Monday, October 14, 2013

Celebrating Authors (Part Duece) Featuring Amy Harmon,Autumn Doughton and Tara Brown


It's about that time for THREE More authors to walk to Book Bliss Plank..Those Authors for this week                                                                 are..Drumroll please... 


                           AMY HARMON,TARA BROWN and AUTUMN DOUGHTON

This is My Weekly post to celebrate Authors who have left me in book bliss and begging for more. You know the ones that make you ugly cry and the ones who you want to stalk to make sure they never stop writing?Yeah those authors.YOU.ALL.FREAKING.ROCK. Being a blogger has given me the awesome opportunity to meet and read for some amazing authors and this is what that post is about.Celebrating those awesome authors.Each week a different THREE will be chosen.Now sit back and enjoy the awesomeness that these Authors are and grab some of their books..I guarantee you will NOT be disappointed.Oh and these awesome authors have NO Idea I've chosen them..SHHHH..::tip toes off the plank::


  The First Author to walk to Plank is ...Amy Harmon.


    Amy Harmon is the Author of several books.Those include A Different Blue and her Up Coming Release Making Faces more are linked below.Amy has constantly left me in Book Bliss with A Different Blue and Running Barefoot.She writes so passionately and it flows in her writing.She is one of those authors who I am constantly checking up on to see what she has in the works.Amy is on my list of books that never fail me.She is guilty of making me Ugly cry.Yes.She is.Did I mention she is  New York Times Bestselling Author and deems me worthy enough to talk too?Me..a mere blogger.She's awesome.Go check out her books..you really will not be left disappointed.








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  Amy Harmon knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what made a good story. Amy Harmon has been a motivational speaker, a grade school teacher, a junior high teacher, a home school mom, and a member of the Grammy Award winning Saints Unified Voices Choir, directed by Gladys Knight. She released a Christian Blues CD in 2007 called "What I Know" - also available on Amazon and wherever digital music is sold. She has written five novels, Running Barefoot, Slow Dance in Purgatory, Prom Night in Purgatory, the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue and coming October 20, Making Faces.



My Second Author to walk the plank is...AUTUMN DOUGHTON

Have you Heard of the Amazing Autumn?She is the Author of In This Moment,I'll be Here and On the Edge of Glass.Now I will start off by saying how happy I was the day I found her and read her books.I hugged my kindle to my chest and sighed.I wanted to hug Autumn.Her books left me filled with giddiness knowing true love exists and its not always perfect but finds its way home.I was lucky enough to Beta Read In This Moment and I can honestly say it was amazing even in Beta form.You know a writers full of awesomesauce when She can leave you in book bliss and book hangover with a book still in Beta form.People.You.Must.Check.Her.Out.  Her books never lead me wrong and that's a wonderful feeling.




About Autumn Doughton

My first love is reading. My second love is pizza.


Currently, I live in Gainesville, Florida and I write books. Fun books for you and your sister and your best friend and your hairdresser, etc. I think of writing as a sort of therapy, and the results tend to be feel-good odes to my lost youth, which is exactly how I like it.



When I'm not working or chasing after my two daughters, two dogs, two cats, three ducks, and one lovely husband, I can be found skulking around the movie theater or local bookseller. Generally with chocolate somewhere on my person, because I never leave home without a treat.


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My Third and Final Author to walk the plank...who is shaking in her books probrably after watching Amy and Autumn walk the plank is...
Tara Brown

My first introduction to Tara Brown's books was The Lonely.Simply put I was blown away.I then ventured on to her other books and have continued to be blown away.I love being blown away.Tara is so very talented.I laughed my way through My Side and was unable to move when I was reading The Lonely. It was worse during the Born Trilogy..I was at the edge of my seat continuously.Why does She does this to me? Because she can and she has that ability and that way with her writing skills...and She has some pretty nifty writing skills if I do say so myself.Go check Tara out..You will be thanking me once you do.






Be Sure to Check out The links below for her FULL list of books.
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Oh and Tara has some of her books FREE right now :)
Cursed Is Free!!!
Death(Book 5) is FREE 
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About Tara Brown


I am not going to talk in the third person. It feels weird.

