Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

Yay and we are back this week on the right day and right time for this week’s news post. We are so sorry about the disruption due to Blogger maintenance fail last week but everything is back to normal *touch wood*.

This week we have some interesting tidbits about Amazon and epublishing in general as well as more Hunger Games updates.

The Hunger Games’ Jennifer Lawrence first promo shots was unvieled this week as Katniss – I am still not that keen on most of the casting choices for this movie but it seems the big publicity hype machine is kicking up a gear just before the first scenes are shot this week. Click here for an eonline interview with Jennifer and some casting news
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In a very surprising twist – Random House …

Review: Adversary by Kate Kaynak

Format read: paperbackNumber of pages: 238 pagesRelease Date: 8 October 2010 Publisher: Spencer Hill PressFormats available: ebook, paperbackRelease Date: 20 August 2010Series: Book #2 in the Ganzfield seriesPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store

Blurb:

The second book of the Ganzfield series

Things are more dangerous than they seem at Ganzfield, and not everyone will survive. Does Maddie have what it takes?

See what happens next in the sequel to Minder.

My Thoughts: Adversary is the second book in the Ganzfield series and after how much I enjoyed the mindblowing adventure of Minder I was excited to see how Kate Kaynak would up the pace of the first book, and I have to say she triumphed! Adversary is an even more thrilling story where the breakneck speed of action keeps you glued to …

Interview Author Elizabeth Vaughan + Giveaway

We are so proud to have author Elizabeth Vaughan here at Book Lovers Inc today. She writes one of the best fantasy romance novels out there and we here at BLI are huge fans. We can’t say enough how happy we are to have her here. The latest novel in her Chronicles of the Warlands series was released this month. She is here to tell us about Warcry and give us some insight into her series. Please give her a warm welcome and feel free to ask her anything you want- she will stop by today and tomorrow to answer all the questions you might have. And there’s also a wonderful giveaway- so keep the questions coming. BLI: Elizabeth can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Elizabeth: Ah, well now, the truth is that its my stories that …

Review: Uniform Behaviour ed. by Lucy Felthouse

Format read: eARC Number of pages: 163 pages Formats available: ebookRelease Date: 23 November 2010 Source: review copy provided by authorPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

Do you get all weak-kneed at the sight of a grubby fireman or a hunky soldier? Perhaps immaculately-dressed waiting-on staff get you feeling frisky? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

Uniform Behaviour contains sixteen smutty stories about firemen, soldiers, sailors, police, security guards and even waiters, priests and cleaners!

Delve into this anthology and enjoy steamy stories from established erotica authors including Justine Elyot, Craig J Sorensen, Victoria Blisse, Shermaine Williams, Elizabeth Coldwell and Lucy Felthouse. Uniform Behaviour also proudly introduces some exciting debut authors. So remember, you saw them here first!

As well as being written and compiled for your titillation, this anthology is also designed to …

Bookish Rants or Raves: There’s NO Shame is Taking Second Place!

Lover Mine by J.R. Ward

It’s hard to ignore the spotlight and I do love my heroes and heroines. It doesn’t really matter if it’s the sexy Alpha Hero everyone wants to have for their own, or if it’s the no-holds-barred kickass heroines/heroes found in Urban Fantasy, those leading men and women have the difficult job of capturing your heart and making you dedicate a lot of your time in reading their stories.

We count on their stories to take us away from our own worlds and escaping to different realities. However important they may be though, what really makes their adventures and lives real is the people around them. The sidekicks and secondary characters who make the heroes and heroines’ stories even more compelling and real.

The Black Dagger Brotherhood (BDB) series by J.R. Ward, for example. For me, reading the …

How One Call Inspired So Many Different Responses – Guest post by Lucy Felthouse + Giveaway

 
Today I would like to introduce you to Lucy Felthouse the creative mastermind and editor of the fantastic erotic anthology Uniform Behaviour. This book is full of scorching hot stories about men and women in different (sexy) uniforms be it soldier, sailor, fireman, cop or some other uniform you wouldn’t even think of at first like waiter, security guard or cleaner. (You can read my detailed thoughts in my review of Uniform Behaviour here at BLI.) Please give a warm welcome to Lucy and enter for your chance to win your own copy of Uniform Behaviour.

When I put out the submissions call for my erotic anthology, Uniform Behaviour, I expected to receive lots of stories about soldiers and firemen. They seemed to be the most favoured uniforms amongst people I’d spoken to. So, late last year, when the submissions started rolling in, I was pleasantly surprised. The call …

Romance and Me: Virgin or Slut?

Hey Everyone!

Before you faint in shock let me explain to you the reasoning behind today’s topic.
In most historical romances the heroine is an inexperienced, innocent virgin maid, whose sensuality and passions are awakened by the sheet acrobat hero who’s more than talented in the ways of lovemaking.

99% of historical romance heroines are virgins, untouched girls whose first sexual encounter is with the hero who is teaching them how to unravel their hidden passions.
However lately I noticed that more and more novels dare to deviate from the norm and feature heroines who aren’t virgins anymore (the widow heroines are becoming quite a big trend right now).
But have you ever come across a historical romance where the man was a virgin or quite awkward in the ways of love and it was the heroine who taught him?
There is only one novel which comes to my mind Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander …

Review: "Final Cut Miami: Storm’s Tempest", by Lacey Savage

Format Read: e-Book purchased by reviewerLength: 72 PagesGenre: Erotic Paranormal RomancePublisher: Changeling PressRelease Date: April 28, 2011Formats Available: e-BookPurchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website

Book Blurb:

Tempest Kincaide is certain she must be the last twenty-eight-year-old virgin left in the entire world. Her fervent belief in holding out for her soul mate has kept her from doing what most women her age would have done long ago. She might consider a one-night stand, if only she weren’t so terrified of admitting that she has no experience, no real knowledge of sexual practices beyond the theoretical, and no skill in pleasing a man.

Storm is a retired sex demon. After centuries of catering to humans’ sexual whims, he’s taken himself out of the family business. His self-imposed dry spell has lasted more than most humans’ lifespans, but he’s just fine with that. He’s …

Review: Space Junque by L.K. Rigel

Format Read: eBook Number of pages:Release Date: 2 September 2010Formats available: ebookSeries: Book #1 in the Apocalypto seriesSource: e-ARC provided by author Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Free Apple apps

Blurb:

In flagrante apocalypto.

A paranormal romance fantasy.

The DOGs want to destroy the world. The gods want to make a new one. The trick is to survive both.

Warned by her friend Mike Augustine, Char Meadowlark tries to get off planet before a pending eco-terrorist attack, but the Defenders of Gaia strike while she’s at the airport. Jake Ardri, pilot of the shuttle Space Junque, rescues her and delivers her to the Imperial Space Station where Mike awaits.

When the DOGs’ final onslaught goes global and the material world threatens to implode, the ancient gods reemerge to take control over humanity. Through the ensuing chaos, Char must juggle …

New Releases: May 16 – 22, 2011

Graveminder by Melissa Marr

The New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series delivers her first novel for adults, a story about the living, the dead, and a curse that binds them.

Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn’t a funeral that Maylene didn’t attend, and at each Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual: three sips from a small silver flask followed by the words “Sleep well, and stay where I put you.”

Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place–and the man–she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered and that there was good reason for her odd traditions. It turns out that in placid Claysville, …