So I just saw this post in a group, and I'm kind of angry about it and instead of getting all defensive on the post and calling names, I'm going to address it here, hopefully calmly... But my PMS might rear its ugly head... Someone made a comment about how they try and try to connect with bloggers but theyre getting nowhere. Basically said we shun them. Well, first off. I have a policy that I will not share a post that comes in my inbox and is obviously a copy and paste post. I want you to be personal with me. I want to know that you follow what I post and I'm not just another tool for you to use to share what you want. Talk to me. Ask me to share and if I say yes (which I will if you ask) then send me that copy and paste post. I hate being one of many. I want to be different. Second, I am a full time student. I take sixteen credit hours. I don't have a lot of time to do all that I want to do. I can't always share, I can't always read and review. I try, I really do, but I just don't have the time. Third, not all blogs are like that. Yeah some are just plain rude, but don't put us all in one category. We're here to help, but we all have lives too. Books aren't our entire world, no matter how much we want that. So, no. I am not shunning you. I am trying to maintain good grades and share what I can, when I can. I do what I do without pay and only because I want to share these things with you. Sorry that I don't share every single one of the twenty inbox posts I get every day. Rant over. Part 2, the conclusion. Excerpt Of course this is how it goes! When I escape outside like an immature brat, everything's fine. When I come to help carry wood, I die. Such is the Book of Paige, an ironic tragedy. "Listen to me," he says determinedly. "You're out of time. I need you to trust me, Paige. Just this once, baby, please." It's the absolute terror in his voice that wins me over, claiming me fully before I even notice the fear in his watery eyes as well. "Very, very slowly, bend your knees, and get down on your stomach. All your weight, flat and even, gentle, but at once. Got it?" "Yeah," I croak, trembling uncontrollably as I follow his exact directions. Wow, so this is what it feels like to hand control over to another person, sharing your load, risking disappointment and hurt on the off chance of gaining better, greatness even? It's new and not completely unbearable Handled Book 1: An Erotic Quickie Nothing makes my cock stand at attention like my lil' Firecracker. She thinks she can hide behind that sharp tongue and those succulent pink lips, but it only makes her taste all the sweeter. I can't get enough...if only she could say the same. Meet the Authors S.E. Hall resides in Arkansas with her husband of 18 years and 4 beautiful daughters. When not in the stands watching her ladies play softball, she enjoys reading and writing. She's also being clutch at Baggo, when it's warm outside! Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads I am happily married to my husband of five years, have three wonderful children and a beautiful feline companion that keeps me company during late night writing binges. Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads HOT FOR TEACHER Anthology Mandee Mae, Missy Johnson, Liv Morris M.C. Cerny, Elle Bright, Niquel Phalla S. Rios, Amalie Silver, Carly Grey Vicki Green, Nicole Blanchard Release Date: October 28, 2014 LINKS TO BUY (US: http://amzn.to/1zfiQ9F UK: http://amzn.to/1zJ4LSS) Ten sexy NA student/teacher novellas by some of today's bestselling authors. These previously unpublished novellas include: Debating Number Ten by Amalie Silver His goal was ten. Ten notches on his bed post before seducing his debate coach, Miss Shields. Will Simon reach his ideal woman, or will he end up Debating Number Ten? Connect with Amalie Silver Deviation by M.C. Cerny Deviation: an action, behavior, or condition that is different from what is usual or expected. Example: Edith and Jack deviate from the acceptable student teacher relationship. Connect with M.C. Cerny The Life Plan by Phalla S. Rios Everything was perfect, until the middle of my senior year. Our art teacher succumbed to bad health, leaving us with a substitute--and my plans turned to flames, turning into ashes. I thought I wasn't going to fall anymore. But the moment I laid eyes on Mr. Tomlinson, I begin to fall all over again. This can't be happening… Connect with Phalla S. Rios Back to School by Vicki Green Emma Danielson's last year of College and with bartending at night she's walking through life like a zombie. But, when the new teacher walks into her music class she definitely wakes up and takes notice. Josh Tyler's playing and singing at bar's and practices doesn't give him much time but, when he walks into the first day of his new music class and notices a beautiful girl sitting in the back, a fresh set of issues arise and a whole lot of trouble. Connect with Vicki Green Unwritten History by Missy Johnson & Carly Grey We met online. We’d been friends for nearly six months before we finally met. Sparks fly. Things happen. I don’t know what it is we have, but then again, I’m only seventeen. He thinks I’m twenty, because that’s what I tell him. But Secrets never stay hidden for long. Connect with Missy Johnson Connect with Carly Grey Rite of Passage by