Review: Losing Control by Nina Croft

Format read: ebook provided by the publisher
Series: Babysitting a Billionaire, #1
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: Aug. 12, 2013
Number of pages: 250 pages
Publisher: Entangled: Brazen
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s website | Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Publisher’s Website

Four years after escaping her abusive ex-husband, Kim finally believes she’s in control of her life and her emotions and she’s determined to never risk either again with a man. She has a great home, a job as a security specialist which she loves, and Jake for a best friend. But things are a tad lonely in the sex department, so she decides to embark on a no-strings-affair with one of her hot co-workers. And who better to help her remember how to lure a man than her best friend?

Jake has wanted Kim from the moment he first saw …

Book Lovers Book Club: Series Read-Along Selections

It’s Monday again! And the only good thing about my Mondays is True Blood season 3 and Book Club.

Although as you are reading this I will be in the middle of watching the final episode of the season (gasp! that came around quickly 🙁 )

Here are the choices for our series read-along – the secondary book club feature we do each month. As we have just finished reading the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb (well I’m halfway through – check out some discussion points on the entire trilogy next week.)

Vote in the comments below!

The Liveship Trader Series by Robin Hobb (chronologically the next series after The Farseer Trilogy)

Demonstrating world-building finesse, Robin Hobb begins the climactic story of a seafaring clan and its tangled destiny. Though expected to inherit her family’s newly quickened liveship, Althea Vestrit loses the honor to her scheming brother-in-law, who plans to use it as a slave …

The International Giveaways Café (103)

Good morning/afternoon/evening all, and welcome back to the best place to share and enter international bookish giveaways. Hope you all have a great weekend and can spare a little time at least to read something great 🙂

And, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! As book lovers, we’re happy to spread the word…and the love 😉 Good luck to everyone!

Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, the rules are simple:
1. The giveaway MUST be available to international addresses (Book Depository does count)
2. Add your link below, in the format shown. (Please use the URL for the contest post, not a general blog URL; you don’t want to make it tricky for others trying to enter)
3. Expired contests will be removed …

Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news edition! This week has been an interesting mix of news, with Amazon’s launching of another imprint, this time biographies, Stephanie Meyer ‘being over’ Twilight and Orson Scott Card’s is at it again.

Amazon has announced that it will be launching a new imprint called Icons which will focus on short biographies of famous historical  and contemporary people who have changed history or affected current and cultural events.  Icons shorts will be released bi-monthly and the first biographical short will be featuring Jesus which will  be written by Jay Parini.

I found this really interesting but a Reddit user compiled the different stages of a library book shelf’s life – There are nine stages which ranges from the order of a book and shelving it, which is named the Marriage stage, all the way to the final stage, The Life Cycle which is when a book is …

Interview with Macy Beckett + Giveaway

Today we are happy to have Macy Beckett, writer of the fun, sexy Sultry Springs series, visit us here at Book Lovers Inc.! Macy is stopping by to celebrate the release of the latest book in the series, Surrender to Sultry. So, let’s all give her a warm welcome! And remember to enter the giveaway at the end, too.

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

Macy: You bet—I’m thrilled to be here! In a nutshell, I’m a former teacher who left the classroom to write hot, humorous romantic comedies. Penning novels is a lot more fun than teaching grammar, so I never looked back.

Stella: Are you a planner or pantser? Can you tell us a bit about your writing process? How do your novels come to life?
Macy: I’m a hybrid, a plantser. I begin with a short synopsis, then I …