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October 27, 2013
The Cowgirl Ropes A Billionaire by Cora Seton
Bella Chatham will lose everything – her veterinary practice, her animal shelter, and even her home – if she can’t find another source of income, fast. So when her best friend signs her up for the hot new reality television show, Can You Beat a Billionaire, Bella accepts the challenge and hopes against hope she can win the ten million dollar prize. If she doesn’t, it’s bye-bye pet clinic and shelter, bye-bye Chance Creek, Montana, and hello to marriage to the billionaire for a year! Evan Mortimer, billionaire, can’t believe he’s reduced to competing in a television contest to win a wife. Unfortunately, it’s the only foolproof way to secure his position as head of Mortimer Innovations. At least he’ll be able to dump his “spouse” at the end of the year; he’s much too busy to be tied down to a country bumpkin cowgirl. Bella doesn’t expect her adversary to be handsome – or funny, or compassionate – but Evan’s all three, and he’s proving a tough competitor, too. When they end up sharing a tent – and a sleeping-bag – her body betrays her with a longing so deep it cuts her to the core. Still, this cowgirl must stay strong. If Evan uncovers her secret fears, he’ll use them to win the contest – and then he’ll own her for a year. She’ll be out of luck, out of cash, and stuck being Mrs. Mortimer until he kicks her to the curb. Too bad she can’t decide which is worse – winning the show and losing Evan forever, or losing the show and only being his temporary wife. Evan can’t believe he’s falling for the one woman who doesn’t want him. This cowgirl’s not impressed by his money, his name, or his inability to sleep in a tent with her for an entire night, but every look and touch she gives him sends his desire through the roof. With a director determined to use his claustrophobia to make him look like a fool, and an adversary so sexy he can hardly see straight, he’ll need all his savvy to come out on top. Too bad he’s going to lose no matter how this show turns out. If he beats Bella, he’ll destroy the first woman he’s ever loved. If he doesn’t beat her, it’s bye-bye Mortimer Innovations. Will either of them remember in time that it’s not who wins or who loses – it’s how they play the game that really counts?
Series: Cowboys of Chance Creek
Paperback: 306 pages
Publisher: One Acre Press (October 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 192703647X
ISBN-13: 978-1927036471
My thoughts:
This is book 4 of the Cowboys of Chance Creek series. I have read them all and they get better as each title comes about.
Bella is the Veteran of Chance Creek she takes care of the pets the town folks love, cats, dogs etc. She is running out of money to help take care of the shelter. She hasn’t asked anyone for help as she is afraid to. Her helper Heather has entered her into a contest where she could win Ten billion dollars. Evan is the owner of Mortimer Innovations. He needs a wife for a year to keep the company for himself or his little brother gets to take over. With nothing left he gets his secretary to get him on the show.
Bella and Evan face off on the contest for 5 days. Neither one wanting to lose or lose their hearts to each other. During the contest they encounter some secrets they both share and some tender moments. The author did a wonderful job with the character development. You would feel the tension between the characters and the hint of love.
I enjoy reading this series and look forward to the next one.
Thank you Netgalley for allowing me to review this book for an honest review
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October 23, 2013
October Issue of BTS Magazine
Check the October issue of BTS Book Reviews magazine. The talented Kristine Painter is this month’s cover author. We highlighted her House of Camarre’ series with her insight into the series and a sneak peek into Last Blood. Our features included 11 other authors such as Alexander Ivy, Diane Duvall and Victoria Dannan.
Each month our columns are: Chic Trends in Romance by Sandra Bunino The Scrying Eye by Kelly Hudson Sex & the Single Woman by Nicole Morgan Heat Diva by Nikki McCarver The Lowdown with Laurie by Laurie Garrison
Reviews We have 38 reviews in the emag and over 160 as of October for the btsemag.com website. www.btsemag.com
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October 22, 2013
Announcing the Scandalous One Day Sale !!
Announcing the Scandalous One Day Sale!!
All of our Scandalous books are on sale TODAY ONLY for just $0.99 each. That means you can grab all of these great stories for less than $22!!
To celebrate, our fabulous Scandalous Authors have put together a scavenger hunt with a Kindle Fire as the prize. Hop on over to the event page to join in the fun!!
Scandalous historical doesn’t mean antiquated! Passion and romance are exciting in any era. And torrid love affairs are even more illicit when social mores forbid the entanglement. These stories are bold, sexy, and heartfelt, and can be funny, action-packed, mysterious, dramatic, but above all…scandalous.To find out more about our titles, chat with authors, participate in special events, and to find out what books you’ll be coveting next, visit the Entangled website, follow us on Twitter, like our Facebook page, and join our Book Club!!
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October 17, 2013
Nimli Fall Giveaway
Come enter for your chance to win.
This giveaway is a special Nimli Fall Giveaway that includes 5 total prizes – 4 that include 4 different items from our top Nimli brands + 1 wild card prize on Halloween. The total prizes are valued at over $1000 & have a total of 9 different brands featured. The prizes can be viewed at www.nimli.com/blog/nimli-fall-giveaway.
