Gift Guide
Playoff Rally will include:
Saturday, January 12, 2019
New England Patriots Playoff Rally #EverythingWeGot
Friday, January 11, 2019
The Prospero Chronicles Book Blast and Giveaway
The covers for this young adult horror series are rather interesting. Check them out and then be sure to enter the multiple winner giveaway. Open worldwide through 2/4. Good luck.
Splinters
The
Prospero Chronicles Book 1
by
Fiona J.R. Titchenell & Matt Carter
Genre:
YA Horror, SciFi
Under
normal circumstances, Ben and Mina would never have had reason to
speak to each other. He’s an easy-going people person with a
healthy skepticism about the paranormal; she’s a dangerously
obsessive monster-hunter with a crippling fear of betrayal. But the
small Northern California town of Prospero, with its rich history of
cryptid sightings, miracles, and mysterious disappearances, has no
normal circumstances to offer.
When
Ben’s missing childhood friend, Haley Perkins, stumbles out of
Prospero’s surrounding woods and right into her own funeral, Ben
and Mina are forced to work together to uncover what happened to her.
Different as they are, their unlikely friendship may be the only
thing that can save the town, and possibly the world, from its
insidious invaders.
“A
snapping, crackling, popping homage to classic horror.” —Kirkus
Reviews.
“Whip-smart
dialogue... genuinely terrifying Splinters, the descriptions of which
will have fans of monster films utterly enthralled... A promising
series opener, this will satisfy those readers who like their scary
stories to be as clever as they are chilling." —KQG, the
Bulletin of The Center for Children's Books.
“The
stakes are high. The action is intense." —Washington
Independent Review of Books.
The First Book Blast and Giveaway
Here's an action thriller from author Glen Kenner. Check it out then be sure to enter to win the Amazon gift card. Good luck. Worldwide entries accepted through 2/8.
The
First
A
John Smith Thriller #1
by
Glen Kenner
Genre:
Action Thriller
The
first page hits you like a deadly punch to the throat and never lets
up!
John
Smith is a First, one of a few men that walk among us seemingly as
normal as anyone, but with a secret so unimaginable that their very
existence is a threat to humanity. But times are changing and the
Firsts are eager to live openly and take their rightful place in the
world once again. The only thing stopping them is John, who has seen
the best and worst of all of mankind and knows that some truths are
best kept secret. He has kept his own life simple and unassuming
because he knows it’s the only way to stay out of the system and
under the radar of world governments, secret organizations, and
assassins alike. But when an old enemy shows up on the same day that
a beautiful young woman needs his help, John quickly finds himself in
the fight of his life against elite hit squads, ruthless psychopathic
murders, and a black-ops cutting-edge technology that was
specifically designed to track down him and other Firsts like him,
all while trying to unravel the mystery of this new woman in his life
without getting her killed and keeping her from killing anyone who
doesn’t deserve it. From the American Midwest to Syria and Paris,
John Smith is both predator and prey, but he can no longer survive on
his own, and so with the help of the only people he hopes he can
trust and more luck than he deserves, he faces down his fears and
takes on his enemies the only way he knows how: with everything he’s
got.
Of Metal and Earth Book Blast and Excerpt
Here's an interesting title that looks like it is about the life and times of a green jeep, perhaps that of the author. The book is free for #kindleunlimited readers. Enjoy the excerpt below.
Mainstream Fiction
Date Published: July 19, 2018
In 1964, a rural town is rocked to its core when only one young man returns from Vietnam. Emotionally scarred, James hides from their pity and only finds the determination to lift himself up when he realizes what remains to be lost. He buys a little green Jeep, like the one that gave him shelter in the war, and hopes it will lead to salvation again. But the fortune it brings tarnishes, and James is left to sacrifice the thing that gave him hope for the people who need him most.
Over the next thirty years, the Jeep changes hands, passing between friends, family, strangers, and lovers. A single mother who buys a car for her reckless son nearly destroys a friendship with a man who silently loved her for two decades. An insecure youth at the start of his career learns that the most important lessons are the ones you never set out to learn. A family torn apart by their differences finds that love can be the hardest road to take. And a city architect must choose between the easy way to restoration or a difficult path that could save far more than just a rusty old Jeep.
Fans of THIS IS US, MITCH ALBOM, and NICHOLAS SPARKS will enjoy this heart-warming tale of restoration and redemption, a must read book for anyone inspired by the the resiliency of the human spirit.
Broad Street Roasters Gourmet Coffee Giveaway
If you're looking to try a new variety of coffee, here's your chance. Enter through 1/31, US residents only. Good luck.
Welcome to the Broad Street Roasters Gourmet Coffee Giveaway!
1 Winner
This giveaway is part of our Valentine's Day Gift Guide – Stop by to see all the giveaways and great products.
