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SQUEEE!!! Cover Reveal for RAINING DOWN RULES!

Raining Down Rulesby B.K. Rivers
Release Date: February 9th 2016
Genre: NA Contemporary Romance
Limitless Publishing
Summary:
Jemma Bowers hasn’t kissed anyone in over a thousand days. She knows—she’s counted.
For twenty-year-old Jemma, rules are not meant to be broken…even if she’s the one who created them.
Friendships have boundaries, relationships mean trouble, and don’t even get her started on sex.
Haunted by the death of her mother and her father’s abandonment, Jemma finds herself hungry for
something meaningful and permanent, but is afraid of what may happen if she pursues it.

Jordan Capshaw can’t fight his addiction. Not even if it will cost him his career…

When Jemma finds Jordan drunk and barefoot in the street, she convinces him to get in her car. Aside
from the fact he’s the lead singer of her favorite band and pretty much the rock star of her dreams, she
quickly realizes his addiction is a monster neither of them can control.

Who knew choosing between a rock star and a fireman could be so difficult?

Emotions run high as Jemma soon finds herself caught between the troubled rock star and her
growing affections for Vic Harper, a swoon-worthy firefighter from her past. But when her
grandmother passes away, leaving her with no other family, Jemma’s world falls apart.

To save herself from further heartbreak, she risks it all by breaking her own rules, and putting her
heart on the line.

After all, the heart just might be the biggest rule breaker of them all.

 


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  About the Author
BK Rivers grew up riding through rolling fields of grain on horseback, driving hay trucks and catching frogs in a silver creek. She traded country life for the big city when she married the love of her life, but the heart always returns to the country.

BK, her husband and three children live in the Phoenix suburbs on their own mini farm surrounded by crowing roosters and the low nicker of horses. When she’s not writing, she can be found baking anything sweet, in fact it’s been said her brownies are so good they save marriages.

The inspiration for her novels comes in many forms, but mostly from her Gotye channel on Pandora. She writes young adult and new adult novels to the beat of Gotye, Snow Patrol and many others.






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Facebook New Year's Hop & Giveaway

You’re Invited!
What's a better way to kick off 2016 than with 30 giveaways?
On January 10th join a collection of authors for a day of giveaways! We have everything from New York Times bestsellers & Amazon bestsellers, to new authors, and even a few bloggers so there will be something for everyone.
Here’s how it works:
All you have to do is visit the authors’ Facebook pages and look for the post with #NewYearHop at the top. Each author will be hosting a giveaway so follow their directions on how to enter and when you're ready follow the link they'll provide to the next author's page.
Here's the full list of participating authors:
Mia HoddellA.K. MorgenAimee McNeilLindsay Detwiler Marianne Rice Michelle Jo QuinnDebbie De LouiseSusan Mac Nicol Kat ShehataNatalina ReisA. Gorman Ottilie Weber R. Holland BK Rivers Theresa DaLayneCarissa LynchJaci WheelerCarolyn LaRocheLilly JamesAmy ReeceS ValentineAlison MelloLisa Cardiff Blissfully Bookerized Jennifer Allis Provost L.J. SealeyM.A. Stacie J.L. Drake Kim Black ES Carter
*All authors/bloggers are responsible for their own giveaways. They will be choosing the winners and sending out prizes.*
I am excited to give away one eARC copy of RAINING DOWN RULES which will be released on February 9, 2016. Winner will receive their eARC copy through their kindle email address. Here is the book blurb (cover will be released on Tuesday, January 12th!!):

Jemma Bowers hasn’t kissed anyone in over a thousand days. She knows—she’s counted.

For twenty-year-old Jemma, rules are not meant to be broken…even if she’s the one who created them. Friendships have boundaries, relationships mean trouble, and don’t even get her started on sex. Haunted by the death of her mother and her father’s abandonment, Jemma finds herself hungry for something meaningful and permanent, but is afraid of what may happen if she pursues it.

Jordan Capshaw can’t fight his addiction. Not even if it will cost him his career…

When Jemma finds Jordan drunk and barefoot in the street, she convinces him to get in her car. Aside from the fact he’s the lead singer of her favorite band and pretty much the rock star of her dreams, she quickly realizes his addiction is a monster neither of them can control.

Who knew choosing between a rock star and a fireman could be so difficult?

