Monthly Archives: June 2013
For Internal Use Only by Cari Kamm @CariKamm #review
I’m thinking lately I get books too long or too short. This was long. Usually I gobble up the long ones. This was a solid good read. Yes it was pretty clean, I have also been reading too much smut. This was a change in that respect. What I admit is I miss the smut.
The overall joining of friends and the premise was great. Chloe and her friends doing a book club, each searching for something was enjoyable. The ideal star of the story is Chloe Kassidy and trying to find love. Her career is off kilter and so is the same for her love life. She is a photographer who is invited to an exclusive art exhibit entitled “Love Through Light”. This is something to put her on the “map” so to speak.
Her friends were a high point, as well as being shown at a prestigious gallery. The questions arise about love in both settings. Her inner circle is a burned and hurt girl, a married one and of course the single Mom. There are a few worthy scenes between the friends.
As for the disconnect, I sort of did not get Mary sending an email; “I dont know you but, you would be perfect for my boss” So here is an email chain between Christoph, a Swedish diplomat, also a writer, and Chloe. The relationship was missing something for me, and I don’t know exactly what. I really think some editing and additions of a love scene or two with purpose would have set it apart.
Book Trailer: http://tinyurl.com/bdr7bfn
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/for-internal-use-only-cari-kamm/1114224342?ean=9781479220496
The author
Cari Kamm has worked in the beauty industry for over a decade, building brands, working behind the scenes, and even selling her own skin care line. She has a master’s in clinical nutrition from New York University. Kamm currently works in corporate social media management with clients in the beauty, fashion, and restaurant industries. Living in New York City with her mutt Schmutz, Kamm loves finding inspiration in the most unexpected places, being a novelist, and convincing her fiancé that ordering takeout and making dinner reservations are equal to cooking. More information can be found on her website, CariKamm.com.
To check out the book trailer, click here: http://tinyurl.com/bdr7bfn.
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CariKamm.Author
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Website: http://www.carikamm.com
For Internal Use Only by Cari Kamm @CariKamm #spotlight
Chloe Kassidy has just been accepted into one of Manhattan’s most exclusive art exhibits, Love Through Light. However, with her singular dedication to her career, she soon realizes that in sacrificing her personal life, she has never been in love. A hopeless romantic who is terrified of heartbreak, Chloe begins to enlist the help of her circle of friends to learn about love through their very different stories and experiences. In Chloe’s emotional rollercoaster to having the greatest love story ever told, she’ll learn that like her photography she must use the negatives in life to develop and prove that she’s a strong woman who found her way to love through light. Inspired by the notion that women grow up with ideas of true love and destiny, For Internal Use Only approaches those ideas with a decidedly twenty-first century viewpoint. A humorous love story with an edgy and dramatic twist, For Internal Use Only is a vastly entertaining novel that gives each of us a new fairy tale to look forward to: our own.
Book Trailer:http://tinyurl.com/bdr7bfn
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17436542-for-internal-use-only
Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/For-Internal-Only-Cari-Kamm/dp/1479220493
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/for-internal-use-only-cari-kamm/1114224342?ean=9781479220496
The author
Cari Kamm has worked in the beauty industry for over a decade, building brands, working behind the scenes, and even selling her own skin care line. She has a master’s in clinical nutrition from New York University. Kamm currently works in corporate social media management with clients in the beauty, fashion, and restaurant industries. Living in New York City with her mutt Schmutz, Kamm loves finding inspiration in the most unexpected places, being a novelist, and convincing her fiancé that ordering takeout and making dinner reservations are equal to cooking. More information can be found on her website, CariKamm.com. To check out the book trailer, click here: http://tinyurl.com/bdr7bfn.
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CariKamm.Author
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CariKamm
Website: http://www.carikamm.com
Emerge (Evolve Series #1) by S.E. Hall @Emergeauthor
Emerge (Evolve Series #1)by S.E. Hall click the picture to buy it NOW on Amazon 
Laney Walker is a quick witted, athletic, southern tomboy who lets few get too close, using her sarcastic zingers to deflect. She also has no idea how others view her, Evan having protected and coveted her since they were children. But college puts a gap between Laney and Evan that neither of them were prepared for- old relationships are tested, new ones are formed and nothing will ever be the same.
Especially when in walks one Dane Kendrick, not at all the familiar, southern charmer of home, but an animal all his own.
More than, and not just, a love triangle; a story of growing up, friendship, loyalty, first love, primal love…and life.
The author
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What a fellow author said:
May 27, 2013Angela Graham rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everyone that loves romance
This is the perfect book about a girl coming into her own and realizing there is more out there than she ever gave thought to. The characters were very well fleshed out and I was quick to build up a fondness for them. The story was sweet and at times tugged at my heart.
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Thursday Morning Breakfast (and Murder) Club by Liz Stauffer @LizStauffer
Thursday Morning Breakfast (and Murder) Club by Liz Stauffer
Publisher: Sartoris Literary Group, Inc.