Each week the prize is a combination of 4 items from our top Nimli brands. The wild card winner will receive one rug of their choice from Domestic Construction.
HOW TO ENTER: You can enter the giveaway by liking our Nimli Facebook fan page, following our Nimli boards on Pinterest or following Nimli on twitter. Please link all entrants to http://nimli.com/blog/nimli-fall-giveaway to enter the giveaway on our site via Rafflecopter.
Go now and enter for your chance to win.
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October 15, 2013
BTSemag offers goodies to Bloggers & Authors
BTS Book Reviews emag would like to invite you to become a member of our BTS Promotions Team. Bloggers are our best way to promote and we appreciate each one that has helped us. If you already post for us, or if you join our team, these are the benefits we offer as a thank you:
If you do not want to be a part of the Promotions team you can still sign up for the Media Kit and monthly prize
$25 Gift Card (1 winner per month)
The monthly drawing for $25 to anyone signed up for the Media Kit will be on the 20th by 9pm. So get your posts up because if we draw your name, we will check to see if the emag is up on you blog or website. Anyone signing up for the Media Kit after the drawing time will be eligible for the next month’s drawing.
First to Know Daily Blog FREE Dates
First to know of FREE interview spots
First to know if we need any FREE feature spots in the eMag
Info: http://btsemag.com/community/monthly-media-kit-team/
Sign Up: http://btsemag.com/community/media-kit-of-the-month/
We also have a Refer a Friend program. Once you are a member and followed have posted the emag, if you refer a blogger then you will be eligible for a drawing for a free 1/4 pg ad in the magazine. The winner can showcase their blog or author/bloggers can showcase a book.
For those who are also authors we wanted to let you know about free promo we have for authors and prizes for authors and bloggers.
Go to www.btsemag.com on right side bar. We have Free Book Depository and also Book Bargain for your books that are $2.99 & below.
We also have other free promo for authors. Our FB groups in all genres, where authors are welcome to post their books or info anytime as long as they don’t take over the group with posts.:)
We also would love more likes and twitter followers
https://twitter.com/BTShowcase
https://www.facebook.com/BtsBookReviews
We would love it if you shared this with your friends, and please take advantage of our free promo.
Those who join the BTS Promotions Team will also be eligible for swags, random surprise prizes from BTS, parties, your own FB group to commiserate with your team members, interviews on btsemag.com, and a ‘BTS Promotions
Team Member of the Month’. The winner of this honor will get their photo and link on the website or if they wish their blog banner.
We will also have members of the team writing articles for the emag and we will make this into a column. A wonderful way for the team to get involved. We have so much to offer and what do you have to loose? Nothing it is a win win for us all.
Please email me and let me know you would like to be on the team.
Thank you and look forward to seeing in on your team!
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October 14, 2013
Wil Child Hop
Directs hoppers to all of your sites a Rafflecopter giveaway
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October 2, 2013
Getting Rowdy by Lori Foster
GETTING ROWDY
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, LORI FOSTER PROVES THAT “GETTING ROWDY” MAY BE MUCH HARDER THAN EXPECTED.
Lori Foster
From New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster, comes the third book in her new Love Undercover series, GETTING ROWDY (HQN Books; October 2013; $7.99 U.S./$8.99 CAN.).
An alpha hero’s attraction to the one woman he can’t have could draw him into a killer’s snare.
Charismatic bar owner Rowdy Yates isn’t the kind of man women say no to. So when he approaches waitress Avery Mullins, he fully expects to get her number. However, the elusive beauty has her reasons for keeping her distance— including a past that might come back to haunt them both.
Avery spends her nights working for tips…and trying to forget the secret Rowdy is determined to unearth. But when history threatens to repeat itself, Avery grows to rely on Rowdy’s protective presence. As the sparks between them ignite, she will be forced to choose between the security she’s finally found…and the passion she’s always wanted.
GETTING ROWDY
Lori Foster
HQN Books; October 2013
400 pages; $7.99 U.S./$8.99 CAN.
ISBN-13: 978-0-373-77779-2
www.LoriFoster.com
Lori Foster
Since first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a Waldenbooks, Borders, USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly and New York Timesbestselling author. She also received the Romantic Times “Career Achievement Award” for Series Romantic Fantasy and Contemporary Romance.
Lori believes it is important to give back to the community as much as possible, so she routinely arranges events among authors and readers to gather donations for various organizations.
My thoughts:
If you have not read the first two books you might want to do that. We meet Rowdy in the first book which is Pepper’s brother. IN the second book we see where Rowdy is flirting with Avery quite well I might add. She is working in the bar he owns.
Rowdy has spent most of his time running from the worse people anyone could imagine. All he wants is good sex and as you might guess a lot of it. But with Avery he can picture more then just a few nights of sex. He knows Avery is hiding something and he must find out what.
