Sunday, June 30, 2013

Cover Reveal Sign-Ups: INDIGO by Fiauna Lund

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Title: Indigo
Author: Fiauna Lund
Expected Release Date: September, 2013
Publisher: Rhemalda Publishing
Genre: Fiction | Young Adult

When Brit Kavanagh was a baby her mother disappeared, but not before she gave her daughter wings—sewn into her skin with needle and thread.

Seventeen years later, Brit’s quiet, protected life is turned upside-down when her father dies, leaving her in the care of relatives she hardly knows. Almost from the moment she arrives in her new home, Brit is haunted by the terrifying apparition of a banshee and disaster strikes wherever she goes. From a near-drowning experience to a house fire at a crowded party, no one around her is safe.


Brit is desperate to unravel the mysteries behind her wings and the curse of the banshee before someone else gets hurt. The only person who can help her is Gentry O’Neill, a handsome lifeguard who knows more than he’s telling. With Gentry’s help, Brit must embark on a journey of discovery that will lead her through her mother’s troubled past, her father’s dark secrets, and the horrifying truth of her own existence.
Author of Indigo and The Sprightling Diaries because I love a good book. Runner because I love a good sweat. Mother of four because . . . well, you know.

Reading and writing have always been my passions. During my childhood I spent hours exploring the woods of rural western Pennsylvania where I first began creating stories about faeries, pixies, magic, and mystical creatures.


I met my husband, Aaron, while attending Utah State University, and later earned a degree in human services from Columbia College. I now reside in Farmington, Utah. When I am not reading, writing, or running, I spend the rest of my time caring for my four adorable children and one fat, lazy cat.

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Book Highlight + Giveaway: THE PLUNGE by Sindhu S.

Book Highlight



Love is madness…

When a thirty-something journalist Anjali meets the charismatic Siddharth, she has no intention of becoming romantically involved with him. Anjali is a strong, independent woman, angered by the man’s world she lives in and traumatised by events in her past. She has no desire to fall in love.
Anjali is certain that, after months of chatting online, when she finally meets Siddharth the charm will be broken. However, she is surprised to find herself attracted to him – and shocked when they fall into bed together on their first date. Seized by new emotions that go against everything she believes in, Anjali is caught in a battle between her head and her heart, between love and self-protection. For the first time in her life, Anjali is at the mercy of her emotions and desires…and as she plunges into an affair with a man she knows little about, she risks losing everything.
 
Set in India, The Plunge is a frank and powerful examination of modern relationships that every woman will identify with. Told with astonishing emotional insight, this debut novel will take your breath away.


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Born in 1966, Indian writer Sindhu drew inspiration for 'The Plunge' from her days as a journalist in her home country. She loves writing human-interest stories and is drawn to women centric issues.

As a child, she "had suffered from the ugly duckling syndrome", she says. She quit her job as a schoolteacher on realizing it was beyond her ability to discipline students, and switched over to journalism. She moved to the Gulf (Middle East) six years ago.

Currently based in Bahrain, she is currently working on her new book, a non-fiction on relationships, and two more projects, among them a novel set in the Middle East. 


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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Book Highlight: THE MODELISER by Havana Adams [Teaser + Giveaway]

Book Highlight



Hollywood's favourite Bad Boy and Modeliser is about to meet his match.


When Hollywood bad-boy and legendary womanizer Alex Golden’s beloved grandfather dies he returns to London, and is thrown into the path of the women from his past. There is ex-lover Tamara, a super-bitch actor who never lets anything gets in her way: until she falls head over heels in love with a powerful billionaire, that is.

Then we have Alex’s sister, Helena, who dreams of stepping out from her family’s shadow and carving out a career as a photographer.

Finally, there is Talia, Helena’s best friend, whose hopes for a career writing for the big screen are dashed when she is unfairly fired from her job in the script department on a successful soap opera.
  


Alex’s fate caught up with these three women as ambition, lust and love collide against the drama-fuelled backdrop of the film world...



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Havana Adams is a London girl who left her heart in NYC and has collected a crazy amount of air miles dashing back and forth across the pond. When she's not plotting super steamy romance novels, she works in the film and TV industry, which is the inspiration behind her first novel The Modeliser. Havana loves movies, TV, reading, sporty things and baking cakes.  

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Alex spun around to see that she was standing in the doorway to the bedroom, slowly advancing in. He watched as she reached to her side and slowly pulled down the concealed zip in her white dress. He swallowed hard.

