miercuri, 27 aprilie 2016

Blog Tour - Ascenders: Skypunch (Ascenders #2) by C.L. Gaber + Teasers



Ascenders: Skypunch (Ascenders #2) by C.L. Gaber
Genre: YA Paranormal

Summary:

In the Midst—a place for those who die young—there are no rules except one. 

And Walker Callaghan, dead at seventeen, just broke it. She briefly revisited her earthly life . . . and the punishment is eternal. Longing for her rebel love interest, Daniel Reid, Walker finds an ally in Cass, whose attraction to her is as alive as he is. “Life is short,” he tells her. “I’m banking on eternity. With you.”


In the second book of the Ascenders Saga, a realm-jumping journey takes Walker and Daniel back to life again when they search for something buried in history. They team with students from several other schools in the middle realm including a place for teens born with oddities. It’s home to the Claires . . . beautiful, ruthless, and quite dead seventeen-year-old quads who each have a different clairvoyant gift.


Can Walker survive another adventure of an afterlife-time—or at the tender age of seventeen will she find herself on the downside of eternity?

Book One (click on image for Goodreads link):


About the Author:

C.L. Gaber is the author of the ASCENDERS SAGA and co author of Jex Malone. A well known entertainment journalist, she lives in Nevada with her husband Ron, bonus daughter Sabrina and two unruly dogs. ASCENDERS 2 is due out in early 2016. 

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vineri, 22 aprilie 2016

Blog Tour - Dark Incidence by A.G. Liam - Teaser, Giveaway



Dark Incidence by A.G. Liam
Genre: YA Paranormal
Release Date: March 18th 2014

Summary:

Dani is determined to change. Trodden down by her abusive stepdad, neglectful mother, and nonexistent social life, Dani decides to leave it all behind—she flees into the night and finds herself in a dark, and strangely wondrous, new world, a world unknown to most humans.

However, destiny is an unpredictable force. Through a peculiar turn of events, she unknowingly gets entangled in a brutal war waging between two factions of vampires.

The Ruemisuds are a technologically advanced, elite vampire society that wants absolute control. They will stop at nothing to get it, including experimenting on unsuspecting humans and decimating the Rhowels, a clandestine, rebel clan of vampires. But the Rhowels possess a key to survival that the Ruemisuds desperately want, which they will protect until the bitter end.

Dani's riveting journey has just begun in this beautiful tale of love, hate, betrayal, and, above all, survival. The war is escalating quickly and Dani is determined to survive. Who will help her? Who will win the war?



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About the Author:

A.G. grew up in a gloomy and quaint suburb near London, England, and now lives in sunny southern California with her husband and her son. She has been an avid horror and paranormal fan since she can remember, reading Goosebumps when she was a child, to watching Twilight Zone as a teenager with her grandpa. 

She earned her B.A. in psychology, but decided to follow her passion of storytelling instead. Dark Incidence is her first full length novel, a unique vampire science fiction told through the eyes of two siblings. A.G. also has directed numerous shorts and written children's books. 

Her favorite pastime is watching paranormal and horror movies, painting landscapes and seascapes, and reading fiction novels. She can never turn down an invite to eat something home cooked. 

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Cover Reveal - 1986 by Morgan Parker + Teasers, Giveaway



 1986 by Morgan Parker 
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Cover Design: By Hang Le 
Release Date: June 13, 2016 

Blurb:

Allana Harrison wanted out. She wanted to escape her painful, broken past and enjoy a fresh start somewhere else. Anywhere else. And while all of the boys in high school and college promised to deliver that dream, only one man actually pulled through. 

Now a young adult, Allana finds herself on the opposite side of the world, in a prosperous and rich town that's not only isolated from her past, but from the crime, grime and hustle of bigger cities, in a country where she doesn't understand the language or know anybody else except her husband. And that's how she likes it. 

Until she meets Alex, another American who ends up being her only other friend, the one person who reminds her of what it's like to feel desired, wanted and hungered for. 