I am a Canadian author of Paranormal Romance, Post Apocalyptic and Fantasy novels. Mostly because I think I have Writers ADD, I like to call it WADD. It might be a real thing.

I write New Adult, my books have sexual content (Heck yes) and Swearing. You have been warned. Now enjoy!


I have a beagle named Buster, a husband who I force to read everything I write and two girls who want so badly to be a character in my books. And not in that order.



I am mid thirties so be prepared for the chick lit novel this year. I am calling it my Ode to my Midlife Crisis. 

I have been writing since I was old enough to lie. So for some time.


Welcome to my world. Please enjoy the ride.



This Concludes this weeks Authors..Stay tuned to next week to see who walks the plank in Next!





I want to take a minute to thank Everyone for reading this and the AMAZING AUTHORS for all their hard work.Writing isn't easy,It takes so much hard work and they make it look so easy and that in my book is an awesome Author.This one is for you and how simply amazing you are.You all get 2 Thumbs up from me!






*Happy Release Day* Sweet Home By Tillie Cole






At age twenty, Molly Shakespeare knows a lot.

She knows Descartes and Kant.

She knows academia and Oxford.

She knows that the people who love you leave you.

She knows how to be alone.

But when Molly leaves England's grey skies behind to start a new life at the University of Alabama, she finds that she has a lot to learn — she didn't know a summer could be so hot, she didn't know students could be so intimidating, and she certainly didn't know just how much the folks of Alabama love their football.

When a chance encounter with notorious star quarterback, Romeo Prince, leaves her unable to think of anything but his chocolate-brown eyes, dirty-blond hair and perfect physique, Molly soon realises that her quiet, solitary life is about to dramatically change forever...

Mature New Adult novel — contains adult content, highly sexual situations and mature topics. Suited for ages 18 and up*



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“For the initiation task, we will be using brothers from our linked fraternity. You will be blindfolded and will have to kiss—with tongues—a fellow Greek brother and guess the food they’ve just eaten. It’s not a lot to show your commitment, and we will all get a great laugh from it.” Shelly tossed her shampoo advert-worthy hair to the rest of the sorority sisters, who all giggled in response.
Bugger.
I didn’t like the sound of this.
I grabbed Lexi’s arm and leaned in close. “I thought you said hazing wasn’t allowed anymore due to some recent scandal or something? Look at those blindfolds. This is going cause us all to be completely humiliated—that certifies as friggin’ hazing! I can’t do this, Lexi. I’m way out of my depth here.”
Lexi hit me with her black-rimmed puppy-dog eyes. “Please, Molls. For me? It’s not exactly bad hazing; it’s just a kiss with a guy, for God’s sake!”
I dropped my head and groaned. There was no use fighting her. She’d only cry on me again, giving me a guilt trip. “You totally owe me one!”
“Walk to the table and take a blindfold. We’ll put you in a line and the guys will be brought in,” Shelly sang, thoroughly enjoying herself at our expense.
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We did as commanded, and after a few minutes, I heard the door click open and several pairs of feet shuffle into the room. I sensed someone stand before me and nearly puked at the stench. He had liquor and strong, putrid body odour humming out of his pores.
Disgusting.
“When I tap y’all on the shoulder, make out, guess the food correctly, and you’ll be in—simple,” Shelly informed with a gleeful lilt.
I could tell I was at the end of the line because when I waved a hand out beside me, all I felt was thin air.
I would be the last pledge last to go.
The distinct sound of slurping tongues and girls making guesses filled the room, and a chorus of sorority sisters emitting bitchy laughs mid-process came from every direction.
I could feel my pulse racing in nervous apprehension and my hands fidgeted, betraying my burgeoning panic.
Time seemed to still as my turn approached. The frat guy smelled… bad. But I’d do it for Lexi.
A light tap on my back signalled that it was my turn. I braced myself and leaned forward, only to feel a rush of air pass my head and a loud crash come from the side, male laughter echoing around me.
“Move, Macmillan. I think you’re in my spot,” a deep voice drawled.
“Ah n-no… B-b-bullet! Shelly said… said…” Macmillan slurred from the direction of the floor, semi-coherently.
“I don’t give a shit what she said. Go and get a fuckin’ drink, or pass out, or somethin’. You get me?” The menace in this ‘Bullet’ guy’s voice was unmistakable.
“I-I get you. I get you, man.”
I had no clue what was going on or who would be fighting over kissing me. This day just kept getting weirder and weirder by the second.
“Wait! Mac has to—” Shelly shouted.
“Shut the fuck up, Shel.” His tone left no room for argument, and Shelly fell silent.
I was busy chewing on my thumbnail—a nervous habit I adopt in uncomfortable situations—when my new frat guy moved before me, smelling deliciously better than the previous person—summer, soap, and mint. It was familiar. Comforting. Enticing.
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A large, calloused hand pulled my thumb from my mouth and placed it on a hard waist. My fingers crept along the cotton-like fabric covering his torso, identifying the ridges of hard muscle and defined abdominals underneath.
Blindfolding was definitely a sensory awakening; you smelled, felt, and heard so much more.
Hands grasped both sides of my face and I could feel the moment he began to move in towards me, only to suddenly caress my lips, teasingly, softly with his own.
Without warning, my captor expelled a frustrated groan, dropping any gentleness, and his eager, wet tongue invaded my mouth, duelling against mine, fighting for control. I gave it over gladly. There was no other choice.

