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Wednesday 13 May 2015

Blog Tour & Giveaway - Tillie's Tale by Mindy Mymudes




Tillie's Tale
Author: Mindy Mymudes
Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing
Genre: Fantasy / Mystery
Publication Date: March 24, 2015

Book Description:
Who is the mysterious ghosty haunting puppygirl Tillie? And why? George, the magical basset hound familiar is on the trail.

It’s not often a basset hound puppy is haunted by an unhappy ghost, but George’s packmate, Tillie, manages to attract one. George and Tillie need to find out how to help the ghost before she turns into a poultry-ghost.



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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25142075-tillie-s-tale

Tuesday 12 May 2015

Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Amnesty by Jo Noelle

Amnesty


AmnestyAmnesty
Author: Jo Noelle

Book Description:
Cassie is going to heaven—if she can get amnesty from hell in the next twenty days. Her assignment is to change the eternal destination of a girl in Albuquerque to earn admittance into heaven.

No sweat. But when Cassie returns to earth during her three-week, mostly-mortal assignment, her old habits get in the way, (apparently habits don’t die when you do), the partners assigned to help her are anything but helpful, and it turns out the girl she is supposed to help is the only enemy she made on her first day of school.

Oh, I’m so going to hell.

Things aren’t all bad—it helps to have a hot angel on your side. Mmm-Marc. Even though he’s all about heavenly business, Cassie would like to make it personal. Assignment with benefits.

This young adult novel is a coming of age story with a clean romance, packed with action and suspense.

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Two Year Blogoversary & Giveaway


TWO TODAY
WOO HOO!!!

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I can't believe it's been two years since I launched CBY. And to think, I had no intention of starting an actual blog. My aim was to start a Wattpad book club to highlight some of the amazing books on the site. Through active participation and enthusiasm by those Wattpad members, a blog just seemed like the next best step. And now, I love being th host of CBY.

I'm happy to say the blog is flourishing and has a great following of loyal members who stop by to share their thoughts and keep the blog active. I'm glad I decided to start this journey. I have numerous ideas brewing inside my head to help authors further spread word about their amazing books so stay tuned.

It's been another amazing year. To say thank you to all you wonderful folks, here's a giveaway just for you.

Here's to another great year!

***Giveaway***

My giveaway is for a $20 Amazon.com Gift Card or Paypal Cash or a Book of Choice (up to $20) from The Book Depository.

Ends June 12th (midnight GMT).

Open internationally.

Contest is void where prohibited. Entrants must be 13 or else have parent or guardian’s permission to enter. Winners will be notified via email and will have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be selected. The winner will be posted on this page after the winner responds. Winning entries will be verified for authenticity.

Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - Moon Mail and Star Kisses by Amanda Salisbury

Moon Mall 



  Moon Mail and Star Kisses 

Moon Mail and Star Kisses
Author: Amanda Salisbury

Book Description:
In Moon Mail and Star Kisses, a loving adult and child must be separated for a little while. The adult promises the child to send greetings and kisses through the night sky, shared no matter the distance of place or time apart. The moon, the stars, and a person’s love are bright and constant even when they cannot be seen.

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Blog Tour Promo - After Ozz by Bart Baker




After Ozz
Author: Bart Baker
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 254
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Kindle/Paperback

Book Description: 
With her uncle, the President of the United States, presumed dead and her beloved younger brother, Ozz, missing, Dot Gale is whisked into an odyssey in a different, very strange dimension. With the aid of three friends she makes on this arduous adventure, Scared Crow, Heartless and half man/half beast, Lars, Dot must battle the diabolically deadly Empress West if she is ever to return home with Ozz. Can Dot survive the evil machinations of the Empress and return home to rescue the United States before her wicked Aunt Emily succeeds with her sinister plan to take over the country?

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Blurb Blitz Tour & Giveaway - The Bleikovat Event - The Cairns of Sainctuarie by Hawk MacKinney




The Bleikovat Event - The Cairns of Sainctuarie
Author: Hawk MacKinney
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing

Book Description:
Among the close-kin clans of western rural Malfesian Murians, farming and gelf ranches are long held traditions.  Times are good…full barns, fat gelf calves and large families thrive among the sprawling grain fields and hamlets and the river from which they derive their name—the Feldon.  Word comes with the trade caravans that times are not so good in the regions far to the east of the Feldon River:  tumultuous changes stir among the remote province of Bleikovia.  Old timer Feldovats shrug it off as one more squabble between clans over boundaries or water rights…too distant to affect the Feldovats.

The western clans learn too late, however, it is no local squabble.  Outnumbered and unprepared, Feldovats resist a hoard bent on plunder and conquest.  Days of battle along the Feldon River stain the riverbanks in green Murian blood.  In the finals days of exhausted fighting, Judikar Klarvko Celo, leader of the Clan Klarvkon and the Feldovats, is fatally stabbed with the slow-acting sevon poison.  The Judikar’s consort, Etikaa Klarvkaa, becomes Regentkaa, and with Celovat Field Commander Korvo Celo serving as her advisor, she leads the demoralized Feldovat survivors on a gruesome ill-prepared winter trek through high mountain passes of ice and blizzard snow in an attempt to elude the Green Dragon forces of the Bleikovats.

