I’m not usually a fan of dramatic high school movies but there’s something about this one that has me hooked!
Thomas McDonell may have something to do with it. 
I think he’d make a pretty good Prince Ash from The Iron Fey series, what do you think?
Today is the release day for one of the best books I’ve read this year. Not only have I enjoyed it but all the readers in my family have loved it as well (mother-in-law, aunt, and cousins).
If you haven’t ordered this book I’d highly suggest doing so.
| Matched by Ally Condie 369 pages, Dutton Juvenile, (2010-11-30) $17.99 (Amazon.com) |
Read my review.
Read an excerpt.
I gave away an extra ARC copy in my Blogoversary giveaway!
It’s been 3 years today since I wrote my first book review! I’m so excited that I’m still going strong and enjoying it.
Over the past three years I’ve changed a lot on what I’m reading and how I review. I’ve also decided that I mainly do this for me, not that I don’t enjoy followers and making friends, but I do this so that I can express myself. Reading is not just a hobby it’s a part of my life.
I hope you enjoy my reviews enough to stick around for another year!
Thanks to everyone who entered the blogoversary giveaway! I’m glad to see so many of you commenting on having fun. I wanted to do something like this last year but I never got around to it.
First I’ll give you the answers to the snippets then announce the winners!
Some wrong answers were: Mockingjay and Mockingbird. Since Mockingbird is an actual title I couldn’t give credit for leaving off the ‘The’ and the ‘s’. Sorry!
Some wrong answers were: Amy and the French Kiss, The French Kiss, Perfect Chemistry. Mostly everyone got this!
Just about everyone who guessed this got it right!
Two people thought this was Bleeding Violet.
A few people thought this was Where She Went.
Everyone who guessed this got it right!
Everyone who guessed this got it right!
One person thought this was Raised by Wolves all others were correct!
A few wrong answers were: Glimmerglass and Halo.
Everyone who guessed this was correct!
This one seemed to stump quite a few of you.
Another one that many didn’t have a guess for.
And the one that had the most incorrect guesses!
Overall everyone did great!
And so the winners are:
I’ve emailed the winners a link to a form to complete for their winnings! They have until Friday to submit their form or new winners will be selected from the randomly populated list.
Thanks again to everyone!
Here’s what I got this week!
In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi of The Story Siren.
 My Soul to Steal (Soul Screamers, Book 4) by Rachel Vincent 352 pages, Harlequin, (2011-01-01) $9.99 (Amazon.com) |
 Wereling by Steve Feasey 288 pages, Feiwel & Friends, (2010-04-27) $9.99 (Amazon.com) |
 Dark Moon: A Wereling Novel by Steve Feasey 336 pages, Feiwel & Friends, (2011-02-01) $9.99 (Amazon.com) |
 Lost Voices by Sarah Porter 304 pages, Harcourt Children's Books, (2011-07-04) $16.99 (Amazon.com) |
 Reaper by Rachel Vincent pages, Harlequin Teen, (2010-11-16) $2.99 (Amazon.com) Free from BooksOnBoard |
 Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent 352 pages, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., (2008-12-08) $12.99 (Amazon.com) Free Kindle edition |
What did you get this week!?
I’m pleased to be apart of Scott Nicholson’s Kindle blog tour!
Check out his other stops for more chances to enter for the Kindle giveaways.
Twelve novels published. Five short-story collections. Two screenplays and counting. My first translated self-published e-book. My first novel collaboration. A young-adult series underway.
A busy year. A lot of words.
And plenty more to put out.
The 90-day blog tour has been a lot of fun but a lot of work—the equivalent of a novel in extra writing. So one of the first orders of business is to collect all the posts into a non-fiction book called “90 Days of Nightmares: A Writer’s Journey.” I’ll probably sell it for 99 cents for Kindle and Nook and offer it free at my web site.
I have enough short stories for three more collections and I will be releasing them with a couple of bonus guest stories and other extra material in each, and these will likely be 99-cent specials.
My thriller Liquid Fear, a novel dealing with bioethics, is about 25 percent done, and it’s more in the mold of Disintegration and The Skull Ring. It’s been calling out to me and will probably be the next project, depending upon what else happens with my other books. And PS Publishing is soon releasing the signed, limited-edition hardcover of my paranormal mystery Transparent Lovers.
I’ve started both the next book in the October Girls paranormal-romance 
series and the sequel to As I Die Lying, so they should be good counterbalance to the heavier Liquid Fear. And J.R. Rain and I will likely continue the Cursed! series if readers want more. Of course, I’ll be putting out the rest of my screenplays, and Ted at Dellaster Design is working on formatting comics for Kindle and Nook. And the children’s book If I Were Your Monster is being proofed and should be out in a week or so, and artist Lee Davis and I are already kicking around another book.
The point of all this isn’t to brag, though I do take pride in my work. The point is that you’re determining what I am writing next. Disintegration is my biggest e-book hit, and though I do want to write the third book in the Littlefield series and bring back the sheriff from The Red Church and Drummer Boy, I will let that wait a little while. Mysteries and thrillers fare better than supernatural novels for the most part, and if I have just as much fun writing all of it, why not write the stuff you like best?
