Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Book Tour - "The Island" by Jen Minkman





Book Info-
Title-The Island

By- Jen Minkman
Publication Date-June 1, 2013
*Novella* (80 pages)
Genre- YA Dystopian


Blurb-
‘I walk toward the sea. The endless surface of the water extends to the horizon, whichever way I look.

Our world is small. We are on our own, and we only have ourselves to depend on. We rely on the Force deep within us, as taught to us by our forefathers.

If I were to walk westward from here, I would come across a barrier – the Wall. Behind it, there are Fools. At least, that’s what everyone says. I have never seen one.’



Leia lives on the Island, a world in which children leave their parents to take care of themselves when they are ten years old. Across this Island runs a wall that no one has ever crossed. The Fools living behind it are not amenable to reason – they believe in illusions. That’s what The Book says, the only thing left to the Eastern Islanders by their ancestors.

But when a strange man washes ashore and Leia meets a Fool face to face, her life will never be the same. Is what she and her friends believe about the Island really true?


Or is everyone in their world, in fact, a Fool?



Sunday, July 7, 2013

Sexy Sunday - Samantha Fontien



This week, Samantha Fontien is my guest, sharing some sizzlin' excerpts from her new novel, How To Catch Butterflies. Check it out below!

*THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT AND STRONG LANGUAGE 
AND IS INTENDED FOR MATURE ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY.*





Introducing Samantha Fontien’s brand new book, 'How To Catch Butterflies.'

I would describe my book as an emotional roller coaster of up’s and downs as you join Rebecca and her best friend Lucy on a whirlwind adventure that is LIFE, and boy do these girls know how to live!!

My story revolves around two main characters –  Rebecca, a beautiful, clever young woman who settled down way to young, convinced herself she had made her bed, so she would lie on it as so to speak.

However Rebecca suffers domestic violence at the hands of her fiancĂ© of 7 years, David. He grinds her down and alienating her from her friends, until one evening, he takes things too far….
With the help of her equally beautiful, sassy best friend Lucy, Rebecca rebuilds her life. She finds the strength to leave and move on from David. She learns how to live, have fun and find herself again

.My story is based in London, with both women having very successful careers, and all the luxuries that come with such a lifestyle. They work hard and play just as hard.

Along the way, both girls find love, break hearts, and they do both with class and style. There is international travel, both in work and pleasure, and there’s lots of saucy pleasure to read with both girls antics.





Excerpt 1:

Rebecca & Jackson Harvey

She reached up her fingers grabbing his chin, pulling him to her, her tongue licking and flicking at his lips down his neck.   Jackson lowered himself down into her as she nuzzled him.   He moved faster now grinding, burying himself deeper into her.  His chest on her as he plunged deeper and deeper, faster with force into her, then slowing to a tease as he slowly withdrew his cock before plunging again and again deeper into her. 
Rebecca clawed his back gently at first, then, the clawing became harder animalistic as she dug her nails into his back with each plunge he made as he rammed his cock into her to a faster pace.  

She started to moan sharper till the only sounds were of her gratification  and his pounding against her, which became a slamming frenzy until he came, pumping his creamy load into her. 

Rebecca’s legs were still wrapped tightly around him holding him in her.

Jackson’s back now covered in clawed welts from her scratching. He slumped down on her gently, his energy having been zapped from him by this vixen that now lay under him.  He couldn’t fight the urge to kiss her again and again.



Excerpt 2:

Lucy & Christopher Harper

Every time he softly squeezed her breasts, she could feel the slight pinch on her nipples sending wild shivers down her body. She rubbed herself slowly over him feeling his hard length through her panties.
      
He reached down to her panties, and ripped them at either side of her hips flinging them down onto the floor.
Christopher reached for his hard length, holding it to her opening and slowly slid himself into her, teasing her with his speed of thrusting.  He was deep inside her; she stationed her hands on him while she rocked back and forth on his full length, moaning with pleasure, his hands on her hips pushing her down further onto his hard thumping rod.

