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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Ted Saves the World Blog Tour Guest Post and Giveaway

Description of Ted Saves the World by Bryan Cohen (Available for just $0.99):
A possessed cheerleader. A cursed gang of criminals. Mysterious telekinetic powers. An angry ex-girlfriend in gym class? One second, sophomore in high school Ted endures his first breakup in his favorite place in town. The next, a mysterious blue light turns him into a worldwide superhero sensation for taking down a posse of grisly murderers. As his views on YouTube increase and his friend Dhiraj tries to capitalize on the marketing potential, his dangers increase as well when a presumed-dead cheerleader begins taking a personal interest. Can Ted survive his first week as a superhero in the public eye? This novella is the first taste in a series of full-length novels about the adventures of Ted Finley and Erica LaPlante. The book is also available on Barnes & Noble and Smashwords for $0.99.

Guest Post
The Writer's Social Life
By Bryan Cohen

I'm writing this blog post while I'm sitting alone in my bedroom. This isn't extremely surprising since most people writing tend to write alone. Sure, there are writing groups and clubs, but in most cases, the prolific writer tends to spend a good chunk of time alone. I imagine that some successful authors are out hobnobbing with the stars, but if most writers are like me, they are staying in on Friday and Saturday night in an effort to get a little writing in the next morning.

In addition to being a bit lame on weekend nights, I also tend not to drink when I go out. While Poe and Hemmingway seemed to gain a noticeable boost from their alcoholic cavorting, drinking mostly makes me sleepy and lethargic for the next 12 hours or so. When I feel like that, I'm not as much for stringing words together as I am stringing Zs together. I also don't smoke or do drugs. So, how does a writer like me keep friends from conveniently forgetting my phone number?

First of all, I pick my friends wisely. My best friends are hard working folks just like me. They aren't writers but they know that dropping off the radar for a bit is less a sign of bruised loyalty than it is a simple need to do the work. Secondly, when I am out with a group of people I try to make sure that I am present in the moment. If every time I'm out with people, I'm just thinking about my writing, they will know that I'm not truly paying attention to them. By listening to them and focusing on the conversations at hand, I am much more likely to be considered a welcome addition. Last but not least, I make an effort to be the life of the party. I'm a comedian through and through and I love making an entire room laugh. If I am able to keep a room light and fluffy because of my jokes, my friends and acquaintances will want to invite me back over and over again.

It's not easy being in a profession that is so naturally ostracizing. It can be difficult on your more social pals and over the years you may lose one or two of them. But if you pick the right kind of friends, listen to them and entertain them every so often, they will not only keep you social but they will also be your biggest support when you need it the most.  

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Giveaway:
Bryan Cohen is giving away four $25 Amazon gift cards, one for each week of his month long blog tour. To enter, simply comment with your e-mail address (feel free to substitute @ with (at) or other tricks to stop spammers from getting it). Bryan will draw the four names at the end of the tour, picking one entrant at random from each week’s set of blog posts. Entries will be counted through Monday, August 15th, 2011. Enter on as many sites as you want, follow the tour at Build Creative Writing Ideas. If Ted reaches the Top 100 on Amazon at any point during the tour, a fifth $25 card will be added to the giveaway.

Biography:
Bryan Cohen is a writer, actor and comedian from Dresher, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 with degrees in English and Dramatic Art and a minor in Creative Writing. He has written seven books including 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More. Contact Bryan through http://bryancohen.com, his Ted Saves the World blog, his Build Creative Writing Ideas site or Twitter.

Monday, August 8, 2011

BlogTour: Confessions of an Improper Bride by Jennifer Haymore

Visit this Thursday 8/11 for my review and giveaway of Confessions of an Improper Bride. All blog participants are listed below.

IMPORTANT NEWS: Jennifer has created a Twitter account for this book’s hero: Jonathan Dane. His Twitter is http://twitter.com/EarlofStratford

If you’re on Twitter PLEASE feel free to tweet and interact with him. His Twitter is really fun and quirky. He’ll be promoting the tour on his page as well.

RT Book Review has even included him in their Twitter Trends article! http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-daily-blog/twitter-trends-and-projects-book-lovers


Book Image
Confessions of an Improper Bride
By Jennifer Haymore
ISBN: 9780446573146
Published by: GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING
Genre: FICTION , ROMANCE
Published on: 8/01/2011
Format: MASS MARKET
Edition: FOREVER SPECIAL RELEASE
TWICE TEMPTED

Serena Donovan left London six years ago, her heart broken and her reputation ruined by devilishly handsome Jonathan Dane. Now, with her family's future in peril, she reluctantly agrees to return to England and assume her late twin's identity. The price? Marry a man she doesn't love and spend the rest of her days living a lie.

