Excerpt Reveal Blitz and Giveaway: The Thrill of it by Lauren Blakely

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On our way to 200 Followers! Giveaway: Grishma by Kelly Anne Blount or Paperback copy of The Weeping Empress by Sadie S. Forsythe

 

So, I was browsing my blog, and I noticed that I ALMOST have 200 followers! I was thinking, and thinking, and thinking, and I finally figured out how I can motivate you people to help raise my numbers! A giveaway! To be nice, I am offering an Ebook in the equation so our International people can join in on the fun, too! ;)

Newly released Grishma by Kelly Anne Blount is up in the giveaway, and Im offering my Paperback copy of The Weeping Empress by Sadie S. Forsythe, too! I am aware, also, that last year, when The Weeping Empress came out, it was wildly popular, and if Im not mistaken, actually won some awards on Goodreads. While it was too "Real" for me, I know for a fact that many people loved it!

And now, for the giveaway!

Giveaway: Persephone and Daughter of the Earth and Sky by Kaitlin Bevis

 Yay! Another giveaway! Apparently I dont have enough of these. This is a great series for ANY mythology lover and YA lover. Anywhoo... I loved both books so much that I thought that other people should read them. And what better way to obtain a copy than by entering a giveaway! Now, the rules stay the same -- be HONEST (Because, yes, I check). This is open International, and open to readers 13+ or those who have parent permission. What? Some 12 year olds might like YA books.

Annnndddd... On THAT note, here is  the giveaway!

Givaway: How Beauty Met the Beast by Jax Garren

Happy Valentines Day!

Its no secret that I just LOVE my readers here on Celestial Reviews, and to celebrate this day of love (both romantic and friendly, of course), Im hosting another givaway! What better way than to show your appreciation than a free book?

Thanks to Jax Garren, ONE lucky winner will receive an ebook copy of How Beauty Met the Beast. The givaway starts today and ends next thursday, so one week. This book is amazing, if you havnt read it yet. I just finished it and Im working on my review. And now, for the givaway!

Givaway: Clutch

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Givaway: Dark Secrets Series (4 books)

Another giveaway! The prize is a smashwords code to the Dark Secret Series. In case you don't know what a smashwords code is, or what smashwords is, its a website where you can buy ebooks for cheap. The author is giving away a code to get all four books in the series for free. You click "add to cart" or "Buy" then put in the code in a box below the purchase, click update, then click check out. Viola.
The givaway will end the 24th, and I will announce the winner on FB. Have fun and be honest! Enjoy the givaway!

Something to Celebrate!100th Post Givaway!

Short Review and givaway: The Summer Set

In the summer of 1956 two teenagers rescue a drowning woman from the Susquehanna’s turbulent waters, and their predictable lives suddenly veer towards a deadly detour. Shadowy men in black cars start tracking their every movement. A tall foreboding man clutching a snake-headed staff and chain-smoking through a hole in his throat seeks their names. Fourteen year-old catcher Peter 'Chumbucket' Miller and his best friend pitcher Mike DeSorcier begin the summer on a mission to capture the World Series championship of their youth baseball league. Spying on a league meeting from a sweltering attic perch they uncover a group of extra-dimensional beings infiltrating the league. During their breathless escape, the boys discover two things: they are in mountains of trouble and they need help. Assistance (and more trouble) arrives in the form of two daring and mystifying girls – the unusual Karen Croft and the beautiful Jo Munro. Together, the teens must solve the mystery of the Noqumiut before a fateful August lunar eclipse.

- From Goodreads



First of, I would like to thank Jay Province for the copy of the book he sent me to review. Sorry it took so long for me to get this posted, Jay, but I have been ill lately, and ended up in the hospital.

Follow me to 30 FB likes- Givaway!

Iv been out the past couple of days on bedrest, and even though I still feel sick, Im up and on the computer! I know I dont pay that much attention to my Facebook Fanpage, but I have noticed how many likes I have! Im proud of the milestone! And, with four more likes, Ill have 30 followers!

Anywhoo, to thank all of you for liking me enough to check out my lame ass facebook page, I am going to have a givaway! So, I thought it out. I have quite a few books I would love to get out of my room! For now, I will givaway one book (So we can reach 30 likes) and every twenty likes we get, Ill add another book, up to four.