Emotions run high as Jemma soon finds herself caught between the troubled rock star and her growing affections for Vic Harper, a swoon-worthy firefighter from her past. But when her grandmother passes away, leaving her with no other family, Jemma’s world falls apart.

To save herself from further heartbreak, she risks it all by breaking her own rules, and putting her heart on the line.

After all, the heart just might be the biggest rule breaker of them all.

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Author Interview with C.M. McCoy

I'm so excited to share with you an author interview with C.M. McCoy, author of Eerie. EERIE is the debut novel for C.M. McCoy who is an Irish dancer and former Air Force officer living in the Great White North. Though B.S.'d in Chemical Engineering and German, she’s far happier writing stories involving Alaska and a body bag (with an awkward kiss in the mix.) While working emergency dispatch for Alaska State Troopers, she learned to speak in 10-codes, which she still does...but only to annoy her family. You can read my 5 star review of EERIE here - but beware, there are slight spoilers at the bottom of the post. If you haven't read the book, skip the spoilers! Here is a little about EERIE: Being a ParaScience freshman is a nightmare come true...

Hailey’s dreams have always been, well...vivid. As in monsters from her nightmares follow her into her waking life vivid. When her big sister goes missing, eighteen-year-old Hailey finds the only thing keeping her safe from a murderous 3,000-year old beast is an equally terrifying creature who’s fallen “madly” in love with her. Competing to win her affection, the Dream Creature, Asher, lures her to the one place that offers safety—a ParaScience university in Alaska he calls home. There, she studies the science of the supernatural and must learn to live with a roommate from Hell, survive a tunneling earworm, extract a carnivorous splinter, evade the campus poltergeists, and hope the only creature who can save her from an evil immortal doesn’t decide to kill her himself. And now, to the interview questions and answers!  BK—What point in your life did you know you wanted to be an author?

C.M. McCoy—I don't think I ever wanted to be an author. Not in a growing-up-dreaming-and-wishing way, anyway.  I wanted to be a doctor then an engineer then a pilot, but never an author. It never appealed to me as a career choice, but I have always loved writing and story-telling, though. In fact, my family are all great story-tellers, and my favorite memories are of sitting around our family camp, listening to my grandparents, my uncle, my mom, my dad and everyone, really, tell their stories.
It was a little bit of a surprise when I discovered I had a novel on my hands, because I had set out to write a story, not sure it would be a book at all. Once I realized what I'd done, guess it was too late to think about whether I wanted to be an author or not. As far as making it a career...we'll see how that goes.

BK—What motivates you to keep writing?

C.M. McCoy—This is going to sound a little weird, but bear with me. I really like how it feels to create a sentence inside a paragraph inside a chapter that has a good story "rhythm." It's a little like Irish dancing that way: when you finally get the correct order of things in the right rhythm with the proper mood, it's magical. Almost like notes that join in harmony. I can lose myself in writing the same way I lose myself in dancing.

BK—What do you find inspires you?

C.M. McCoy—Alaska is a HUGE inspiration... the people, the landscape, the weather, the dark, the northern lights... I could go on  ...the vegetation, the wildlife, the mountains, the vast expanse of complete, no-cell-phone-coverage wilderness...  Loads of fodder for my imagination here.

BK—Do you have a writing routine? What is it like?

C.M. McCoy—My routine is usually: get an idea, sprint to the nearest pen and paper or keyboard, get half a sentence down, sprint back to the toddler to see what he's just destroyed in the 5 seconds I'd left him alone, sprint back to the keyboard, type like a mad-woman, run to stop the toddler before he can scoop toilet water out of the bowl to feed his stuffed animals, run BACK to the computer to finish a thought, then clean the house, patch the drywall, put out the fire, cook dinner, and if I'm lucky, while I'm peeing, scribble down a few sentences.  <-- that's a little exaggeration.  I don't really get time to scribble down more than one sentence in the bathroom.  

BK—How do you know when your novel is ready for others to read?

C.M. McCoy—I edit and re-read at least five times before showing anyone anything. When I'm fairly sure my words won't cause an Azgoths of Kria poetry reaction, I send those words to my most-trusted, most-snarky friends, who I know will be brutally, asshole-honest about what I've written.

BK—What inspired your novel, Eerie?

C.M. McCoy—Eerie came mostly from a going-to-sleep story that I used to tell myself about creatures that were made of energy. The rest of the story came from the Aether ;-)

BK—What was your favorite part of Eerie to create?