Etkaa’s only son, Klarvko Celo II, helps spirit Feldovat young across a remote mountain exodus to the west toward Eedov Province. The battered, starving Feldovats reach the Malfesian coast at Eedov City only to be confronted with their implacable enemy determined to destroy the remaining Klarvkon rabble.  Taking passage on crowded lumbering Maalonovion freighters, Feldovats and Malfesian refugees set sail.  On arrival in Maalon City they are welcomed among their Maalon hosts, and settle into a new life.

But famine and a pandemic pestilence stir old hates and nurse former ambitions.  The enraged Overseers of Bleikovia move against the Klarvkons, this time bringing bloodshed to Maalonovia.  The exiles from the Feldon must fight once again, but starvation and plague across the Planete Myr make it a different war from the battles along the Feldon…a na’ä blikovat…the Bleikovvat Phenomenon…an event with unexpected consequences and outcomes none could have foreseen.

Before the vendetta killing is exhausted, the Regentkaa Klarvkaa and her son are swept onto the Maalon throne, setting the Klarvkon Dynasty and the Murians toward an intergalactic golden age, and a star-flung destiny the once-agrarian Feldovats could never have envisaged.

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Book Blast & Giveaway - The Soul Retrieval by Ann W. Jarvie




The Soul Retrieval
Author: Ann. W. Jarvie
Genre: Historical Suspence
Publisher: JazzComm Publishing

Book Description:
Inspired by a true story, The Soul Retrieval is a suspenseful tale of love, loss and healing which follows traumatized southern beauty Henrietta Clayborn as she moves between her home in a small South Carolina town and the New Mexico Native American reservation whose spontaneous healings keep drawing her physician husband back. Tortured by her awful secrets, Henrietta struggles to thrive in either locale, but it is her unlikely friendship with Joe Loco––an eccentric Native American mystic with an Elvis fetish and a gift for healing––that shows her the way to be whole again.

Set in the late 1950s, The Soul Retrieval is richly woven with spiritual insights but also deadly secrets, forbidden healings, a murder mystery, stunning scenery and an unforgettable cast of characters.

A story of transcendent and inspiring power that is both entertaining and enlightening, readers will be cheering for the uptight woman from South Carolina to push through her fears of the forbidden as she searches for truth and healing, faces great obstacles on the frontier of self and ultimately becomes more than she ever thought possible.

FREE on Amazon on May 12th.
 
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Monday 11 May 2015

Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Scent of the Soul by Julie Doherty



Scent of the Soul
Julie Doherty
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Date of Publication: February 11, 2015
Number of pages: 288
Word Count: 91,000
Cover Artist: Leah Suttle

Book Description:
In twelfth century Scotland, it took a half-Gael with a Viking name to restore the clans to their rightful lands. Once an exile, Somerled the Mighty now dominates the west. He’s making alliances, expanding his territory, and proposing marriage to the Manx princess.

It’s a bad time to fall for Breagha, a torc-wearing slave with a supernatural sense of smell.

Somerled resists the intense attraction to a woman who offers no political gain, and he won’t have a mistress making demands on him while he’s negotiating a marriage his people need. Besides, Breagha belongs to a rival king, one whose fresh alliance Somerled can’t afford to lose.

It’s when Breagha vanishes that Somerled realizes just how much he needs her. He abandons his marriage plans to search for her, unprepared for the evil lurking in the shadowy recesses of Ireland—a lustful demon who will stop at nothing to keep Breagha for himself.

Buy Links:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24822360-scent-of-the-soul

Book Excerpt Tour & Giveaway - A Twist of Fortune by Mike Martin




A Twist of Fortune
(Book 4 of the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series)
Author: Mike Martin
Publisher: Booklocker
Pages: 278
Genre: Mystery
Format: Paperback

Book Description:
A Twist of Fortune is the fourth book in the Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series and it continues the adventures of Sgt. Windflower as he tries to solve crime and experience the joy and the sadness of life in a small maritime community. Follow along as he feels the sometimes bitter taste of an east coast winter and the unique culinary delights of this part of the world.

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Kindle ¦ Paperback

Book Blitz & Giveaway - The Violet Hour by Andrea L. Wells



The Violet Hour
(The Violet series, #1)
Author: Andrea L. Wells
Publication Date: May 2015
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Book Description:
Still shocked over her mother’s mysterious death, California socialite Logan Keller is handed a one-way ticket to her long lost roots in Wyoming where love, deceit and danger await. Though she could forget everything staring into Luke Callahan’s eyes, Logan is quickly thrust into a fight for survival. Taking fate into her own hands, she begins unraveling the dangerous deceptions that abound at every turn. Her father is keeping secrets and Luke is keeping more. But Logan is keeping the biggest secret of them all.