Jonathan Dane, Earl of Stratford, has become an incorrigible rake, drinking, gambling-and trying to forget Serena Donovan. Yet the moment he's introduced to the prim and proper "Meg", he recognizes the sensual young woman who captured his heart. Haunted by his past mistakes, he refuses to lose Serena again. But convincing her to trust him is no easy task. Claiming his lost love means exposing the truth and destroying the life Serena has sacrificed everything to rebuild. With the future of all the Donovans at stake, and their undying passion capable of triggering yet another scandal, how much will Jonathan and Serena risk for a chance at true love?

Participating Blogs:
Mon Aug 1    http://bodicerippernovels.wordpress.com    Giveaway
Mon Aug 1    http://simplystacie.net    Giveaway
Mon Aug 1    http://booksandmakeup.blogspot.com    Review, Giveaway, Q&A
Mon Aug 1    http://maryinhb.blogspot.com    Review, Feature, Giveaway
Mon Aug 1    http://www.cuzinlogic.com    Feature, Giveaway
Mon Aug 1    http://justanothernewblog.blogspot.com    Feature, Giveaway
Mon Aug 1    http:/yankeeromancereviewers.blogspot.com/    Review
Wed Aug 3    http://paranormalromanticsuspensereviews.blogspot.com/    Review, Giveaway
Wed Aug 3    www.seductivemusings.blogspot.com    Review, Feature, Giveaway, Guest Post
Wed Aug 3    www.rexrobotreviews.com    Giveaway
Wed Aug 3    http://www.booksoulmates.blogspot.com/    Review, Giveaway
Thurs Aug 4   http://inthehammockblog.blogspot.com    Review, Giveaway
Tues Aug 2    http://asthepagesturn.blogspot.com    Review, Giveaway
Mon Aug 8    http://www.lovetoreadforfun.com    Review, Giveaway
Mon Aug 8    http://www.thebookgirl.net    Review, Giveaway
Mon Aug 8    http://www.urbangirlreader.com    Feature, Giveaway
Mon Aug 8    www.sosaloha.blogspot.com    Review, Feature, Giveaway
Tues Aug 9    My Book Addiction and More    Review, Giveaway, Guest Post
Wed Aug 10    http://cmashlovestoread.blogspot.com    Feature, Giveaway
Wed Aug 10    readingreviewer.blogspot.com    Review, Feature, Giveaway, Q&A
Wed Aug 10    http://www.findthetimetoread.net    Review, Feature
Wed Aug 10    http://tweezlereads.blogspot.com    Review, Giveaway
Thurs Aug 11    http://marthasbookshelf.blogspot.com/    Review, Feature, Giveaway
Fri Aug 12    http://bodicerippernovels.wordpress.com    Review
Fri Aug 12    http://j-rabbits-corner.blogspot.com    Review, Giveaway
Fri Aug 12    http://www.libslibrary.blogspot.com    Feature, Giveaway
Fri Aug 12    http://teddyrose.blogspot.com/    Feature, Giveaway
Fri Aug 12    http://onebookshy.com    Review, Giveaway, Guest Post
Fri Aug 12    http://www.startingfreshnyc.com    Giveaway, Q&A
Fri Aug 12    http://bookslikebreathing.blogspot.com    Review
Fri Aug 12    http://saveyspender.com    Review, Giveaway
Fri Aug 12    http://thefictionenthusiast.blogspot.com    Review, Giveaway
Fri Aug 12    www.tarmyblogspot.blogspot.com    Review
Fri Aug 12    http://dkay401-challenges.blogspot.com/    Review
Fri Aug 12    http://www.bittenbyparanormalromance.com/    Review, Giveaway
Fri Aug 12    http://sidnebkclubreviewer.blogspot.com    Review, Feature, Giveaway
Fri Aug 12    www.sarahsblogoffun.com    Review, Giveaway

Sunday, August 7, 2011

It's Monday! What are you Reading August 8, 2011?

This meme starts at Book Journey!
What Are You Reading, is where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week. It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list.

I finished four books this week and I posted four reviews, one Giveaway and an author interview.  As usual, I posted the regular Friday Pick Giveaway; Saturday Sharing Beyond Books, and Sunday posts.

My secretary was out last week and I was very busy at work - a mixed blessing as I have some big closings coming up. Unfortunately it meant that I didn't get to visit at all. I even missed the Wednesday Review link-up at Cym's. :-(  These were last week's posts plus Winner posts not listed.
Finished Reading: 
Print/Kindle:
by Jennifer Haymore
Hachette Review and Giveaway on August 11.


Audio:
by Abby Rike
Wonderful faith. 
I will be posting the review this week linked with Sheila at Book Journey.



