Around The Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! It has been an interesting one with news of Johnny Depp launching a publishing imprint, rumours of more Twilight movies/T.V series and more news in the world of publishing!

Avon Romance has announced that they will be removing DRM (Digital Rights Management) in a selection of their books this week. Readers will be able to purchase books via All Romance Ebooks where there will be DRM free although other vendors will still be restricted with DRM at the moment. But Avon Romance/HarperCollins is the next major publisher which is following Macmillan/Tor who also announced earlier this year that their books will be DRM free. I suspect and hope other major publishers follow suit with this new trend. For more info on what books are selected, Avon has set up a Facebook App that lists the books that are DRM free and will allow …

Review: Beauty and the Bounty Hunter by Lori Austin

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #1 in the Once Upon a Time in the West series
Release Date: 2 October 2012
Number of pages: 336 pages
Publisher: Signet
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

Cathleen Chase is no killer—but as Cat O’Banyon, she is a ruthless bounty hunter who always gets her man. Catching one lowlife after another, she continues her search for the only man she really cares to locate. The one whose voice she will never forget; the man who murdered her husband. She’ll stop at nothing to find him. Con artist Alexi Romanov taught Cat every trick she knows. He is a master of deceit, disguise, and desire. He’s difficult to trust, and even more difficult to resist, but he has news she can’t ignore. The man she’s after has placed a …

Interview with James Forrester + Giveaway

Today on Book Lovers Inc. it is my pleasure to welcome historical fiction author James Forrester, who also writes non-fiction under the other parts of his name, as Dr. Ian Mortimer. Historical fiction authors and aficionados may know him best as the author of The Time-Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England.

And considering how compelling his first work of historical fiction, Sacred Treason (review here) turned out to be, it might seem as if Ian James Forrester Mortimer took himself on that time traveling trip to Medieval England. He certainly takes his readers there.

But in the here and now, he answered a few questions for us. And at the end of the interview, there’s a chance for you to win a copy of Sacred Treason.

Marlene: Do I call you James or Dr. Mortimer? In either case, can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Ian-James: Call …

Review: Charmed Spirits by Carrie-Ann Ryan

Format Read: e-book provided by Novel Sidekick courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 228 Pages
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Series: Holiday, Montana Book 1
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Publisher: Fated Desires Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook, Trade Paperback
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Amazon, eStore, Goodreads, ARe, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

Jordan Cross has returned to Holiday, Montana after eleven long years to clear out her late aunt’s house, put it on the market, and figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. Soon, she finds herself facing the town that turned its back on her because she was different. Because being labeled a witch in a small town didn’t earn her many friends…especially when it wasn’t a lie.

Matt Cooper has lived in Holiday his whole life. He’s perfectly content being a bachelor alongside his four single brothers in a very …

Guest Post: Carrie-Ann Ryan + Giveaway!

Author Carrie-Ann Ryan

We are delighted to welcome Carrie-Ann Ryan to BLI today for the latest stop on her blog tour celebrating the release of Charmed Spirits, her latest novel. Carrie-Ann is a multi-published author and Charmed Spirits was released from Fated Desires Publishing on September 24, 2012.

About Carrie-Ann:

Carrie Ann Ryan is a bestselling paranormal and contemporary romance author. After spending too much time behind a lab bench, she decided to dive into the romance world and find her werewolf mate – even if it’s just in her books. Happy endings are always near – even if you have to get over the challenges of falling in love first.

Carrie Ann’s Redwood Pack series is an bestselling series that has made the shifter world even more real to her and has allowed the Dante’s Circle and Holiday, Montana series to be born. She’s …

Romance and Me: I HEART Series!

Hey Everyone!

As you can see from the title I LOVE series! Be the individual novels connected via the characters (siblings, friends, etc.) or a place (the residents of a small town, co-workers of the same restaurant, etc.) I just love it. Why? Well there are several reasons for that.

First and foremost because if I enjoy an author’s writing style and loved one of their books I just want more of the same goodness 😀

Secondly because once an author has established a world with well-developed (secondary) characters, I want to revisit the place and see how their life is going and what happens to them. Also, I just find it a great bonus to have an epilogue HEA to the previous book’s couple and see what they have been up to since we waved them goodbye at their happy ending. 😀

And …

Review: Worth the Challenge by Karen Erickson

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #3 in the Worth It series
Release Date: 16 October 2012
Number of pages: 199 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Samhain, iBookstore, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

Together, they’re magic. Now to capture it in a bottle…

Book #3 in the Worth It series

For once in his errant life, Rhett Worth is ready to prove to his older brothers he’s more than good looks and a woman-melting smile. Except he’s screwed up. And it’s about to hit the fan as he prepares to tell them he’s failed to deliver the master perfumer, Michel Durand, to create Worth Luxury’s signature scent.

Then salvation walks through the boardroom door, all wrapped up in a petite, seductive package.

Gabriella Durand is prepared to beg the Worths to give her capricious father another chance. Instead, she finds …

Character Interview by Karen Erickson + Giveaway

Today I am very happy to welcome back to Book Lovers Inc. not only Karen Erickson, author of many fabulous romance series, but also Rhett and Gabriella, the hero and heroine of Worth the Challenge, the latest story in the Worth It contemporary romance series about how three dashingly handsome and sexy brothers find love 😉 So please give a warm welcome to Karen, Rhett and Gabriella, read on about their magical trip and tell us about one of yours and you could win the first book in the Worth It series to get started! 😀 

(Thanks to the ladies of Book Lovers Inc. for hosting me as their guest today!)

Hey everyone!

Meet Rhett Worth:

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And meet Gabriella Durand:

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Together, they are the couple from the third book in the Worth It series, Worth the Challenge. And they were …

Review: Sacred Treason by James Forrester

Format Read:ebook provided by NetGalley
Number of Pages: 480 pages
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Genre: Historical Fiction
Formats Available: Trade Paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK) | Author’s Website | Publisher’s Website | Goodreads

Book Blurb:

London, December 1563. England is a troubled nation. Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth spring up all over the country. At his house in the parish of St Bride, the herald William Harvey – known to everyone as Clarenceux – receives a book from his friend and fellow Catholic, Henry Machyn. But Machyn is in fear of his life, claiming that the book is deadly… What secret can it hold? And then Clarenceux is visited by the State in the form of …

New Releases: October 15-21, 2012

Angel’s Ink (The Asylum’s Tales, #1)
by Jocelynn Drake
Genre: urban fantasy
Release date: October 16, 2012 by Harper Voyager

Description:

Buyer beware . . .

Looking for a tattoo—and maybe a little something extra: a burst of good luck, a dollop of true love, or even a hex on an ex? Head to the quiet and mysterious Gage, the best skin artist in town. Using unique potions—a blend of extraordinary ingredients and special inks—to etch the right symbol, he can fulfill any heart’s desire. But in a place like Low Town, where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves, and vampires happily walk among humanity, everything has its price.

No one knows that better than Gage. Turning his back on his own kind, he left the magical Ivory Tower where cruel witches and warlocks rule, a decision that cost him the right to practice magic. And if he disobeys, his punishment—execution—will …