I’d never felt anything like it.



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18105011-sweet-home?ac=1

Sunday, October 13, 2013

*REVIEW* American Girl On Saturn By Nikki Godwin

American Girl On Saturn 
By Nikki Godwin
The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom - but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of Canadian boyband, Spaceships Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys have to go into hiding ASAP. The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and media frenzy, their dad volunteered to hide the guys...in their house.

Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.

But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to come back to Earth.

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Le'BookSquirrel's Review :
5 SQUIRRELY STARS



  Okay so who never fangirled when they were growing up?I know I did.I admit to having a thing for a certain few Nsyncers and a few Backstreet boys..I know I know.I cant help it.I admit I had their posters on my wall and lockers and even..gasp...recorded their performances.You may ask why am I going on about my Boy Band dreams and how I totally wanted to marry one back then..well here is why.



   American Girl on Saturn is the story of Chloe,Aralie and their six year old sister Emery and of course the boyband Spaceships Around Saturn. The boys from Spaceships Around Saturn are on lockdown at Chloe,Aralie and Emery's house due to a fan trying to shoot at them on tour.This of course ruins all of the girls summer plans.Until that is the Boys walk in the door.This book is totally laugh out loud and some moments and AWEEEEEE at others.I fell in love.Like.In.Love.
I wont go into more details as I never want to 
   As with My Reviews I try and think about what I personally would change with the book.I think I would change that the Boys in the band..due to their age acted a bit more mature.Some of them acted immature and I would think they would be more suave..if you will.However having said that I did fall in love with Milo.Nikki's writing flowed very well and was extremely well edited.Keep up the great work! I Cannot wait to read more from Nikki Godwin.I would LOVE to have a sequel to this story that follows a certain couple.Please.I beg you.You can't see me now but I am on my hands and knees begging you to write a sequel.Please! Totally awesome book.HIGHLY HIGHLY Suggest this book.



 Thank you for taking the time to read Le'BookSquirrels Review..Take it away NSYNC..meow..

Thursday, October 10, 2013

*BLOG TOUR STOP* In Harmony By Helena Newbury






Title: In Harmony
Author: Helena Newbury
Series: Fenbrook Academy (#2)
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Foster and Black New Adult
Release Date: Sept 21 2013 (Expected)
Blurb/Synopsis:
Everyone expects her to succeed….
Karen plays the cello like an angel, and it’s the only thing that makes her truly feel alive. But her father’s dream—for her to join a prestigious orchestra—leaves no time in her life for anything but music…not even love. She feels trapped on her path, but doesn’t know how to rebel.

Everyone expects him to fail….
Connor plays rock guitar like the devil himself, and his ability has got him all the way from a dead-end life in Belfast to a scholarship at Fenbrook Academy. But beneath his arrogance and charm, he doesn’t believe he has what it takes. He’s spent his time in New York drinking and partying, and the only future he sees is a return to Ireland as soon as he flunks out.

