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Guest post by Suzanne Selfors + Giveaway
Today we are very excited to welcome Suzanne Selfors to Book Lovers Inc! Of course we’re excited, we’re all hyped up on lots of yummy chocolate after reading her delightfully delicious chocolate-covered fairy tale, The Sweetest Spell (review later today). But before the review, Suzanne is here to share with us how her desperate search for a midnight chocolate fix (can’t we all relate?) led to this scrumptious story.
And if you’re craving a little chocolate fairy tale of your own, just answer Suzanne’s question for a chance at to win your very own copy of The Sweetest Spell!
Love + Chocolate = The Sweetest Spell
By Suzanne Selfors
How to take the fairy-tale formula of peasant girl meets prince and make it even more romantic? In my opinion, you add chocolate.
There are few things in life that stir such passion as a square of dark chocolate. I crave it. I LOVE it.
I’d …
17 Sep 2012 The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? Cover Quiz + Giveaway
Welcome to our new edition of The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me? This week we have a Game for you! Since you enjoyed the last game we played, we thought we could come up with something fun but different. Last time there was only 1 good answer for each question, but this time we’ll give room to YOUR knowledge of covers. You can answer with the covers YOU know, in whichever genre you want. The game is simple… We tell you a requirement (a thing, an animal, an object, a word in the title…) and you have to come up with a book cover that fits the bill. Of course that alone would be too easy 😉 So you can earn more points depending on the level of difficulty.
What can you Win?
Prize is a 15$ book depo shopping spree.
How to play?
Below you can find 17 challenges. Each …
17 Sep 2012 
Comments Off on ARC Review: Gold Digger by Aleksandr Voinov ARC Review: Gold Digger by Aleksandr Voinov
Format Read: e-book provided by publisher through NetGalley
Length: 127 Pages
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Release Date: September 17th 2012
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Formats Available: Ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Riptide Publishing
Book Blurb:
Not all that glitters is gold.Nikolai Krasnorada leads the life of a corporate nomad. Working for a gold explorations company, he’s never put down roots, and he likes it that way. Roots can be dangerous, as everyone from his “man-hating” sister to his manipulative mother to his war-traumatized father has proven.
But when his CEO sends him to Toronto to strike a deal with LeBeau Mining, Nikolai meets Henri LeBeau, crown prince to the resources conglomerate and inveterate flirt. Sparks fly immediately, despite the business deal that threatens to go sour and Nikolai’s own reluctance to give Henri false hope about him being Mr. Right. He’s barely come to terms with his bisexuality, and getting involved with Henri would …
Sunday Cravings
Happy Sunday my beloved Book Lovers all around the world! How wonderful was your weekend this time?
It’s Sunday, so you all know what that means: time for some serious lusting after certain releases! Let’s start 🙂
Lea: Because I Am Yours by Beth Kery
Secrets are exposed, love is challenged, and the future is compromised, when Francesca and Ian face an inevitable decision that will change their lives forever as national bestselling author Beth Kery’s Because You Are Mine comes to a spellbinding conclusion…
From the moment Ian and Francesca first met, the attraction was mutual—a purely, exquisitely physical charge that ignited between them. It couldn’t be ignored—only indulged, evolving into a bond of pleasurable subjugation. But Francesca’s open sensuality left her wanting more. Getting it from a man as mysterious and resolute as Ian was a challenge she never anticipated.
