Guest Post: Writing Mean by Lexi George + Giveaway

Today we are really happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc Lexi George to celebrate her newest release, Demon Hunting in the Deep South, the second installment in her successful Demon Hunting series. And Lexi stops by here today to talk about a really interesting topic: Writing Mean. Don’t want to spoil things for you, read on and be prepared to laugh 🙂 And don’t forget to check at the end of the post for your chance to win a copy of her book.

One of biggest surprises to me in writing the demon hunter series is how much I enjoyed writing the character Meredith Starr Peterson. Why? Because Meredith is not the heroine or the witty and loyal best friend.

Meredith is a mean girl.

I based Meredith on a real life meanie, my oldest daughter’s high school nemesis. Aha! I thought. Payback for making my darling daughter miserable, you evil …

Interview with Jeanette Murray + Giveaway

Hey hey Book Lovers! I am extremely happy to introduce you to an author I just recently discovered but who shot straight to my list of Must Buy Authors/Series, please give a warm welcome to Jeanette Murray, author of the fantastic Semper Fi series, and you could even win the first book in the series, The Officer Says “I Do”, which I loved (as you will be able to see in ym review, to be posted later today)!

Stella: Hi Jeanette, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Jeanette: Thanks for having me! I’m Jeanette, and I’m a Sagittarius. I wear a lot of hats throughout the day. Wife, mommy, Goldendoodle owner, writer and, currently, hotel-dweller. (We’re moving, and so I’m dealing with living in a hotel until our house is ready!)

Stella: In the bio on your website I’ve seen you write under two pennames, why …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? Book Cover Quiz + Giveaway

This week we planned something totally new. *drumroll* We prepared a quiz for you. We want to know how much we taught you about covers. *wink* Below you can see 20 little squares with a little snippet of a book cover. We want you to tell us which book it is and who wrote it. You can fill in your answer as you go and enter you name and email addy at the end and there will be prizes for trying to play the game.

We were a bit scared that we made it too hard so we added a little hint for each cove to “help” you along. We swear we weren’t drunk. We’re just nerds.

There will be 2 winners:

One winner of a book (10$ top) from Book Depository chosen at random between all the entries with at least 5 correct answers.

One winner of 20 US$ …

Interview with Christi Barth + Giveaway

Happy Monday, Book Lovers! I am happy to welcome back to BLI Christi Barth who is celebrating the release of her latest book, Planning for Love, the first novel in her Aisle Bound trilogy, a delicious and frothy wedding themed contemporary romance series! Please give Christi a warm welcome and join us while I chat with Christi and interview her about this new book and series of hers, about the joys (and not) of wedding planning!

Stella: Hi Christi, we are happy to have you back at Book Lovers Inc! Can you tell us a bit about what has happened since you were here last time in November 2011 when you were promoting the release of Cruising Toward Love? What have you been up to since, any big news?

Christi: I’ve been writing like CRAZY! On January 17 (my wedding anniversary, so we had a built-in celebration evening ready to go!) I …

Interview: Tiffany Reisz + Giveaway

Please join us in welcoming Tiffany Reisz to BLI today! Tiffany is here as part of her blog tour celebrating the release of her book The Siren, which is receiving high praise from reviewers far and wide.

About Tiffany:

Tiffany Reisz lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her boyfriend (a reformed book reviewer) and two cats – one bad and one sad. She graduated with a B.A. in English from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and is making both her parents and her professors proud by writing erotic women’s fiction under her real name. She has five piercings, one tattoo, and has been arrested twice. When not under arrest, Tiffany enjoys Latin Dance, Latin Men, and Latin Verbs. She dropped out of a conservative southern seminary in order to pursue her dream of becoming a smut peddler. Johnny Depp’s aunt was her fourth grade teacher.

If she couldn’t write, she would …

Bookish Rants or Raves: Here Be Dragons + giveaway

Warning: I devour any and all books, movies, or shows that feature dragons. I’ve exhaustively researched dragon mythology. I refused to play Magic: the Gathering in 9th grade because they wouldn’t give me any dragon cards. Also, I’m an attorney. Taken together this means that I have opinions about dragons in popular culture.

So, without further ado, I present…

The Five Dragon Books You Should Have Read Already!*

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Poor Smaug, napping on his hoard of unparalleled treasure, minding his own business, literally embedding his flesh with diamonds to render him impervious to weapons – you know living out the dream of the 1% – when some pint-sized moron gets conned into stealing from him.

My very first dragon book. It was awesomely illustrated.

Thieves! Fire! Murder! Such a thing had not happened since he first came to the Mountain! His rage passes description – the sort …