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Synopsis:
When Clare Ballard sports a new bruise on her right cheek the day after a contentious town meeting, the ladies of the Thursday Morning Breakfast Club suspect her husband Roger of abusing her. That same day Hester Franklin, another breakfast club lady, is called to rescue her grandson Patrick after he is arrested for transporting drugs. Proclaiming his innocence, Patrick threatens that those who set him up will pay. Roger Ballard is high on his list.
But it’s when Lillie Mae Harris, the club’s leader, discovers the body of the local drug dealer on the nearby hiking trail, that the community is upended. Roger Ballard, the primary suspect, goes missing, and when his body turns up in his own back yard, Clare Ballard confesses to his murder. No one believes she did it, but Clare insists she’s guilty and mysteriously refuses to talk to her lawyer, the police, or her family and friends.
The Thursday Morning Breakfast Club ladies believe she’s protecting someone, and they vow to find out who it is. Charlie Warren, the town’s homegrown policeman, using unconventional means, collaborates with the breakfast club ladies to draw out the real criminal. But danger lurks.
Alice Portman, the matriarch of the breakfast club, is struck down in her own yard and is sent to the hospital. Then others in the small community start to disappear—one after the other. As the ladies get closer to the truth, they get closer to the danger. With no time to cry over spilled coffee, they form a plan to capture the true culprits before someone else is murdered.
Meet the author:
Liz Stauffer wrote stories in high school, but transferred her writing skills to the corporate world after her divorce from an Air Force pilot, as a means of supporting her two young sons. Moving between educational research and the computer world, she wrote everything from political encyclopedias and travel articles, to marketing literature and software manuals. But it wasn’t until she found herself stranded in a South Dakota winter, that she returned to writing fiction.
After a successful corporate career, Liz gave up that world to travel and to write, and in some cases, to combine her two loves. Having lived in some fourteen states during her early adult years, she’s traveled to all fifty states, and to some fifty countries on four continents. When not traveling, she lives with her two dogs in Hollywood, Florida.
For several years after retiring, Liz lived six months a year in Pen Mar, Maryland, a small community nestled into the foothills of the Appalachians, straddling the Maryland/Pennsylvania border, her house just feet from the Appalachian Trail. Pen Mar, once the site of a grand summer resort built by the railroad in the late nineteenth century, is the inspiration for the site of her Thursday Morning Breakfast and Murder Club mysteries. Her protagonist, Lillie Mae Harris, shares some of her own interests. Both women love to talk, love their friends and family but also love to meet new people, love to be outside, and love to hike. Lillie Mae would bike as much as Liz does, if the country roads she cruises were supportive to biking. Liz also has a great love of the beach, which Lillie Mae finds hot and tedious.
Currently Liz is working on the third Thursday morning breakfast club mystery and is planning a grand epic that features the Pen Mar Park and Resort.
@LizStauffer
Fall From Love by Heather London @Hlondon06 #review
Review:
This was a great book. I don’t like to admit I never read any of her other books, but I will now. I have seen some amazing reviews of her work, so I am thrilled to have gotten the chance.
This was pretty emotional. The main character Holly is only 21, in college and in love. Sounded perfect for a minute. Adam and Holly were together for two years. So it starts out with a lot of history between the two and of course brings the emotional aspects in. I am NOT giving away any plot secrets when I say Holly is stunned at the call to say Adam was in an accident. He did not make it. So it is a very low point for her.
Overall the the theme is about life, grabbing what you have for as long as you have it, and healing. I know it pulls at the heart and sort of makes you think a little too much at times. Please read it and enjoy the wonderful journey. Nobody says life is easy or there is a clear path. Nobody tells you to grieve for a certain amount of time and then move on.
I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it, tears and all. I say READ it NOW
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Heather London is a young adult and new adult author who loves to write stories full of romance, fantasy, and science fiction. She is a lover of only the finest of coffee and premium craft beer, but will settle for anything chocolate, regardless of its quality. Heather lives with her husband in Dallas, TX where she is currently working hard on her next project.Links:
Website: http://heatherlondon.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hlondon06
Fall From Love by Heather London @Hlondon06 #spotlight
Synopsis:
Struggling to put her life back together after a tragic mountaineering accident kills her college sweetheart, twenty-one-year-old Holly Treadwell is trying to set aside her grief, forge ahead in school, and find herself again.
When Carter Hansen, a guy who brings back horrible memories from the night of the accident, finds his way back into her life, Holly’s unsure if she should let him in. He terrifies her in more ways than one and invokes feelings in her that she thought were buried forever. Regardless of her fears, she knows she must face him in order for her heart to heal.
Everyone tells Carter that what happened on the mountain that night was just a terrible accident, but even then, he can’t help but carry around the guilt and is unable to forgive himself. He’s drawn to Holly and being near her helps ease his conscience and gives him the release he needs.
