Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Feature: Dark Connections by Rebecca Graf

First there was Deep Connections now there is the sequel Dark Connections!

Book Description:

Publication Date: April 2013
Publisher: Silver Tongue Press
Genre: Paranormal/Suspense

The story continues from its start in Deep Connections. Brenna has given her heart to Slaton, but Creeper just won't die. Death cannot stop him from possessing the one to fulfill the prophesy. Now Brenna and Slaton have to fight not only for their own lives but for all those they love. As they do, they discover who Creeper really is and why he wants Brenna so badly. Be prepared for more mystery, suspense, and sweet love.

About Rebecca Graf:


Rebecca Graf spent over twenty years in the accounting field with no way to release her creative juices. To do so in accounting, could get you life. So she began writing online. From there, she ventured into fiction. Dark Connections is her fifth published book with many more in the works. Rebecca is the mother of three children and lives with them and her husband of twenty years in Wisconsin.

Purchase Link:

Silver Tongue Press

Rebecca is giving away a $25 Amazon Card and a copy of Deep Connections and Dark Connections.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
a Rafflecopter giveaway






Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:00 AM 4 comments  

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Giveaway Winners Galore

Thanks to everyone who entered the following giveaways! Winners, please reply to the email I sent you today within 48 hours to claim your books. After 2 days you will be disqualified and a new winner will be picked. Rafflecopter picks all winners using Random.org. 

Thanks again to Julie Breedlove of BQB Publishing and the author, John Daly, for making this giveaway possible.
The Winner is:
Carl S.






Thanks again to Amy Bruno of Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Lara N.







Thanks again to Jocelyn Kelley of Kelley & Hall Book Publicity for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Carl S.











Thanks again to Katie Earley of Misque Press for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
MaryAlice











Thanks again to Veronica Grossman of Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc. for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Linda K.






Thanks again to Deb Tobias of Joan Schulhafer Publishing & Media Consulting for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Linda K.






Thanks again to Amy Bruno of Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Rebecca G.







Thanks again to Rebecca Lang of Viking and Penguin Books Publicity for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Patty W.






Thanks again to Caitlin Valenziano of  Berkley/NAL, Penguin Group USA for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Anita Y.






Thanks again to Caitlin Valenziano of  Berkley/NAL, Penguin Group USA for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Tiffany D.






Thanks again to Kaitlyn Kennedy of  HarperCollins Publishers for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Gina D.







Posted by Teddy Rose at 12:10 AM 8 comments  

Labels:

Friday, July 26, 2013

Giveaway: Saving Paradise by Mike Bond

Thanks to Liz Lauer of Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc., I am giving away one copy of Saving Paradise.

 Book Description:

 When a beautiful journalist drowns mysteriously off Waikiki, Hawaii, Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins, now a well-known surfer and international correspondent for surfing magazines, soon gets embroiled in trying to find out why she died. What he quickly learns makes him a target for murder or life in prison as a cabal of powerful corporations, foreign killers and crooked politicians places the blame on him. 

 Haunted by memories of Afghanistan, and determined to protect the Hawaii he loves from dirty politics tied to huge destructive energy developments, Pono turns to Special Forces buddies and his own covert skills to fight his deadly enemies, trying both save himself and find her killers. Alive with the sights, sounds and history of Hawaii, SAVING PARADISE is also a deepy rich portrait of what Pono calls the seamy side of paradise, and an exciting thriller of politics, lies and remorseless murder.

 About Mike Bond:


 "The master of the existential thriller" (BBC)

Best-selling novelist, war and human rights correspondent, environmental activist, award-winning poet and international energy expert, Mike Bond has lived and worked in many dangerous, remote and war-torn regions of the world.

 Sorry, this giveaway is open to the U.S. Only and ends on August 9, 2013
a Rafflecopter giveaway



Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:00 AM 8 comments  

Labels:

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Giveaway: Marcel Proust in Taos: In Search of Times Past by Jon Foyt

Thanks to Kelsey McBride of Book Publicity Services, I am giving away one copy of Marcel Proust In Taos.


Book Description:

In Marcel Proust In Taos, a Los Alamos physicist, Christopher, retires to Taos, New Mexico, with his cat Marcel Proust, to write a novel about nuclear terrorism. There he meets aspiring artist Marlene, from Germany, and the two fall in love. 

They open a microbrewery, using the brewing recipes passed down to Marlene from her brewmaster grandfather. However, together they find themselves confronting terrorism of a new sort with the matriarch of the Taos community, Agnes Havelock Powers, who strongly opposes having a brewery in town. Agnes is rich, powerful, and influential. She has the city authorities tucked in her purse next to her checkbook. Follow the exciting and charming love story of Marlene and Christopher in historical Taos, as they experience the challenges of confronting abusive power.