C.M. McCoy—Tooooooo hard to pick just one. I enjoyed writing so many aspects of this book, and it came together in weaved layers, so it's hard to pin-point just one part to call my favorite. Same with the characters. I do remember the funeral was the toughest scene to write. I worked on it for weeks, literally.  And I really did love how it finally came out, but sadly, I ended up cutting it from the book to decrease my word count.

BK—What is in store for the characters of Eerie?

C.M. McCoy—Love and a whole lot of weirdness.

BK—Tell us about your journey to publishing Eerie.

C.M. McCoy—How much time do you have?  lol!  Seriously, the journey felt long and arduous. I learned so much about the craft, about the legalities of publishing, about the market, the mind-set of agents, the value of making connections at conferences, the danger of taking advice from someone who's not invested in you, the "rules" of the industry and when to thumb your nose at them... I wrote a rather lengthy blog post about my journey and a handful of the things I learned. It's on my website and aptly titled "A Journey to Publication." 

BK—What will we see next from C.M. McCoy?

C.M. McCoy—Hopefully, we'll be seeing a feature article in a national magazine. More hopefully, that article will highlight Eerie.

BK—What is the best piece of writing advice you've ever received?

C.M. McCoy—Honestly? There's been a lot of good advice, and it's difficult to pick which piece was best. I tried to capture as many of the good pieces of advice I've come across as I could remember at the time when I wrote my "Journey to Publication" blog post. I'll just mention one thing that I didn't mention in my blog, but it's not fair to say it's the best. I thought is was very good advice for me, my situation, my novel, and the publication climate at the time I was pitching. My disclaimer is that this may not be good advice for everyone: Make an interesting book trailer.
The reason that was such great advice for me--and I can't even remember now who suggested that...I think it was Marissa Campbell, but it might've been LS Hawker, both of whom are authors at Inklings Literary, which represents my fiction. Making the trailer forced me to pitch my book in an audio-visual-slideshow way with short plot snippets written out. It helped me form a PR strategy and teasers to help promote my book, which for me, was a very difficult story to sum up.  I wished I'd done that earlier, when I was pitching to agents, so that I hadn't sounded like such a rambler in my queries.
There is one worst piece of advice that sticks out in my mind, and I know exactly where it came from, but not who served it up. I'd entered a couple contests through Romance Writers of America, which promised constructive feedback from experience, published writers. What I got was a comment on my first 25 pages, which read, "I can tell you're a novice writer who needs a lot of workshop time. Sometimes it's easier to scrap what you've written and start over than to fix all that's wrong with it."  And that was it. Nothing specific. Just a failing score and a suggestion to shit-can a book that has just sold out in paperback on Amazon. 

BK—Who are your favorite authors?

C.M. McCoy—My favorite author is always the writer of the most recent 5-star book or books that I've read. Right now, I'm hooked on Avelynn by Marissa Campbell, and I don't even like historical fiction...at least, I thought I didn't. There are two other books I can't get out of my head at the moment. One is Charming by Elliott James. The other is A Bedtime Story by LC Moon.

BK—What were your favorite reads of 2015?

C.M. McCoy—My Edgar Allan Poe book. LOVE his stories!  I also read DRACULA every year, and it keeps getting better :-)  I loved GREY and also an unpublished manuscript one of my CP's wrote.

BK—Other than writing, what are some of your hobbies?

C.M. McCoy—Irish Dancing keeps me sane. Not sure if that counts as a hobby or therapy at this point.

BK—What's it like living in Alaska?

C.M. McCoy—Read Eerie and find out ;-)

  So glad C.M. McCoy could join us for an interview, and if you haven't read EERIE yet, go and grab yourself a copy, you won't be disappointed!  Where Can I Buy EERIE?

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0176M19RM
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eerie-C-M-McCoy-ebook/dp/B0176M6MA6
Amazon Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/Eerie-C-M-McCoy-ebook/dp/B0176M19RM
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/9781623422332
Apple iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/eerie/id1052918810
BAM: http://www.booksamillion.com/search?query=9781623422332
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/eerie-17
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/C_M_McCoy_Eerie?id=yfDPCgAAQBAJ

Book Review: Catching Fox

From author Aimee McNeil, comes an emotionally driven story about one girl's unwavering love for a troubled boy named Fox, and his father's redemption.

