regardless of …

Interview with Author Kait Nolan + Giveaway

Today I am very happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc. an author whose adult story has enchanted me with her vivid storytelling and original worldbuilding, so when I heard that she decided to take a paranormal spin on Little Red Riding Hood and give us an urban fantasy retelling of it, I was excited and curious. And now, having read Red, I am happy to tell you about it and its wonderful author: Kait Nolan! So read on to learn more about Kait and her stories and there is also a giveaway waiting for you at the end! 

Hi Kait, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?
 
Kait: I am a grade A, 24-carat, control freak, workaholic, dog lover, food blogger, and Scrabble champion.

 
Stella: Describe a typical day of writing? Are you a planner or pantser?
 
Kait: 100% planner. I’m an incredibly busy …

International Giveaways Café (10)

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It’s Saturday morning, again. Our time for a little coffee (mine is already on hand) and the chance to submit the links to your international book giveaways or to enter said giveaways.

As the summer wanes, now is the perfect time to stock up on books to prepare for the long, cold winter ahead. It’s even better when you can win them! If you don’t have a months of snow and bitter frost to look forward to, well, there’s never really a bad time for books, is there? (And, can I come stay at your house? 😉

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 🙂

As always, here’s the fine print for entering your link:Guidelines:

If you have a giveaway you would like to share …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and gosh cannot believe it is September! This year has FLOWN past – in this week’s edition we haz news on the upcoming Amazon Tablets, and if you are a fan of Stephen King, you will be pretty please with an upcoming adaptation of a book.

First up! Waterstone is ending its 3 for 2 deals by the end of this month, this has been a major selling approach for the past ten years but it seems that the new owner of the flailing brand wants to rehaul its marketing approach. Instead, staggered prices of £3, £5 and £7 of selected books will take its place.

An interesting development has emerged for Amazon’s takeover for The Book Depository, The quango that is in charge of mergers, The OFT (Office of Fair Trading) …

Guest post: An American Abroad by Kenneth Rosenberg + Giveaway

Today I am very happy to welcome back to BLI Kenneth Rosenberg (you’ll be in on the secret as to the special reason for that once you read his guest post ;-p)! Kenneth is celebrating the release of his latest novel: Sweet Ophelia and the Tinseltown Blues, and he is here today sharing with us his thoughts and experience about being an American author living abroad.  Please give him a warm welcome and there is also a giveaway waiting for you at the end! 

In his memoir, A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan.” As an American writer living in Budapest, I can see where he was coming from. Somehow being in a completely different environment from that which your story takes place seems to clarify all of the details. Things that you might have otherwise …

On The Booklovers’ Shelves

Welcome to the second in a series of posts in which us Booklovers are giving readers a peek at the bookshelves in our home. Our Quirky Lover (Jackie) kicked things off a couple of weeks ago and I was in awe of how tidy and organized her beautiful shelves were – I want another bookshelf!! LOL

I did dust (an event) and reorganize my shelves for these pictures, otherwise I would have been too embarrassed to show them.

This is my big shelf in the downstairs family room. I have the majority my keepers stored on this one. On the right is a small picture of the entire book case and on the left are the shelves up close (forgive my poor photography skills – yikes).

We Love Your Comments Giveaway: Winner & new Start

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

Melissa (My World…in words and pages)

who commented on our post: ‘On the Book Lovers’ Shelves“‘

Okay, you really have me beat! WOW. Love the shelves with the glass fronts. 🙂 Beautiful. Now do be careful Blodeuedd doesn’t see… Oh, sorry she did already. ;D *whispers* put a lock on them…

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 September. 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 …

Genres 101: Today’s Lesson – Philosophical Fiction

It is getting increasingly harder to find genres we haven’t talked about yet, so for today, I had originally planned to take a look at the origins of books/literature, going back to Ancient Greece as a starting point. But in starting to look into it, I found another topic we haven’t covered yet that was, in some ways, related to novel beginnings. I decided, instead, to take a look at Philosophical Fiction and its cohorts.

Starting from that time in Ancient Greece, when dramas were performed, modern ideas of politics and philosophy were ingrained in the performances. They usually were created for the Dionysus Festivals and were a pretty big deal back then. The fact that a place was set in the theatre as an alter or seating area left specifically for Dionysus, one of the Greek Gods, shows how important the theological aspects were …