Thursday, August 1, 2013

Winners! Winners! Winners!

I apologize for being so late on announcing the winners of several giveaways. I was gone for 9 days and am still trying to catch up.

Winners are announced below. Emails will be sent soon. Winners have 48 to respond or alas, another name will be drawn.

So here we go! 



3 winners of Sin at Sea

Danielle Schneider 
Yvonne Simpkins
Janetta Robinson

 

Winner of The Year of the Great Seventh

Rachel Spring


3 winners of Emerge

Rose Milligan

Karen Palmer Arrowood
Tina McClay


Winner of Not So Long Ago, Not So Far Away

Anita Yancey



 I am still working on the RAGBRAI entries and will announce them soon. 

All I have to say is 



You all were amazing in your support of my riders! 

Thank you so much!! 



Winners coming soon! 



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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

WWW Wednesdays July 31, 2013


WWW Wednesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading

To play along, just answer the following three questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Clicking on the book covers will take you to Goodreads
for more information about the books listed below.

What are you currently reading?

 The Flower of Isbelline (Queen of the Realm of Faerie #2) by Heidi Garrett
I'm lovin' this series

Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
Listening to this one

What did you recently finish reading?

 The Mermaid of Brooklyn by Amy Shearn

 Nandana's Mark (Queen of the Realm of Faerie #1)
by Heidi Garrett

The Hole in the Middle by Kate Hilton 

What do you think you will read next?

 The Dragon Carnivale (Queen of the Realm of Faerie #3) by Heidi Garrett

What's on your WWW this week?

Leave me a comment and
I'll stop by to check out your reads.


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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

HEIST by Laura Pauling


Can one decision change the past?

Jack Brodie has a sixth sense that someone has been watching him. Following him.

One night he travels back in time to one of the world’s largest art thefts, known as the Gardner Heist. Why that one moment in time? And what does it mean for Jack?

When he returns, his world is different. His best friend is rougher, meaner. His dad hasn't been around in years. And then there’s Jetta. The girl who took over his heart the moment she stepped into his life. No one is safe.

Each time Jack goes back to the heist to fix his mistakes, he returns to face the fallout. Disaster strikes in the present until Jack must make a choice. His family and his own happiness. Or the girl he loves. Except, he learns that his sixth sense was right.

Someone has been watching him and wants him dead. ~~ synopsis from Goodreads

Genre: YA
Release date: August 15, 2013

My thoughts about HEIST ~~

What an amazing ride this book was! I have to admit that the story started out confusing for me. But that just made me want to continue reading. I knew it would all make sense eventually, that's the way it is with time travel. I love the idea of time travel and the opportunity of going back in time to make a different decision in your life and having the opportunity of seeing how things change, for the good or the bad.

That's what happens to Jack. He doesn't understand at first that he is time traveling, things are just different. In trying to make his own life come out differently, he totally changes the lives of those around him. Should one really try to change the past?

I love this part. Words to live by?
'I know truth. No one is perfect. No life is perfect. Someone has it worse. Someone has it better. Take each day and enjoy.'
I thoroughly enjoyed HEIST and love the way the author wrote about the mystery of the Garner heist and wove art history into her story. Laura is a wonderful writer and I am excited to read more of her stories.

About the author


Laura Pauling writes about spies, murder and mystery for the young at heart. She lives the cover of suburban mom/author perfectly, from the minivan to the home-baked snickerdoodles, while hiding her secret missions and covert operations. But shh. Don't tell anyone.

And her kids wonder what she does all day while they're at school; or why on Monday mornings she's a bit grumpy. Living the life of a secret agent isn't easy, but someone has to do it.

This may or may not be what she really looks like. And she may or may not actually bake cookies.

You decide.

A Spy Like Me, her YA debut novel, and the sequel, Heart of an Assassin are now available. The Almost Assassin, the prequel to A Spy Like Me is a short story also found in the In His Eyes Anthology but now available separately.

Connect with Laura

Website | Goodreads | Facebook | Twitter


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Monday, July 29, 2013

Debt Collector Season 1 Blitz

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Synopsis

Season One of the Debt Collector serial with all nine episodes of the first season.