On the promotional front, I’ll keep sending out review copies to bloggers, but we all need a break from Scott Nicholson. Check my web site for special combo deals on signed paperbacks, and also, beginning Dec. 1, I am giving a free e-book version with any signed paper book order, so you can have one for the shelf and one for the e-reader of your choice. And I’ll be back in the spring with one big promo blitz and giveaway with whatever book is ready for release.
So consider this an informal poll of what you would like to see next from me. While it may come down to whatever calls to me the loudest, your opinion is important to me, too.
After all, as I’ve said repeatedly, in this new publishing era, you are the boss.
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Scott Nicholson is author of 12 novels, including the YA paranormal romance October Girls and the thrillers Disintegration, As I Die Lying, Speed Dating with the Dead, Drummer Boy, Forever Never Ends, The Skull Ring, Burial to Follow, and They Hunger. His revised novels for the U.K. Kindle are Creative Spirit, Troubled, and Solom. He’s also written four comic series, six screenplays, and more than 60 short stories. His story collections include Ashes, Curtains, The First, Murdermouth: Zombie Bits, and Flowers.
The Kindle Giveaway is part of Scott’s blog tour. Complete details at http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/blogtour.htm. To be eligible for the Kindle DX or Kindle 3, simply post a comment below with contact info. Feel free to debate and discuss the topic, but you will only be entered once per blog. He’s also giving away a Kindle 3 through the tour newsletter and a Pandora’s Box of free e-books to a follower of “hauntedcomputer” on Twitter. Thanks for playing!
I’ve been following this blog designer blogger, Leelou Blogs, for a while now. She’s super talented. And this week she’s having an amazing few giveaways!
Enter today’s to win the following:
Head over and enter for this prize pack and all the other awesome ones she’s had!
Get your FREE Rachel Vincent novella from her Soul Screamers series a full week earlier than the release date!
Tod Hudson was a typical teenager. He liked girls, sports, food and tolerated his younger brother, Nash. In fact, he had his whole life in front of him--and due to his bean sidhe heritage, it was going to be a very long life indeed. And then the car accident occurred.
Suddenly Tod's future wasn't so sure, and he had to make a choice. Life... Death... or something Between.... – Goodreads
BooksOnBoard has it for FREE in the PDF format! If you own an eReader you should be able to download and transfer it over. Kindle owners can send it to your Free Kindle Conversion email address, wait for the reformatted document and transfer it over and get to reading!
The Kindle Edition will be available on December 1st and it should be for free even though right now it’s listed at $2.39.
The cover is pretty but he seems waay too young! He looks 13!
| Dreamfever: The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning 512 pages, Dell, (2010-10-26) $7.99 (Amazon.com) |
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This review is from last year, I’ve updated or crossed out irrelevant information.
I finished this book last night. It's book 4 of KMM's Fever series. It was amazingly good and I will not be doing a formal review of it.
"I'm not a dude. Lose it." I was not going to ask, "So, how did he look at me?"
"Like it was his birthday and you were the cake."
At least he hadn't smashed this one into the ceiling. It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it, too.
The above quote is one of the best of the book. If you haven't read this series, you are sorely missing out. Although, I'd recommend waiting until [January] after Shadowfever is released that way you'll have ALL the books of the series and won't have to wait an ENTIRE YEAR or more to find out what the hell just happened at the very end of this freaking book! KMM is the Queen of Cliffhangers.
Now, you'd have to understand my predicament. I was reading this on my Kindle and it has these little dots at the bottom that shows my progress. I can usually tell about how many more pages are left in a book by this timeline. And by pages I mean roughly the number of clicks or even minutes of reading left. However, Dreamfever ended with 4 more dots to go!!!! I was SO upset you don't even understand. I was NOT prepared for it to just END. GAH! 4 more dots would be at least 50 more pages......
Anyhow, this series is well worth all the angst it's proving to be. KMM is a brilliant storyteller, world builder, and heart breaker. BUT she promises a happy ending, and for that I have faith.
 Darkfever (Fever Series, Book 1) by Karen Marie Moning 384 pages, Dell, (2007-08-28) $7.99 (Amazon.com)
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 Bloodfever (Fever #2) by Karen Marie Moning 368 pages, Dell, (2008-08-26) $7.99 (Amazon.com) |
 Faefever (Fever, #3) by Karen Marie Moning 416 pages, Dell, (2009-07-28) $7.99 (Amazon.com) |
 Dreamfever (Fever, #4) by Karen Marie Moning 512 pages, Dell, (2010-10-26) $7.99 (Amazon.com) |
I’ve decided to just include them all in one post!
There will be 5 winners! Each will win 3 books each!
I’ll post a list of the titles once the giveaway is over and allow the winners to select their top 3 picks in order of the random.org list.
Author signed copies include:
To enter, please fill out the below form or CLICK HERE to open in a new window.
You can get up to 15 extra entry points if you guess the title to the corresponding snippet I have posted above from top left to right bottom. I didn’t number them so please pay close attention!
Comments are welcome but please refrain from matching title to numbers.
To enter please go to my active blog The Cozy Reader and PLEASE update your feeds and follow that blog in addition to this one or just switch! 
The entry form can be found on that post on The Cozy Reader.
