Wednesday, March 30, 2011

WINNERS: February Feature Book Interviews

In February, we have some Featured Book Interviews at the review site (we have more interviews ongoing now, with giveaways!), and here are the winners:





Dianne Duvall (Darkness Dawns) - June M.




Darynda Jones (First Grave on the Right) - Jane






Lorraine Heath (Passions of a Wicked Earl and Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman or $20 Gift Card) - Pam S



Robin D. Owens (winners' Choice of any backlist book, Heart Series or Luna, e-book or print, OR choice of an ARC of one of the "Heart" stories coming in December 2011 or Heart Search) - Kris M




P.C. Cast (Goddess of Legend) - Donna, Cathie, Maria





Charlotte Featherstone (Lust) - Beguile Thy Sorrow




Annabel Joseph (Caressa's Knees) - Bookie Nookie




Opal Carew (Pleasure Bound) - meandi

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

WINNERS: January Featured Books

In January, we have some Featured Book Interviews at the review site (we have more interviews ongoing now, with giveaways!), and here are the winners:





Lynsay Sands (The Chase) - Joan





Alexandra Ivy (Any book in the Guardians of Eternity series, winner's choice) -  marlenebreakfield@...





Annabel Joseph (Fortune) - Sara




Cat Johnson (UnRidden) - Leni






DH Starr (Meant for Each Other) - Kenjii, alterlisa, mistry89@...




DH Starr (Wrestling with Desire) - Anne, She, nyclocs@...

Monday, March 28, 2011

FEATURE and GIVEAWAY: The Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis


Two Men Are One Too Many . . .

Tara has a thousand good reasons not to return to the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington. Yet with her life doing a major crash-and-burn, anywhere away from her unfulfilled dreams and sexy ex-husband will do. As Tara helps her two sisters get their newly renovated inn up and running, she finally has a chance to get things under control and come up with a new plan for her life.

But a certain tanned, green-eyed sailor has his own ideas, such as keeping Tara hot, bothered . . . and in his bed. And when her ex wants Tara back, three is a crowd she can't control-especially when her deepest secret reappears out of the blue. Now Tara must confront her past and discover what she really wants. If she's lucky, she might just find that everything her heart desires is right here in Lucky Harbor.

Bio: USA Today bestselling author JILL SHALVIS lives in a small town in the Sierras also run by quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books are, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill's bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website at JillShalvis.com for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountain adventures.

Check out an excerpt of The Sweetest Thing. This page also has excerpts of her other books!


Wonderful news! Jill is coming out with a cookbook which will be available only as an eBook.  It ties in to The Sweetest Thing, whose heroine is a cook. It will be on sale April 15th for only $.99.  The best part? The FREE HEATING UP THE KITCHEN widget is now available! It includes Jill's favorite recipes and Chapter 1 of her book.





Grand Central Publishing is giving away 3 copies of the book!

Only residents of the U.S. or Canada are eligible to win. No P.O. Boxes, please.

Note: Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if they win the same title in two or more contests, they will receive only one copy of the title (or one set in the case of grouped giveaways) in the mail.

How to Enter:

1. Be a follower. (GFC, TRR Review Site)

2. Leave a comment below for Jill.

3. Enter the contest here.

Contest ends April 5.

Winners will be drawn in April.

Good luck! 

FEATURE and GIVEAWAY: What I Did For a Duke by Julie Anne Long


Hi Julie, thanks for taking the time for this interview. WHAT I DID FOR A DUKE is so awesome that we wanted to know more!

Q: Where did you get the inspiration for the Pennyroyal Green series?

Well, I wanted to create a kind of panoramic premise—Regency playground for me as an author if you will ;), a world that readers would want to visit time and again—and one that would allow me enough delicious latitude to do what I hope I do best, write unique characters who will inevitably fall in love in memorably passionate ways. I wanted it to theoretically yield countless stories—like, oh, a long-running television series. And I loved the notion of two powerful, feuding aristocratic families at the center of it bound by ancient secrets and one juicy alleged curse: that an Eversea and a Redmond are destined to fall in love once per generation with disastrous results.

Colin Eversea's story (in The Perils of Pleasure) helped me launch the series, because I pictured him going to the gallows, and the two families waiting for him to hang—each with entirely different feelings about the whole thing, and lots of undercurrents, thanks to Lyon Redmond's disappearance, all allegedly because Olivia Eversea broke his heart. It all unfurled from there!

Q: Will we ever see the main characters in the previous books taking a meatier role in future books? For example, we'd love to see more of our favorite couples, Violet and Asher, and of course, Genevieve and Alex, in more substantial roles in future installments!

