Thursday, January 31, 2013

Printed Books Giveaway Hop

Printed Books Giveaway Hop
February 1st to 7th

FOUR BOOKS - ONE WINNER!



I have another blog in this hop.  Visit Clean Teen Reads for your chance to win the complete Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan

THE HOP
Printed Books Giveaway Hop is hosted by Kathy at I Am A Reader Not A Writer  and it goes a little something like this: A bunch of blogs sign up to host a giveaway and then we link up together (using the Linky list below) which enables everyone who's participating in the hop, as well as all of our collective followers, to visit each giveaway blog.  This allows blogs to get new followers and followers to find new blogs!  Everyone wins!  Printed Books Giveaway Hop is scheduled from February 4th at 12:00 AM to February 7th at 11:59 PM.


THE PRIZE
ONE lucky follower will win the four books listed above - CLUTCH by J. A. Huss, GRAVITY by Melissa West, THE RAVEN BOYS by Maggie Stiefvater, and THIS IS NOT A TEST by Courtney Summers.  US Shipping ONLY!!  All books have been read once, except Clutch, because I wrote that and I've read it, believe me.  All of these books are for mature teens and/or new adults.


THE RULES
This prize will be delivered by email, typically within 24 hours of responding to my notification e-mail. Everyone who enters must be legally able to do so, typically this means 13 years and up, but please check with your local regulations.  Please follow all the rules for hop entries.  I do check them, so don't cheat.  The winner will have 48 hours to respond after I send out the notification e-mail, if I do not hear from you, I'll choose an alternate winner.

Don't forget to hop on down the line and enter ALL the Giveaways! 

 

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

MASSIVE GIVEAWAY and 99 CENT BOOKS!

 Book for a Buck Sale

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TWENTY PRIZES! 
 
SpecFicDaily.com, T.S. Welti, and J.A. Huss have teamed up to bring you another MASSIVE Group Sale and Giveaway. This promo includes 18 book by 18 different authors - ALL books in this list are 99 cents from January 30-February 3rd.

You can see all the books in the sale at Specficdaily.com

ALL BOOKS ARE 99 CENTS!




BOOK BLITZ: The Crescent Chronicles by Alyssa Rose Ivy

 
Flight
(The Crescent Chronicles #1)
by Alyssa Rose Ivy  
 
Sometimes you just have to take flight.

A summer in New Orleans is exactly what Allie needs before starting college. Accepting her dad’s invitation to work at his hotel offers an escape from her ex-boyfriend and the chance to spend the summer with her best friend. Meeting a guy is the last thing on her mind—until she sees Levi.

Unable to resist the infuriating yet alluring Levi, Allie finds herself at the center of a supernatural society and forced to decide between following the path she has always trusted or saving a city that might just save her.




 

EXCERPT: FLIGHT

Preface

Closing my eyes, I tried to block it all out. Convinced I was about to die, I was only partly aware of his arms around me.
“You said you wanted an adventure,” he said quietly, teasingly, as he tightened his hold.
My stomach dropped out as an intense and complete feeling of weightlessness engulfed me. The wind stung my face as memories flooded my mind. I thought of my parents, of all the things I wanted to tell them but never did, my friends from home, and the experiences I longed for. Quickly my thoughts changed to more recent memories, to Levi.
“Open your eyes,” he whispered, somehow knowing my eyes were clenched shut.
Against my better judgment, I listened. The scream died in my throat as we hurtled toward the water that had seemed so beautiful from the roof above.


Focus  
(The Crescent Chronicles #2) 
by Alyssa Rose Ivy
Publication date: January 31st, 2013

Freshman year of college is hard even when you're not tied to the future king of a supernatural society.

Allie dives into college head first with Hailey as her roommate and the city of New Orleans as her backyard. As things within The Society heat up, Allie realizes that whether she’s with Levi or not, she's in far too deep to turn back.


