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A-PDF Image to PDF – Product Review & A Children’s Novel

I’ve been working on a children’s book this week. It’s geared towards ages 3-5 and titled, “I Want to be a Princess.” As you all know, with kids books they have lots of illustrations. I paid for a monthly subscription from DepositPhotosand couldn’t be happier.

Unlike a young adult novel that is completely done in Microsoft Word, a children’s novel is a little different. You don’t want a plain white page and just adding in images doesn’t quite work the same. Especially when the images are showi...

Book Tour: The Shepherd by TW Luedke

Title: The Shepherd

Author: TW Luedke

Genre: YA Paranormal Thriller

Blurb:

Skate punks, kleptomaniacs, clairvoyant visions and reincarnation…
…THE SHEPHERD is unlike any other Young Adult novel you have ever read.

Mike Evans here. Sixteen year old skate punk squatting in a white-trash trailer park with my loser drunk Dad. Seems I lost most of my friends when Dad lost our home in foreclosure. Only Anita stuck by me. Worse, I keep having strange clairvoyant visions of things that always come true.

The...

Release Day Blitz: Isaura (Aberrant 3) by Ruth Silver

Title: Isaura (Aberrant 3)

Author: Ruth Silver

Publisher: Patchwork Press/Lazy Day Publishing

Published On: December 4th, 2013

Cover Art:Erica Crouch (paperback), Lazy Day Publishing (eBook)

Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis:

With Joshua’s recent disappearance, Olivia has little choice but to head into the dangerous Gravelands as the new government wrestles with fixing the damage to society. Joining forces with her estranged father and a girl from Haven, they go on a s...

December YA Book Reviews

December New Releases

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Review: Pawn by Aimee Carter

Pawn by aimee carter
Series: The Blackcoat Rebellion
on December 1, 2013
Buy the Book • Genres: dystopian, young adult
Pages: 352
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased
Goodreads

For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in the country.


If she says yes, Kitty will be Masked—surgically transformed into Lila Hart,...

GHBT Book Blast: Gemini the Heir by Kristen DaRay

Gemini the Heir
Gemini Book # 2
By-Kristen DaRay
Expected Publication Date- December 1st, 2013
Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Just a year ago, I thought I was an ordinary human, and I gave up everything on Earth to save the people I loved. I have become the Lenai of Emréiana, making me the heir to the Emréian throne. It also makes me in charge of defeating the Bremoir, a race that has been consuming other worlds. If I can’t stop them, the universe is doomed.

Then there is Aaronmon, my betrothed. We hav...

GHBT Book Blitz: This Reckless & Unreasonable Love by Kayley J. Higgins

This Reckless & Unreasonable Love
By- Kayley J. Higgins
Published By- SideStreet Cookie Publishing

Esmeralda Grant, or Esme as her friends know her, has spent all of high school waiting to get out of her house and live with her boyfriend Peter Campbell. Away from her drug addict mother and her abusive alcoholic boyfriend. Away from the hopeless life she’s lead. Then her world suddenly changes.
Esme and Peter go see a local band play one Saturday night and the last song they play changes her. Th...

Review: The Iron Queen (Daughters of Zeus 3) by Kaitlin Bevis

I received this book for free from tour host in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

The Iron Queen by Kaitlin Bevis
Series: Daughters of Zeus #3
on May 17, 2013
Buy the Book • Genres: Fantasy, young adult
Pages: 196
Format: eBook
Source: tour host
Goodreads

Life is hell for Persephone. Zeus will stop at nothing to gain access to the living realm and the Underworld, and as the only living god with a right to both, Persephone’s...

Review: Daughter of the Earth and Sky

I received this book for free from tour host in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Daughter of the Earth and Sky by Kaitlin Bevis
Series: Daughters of Zeus #2
on December 21, 2012
Buy the Book • Genres: Fantasy, young adult
Pages: 228
Format: eBook
Source: tour host
Goodreads

Some vows can never be broken.


Persephone thought she could go back to her normal life after returning from the Underworld. She was wrong.


The goddess Ap...

Review: Persephone by Kaitlin Bevis

Persephone by Kaitlin Bevis
Series: Daughters of Zeus #1
on July 6, 2012
Buy the Book • Genres: Fantasy, young adult
Pages: 237
Format: eBook
Source: ARC (advanced reader copy)
Goodreads

There are worse things than death, worse people too


The “talk” was bad enough, but how many teens get told that they’re a goddess? When her mom tells her, Persephone is sure her mother has lost her mind. It isn’t until Boreas, the god of winter, tries to abduct her that she realizes her mother was telling the...