Her rocking slowed; he pulled her down to his lips to his awaiting tongue. He rolled them to her back, and thrust is cock into her slamming her hard making her moan more, her nails clawing his back down to his backside, he moaned thrusting and slamming her harder.

“Fuck me doggie style.” She commanded, as he pulled his cock out of her, and found his footing to stand at the bottom of the bed.  

She crawled to him, on top of the bed with a cat type prowl, her eyes beckoning him; he stood there his huge cock in his hand ready to plunge into her as he held ‘IT’ there.

“Put ‘IT’ in me,” she gasped.

He slid just his tip into her, wanking his length into her, his other hand on her firm buttock to steady himself, as she moaned.

He rammed his cock into her slamming her each time, his thrusting now frenzy.

“Take it, that’s right, take it all,” through his moaning, as he slowed again teasing her.  She could feel him throb in her, she clenched down on him with her pelvic muscles, gripping him tight in her, he groaned with each clench she made. 

He withdrew from her, his cock almost dripping with the excitement.

Her body quivering under every assault his enormous cock made, they’re eyes meeting. 

“I want to watch you cum again,” he said. 

“If you keep this up, you won’t have to wait long. I’m sooo near,” she cooed. 

He thrust harder into her, her moaning turning to urgency.

“Fuck me…fuck me…fuck me harder…."



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Friday, July 5, 2013

Fae Books 3000 Likes Giveaway!!!

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Hi guys! This is Sarah from FaeBooks.co.uk here.

Fae Books is a great place to discover books, Authors, writers, other bloggers and to enter the giveaways that I always have going on. We're all about everything "Bookish" as I say. So stop on over at one of my links below, I'd love to get to know you.

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Fae Books has hit and surpassed the 3000 Like mark on Facebook, so I'm celebrating with a fabulous giveaway for everyone!

I'm inviting you to join in the celebration and enter the giveaway below. 

Please check out all of the Author & Blogger links below, to see who has kindly donated prizes to this for you awesome book lovers to win!


Start/End Dates & Times
The giveaway starts at
12:00am GMT (UK) 15th June 2013
and ends at
12:00am GMT (UK) 15th July 2013


There are prizes from:

Author Tricia Drammeh
Author Victoria Simcox
Author Brandi Salazar
Indy Book Fairy Blog
Author S. CuAnam Policar
 Author Ashlynne Laynne
Blogger Brenda Tashia
Author Steve Cypert
Author Simon OKill
Author Michelle Muto
Author Victoria Sawyer
 Author J.H. Walker
 Author Candace Knoebel
Jessica Loves Books Blog
Author JJ DiBenedetto
Author Kelly Anne Blount
Author S.L. Dearing
Author Tina Hammond
Author Deliza Rafferty
Author Felicia Tatum
Author L. J. Baker
 Reader's Candy Blog
Author Allison Cosgrove 
Author Brandy L Rivers




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 Author Tricia Drammeh

Tricia Drammeh is a wife and mother of four children who lives in the St. Louis area. Her published works include The Claiming Words and The Fifth Circle. She is currently working on her seventh novel. When Tricia isn't writing, she can be found devouring books, interviewing up-and-coming authors, and drinking vast amounts of coffee.

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Author Victoria Simcox

 Victoria was born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, to an Austrian immigrant mother, and a Dutch immigrant father. She now resides in Western Washington with her husband and 3 children. Her other family members are, a Chihuahua, named Pipsy and 2 cats, named Frodo and Fritz. For the past 12 years, she has home-schooled her children. Besides being an author, Victoria is also an elementary school art teacher. Victoria enjoys writing, reading, painting watercolors, hiking, good movies, and hanging out with her family and friends. Victoria is the author of The Magic Warble.

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Author Brandi Salazar

 Brandi Salazar started writing poetry, short stories, and novels at a very young age, weaving tales to share with her friends that were geared toward making them laugh. Today her writing habits reflect that, ranging from mystery/suspense/thriller to paranormal and YA romance, and no matter how different her works may be, you can always find a healthy dose of action, romance, and humor. Under the pen name J.C. Valentine, she also writes erotic romance fiction.