Except Alex has motives. And Alex has questions -- about her husband's work at the world's most-advanced, leading-edge power station, questions he wants answered... and when Allana can no longer provide them, Alex threatens to reveal the secrets of their forbidden past, secrets that will destroy the man that saved her. 

Caught between two men -- one she loves and the other she can't help but love -- Allana must deliberate the role she plays in the moments leading to humankind's greatest disaster... in 1986.



Pre-order Links:
AMAZON US / UK


Author Bio:

As the author of the best-selling mystery romance, Surviving Goodbye, Morgan Parker has written several other novels under this pen name. In 2012 and 2013, he self-published Textual Encounters and Textual Encounters: 2, respectively. As a result of the interest in these two stories, he wrote non friction, an unconventional love story. That love story earned Mr. Parker a tremendous amount of attention and at the insistence of his readers, he followed it with Hope (a novella) and Sick Day. All three of those stories have spent time on Amazon best-seller lists.

When not writing, Morgan likes to spend time gathering story material from his two young children, rereading books by Colin Harrison, and napping where he discovered the Type II Sleep State, which is the topic for an untitled trilogy to be released in late-2016.

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joi, 21 aprilie 2016

Blog Tour - Anomalies by Sadie Turner & Colette Freedman - Writing Tips & Tricks + Giveaway



Release Date: February 9th 2016
Genre: YA Sci fi
Select Books in NY

Summary:

In the future there is no disease. There is no war. There is no discontent. All citizens are complacent members of the Global Governance. But one summer is about to change everything.

Keeva Tee just turned fifteen. All of her dreams are about to come true. She s about to make the trip to Monarch Camp to be imprinted with her intended life partner. One day they ll have perfect kids and a perfect life. But in her happy, carefree life in the Ocean Community, something weighs on her mind. She hears whispers about anomalies citizens who can t be imprinted. No one knows what happens to them, but they never seem to come back.

When Keeva arrives at Monarch Camp, her worst nightmare becomes a reality she is an anomaly. After imprinting, the people she loves change, and she starts to doubt everything she s ever believed. What if freedom and individuality have been sacrificed for security? And what if the man who solves all the problems is the very man who s created them and what if he isn't a man at all?

When Keeva finds a warning carved under a bunk bed she begins to understand: nonconformity will be punished, dissent is not an option, insurgents will be destroyed.


About the Authors:

SADIE TURNER is a Los Angeles-based producer and writer originally from Brighton, England, who works in business development with several Hollywood entrepreneurs. She has various projects in development, and also teaches yoga. 

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COLETTE FREEDMAN is an internationally produced playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who was recently named one of the Dramatist Guild’s “50 to Watch”. Her play Sister Cities (NYTE, 2009) was the hit of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe and earned five star reviews: It has been produced around the country and internationally, including Paris (Une Ville, Une Soeur) and Rome (Le Quattro Sorelle). She has authored fifteen produced plays including Serial Killer Barbie (Brooklyn Publishers, 2004), First to the Egg (Grand prize shorts urban shorts festival), Bridesmaid # 3 (Louisville finalist 2008), and Ellipses… (Dezart Festival winner 2010), as well as a modern adaptation of Iphigenia in Aulis written in iambic pentameter. She was commissioned to write a modern adaptation of Uncle Vanya which is in preproduction and has co-written, with International bestselling novelist Jackie Collins, the play Jackie Collins Hollywood Lies, which is gearing up for National Tour. In collaboration with The New York Times best selling author Michael Scott, she has just sold the thriller The Thirteen Hallows, to Tor/Macmillan, which comes out Dec 6, 2011. She has just sold the novel The Affair to Kensington and is getting ready to shop her YA series The A+ Girls.

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tips and tricks for aspiring authors, how to get back into writing after few years

There are a billion excuses why not to write. That is where most people start. With the excuse.  “I can’t write because x, y, z.” The reality is, anyone can write... it is simply a matter of being disciplined with your time and talent. 

Sitting down at the computer is often the most difficult obstacle to overcome. It’s akin to going to the gym. Once you put on your running shoes and gym clothes, the hard part is over. Same thing with writing.