Season 1 is only $.99 right now ~ get all 9 episodes!

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What's your life worth on the open market?

A debt collector can tell you precisely.

Lirium plays the part of the grim reaper well, with his dark trenchcoat, jackboots, and the black marks on his soul that every debt collector carries. He's just in it for his cut, the ten percent of the life energy he collects before he transfers it on to the high potentials, the people who will make the world a better place with their brains, their work, and their lives. That hit of life energy, a bottle of vodka and a visit from one of Madam Anastazja's sex workers keep him alive, stable and mostly sane... until he collects again. But when his recovery ritual is disrupted by a sex worker who isn't what she seems, he has to choose between doing an illegal hit for a girl whose story has more holes than his soul or facing the bottle alone--a dark pit he's not sure he'll be able to climb out of again.

The nine episodes of the Debt Collector serial are collectively 125k words or about 500 pages. This dark and gritty future-noir is about a world where your life-worth is tabulated on the open market and going into debt risks a lot more than your credit rating.

For more info about the Debt Collector serial, see DebtCollectorSeries.com

Contains mature content and themes.

For young-adult-appropriate thrills, see Susan's bestselling Mindjack series.

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Episode List

Delirium - Debt Collector 1
Agony - Debt Collector 2
Ecstasy - Debt Collector 3
Broken - Debt Collector 4
Driven - Debt Collector 5
Fallen - Debt Collector 6
Promise - Debt Collector 7
Ruthless - Debt Collector 8
Passion - Debt Collector 9

Book Links
Season 1 is only $.99 right now ~ all 9 episodes!
About the Author

Susan Kaye Quinn web


Susan Kaye Quinn is the author of the bestselling young adult SF Mindjack Trilogy. The just-released Debt Collector series is her more grown-up SF, meant for ages 17+.

Susan grew up in California, got a bunch of engineering degrees (B.S. Aerospace Engineering, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering) and worked everywhere from NASA to NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research). She designed aircraft engines, studied global warming, and held elected office (as a school board member). Now that she writes novels, her business card says "Author and Rocket Scientist," but she mostly sits around in her pajamas in awe that she gets paid to make stuff up.

All her engineering skills come in handy when dreaming up dangerous mindpowers, future dystopic worlds, and slightly plausible steampunk inventions. For her stories, of course. Just ignore that stuff in the basement.
Susan writes from the Chicago suburbs with her three boys, two cats, and one husband. Which, it turns out, is exactly as much as she can handle.

You can find her on Facebook way too often.
Or you can reach her the old-fashioned way:
susankayequinn (at) comcast (dot) net

Author Links

Website | Facebook | The Mindjack Trilogy



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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Book Spotlight and a Giveaway! White Lines by Jennifer Banash


White Lines


A gritty, atmospheric coming of age tale set in 1980s New York City.

Seventeen-year-old Cat is living every teenager’s dream: she has her own apartment on the Lower East Side and at night she’s club kid royalty, guarding the velvet rope at some of the hottest clubs in the city. The night with its crazy, frenetic, high-inducing energy—the pulsing beat of the music, the radiant, joyful people and those seductive white lines that can ease all pain—is when Cat truly lives. But her daytime, when real life occurs, is more nightmare than dream. Having spent years suffering her mother’s emotional and physical abuse, and abandoned by her father, Cat is terrified and alone—unable to connect to anyone or anything. But when someone comes along who makes her want to truly live, she’ll need to summon the courage to confront her demons and take control of a life already spinning dangerously out of control.

Both poignant and raw, White Lines is a gripping tale and the reader won’t want to look away. ~~ synopsis from Goodreads

I read this book back in May and as disturbing as the situation and the topic was, I still loved the story. 

You can read my thoughts here

About the author



Jennifer Banash was born and raised in New York City. She now lives in Southern California with her beagle, Sigmund, and her vast collection of designer shoes.

Connect with Jennifer

Website | Facebook | Goodreads | Twitter

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