New Releases: August 1-7, 2011

A Midnight Dance by Lila DiPasqua

Inspired by the tale of Cinderella, Lila DiPasqua weaves a steamy story that offers a glass slipper, a dangerous deception, and an impoverished beauty determined to find her handsome prince…and make him pay.

Born into wealth, Sabine Laurent and her twin sister lived a life of luxury, their father’s prestigious theater frequented by royalty and aristocracy alike. And Sabine dreamed of her own prince charming—the devastatingly handsome Jules de Moutier.

That was before the loss of her sister and her family’s fall from grace—a disaster Sabine blames on the Moutier family. Now, with her father’s death, she’s inherited his sizable debt and the responsibility of caring for his spoiled long-time mistress and her two wastrel daughters. But with the help of Sabine’s eccentric friends—the balance of her father’s acting troupe—she plans to get very close …

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

Welcome to our new edition of The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? This week destination Spain!  To give you a good picture of the whole scene, we tried giving you a few covers in the same series. We’ll go from UF to Historical Romances. Let’s see how Spain fares in the Book Covers Battle! Tell us what you think 🙂

Warning: This post features dirty women, Boob attacks and plain fugly covers.  You’ve been warned

The Kate Andrews series by Ilona Andrews

Caro: What really strikes me is that it’s not the same model for the 3 covers (or at least it doesn’t look like it). I really dislike the cover of the first book, she looks…dirty. That shadow close to her mouth is …

We Love Your Comments Giveaway: Winner & new Start

This winner of our We Love Your Comments Giveaway for July is……

Alisha (MyNeedToRead)

who commented on our post: ‘Bookish Rants and Raves: Getting Shelved“‘

I tend to laugh it off and joke about it when someone refers to “those vampire books” that I read. (A side note: why is it always “those vampire books”?! Just goes to show that such people don’t know a first thing about that which they speak.)

But really, I embrace being a “genre” reader. When someone is like “oh, that’s not literature, that’s a book (and I was once told this), I’d be likely to say “yup, and I love that book!”

Congrats hon! I just sent you an email. Please email us back in the in the next 72 hours to claim your price.

We will now start counting for August. Here again the rules:

We thought long and hard about …

Interview: Jennifer Ashley + Giveaway!

Please join us in giving a warm BLI welcome to Jennifer Ashley! Jennifer is here to talk about her awesome & extremely popular Mackenzie series and specifically the upcoming publication of the eagerly awaited The Many Sins of Lord Mackenzie which is available from Berkley publishing tomorrow August 2nd! We here at Book Lovers Inc just couldn’t resist the temptation that are those brothers. I for myself awaited the release of Cameron’s book with halted breath!

Jennifer! Welcome to BLI, it’s such a thrill to be able to talk to you today!

Caro: Jennifer can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Jennifer: Sure. I write as Jennifer Ashley, Allyson James, and Ashley Gardner. What do I write? Historical romance, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and historical mysteries (that’s the Ashley Gardner side). What else do I do? Not much! …

Studying break to announce some winners!

Hey everyone! Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend and don’t have to spend your time with your head in texbooks about the million ways to ruin a building thanks to time. See, I know you are all jealous now. *looks longingly at her romance novels* 
But well it will be over soon. So now on to the interesting part of this post: the WINNERS: *g* And finally my turn again to visit Mr Random. How I missed him. *happy sigh*

So without further procastination here are this weeks winners:

Thanks to Stephanie Tyler we have to winners. The first can choose between In The Air Tonight or one book out of Stephanie’s backlist books. 

Mr Random aka Michael Shanks *g*

Natalija 

The second winner will get the second prize which will actually be what …

Breaking News: Today is our Smutty Lover’s Birthday!!

Can you imagine a life without news, eyebleach links and awful books read with utter compassion? We, here at Book Lovers Inc, can’t imagine to live without this.

Has, our Smutty Lover brings all those fun things into our life and today we wanted to show her how many people do appreciate her.

Want to join the fun? Tweet Has a happy birthday wish @has_bookpushers and help us to celebrate her the way she deserves it.

@e_bookpushers

Dear Has, One of my fellow Book Pushers. I just want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY, may you have many more, may you have mild summers, may you have mild winters. may you continue to find brain bleach requiring links and may you have lots of good reading! Thanks for always …

The International Giveaways Café (5)

 Welcome back to our home for International Giveaways. If you’re new to the post, you can click here to see our sentiments behind the Café. Otherwise, please take a quick look at the guidelines below and enter your link for your own international giveaway. Or grab some refreshments and visit the links to enter! It’s a win/win situation, right?!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!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. Remove your link when the giveaway has ended (we would highly …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Well it seems the Apple Apps closing buy or direct links to purchase books from other than those they sanction or own has come to fruition, the deadline has come and gone, without any sign for vendors being allowed to use their buy links. Apps by Amazon and Barnes and Noble and others are still able to offer their books on devices on the Apple platform but you are unable to buy directly from those apps but still be able to buy via Safari and sideload the book. I honestly hate this because the whole point is the easy access to purchase a book on a portable device on the format of your choice, I think this is just Apple trying to strong arm the competition and to force people to shop at their ibookstore which …

Dual Review: Accidental Abduction by Eve Langlais

Format Read: review & bought copyNumber of pages: 111 pages (pdf)Release Date: 22 Ma 2011Formats available: eBookGenre: erotic scifi romancedPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s website, AllRomance, B&N, Smashwords

Book Blurb:

Abducted by a space pirate, she fights the temptation to let him plunder her goods.

A boyfriend’s attempted murder leaves Megan floundering in the ocean. Sinking without hope, the bright light she sees in the night sky isn’t her doorway to heaven, but rather the beginning of her accidental abduction by a space pirate. While thankful of his rescue, Megan stays true to form and just can’t keep her mouth shut, even when he keeps threatening to kill her–or auction her off to the highest bidder. Even odder, despite her decision to not get involved with her wickedly hot captor, she can’t help craving his touch.Tren retired …

Bookish Rants or Raves: The Difficulty of Choosing aka The Stress of Vacation Book-Packing

I’ll start with an apology. I apologize beforehand because I am so stressed out and jittery that my every breath is a rant right now so I’ll try to organize the ranting chaos in my head but I can guarantee nothing. *takes deep breaths… mumbles Zen mantras*

 
Ok, I’m back. 🙂
 
So what has me worked up? My vacation. Well to be exact my leaving for vacation. Or if you want me to be even more specific it is packing for my vacation.

First of all work has been crazy this week. Somehow we have 3 major projects (which we have been working on for the past 3-4 weeks!) all ending this week, which means that instead of me taking care of last minute details and cleaning my desk everyone is hysteric at work and we jump around like caffeinated bugs. *deep breaths*
 

Ok, I’m Zen 🙂 Besides work there is of course the small matter that …