A longtime resident of Ohio, Brandi lives with her husband, three children, a dog and five cats that keep her very busy. She holds a degree in Business and has plans to continue her education so she can one day become an editor to authors everywhere. When she isn’t crafting her next novel, toiling away at schoolwork, or hanging out with family, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair with her nose buried in a book.


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Author S. CuAnam Policar

 S. CuAnam Policar was born in Brooklyn, NY, but now lives in Washington State.
The Mother of three makes time to write, usually late at night.
An avid reader, she not only writes but helps promote other authors with blog tours and reviews of their books.
She is Pagan but respects all religions and believes everyone should celebrate their similarities and not care about their differences.
When she has the time, she enjoys playing video games, horseback riding, singing, and writing things other than her Legend of Xosha seires.
She absolutely loves to make new friends, so don't be afraid to pop by and say hi on facebook!
 


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Author Ashlynne Laynne

Ashlynne Laynne has always had a soft spot in her heart for vampires but grew tired of the garlic fearing, sun-loathing creatures of old. An avid horror movie fan, she tends to enjoy media and music that is of a younger, more eclectic nature. This was the catalyst for her writing The Progeny. The vampire/witch pairing is unique and different when most books pair vampires with werewolves.

Ashlynne loves writing on the edge—combining the erotica and romance genres—and thinks of Ascher and Shauna as the wicked, damned version of Romeo and Juliet. She is currently working on book four of her Progeny Series, book one of her upcoming Rocker Series, and an untitled novella WIP. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, reading and spending time with her family. She juggles the hats of wife, mother, full time employee and part-time writer, hoping to write exclusively one day soon. Find and follow here online on Twitter. Check out her Manic Readers page, Blog and Website, or leave her a note in her Reader Email.

Ashlynne lives in North Carolina with her husband and teenage son.


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Blogger Brenda Tashia

I'm an 20 year old avid reader who loves promoting authors work.

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Author Steve Cypert

Steve is the second child of seven born in Los Angeles, California to a wonderful mother and father. Born into the LDS faith, Steve served a 2 year full-time LDS mission at the age of nineteen in the northern half of Ohio.

At twenty-four he moved from his parents’ home in Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, Utah to try out life on his own. 2 decades later he still lives in Utah, where he found and married his beautiful wife, Katie.

Today they live in South Jordan, Utah with their bald little 6 month old son, Ozzie and their very hairy son, Duke - a three year old Shih Tzu.

 
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Author Simon OKill

Simon Okill lives with his wife, Shirlee Anne and their cat, in a pretty coastal town in South Wales, UK. After a serious accident at work, he was forced into early retirement due to disability. Simon used his newfound skills as a writer to help with his depression. His writing became more serious as certain A-list actors expressed interest in his scripts.

He is presently working on a vampire novel, Eternally Yours and the script, Flip Side.  


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Author Michelle Muto

Michelle has always loved storytelling. When she was a child, her favorite stories were of monsters and things that lurked in the dark. Telling stories often frightened her classmates and got her into a lot of trouble with her teachers. They had no sense of humor.
As an adult, Michelle traded her love of writing for the corporate life where she was an IT professional. Today, she's doing what she loves best - writing and storytelling.
Michelle grew up in Chicago, but currently lives in NE Georgia with her husband and their two dogs. She loves scary books, funny movies, sports cars, chocolate, dogs, and changes of season.

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Author Victoria Sawyer

"Passionate about writing, graphic design, creativity. Fueled by the light and dark. Beauty, color, euphoria, artistic frenzy, depression, panic, anxiety."
What you see on the outside is not what you get on the inside. On the outside, Victoria Sawyer is polished, confident, put together, but on the inside things are a bit different. She's creative, thoughts whirling, anxious, alternately depressed and happy or self-critical and confident, energetic, charismatic, cranky and panicked.
She has suffered from panic attacks, anxiety and depression since the age of 10 and has been writing for just about as long. Her love of writing started as journal entries as therapy and eventually morphed into a melding of fact and fiction. Sometimes writing drives her to drink or drinking drives her to write or sometimes it's depression, anger, mental illness or love.