Audible:
A fun read. I really like this series. 
Read from my Audible Library.
Product Description.
Gail Carriger’s best-selling Parasol Protectorate series reimagines Victorian England with vampires, werewolves, and a dash of steampunk. Blameless is the third in the series starring the parasol-wielding Lady Alexia Maccon, formerly Alexia Tarabotti. After news spreads of her delicate condition—a surprise to everyone since


Print/Audible:
A charming Regency.
Reading/listening for Sourcebooks. Review to be posted 8/16.
Product Description
Venetia Lanyon, beautiful, intelligent and independent woman, lives in comfortable seclusion in rural Yorkshire with her precocious brother Aubrey. Her future seems safe and predictable: either marriage to the respectable but dull Edward Yardley, or a life of peaceful spinsterhood. But when she meets the dashing, dangerous rake Lord Damerel, her well-ordered life is turned upside down, and she embarks upon a relationship with him that scandalizes and horrifies the whole community. Has she found her soul-mate, or is she playing with fire?

Line Edits/Releases: I have been teaching myself to format for Smashwords and Kindle while editing the novellas for the YA Prom Night anthology.



Currently reading:

Print/Kindle:
by Kathryne Kennedy
I am just starting this. Reading for Sourcebooks
Product Description.
Acclaimed for her world-building, in Kathryne Kennedy's new series love miraculously prevails over strife.
Storm lord's daughter Cecily Sutton's powers over sea and sky have put her life at risk. Giles Beaumont is reluctant to protect her, until he falls under her enchanting spell...
Print/Kindle
by Pauline Baird Jones
I really like this series.! 
Reading for the Author.
Product Description
With all of time at risk, it's a bad time to fall in love...unless it's the only time... Robert Clementyne is going on a transmogrification machine hunt. He fears finding the machine will be as difficult as pronouncing the name. How can the steam-powered device perform as advertised, and how useful can any information be, coming from a steampunk themed bowling alley/museum? It's pretty crazy, but he's been there, done that, and thinks he can handle it. And then he meets the proprietor/curator...Emily Babcock. Emily grew up in crazy, still lives in it-hey, it's her freaking zip code. So no worries when Robert and his team walk into her bowling alley. The first visitors ever to her museum. But neither of them is prepared for what happens when they open the door to the past...and the future. With a side trip through Roswell...and a face-to-face meeting with an evil genius/wannabe-who is on his way to becoming evil overlord-of-everything...

Audible:

I pulled this sequel in from my Audible library.
Product Description.
The first book of Day by Day Armageddon took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year's resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, day by day. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling underground cult classic, Day by Day Armageddon, begins where the first novel left off.
BEGIN INTERCEPT
Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe; there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.
INTERCEPT COMPLETED
Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility. But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?
Print:
Tears of Gold
by Laurie McBain
This is moving slowly but it is interesting.
Reading for Sourcebooks.
Product Description
With millions of books in print, Laurie McBain has been beloved by generations of readers for her lush, epic storytelling. In this classic favorite, vengeance sends one man around the world in search of a notorious temptress, until meeting her in the flesh turns his need for revenge into passionate desire.


Audio:
The Screwtape Letters: First Ever Full-cast Dramatization of the Diabolical Classic (Radio Theatre)[The Vision and Beyond, prophecies fulfilled and still to comeby David Wilkerson was put on hold but I read Chapter 2 this week. ]
Instead we are listening to:
C.S. Lewis

We are enjoying listening to this in our young adult class. On part VII.

I am also listening to The Listener's Bible NIV 
read by Max McLean. I am at Ezra 1, Isaiah 25 and 1 Corinthians 5.

Line Edits: I am editing the second of eTreasures' Prom Night summer YA novellas for release this week.
I am finalizing edits/formatting on Life After the Undead by Pembroke Sinclair; then Soylent Red by Jamieson Wolf.
 
I didn't intend to fill up the month but I guess I did.
August Review Books:
Scheduled:

8/11 Confessions of an Improper Bride by Jennifer Haymore. (Read - needs review.) Hachette Blog Tour Review and Giveaway.
8/16 The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer -
Venetia by Georgette Heyer (read - needs review) - I decided to do both of these for Heyer's birthday. Reading for Sourcebooks 
8/26 Get Er Done: The Green Beret Guide to Productivity by Michael Martel - Review with interview for Pump Up Your Book Blog Tour.

Sourcebooks (Seven more in not special order.)
Midnight on Julia Street by Ciji Ware
The Vampire Next Door by Ashlyn Chase
The Lady of the Storm by Kathryne Kennedy
Midnight Waltz by Jennifer Blake
Tears of Gold by Laurie McBain
Kingdom of Summer by Gillian Bradshaw (If I get time I will read the first in the the series, Hawk of May, before this.)

Reviewing for Authors:
Quest for Magic by Jean Hart Stewart - Read; review to be posted.
Seeing for the First Time (What You See is What You Get) and 
To See (What You See is What You Get) by Nicole Zoltack - Both Read; setting up author interview with reviews.
Steamrolled by Pauline Baird Jones

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