A whole bunch of winners!

Hey Everyone!

I had a wonderful week. Oh no, do not think work has let up, it was once again crazy busy week from hell at work, but my dad came home for a week. 😀 We had some wonderful quality time, every night family movies (oh yeah, my dad’s favourite movies besides Jean-Claude Van Damme action flicks are Meg Ryan’s Kate&Leopold, and Pride and Prejudice, he’s the biggest fan of Mr. Darcy in the family ;-p lol), and I was spoiled nonstop 😀 My dad is the best! So today he left and I’m a bit blue and it’s about to rain, so I think only a nice happy romance novel can make it better. But for you I have some winners to announce!

Today congratulations are in order for…

The 2 lucky winners of the Laura Bickle giveaway are: …

Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post and we have a pretty jam-packed issue! The mystery of Pottermore has been unveiled (most guesses were correct!), book news and another YA kerfuffle.

Well, most people suspected that J.K Rowling’s new mysterious site, was an online game/interactive site and is described to be ‘an online reading experience’. The interactive service will follow along the plot of the first Harry Potter book, with the 2nd book adventure sometime in the new year. The site will also host a store that will also sell audiobooks and ebooks that will be DRM free, from the Harry Potter series. There is also promise that it will also offer new content. Pottermore will go live on the 31st of July. [source:Publisher’s Weekly]

Publisher’s Weekly have reported that Mass Market Paperbacks took a huge dive in …

Review: This Perfect Kiss by Melody Thomas

Format read: eARC provided by publisher through NetGalleyNumber of pages: 384 pages Publisher: AvonFormats available: paperback, ebookRelease Date: 28 June 2011 Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store, Book Depository

Blurb:

It was the moment she had been dreaming of: a stolen kiss at a masquerade ball with the dashing Camden St. Giles. He may not have known who she was, but Christel would never forget . . .

Nine years have passed since that magical evening. Now Camden, the seventh earl of Carrick, is widowed with a young daughter, a man with a heart in need of healing. And Christel has just stolen onboard his ship bound for Scotland. Neither has forgotten the kiss that had set their hearts ablaze. The longer she remains with him, the hotter his desire burns. But as …

Guestpost: Fantasy Matured by Philippa Ballantine

Today we are happy to welcome Philippa Ballantine at Book Lovers Inc! Philippa (or Pip to her friends ;-p) is not only New Zealand’s first podcast novelist she is also an author penning stories in a variety of genres: she released urban fantasy, fantasy and steampunk novels! Today she is here to tell us some behind the scenes secrets about her writing, please give Philippa a warm welcome!

Here’s a dirty little secret. Writers write what they know. Yes, even fantasy ones like myself.

So, by definition many of the writers write about characters that are about the age they are. Our life experiences—good and bad—bleed over into what problems our characters face, and how they handle with them. I know that as I have got older so too has the average age of my characters—especially the main point of view ones.

Even with …

Review: Quarter Square by David Bridger

Format Read: eBookRelease Date: 27 June 2011Formats available: eBookSeries: Book #1 in the Wild Times seriesPublisher: Carina PressSource: review copy provided by publisher via NetGalleyPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Carina Press

Blurb:

English carpenter Joe Walker thinks his life is over when he discovers his wife and best friend having an affair. Restoring an abandoned theatre offers little hope for a fresh start…until he follows a group of strangers through a hidden door into a world he never could have imagined.

In the haven known as Quarter Square, Joe encounters a community of supernatural street performers who straddle the mortal world and the magic realm known as the Wild. Here, Joe finds a sense of belonging he’s never known before—and a chance to uncover the truth behind the frightening visions that have haunted him since childhood. …

My Wishlist: the Absolutely-Must-Read-UF-series Edition – Part 2

Hi Everyone!

I’m back once again to share with you my endless UF wishlist 😀 There are so many amazing series people keep recommending, so my TBR pile is also near exploding…

So let me tell you about a few of my absolutely-must-read-UF-series!

Stray by Rachel Vincent (Shifter series)

There are only eight breeding female werecats left . . .

And I’m one of them.

I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.

Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.

I’d been warned about Strays — werecats without a Pride, constantly on the …

Guestpost: Lessons Learned by Jocelynn Drake

Hello out there! I hope you’re enjoying your Thursday so far. Today we are very excited to have Jocelynn Drake author of the Dark Days series here to tell us about some of the lessons she has learned since becoming a published author. 

Ms. Drake the stage is yours…

I’ve been a “professional writer” (defined here as having a paid contract with a publishing house) for approximately four years, and by many accounts I am still a newbie, a little wet behind my ears as I stumbled over various learning blocks in my path. I have had six books and one novella published, while being contracted for three more short stories and two books in a new series. At first glance, I struggle to believe that the “newbie” title still fits, but I’m still learning many things about the publishing industry …

Genres 101: Today’s Lesson – Women’s Fiction

I received an interesting e-mail the other day, asking if I’d like to review a book that was classified as “flit-lit”. It has been at the tip of my fingers for the last several Genres 101 posts to write about, well, let’s start off by referring to it by my main title of “women’s fiction”, but I kept hesitating, thinking there really couldn’t be all that much to talk about. Of course, the e-mail I mention just proves me wrong; offering another subgenre to what is probably a pretty huge list of them. But how different can, say, Chick-lit (the term we’re probably all most familiar with) be from Hen lit? Well, let’s delve in and see…

First to mention is the Romance Novel. This novel has some illustrious roots, with Jane Austen, then Georgette Heyer …

Review: "Savor The Danger", by Lori Foster

Format Read: eARC provided by NetGalley courtesy of HQN Books
Publisher: HQN Books
Length: 416 Pages
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Series: Men Who Walk the Edge of Honor Book III
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, Books-A-Million, Borders, Chapters, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

The one woman he couldn’t have was the only woman he desired…

She may be aloof, and more pretty than gorgeous, but Alani Rivers is the kind of woman a hot-blooded mercenary can’t forget, no matter how hard he tries. So when Jackson Savor wakes up next to the naked, sleeping beauty—with no memory of what happened—he knows he’s been drugged… even if Alani doesn’t.

After she was kidnapped, Alani swore she’d never trust another man again. Still, something about this strong, sexy hero …

Happy Birthday to our Amanda (@storywings)

Today we have another bday to celebrate.

BLI Team:

“Happy Birthday to yooooouuuu, happy birthday to yoooooooou….
Happy Birthday dear Amanda,
happy birthday to you!”

*everyone covers their ears*

Okay so perhaps we aren’t that talented (tries to ignores the booooooooing) but we found some who definitely is. Or we hope so.

So let’s get some cake (ohhhh I love cake) and a bit of chanpanger (yummy) and listen to today’s musical  guests (and yes we bribed them with smutty romance novels).

First up the Beatles. We definitely don’t start small:

Wasn’t that nice? But don’t go we have more.

So again happy birthday sweety!

So who’s joining our little party?

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