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Author J. H. Walker

J.H. grew up in Central America. She now lives in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies with her photographer husband and many, many books. In addition to her never-ending study of human behavior, she's a political junkie and a certified tree hugger. Rewrite Redemption is her debut novel.

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Author Candace Knoebel

Music defines a huge part of who I am. I find myself relating moments of my life to music lyrics more often than not. Actually, I find myself wishing that music would play at epic moments in my life...kind of like this one; becoming an author!
Number one all-time fave band is Thirty Seconds to Mars. I waited for 10 ½ hours just to be front row to see them in concert and of course it rocked. I also love Paramore, John Mayer, Mute-math, Adele, Band of Horses...the list could go on forever and ever.
I love dancing, rocking out in the car to music, spending time with my children and husband, laughing with my bestie, and cooking. I also love watching Tobuscus on you-tube.
Books that pull at my heart-strings: Harry Potter Series, Jane Eyre, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Twilight Saga.


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Jessica Loves Books Blog


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Author J.J. DiBenedetto
 
J.J. (James) DiBenedetto was born in Yonkers, New York. He attended Case Western Reserve University, where as his classmates can attest, he was a complete nerd. Very little has changed since then.
He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia with his beautiful wife and their cat (who has thoroughly trained them both). When he's not writing, James works in the direct marketing field, enjoys the opera, photography and the New York Giants, among other interests.
The "Dreams" series is James' first published work.

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Author Kelly Anne Blount

Kelly Anne Blount was born in Madison, WI. After attending university, she moved to Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands to teach elementary school. While living there, she met the love of her life and was married in a beautiful ceremony on the Caribbean Sea.
After returning stateside, Kelly started to pursue another passion, writing. She recently wrote her first young fantasy adult novel in between teaching preschoolers with special needs and taking care of her husband and their five furry rescues.
Kelly also enjoys reading in her free time. Her favorite genres are YA fantasy, MG, paranormal romance, and the occasional thriller.

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Author S. L. Dearing

Shannon L. Dearing was raised in Westlake Village, California and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. She attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, then spent several years studying at Los Angeles City College's renowned Television/ Film program. She has worked on several film projects in many capacities: directing, writing, First Asst. Director, Etc.. She is a book reviewer for the Big Blend Magazine and Champagne Sunday's radio show as well as the GMTA Literary Community and has a review list on her blog, ...And Everything in Between. Shannon has been writing since grade school. Over the years she has written several screenplays, poems,plays and short stories. She recently completed and published her first novel, The Gathering: Book One of the Lia Fail Chronicles and has a short story in the anthologies, Apocalypse: An Anthology of Readers and Authors & Paranormal Anthology with a TWIST, published and edited by Cynthia Shepp. In 2011, Shannon wrote Surviving the Undead, her first play and her first time directing, it ran for two weeks and was well received. She currently lives in the the San Fernando Valley of Southern California.
 
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Author Tina Hammond


T. Hammond lives in Spokane, WA with her goofy, neurotic, long-coat German shepherd, Dexter; he's noble and brave, until someone turns on the microwave, then she has 100lbs of quivering dog trying to hide behind her chair or bury his head under a pillow (Little known fact: a 100lb German Shepherd CAN fit under a coffee table).
Writing is not a calling so much as it is a compulsion. No one is more surprised than she is when characters take over the plot and dialog, and (re)direct stories in directions she had not (consciously) intended. She is fully convinced that the writer is the tool a story uses to tell its tale. Some tools, of course, are more appropriate for the job than others. Here's hoping, you feel she did her stories proud.
T. has a Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Management from Whitworth University, and a Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University and before becoming a writer she was a bookkeeper, technical/manual writer, Call Center Manager and the owner of a freshwater aquarium store, Guppy Tales.
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Author Deliza Rafferty

Deliza Rafferty is a new erotic romance writer (spicier than traditional romance without hardcore BDSM - always hot, sometimes humorous!) located in Hollywood. "Deliza" means "gives pleasure" and "Rafferty" means "rich and prosperous." With a name like that, what else could she do? Well...legally, anyway?