 
 
 
 
EXCERPT: FOCUS
 
Michelle moved her arms and stood up straighter. “Yes, and I definitely get why you chose her. She’s amazing.” She gave me the biggest, fakest smile. 
The forced nature of it didn’t go unnoticed by Levi. “Good. As nice as it is to see you, I’m going to be taking Allie now. We’ve got some plans of our own.”
I groaned internally. I tried to help and, of course, he had to take advantage of it. “Before we go, let me make sure my friends don’t mind.”
“We don’t mind at all,” Anne said immediately. “Go have fun.” She winked at me.
“If you want to go, we understand.” Tiffany was trying to figure out what I wanted her to say.
“Yeah, go ahead.” Hailey grinned. She was in so much trouble.
“Bye, Michelle. Great meeting you.” I let Levi lead me to the front door.
“You guys staying?” Levi asked his friends.
“Yeah.” Jared was eyeing Tiffany.
“Okay, but remember the rules,” I warned him. Tiffany was too sweet of a girl to have to deal with Jared.
He glared at me. “Yes, how could I forget?”
Levi led us off the porch and away from the house.
“Nice kiss.”
“You know why I did it.” I looked up at the perfectly crescent moon.
“Do I?”
He traced a line down my arm.
“Of course. Michelle would have told your dad if she thought something was up. Why would it mean anything else?”
“A chaste kiss could have accomplished the same thing. That wasn’t chaste—your tongue was in my mouth, Al.”
“Are you complaining?”
“Hell no. I happen to like your tongue… and the rest of you.” His eyes let me know exactly what he was implying.
 
AUTHOR BIO
Alyssa Rose Ivy is a Young Adult and New Adult author who loves to weave stories with romance and a southern setting. Although raised in the New York area, she fell in love with the South after moving to New Orleans for college. After years as a perpetual student, she turned back to her creative side and decided to write. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children, and she can usually be found with a cup of coffee in her hand.

 
 

Monday, January 28, 2013

TOUR SIGN-UPS: I Am Just Junco Book Four

I’m planning several things for the I Am Just Junco series - Please sign up to participate below!
  1. Cover Reveal: March 1, 2013
  2. ARC reviews: Files sent out March 1, post any day before March 31, 2013
  3. Release Day Blitz: April 1, 2013 Promo Post: Choose a Day from April 1-30
  4. TOUR: April 1-30
  5. Interviews
  6. Guest Posts
  7. Group Giveaway
  8. Individual Giveaways at each tour stop
  9. Blogger Prizes


RANGE - Book Four
I Am Just Junco

Two years have passed since Inanna stole Junco away from Lucan. Two years of unimaginable pain.  Two years of isolation, mutilation and torture. Two years of fear and loneliness in a morph tank. And that’s not something you just get over, even if you are psycho-assassin, Junco Coot.

Now Junco has to learn to live with the consequences.  Her Siblings are suspicious and angry, half her team is dead, Tier is wreaking death and destruction, Lucan is holding his secrets close, and she is spiraling out of control.

There is only one partnership that matters anymore – only one person she will trust and take direction from – and only one way out of the Hell she’s been sentenced to.

Junco is tired of fighting and death. She’s had enough and this time she means to end it – once and for all.

Release date:  April 1, 2013  Cover art by James Ledger Concepts


THE MAGPIE BRIDGE - Book 4.5
A TIER NOVELLA

Raubtier Aves, 039-1, AKA: Tier
Son of Lucan.
Ranking Officer of the Avian military.
Powerful.
Ruthless.
And devoted to Junco, no matter what.

Tier was left with one specific order and he’s not about to screw it up.  He might lose all his allies, his brothers, his shot at defeating the High Order, and his own Eternal Salvation - but he’s willing to risk it all to keep one little girl alive.

Tier reveals his part in the epic tale of The Seven Siblings, spilling secrets and motivations that will leave you breathless and wanting more.

