Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

We have two winners to announce today.  The winner of a signed paperback copy of The Betrayal by Pati Nagle is…Sullivan McPig   and the winner of the ebook copy of Many Paths by Pati Nagle is…buddyt.  Congratulations to both of you!  We will be contacting you shortly.  Thanks for participating in the contest.  Enjoy your books!BookExpo America (BEA) took place this week in New York.  I wish I could have gone, but I couldn’t so I followed the twitter hashtag #BEA10.  eBookNewser put together a roundup post on this year’s BEA here.  Publishers Weekly reports that next year BEA will return to a three day event.

Since last month, Penguin and Amazon have been trying to work out an agreement on ebook prices.  It looks like they accomplished that according to a post at GalleyCat.  This is good …

Review: Cheat the Grave by Vicki Pettersson

Format Read: digital ARCNumber of Pages: 464 pagesRelease Date: June 1st, 2010Publisher: EosFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, Book Depository

Book Blurb:Las Vegas socialite and otherworldly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she embraced mortality—abandoning her powers and altering her destiny to save a child . . . and a city. Now her former allies are her enemies—and her enemies have nothing to fear.

Yet still she is bound to a prophecy that condemns her to roam a nightmare landscape that ordinary humans cannot see and dare not enter. And a beast is on her trail—an insane killer blinded by bloodlust, who’s determined to rip much more from Joanna than merely her now-fragile life. Survival is no longer an option in this dark realm where good and evil have blurred into confusing shades of gray—unless she can …

My Wishlist: Casa Dracula Series by Marta Acosta

Hi all! And welcome to another segment of my weekly Wish list! I hope you will like this week’s wishlist

UPDATE: I forgot to include the winner of Dead in the family by Charlaine Harris. Sorry about that:

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This week I chose as my Wish list is…Casa Dracula Series by Marta Acosta

Yay! I am excited about this… Its like its been a longtime since I read this series. Well really the first book. I have yet to read the rest of the books in this series. I am hoping to make some time to be re-acquainted with The Casa Dracula novels and glad to know that are more books coming soon.

Anyway here’s the blurb for the first book: Happy Hour at Casa Dracula

Review: Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane +Giveaway

Format Read: MMPB

Number of Pages: 352 pages
Release Date: May 25th 2010 
Publisher: Del Rey 
Formats Available: Paperback, eBook
Purchasing Info: GoodReads; Author’s Website, BookDepository

I received this book from the publisher for review.Book Blurb:THE DEPARTED HAVE ARRIVED.

The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased.

Consequently, there are many false claims of hauntings from those hoping to profit. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully-tattooed witch, freewheeling Debunker, and ghost hunter. She’s got a real talent for nailing human liars and banishing the wicked dead. But she’s keeping a dark secret from the Church: a little drug problem that’s landed her in hot and dangerous water.

Chess owes a lot of money to a …

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 …

Review: Something Wicked by Lesley Anne Cowan

Format Read: ARCNumber of Pages: 224 pagesRelease Date: June 1, 2010Publisher: Puffin CanadaFormats Available: Trade PaperbackPurchasing Info: Chapters.ca, Goodreads

Book Blurb:Melissa’s most recent troubles stem from a secret: her 28-year-old boyfriend Michael has just broken up with her. Though the relationship is clearly over, Melissa clings to the memories, riding a relentless wave of hope and disappointment. Meaningless sexual escapades, drunken nights, and drug-induced blackouts help her cope with heartbreak, but her pain goes much deeper than unrequited teenage love. Her insight, sense of humour, optimism, and sheer determination prove to be saving graces, as is her ability to find solace in the Greek myths she’s learned about in grade ten English class. And in the end, it is Melissa’s mother who proves to be the real victim of tragedy, and Melissa who must save her.

My Thoughts:

****disclaimer : Something Wicked takes a realistic look at a troubled teen …