Mandee Mae Haley knew she had a lot to learn since she pretty much grew up in a bubble. She just didn’t realize the classroom wasn’t the only place she was going to be taught new and exciting things. Connect with Mandee Mae The Teacher's Pet by Niquel The Cunningham twins looked alike but were polar opposites. When Maxine Sheppard, the sexy English teacher, arrived, they had one common goal: becoming the teacher's pet. Connect with Niquel Love Lessons by Liv Morris Desperate to find a teaching job after graduating college, Tali Tillman returns to her high school to teach English Literature. One of her students and star quarterback, Daniel Johnson, begins to fail her class, so Tali's asked to tutor him after-hours. Lines between teacher and student become blurred, but will they be crossed? Connect with Liv Morris Teach Me by Elle Bright History belongs in the past. Or so Savannah thought, until her new history professor decides to teach her a thing or two... Connect with Elle Bright Extra Credit by Nicole Blanchard If nothing else the expensive education at St. Christopher's College should have thoroughly instilled upon Eve Stratton the virtues of avoiding risks. But much like her namesake, all it takes for her resolution to be swayed are the smooth words of a charming devil. And Theodore Drake, her new professor, may as well have come with a warning label. Even though she’s well aware that a relationship could mean ruin for them both, there's nothing more alluring than the temptation. Connect with Nicole Blanchard GIVEAWAY Okay, so you've probably been on Facebook in the past couple hours and have seen people talking about a blogger blackout. Well, let me educate you, for those that have not heard what it is and why this is happening.
About a week or two ago, there was an article posted on the Guardian written by an author. This author, Kathleen Hale, reported that, even though warned not to, read her reviews on Goodreads for her book, and they were not good at all. One review, a one star, stood out to her, and she decided she wanted to get in touch with this reviewer to learn more about why she wrote this review. Throughout all her digging, she claims that she realized that this reviewer wasn't a twenty-something public school teacher, but a forty-something (cannot think of the job she said she had right now...). Hale even had the gall to show up at this bloggers house... but she didn't confront her. She just dropped a book on her doorstep and ran. Hale even claims she had been in contact with Nev from MTV's show Catfish. I'll give you the link to the article so that you can read it and see all the holes she has in this story. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/18/am-i-being-catfished-an-author-confronts-her-number-one-online-critic Name of Book: Heart Recaptured (Hades Hangmen #2) Author: Tillie Cole Release Date: 2 December 2014 Synopsis Even salvation can be delivered through the love of the damned… Beauty can be a curse. Faith can be a cage. Only love can set you free. A few long weeks after being reluctantly ripped from the comforting embrace of her sacred prophet’s religious commune—the only life she has ever known—a terrified Delilah is thrust into a world enveloped by evil and swimming in sin. Steadfastly devout in her faith, and retaining the deep belief that her soul is innately tarnished as a branded ‘Cursed woman of Eve’, Delilah is determined to find her way home to her people in The Order and away from the corrupt and damned outlaw motorcycle club—The Hades Hangmen—who hold her at their secluded compound for her protection—a 'protection' she strongly resents. Delilah yearns to return home, convinced that only amongst her own people, and under the holy guidance of the Lord’s revealed prophet, can her Satan-spawned soul be truly saved. Conditioned her entire life to believe she is a witch... a life-long temptress… the devil’s whore... Delilah increasingly resents her beautiful face, her shapely body and her sensuous effect on men. But when a man of the motorcycle club—a deeply sinful yet stunningly beautiful man—is charged with her care, Delilah begins to see that this dangerous and moralless sinner from the 'outside' may offer her something she did not know could truly exist: unconditional love. Kyler ‘Ky’ Willis loves his life: a daily abundance of brotherhood, liquor, the freedom of the open-road and—best of all—his pick of hot women. Raised a biker brat and now VP of the most notorious MC in the States, Ky has no shortage of club sluts warming his bed; a situation he takes full advantage of… until a certain blonde enters his life… a gorgeous pilgrim-blonde he can’t get out of his head… a pilgrim-blonde he and his club recently-rescued from some backward religious cult… and a pilgrim-blonde he’s been ordered to keep the hell away from and his whorish hands off. When yet another in a lengthy line of drunken blunders forces Ky to reluctantly take charge of the pilgrim-blonde’s care, he realizes that there could be more to this woman than just supermodel looks and a stacked set of tits. He begins to see that she could be the woman who could do the impossible—tame his wild ways and capture his reluctant heart. But the unyielding bonds of Lilah’s past are strong, her ‘people’ determined and, with a new Prophet