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February 25, 2016
Outrageous Book Blast
Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume I: Rise to Richesby Neal Katz
Publication Date: October 1, 2015
Top Reads Publishing
Hardcover, Paperback, Ebook; 344 Pages
Series: The Victoria Woodhull Saga (Vol I)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Historical fictionalized account of Victoria Woodhull’s rise to presidential candidate and wealth, coming from poverty and abuse.
What compels a woman and her youngest sister to overcome abject poverty and violent abuse to grow up to defy convention and...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Daughter of Ravenswood Series
I’m hosting the starter day party today for urban fantasy / paranormal suspense “Daughter of Ravenswood Series”. The tour runs from February 25 to April 25.
Tour ScheduleFebruary 25th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
February 25th: Promo Post @ Stormy Night Reviewing
February 25th: Promo Post @ Tome Tender
February 26th: Book Excerpt @ Leigh Anderson Romance
February 26th: Book Excerpt @ Bibliophile Mystery
February 29th: Promo Post @ Illuminite Caliginosus
March 2nd: Book Excerpt @ Arc...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Big Mike and Minnie On The Run
I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for romantic suspense “Big Mike and Minnie On The Run”. The tour runs from February 25 to March 25.
Scroll down to participate in the giveaway!
Tour ScheduleFebruary 25th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
February 25th: Promo Post @ Stormy Night Reviewing
February 27th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
February 29th: Author Interview @ Editor Charlene’s Blog
March 1st: Promo Post @ The Single Librarian
March 2nd: Guest Post...
February 24, 2016
Book Review: Sanctum (Asylum #2) by Madeleine Roux
Title: Sanctum (Asylum #2)
Author: Madeleine Roux
Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Mystery
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 2 stars
Purchase: Amazon
In this haunting, fast-paced sequel to the New York Times bestselling photo-illustrated novel Asylum, three teens must unlock some long-buried secrets from the past before the past comes back to get them first. Featuring found photographs, many from real vintage carnivals, Sanctum is a mind-bending reading experience that blurs the lines between past a...
February 23, 2016
Book Review: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Title: Red Queen
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
This is a world divided by blood – red or silver.
The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.
That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the m...
February 22, 2016
Teaser Tuesdays (39)
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. In this meme, we grab our current read, open it to a random page and share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page with our readers.
Click HERE to view all my ‘Teaser Tuesdays‘ posts.
Here is my teaser:
“I don’t know,” I answer. “Ask one of them.”
“Them” being the ghosts that surround us, each intent on their own journey. A few seventeenth-century women wander past with market baskets…Why do they haunt this squar...
Book Excerpt from Masquerade
Introducing… Hannah Fielding
Portrait of Hannah Fielding and photos of where she writes.
Hannah Fielding is an incurable romantic. The seeds for her writing career were sown in early childhood, spent in Egypt, when she came to an agreement with her governess Zula: for each fairy story Zula told, Hannah would invent and relate one of her own. Years later – following a degree in French literature, several years of travelling in Europe, falling in love with an Englishman, the arrival of two bea...
Book Review: After the Woods by Kim Savage
Title: After The Woods
Author: Kim Savage
Genre: Young Adult, Thriller, Contemporary
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 2 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Would you risk your life to save your best friend?
Julia did. When a paroled predator attacked Liv in the woods, Julia fought back and got caught. Liv ran, leaving Julia in the woods for a terrifying 48 hours that she remembers only in flashbacks. One year later, Liv seems bent on se...
Release Blitz Improbables
About the Book 
Title: Improbables
Author: Jonathan Charles Bruce
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Abigail Wren’s new life fresh out of college is dull, even with her (almost) dream job at the local newspaper. The only real excitement she can get is found between the pages of an endless stream of paranormal romance novels she can’t help but love. Then, on a snowy night in December, Abigail catches a glimpse of what could only be described as a werewolf. Enamored with the possibility, her investigati...
Book Review: The Horse List by Anna Lores
Title: The Horse List
Author: Anna Lores
Genre: Erotic Romance / Romantic Suspense
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Recently divorced from an abusive husband still intent to control her, Ava Black has two weeks before she moves back to her conservative hometown.
Encouraged by her best friend, she resurrects the wish list she started as a young girl when her number one desire was her ver...
