A Get Well Shout Out To Our Geeky Book Lover!!!!!

BLI REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING IS PREEMPTED SO THE

BOOK LOVERS CAN SEND

((HUGS)) & GET WELL WISHES

TO

OUR SUSI

(THE GEEKY LOVER)

First You Get A Card

And Flowers

And Chocolates

AND

COOKIES
(Courtesy of naughty JoJo – Damn Woman!! lol)

WE LOVE YOU

&

MISS YOU SUSI

GET. WELL. SOON!

Caro: Get well hon! I miss my other half… SO bad! Who’s gonna be the voice of reason if you’re not there? 😉 LUV you. <==3

Stella: Sweetie, we terribly miss you, but don’t worry about anything we’ll try to hold down the fort until you can take up your place as BLI Commander once again. Take care, rest a lot and make the most of your bed rest by reading some yummy books! ;-p *lots of hugs* Get well soon! 🙂

Has: Hon, I hope you get better soon. I am so sorry you are laid up at hospital at a time like this but I am sending you get well …

Guestpost: Everybody Loves Eric by Jill Sorenson + Giveaway

Today we are very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. the wonderful Jill Sorenson, author of the romantic suspense novels Stranded with her Ex, Set the Dark on Fire, Crash Into Me and Dangerous to Touch just to name a few.

Jill is here today to share with us some behind the scenes inspiration for her latest release The Edge of Night and how she incorporates some of her real life experience into her novels.

Please give a warm welcome to Jill and read on to enter the giveaway to win a copy of Jill’s latest release: The Edge of Night!

The most common complaint about The Edge of Night is that Eric Hernandez, a secondary character, steals the show. Eric is a 20-year-old gang member who sells drugs, stocks groceries, and tags …

Simon & Schuster Summer Promotion + Giveaway

A Wedding Wager by  Jane FeatherISBN: 9781451654837On Sale: 6/28/11Price: $9.99/$12.99 CanAmazon, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US), Goodreads

Description:

The second novel in New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather’s sexy and scintillating Blackwater Brides trilogy.

Serena Grantley and her stepfather, General Heyward, have spent the past two years traveling around the capitals of Europe, running faro banks among the highest echelons of European society. Serena is indispensable to her stepfather in the business, not only as an experienced faro dealer but as a draw for the men, young and old, who find her charm and beauty irresistible.Now, much to the delight of her lovesick suitor, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, Serena has returned to England with the general, who plans to expand his London gambling house and line his pockets at the expense of the city’s inveterate gamesters. Serena and …

Review: Dirty Kiss by Rhys Ford

Format Read: ARC provided by the authorNumber of pages: 230 pagesRelease Date: 1 July 2011Formats available: Paperback, eBookGenre: m/m mysteryPublisher: Dreamspinner PressPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Dreamspinner Press (ebook), Dreamspinner Press (paperback), Author’s website

Bool Blurb:

Cole Kenjiro McGinnis, ex-cop and PI, is trying to get over the shooting death of his lover when a supposedly routine investigation lands in his lap. Investigating the apparent suicide of a prominent Korean businessman’s son proves to be anything but ordinary, especially when it introduces Cole to the dead man’s handsome cousin, Kim Jae-Min.

Jae-Min’s cousin had a dirty little secret, the kind that Cole has been familiar with all his life and that Jae-Min is still hiding from his family. The investigation leads Cole from tasteful mansions to seedy lover’s trysts to Dirty Kiss, the place where the rich and discreet go …

Interview Author Lorelei James + Giveaway

Portraiture by Russell LLoyd Jensen/Sage Studios

We are very happy to welcome Lorelei James here at Book Lovers Inc today. I discovered her contemporary cowboy stories a month ago and I fell in love ASAP. Her novel are wild and fun and definitely on the steamy side. They showed me the appeal of cowboys so I’m extremely happy to have Lorelei here today, talking about her cowboys. Her newest book, Chasin’ Eight is out this week and she will tell us what makes her cowboys special. 
An extra thanks this week goes to Claudia, who helped me with the interview questions – thanks a bunch sweety. 
Stay tuned till the end for your chance to win. 