Release date:  April 1, 2013 Cover art by James Ledger Concepts


 

COVER REVEAL: Crimson Flames by Ashley Robertson


Crimson Flames
(The Crimson Series#2)
 by Ashley Robertson
  Cover by PhatPuppy Art

Half-vampire Abby Tate is determined to learn more about the sorceress powers that were awakened inside her when she was turned into a vampire—making her a whole new hybrid species. There’s a group of rogue vamps banding together and forming a Resistance against the vampire governing body, The Head Council, and Abby’s newly discovered powers are the key to the Council’s victory. Now the Resistance will do anything possible to remove the hybrid threat, and with no other options, Abby is forced to rely on the aid of the Council, yet can she trust the very vampires that hunt for her human lover? And even worse, can she fight the unwelcome attraction that’s growing between her and one of those ancient vampire rulers?

Author Links:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ashley Robertson resides in sunny Orlando, Florida and loves reading and writing about everything urban fantasy and paranormal romance. When she isn’t writing you’ll find her spending time with family and friends, training in her home gym, traveling and exploring new places, drinking fine red wines, and making gourmet coffees with her Nespresso machine. Visit her website to learn about her upcoming releases, guest blog posts, and featured giveaways at: www.AshleyRobertsonBooks.com

CRIMSON GROVES - BOOK ONE OF THE CRIMSON SERIES


Abigail Tate was a normal human girl—until the day Bronx the vampire barges into her life and turns her against her will. Held captive while forced to deal with never-ending cravings for blood, Abby prays for a way to escape. Only when an opportunity arises, it’s with the aid of an innocent human named Tyler—except vampires are forbidden to interact with the unbitten. But Abby quickly learns this human has secrets of his own...secrets that can either help her or get her killed. Only Abby soon discovers that she is the one with the biggest secret of all. 

GOODREADS


Young Adult Giveaway Hop


Young Adult Giveaway Hop

January 29th - February 4th
Co-hosted by BookLove101



I have another blog with a $10 gift card in this hop:
Stop by Clean Teen Reads to enter to win an additional $10 book of choice


YOU MAY CHOOSE ANY BOOK AND ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE ONES HERE

THE HOP
Young Adult Giveaway Hop is hosted by Kathy at I Am A Reader Not A Writer and is Co-hosted by BookLove101, and it goes a little something like this: A bunch of blogs sign up to host a giveaway and then we link up together (using the Linky list below) which enables everyone who's participating in the hop, as well as all of our collective followers, to visit each giveaway blog.  This allows blogs to get new followers and followers to find new blogs!  Everyone wins!  Young Adult Giveaway Hop is scheduled from January 29nd at 12:00 AM to February 4th at 11:59 PM.


THE PRIZES
ONE lucky follower will win a $10 Book of Choice from Amazon (US) or The Book Depository (INT)


THE RULES
This prize will be delivered by email, typically within 24 hours of responding to my notification e-mail. Everyone who enters must be legally able to do so, typically this means 13 years and up, but please check with your local regulations.  Please follow all the rules for hop entries.  I do check them, so don't cheat.  The winner will have 48 hours to respond after I send out the notification e-mail, if I do not hear from you, I'll choose an alternate winner.

Don't forget to hop on down the line and enter ALL the Giveaways!

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Sexy Dudes of BadAssJunco


JUNCO SAYS: There’s been a lot of talk around the blogosphere from the guys about who is my favorite dude, and instead of letting them fight it out in public, I’m gonna set the record straight. First let me introduce them to ya, so ya all know who’s who:

Front and center we have Tier. Tier is a main character in CLUTCH, the first book in my series I Am Just Junco. I’m not so sure about his motives, but I certainly like to look at him. He’s tall, like a foot taller than me, with dark black hair that curls just the slightest bit as it falls over his blazing green eyes. And they do blaze, that’s for real. The glow in them is like a warm Sunday afternoon on the prairie. (Sorry, I get a little swoony just mentioning him.) Then there’s the wings. Magnificent charcoal-gray wings that lift up and turn and make all sorts of movement when he speaks. I love watching his wings when he talks, the way they move shows me his true feelings.

Tier’s right-hand guy is Ashur. He’s the one on the upper right. They are literally like brothers since they were born in the same clutch and spent every significant moment together in life. Ashur is a little more…well, I’ll be magnanimous and call him less patient than Tier. My sweet talk does not work on him very much, and he says what’s on his mind. Tier pretty much lets me do my thing, but Ashur is always there trying to get in my way. Still, I love him and I can always count on him (when he’s not trying to fight me). Ashur shows up late in CLUTCH but I don’t really get to know him until book two, FLEDGE.