Different things take place and a lot of us to get involved in.
I enjoyed the story. Lori’s writing takes a reader in from the first page until the last. She has everything for everyone to enjoy, suspense, secrets, love, and more.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good suspense romance.
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September 23, 2013
The Sheik Retold
When first published in 1919, E.M. Hull’s The Sheik was an overnight bestseller with over fifty printings within the first two years of release. The book was also made into a silent film that catapulted its leading man, Rudolph Valentino, to superstardom. Given its huge success in its time, I have no doubt many readers will wonder at my motive in re-writing this romance classic.
As a reader, I have always found the “forced seduction”/rape-to-love trope appalling, and have never had such mixed feelings about a book as I did after reading The Sheik. It had so much to offer with its strong characters and beautiful descriptive prose, but it fell sadly short for me in so many other ways. I found the narrative too repetitive and the pace plodding. There was too much navel-gazing on the heroine’s part, and far too little actual interaction between the hero and heroine for a romance. In sum, I loved and loathed it in equal measure.
Nevertheless, this story captured my imagination and even though I had a number of other writing projects in progress, The Sheik held me hostage and absolutely refused to let me go. Once I began fantasizing about alternate scenarios, dialogue, and plot twists, I knew it was calling to me. I had no choice but to re-tell this story the way I envisioned it.
While I have taken a number of liberties in my re-telling, the main plot, characters, and descriptive passages are largely unchanged. I kept everything I loved and changed what I loathed. Although my version is not completely devoid of violence (to omit all of it would only have watered down Ahmed’s powerful alpha character), I have taken out the rape and animal abuse which I abhorred in the original. I have also thrown the bedroom door wide open.
Most important, however, is my portrayal of Diana. Even though she falls deeply in love with her captor, my version of the character stays true to her strong and self-willed nature right to the end.
While I believe The Sheik Retold will compare favorably to E.M. Hull’s The Sheik, readers of this book will be the ultimate judge.
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September 16, 2013
Downtown Cowboy by jean Blasiar
Young Brady Johnson, called the Downtown Cowboy by his friends, lives with his widowed mother in the tenement district of a mid-western city. A favorite haunt of Brady’s is the city dump, one block away, where he spends most of his time rummaging through garbage, especially the garbage dumped on Thursdays from “uptown”. One Thursday morning Brady discovers a diary written by a very depressed boy about his age. Hoping for a reward, Brady takes some of the money he has saved and rides the bus “uptown” to see if he can find the boy and return the diary. Follow Brady to the conclusion of this surprising uptown journey and into a world, he is sure, he will never belong.
Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Charles River Press (May 24, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1936185431
ISBN-13: 978-1936185436
My thoughts:
A remarkable read by Jean Blasiar. The boys and I love her Emmy Budd series and when this book arrived to us we were excited to try a new book.
Brady is a unique young man. He likes to go to the dump to see what comes from Uptown. When he finds a diary by Robert Stevens he sets off to look for the boy and lend him some help. Brady got lucky when he found the house the maid thought he was there looking for the job to help the gardener. The next day Brady gave the book to Roberts mother who was not too keen on Brady and at first did not believe his story. She let him stay to swim with Robert and he saw his diary sitting beside Brady. He asked if Brady read it and he said he did but only he did not have a step father he hated. He knew Robert could use a friend.
Brady found out some of the diary was not true Robert pretended to he had a bad step father so it would explain why he had no friends. They come up with an idea for a party to help gain Robert some friends as he explained he was not in the clique. Will the party help and what about the downtown, uptown relationship?
The story was a wonderful read. It’s nice to see people not judge and get to know the “real” person behind where they come from. Brady meets a lot of interesting kids and vice versa. The characters pop out of the page and draw you into the story. It’s heartwarming to read such an amazing story and one that can help other kids understand differences.
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September 13, 2013
The Author’s Guide to Working With Book Bloggers Review
Do you feel out of your comfort zone when dealing with book bloggers? They are the New Gatekeepers to book publishing success – but how can you tap into that source of free promotions by putting your best foot forward?
The Author’s Guide to Working with Book Bloggers combines the advice of 215 blogging professionals collected in a survey covering all aspects of communication between authors and Review Blogs. Whether you are a new author, or have many titles under your belt, let us demystify the promotion of your book on a book blog.
You’ll learn about whom and where book bloggers are, and the following:
The Query,
The Review,
The Giveaway,
The Author Interview,
The Guest Post,
The Book Blurb Excerpt and Cover Reveals and more!
File Size: 193 KB
Print Length: 169 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Barb Drozdowich; 1 edition (August 15, 2013)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00ELUROPE
My thoughts:
It makes no difference if you are a new author starting out or one that needs a refresher course. This book is wonderful and can help an author succeed with their book and promotions. Everyone writer / author would benefit from this book. There is so much information that will get you started in the right direction.
A great job by the author.
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