Book Lovers Book Club: Series Read-Along Selections

Good moaning every one (see the Allo’ Allo’ reference I just did there),

Here are the choices for our series read-along – the secondary book club feature we will be doing every month. Poll is down the bottom and on the side bar!

There is also a poll for the June 2013 selections on the sidebar too.

Happy Voting!

Jane True Series by Nicole Peeler

In the tiny village of Rockabill, Maine, Jane True—26-year-old bookstore clerk and secret night swimmer—has no idea that her absent mother’s legacy is entry into a world populated by the origins of human myths and legends.  It is a world where nothing can be taken for granted: vampires are not quite what we think; dogs sometimes surprise us; and whatever you do, never—ever—rub the genie’s lamp.   For Jane, everything kicks off when she comes across a murder victim during her nightly clandestine swim in the freezing winter ocean.  This grisly discovery leads to …

Sunday Cravings

Hello my fellow Book Lovers everywhere in the world! How are you this weekend? Are you ready for the last week of May? I just can’t believe that summer is already here… And to be honest, I can’t wait for it to officially start 🙂

This week is a really busy one book wise. There are quite a lot of books scheduled for release the days to come so I seriously hope that you saved some money because chances are you’re gonna need them!

So, let’s start.

Marlene: Wounded Angel by Stacy Gail

A descendant of the Angel of Vengeance, Nate da Luca was gifted with an uncanny ability to find things. It made his job as a detective a breeze—until he learned the hard way that some things should remain hidden. After that, his powers vanished, along with his belief in himself. Which is going to make tracking down …

The Sole Winner Post

Hey Everyone!

I’m back – as you can see! 😀 I was away on a mini-vacation with the family, it was cold, and rainy and we had to wear coats and sweaters(!), but was nice to be away a bit. Although I can’t say I didn’t sigh happily when upon coming back the weather home was sunny and warm with 27 C 😀

This week we only have 1 lonely winner to announce, and that is

the lucky winner of a $10 USD Amazon gift card offered by Christine S. Feldman, who is:

Gaby

Congratulations Gaby, you will receive an e-mail notifying you of your win by tonight. You have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw a new winner.

Hope you all had a nice weekend!

The International Giveaways Café (94)

Welcome back to another wonderful Saturday morning! We’re serving links to great giveaways around the bookish blogosphere, so add yours in now to increase your exposure. Hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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 during my weekly cleaning, but remember to come back with any new entries
4. Add our blog button to share the love even more! (Not required but we’d sure appreciate sharing the word even more 🙂 )

Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! In this week’s edition we have news of Amazon’s launch into licensing fanfiction with Alloy Entertainment,   and more author and book news!

With the recent successes of pulled to publish fanfiction like 50 Shades of Grey and Gabriel’s Inferno, has certainly helped paved the way. But Amazon has now joined forces with Alloy Entertainment, a book packager who is behind popular franchises like The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girls and Pretty Little Liars. Fanfic writers who have written stories based in these worlds belonging to Alloy Entertainment which is a subsidiary of Warner brothers, are invited to submit to sell their works via a license which Amazon and will be sold under an imprint called Kindle Worlds. Unlike the KDP programme which allows authors up to 70% of royalties, fanficcers can only get around 35% for each story sold. There is also restrictions …