My right-hand guy is Isten. (Bottom right to you) Isten is, well that’s a spoiler, so I can’t say any more about that. Isten plays a pretty big role in my life during FLEDGE, but he’s even more important in FLIGHT (book three). Of all my avian teammates, Isten is the only one who shares both physical characteristics and work related skills with me. I can’t say too much, almost everything about Isten is a total spoiler, but he’s awesome!

On the upper left is my other half, Gideon. I can’t say any more about Gideon other than he’s my number one. No matter what happens, I look to Gideon for everything. Everything. You won’t be able to meet him until book three, FLIGHT, but I swear, he’s worth it. Muah, love you so much, Gideon.

And finally, we have Lucan. Ah, Lucan, he’s my…my what? What is Lucan? Very good question. I’ve seen him in several forms and still, I have no idea who the real Lucan is. But I do know one thing, he loves me. He might let me get my butt kicked when I need it, and he does have a way of sidestepping the truth a lot, but all in all, I think Lucan is not such a bad guy. Maybe he’s not good, but there are worse people out there than Lucan.

OK, those are my favorite five dudes in the I Am Just Junco series. So which one do I love best? Well, I love them all, but for very different reasons. I want to marry one and have his babies, I want one to take me to look at the stars, I need another to snap me back to reality when I get a little crazy, and two of them are physically part of me. I literally could not get rid of them if I tried.

So who’s who? Well, I can’t tell ya that…it spoils all the fun of reading the books to find out! But I do promise one thing, I’ll keep you guessing ‘til the very end. Pick up CLUTCH and then you can meet each one the same way I do. Then maybe you can tell me…who do I love best?

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

REVIEW: Losing It by Cora Carmack

Virginity.

Bliss Edwards is about to graduate from college and still has hers. Sick of being the only virgin among her friends, she decides the best way to deal with the problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as possible-- a one-night stand. But her plan turns out to be anything but simple when she freaks out and leaves a gorgeous guy alone and naked in her bed with an excuse that no one with half-a-brain would ever believe. And as if that weren't embarrassing enough, when she arrives for her first class of her last college semester, she recognizes her new theater professor. She'd left him naked in her bed about 8 hours earlier.




REVIEW:

If there is a way to be “classically new-adult” when the genre is so young, I think Losing It by Cora Carmack has accomplished that. It’s a college story about a girl who still has her V-card (I’m so annoyed with this whole virgin thing in the new adult genre, but that did not stop me in this case) and very badly wants to lose it. Hence the title. She meets a guy at a bar and proceeds to allow him to take her home with him and relieve her of her burden, of which he knows nothing about.

This whole set up was hilarious. She gets on his motorcycle, burns her leg on the exhaust pipe, gets to his place – which happens to be in her SAME apartment complex – and he’s locked out and the locksmith hasn’t arrived yet. So she has to suck it up, admit she lives in the next building over, even though she never mentioned it when they pulled up, and let him into her apartment so she can take care of her burned leg or he’ll take her to the emergency room.

She loses her nerve, not her virginity, and dashes out of HER apartment in one THE funniest scenes I’ve ever read. I was SO freaking embarrassed for her I could hardly stop laughing. I swear, only Perry Palamino of Karina Halle’s Dark House has made me laugh harder in a book.

Anyway – the guy ends up being her theater teacher and she’s stuck with him for the entire semester. 

Losing It was a good read. The story was fun and original, even though parts of it were predictable. I loved the opening, obviously, and I loved the ending too. If you’re looking for a quick read that will hold your attention and make you happy, this this is a good one. It’s not serious, and it’s got no life altering advice – but it delivers in the entertainment department.

Four stars for Losing It by Cora Carmack.
 



ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working at Target), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. 