I'd love to do that! In fact, Even as I focus on central story and romance for a particular hero and heroine, I can feel the town and the characters that bind it together, their back stories, their future stories, on the periphery of my awareness. I know all about Samuel Heron...

Read more.

Check out Julie's website!


Julie's giving away a signed print copy of THE PERILS OF PLEASURE, the first book in the Pennyroyal Green series.

Mechanics of the contest:

You can do either or both of the following to enter the drawing:

1. Write a comment or question in the comment box (3 chances to win) from now to March 31; [Click here to comment]

AND/OR

2. Check out our contest page from March 28 to 30 to enter your email address (1 chance to win). [Click here to enter]


Check out other Featured Book Interviews:

Toil and Trouble
Wuthering Heights: Wild and Wanton Version
The Haircut
Pride and Prejudice: Wild and Wanton Version
Make Me, Sir
First and Last
What I Did For a Duke
Frostfire

Sunday, March 27, 2011

GIVEAWAYS: Passing Time and Honeytrapped


When world-weary Louis Duncan returns to the English town where he grew up, the last thing on his mind is finding love. He's come home to be at his estranged mother's side as she lies comatose in a hospital bed.

The always-sunny barman Jake Harvey yearns to offer Louis much more than a willing ear. After an evening of too much wine, too much Indian take-out, and too much of Jake's soft lips, Louis succumbs to the young man's charms. Jake proves to be a passionate lover as well as a loyal friend.

When his mother's condition deteriorates, Louis leans on Jake to help him through the difficulty of another loss. The love of his life died two years before, but to Louis he remains every bit alive as Jake. He and Carter continue to chat, smoke together, even argue over whether Louis is living or merely existing. They do everything as they always did, except have sex. Now, despite Carter urging him to take the risk, can Louis give up his first real love and take his chances with the living?

Contest ends on March 27. Click here to enter.







It's her job to snare him, but this trap might be more complicated than she thought.

When Tilly went into business as a private detective, she thought it would be all brilliant deductive reasoning and car chases. She was not prepared for the deluge of calls from suspicious lovers hiring her to entrap their love rat partners, but when times are hard, you take what's on offer - which is how, despite two left feet, she came to find herself learning the Argentine tango.

But is the tango teaching lothario all he seems to be? And when he makes his hot Latin moves on her, will she really be able to stay professional and resist them?

Tilly finds herself tangled up in the tango, hot on the tail of a mystery. She even manages to fit in a car chase, though the brilliant deductive reasoning doesn't work out so well. But where her brain might miss out, her body certainly doesn't. They don't call sex the horizontal tango for nothing, it seems.

Contest ends March 29. Click here to enter.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

WINNERS: Seduced by Destiny, Highland Master and Treasure Me




The winners are:



TracyD
Melissa (Books and Things)
kayswederski@...






The winners are:



Cecille Smutty Hussy
StacieDM
ast.graham@...






The winners are:



booklover0226@...
susied
Martha Lawson




Congratulations!

Send me your name and mailing address!

More prizes to be won over at TRR's Grand Opening! So see you there!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

FEATURE and GIVEAWAY: First and Last by Stacey Kennedy




 
Hi Stacey, thanks for taking the time for this interview.
 
Q: FIRST AND LAST being the last book, we are sorry to come to the end of this series. For those of us who are new to your works, please give us an overall view of The Magical Sword series.
 
The novels in The Magical Sword series follow the life of Nexi Jones―a young woman who has never felt like she belonged. The reasons for this are because she's not human. She is a supernatural and was meant to belong in Otherworld. From the moment Nexi awakens there, her life is about to filled with passion, danger and the journey of her discovering just who she is and the gifts she holds as part Witch/part Guardian.
 
Q: Please share with us a little about what FIRST AND LAST is about?
 
Meet Nexi Jones—Witch, Guardian and now, Lady of the Underworld. Embracing her new role, Nexi begins the task of changing a world led by darkness. But not everyone is happy to see her rise to power. Before long, a resistance within the Underworld is forming.
 
As the darkness begins to close in around her, Nexi's magical abilities flourish in response—forcing Nexi to dig down deeper into her past to discover this source and why she was gifted with such incredible strength...
 
 
Check out Stacey's website!
 
 
Stacey is offering the set of the 4 books in The Magical Sword series to one lucky winner (ebook)!
 
Mechanics of the contest:
 
Write a comment or question in the comment box (3 chances to win) from now to March 31. [Click here to comment]
 
 
Check out other Featured Book Interviews:

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

FEATURE and GIVEAWAYS: Make Me, Sir by Cherise Sinclair


Cherise, thank you so much for taking the time to sit down with the four of us and give us the inside scoop on your new SHADOWLANDS book, MAKE ME, SIR. You have quite the fan club over here at TRR.