It will go like this:
30 - one winner
50- two winners
70 - three winners
90- four winners

Its a long shot, but its a goal! And I know how hungry people are for books. However, due to money problems and the economy (and blah- blah), not all the books are going to be paperback. Ill have two paperback, and two EBooks.

Now, to get to the good part -- THE PRIZES!

For the Paperback books, I am offering:

  

Lord of the Abyss and Desert Warrior 2 in one book by Nalini Singh

Violets are Blue by James Patterson

And the EBooks are:

In the Service of the King (Epub)

                                                         

The Hunger Games (PDF)

Arent the prizes lovely! Now, keep in mind that the paperback came from my blookshelf ( I bought them with my own money) and the EBooks are books that I aquired for my reading pleasure. I dont mind sharing, but I think you should know that the EBooks only come in the file format that is listed beside them.

The Givaway is US only for paperback, and International for e-books. Please use the raffle copter to enter below.

Promo, Excerpt and Givaway: Vaempires- Revolution

Vaempires

Book One The Evolutionary War

By Thomas Winship

It is the morning of Princess Cassandra’s sixteenth birthday. Everyone’s attention is focused on the heir to the vampire throne. World leaders, the rich and famous, and VIPs from every corner of the globe have gathered in the nation’s capital to celebrate the momentous event.  

Cassandra’s boyfriend, Daniel, is late for the party. He’s still outside the city when all hell breaks loose. What he believes is an act of terrorism proves to be a full-fledged revolution.

Væmpires—former vampires who mutated into warm-blooded creatures with an insatiable hunger for cold blood—have launched coordinated attacks across the globe, with three goals: the eradication of humanity, the enslavement of vampires, and the ascension of væmpires as the dominant species on the planet.

The vampire and human leaders are killed. Cassandra is missing. Daniel is the acting king. Desperate to find the princess, Daniel and his friends fight their way across the besieged city. With the hopes of the free world resting on the shoulders of four vampire teenagers, væmpires unleash their secret weapons: a new breed of væmpire that is far deadlier than any ever seen before.

What can four teens do against an enemy that can shape-shift, fly, and walk through walls?

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Excerpt

Cassie was there, bloody and weary, with a look in her blue eyes that said she’d been to the depths of hell and fought her way back, but she was there and nothing else mattered.

The young lovers fell into each other’s arms and, for a brief time, were the only two people in the world. Words failed and thoughts escaped as they surrendered to the most basic of needs—the need to be held.

They broke apart, neither knowing how long they’d been that way, but both experiencing the same conflicting emotions.

Given the circumstances, it hadn’t been long enough.

Given the circumstances, it had been too long.

“Cassie,” Daniel sighed, “I thought I’d lost you.”

“You almost did,” she said, and what he saw in her eyes—fear, pain, and something else he couldn’t identify—was so intense, his heart broke, releasing the flood of tears that had been threatening to come.

“I don’t …,” he started, suddenly a teenager again, “I don’t know what I would’ve done if I had.”

And Cassie cried too, great big tears that pooled at the bottom of her blue eyes before flowing over her long lashes to run down her cheeks, the salty stream cutting a path through the blood and dirt coating her face. The sight of it was at once the most heart-stopping—and heart-wrenching—thing he’d ever seen.

He took her face in his hands, the tenderness in his touch feeling odd after all the death he’d dealt out that day, and kissed her, a long, lingering kiss that was unaffected by their crying or the taste of tears on their lips or the death littering the courtyard around them.

Eyes closed, Daniel breathed her in, this girl—no, this woman—who owned his heart. Her scent, as familiar as his own, was buried beneath a plethora of aromas. Many, including the stench of bloodsuckers, were unpleasant, but it still made his heart skip a beat.

When the kiss ended, he peered into her eyes and whispered, “Did I ever tell you that I’ve loved you since the first time I saw you?”

She smiled. “We’ve known each other since birth.”

“Okay,” he amended. “Since the first time I remember seeing you.”

“Then, yes,” she giggled, “you have told me on several occasions.”

Daniel realized that her giggle wasn’t incongruous with their current situation as much as it was in defiance of it. They were on borrowed time and they knew it.

“And have I told you that I’m going to love you forever?”

“You’ve done more than that,” she said.

About the Author

Thomas Winship was born in Middletown, NY and still resides in Orange County. He holds an MBA in Management from St. Thomas Aquinas College, where he serves as an adjunct professor of courses in English Composition, Communications, and Business. He also spent fifteen years working for a global pharmaceutical company, specializing in organizational development, talent management, and training.