The Violet Hour is a page-turning captivating twist of young romance and the supernatural.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25258104-the-violet-hour

Cover Reveal - On The Edge: a Novel by T.S. Krupa





On The Edge: a Novel
Author: T.S. Krupa
Publication Date: June 9, 2015

Sunday 10 May 2015

Audiobook Release Blitz & Giveaway - Compulsion (The Heirs of Watson Island #1) by Martina Boone



Author: Martina Boone
Release Date: 10/28/14
Narrated by: Joell A. Jacob
Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
Publisher: Simon Pulse/Tantor Audio
Pages: 448

Summary from Goodreads:
Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient curse.

All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead--a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions.

Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. What she finds is dangerous: a love she never expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn’t what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead.

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Tattered Altered Love by K.D. Ferguson



Tattered Altered Love
Author: K.D. Ferguson
Release Date: 05/2015

Book Summary:
What if you had the chance to change the future, would you take it regardless of the cost? Could you find the strength to overthrow a corrupt government that filled your life, and the lives of countless others, with lies and sadness? 

Krissa Channing seemed to be a Headquarters prodigy, on track for a successful pairing and a lifetime of living by government standards. But her destiny was far more than that which was mapped out for her. Upon the discovery of an underground revolution, Krissa is thrown into a world she never knew existed. The devastating losses she has endured have placed her in the position to help lead the movement. 

The glittering future offered by the takeover seems to be bright, but how much of the life she once knew is Krissa willing to sacrifice?

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25315938-tattered-altered-love

Saturday 9 May 2015

Release Day Celebration & Giveaway - Descendants of the Rose by Juliette Harper


Welcome to the release celebration of Descendants of the Rose by Juliette Harper! This is the first book in the Selby Jensen Paranormal Mysteries series and it's now available for sale for only .99 cents on Amazon!


Descendants of the Rose
Author: Juliette Harper
Genre: Paranormal Mystery

Book Description:
Selby Jensen’s business card reads “Private Investigator,” but to say the least, that downplays her real occupation. Let’s hear it in her own words:

“You want to know what I do for a living? I rip souls out. Cut heads off. Put silver bullets where silver bullets need putting. You think there aren't any monsters? . . . I have some disturbing news for you. You might want to sit down. Monsters walk among us. I'm looking for one in particular. In the meantime? I'm keeping the rest of them from eating people like you.”

In this debut novel of her new paranormal mystery series, Juliette Harper, author of The Lockwood Legacy books and The Study Club Mysteries creates a cast of characters, most of whom have one thing in common; they don’t have a pulse. The dead are doing just fine by Selby, who is determined never to lose someone she loves again, but then a force of love more powerful than her grief changes that plan.

Join Selby Jensen as she and her team track down a shadowy figure tied to a murder at a girls’ school. What none of them realize, however, is that in solving this case, they will enter a longer battle against a larger evil.


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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499700-descendants-of-the-rose?ac=1

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Southern Fried Wiccan by S.P. Sipal



Southern Fried Wiccan
Author: S.P. Sipal
Release Date: March 2015

Summary from Goodreads:
Cilla Swaney is thrilled to return stateside, where she can hang up her military-brat boots for good. Finally, she’ll be free to explore her own interests—magick and Wicca. But when she arrives at her grandma’s farm, Cilla discovers that life in the South isn’t quite what she expected. At least while country hopping, she never had to drink G-ma’s crazy fermented concoctions, attend church youth group, make co-op deliveries...or share her locker with a snake-loving, fire-lighting, grimoire-stealing Goth girl…

…Who later invites her to a coven that Cilla’s not sure she has the guts to attend. But then Emilio, the dark-haired hottie from her charter school, shows up and awakens her inner goddess. Finally, Cilla starts believing in her ability to conjure magick. Until…

…All Hades breaks loose. A prank goes wrong during their high school production of Macbeth, and although it seems Emilio is to blame, Cilla and Goth pay the price. Will Cilla be able to keep the boy, her coven, and the trust of her family? Or will this Southern Wiccan get battered and fried?


Buy Links: 
Amazon

Book Of The Week {Wattpad}

And the Book Of The Week Nominations are:

Click on the book covers to sample the works.

An Act of Necessity (YA Adventure)

http://www.wattpad.com/story/31025711-an-act-of-necessity

City of Angels and Darkness - A Mortal Instruments Fan-Fiction (YA Fantasy)

http://www.wattpad.com/story/34239330-city-of-angels-and-darkness-a-mortal-instruments

Syncopation (Contemporary Fiction)

http://www.wattpad.com/story/21024295-syncopation

Consumed (YA Fantasy)

http://www.wattpad.com/story/9956751-consumed

Open Cage (Contemporary Fiction / Short Story)

http://www.wattpad.com/story/23706652-open-cage