The International Giveaways Café (71)

Welcome to another Saturday morning filled with great bookish giveways! I was asked for a Christmas list recently (from someone with little imagination) but I was stumped to think about what books I should ask for. (And you know books MUST be on the list, right?) So, any suggestions would be helpful 😉 Have a great weekend all!

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!

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 …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post – it has been a bit quiet on the publishing front, although there has been a slew of new book deals and announcements as well as some tidbit goodies from Patricia Briggs, Lauren Dane and Jenn Bennett.

First up, Amazon has announced their details for their annual breakthrough contest which for the first time does not involve Penguin which the winner of the previous awards have won a contract to publish their book. In this year’s contest, there will be separate finalists in the genres for Horror, YA,  Scifi and fantasy, Romance, Thriller and General fiction which each winning category will get a $15000 award whilst there is a grand prize of $50,000 and a contract to publish with Amazon’s own publishing imprints. The  date to submit for entries starts at January 14th – For more details and conditions of the contest can be …

O Come All Ye Kinky virtual book tour: Guestpost by L.A. Witt + Giveaway

It is with pleasure that we welcome L.A. Witt on Book Lovers Inc to promote the O Come All Ye Kinky anthology! She will tell us how she got the idea for her story.  Since this is part of a fantastic Riptide Virtual Book Tour for the release of O Come All Ye Kinky (I never get tired of this title), don’t forget to leave a comment to be entered in a very kinky giveaway 😉  Let’s give  a warm welcome to L.A. Witt!

Thank you for joining us on the O Come All Ye Kinky virtual book tour! For two weeks, anthology editor Sarah Frantz and her merry band of authors will be stopping by some of your favorite blogs to spread kinky holiday cheer! How, you ask? Well, if you don’t know what candy caning is yet, pick up your copy of O Come All Ye Kinky from …

Guest post by Inara Scott + Giveaway

Please give a warm welcome to Inara Scott, author of several contemporary, fantasy, paranormal and young adult novels! Inara stops by today to chat about fake engagements (since her newest release The Boss’s Fake Fiancée features this trope) and why she loves them. Arranged marriages/fake engagements and marriage of conveniences are some of my favourite tropes as well, so join us and tell us about yours, you could win a copy of The Boss’s Fake Fiancée! 

Photo by Martin Strachoň

My latest release, The Boss’s Fake Fiancée, is a “fake engagement” story (obviously!). It’s also an employee-boss romance (just as obviously!). These are tropes–well known romance novel set-ups that give the basic outline of the story and plot. Tropes let the reader know, in a very general way, what the book is about. Everyone out there probably has their favorite–for example, you might love “marriage of convenience” stories, and …

Review: One Night With a Hero by Laura Kaye

Format Read:E-Book provided by the publisher for review
Number of Pages: 173 pages
Release Date:October 20th 2012
Publisher:Entangled Publishing, LLC (Brazen)
Series: The Hero, #2
Formats Available: e-book, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, B&N, Kobo

Book Blurb:

He wants just one night…

After growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father, Army Special Forces Sgt. Brady Scott vowed never to marry or have kids. Sent stateside to get his head on straight—and his anger in check—Brady’s looking for a distraction. He finds it in his beautiful new neighbor’s one-night-only offer for hot sex, but her ability to make him forget is addictive. Suddenly, Brady’s not so sure he can stay away.

…what they need is each other.

Orphaned as a child, community center director Joss Daniels swore she’d never put herself in a position …