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September 13, 2014
Book Tours: Starter Day Party for The Sunken
I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for dark fantasy “The Sunken”. I hope you enjoy the tour, and I’ll be reviewing the book on October 13, at the end of the tour.
Tour Schedule
September 13th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
September 14th: Book Excerpt @ Sunshine Book Promotions
September 16th: Author Interview @ Taking Time for Mommy
September 18th: Book Excerpt @ Realm Tramper
September 20th: Book Review @ Classy Cat Books
September 22nd: Author Interview @ Karen Greco’...
September 12, 2014
Book Review: Phobic (The Forbidden Doors #1) by Cortney Pearson
Title: Phobic (The Forbidden Doors #1)
Author: Cortney Pearson
Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Paranormal
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 3 stars
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Fifteen-year-old Piper Crenshaw knows her house is strange. It’s never needed repairs since it was built in the 1800s, and the lights flicker in response to things she says. As if those things aren’t creepy enough, it’s also the place where her mother committed murder.
To prove she’s not af...
September 11, 2014
Book Tours: Promo and Excerpt for The Witchling Grows Up
About The Book
Dylan Pendragon is not what she appears to be. She appears to be a twenty something, hippy, new-age follower… When in fact she is a ninety-year-old, witchling from one of the oldest families connected with witchcraft.
She has yet to get any powers so to speak. But she is destined to be the most powerful witch of them all…
And she is a virgin.
Justice is a seven thousand years old Vampire. He is the oldest friend to his former king of their kind, Cormac O’ Heachthanna. There are thr...
Cover Reveal Party Blood Phoenix: Claimed
We’re celebrating the cover reveal for urban fantasy “Blood Phoenix: Claimed”.
Who knew immortality would be such a bitch.
Boot Camp for Vamps has a new prisoner, and Ria is testing her new world of rules and regulations, fighting her oldest nemesis—conformity. Her key battle is keeping her individuality and hiding her phoenix powers.
With an uptight mentor, an estranged werewolf, and an unlikely band of humans on her side, Ria must first survive her trials, designed to break her by a queen hell...
Mini-Review: Starters, Lies Beneath, Queen’s Choice
Time for some mini-reviews! What are mini-reviews, you ask? As the title suggests, these are short reviews, consisting of one paragraph tops, about a book. It’s a way to catch up on the books I’ve read a while ago, but never got around to reviewing.
Starters
Title: Starters
Author: Lissa Price
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian
Rating: 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
HER WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVER
Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her littl...
Cover Reveal Party The Soul Thief
The Soul Thief by Majanka Verstraete
Expected Release: November 11, 2014
Publisher: Booktrope
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal
When Riley is injured in a car crash and sees a girl stealing a boy’s soul, she’s convinced she’s hallucinating. But when she sees the same girl at the hospital later, she knows she wasn’t dreaming. That’s when Riley learns her secret heritage and who she really is: a halfling Angel of Death.
Riley must come to terms with her new reality and supernatural abilities, but befor...
September 10, 2014
Book Tours: Guest Post for Tavern on the Edge of Time
I’m hosting a guest post today for the book tour for “Tavern on the Edge of Time”. I hope you enjoy the guest post, and I’ll leave the word to author Peter Darrach now.
Why I Love (and Write) Sci-fi Novels
By Peter Darrach, author of Second Skin, Second Skin Too, and the Tavern on the Edge of Time (www.peterdarrach.com)
What child does not dream of fantastic places to color the drab everyday world all around, to people it with extraordinary creatures involved in amazing exploits? As a youth in L...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party for Troubled Spirits
I’m hosting the starter day party for the book tour for YA paranormal “Troubled Spirits”. The tour runs from September 11 to October 11. I’ll be reviewing the book on September 29. Stay tuned for the review and in the mean time, check out the other tour stops.
Tour Schedule
September 11th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
September 13th: Book Excerpt @ A Cup of Tea and a Big Book
September 14th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
September 15th: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian
Septemb...
Book Review: Bloodeye by Craig Saunders
Title: Bloodeye
Author: Craig Saunders
Genre: Dark Fiction, Horror
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 3,5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Keane Reid is tired of living. He’s bored with his very existence following the suspicious death of his wife seven years earlier. He’s not interested in TV, reading, dating or a social life.
But when he is called on a routine plumbing job at a local pub, he discovers the corpse of a young girl crucified and naile...
September 9, 2014
Book Tours: Guest Post Captain Shelby
I’m hosting a guest post for the book tour for “Captain Shelby”. I’ll leave the word to author Jesse Giles Christiansen now. I hope you all enjoy the guest post!
On Writing
I’ve been writing longer than others, and not as long as many. What do I know of it? Hardly all there is, and I shall die in the same predicament. But surely I know something, and that’s what I wish to share here.
The most important thing is not to write something, but to write something directly from the soul.
If there is a M...