CATCHING FOX is Aimee McNeil's third novel. She was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she continues to live today with her husband and three children. She is a stay-at-home mother that loves every colorful moment with her family. Aimee spends most of her free time indulging in her love of writing.

You can also find her lost in the pages of a good book, or making a mess with her paints. Aimee loves to explore anything that promotes creativity. It is one of the many reason she enjoys writing.


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Book Blurb:
A chance meeting between two young souls is all it took...

When Adalynne Fairweather was just a child, her entire life had already been planned. From Ivy League schools to a career in law, adventure was the one thing out of her reach. That was until a boy with bright green eyes and a monster truck t-shirt wandered into her back yard, giving the adventure she longed for.

Refuge can be found in the most unlikely places…

Damon Knight’s abusive home life left him longing for a childhood he never had—until he wandered into Adalynne’s yard. She took his hand, smiled at him, and even gave him a nickname. Fox. The woods became their escape—a place to flee from reality. He discovered music through Adalynne’s piano, and not long after that, she gave him a guitar. Little did he know that gift would change his life forever.  

Years later, their age is not the only thing that’s changed...

Adalynne’s love for Fox took on a life of its own. As they begin to build their lives, her heart aches for him in ways she can’t understand. As they slowly begin to drift apart, Adalynne becomes more desperate to cling to their secret romance. But Fox is no longer the bright-eyed child from the woods. Her shy, beautiful Fox has grown into a dark, troubled man with a guitar. And when her last attempt to salvage their relationship breaks Adalynne’s heart, catching Fox a second time seems just out of her reach.  

“You remind me of a fox because you are quick, quiet, and…beautiful.”

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Review:
4 / 5 stars


Sex: Yes, although for a new adult novel, the sex scenes are pretty tame compared to some.

Language: Several F-Bombs, and other mild language.

Violence: Nope, though there is some yelling.

Drugs/Alcohol: There is drinking, and some drug use by the male main character, Fox.

Nudity: Yes, it's mentioned a couple times.

What I Loved: I loved the way Fox and Addie fell in love as children. I loved how the tension grew and grew until Addie and Fox exploded, pulling at my emotions. I loved how Addie helped Fox's father and the relationship that grew because of it. I loved how much Fox loved Addie.

Why 4 Stars? I'm a reader who enjoys reading flowing sentences, and I found the writing a little choppy - not that a little choppy is a bad thing, it's just not the reading style I love. I did also find the ending a little predictable, but was so glad it ended the way it did.

What I want more of: I can't say Catching Fox left me wanting. All the pieces were tied up neatly in a pretty little bow and the ending was just about how I would have wanted it.

Who Would Like This? I think Catching Fox would appeal to most anyone who reads NA books. There isn't one thing I can think of that would deter me from recommending this book. Your emotions are tugged, relationships are tested, relationships are healed and more than that, the characters truly grow.

Where Can I Buy CATCHING FOX?

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>>>>SPOILER ZONE—DO NOT read past this if you don't want to know what happens in the book!<<<<




Seriously...stop reading if you haven't read the book!!






Who doesn't love when a boy and girl meet and fall in love as children? Their love is innocent and sweet, and as it unfolds in Catching Fox, you can't help but want to see Addie and Fox together. Oh my gosh, when she finally gets to attend high school as a senior and sees Fox with his girlfriend, I was heartbroken! His admission to Addie that he never wanted her to know the part of him that wasn't "Fox" but Damon, made you want to slap him as the same time your heart was melting. It was so obvious how much he didn't like who he was and how much it hurt him to think he would never be good enough for Addie.

When we learn that for years he showed up at Addie's home to talk with her father you just fall in love with Fox even more. He tried so hard to prove he was worthy of loving Addie, yet time and time again her parents turned him down. Add that to his own father's abuse, it's a wonder Fox was half the man he turned out to be.

Addie's love for Fox keeps her from loving anyone else, and it consumes her. It's hard to read Fox blow up at her when she comes to him, but yet you can tell how much he's struggling to hold on. It's heartbreaking and some would wonder why Addie won't give up on Fox, but as her father says, "The heart loves who the heart loves."

I did think the ending was a little predictable with the concert and Fox being there and singing to Addie. But what I loved was the fort he had moved to their new house, it was sweet and very thoughtful. I also loved how much Fox loved his and Addie's son in the epilogue - it was very clear and touching.


>>>>If you love stories about young love and how it evolves, grab CATCHING FOX today!<<<<