“What are you doing?”

Isn't it obvious?” she replied as she let the dress fall to her feet and she stepped away from it, now clad only in a sheer flesh-tone thong. She reached up to unclasp her hair and Alex’s eyes were drawn to the way this movement raised her breasts. God, he had forgotten just how beautiful she was. 

He watched as she let her blonde curls fall around her shoulders and she combed her fingers through her hair. Her eyes, Alex could see, were riveted to his cock and the erection that was growing fast. 

“How do you want me?” Tamara asked her voice husky and something in Alex snapped."








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Book Blitz: WHITE CHALK by Pavarti K. Tyler [Excerpt + Giveaway]

WHITE CHALK

Literary Fiction/Coming of Age Novel with a brave look at teenage life, containing some strong adult themes to generate honest and frank conversation.

coming July 22, 2013



Publisher: Evolved Publishing
Publication Date: July 22, 2013
Genre: Literary Fiction
SubGenre: Coming of Age
Audience: Adult
Pages: 250


Chelle isn't a typical 13-year-old girl—she doesn't laugh with friends, play sports, or hang out at the mall after school. Instead, she navigates a world well beyond her years.

Life in Dawson, ND spins on as she grasps at people, pleading for someone to save her—to return her to the simple childhood of unicorns on her bedroom wall and stories on her father’s knee.

When Troy Christiansen walks into her life, Chelle is desperate to believe his arrival will be her salvation. So much so, she forgets to save herself. After experiencing a tragedy at school, her world begins to crack, causing a deeper scar in her already fragile psyche.

Follow Chelle’s twisted tale of modern adolescence, as she travels down the rabbit hole into a reality none of us wants to admit actually exists.

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EXCERPT


After a spell of silence, I slipped back inside and slid out of my shoes to avoid tracking rain through the house. In the kitchen, I grabbed a waffle from the freezer and stuck it in the toaster oven before sneaking downstairs to the utility room.

My father’s toolbox sat in the back, next to the water heater. His knife rested on the top right side of the inner shelf. As chaotic as he behaved in every other part of his life, he practically had OCD when it came to his tools. Next to the knife sat a box of razor blades. I slid two out and dropped them in my pocket before closing the box.
Upstairs, I buttered and drenched my waffle in syrup, grabbed a soda, took them back to my room, and locked the door.

My parents had gone silent. Dad probably passed out. I could not bear to think about what Ma was doing. Maybe plotting his death.

I’ll get the Draino, you get the Bleach—let’s take that fucker out!

I popped in the ear buds of my Nano and turned to the playlist full of thrashing music Cat gave me. After annihilating my waffle and draining the soda, I fished the blades out of my pocket. My arms were almost healed—soft pink skin puckered in a few spots—but soon even that would be invisible.

Instead, I pulled up my pant leg and laid my ankle across the opposite knee. A burn on the inside of my calf was healing, the scab still moist and tender. With precision, I pressed the corner of the blade into my flesh. The moment it broke the skin, a flush of joy spread across my chest and I restrained myself from digging it further into the muscle. I sliced across the scab, exposing the wound and raw flesh beneath, and pulled it across my skin, creating a three-inch incision. Blood, honey thick, bubbled to the surface before flowing together, drawn close like mercury.

My mind sparkled with light—no sound, no pain, only the perfect feeling of blade against skin, knife within flesh. Once again, the darkness within me abated and I felt free.



White Chalk (Evolved Publishing) marks Tyler’s third full length novel and promises readers familiar with her work the same mind bending experience.  Her other projects include Shadow on the Wall (Fighting Monkey Press) and Two Moons of Sera (Fighting Monkey Press).  


Shadow on the Wall has been received many awards: Winner of the General Fiction/Novel Category of the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Winner in the Fiction: Multicultural category for The 2012 USA Best Book Awards, and Finalist in the Multicultural Fiction category for the 2012 International Book Awards.


White Chalk has been hailed as “brave”, “raw”, and “destroyingly beautiful”.  In line with novels such as White Oleander, Thirteen Reasons Why and Gemma, White Chalk invites you to witness one girl’s heartrending story of confusion and desperation.





Award winning author of multi-cultural and transgressive literature, Pavarti K Tyler is an artist, wife, mother and number cruncher.