As Holly and Carter’s relationship grows, they begin to realize that the more time they spend with one another, the more their wounds begin to heal—her grief and his guilt. But when Holly learns the details about the night of the accident—what everyone has been keeping from her—it will rip open old wounds and tear apart what they’ve both worked so hard to overcome…
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AUTHOR BIO
Heather London is a young adult and new adult author who loves to write stories full of romance, fantasy, and science fiction. She is a lover of only the finest of coffee and premium craft beer, but will settle for anything chocolate, regardless of its quality. Heather lives with her husband in Dallas, TX where she is currently working hard on her next project.Links:
Website: http://heatherlondon.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hlondon06
Please help J.B. McGee get to 5000 Fans #Giveaway @j_b_mcgee
Race to 5000 Fans
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I’m so excited to be so close to 5000 fans. I can’t believe it, honestly. I remember telling my dad when I started this journey that I would be happy if I sold 100 books. It would be a banana split with a cherry on top if I sold 1000. To think of where I am today is still very surreal. Please know that I thank you from the bottom of my heart. This journey has been a huge testimony this far on having faith and patience. Thank you for your part in that.
When I reach 5000 fans, I will release the prologue to Skipping Stones.
I want to thank all of my incredible colleagues and friends for their contributions to this massive giveaway.
This giveaway is very simple to enter. You just need to be a fan of mine on Facebook. You can also get extra entries by following me on Twitter, adding Skipping Stones to Goodreads, and by tweeting the giveaway. The most entries can be obtained by liking all of the authors, bloggers, and small businesses who were kind enough to donate goodies to this giveaway.
Also!! You can get a custom URL with your entry to share with your friends. Every time you refer an entrant into the contest you get an extra entry. You can get up to 10 extra entries this way!
Open internationally, as I appreciate ALL of my fans. No matter where you live.
ARC of Skipping Stones
Signed copies of Broken, Mending, Conspiring, and Forgiven by JB McGee + Swag Bag
Signed Limited 1st Edition Broken Clipboard
Signed Bookmark and Key Chain
$5.00 Amazon Gift Card
$5 Amazon Gift Card from The Book Bellas Blog
ARC of Seize Me by Crystal Spears
One set of FREE earrings by Rebecca Lee Mincey
Signed bookmark from Emma Nichols
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Book of your choice by J.B. McGee
Love Notes by Heather Gunter
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Relentless and Pieces of You by Cassia Leo
Lost in Distraction by BJ Harvey
Julliard or Else by Nichele Reese
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Overwhelm Me (Book One of the Callahan Series) by AC Marchman
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Hat Trick by Brad Keene
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Trust by L. Chapman
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Get Caught Giving – The Summer of a Million Gifts Giveaway facebook.com/deseretbook
Announcing! A Summer Of A Million Gifts + $50 Giveaway
Deseret Book Kicks-off a Summer of a Million Gifts!!
Prizes include an 8-day cruise, a missionary wardrobe, a wedding reception, and daily gifts
Deseret Book is looking to give back this summer with its Summer of a Million Gifts. The store’s customers can anticipate random daily in-store gifts and an opportunity to win one of three grand prizes.
In June, one lucky customer will win an 8-day Caribbean Cruise with Alex Boye, British-born LDS singer and songwriter, courtesy of Morris Murdock Travel. In July, another will win a missionary wardrobe courtesy of Mr. Mac. And in August, one couple will win a wedding reception courtesy of Temple Square Hospitality.
The giving will take place online and in person at every store throughout the summer months. Each day on Deseret Book’s official Facebook page and in Deseret Book stores, an associate will give a gift to at least one customer a free pass to Lagoon theme park, double Platinum points, a free book at check-out, an act of service, or some other free prize.
More information about the Summer of a Million Gifts can be found online at Deseret Book, on Facebook, or in any of Deseret Book’s retail locations.
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The Client List by R.J. Armitage #debut
Kai Langdon thinks he has got it all. A great job as a chef at a small local pizzeria and a beautiful girlfriend, Meg Aplin. But when Meg arrives from Thailand with an indecent proposal, his life takes a completely new and unexpected turn.
Meg wants more than just a mediocre life. So when she meets Lisa Spencer, a high-flying career woman, who is seeking a short fling, for which she is willing to fork out an obscene amount of money, she believes that this may be ticket out of it. She convinces boyfriend, Kai that he is the perfect man for this job.
Can Kai and Meg save their relationship from what is to follow in Kai’s experience as a high profile male escort?
Blurb:
Kai Langdon thinks he has got it all. A great job as a chef and a beautiful girlfriend, Meg Aplin.
But when Meg arrives from Thailand with an indecent proposal, his life takes a completely new and unexpected turn.
Meg meets Lisa Spencer, a high-flying career woman, who is seeking a short fling, for which she is willing to fork out an obscene amount of money.
Meg believes that boyfriend,Kai just may be the perfect man for this job.
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