The Cookie Eating Winner Post

Hey Everyone!

Well if you are curious to know what kind of sweet treat I have baked this week you don’t have to wonder anymore I’ll tell you, I made a selection of triple cookies: some coconutty chocolate chip cookies, cappuccino coconut chocolate chip cookies and chocolate coconut cookies, as you can bet the family loved them and wolfed them down for breakfast, and then asked me to bake a second batch to eat with our afternoon lattes! 😉 And now we have some leftover cookies for Sunday as well, so winwin 😉 (and the biggest joke of all, people keep telling me that I have lost weight am I on some diet, I just smile (while I grin inside and laugh my head off, sure baking and eating desserts daily does wonders to my silhouette! LOL :-D)

And today being Sunday time to announce this week’s winners:

the …

The International Giveaways Café (90)

Welcome back to another Saturday morning filled with great bookish giveaways. Today started off cloudy here in my part of the world, which is usually a perfect excuse to curl up with a good book, right? Sadly, it wasn’t meant to be for me but hopefully you all get a chance at some dedicated reading time over the weekend 🙂 Have a great one!

And, remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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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 …

Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! In this edition we have news on more on the Agency DOJ trial with Penguin and Apple in the US, Avon starting up a site where authors can share their romance books to readers for feedback and more news in the world of publishing!

First up, I reported a few weeks ago that Penguin would probably settle in the EU over Agency pricing however in the US – Judge Coates has denied the right of a jury trial which may affect Penguin in dropping their case and settling instead. And like the other publishers Penguin will have to offer compensation to customers who were caught up in buying their agency priced books. It is not clear if Apple will relent as well but the trial will start on June the 3rd.

Avon Romance has created a site called Share Your Book which allows readers to …

Review: Busted by Sydney Somers

Format read: ebook copy provided by the author for review
Series: Book #3 in the Promise Harbor Wedding series
Release Date: 16 April 2013
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Samhain, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

His game… her rules.

The Promise Harbor Wedding, Book 3

Hockey star Jackson Knight has a hundred reasons not to return to Promise Harbor, but none of them are good enough to get him out of attending his best friend’s wedding. Even with a career-ending knee injury, every puck-bunny in town will be gunning for him.

Worse, getting a pair of cuffs slapped on him at the bachelor party could ruin any chance of getting back in the game, even as a coach. Unless he can convince the arresting officer to smooth things over—by going to the wedding as his date.

Hayley Stone figures posing as Jackson’s girlfriend is the least she can do …

Interview: Rebecca Rogers Maher + Giveaway

Please join us in welcoming to Book Lovers Inc. Rebecca Rogers Maher, whose name when readers hear know that they’re in for an emotional, heart-squeezing and thought-provoking story. Rebecca stops by today to tell us a bit more about her latest book, Hurricane Lily, which you can bet won’t leave you unaffected. So give it up for Rebecca and read on, you could even win a copy of Hurricane Lily at the end!

Stella: Hi Rebecca, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Rebecca: Thanks so much for having me here today! Let’s see … I live in Brooklyn, New York with my husband and our two little boys. I was a teacher for many years before I started writing. People often describe my books as “not your typical romance.” They have lots of intense love and sex scenes and they always have a …

Review: What’s a Witch to Do? by Jennifer Harlow

Format read: Trade Paperback
Series: A Midnight Magic Mystery (#1)
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Number of pages: 336 pages
Publisher: Midnight Ink
Formats available: ebook, trade paperback
Purchasing Info:  Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

A suspenseful brew with a dash of passion

High Priestess might sound like an ’80s hair band, but its Mona McGregor’s life. She runs the Midnight Magic shop in Goodnight, Virginia, and leads a large coven. She’s also raising two nieces and hasn’t been with a man for fifteen years…until a handsome doctor takes an interest in her. But Mona’s life really heats up when Adam Blue, a sexy werewolf, arrives at her door. Adam informs her that someone wants her dead and he is there to protect her. Hell’s bells! When …

Bookish Rants and Raves:Desperately finishing a book

How desperate have you been to finish a book?

Have you been late for work? Late for school? Late for a date?

How about late for a flight?

Recently I read The Casual Vacancy by J.K Rowling. I happened to be about to finish it on a Friday, the same Friday I needed to get on a plane to New Zealand, for a wedding. I was 40 pages out from finishing. In the morning before work I knocked over 36 pages, bad luck and potential lateness (again) left me with 4 pages to go. I was already running on a favour from my boss letting me leave early, which is why I couldn’t risk being late. I didn’t take lunch that day so I couldn’t finish it at work, but I took my book anyway.

At the risk of losing my job I subtly read two more pages at my desk when I was …

Review: Bolted by Meg Benjamin

Format read: ebook copy provided by the author for review
Series: Book #2 in the Promise Harbor Wedding series
Release Date: 2 April 2013
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Number of pages: 272 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Samhain, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

Sometimes you have to get lost before you can find yourself.

The Promise Harbor Wedding, Book 2

Greta Brewster McBain in a bind. Two, if she’s really counting. First there’s the can-barely-breathe, bridesmaid’s dress from hell. Second, the stranger who just carried her “perfect” brother’s fiancée out the church door has made it impossible to tell her own mother about her own divorce.

Rather than confirm her reputation as the family screw-up, Greta takes a drive to clear her head.

Trapped in a hole and unable to reach his cell phone, Hank Mitchell is resigned to becoming a permanent part of his own archeological dig when help arrives—in the form of …

Review: A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma

Format read: paperback
Genre: Contemporary
Release Date: 15 February 2007
Length: 305 pages
Publisher: Definitions
Formats available: Hardcover, paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

Why is this happening to me? he asked himself desperately. What is wrong with me?

Life as a student is good for Flynn. As one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, he has been put forward for an important concert, the opportunity of a lifetime. But beneath the surface, things are changing. On a good day he feels full of energy and life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead. Sometimes he wants to compose and practice all night, at other times he can’t get out of bed. With the pressure of the …

Guest post by Hayson Manning + Giveaway

What we all wouldn’t give to work on a tropical island, or even just to fly there for a few days to unwind and soak up the sun… *sighs* But if you can’t do that right now, do the next best thing: grab a copy of Wife in Name Only, the freshly released debut novel of contemporary romance author Hayson Manning and a glass of chilled margarita and escape to this faraway paradise. But before you do that, join us as Hayson stops by to talk a bit about her novel and its connection to dream jobs… and of course you could even win a copy of Wife in Name Only! 😉 

Dream Jobs

Tonga vista

When I was writing Wife in Name Only, I thought Zoe’s job of running a boutique honeymoon resort on a small island in Tonga was a dream job! Living on a Pacific …