Monday, March 18, 2013

Giveaway: Red Is For Rage by Connie Corcoran Wilson

Today kicks of the tour for Red Is for Rage by Connie Corcoran Wilson.  It is book two of her award winning series The Color of Evil.  Thanks to Connie, the winner of the giveaway will have their choice of The Color of Evil (Book 1) or Red Is For Rage (Book 2) in ebook!

About Red Is For Rage:
Publisher: Quad City Press (March, 2013)
Category: YA, Psychological Thriller, Lite Horror
Available in: Print & eBook, 240 pages
RED IS FOR RAGE is the second book in the award-winning THE COLOR OF EVIL series by Connie (Corcoran) Wilson. THE COLOR OF EVILwon the E-Lit Gold Medal for Horror (Jenkins Group) and the Silver Feather (IWPA).
In Book Two, we learn more about the exact nature of Tad’s paranormal power, Tetrachromatic Super Vision. Can this keen sight help Tad find Stevie Scranton? Will Tad suffer another breakdown from reliving the crimes of serial killer Michael Clay (aka, Pogo, the Killer Clown), as he did when only eight years old? Can Tad learn to harness his special sight to help his loved ones?
When Stevie Scranton goes missing, best friend Tad vows to do everything he can to find him. Even if Stevie is dead, Sally and Earl Scranton, (his parents), and Shannon, (Stevie’s older sister), crave closure. Tad enlists the help of retired policeman Charlie Chandler and a team of volunteers, including Charlie’s old partner, Evelyn Hoeflinger. This rag-tag team of detectives continues searching for Stevie Scranton, the runty misfit of Cedar Falls’ Sky High. In their search, they discover a monster every bit as dangerous as Pogo and must confront him in order to save Stevie.
Tad sees auras around others that tell him whether they are good or evil. The truly evil are surrounded by a khaki aura (THE COLOR OF EVIL). At night, Tad suffers vivid nightmares that depict the crimes of the evil-doers. Michael Clay (the serial killer Pogo) escapes custody. On the loose again,  Pogo’s actions restart the vicious cycle of violent nightmares. Pogo poses a threat to the entire town of Cedar Falls, but he is especially  a threat to Tad McGreevy.
Pogo has one main goal: kill Tad McGreevy so that Tad cannot disclose Clay’s location. Pogo doesn’t realize that, up until now, Tad has been unable to harness the paranormal ability he possesses. Now, Tad McGreevy must try to learn to use his unique gift.  Stevie Scranton’s fate hangs in the balance. Tad’s power, if precognitive, could save everyone he loves.
Jenny SanGiovanni returns from her father’s home in Boulder, Colorado, to finish her senior year with her old classmates. She brings home a new set of problems. Jeremy Gustaffsson, the fifth-year senior boyfriend in Jenny’s junior year, graduated. But Jeremy is still in town, still obsessed with Jenny, still dangerous.  When Jenny broke up with Jeremy, it made Jeremy mad. Bad things happen to good people when Jeremy Gustaffsson gets angry and  descends into a red rage.
All Jenny’s cheerleader friends from her junior year are back. Many, like Janice Kramer, Heather Crompton and Melody Harris, have problems of their own. Jenny deals with adolescent issues such as self-esteem and self-worth, problems that tax her soul.  But Jenny is not alone. Another Sky High student is driven to the brink. Will that individual plunge into the abyss of despair?
And what of the adults? What has the stress of Stevie’s nine-month ordeal done to Earl and Sally Scranton’s marriage? What problems confront the other adults in Cedar Falls as three evil-doers rise up to create chaos and do them harm?
RED IS FOR RAGE and rage runs rampant in this small Iowa town in the year of our Lord 2005.