Rafferty has written all sorts of stories, poems and songs for personal enjoyment since she was a little girl, but has been writing "dirty dramas" secretly since her first real kiss in middle school. She's spent most of her "real" career in the music business and draws from her unique first hand experience to bring to life her current series, The Savannah Rossi Chronicles. She is venturing into sharing her musings publicly for the very first time and is excited that modern day technology allows her to do it at her leisure and maintain control of her work.


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Author Felicia Tatum

Felicia Tatum was born and raised in Tennessee. She always loved reading, and at the age of twelve began writing. Her passion for creating stories grew and in May 2012, she finally wrote her first novel, The White Aura.
She still lives in Tennessee with her daughter and her kitty. She loves cooking and books. Animals are some of her best friends. She watches a lot of Disney channel and often dreams up new book ideas. She's currently writing the second book in series.

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Author L. J. Baker

L J lives on the Jersey Shore with her husband, four kids, two cats, and an inherited dog from hell (a.k.a. the sewer gremlin). Though writing has always been her first passion, she got a degree in psychological counseling and worked in the mental health field for awhile, which she finds very helpful in dealing with her crazy family. She is a lover of all different types of music and books, switching between genres so wildly it sometimes makes people wonder if she has multiple personalities. She is most likely to be found writing romance stories of all kinds (contemporary, erotic, new adult, young adult, fantasy, etc.) and has just finished writing her first book, Save Me. When she's not writing, she prefers to spend her time reading, taking photos, or spending time with her family.


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Author Allison Cosgrove

Allison Cosgrove was born and raised in a suburb of Toronto, Ontario. A married mother of three daughters, she runs her own business by day and creates her own worlds by night. She enjoys spending time with her husband and daughters hiking in the woods or sitting by the fire reading a good book. She has had the love of reading and writing detective mysteries from the age of twelve but it has only been since the birth of her youngest that she has gotten serious about crafting some of her own works for others to enjoy. She credits her family and friends with being the driving force that has given her the strength to breathe life into her books.

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Author Brandy L Rivers

I've always loved books, especially about monsters and magic, so I started writing. I'm working on a prequel and the next few books in the Others of Edenton series, and I have a head full of stories to share.
I'm a stay at home mother with a wonderful husband who lets me write and write to my hearts content.

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Cover Reveal - "All The Right Things" by Audrey Harte

Delighted to be part of my new friend Audrey Harte's cover reveal blitz-o-rama for her upcoming novel All The Right Things (the sequel to Love In All The Wrong Places, book one of the Love In L.A. Series)! It will be available August 16th. Check it out!





Synopsis:

In “Love in All the Wrong Places”, Annie tried her hand at online dating, but it brought her nothing but a broken heart. This girl can't seem to catch a break in the dating world! While wondering what went wrong once again, she met an attractive, funny and sincere hip hop dancer in the parking lot at work. But just as Casey expressed interest in taking her out, he had to leave town to tour the country with an up and coming pop star. Annie was willing to wait for him to return, but then she received an apologetic text from Nate, the last guy she met on Craigslist.

Join Annie on her adventures in “All the Right Things” as she makes some of the biggest decisions of her life. While she thoroughly enjoyed the time she spent with Nate and is still attracted to him, he screwed her and then ditched her at the bar without a word. Will Annie accept Nate’s explanation and his heartfelt apology and give him a second chance or will she kick him to the curb? Or will Casey’s charm and determination to show her how a real man should treat a lady win her over? Or will both of these guys be left in the dust when someone from her past reappears? 



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