Francesca knows there’s only one way for them to …
The Chocolate Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
I bet this title got your attention, right? 😀 Well don’t hate me but you know where I am? In the capital of chocolate: Brussels! It’s my middle sister’s graduation and I flew here for a long weekend of celebration. And any trip to Brussels wouldn’t be complete without the obligatory waffle and chocolate tasting 😉
So sending you lots of virtual chocolate from here and until I get back here are this week’s winners:
Congrats to
the lucky winner of an ebook copy of Double Down and Inside Bet by Katie Porter is:
June
the lucky winner of one of Kaily Hart’s backlist books (winner’s choice) is:
Carin W
the lucky winner of an ebook copy of Until There Was You by Jessica Scott is:
Starla Young
the lucky winner of winner’s choice of book by either by Amanda Ashley or Madeline Baker + a cover flat for Desire the Night and …
15 Sep 2012 Comments Off on The International Giveaways Café (59) The International Giveaways Café (59)
Welcome back to this week’s list of great *bookish* giveaways from around the world. New giveaways are added in every week, so make sure you check ’em all out and enter your own info, if you too are hosting an *international* book giveaway. We love to spread the word 😉
Also, 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 shown. (Please use the URL for the contest post, …
Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post! We have news that the first publisher to remove Agency pricing is HarperCollins’ price drop, more YA adaptations and movie news as well as our usual covers and books to watch out for!
HarperCollins has dropped Agency pricing and will be allowing discounts and other associated special offers with retailers this week, they are the first publisher to undergo this and I suspect that Hachette and Simon and Schuster will follow suit soon since they have also settled with the DOJ. Macmillan, Penguin and Apple who have refused to settle will be heading for trial sometime next year to challenge this ruling.
And talking about HarperCollins – one of their imprints, Harper Voyager which releases SF and Fantasy titles, are looking for open and unagented manuscript submissions for a two week period. In the weeks between the 1st and the 14th of October, they will …
14 Sep 2012 Dual Review: The Last Victim by Karen Robards
The Last Victim by Karen Robards
Format Read: e-book provided by NetGalley courtesy of Publisher for Review
Length: 336 Pages
Genre: Paranormal Romantic Thriller
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Publisher: Random House
Formats Available: Hardcover, Nook, Kindle
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Nook, IndieBound, Kindle
Book Blurb:
Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not.
A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. Obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes, Charlie desires little else from life—no doubt because when she was sixteen, she herself survived a serial killer’s bloodbath: A man butchered the family of Charlie’s best friend, Holly, then left the girl’s body on a seaside boardwalk one week later.
Because of the information Charlie gave police, the Boardwalk Killer went underground. She kept to herself her eerie postmortem visions of …
pssssssst you know what?
Guess what? Today is Anna’s Birthday!!! *g* It’s time to celebrate! We’ve decided to make this an educational post. How many do you recognize? You can’t drink or open presents until you got them all right 😉
Boldog Születésnapot! gelukkige verjaardag! joyeux anniversaire!
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! να τα εκατοστήσεις!
buon compleanno! lá Breithe sona duit! 生日快乐 !
felix dies natalis! ra whanau koa! feliz aniversário! С днем рождения !
สุขสันต์วันเกิด! grattis på födelsedagen! hyvää syntymäpäivää
Happy birthday Anna!!!
We all hope you’ll have a fantastic day with cake and presents and an awesome party. Can I bring my teddy to the b-day party?
Lea: Anna!!!! Happy, Happy Birthday to You. I hope your day is filled with love and laughter, prezzies, chocolate and CAKE!!! Indulge & enjoy! (((Hugs)))
And it was delicious!
Caro: O Canada! Our home and…wait wrong song. Happy birthday to youuuuuuuu! Happy Birthday to you. Happy birthday to …
Bookish Rant: The Buying and Selling of Book Reviews
I wish I had a dollar for every person who sent me a link to the New York Times article about paying for book reviews. You know the one, “The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy” from August 25. There’s a slight irony in the NYT publishing it, since no one really knows exactly how they compile their bestseller list, but I digress.
The things that keep circling in my mind about the whole “paying for reviews” thing go like this:
1. It feels like there are more books out there than ever
2. It is definitely harder to get people’s attention for anything than it used to be
3. Most people pick the next book they are going to read because they’ve already read that author (96% based on the Goodreads May Newsletter) so how does a newbie author get on readers’ radar?
4. Book Blogging is a labor of love, …
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