But what no one expects….
When her duet partner is injured, Karen is forced to team up with Connor. Neither likes the idea, but what begins as anger and distrust slowly spirals into love…and lust. If they can face up to their feelings and act upon them, they might just have a chance together. Will Connor allow Karen to stop his fall? And can Karen trust him enough to let him show her a life she never thought possible?

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I’m a New Adult Romance author based in London and love to write about tangled love and characters who dare to dream. I believe in strong coffee, fast cars and the ability of him or her to make us forget absolutely everything else.

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

*REVIEW* Seizing Fate By Heather Van Fleet


Seizing Fate
By Heather Van Fleet
Release Date Oct 7th 2013
And you thought Emmy’s life was a hot mess before…

Jack’s gone off to Arizona with his brother, but for how long? Emmy doesn’t have a clue. In his place, though, is Zachary. The whiny, miserable, alpha wolf–boy who is more than ready to take on the duty of her mate/boyfriend — if she’d let him, that is. But the last thing Emmy wants is to deal with a boy who believes that the world should fall solely at his feet whenever he demands it.

But hey, at least her step–douche is gone, and her life is back to an almost normal sense, right?

Wrong again, Emmy’s life will never again be normal…
With her Uncle Prick in town and her best friend acting as secretive as ever, Emmy finds new challenges to overcome — challenges that no seventeen–year–old girl should ever have to deal with. For one thing, what is up with her dream–liaison status anyway? What does it mean, really? And why does her little brother have to go through it too? And then there’s her mom. The lady is acting a tad bit odd, to put it nicely. After all these years, she finally wants to step up and be a parental figure? Heck no! Emmy’s definitely not copacetic with that idea. 

But with the bad, there’s got to be some good out there for her somewhere, right?

Add in the wolves, witches, drama, and lots of kisses and you get Emmy the Extraordinaire, the girl with strawberry–colored hair, and a chip on her shoulder. She’s finally on her way to finding out what her life and her future both have in store for her, even if the road to getting there is nowhere near as easy as she hoped it would be. But Emmy is tough, and more than ready to take on life with her bare hands. 

It’s just too bad she’s madly, desperately, insanely in love with a boy who insists on making her life both a miserable hell and utter perfection at the same time.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18365237-seizing-fate

http://www.amazon.com/Seizing-Fate-Predetermined-Series-ebook/dp/B00FORXHS6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1381238259&sr=1-1&keywords=seizing+fate









REVIEW
5 STARS (Im rating it 10 stars on my blog..Because I can do that :P )
I received a ARC for an Honest Review.

    When I found out Heather Van Fleet was writing Seizing Fate I admit I may have done a bit of dancing and general going crazy.



    Seizing Fate picks up where Resisting Fate leaves off,So if you want to understand Seizing Fate you must read Resisting Fate first.Zachary is still delusional to even think Emmy would want him.Emmy's mom is acting too much like a mom..Emmy's Best Friend is hiding something and that is just the beginning.Jack's back by the way...wonderful aggravating Jack.Jack who you just want to shake some sense into him because He doesn't understand what he is doing to Emmy or US poor readers!Let me take a minute to say how much I wanted to jump into the story and open a can of whoop ass on Zachary..He was a jackhole the entire book and never quite redeemed himself...however I know he is dealing with his own issues but still..if he were to fall in a hole..I wouldn't cry about it.Overall This far surpassed Resisting Fate...and I LOVED Resisting Fate.


     First off,Let me start by saying I love Emmy.I love her attitude and well she's just awesome.Jack..Jack is Wolfilicious (insert edited destiny's child song here). Seizing Fate shows just how well Heather Van Fleet can write.I of course have known that for awhile and I have been wondering when the World would wake up.WAKE UP WORLD..READ HEATHER'S BOOKS.You wont be disappointed.




     When writing a review I always try and think of something I might change in a book.I think in Seizing Fate I would change that Jacks Point of View would have been throughout the book and not just towards the end.I would have LOVED to know what Jack was thinking and his reasoning behind some of the things he did and once I read a chapter from his Point of View it was like WOW..well there you go.I as always look forward to Heather's Books and Cannot wait for the NEXT book in the series.Yes,There better be another book in this series..Im not above bribing authors to write more (I kid I kid).  Here's To you Heather.