BLI: Lorelei can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Lorelei: Hard hitting questions right off, huh? I’m a forty-something happily married mother of three daughters …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

This week we’re going back to our roots. We decided to highlight different editions of one book and when started looking we discovered how many foreign editions J.R. Ward actually has.

So welcome to the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood (more or less *wink*).

Caro: Us: I like it but don’t love it. It’s a bit bland but not bad. Finland: Is she a bat or something? A crazy bat since she looks to have a straight jacket on (a goth version of it though). 😉UK:I LOVE this cover. It’s pretty and sensual. I love their pose and how they seem to make one. <3German: Beware the bad breath of Wrath. Yes that guy blow fire/bad breath …

Guestpost: Dreams by Erastes + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome Erastes here at Book Lovers Inc today. she writes gay historical fiction and her latest novel, Muffled Drum, is released today. Today she will tell us about dreams and what it feels like when they come true. Please be sure to stay till the end for your chance to win. 

Thank you Susi and The Book Lovers Inc for allowing me a guest post here.

I’m Erastes and I’m a female writer of gay historical fiction. My first book was published in 2006 and I’ve had a real blast ever since, meeting some really amazing people.

I’d like to talk about dreams a little before I introduce my new novel which is out today(!). Dreams are funny things, you can go around thinking “wouldn’t it be nice if…” but not really thinking about anything happening …

Interview Author Stephanie Julian + Giveaway

We are very happy to welcome author Stephanie Julian here at Book Lovers Inc again. Today is the release of What a Goddess Wants, the first book in Steph’s new series The Forgotten Goddesses. I fell in love with Steph’s writing a while ago and I devoured What a Goddess Wants (you can read my review here). Please give her a warm welcome. And check out the end of the post for the surprise we prepared for you. *wink*Susi: Steph, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Steph: I’ve been lucky enough to be a professional writer since I graduated from college with an English degree and no idea what I was going to do with it. I got lucky and landed a job at a newspaper, where I worked cityside before moving to lifestyle. I got …

Review: What a Goddess Wants by Stephanie Julian

Format Read: ARC provided by the publisherNumber of pages: 384 pagesRelease Date: 1 July 2011Formats available: Paperback, eBookPublisher: Sourcebook CasablancaPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository (US), Book Depository (UK), Author’s website

Book Blurb:

Book One in the Forgotten Goddess series

IN HIS ARMS, HER MAGIC POWERS ARE ON THE RISE…Tessa, Etruscan Goddess of the Dawn, is losing her powers and now there’s an Underworld god determined to run her down. She needs a hero and fast, because only sexual energy can give her power. So she seeks out Caligo, whose sexual prowess is legendary…

AND SHE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN BRING HIM INTO THE LIGHT…

Caligo is a fabled Cimmerian warrior determined to stay away from spoiled goddesses who trample hearts after they’ve had their fun. But there’s something irresistibly hot and inviting about Tessa and he knows he’s her …

Romance and Me: Sex or No Sex? – That is the Question

Hey Everyone!

I have to confess in the past week or so I haven’t been reading any romance novels (I know it’s shocking and I can hear several gasps from you, but I think you’ll understand and forgive me when I tell you that a very exciting urban fantasy kept me busy), so when it came to today’s post and deciding what issue we should discuss today I drew a blank. And the fact that I was in my post-lunch-siesta-lump didn’t help at all… :-/ So I launched an SOS and Susi was dear enough to come to my rescue and rant some:Susi:So Stella asked for my opinion and I’m sure I will totally embarrass myself but here it goes:I’m actually annoyed about this topic very often. Yes we have a distinction between romantic and erotic in Romanceland and even the various eroticas mostly have an additional heat rating to see how hot they are but …