 People talk about writers’ block, but we don’t believe in it. Maybe you aren’t inspired one day. Maybe you sit down for five hours and write crap...there still may be one kernel of an idea within that crap which is viable. Some days, you sit down and it’s magical. But if you keep sitting down in front of the computer (or standing if you have one of those cool standing desks) then the ideas will flow.

 Ritual is always important. We always start with a hot drink Coffee (Colette) and Tea (Sadie). Sipping from a mug is a way to slowly sooth your senses and get back into your story. The biggest tip we can offer... end in the middle of a thought or sentence, that way the following day you can start right up again and finish your thought. The momentum is already going in your favor. Another tip is read. Read everything you can. We are both avid readers and it is a terrific way to spur the imagination. We try not to read in the genre we are writing at the time, so during Anomalies, neither one of us read any YA lit; instead, we focused on some great spiritual books (Sadie) and zombie books (Colette). And get a comfortable chair. It makes a big difference. 

miercuri, 13 aprilie 2016

Blog Tour - The Ending Element: Calista by Lorraine Koh - Guest Post, Giveaway & Teasers



The Ending Element: Calista by Lorraine Koh
Genre: YA Fantasy
Pages: 216
Release date: February 8th 2016

Summary:

Calista Bloom never wanted to fight in the war and it has been five years since war waged over Kosmotopia. All because of a sword. Fair enough, the Astronblade is supposed to hold infinite power, that is, once it finds its one true owner. 

But every 18-year-old will need to join the military and Calista soon finds herself trying to awaken the Astronblade. 

Will this batch hold the Blade Bearer? Or will finding the Blade Bearer trigger the chain of events that will bring about the end of the world?







About the Author:

Lorraine Koh, who also goes by the pen name, Raine Koh lives in sunny Singapore. She has written Munchy Isn't Everything and Pop Rock Love and is currently working on a new novel. Her hobbies include chasing stars, photographing them and travelling to see them.

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Tips For Aspiring Authors:

Write daily. Write constantly

Rome wasn’t built in a day and a book needs time to finish. There is also that dreaded drafting and re-drafting of your manuscript. No matter how daunting writing your book may be, you just need to write constantly to get to the final period.

Be open to the world around you.

Writers are usually anti-social in nature. We spend long hours facing our computer screen, shut away from society. But most of the time, our writing is drawn from our experiences. Talk to people, travel and get inspired.

Have a marketing plan.

It doesn’t matter if you are self-publishing or have a publisher. You need a marketing plan. Use the marketing tools available to you, whether they be social media, conducting book tours or doing some form of publicity blitz. Authors need to be proactive in marketing their books.

Don’t give up.

Even if you don’t see any returns after publishing your book, it doesn’t mean you need to throw in the towel. Review your book publishing experience and see what could be done better. If you really feel that being an author is what you have been called to do, then don’t give up. Being an author is an upward climb. Try again, start working on your next book, build your fan base and you will reach the top of the mountain someday.

Audio Tour - Sincerely, Carter by Whitney G. + Giveaway




Sincerely, Carter by Whitney G.
Publication Date: April 29, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Friends to Lovers

Synopsis:

Just friends.We’re just friends.

No, really. She’s just my best friend…

Arizona Turner has been my best friend since fourth grade, even when we “hated” each other. We’ve been there for one another through first kisses, first “times,” and we’ve been each other’s constant when good relationships turned bad. (We even went to colleges that were minutes away from each other…)

Throughout the years, and despite what anyone says, we’ve never crossed the line.

Never thought about it.
Never wanted to.
Until one night changed everything.
At least, it should’ve …

Just friends.
We’re just friends.
I’m only saying this until I figure out if she’s still “just” my best friend…


About Whitney G.:

A self diagnosed candy addict, travel junkie, and hypochondriac, Whitney Gracia Williams LOVES to write about characters that make you laugh, cry, and want to (in the case of Claire Gracen) reach through your Kindle and slap them.

She is the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of Reasonable Doubt,the Mid Life Love Series, the Jilted Bride Series, the My Last Resolution Series, Wasted Love, and Captain of My Soul.

When she’s not locked inside her room, feverishly typing away on her laptop.