 She graduated Smith College in 1999 with a degree in Theatre.


After graduation, she moved to New York, where she worked as a Dramaturge, Assistant Director and Production Manager on productions both on and off Broadway. 

Later, Pavarti went to work in the finance industry several international law firms. She now lives with her husband, two daughters and one very large, very terrible dog. 


She keeps busy working with fabulous authors as the Director of Marketing at Novel Publicity and penning her next genre bending novel.


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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Blog Tour Sign-up's: KING'S ARTESAN (Artesans of Albia, #3) by Cas Peace





Unable to purge herself of the poison that is slowly killing her, Major Sullyan remains trapped in Andaryon.


The only thing that can save her is the Staff, which still lies buried in Taran’s cellar.


Robin Tamsen sets out on a desperate quest to recover the artifact, but the enemy is two steps ahead of him. Sonten knows where the Staff is, and he will stop at nothing to get it back.


If he does, Sullyan’s life will be forfeit and no Artesan will be safe.


The race for the Staff has begun.


Cas Peace was born in Hampshire UK, in 1957, and has lived there most of her life. Her first career was as a horse-riding instructor, and horses remain very close to her heart. She then spent 13 years working for the British Civil Service before leaving the UK to live in Italy for three years, 1991-1994. She speaks passable but by no means perfect Italian, and loves to return to Italy whenever she can.

 Cas's other great loves are anything to do with animals, especially dogs and horses, (she supports many animal charities) and also singing. Cas loves folk songs and along with her husband, who plays guitar, has performed in many a Southern England folk club. Sometimes they even asked her back!

Cas writes folk songs to accompany her fantasy novels, and offers them as free downloads from her website.



The blog tour for King's Artesan by Cas Peace is now accepting tour hosts.

The tour will take place August 15th - 22nd and will consist of reviews, author interviews and/or guest posts and a tour wide giveaway.

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Monday, June 24, 2013

Blog Tour Sign-ups: JUST BETWEEN US by J.H. Trumble



Title: JUST BETWEEN US
Author: J.H. Trumble
Publication Date: September 24, 2013
Pages: 320 pages
Publisher: Kensington
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Genre: Fiction | Romance | Contemporary

Seventeen-year-old Luke Chesser is trying to forget his spectacular failure of a love life. He practices marching band moves for hours in the hot Texas sun, deals with his disapproving father, and slyly checks out the new band field tech, Curtis Cameron. Before long, Luke is falling harder than he knew he could. And this time, he intends to play it right.

Since testing positive for HIV, Curtis has careened between numbness and fear. Too ashamed to tell anyone, Curtis can’t possibly act on his feelings. And Luke—impulsive, funny, and more tempting than he realizes—won’t take a hint. Even when Curtis distances himself it backfires, leaving him with no idea how to protect Luke from the truth.


Confronting a sensitive topic with candor and aplomb, acclaimed author J. H. Trumble renders a modern love story as sweet, sharp, and messy as the real thing, where easy answers are elusive, and sometimes the only impossible thing is to walk away.


The blog tour for JUST BETWEEN US by J.H. Trumble is now accepting tour hosts.

The tour will consist of reviews, author interviews, excerpts, guest posts, Individual giveaways and a tour wide giveaway. 
All review copies will be provided by the publisher.

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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Tour Sign-ups: RISE OF CRIDON (The Light of Epertase, #3) by Douglas R. Brown





When kings make war, innocent men die.

After Rasi’s bloody defeat at the hands of King Fice, he awakens imprisoned in the deadly grasp of the fishers.

Meanwhile, the dark wizard Tevin the Third has assumed Epertase’s throne. He believes finding Alina and stealing her Light will secure his brutal reign forever.

Alina flees with her son, Cridon, to Torick Island where the banished Teks live. But the Light has been broken and is calling Cridon back to Epertase. Tevin must be stopped, and the fate of the kingdom rests within the soul of a child.

The end of days has just begun.


Douglas R. Brown is a fantasy writer living in Pataskala, Ohio.


He began writing over five years ago as a cathartic way of dealing with the day-to-day stresses of life as a firefighter/paramedic for the Columbus Ohio Division of Fire. 

Now he focuses his writing on fantasy where he can draw from his lifelong love of the genre.

He has been married for 14 years and has a son and two dogs.



The blog tour for RISE OF CRIDON by Douglas R. Brown is now accepting tour hosts.


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