Guestpost and Giveaway with Author Dakota Cassidy

We are really happy to have the wonderful Dakota Cassidy here at Book Lovers Inc today. My Way to Hell, book 2 in her The Hell Series will be released tomorrow and Dakota is here to celebrate her releases and you can also win something. Be sure to put all drinks away now. You have been warned.

Five People I’d Like To Haunt

Okay, so in honor of the release of my book, My Way To Hell (the sequel to Kiss and Hell), the lovely Miss Susi Sunshine asked me to come blog.

For which I sent her an email back that contained a blank stare. That was only because creatively, I’m fried. I’ve said it on a couple blogs lately—okay, two hundred million blogs. LOL. I’ve been doing a lot of blogging as of late. Release months can be like that. It isn’t …

Guest Post: Author Lauren Dane +Giveaway

We are very proud to have author Lauren Dane here today. Her new book Insatiable, book 3 in her Federation series, will be released next Monday (July 5th) and she is here today to talk about how her characters come to life and how they grow into what they are. Be sure to check out Lauren’s question at the end and answer it to get entered into the giveaway. You can find all the info at the end. Please give Lauren a warm welcome.

Thank you so much for having me guest with you today! I’m thrilled to be invited and I hope I don’t bore you all too much.

Over the years I’ve written all sorts of characters. At the end of each book I love them all, usually for different reasons. Some of them are easy to …

All YA Love: Guest Post on Fathers by Shannon Delaney

Welcome to Shannon Delany’s Start Your Day with Serial Tour! Shannon’s debut novel (and first in her YA paranormal series) 13 to Life started as a winning cell phone novel written in serial segments. During the tour you can read bits of the book in order. Miss a day? Hop to Shannon’s blog and check the link to the blog tour calendar in her sidebar.

There will also be a contest that will close at the end of the tour. Winners get a bunch of stuff.

Fathers. We all tend to have one. Some have more. For me, one has always been the perfect number (I cannot imagine more than one if that more is anything like my father!). 😉 My father is one of those larger-than-life characters. He’s a tale-teller (so blame him for my love of stories).

In my debut …

Guest Post by Jen Nadol: The Evolution of Writing

Today I am so excited and honored to have Jen Nadol guest post. Jen is the author of The Mark, her debut novel which was released earler this year and one of my top reads thsi year! Since she was in the process of editing book two, The Vision, I thought it would be interesting to see what she had learned….

I’d written almost all of this guest post about the evolution of my writing process from book one to book two when I realized it wasn’t telling the right story. I was focused on what changed between The Mark, published in January, and its sequel, Vision, due out in 2011. I hadn’t come up with a whole lot.

That’s because though The Mark is my first published book, it’s not the first one I wrote. To see …

Guest Post: Author Pati Nagle + Giveaway

We are very happy to have Pati Nagle, author of The Betrayal, here with us today. She has written a fascinating look into how she created the world of the aelven. She is also offering a giveaway of two books set in the aelven world, The Betrayal and Many Paths, so be sure to read to the end of the post for the details!

Creating the Ælven World

I fell in love with Tolkein’s elves in Lord of the Rings, which I first read before my teens. Like many readers, I snapped up other fantasy novels after I was out of Tolkein, but usually the heros were humans. Elves, if they appeared at all, were relegated to supporting roles. Eventually I got tired of seeing elves always in the background, and along with the …

Guest Post: Author Sara Brookes +Giveaway

We are really happy to have Author Sara Brookes here again. This week her new book Midnight’s Ghost, book 1 in the Starr Runner Series was released and she is here today to talk a bit about women and Science Fiction. Please give her a warm welcome. And don’t forget to check out her giveaway at the end of the post. Women don’t like science fiction.

Right off the bat, I have to say that sentence above is a lie. However, a vast majority of people will try to tell you otherwise. See, at some point in time, someone drew a conclusion that women don’t like science, math, astronomy, comic books, etc. Those things were considered innately “dorky” and something women wouldn’t be drawn to. I suppose their logic was women were the caretakers and therefore too prim and proper?

Now …

Guest Post: Author Joey W. Hill + Giveaway

We are very happy to have have Joey W. Hill, Author of the Vampire Queen series and many more, here today with an interesting guestpost.

Joey also offers a wonderful giveaway at the end of the post so be sure to stay tuned.  And don’t forget to give Joey a warm welcome. Enjoy!

Writing A Menage – Digging Deeper

by Joey W. Hill

It’s lovely to be here at Book Lovers, Inc – always so much going on, and populated with people who love to read, my favorite kind of crowd. As some of you may know, I write paranormal and contemporary erotic romance, much of it with a BDSM flair. I write four series. My Nature of Desire and Knights of the Board Room series focus on Dominants and submissives in our present day world. …

Guest Post: Author Lori Handeland + Giveaway

We are really honored today to have Lori Handeland here. She’s the author of the Nightcreature Series and her new urban fantasy series, The Phoenix Chronicles, has a new release next week. Chaos Bites is book 4 in this series and I can say that I’m counting the days till I can get my hands on this one.

So please give her a warm welcome. And don’t forget the Giveaway at the end of the post.WHY SHAPESHIFTERS?

Shapeshifter legends have been around as long as the art of storytelling. I’ve always been fascinated by shapeshifter legends, which can be found in every culture, and have made use of them in both my paranormal romance series, The Nightcreature Novels and my urban fantasy series, The Phoenix Chronicles.

Though I often …

Guest Post: Author Shiloh Walker

I’m trying to figure out when I started listening to music as I wrote, because you know, I didn’t always.

Even as short as eighteen months, two years ago, I’d have the TV on and just block it out. Then I had to start focusing more and I realized something—I didn’t block out the TV as much as I’d liked to think and I was wasting precious writing time (come to think of it, I probably waste a lot of time now on twitter…hmmm). Anyway. I had to focus more because I’d recently signed a contract with a new publisher and my workload had pretty much doubled. So TV off.
But the house was too quiet.
I’ve got kids. The house is never quiet. When they are at school, I’ve always had the TV going and now without the TV, the house was so …

All YA Love: Guest Post by Debut Author, Swati Avasthi

I’m excited to be here on Book Lovers Inc. Thanks for the invite. My debut novel, Split, will hit the shelves in March 9th and is narrated by 16 year old Jace Witherspoon, who has just run 1300 miles after hitting his father back. He hasn’t seen his brother, Christian in five years, but with nowhere else to go, he shows up on Christian’s doorstep with bruises and a secret. Split is about what happens after you get out.

When I first spoke to my editor, she said that she promised herself she wouldn’t ask me whether I had any personal experience with domestic violence and I realized that I was going to get that question a lot. Luckily, my answer is no. The follow up question to that is then, why did I …