About Jon Foyt:

Striving for new heights on the literary landscape, along with his late wife Lois, Jon Foyt began writing novels 20 years ago, following careers in radio, commercial banking, and real estate. He holds a degree in journalism and an MBA from Stanford and a second masters degree in historic preservation from the University of Georgia. An octogenarian prostate cancer survivor, Jon is a runner, hiker and political columnist in a large active adult retirement community near San Francisco. For more information, visit http://jonfoyt.com/

This giveaway is open internationally and ends on August 8, 2013.  The winner has the choice of print or ebook.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
a Rafflecopter giveaway



Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:00 AM 5 comments  

Labels:

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Giveaway: This Man Confessed by Jodi Ellen Malpas

Thanks to Jessica Bromberg of Forever/Grand Central Publishing, I am giving away one copy of This Man Confessed.

 Book Description:

 The Manor, the very place where their passionate love affair began, fills with guests on what should be the happiest day of Ava and Jesse's lives. She has accepted that she'll never tame the fierceness in Jesse-and she doesn't want to. 

 Their love is profound, their connection powerful, but just when she thinks that she's finally gotten beneath his guarded exterior, more questions arise, leading Ava to believe that Jesse Ward may not be the man she thinks he is. He knows too well how to take her to a place beyond ecstasy . . . but will he also drive her to the brink of despair? It's time for this man to confess.

 About Jodi Ellen Malpas:

Jodi Ellen Malpas was born and raised in the Midlands town of Northampton, UK, where she lives with her family.  Working for the family construction business fulltime and with the prospect of taking it over once her father retired, she tried to ignore the lingering idea of writing a novel until it became impossible.

 She finally found the time and courage to release her creative streak and in October 2012 self-published This Man as an e-book.  She took a chance on a story with some intense characters, notably Mr. Jesse Ward, the Lord of the Manor, and sparked incredible reactions from women all over the world.  Two months later,  Jodi made the decision to give up her day job to concentrate on her new and very unexpected career in writing.

 Sorry, this giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on August 7th.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
a Rafflecopter giveaway



Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:48 AM 6 comments  

Labels:

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Giveaway: THE AGE OF ICE by J.M. Sidorova

Thanks to Mel Grover-Schwartz of Scribner Publicity, I am giving away one print copy of The Age of Ice.

Book Description:

An epic, debut novel spanning more than two centuries, THE AGE OF ICE follows the quest of a lovelorn, 18th century Russian noble cursed with longevity while he navigates the chilling world of a changing Russian aristocracy.

Steeped in Russian history, THE AGE OF ICE has already been praised by authors as “mesmerizing,” and “everything you could want in a novel” (NYT-Bestselling Author Tea Obreht;Author Karen Joy Fowler), and owes clear debt to the Russian masters in its luminous prose and sweeping exploration of romance, warfare, science, and history.

About J.M. Sidorova:

J.M. Sidorova was born in Moscow when it was the capital of the USSR, to the family of an official of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. She attended Moscow State University and the graduate school of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1990 and works as a research professor at the University of Washington, where she studies cellular biology of aging and carcinogenesis.

Sorry, this giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on August 6, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.

a Rafflecopter giveaway




Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:00 AM 10 comments  

Labels:

Monday, July 15, 2013

Giveaway: THE KNIGHTMARE by Deborah Valentine

Thanks to the author, Deborah Valentine I am giving away one ebook copy of The Knightmare.

Book Description:

When Scottish Formula 1 driver Conor Westfield is injured in a racing accident, could it be mere coincidence that as he recovers from his injuries his childhood nightmare recurs — a strange jumble of terrifying images that feel more like memories than dreams? Or that he is soon informed a mysterious woman with whom he had very brief affair has died and left him as her heir? But this was no ordinary woman and no ordinary affair.

Dogged by a niggling feeling of déjà vu, Conor reluctantly travels to Amsterdam to identify the body. At her home he finds an illuminated book that transports him back in time to a past life as a Knight Templar where he rediscovers the woman he left behind and a life lived in the shadow of a tragedy that cries out across 800 years for resolution.

About Deborah Valentine:

Deborah Valentine is a British author, editor and screenwriter who once lived in California but far preferred the British weather and fled to London, where she has resided for many years. She is the author of three books published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in the UK, and Bantam and Avon in the US. Unorthodox Methods was the first in the series, followed by A Collector of Photographs and the Ireland-based Fine Distinctions.

A Collector of Photographs was short-listed for an Edgar Allan Poe, a Shamus, a Macavity and an Anthony Boucher award. Fine Distinctions was also short-listed for an Edgar. They are soon to be available as eBooks on the Orion imprint The Murder Room.

With the publication of The Knightmare she has embarked on a new series of books with a supernatural edge. For more visit her website 
http://www.deborahvalentine.co.uk/ or The Knightmare Facebook page. She is a Goodreads author.

This giveaway is open internationally and ends on July 29, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
a Rafflecopter giveaway



Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:00 AM 7 comments  

Labels:

Friday, July 12, 2013

Giveaway: GODIVA by Nicole Galland

Thanks to Kaitlyn Kennedy of  HarperCollins Publishers, I am giving away two copies of Godiva.

Book Description:

Everyone knows the legend of Lady Godiva-the woman who (in)famously rode naked on horseback through Coventry to relieve her people from unfair taxation. But why would a lady of the court take it all off and risk everything, including husband, home, and well-being?

