Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

In the next latest twist and turns of publishing, Amazon has made overtures to agents by bypassing publishers to reach and negotiate new deals that bypasses publishers. I suspect that this is in part of the new agency agreements that is in place due to the publishers but also another move that shows Amazon is becoming more interested in publishing directly to their customers/

More shakey news from Dorchester, their chief CEO has departed John Priebich has departed the trouble-ridden publisher although a new CEO was announced to take his place. Publishers Weekly stated that Robert who was formaly CEO of Backe Marketing will take his place.

A Forrester Research study has announced that e-books will become the default format by 2015. This year’s growth of ebook sales have surpassed expectations and like I highlighted …

Review: Selfish is the Heart by Megan Hart

Format Read: Print copy from the authorNumber of Pages: 320 PagesRelease Date: October 2010Publisher: Berkley SensationFormats Available: Trade Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Good Reads, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US), Amazon

Book Blurb:

To escape an arranged marriage, Annalise Marony decides to become a Handmaiden of the Order of Solace. But she is thwarted at every turn by Cassian, a teacher of the faith, who must test her dedication. Older than most of the girls, Annalise knows that she will be expected to please a patron in pleasures of the flesh-and she is not shy about teasing Cassian. And as they both play out the game of master and student, the secrets in their souls will either tear them apart-or bind them together forever.

My Thoughts:

This is the first book I read in the …

Interview Author Teresa D’Amario

Today we’re very happy to welcome Teresa D’Amario on Book Lovers Inc. Teresa is the author of the True Mate series. The 1st book Shewolf will be released in print at the end of the month. Let’s give a warm welcome to Teresa =)

The Latin Lover: Teresa can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Teresa: Thank you so much for having me here. Interviews are so much fun. 😀 And I’m so excited to announce that SheWolf is coming out in print on November 30th. I hope you all grab your copy fast! Stay tuned to my website at http://teresadamario.com/ where I’ll add buy links as soon as they are available.

Now, about me: There’s not much to tell. I’m Retired US Air Force, though I still work for a “Day job” …

Bookish Rants or Raves: Getting To Meet Your Favorite Authors in Person!

When my reading addition started, meeting one of the authors I so loved to read was something I never even considered within my realm of possibilities.

Then, when I started book blogging, I was well aware how hard and almost impossible it would be to meet my literary idols, but I started to get the craving for it.

Difficulty with meeting authors I love and attending signings and conferences is just one of the obstacles we face as international book bloggers. However, September this year I got the chance to go to a Book Conference in The U.S. (I talked about it HERE) and since my 10-day trip turned into a 3-month one, I had the chance to go to The New York Comic Con in NYC and meet some of my favorite authors ever!

It was so much …

Review: Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning

Series: Sinners On Tour Book 1Format Read: Trade Paperback Number of Pages: 384 pagesPublisher: Sourcebooks CasablancaRelease date: October 1, 2010Formats Available: Trade Paperback & e-BookSource: Gift from friend.

Purchase information: Goodreads, Barns & Noble, Amazon, Borders, The Bood Depository, Books A Million, Author Website

Book Blurb:

Human Sexuality Professor, Myrna Evans, wants nothing but a weekend of hot, no-strings-attached sex with Sinners’ sensual lead guitarist, but Brian Sinclair is looking for something more permanent than a one-night stand. Unable to compose music for months, when Brian makes love to uninhibited Myrna, he hears exquisite guitar riffs and finger-burning solos.

In Myrna, he’s found his muse.

My Thoughts:

There are many excellent reviews of this book posted already and it is well documented that for …

Review: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Format Read:  PaperbackNumber of Pages:  240 PagesRelease Date:  29th March 2009Publisher:  The Penguin GroupFormats Available:  Hardback, Paperback, CD-Audio, Audio CassettePurchasing Info: Laurie Halse Anderson, Good Reads, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

After Melinda goes through a traumatic and violent incident at a summer party, she calls the cops and becomes a social outcast. Her freshman year is a disaster. As time passes, she stops talking–except through her paintings in art class. Her healing process has just begun when her perpetrator attacks again. Only this time, she doesn’t keep silent.

My Thoughts:It was through various blog posts for Banned Book Week that Speak came to my attention.  I’d never even heard of it until then.  The controversy over subject matter in this was the main issue and in some school libraries it was actually banned.  This was the clincher …

All YA Love: Interview Author Kersten Hamilton + Giveaway

We are very happy to have author Kersten Hamilton her today. Her new Young Adult novel Tyger Tyger released yesterday and she is here today to celebrate her new release. We’re doing something new today here. We ask some blogger friends to help us with finding the right questions so please also give a warm welcome to our guest interviewers. Please stay tuned till the end of the post for your chance to win a wonderful prize. Please give all our guest a warm welcome. 

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

Kersten: I was born in a trailer in the mountains of southern New Mexico. I escaped electrocution when a typhoon blew power lines down over yet another trailer in a swamp in Washington state, and drowning when a station wagon spun out of control and …

Review: Logic of Demons: The Quest for Nadine’s Soul by H A Goodman

Format read: eBookNumber of pages: 256 pagesRelease date: July 13, 2010Source: Review copy provided by author Formats available: eBook, HardcoverPurchasing info: Goodreads, Amazon, Books on Board, author’s website

Book Blurb:

What would you do if the love of your life was murdered by a deranged killer? Would you become a vigilante and seek retribution? And would this revenge affect those you care for in the afterlife?

LOGIC OF DEMONS The Quest for Nadine’s Soul takes you on a journey inside the psyches of men and women forced to deal with the spiritual consequences of their decisions. Through the lives of a demon, two Angels, and a mysterious teenage girl, a plethora of politically and socially relevant issues ranging from the roots of genocide and sex trafficking to child conscription and religious fundamentalism are addressed in this fantasy thriller. Life as …

New Releases: November 15 – 21 2010

Tyger Tyger by Kersten Hamilton

Teagan Wylltson’s best friend, Abby, dreams that horrifying creatures–goblins, shape-shifters, and beings of unearthly beauty but terrible cruelty–are hunting Teagan. Abby is always coming up with crazy stuff, though, so Teagan isn’t worried. Her life isn’t in danger. In fact, it’s perfect. She’s on track for a college scholarship. She has a great job. She’s focused on school, work, and her future. No boys, no heartaches, no problems.

Until Finn Mac Cumhaill arrives. Finn’s a bit on the unearthly beautiful side himself. He has a killer accent and a knee-weakening smile. And either he’s crazy or he’s been haunting Abby’s dreams, because he’s talking about goblins, too . . . and about being The Mac Cumhaill, born to fight all goblin-kind. Finn knows a thing or two about fighting. Which is a …

Explore This! Paris, France

A while back, we took a look at Paris but from a slightly different view. Today, we’re going all out and doing the geeky tourist must visit list. My inspiration comes from Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart Paris. Kelk’s heroine in the novel, Angela, gets to experience Paris on an open air double decker bus. So lets put on our sundresses and pretend it’s summer in Paris. Off we go…

The Parisienne counterpart to the American icon…..
of course, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French

The Seine

I love Gargoyles!

The Eiffel Tower…I know, I know, I probably didn’t even need to caption this one 🙂

The Arc de …