*REVIEW* Cinderella Screwed Me Over By Cindi Madsen


Cinderella Screwed Me Over
By Cindi Madsen
Expected Release Date Oct 22,2013

Darby Quinn has a bone to pick with Cinderella. Burned one too many times by ex-boyfriends, Darby has lost all belief in the happily-ever-after that the fairy-tale princess promised her. She's sworn off love, Prince Charmings, and happy endings and she's happy about it. Really. Or at least she was…until she met Jake, her gorgeous neighbor and the manager of her favorite restaurant. But Darby has rules about dating, ones she's culled from her years spent with so-called “princes,” and starting something with Jake would break all of them.

Charming, fun, and unwilling to give up on her, Jake doesn’t fit any of the profiles Darby has created from her case studies of ex-princes-gone-bad. Finally presented with her own Prince Charming, can Darby take a chance on a happily-ever-after?

Full of wit and sarcastic humor, Cinderella Screwed Me Over proves that sometimes the perfect love, like a perfect pair of shoes, is just within your grasp.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17254466-cinderella-screwed-me-over?from_search=true


5 STARS

 I recieved a Advanced Readers Copy for an Honest Review.

    I think every little girl has the Disney Princess fantasy.That life is going to be all cake and rainbows. Unfortunatly, it rarely turns out that way and Poor Darby seems to have a beacon on her that attracts Jackholes.After dating lots of jackholes she decides she no longer believes in love and you have Darby at 30 years old that has given up on men and relationships.Enter Jake.Jake who wont take no for an answer and you have the perfect recipe for a great romance.
   When reading Cinderella Screwed Me Over I was reminded so much of a Sanda Bullock movie.I could literally see it playing out in my head with Sandra as the star.I cannot say enough great things about Cinderella Screwed Me Over.It showed a very pessimistic woman that she could be wrong.The writing was great.It went from present to past..but when it was to past it was almost like a journal entry and what she learned from it.It was genius to write the past that way.The writing is great and flows so smoothly its like butter.I could sit here for hours writing how awesome this book is but my only advice it..READ IT!Its amazing.

Monday, October 7, 2013

L.M Augustine is having a Birthday Sale For His Book Two Roads!!! (From 10/6-10/11)



L.M. Augustine's birthday is on Friday, October 11th and to celebrate, he's putting Two Roads on sale for 99 cents for a limited time: 10/6 - 10/11

Contest: 
To enter to win a Signed copy of Two Roads, buy the e-book of Two Roads on sale for 99 cents and email the receipt to authoraugustine@gmail.com.
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Blurb:

The only person poetry-loving Cali Monroe hates more than herself is Logan Waters, the geeky kid who lives in the dorm building next to hers.

Ever since Cali's parents told her she would amount to nothing, she has felt entirely inadequate. Friendless and alone, she takes on the mean girl role in hopes it will make her feel better--and Logan serves as the perfect target. He infuriates her with his obnoxiously long lashes, his all too perfect dimpled smile, and his complete lack of personality outside of his intelligence. It doesn't hurt that he's part of the reason her brother is dead, either. So Cali hates him, and he returns the favor. Thus, their prank-filled, insult-driven rivalry is born, and torturing Logan quickly becomes the highlight of her life.

But when Cali's parents set them up on a blind date, she begins to realize Logan might not be as boring as she always thought. He shares her love of poetry, takes a sadistic pleasure in making fun of crepes, and he makes her blush when he calls her smile pretty.

And hey, maybe those long lashes of his aren't that obnoxious after all…

Two Roads is New Adult Romance about finding love, standing out, and learning to embrace who you are. It contains some language and mild sexual content.

Add to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18071872-two-roads?ac=1

About the Author:

L.M. Augustine is a YA romance author who is obsessed with writing about dorky teenagers, love, and happy endings. He currently lives in New England, where he spends far too much time reading books and screaming at his computer, and he believes that the solution to the world’s problems can be found in chocolate cake. Click To Subscribe is his first novel, but it won’t be his last.

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