In this richly imagined retelling of an oft-told ancient tale, Nicole Galland gives us Lady Godiva in all her, um, glory, as she and her best friend (the Abbess Egdiva) and husband (Leofric, Earl of Mercia) embark on an adventure filled with courtly intrigue, deceit, back-stabbing, and romance.

About Nicole Galland:

Nicole Galland is the author of four previous novels: The Fool’s Tale, Revenge of the Rose, Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade, and I, Iago. She is also a coauthor of the three-volume epic The Mongoliad.

After growing up on Martha’s Vineyard and graduating with honors from Harvard, she divided most of the next 16 years between California and New York City before returning to the Vineyard to stay. During those 16 years she variously made her living in theatre, screenwriting, magazine publishing, grad-schooling, teaching, temping, and random other enterprises. She is the co-founder of Shakespeare for the Masses, a project that irreverently makes the Bard accessible to the Bardophobics of the world. She is married to actor Billy Meleady.

To learn more, please visit Nicole’s website at www.nicolegalland.com

Sorry, this giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on July 26, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
a Rafflecopter giveaway



Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:00 AM 15 comments  

Labels:

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Giveaway: Sweet Nothings by Janis Thomas

Thanks to Caitlin Valenziano of  Berkley/NAL, Penguin Group USA, I am giveaway one copy of  Sweet Nothings.

Book Description:

Life’s sweetest moments happen when you least expect them . . .

When Ruby McMillan’s husband announces one morning that he’s dumping her for another woman, she’s unable to decide which indignity stings the most: the dissolution of their eighteen-year marriage or the deflation of her white-chocolate soufflé with raspberry Grand Marnier sauce. Without a good-bye to their two teenaged children, Walter leaves Ruby to cope with her ruined dessert, an unpaid mortgage, and her failing bakery.

With only royal icing holding her together, Ruby still manages to pick herself up and move on, subsidizing her income with an extra job as a baking instructor, getting a "my-husband’s-gone” makeover, and even flirting with her gorgeous mortgage broker, Jacob Salt. For as long as she can remember, Ruby has done what’s practical, eschewing far-fetched dreams and true love in favor of stability. But suddenly single again at the age of forty-four, she’s beginning to discover that life is most delicious when you stop following a recipe and just live.

About Janis Thomas:
Photo Credit: Lenard Thomas

Janis Thomas lives in Orange County with her husband, their two children, and their dog Ruby. Janis has written over fifty songs, two children’s books, and is an avid baker. She is also the author of Something New. She can be found online at janisthomas.com


Sorry, this giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on July 25, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
a Rafflecopter giveaway



Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:00 AM 9 comments  

Labels:

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Book Tour/Spotlight: Arce by George Johnson


Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Publication Date: April 7, 2103
Genre: Historical fiction

In Acre, George Johnson takes readers back to a nostalgic time in America's history.

Remember When Baseball Really Was America's Past Time?

Acre Thomas Tulley proved to be a product of his time.  In the late forties and early fifties, back before laptops and computer games, he was outside more than indoors.  He spent hours on the railroad tracks hitting cinders with a stick.  Afternoons were meant for swinging at corn cobs or having cob battles between the barn loft and the cow pound with his friends. Acre, George Johnson's debut novel, is about a boy from the heartland of America, who grows up to become baseball legend. It is a story that takes readers back to a time when family was everything, contracts were sealed with a handshake, and a man was as good as his word.

From swinging sticks at cinders, Acre grew up to hit baseballs with his bat. From the beginning, Acre Thomas Tulley set his goals high. He was still a teenager when he accomplished feats in major league baseball never achieved by any other player in the history of the game.

Keeping to his good family roots, Acre never forgot a promise he made early in his career.  But now, after achieving a legacy that will remain a benchmark for many years to come, will Acre Thomas Tulley walk away to keep that promise? Can he?
About the Author 

George Johnson is a retired elementary school teacher from Prince George's County, Maryland.  

He thought about Acre for two years before he finally put it in writing.Then, it took him three years, off and on, to complete it and put it in print. Being a late starter, the author completed his second book of fiction calledTimber. Acre and Timber are brother and sister. Timber took him two years to complete.

At the present time, he is compiling a collection of short stories he has composed over the years. George Johnson lives in Hagerstown, Maryland with Sharon, his wife of fifty-four years.

 Head on over to Celestial Book Promotions for a chance to win the ebook, here: http://www.celestialbookpromotions.com/3/post/2013/06/acre-book-tour-june-21-july-21.html
Follow the Tour:

June 21 - Celestial Book Promotions
June 21 - paperthoughts (Guest Post)
June 22 - Cassandra M's Place (Review)
June 24 - Kelsey's Book Corner (Guest Post)
June 26 - readalot blog (Book Review)
June 28 - Ali's Books (Guest Post)
June 29 - Iread (Book Review)
July 5 - 2 bibliophiles guide (Review and Interview)
July 10 - Too Many Precious Books, Too Little Time (Feature)
July 18 - deal sharing aunt (Book Review and Interview)
July 19 - A Book Lover's Library (Feature)
July 21 - Fay Moore: I want To Be a Writer (Guest Post)

Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:00 AM 1 comments  

Labels:

Newer Posts Older Posts Home

Subscribe to: Comments (Atom)