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Book Spotlight A Whisper of Crows

Whisper of Crows

ByJameson Hesse

Genre: Supernatural Thriller/Horror

Published Oct.2012

A supernatural thriller that questions the nature of reality, and explores the fine line between sanity and insanity. This novel does contains extreme violence, profanity, steamy sex.

Book Synopsis:

Kanaan James is a disturbed teenage boy obsessed with his childhood friend, Abigail Caulfield. A horrible car accident leaves Abigail stricken with amnesia and Kanaan, desperate for for her attention, convince...

Book Tours: Starter Day Party for Temple of Fyre

I’m hosting the starter day party for “Temple of Fyre”, a fantasy romance novel. The tour runs from April 25 to May 2. There’s also a giveaway for a print copy of the book. Scroll down to participate.

Tour Schedule

April 25th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

April 25th: Promo Post @ Nat’s Book Nook

April 26th: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy

April 28th: Author Interview @ You Interviewed

April 28th: Book Excerpt @ Books and Tales

April 30th: Promo Post @ Undercover Book Reviews

May 2nd: B...

Feature and Follow Friday (11)

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 did you come up with your blog title and address? Does it have a special meaning for you?

Well, my blog had another name first. It was just part of my main domain with my personal website and stuff, and it was just called “booklog”, which was so b...

Book Review: The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1) by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

Title: The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1)

Author: Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy

Age Group: Middle Grade

Rating: 2 stars

Purchase: Amazon

Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial.

Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.

All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean b...

Author Interview for Dead Money Run

I’m hosting an interview today for “Dead Money Run” by J. Frank James. Welcome to my blog!

1) How long have you been writing?

In college I was a reporter and photographer for the Gainesville Sun while a student at the University of Florida. That was in 1964 thru 1966. Several of my stories were picked up by the AP. In law school I was a member of the law review and I was published there as well. As a published writer of fiction, I began in 2003 and published my first book in August of 2013....

Release Day Party Something Like This

About the Book

Title: Something Like This

Author: Eileen Cruz Coleman

Genre: New Adult Romance

Twenty-three-year old Jadie Santiago has a secret.

One morning on her way to work she stops to offer a homeless man a bottle of water. As she meets the man’s eyes, Jadie instantly recognizes they belong to her father, whom she hasn’t seen since she was sixteen. Unable to accept the truth of her encounter, Jadie flees, hoping eventually to forget the experience and continue leading a normal life.

B...

Book Review: The Ghosts of Peppernell Manor by Amy M. Reade

Title: The Ghosts of Peppernell Manor

Author: Amy M. Reade

Genre: Romance, Mystery, Suspense

Age Group: Adult

Rating: 3 stars

Purchase: Amazon

Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

“Do you know what stories Sarah could tell you about the things that happened in these little cabins? They’d curl that pretty red hair of yours.”

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, beyond hanging curtains of Spanish moss, at the end of a shaded tunnel of overarching oaks, stand...

Book Tours: Starter Day Party for Nowhere Train

I’m hosting the starter day party for the book tour for new adult paranormal romance / dystopian “Nowhere Train”. The tour runs from April 23 to May 23.

Tour Schedule

April 23rd: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

April 26th: Book Excerpt and Character Interview @ Dormaine G’s Blog

April 27th: Promo Post @ Tea Talks

April 29th: Guest Post @ Mythical Books

April 30th: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy

May 2nd: Promo Post @ It’s a Reading Thing

May 4th: Author Interview @ You Interviewed

May 6th...

Waiting on Wednesday (29)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases bloggers are eagerley anticipating. These can be debut novels, sequels, eBooks,…as long as they aren’t released yet.

Click HERE to view all my ‘Waiting on Wednesday‘ posts.

I’m waiting for…

Title: The Escape

Author: Hannah Jayne

Release Date: July 1, 2015

Not everyone who goes into the woods comes out…

It was supposed to be a short hike, a way for Fletcher and Adam to kill time one...

Book Excerpt from New York Dolls

Book Excerpt

I took Josie’s hand so as not to lose her to another bouncer this time. We made it onto the dance floor, weaving through the bumpers and grinders getting low, low, low. I spotted the doorway opening to the patio, finally, up ahead past the edge of the dance floor and to the side of the roped-off VIP area. Josie and I joined the line for the patio. Almost done, I kept thinking, like passing through this one final portal would be my rite of passage out of the tornado I’d gotten mys...