Guestpost Just Where do Those Pesky Ideas Come From? by Jill Limber +Giveaway

We are happy to welcome author Jill Limber here at Book Lovers Inc. today. She writes romance stories with heart and her story Montana Morning is one of those. Today she is here to tell us how she comes up with the ideas for her stories. Be sure to leave a comment at the end of the post for your chance to win your copy of Montana Morning. 

I just had a friend ask me where I got my idea for Montana Morning. For me, it always starts with musing over a ‘What if?’ What if a woman needed a husband but didn’t really want to be married? Where would she get a guy she could marry, but would be practically guaranteed that he would leave, sooner rather than later?

This question about ideas seems to come up a lot, so I thought  it might be a good …

Guest Post: Do you believe that sex magic is real? by K.D. Grace + Giveaway

It is my great pleasure to welcome to BLI today and introduce to you to fantastic erotica author K.D. Grace whose novel The Pet Shop was one of my favourite reads of 2011 (you can read my review here)! K.D. is celebrating the release of her latest novel Body Temperature and Rising which is the first book in the Lakeland Heatwave trilogy, a contemporary paranormal erotica series. Please give her a warm welcome and read on, you could win one of her books at the end! 😉 

Do you believe that sex magic is real?

Since the kind of magic practiced by the witches in my novel, Body Temperature and Rising, is sex magic, I was asked the other day in an interview for a blog post, if I believed that sex magic is real. My answer was something along the lines that I believe …

Guest Post: The Stealth Knights by Gail Barrett + Giveaway

Gail in the Pyrenees Mountains

Today, we at at BLI are really pleased to welcome author Gail Barrett for a guest post about her latest work. She’s already authored a host of award-winning romances in the romantic suspense subgenre. Please show her a warm welcome as she chats a bit about the worldwide background research and inspirations for her stories and characters.

Thank you so much for inviting me to chat! I’m honored and thrilled to be here. I’m especially excited since so many of you live in Europe, which is the setting for my new miniseries for Harlequin Romantic Suspense, The Stealth Knights.

Despite their medieval-sounding name, the Stealth Knights are a very modern — and unconventional — group of heroes. Here’s how they came about. I was hoping to create an open-ended series without a set number of books — something I could add to as inspiration struck. …

Guest Post: Sic Semper Tyrannis by Georgie Lee + Giveaway

Top o’ the week to you, guys and gals! We’re pleased to welcome author Georgie Lee to BLI today for a guest post in which she provides some background and context for her latest story set in ancient Rome, The Mask of the Gladiator. Emperor Caligula and his diabolical influence on ancient Roman society played a large role in both the history books and in this book–Georgie discusses these deets and more. Please show her a warm BLI welcome!

Sic Semper Tyrannis

I’d like to thank everyone for joining me today and to especially thank Book Lovers, Inc. for inviting me here to discuss my new release, Mask of the Gladiator. It is a sexy, suspenseful story of lust, love and conspiracy set in ancient Rome during Emperor Caligula’s reign.

And what a reign it was. Depending on how much you believe the ancient scholars, the vices at …

Guest Post: Djinns on my Brain by Mina Khan + Giveaway

We’re excited to welcome paranormal romance author Mina Khan to BLI today! She stops by to talk a bit about her childhood in Bangladesh, including one particular summer during which she had a brush with an unexplainable and magical occurrence. Those experiences helped later shape her storytelling and inform the mystique of her tales about djinns! So without further ado…welcome, Mina!

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Thanks Alisha & Book Lovers Inc., for inviting me to share my favorite paranormal creature with your readers.

My debut novella, The Djinn’s Dilemma (Harlequin 2011), featured a djinn-human hybrid assassin who falls for his human target and must keep her alive from the bad guys. My second novella, A Tale of Two Djinns (coming out March 2012), is a Romeo & Juliet story involving warring djinn families, feminists & a happy ending! ☺

So yes, I have djinns on my brain. They are part of my story-psyche.

“Djinn,” pronounced “gin,” are …

Guest Post: Spend Valentine’s Day With Your Hottest Heroes by Cassi Carver + Giveaway

Today we are happy to welcome to BLI debut author Cassi Carver, whose steamy urban fantasy/PNR novel Slayer’s Kiss hits the virtual shelves today! Slayer’s Kiss is the first in a new original series and besides the feisty kickass heroine and the nail biting action it has more than enough eyecandy, primarily due to the two gorgeous heroes! So please give a warm welcome to Cassi and join us spending this year’s Valentine’s day in the best company: your own favourite fictional heroes! 😀

Spend Valentine’s Day With Your Hottest Heroes

by Cassi Carver

I’m so excited to spend my Valentine’s Day with fellow readers here at Book Lovers Inc.! Today, my spicy urban fantasy, Slayer’s Kiss, officially releases! Having my release fall on Valentine’s Day has got me thinking about heroes—masculine, swoon-worthy, hotter-than-molten-lava heroes. You see, Slayer’s Kiss has not just one, but …

Guest Post: Please Welcome Author Ruthie Knox + There is a Giveaway!

Ruthie Knox

We are delighted to welcome Ruthie Knox to BLI today! Ruthie is here on the next stop in her Blog Tour to celebrate the release of her new contemporary romance Ride With Me which will be published in digital format on February 13th by Loverswept/Random House. Ride With Me is receiving many rave reviews (I can say it’s a wonderful read!) including:

Jill Shalvis, New York Times best-selling author says: A fantastic, sexy, and fun book! Ruthie Knox’s Ride with Me was a delight to read.”

Ruthie is sharing her thoughts on…Well check it out! (It’s an awesome fun post!)

Take it away Ruthie! Woot!

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Tent Sex But Were Afraid To Ask

Candles. Satin sheets. Jazz music. Penthouse suites. Champagne and strawberries. In a classic romantic seduction, the tuxedo-clad hero sweeps the gorgeous heroine into his …

Guestpost: Scottish Historical Romance by Claire Robyns + Giveaway

Today we welcome Claire Robyns to Book Lovers Inc, her latest historical romance, The Devil of Jedburgh (lookout for our review which is also going up today), released on the 6th February 2012. Claire is here today to talk about the uniqueness of historical romance revolving around Scotland! Over to you Claire…

Fiction writers make stuff up. That’s what we do. We make up people, places, names, events and faces. And then we make up families to fit our people and their lives into. Except in Scottish Historical Romance. I don’t think I’ve read a Scottish historical with a fictional clan and I’m no exception to that rule. I’ve tried, I really have, once I even got my clan map out and figured out where to squeeze my fantasy clan into… and then I just couldn’t do it.

Then again, finding the perfect clan fit for my …

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 …

Guest Post: Character Profile by Laura Kaye + Giveaway

Today at BLI, we’ve got the immense pleasure of welcoming back the ever-fabulous Laura Kaye, author of numerous romance novels that span across subgenres. She stops by to talk about a very special person: Shayla McKinnon, the main character in her latest release, In the Service of the King. Shayla is an intelligent, complex, beautiful badass with a hell of a story to tell. Read on to find out more about her and her world! Please give Laura—and Shayla!—a warm welcome.

Character Profile: Meet Shayla McKinnon

Author Laura Kaye

If you like heroines who go after what they want, you’re really going to enjoy meeting Shayla McKinnon, the heroine of my dark erotic vampire romance, In the Service of the King, which releases February 1 from Harlequin Nocturne.

Where is Shayla from?
Shayla’s family is Irish, but she currently attends university at Oxford and studies Celtic history and culture.

How old is Shayla?
Shayla …