Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

There was lots of interesting book news this week so here goes:

The White House gatecrashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi,  have decided to write a book about the incident according to reports at The Boston Herald and other news outlets.

Galleycat reports that Sammy Hagar, the former Van Halen frontman,  has a deal to publish his autobiography with It Books.  Publication is scheduled for next year.

Galleycat also has a piece about Ellie Kemper of the TV show, The Office.  She has a book deal with Three Rivers Press to print her novel.

Hollywoodnews.com is reporting that Michael Jackson’s mother is self-publishing a photo book about Michael.

Twenty-four of Jack Higgins’ books are being released as eBooks by Open Road Integrated Media according to an article at Publishers Weekly.  I like seeing more backlist titles being …

Review: Zerah’s Chosen by Isabelle Santiago

Format Read: PDFNumber of Pages: 200Release Date: September 28th, 2009Publisher: Drollerie PressFormats Available: eBookPurchasing Info:Author’s Website, Amazon

Book Blurb: In Zerah, Guardians of Water, Air, Fire, Earth, Life and Death are chosen by The Beings to serve their people. Able to feel the emotions the Beings cannot, they help their world stay in balance.  Guardians live and die together, but when Kieran is born with the marks that prove he’s the Guardian of Death, his mother hides him instead of giving him up to the temple. She loves him too much to lose him. But then he starts seeing people die, and they’re begging him for help. Trying to remove the “curse”, he inadvertently kills a seer and is brought to the attention of the temple.

His mother is imprisoned and he’s turned over to the temple. The …

Interview: Author Cynthia Eden + Giveaway

Today we are very excited to welcome Cynthia Eden Author of Night Watch Series to Book Lovers, Inc. Her newest release I’ll Be Slaying You hits the shelves next tuesday June 29th. You can read my review Here. So please join me in giving Cynthia a warm welcome!

 The Cornered Lover: How long have you been writing?

Cynthia: Hmmm…pretty much since the 1st grade. J I’ve always loved writing, and even when I was a kid, I’d scribble down short stories and read them to my mom. I wrote my first novel when I was 18 (it’s buried in a closet some place b/c it is VERY bad) and then fast forward fifteen years…and I’m a full-time writer now.

The Cornered Lover: What is one of your favorite things to do?

Cynthia: I love going to …

Review: Blood Born by Linda Howard and Linda Jones

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 480 pagesRelease Date: April 12th, 2010Publisher: Ballentine BooksFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, BookDepository

Book Blurb:When the human and the vampire worlds collide, there will be hell to pay.

Luca Ambrus is a rare breed: vampire from birth, begotten by vampire parents, blood born. He is also an agent of the Council—the centuries-old cabal that governs vampirekind, preserving their secrecy and destroying those who betray them.

When a cryptic summons leads him to the scene of the brutal killing of a powerful Council member, Luca begins the hunt for an assassin among his own people. But instead of a lone killer he discovers a sinister conspiracy of rogue vampires bent on subjugating the mortal world.

All that stands in their way are the conduits, humans able to channel spirit warriors into the physical world to protect mankind. Chloe …

My Wichlist: Circle Series by Linda Robertson

Hi all! And welcome to another segment of my bi-weekly Wish list! I hope you will like this week’s wishlistBut first here is the winner of the first 3 books in Casa Dracula Series by Marta Acosta

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This week I chose as my Wish list is…Circle Series by Linda Robertson… Another series I am hoping to read and review. I actually have the second title but I am having trouble getting a copy of the first book. Anyway… here’s my pick for this week’s wish list. I hope you will enjoy!

Anyway here’s …

Interview: Kristina McBride author of Tension of Opposites

We here at Book Lovers Inc. are so happy to welcome Kristina McBride author of Tension of Opposites, which officially hit the shelves last month! (I enjoyed it very much, you can read my review tomorrow on Book Crazy!)The YA Lover: First off Kristina, would you mind telling us a bit about yourself and how you got into writing? KM: I lived across the street from a library when I was a young child and have always had a voracious appetite for books and words. When I was in high school, I began journaling obsessively – everything from song lyrics to poems to short stories. It wasn’t until I finished my Masters Degree and quit my job teaching high school English that I dove headfirst into writing my first novel. (I know the order of things doesn’t make sense, but …

Review: My Soul To Save by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 279Release Date: December 29, 2009Publisher: Harlequin Formats Available: Paperback, Ebook, AudioPurchasing Info: Amazon, Goodreads, Rachel Vincent’s Website

Book Blurb:“If she were going to die, I’d already be screaming. I’m a banshee. That’s what we do.”

The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school, breaking her dad’s ironclad curfew and putting her boyfriend’s loyalty to the test. But starry-eyed teens are trading their souls for a flickering lifetime of fame and fortune in exchange for eternity in the Netherworld — a consequence they can’t possibly understand. Kaylee can’t let that happen, even if trying to save their souls means putting her own at risk….

My Thoughts:Ok first of all I just have to say it: WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON WITH NASH?! This boy…I love him, I really do, he’s …

New Releases – June 22, 2010

Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
Genre: YA

At the start of this mesmerizing new installment of the Immortals series, Ever is helping her friend Haven transition into life as an immortal. But with Haven drunk on her new powers and carelessly putting them all at risk, their friendship becomes more and more strained. At the same time, Ever delves deeper into magick in order to get control over her enemy Roman and free Damen from his power. But when the spell she casts on Roman backfires, she’s bound to her deadliest enemy. Frantic to reverse the spell the moment the moon enters a new phase, she finds her efforts are fruitless—there’s a strange, foreign pulse coursing through her, one that propels her toward Roman. Desperate to break free of this terrible curse before Damen or the twins can discover what …

Teasingly Short & Hot Reviews

We’ve got to special review for you today. To very hot short reads we got from Tease Publishing for review:

Astoroth: Her Final Sin by Stella and Audra Price

A Scandalous Arrangement by Kayleigh Jamison

Be sure to grab a pack of ice before you start reading because you will definitely need it 😉Astoroth: Her Final Sin by Stella and Audra Price

Format Read: PDFNumber of Pages: 14Release Date: June 15th, 2010Publisher: Tease PublishingFormats Available: eBookPuchasing Info: Author Website, All Romance EBooks

Book Blurb:Meet Astoroth, high duke of hell. When a woman at the end of her bucket list meets him in a bar in Las Vegas, he sees the possibility for some harmless fun with a human just at her expiration date. What he doesn’t count on is deciding to keep her…

My Thoughts:I …

Review: I’ll Be Slaying You by Cynthia Eden

Format Read: ARCNumber of Pages: 275Release Date: July 2010Publisher: Kensington BravaGenre: Paranormal Romantic SuspensePurchasing Info: Goodreads, Book Depository, Author’s website

Book Blurb

Sandra “Dee” Daniels is a vampire’s worst nightmare. Sure, she couldn’t get up to five-six in the highest heels money can buy—not that she ever wears heels. But the monsters in her past and the stake in her boot are enough to keep most bloodsuckers interested in staying undead out of Baton Rouge.

But there are changes afoot on her turf. Rumors of a Born Master in town—a vampire so powerful he can make the streets run with blood. And a new face in Dee’s dive bars and alleyways—Simon Chase, a strong, sexy shadow with a haunted past of his own. Simon knows a lot about the dark side of Dee’s work. He knows even more …