Praise for The Color of Evil:

“When I read a horror story, I don’t want to set it down until I turn the final page, and that is exactly what I did with this one.  By the time I reached the middle of the book, I knew I wouldn’t sleep until I found out ‘what happened’. ”-Heather, Books & Quilts

“It’s been awhile since I sat down to read a horror story, but this one was different.  This one made me want to keep reading wanting to know what would happen next, and who would be affected.  Connie Corcoran Wilson did a great job of connecting the characters involved, and by the end you truly had your favorites. ”- Jamie, Minnesota Girl in LA

“Twisted and crazy this one will keep you turning those pages.”- Jenny, Alternate Readality

“ I did not want to set it down.  If you’re looking for a new Horror book to take away for the long weekend or to read over the summer then you must check out The Color Of Evil!”- Jayda, Two Children and a Migraine
 “This was a good suspense novel. The characters were believable and you could really picture them.  If you are looking for a suspense novel with twists and turns and am interesting mix of characters you should definitely be checking this one out.”-Donna, Donna’s Home Blog

“The Color of Evil by Connie Corcoran Wilson is an engrossing page-turner! Although I am not a regular reader of horror stories, I was “hooked” within the first few pages and involved with the characters who seemed both familiar and believable. Now I can’t wait for the next one in the trilogy and hope that Stevie will be O.K. while I wonder what will ultimately become of the evil Michael Clay. I imagine Wilson will deal with that very creatively.”-Jnord, Amazon.com Reviewer

“Connie Corcoran Wilson’s The Color of Evil about a Midwest teen’s power to sense the unimaginable was a page turner for me. The characters were well developed and the setting was familiar. Events were frightening yet not so horrific as to scare me away (I’m not a horror story fan). A good read made even better by this talented writer.”-Ibmamski, Amazon.com Reviewer

About Connie Corcoran Wilson:

Connie (Corcoran) Wilson (MS + 30) graduated from the University of Iowa and Western Illinois University, with additional study at Northern Illinois, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. She taught writing at six Iowa/Illinois colleges and has written for five newspapers and seven blogs, including Associated Content (now owned by Yahoo) which named her its 2008 Content Producer of the Year . She is an active, voting member of HWA (Horror Writers Association) and also a member of ITW (International Thriller Writers) which awarded her its Silver Feather Award in 2012, MWA (Midwest Writers Association), AWP (American Writing Program) and MWC (Midwest Writing Center), which named her its Writer of the Year in 2010. She has won numerous E-Lit awards, a NABE Pinnacle award, an ALMA (American Literary Merit Award),and an IWPA Silver Feather.

Her stories and interviews with writers like David Morrell, Joe Hill, Kurt Vonnegut, Frederik Pohl, William F. Nolan,  Anne Perry, r. Barri Flowers and Jon Land have appeared online and in numerous journals. Her work has won prizes from “Whim’s Place Flash Fiction,” “Writer’s Digest” (Screenplay) and she will have 12 books out by the end of the year. Connie reviewed film and books for the Quad City Times (Davenport, Iowa) for 12 years and wrote humor columns and conducted interviews for the (Moline, Illinois) Daily Dispatch.  Connie was a presenter at the Spellbinders Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii over Labor Day.  She now blogs for 7 blogs, is a Featured Contributor to Yahoo, and comments on movies, television, politics, writing and anything else that interests her both on Yahoo and on her own blog, www.WeeklyWilson.com.

Connie lives in East Moline, Illinois with husband Craig and cat Lucy, and in Chicago, Illinois, where her son, Scott and daughter-in-law Jessica and their three-year-old twins Elise and Ava reside. Her daughter, Stacey, recently graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, as a Music Business graduate and is currently living and working in Australia.
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

March Reviews For the 2013 ARC Reading Challenge


In February, we collectively read and reviewed 36 ARC's for a total of 66 ARC's, so far in 2013!  
Here are the standings so far:

Level Bronze (up to 12 Arcs):
Andrea 8
Christine 4
Darlene 8Krista 4
Rebecca 6
Retha 4Teddy 8Yvonne 8

Working on Silver:
Nicola 15

Silver (24 ARCS):

Working on Gold:

Gold ( 30 ARCS):

Working on Platinum:

Platinum (35 ARCS):


If you don't see yourself in the standings above, it is because you didn't leave a comment telling me how many books you read so far. You need to do this at the end of each month.