AUTHOR LINKS 


Wednesday, January 23, 2013

BOOK BLITZ: The Grimm Prequels by Cameron Jace


The Grimm Prequels 
The Prequels to the highly anticipated Snow White Sorrow!

The Grimm Prequels 1-6, and The Grimm Prequels 7-10 will both be on sale for 0.99 on the 23rd and 24th of January 2013

The Grimm Prequels 1-6 is an amazon.com top 100 bestseller

The Grimm Diaries Prequels volume 7- 10 includes:
  • Once Beauty Twice Beast
  • Moon & Madly
  • Rumpelstein
  • Jawigi


Grimm Diaries Prequels 7 - 10 
by Cameron Jace

Expected publication: Jan 16, 2013
What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?

Warning: these Grimm Prequels are like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples. Once you taste them, you will never see fairy tales in the same light again.

This Grimm Diaries Prequels are a number of short books in the form of epistolary diary entries. The diaries are more of teasers for the upcoming series: The Grimm Diaries, allowing you to get a glimpse of what to expect of the series. The 6 diaries are told by The Evil Queen, Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, the Devil, Prince Charming, and Alice Grimm
The first book in the Series will be out in February 2013, called SNOW WHITE SORROW.

Series Description: 

 
The Grimm Diaries are pages written in a Book of Sand, where each fairy tale character confessed the true stories once altered by the Brothers Grimm two centuries ago. To keep the truth about fairy tales hidden, the Brothers Grimm buried the characters in their dreams to never wake up again. But the curse is broken now, and the characters are allowed to wake up every one hundred years. They intend to tell the truth about really happened, and about an untold cosmic conflict between fairy tale characters.



 


Grimm Diaries 1-6

What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?

Warning: these Grimm Prequels are like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples. Once you taste them, you will never see fairy tales in the same light again.

This Grimm Diaries Prequels are a number of short books in the form of epistolary diary entries. The diaries are more of teasers for the upcoming series: The Grimm Diaries, allowing you to get a glimpse of what to expect of the series. The 6 diaries are told by The Evil Queen, Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, the Devil, Prince Charming, and Alice Grimm.

 
The first book in the Series will be out in February 2013, called SNOW WHITE SORROW.



Snow White Sorrow
Expected publication: February 2013 by Akmal Eldin Farouk Ali Shebl
 

Sixteen year old Loki Blackstar is no Prince Charming. His mother is a ghost. His only friend is a red Cadillac that talks to him through the radio. He looks like an Angel but acts like jerk. No wonder he has been banned from Heaven, which is the least of his troubles. Loki needs a job to pay for school and support himself.
Still, Loki has a rare gift: He is a Dreamhunter. One of the few in the world who can hunt and kill immortal demons in their dreams so they never wake up again.
When Loki is sent to kill a sixteen-year-old vampire girl the locals call Snow White Sorrow, he is pulled into a magical but dangerous world. The locals believe the monster to be Snow White.
The real Snow White… living in the ruins of an ancient castle in a small town. She is described as horribly beautiful, terrifyingly enchanting, and wickedly lovely.
What he finds instead is a beautiful monster girl filled with rage and hurt, who has an epic untold story to tell of things such like why the Brothers Grimm altered the fairy tale, who the Evil Queen really is, where the mirror came from, and who possessed it.
Snow White has killed every person who has dared come near the castle where she once lived with the queen. Mysteriously, she lets Loki live, and whispers two words in his ears; two words that will change his life forever


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cameron Jace: Wonderlander, Neverlander, Unicorn-chaser, enchanter, musician, survived a coma, & totally awesome. Sometimes I tell stories. Always luv the little monstersI write young adult paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and science fiction mostly. The Grimm Diaries series is a seven book saga that deals with retellings of fairy tales from a young adult POV – it connects most of the fairy tales together and claims to be the truth about fairy tales.

I live in San Fransisco and seriously think circles are way cooler than triangles.
GIVEAWAY
  • The Grimm Prequels 1-6 & the Grimm Prequels 7-10 :) 
  • PLUS the first reader who follows Cameron Jace's facebook page will get the first release date of Snow White Sorrow when it will be for 0.99 for one day!