Tom writes in his spare time. His first novel, a mystery/legal thriller entitled Temporary Insanity (a.k.a. Case Closed), was a 2008 finalist in a national contest but failed to garner industry attention. His second novel, Væmpires: Revolution, was published in October and a follow-up novella, Væmpires: White Christmas, was published in December.

He is an avid collector of books, comic books, music, and movies. His interests are diverse: on any given day, Tom is likely to be found watching a horror movie, attending a hard rock concert, or enjoying a Broadway show.  

He is currently working on the next installment of the “Væmpires” series, which is scheduled for an early 2012 release.

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Now, for the givaway:

Enter the givaway here!

Guest Post and Givaway:On the Rim of Love Tour - Is Chance Important?

Is chance important?  In Life?  In Books? 

My answer is absolutely yes! I believe that the power of chance plays a very big role in our lives. How many people out there would admit that had they not gone to a friend’s birthday party years ago or stopped by a bar for a drink after work, they would have never met their wife / husband?

In my contemporary romance, Lucky Charm, a trip to Paris becomes a life-changing event for the main heroine Annabel. And in my contemporary romance, On the Rim of Love, Maggie’s life changes radically because of a ski trip to British Columbia. Ah, but this is fiction, you say. Well, here is a story from my personal experience that made me believe in serendipity once and for all.

A few years ago I was taking a bus home from work. The bus was about to leave when, at the last minute, a woman jumped in. I did not pay her much attention as I was getting ready to read my book and was very surprised when she addressed me by name. For several moments I stared at her uncomprehendingly, and then, slowly, a recollection formed in my mind – the woman’s name was Anne and we had gone to high school together. At the time, I had been out of high school for over ten years, so it was not surprising that it took me a few minutes to recognize my former classmate. Before long we were seated next to each other, chatting about everything that happened to us over the past ten years. It turned out that Anne was working a few blocks away from the place where I worked and we started taking the bus together after work several times a week.

Several months later I got a call from my friend, Glenn, telling me that he just broke up with his girlfriend, and I instantly thought of Anne who too had just gotten out of a relationship. The two are now married and have two kids. Now, if Anne had not made that bus, we would have never reconnected and chances are she would have never met her current husband.

Guest Blog: Author of Perpetual Light, Jordan K. Ross

CeCe’s Reviews Blog Spot

Hi Ce-Ce. Thanks so much for allowing me to stop by as part of the Perpetual Light Blog Tour. I love your blog. The header is fantastic! It’s a great image. Right away it made me think of my topic for this post- creating a setting readers love.

I guess I might not be the most creative world-builder in that my characters exist in the world around me. Perpetual Light takes place in present day Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The businesses and buildings all belong in a fictitious world, but the cities are all real.

They are all places I’ve been or read about, places that sparked something for me. As writers we have to build worlds that readers can believe exist. These worlds have to be places that seem real to the reader. They have to be vivid, credible places where readers can imagine themselves walking and sitting, cooking, working, running for their lives or loving a hero.

Our job is to engage the reader and keep her hooked by the little details. In Perpetual Light one of the things that Lucia notices and gets a laugh about is the fact that these vampires have a fully stocked kitchen, complete with glass-front cabinets housing perfectly displayed glasses and plates, a six-burner stove with an exhaust system that could suck the stove up, and a fridge full of food. They don’t eat food. She’s perplexed and amused by the fact that they behave like a normal family. Well, aside from the blood drinking and damned souls issue.

My characters dictated their surroundings, their world. They decided to live in modern day New England, which is fabulous by me since that’s where I live. However, they’re on the move, heading south, which means I’m on the move, researching.

I need to know the nitty-gritty about wherever they land so I can write a world readers will believe exists, one they can imagine living in.

I’m always fascinated by writers who develop “other worlds.” Like JK Rowling’s Hogwarts or JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth or Penny Watson’s North Pole in her Klaus Brother’s Series or Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress Series. Such wonderful imaginations.

I’d love to hear about the worlds you loved living in for those brief moments while you enjoyed a story. Which writers whisked you away and completely wrapped you up in their stories?

I’d like to offer a $5 gift certificate to Starbucks to one random commenter. All you have to do is comment on the post to be entered to win. To increase your chances of winning connect with me via one or more of the social networks listed below.

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