The host that put together this giveaway is: My Silly Little Gang My co-host for this giveaway is: Deliciously Savvy
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
The Ways We Follow Book Blast and Giveaway
The latest book from author L. Salt is a Futuristic Urban Drama based in St. Petersberg, where she went to university. Check it out then enter the giveaway with two prizes and two winners. Open worldwide through 2/3. Good luck.
The
Ways We Follow
by
L. Salt
Genre:
Futuristic Urban Drama
St.
Petersburg, Russia, 20XX.
Four
best friends, young, talented and ambitious try to find their own way
in a reality where people can't speak and even think freely.
Laura
Danco is a young talented designer who returns to the city after
studying and working in the UK. Friends tell Laura about new
controlling institution, the Department of Censorship. All media
sources are under control, government opposition is destroyed
completely, minorities are under threat. Everyone who resists is
obliterated.
Laura tries to live an ordinary life of every young
person in a big city--friends, relationships, travels,
parties...Everything is changing when a reputable design company
employs her as an assistant to a dangerously attractive, scandalous
architect and designer, Daniel Polanskiy, whose ambitious and
outstanding projects don't comply with the government views and its
dictated taste. Daniel's colleagues believe he is insane, the press
calls him "Russian Gaudi", the Department of Censorship
watches his every movement.
The situation becomes even more
complicated, when Laura meets her Uni-mate from the UK, Mark Evans.
Completely lost between two absolutely different
characters--friendly, amiable Mark and sophisticated, bad-tempered,
but ingenious Daniel--she struggles to whom to give her heart.
The
future looks bleak for Laura, as the company gets into trouble, when
the Tax Office conducts a detailed financial audit, the Department
gives Daniel the final warning, and one of Laura's friends is killed
by his boyfriend. The plot leads characters through many
challenges--from love to betrayal, from revenge to a murder. The
story which starts like a comedy is turning into a tragedy. Will
friends find their way to follow?
This
is book 1 of the duology. Laura and friends are back in book 2,
"Angels of Zion".
California Design Den Sheets Giveaway
Here are some sheets from California Design Den up for grabs. Giveaway is US only and ends on 1/31. Good luck.
Welcome to the California Design Den Sheets Giveaway!
1 Winner
This giveaway is part of our Valentine's Day Gift Guide – Stop by to see all the giveaways and great products.
Host that put together this giveaway is SaraLee’s Deals, Steals, and Giveaways
My co-host for this giveaway are Michigan Saving and More
Below is a list of all the bloggers involved in the gift guide giveaways.
Bargnhtress, Deliciously Savvy, Giveaway Gator, Heartbeats ~ Soul Stains, Java John Z’s, MarksvilleandMe, Michigan Saving and More, My Crafty Zoo, My Silly Little Gang, SaraLee’s Deals Steals & Giveaways, Tales From A Southern Mom
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Ancient Enemy Series Book Blast and Giveaway
Here's a four book horror series to explore. Then, be sure to enter to win the $50 Amazon gift card. Open worldwide, you have through 2/7 to enter. Good luck.
Ancient
Enemy
Ancient
Enemy Series Book 1
by
Mark Lukens
Genre:
Horror
Ancient
Enemy - it wants things . . . you have to give it what it
wants.
Seven
hundred years ago the Anasazi people built massive cities in what is
now the southwestern United States . . . and then they
vanished.
Stella,
an archaeologist specializing in Anasazi culture, and David, a
mysterious Navajo boy, are on the run from something terrifying. As
they flee up into the snowy mountains of Colorado, they are carjacked
by criminals escaping a botched bank robbery. Caught in a blizzard,
they must take refuge in what they believe is an abandoned cabin.
It's at this cabin where they will face horrors beyond their
imagination.
Well Below Heaven Cover Reveal
Here's a young adult novel coming out February 7th. Definitely for the older teen given the subject matter. This appears to be Ms. Eliot's first book.
Literary / YA (older teen)
Publisher: Cur Dog Press
Published Date: February 7, 2019
Seventeen year old Kelly is in a spartan boarding school in northern Idaho, sent away for drugs—as planned. Her little brother Sammy is left home in Missouri, getting ready for high school. He is twitchy, quick, writes dark poetry and longs to play football. He’s also got a nose for trouble, and Kelly has left a sordid truckload. Her sadistic ex is involved, so is one twisted teacher, and so is the object of Sammy’s crush. He’s in deep, and Kelly’s warnings fall flat, and the consequences will be dire.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
The Unexpected Book Blast, Interview, and Giveaway
Author C.S. Coy brings us his latest sci-fi book The Unexpected. Read an interview with him and enter the associated giveaway. Enjoy the interview and good luck.