Thank you for having me. I'll try hard to be a polite and proper guest. *kicks flogger farther back under chair*

Q: (Michelle) Gosh, I think I want to start off with this amazing series as a whole. What inspired you to write the Shadowlands series?

You know, I'm still amazed that it's a series. The first book, CLUB SHADOWLANDS, actually started off as a self-indulgent story I created just for myself when I was sick and feeling ugly and unfeminine. Writing about a woman who mistakenly wanders into a BDSM club somehow made me feel all better.

Once it was finished, I hated the thought of throwing it away. A crit partner, Amber Green, suggested sending to her publisher, and to my shock, Loose Id bought it and asked for more.

Q: (Rebecca) What type of research did you need to do to prepare for writing the Shadowlands series?

Well, I have a smidgen of experience ;-) but since I try to introduce new kinks with each book, I keep accumulating fun sources of information: books, websites, Fetlife groups, friends and readers in the lifestyle.

Of course, real life research is totally fun. For example, to figure out how to auction off submissives in LEAN ON ME, I dragged a friend to the San Francisco Citadel for Maestro Stephanos's Master's Den auction. (Poor Belinda)

And my husband never hesitates to volunteer...

Read more.

Check out Cherise's website!

Cherise is giving away a copy of any book from her backlist to one lucky winner!

Mechanics of the contest:

You can do either or both of the following to enter the drawing:

1. Write a comment or question in the comment box (3 chances to win) from now to March 31; [Click here to comment]

AND/OR

2. Check out our contest page from March 23 to 25 to enter your email address (1 chance to win). [Click here to enter]


Check out other Featured Book Interviews:

Monday, March 21, 2011

GIVEAWAY: Sneakers, Sandals and Stilettoes




An anthology of two fairy-tales:

Shoe-In for Love

For shoe-designer Nessie Helph, 1984 is another year in the struggle to keep herself safe from her malicious supervisor, Grace Hart. Nessie's problems worsen when she finds out the company, Victor & Victoria, has been sold to Leo Schumacher. Known as "The Lumberjack," Leo's reputation for cutting costs and hacking jobs is legendary, but Nessie's prepared for any contingency...except the effect he has on her heart. She may not be able to get her hair to feather like Heather Locklear's, but with a little effort and a lot of luck, she's about to prove she's not only the best girl for the job, but a shoo-in for love, as well.

The magic of push-up bras, hip music producing jobs, and trendy clothes can't undo Agnes Frump's horrendous moniker. Nor can they make her neighbor, Dillon McKenzie, see her as anything but his best buddy. A midnight walk, a fateful fall, the discovery of a magic lamp, and Aggie switches priorities. In her efforts to help Ebony, the kitten-genie and undo the curse of Aladdin's lamp, she makes a fateful mistake-an inadvertent, "I wish I was in Dillon's arms," and Aggie wakes up in his arms, all right-as a stray dog. Will Aggie and her genie figure out how to undo a wish gone wrong, or is she doomed to a life of Milk Bones, flea baths and loving Dillon from the foot of her doggy bed?

Contest ends March 29 for the print books. Click here to enter.  (US and Canada only)

Contest ends April 4 for the ebooks. Click here to enter.

Check out TRR's Grand Opening for more prizes to win!

FEATURE and GIVEAWAY: Frostfire by Lynn Viehl





Hi Lynn, thanks a lot for this interview!

Q: Having read all the three books in your Kyndred series, I find that the paranormal element in each book is unique. How do you decide which paranormal element to use in each book?

Every decision I've made about the paranormal elements in each novel revolves around the backstory of the Kyndred, and also links back in some way to paranormal elements from the Darkyn series. For the protagonists in Frostfire, I was working with one character that had already been established in other books, so I worked off what I'd already created. I also wanted to play with my world-building a bit and explore an idea I had about the consequences of a different type of bioengineering; the kind that might happen in Nature.

Q: Where do you see this series going? Will there be a final book where all is revealed and the Takyn are safe from GenHance?

I've discussed this with my editor, and my publisher has decided that Nightshine, book four, will be the final book in the Kyndred series. I don't want to give out any spoilers, but I hope to wrap up things to everyone's satisfaction...

Read more.

Check out Lynn's blog!

Lynn's giving away an awesome prize for giveaway: a signed set of the three Kyndred novels in a tote bag! Check out the awesome pic below:



Mechanics of the contest:

You can do either or both of the following to enter the drawing:

1. Write a comment or question below in the comment box (3 chances to win) from now to March 31; [Click here to comment]

AND/OR

2. Check out our contest page from March 21 to 30 to enter your email address (1 chance to win). [Click here to enter]

Check out other Featured Book Interviews:

Toil and Trouble
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