Please post the books you read in February for the challenge in Mr. Linky, below:
If you forgot to post book in any previous months, please post them in Mr. Linky below as well.

Please enter your name and the name of the book in this format: Name: (Your Name, Book Title and Author's Name) for example: (Teddy, Obsessive Reading by Helen Reader). 



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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 Shelly Lowenkopf for making this giveaway possible.
The winner is:
Julia H.








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The winner is:
Linda K







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The winner is:
Marjore T.






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The winner Is:
Anita Y.







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The winner is:
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Thanks again to Kaitlyn McCrystal of Touchstone Publicity: Simon & Schuster, Inc, for making this giveaway possible.

The winner is:
Linda K.







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Friday, March 15, 2013

Review & Giveaway: March With Me by Rosalie Turner

Book Description:

Like a tornado, the civil rights movement struck Birmingham in the spring of ’63.  In this coming of age novel we are swept into the separate cultures of the south. 
Two girls, one black and one white, endure the pain and prejudice of segregation. The girls mature and pursue the same profession until one fateful day when a force of nature sweeps in and rearranges their lives.

My Thoughts:

I recently read and reviewed a book dealing with the same subject in the same place, Through Angel's Eyes by Steve Theunissen.

I can never get enough of certain times in history and 1960's anything is one of them.  Especially when it's about human rights and segregation.  I am a child of the 60's, born in 1963, right when the protest were really heating up. 

I still can't wrap my head around why it is that there are people who think they are better than someone else that has a different skin color.  I was born and raised in Minnesota but I would hope I would have felt the same way had I come from the south.

One of the main characters in this book, Martha Ann, a white girl in Birmingham ponder this question.  She didn't know if it was right or wrong by she wanted to know why.  Her father, especially, was very racist.

While Through Angel's Eyes was focused primarily on the African American population and was narrated by Angel, a 13 year old African American girl, March With Me focuses on both sides of the issue.  There were two narrators, a white girl, Martha Ann and an African American girl, Letitia.

I liked this approach, it showed two girls one on each side of the tracks.  The characters were well defined.  The writing was great for the most part but sometimes the narration seemed to change from first person.  I also found the characters say something out of character for their age, especially Martha Ann.

However, I loved that Turner let us into the world of two different girls from both sides.  To me that was unique from other books I  have read on this topic. I recommend this book!

4/5

About Rosalie Turner:

Rosalie Turner is the award-winning author of five books.  Her novel, Sisters of Valor, recently received the Military Writers Society of America Bronze Award for Fiction.
While living in Jacksonville, FL she was awarded the JC Penney Award for establishing an inner city reading program.

Rosalie divides her time between New Mexico and Alabama.

Thanks to Stephanie Barko, Literary Publicist, I am giving away one copy of March With Me.  This giveaway is open to internationally.  Print copy for U.S. or Canada, ebook for other.  This offer ends on March 29, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Giveaway: Wanderlust by Elieba Levine

Starting today, Wanderlust by Elieba Levine is on tour!  If you love erotica, this book is for you.  Thanks to Elieba, we are giving away one ebook of Wonderlust!  If you follow the tour and do all of the easy tasks on the Rafflecopter, can get get a lot of entries and discover great websites!

Description of Wanderlust:

Publisher: Pinnacle (September 26, 2012)
Category: Erotica
Tour Dates: March, 2013
Available in: ebook  196 pages
ADVENTURE From New York to Kenya to Katmandu, Jane Perry sets out to explore the world and finds romance and excitement at every turn… PASSION From Bali to Sydney to Hawaii, Jane follows her heart’s desires… and leaves behind men who will never forget her… WANDERLUST An erotic odyssey of passion and obsession. Part of a trilogy: Wanderlust, Interludes, Escapes
Praise for Wanderlust:

” If you liked Fifty Shades of Gray you will love wanderlust !! A terrific read !!!! From the first pages to the last i could not put the book down !!”- Les Ereb, Amazon Reviewer

” What a wonderful book! I just can’t get over it! The excitement is present page after page! Can’t wait to read the next book!”- Mrs A.Yard, Amazon Reviewer