Science-Fiction
(Subgenre: New Adult (14+ and up)
Date Published: August 31st, 2018
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishing USA
Taking place in the year 2025, an invasion of alien creatures called Instinctive Outside Beings (IOBs) have taken over the world. With the world merely destroyed, a man named Clay Treston finds himself struggling within a reality he has long lost. Tortured and beaten from the impact of the IOBs, he continues to fight and protect a city full of survivors in order to hang onto a past that holds him together. But when suspicious events begin to appear, he soon learns a bigger plot beginning to unfold around him as he tries to hold himself together to fight. On the verge of losing himself and the city, he is then forced to not only learn what his true path is in the world but to put aside his feelings to finally see a new reality before him.
Galactic Mandate Book Blast and Giveaway
I always like a good sci-fi book. This one adds a space opera slant to it. It is also part of a series. Another Amazon gift card up for grabs with this book blitz. Don't miss entering to win the $35 gc, open WW through 2/6. Good luck.
Galactic
Mandate: The Scream
by
M.R. Richardson
Genre:
SciFi, Space Opera
A
young clone starts a journey that will take him to the far reaches of
the galaxy. He must choose between what is best for his oppressed
clone brethren and the greater good while he meets dangerous villains
and reluctant heroes along the way.
And
who are the elusive Scream? What do they want and how far will they
go to get it?
Join
the adventure today.
Thirteen Nocturnes Book Blast and Giveaway
Can you spell triskaidekaphobia? If you can and have that fear, perhaps this gothic, dark poetry book isn't for you. For those who dare, check it out and then enter to win a nice $50 Amazon gift card. Open worldwide through 2/4. Good luck.
Thirteen
Nocturnes
by
Oliver Sheppard
Genre:
Gothic, Dark Poetry
Combining
lush Gothic lyricism with postmodern experimentation, Oliver
Sheppard's second collection of verse, Thirteen Nocturnes, presents a
nightmare vision of a world in the grip of apocalypse and shadow--a
world where "a nighttime of years never-ending" becomes "a
darkness severe and unbending," and where life is relentlessly
"gathered up against the towering shadow of decay." Taking
cues from the dark Romanticism of Poe, the decadent Symbolism of
Baudelaire, and the apocalyptic tradition of William Blake--as well
as the existential doominess of 20th century cosmic horror--Oliver
Sheppard's Thirteen Nocturnes presents a verse vision of collapse,
announcing a cold poetics of disintegration in the new dark age of
the Anthropocene.
"Reading
Sheppard's poetry is a little like listening to a conversation
between Nietzsche and William Blake during a showing of Peckinpah's
Cross of Iron. Using a wide range of forms and cultural references,
Sheppard illustrates the human condition in ways that take as much
account of its absence as its presence... Given the chance, Sheppard
will lead you down dark and unfamiliar paths, to moments of weird
beauty." --from the foreword by John Foster
The Kid Who Would Be King - Advanced Screenings Boston
Please do not get passes for both. You can sign up for 1 or 2 tickets per account. As I've said in the past with these advanced screenings... they typically give out more passes then there are seats with the expectation that some folks won't show up and they want to fill the theatre. So, show up early for the best shot at getting a seat. Not all the advanced screenings have been overbooked. Some are lightly filled, but for a Saturday, I'd expect them to be full.
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
The Corpse Whisperer Book Blast and Giveaway
We seem to have a couple of weirder books today to highlight, between this and the Do the Dead Dream? book in the next post, though this one is more normal as an urban fantasy/mystery. Then check out the giveaway where the prize is not an Amazon gift card but a daily planner... I think open worldwide, you have through 1/17 to enter. Good luck.
The
Corpse Whisperer
An
Allie Nighthawk Mystery Book 1
by
H.R. Boldwood
Genre:
Urban Fantasy, Mystery
Welcome
to the world of Allie Nighthawk, corpse whisperer and badass zombie
hunter.
“If
you raise deadheads, you’d better be able to put ‘em down. Nobody
said it was pretty. But in this day, when vampires aren’t just for
breakfast anymore, and the dead are disposable pawns for
necromancers, someone has to ante up. Looks like I won the lotto.
Imagine my delight. You should thank me, really, because the world is
batshit crazy.”
When
the zombie population spikes and no one knows why, it’s up to Allie
to solve the mystery. But there’s a hitch. She’s stuck
babysitting Leo Abruzzi, a zombie-bitten gangster who’s turning
state’s evidence. But the mob and a powerful necromancer will stop
at nothing to take Leo and Allie down.
Allie
Nighthawk is Anita Blake on steroids, with a fondness for leather and
Jack on the rocks. She has a healthy dose of Stephanie Plum and
Rachel Morgan in her, too, though she’d never admit it.
The
battle between good and evil just got wicked fun.
Do the Dead Dream? Book Blast
Read an excerpt for this anthology of the weird and peculiar. Then check out the early reviews. Is this book for you?
Speculative Fiction
An Anthology of the Weird and the Peculiar
Published: October 2017
Do the dead dream?
