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May 17, 2015
Book Review: Empath by S. Usher Evans
Author: S. Usher Evans
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Lauren Dailey is in break-up hell.
Stuck between moving on and letting go, she puts on a brave face while crying herself to sleep at night. But when a mysterious voice promises escape from her sadness, she is suddenly transported to a new world. And in this place, the slightest touch pulls her out of her tortured...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party for Simmering
I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for erotic romance “Simmering”. I hope you enjoy the tour!
Tour ScheduleMay 17th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
May 17th: Promo Post @ Indy Book Fairy
May 19th: Book Excerpt @ Bookish Madness
May 21st: Promo Post @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
May 23rd: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog
May 24th: Book Excerpt @ BookSkater
May 26th: Book Review @ Romantic Fanatic
May 28th: Promo Post @ Books are Forever
May 30th: Guest Post @ Editor C...
May 16, 2015
Book Review: Facial by Jeff Strand
Author: Jeff Strand
Genre: Horror, Dark Fiction, Dark Humor
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Greg has just killed the man he hired to kill one of his wife’s many lovers. He’s now got a dead body in his office.
Carlton, Greg’s brother, desperately needs a dead body. It’s kind of related to the lion corpse that he found in his basement.
This is the normal part of the story.
From Jeff Strand, the author of Benjamin’s Parasite, The Sinister Mr. Corpse, and Fa...
Release Day Party Grayson

I was surprised to see the tip of a dramatic black design peeking out from under his sleeve. He seemed way too buttoned up for a tattoo. Especially the one attached to the jagged phallic point curling just below his sleeve.
He shifted his weight again and the thin white under lining of the gym shorts bulged out between his splayed thighs. The dark hair on his legs grew thicker and darker as it approached the fist sized pocket that was hanging out.
Size isn’t everything but it is...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party for Mothering Through Bipolar
I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for memoir “Mothering Through Bipolar”. The tour runs from May 16 to June 16.
Tour ScheduleMay 16th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
May 17th: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy
May 18th: Author Interview @ Author C.A. Milson
May 20th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
May 22nd: Book Review and Giveaway @ Bookish Madness
May 23rd: Book Excerpt @ The Single Librarian
May 24th: Book Excerpt @ The Book Gazette
May 25th: Book Excerp...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party for Trespass
I’m happy to host the starter day party today for the book tour for science-fiction / fantasy “Trespass”. The tour runs from May 16 to June 16.
Tour ScheduleMay 16th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
May 16th: Author Interview @ Author C.A. Milson’s Blog
May 17th: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy
May 19th: Promo Post @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
May 21st: Book Excerpt @ Editor Charlene’s Blog
May 23rd: Book Review @ Hollow Readers
May 26th: Promo Post @ Nat’s Book Nook
May 28th: Book Excerpt @...
May 15, 2015
Feature and Follow Friday (12)
Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison can Read. Each week, they ask bloggers a question they respond to in their Feature and Follow post.
I would like to be followed through Bloglovin‘.
This week’s question:
“How do you organize your books? Either at home on your bookshelves or on your reading-device, or on your bookish platform like Goodreads,Leafmarks or Booklikes.”
Well, on my bookshelves, I mostly oranize them per genre. YA goes with YA, adult with ad...
May 14, 2015
Release Day Party Trespass
Author: Mikey Campling
Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy
Three stories, separated by five thousand years, united by one deadly secret:
Somewhere, sometime, the stone is waiting.
Trespass combines gritty, edgy modern-day action with a thrilling adventure across time. Discovered over 5,000 years ago, the Darkeningstone affects everyone who finds it.
Jake was too smart to believe the rumours about Scaderstone Pit, but now he’s in more danger than he could ever hav...
Cover Reveal Party The English Brothers

When business partners suggest that a fiancee might soften Barrett English’s image over business dinners, he approaches the gardener’s daughter, Emily Edwards, for the “job” of fiancee. And while love wasn’t necessarily on Barrett’s radar, he begins to realize that Emily always has been. But will his take-no-prisoners boardroom tactics work on the heart of the woman he loves?
Buy the Book:
Amazon: http://ow.ly/G2Sjz
Apple: ht...
Book Review: Ghosts of Eden by Keith Deininger
Author: Keith Deininger
Genre: Horror, Dark Fantasy
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
A neglected and abused little girl…A hopeless drug addict…Horrifying visions of bizarre beings that may or may not be human…A haunted desert refuge that could hold the key to everything…and all of it tied together by a mysterious jar that contains the secrets of good and evil, reality and nightmares, creation and de...