” Wanderlust took me on a captivating, dreamy journey. I enjoyed every moment of it and didn’t want it to end.  I look forward to the other books in the series.
A real page turner.”- Wylee, Amazon Reviewer

” Fun and stimulating, a cruise around the world that I could only do in this character’s expression. An absolutely fun read!”- Fbrgddss, Amazon Reviewer

” From the moment I opened the book, I couldn’t close it until the last page. It’s a good guilty pleasure but it’s not you’re usual erotic novel, it’s full of witty characters, smart dialogues.. A great canvas of lust, empowerment for women, and sexual liberation (And great erotica…)”- Junnnne, Amazon Reviewer

About Elieba Levine:

Elieba Levine is a passionate writer and discerning editor who currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has written five fiction novels, a picture book, and an award-winning screenplay. Her extensive world travels greatly influenced the settings in her erotic trilogy Wanderlust, Interludes, and Escapes—which have recently been released in electronic format. She is currently working on her next novel.

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This giveaway ends on March 30, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
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Follow the Tour:

 So Many Precious Books Mar 14 Group Giveaway
Makayla’s Book Reviews Mar 15 Review
Allison Meritt  Mar 15 Interview & Group Giveaway
Journey Through Words Mar 18 Review
Dab of Darkness Mar 18 Interview
Reading Penguin Mar 19 Review
Fictionators Mar 19 Review & Group Giveaway
Crazy for Books Mar 21 Review
Crazy for Books Mar 22 I interview & Group Giveaway
Saving for 6 Mar 22 Review & Group Giveaway
Romance Bookie Mar 25 Guest Post & Giveaway
Book Lovers Cozy Cafe Mar 26 Review
Top Shelf Mar 27 Review
Romancing the Book Mar 28 Review
Romancing the Book Mar 28 Interview
The Bookworm Mar 29 Review & Group Giveaway





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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Giveaway: Goldenland Past Dark by Chandler Klang Smith


Thanks to Beverly Bambury  of  ChiZine Publications, I am giving away one Ebook copy of Goldenland Past Dark!

Book Description:

A hostile stranger is hunting Dr. Show’s ramshackle travelling circus across 1960s America. His target: the ringmaster himself. Struggling to elude the menace, Dr. Show scraps his ambitious itinerary; ticket sales plummet, and nothing but disaster looms. The troupe’s unravelling hopes fall on their latest and most promising recruit, Webern Bell, a sixteen-year-old hunchbacked midget devoted obsessively to perfecting the surreal clown performances that come to him in his dreams. But as they travel through a landscape of abandoned amusement parks and rural ghost towns, Webern’s bizarre past starts to pursue him, as well. Along the way, we meet Nepenthe, the seductive Lizard Girl; Brunhilde, a shell-shocked bearded lady; Marzipan, a world-weary chimp; a cabal of drunken, backstabbing clowns; Webern’s uncanny sisters, witchy dogcatchers who speak only in rhymes; and his childhood friend, Wags, who may or may not be imaginary, and whose motives are far more sinister than they seem.

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About Chandler Klang Smith:

Chandler Klang Smith grew up in Springfield, Illinois, before dropping out of high school early and running away to join the circus – or rather, the most circus-like educational environment she could find, namely, Bennington College. After four years of costume parties, lonely mountains, brilliant professors, passionate 3 a.m. aesthetic arguments, and dark nights of the soul, she graduated in 2005 with a concentration in literature and philosophy and journeyed on to the MFA Creative Writing Program at Columbia University, from which she graduated in 2007. At Columbia, she began the project that would develop into Goldenland Past Dark and discovered the joys and terrors of a city grown large beyond all reason, a mutant place nourished by history and money and the redemptive elixir of art.

In New York City, she has enmeshed herself variously in the great machine of publishing: as the ghostwriter of two young adult novels for Alloy Entertainment Group, as a reader for the Paris Review, as an assistant/associate agent for a boutique literary agency, and currently, as the Events Coordinator for the KGB Bar. She still loves books.

Chandler's Website.
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The giveaway is open worldwide and ends on March 27, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
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