Dive a wreck that was never there, in the waters off Bimini . . .
Meet a young girl who debates with rooftop monsters . . .
Dine at a tiny café teetering on the edge of oblivion . . .
Take refuge from a downpour in a gas station from nowhere . . .
Discover the real reason behind migraines . . .
Encounter a love gone bad before it ever existed . . .
Explore the emotional remains of a woman’s not-quite-dead past . . .
Follow a WWII airman plummeting through flak-filled German skies . . .
Edgy.
Unnerving.
Not quite right.
These are but a few of the surreal, the weird, and the peculiar you will encounter in a realm few willingly tread…with or without the lights on.
#WearFrenchToast Giveaway
Are you a shopper of uniforms at French Toast? There are five $50 gift cards to there up for grabs here. Enter the giveaway by heading to the French Toast page on Savings.com and submit your email address on the form at the top of the page. US residents have through 1/10 to enter. Good luck.
Monday, January 7, 2019
The Anastasia Series Book Blast and Giveaway
There's an interesting prize pack to go along with this young adult Paranormal Fantasy series announcement. There is a really large bear painting up for grabs and what looks like a really nice hunting knife. You have through 2/2 to enter. Good luck.
Destria
Waves
Anastasia
Series Book 1
by
Lily Raine
Genre:
YA Paranormal Fantasy
Anastasia
has always been different, and not just because she knows over
fifteen languages and prefers to be alone. After she was attacked
while visiting family in Russia over seven years ago, Ana has been
able to heal rapidly amongst other things. Unable to accept her own
immortality, despite increasing proof, she goes away to Joya Del Mar
Arts Academy with her two cousins, Jo and Mason. Instead of worrying
about recitals and dance steps, Ana discovers a secret world of
demons, mermaids and angels. Their only connection however, seems to
be an increasing need to find her so that the demons can force Ana to
bring back their master.
After
transforming a bear into a human boy, Ana can no longer hide her
abilities and struggles with the idea that she is not human, although
she does not know what she is. When a mysterious man in a mask
continues to stalk Ana with the intention of getting her to eat a
blue flower, Ana gets the sinking suspicion that the man in the mask
is the same young man who destroyed her life seven years prior. When
Ana discovers a secret lair hidden beneath the waves where the demons
are regrouping, Ana realizes she has a terrible choice to make.
Sacrifice her life and the life of the mermaids who fuel the
underwater power source, or escape and allow the demons free reign to
destroy the human world. But if Ana chooses to accept her
immortality, then the life of her cousins and boyfriend, Daniel, will
forever be compromised.
Game Changers of the Apocalypse
I like watching Post-Apocalyptic Horror tv shows. Not sure about books. What about you? Check out the book then be sure to enter for the Amazon gift card. Open through 2/7 to worldwide readers. Good luck.
Game
Changers of the Apocalypse
by
Mark Kirkbride
Genre:
Post-Apocalyptic Horror
It’s
always the end of the world when you break up with someone. This time
it really is... Everyone on the planet has mysteriously disappeared,
leaving exes Greg and Polly. They've survived the apocalypse, yet
shouldn't have. Battling each other and a malevolent entity that
teases them with their fate, how long can they remain ahead? Even
more terrifying than everyone else on the planet disappearing is
what’s about to take their place…
Shrill Dusk Book Blast
From the author of the Blood Destiny series of books, here's the start of her newest urban fantasy series. Called The City of Magic series, the first book is called Shrill Dusk. Enjoy.
Urban Fantasy
City of Magic, Book 1
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Charley is a cleaner by day and a professional gambler by night. She might be haunted by her tragic past but she's never thought of herself as anything or anyone special. Until, that is, things start to go terribly wrong all across the city of Manchester. Between plagues of rats, firestorms and the gleaming blue eyes of a sexy Scottish werewolf, she might just have landed herself in the middle of a magical apocalypse. She might also be the only person who has the ability to bring order to an utterly chaotic new world.
This is the first book in The City Of Magic series.
Winning Moves For Adults and Kids Giveaway
Time to try to win some more games, this time from Winning Moves. Open to US residents only, you have through 1/28 to enter. Good luck.
Welcome to the Winning Moves For Adults and Kids Giveaway!
1 Winner
This giveaway is part of our Valentine's Day Gift Guide – Stop by to see all the giveaways and great products.
Host is Michigan Saving and More
My co-hosts for this giveaway are Deliciously Savvy, SaraLee’s Deals Steals & Giveaways
Below is a list of all the bloggers involved in the gift guide giveaways.
Bargnhtress, Deliciously Savvy, Giveaway Gator, Heartbeats ~ Soul Stains, Java John Z’s, MarksvilleandMe, Michigan Saving and More, My Crafty Zoo, My Silly Little Gang, SaraLee’s Deals Steals & Giveaways, Tales From A Southern Mom
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