in charge and hell bent on revenge, they are mightily reluctant to let her go... Meet Tillie Cole Tillie Cole is a Northern girl through and through. She originates from a place called Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by her English rose mother — a farmer’s daughter, her crazy Scottish father, a savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses. http://tilliecole.com https://twitter.com/tillie_cole https://www.facebook.com/tilliecoleauthor https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7074846.Tillie_Cole I, Brittany, got to sit down with the author of the Cursed Series and two of the cover models... read the interviews and enter the giveaway below. Synopsis To feel loss is devastating, To overcome loss is a struggle, To live through the pain, A miracle. What happens when the one person who is everything to you, who gets you, and loves you for the person you are leaves you? Jase Briggs led a fairly normal life. Loving parents, a younger sister and a neighborhood filled with friends. However, it was his best friend, Alena that filled most of his days. She had long blonde hair he liked to pull on and beautiful green eyes that he could stare into for hours. He always kept his feelings on the back burner for fear they could ruin their friendship. His life was great growing up until tragedy struck his senior year of high school. College separated him and his friends and filled each of them with dreams of great things to come. Most lost contact with each other because of their busy lives until the first high school reunion brought them back together. He canât wait to see his friends again but she will be there. Alena Spencer remembers the days when she was young and things were simple and carefree. There are many times she wishes she could go back in time. Her best friend, Jase, was always there for her. His sexy smile, and his finely tuned body from working out and running track caused her feelings to develop further, but she never told him, in fear of losing him. Feeling lost after high school and college, she set out to start a new life, even though it meant leaving Jase behind and trying to forget her feelings for her best friend. Sheâs excited, yet dreading the reunion because he will be there. Will Jase ever find his happiness again or did it die the moment she left? Review (if not reviewing please delete) Buy Now Book Trailer Giveaway Make Sure To Check Out The Release Day Party!!! https://www.facebook.com/events/363368360455022/?ref=br_tf About the Author Vicki Green grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and currently resides in Olathe, Kansas. Along with her husband and two teenage boys, she shares her home with her cocker spaniel's Shadow and Mocha. She has been working full time at the same Company for 35 years. Her life has been filled with the most loving and caring parents, who are both gone now but are still in her heart and mind daily. Vicki enjoys reading Romance books which is what inspired her to begin writing this book. She has always admired Author's dedication and hard work. She had a dream that played out for over a year, came home one day after work and decided to put it on a word document to see how it read and that became 'My Savior Forever', the beginning of her Forever Series. https://www.facebook.com/VickiGreenAuthor?ref=br_tf Hosted By: I had my whole life mapped out. Perfect guy. Perfect friends. Everything was exactly the way I wanted it. That was until that night--the one I can’t remember. It’s all my fault, and now the memories are all I have left of him. Of us. My guilt drowns me until Sam Shea steps back into my life and helps me to the surface. He slowly opens my heart and crawls deep inside before I even realize what’s happening. I know I don’t deserve him. While I’m trying to get used to my new life, pieces of that night slowly start to come back to me. Lies and secrets shatter everything I thought I knew. Maybe I’m not the only one living with regret. Name of Book: Broken Course (Wrecked and Ruined #3)
Author: Aly Martinez Release Date: November 10, 2014 SYNOPSIS: Seven years ago, my life changed forever. One accident and the person I saw in the mirror no longer resembled the woman I used to be. I was lost and confused inside my own body. I felt alone and disconnected from the world, carrying the incredible weight of guilt and loss that wasn't even mine to harbor. Then fate led me to Leo James. He taught me that crazy could be perfectly normal and it shouldn't hurt to breathe. Don't get me wrong. Leo isn't perfect. He has his own cross to bear, and the truth is, that might be why I fell for him in the first place. But despite everything he does for me, learning to forgive myself is infinitely harder than overlooking the flaws of another. Now, the secrets and lies of our past have begun to dictate our future—threatening to ruin us before we get the chance to try. Perhaps we were cursed from the start. Or maybe, just maybe, the remnants of our fractured lives will fit together to form one whole, where love isn’t questioned and being happy is…well, easy. Can a second broken soul be enough to fill the voids of my own? Or will such scarred pasts prove too much for our love alone to overcome? **Each book in this series can be read as a stand-alone.** |