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Lone Star Book Blog Tour: Stolen Obsession (and Giveaway)
Hey! I’m back with with Lone Star Lit for another book tour and I’m featuring a “notable quotable” from author Marlene M Bell’s upcoming romantic mystery titled Stolen Obsession. We’ve got a fun giveaway and a book trailer (for an additional sneak peek) so read on! STOLEN OBSESSION Annalisse Series, Book 1 by Marlene M Bell Genre: Spicy Romantic Mystery Publisher: Ewephoric Publishing Date of Publication: March 20, 2018 Number of Pages: 284 Scroll down for the giveaway! PEOPLE DIE, BUT LEGENDS LIVE ON. Manhattan antiquities appraiser Annalisse Drury dreams of a quiet life on the family farm among the sheep she loves, when her best friend is murdered. The…
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2017 LSBBT Bloggers’ Choice Awards: Best Literary Fiction & Best Religious/Inspirational/Spiritual
The Lone Star Book Blog Tours team has voted, and the results are in! Picked from the Texas books and authors featured on Lone Star Book Blog Tours in 2017, today we bring you our picks for Best Literary Fiction and Best Religious/Inspirational/Spiritual WHEW! Best Literary Fiction is possibly my favorite category here and there were SOOOOO many choices. THIS was an impossible choice. The winner was The Grave Tender, which was impossible for me to review because it was one where I’m fearful of giving away anything, but Camille DiMaio’s novel Before the Rain Falls is one I have been recommending to everyone, and I absolutely adored Lady Jayne Disappears.…
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2017 LSBBT Bloggers’ Choice Awards: Best Children’s/Juvenile/YA & Best Series
The Lone Star Book Blog Tours team has voted, and the results are in! From Best Fiction to Most Engaged Author, we have seventeen awards to hand out to the awesome Texas books and authors featured on Lone Star Book Blog Tours in 2017. Today we are sharing our picks for Best Children’s/Juvenile/YA Book & Best Series – and we had some great ones to choose from! First up today is our pick for Best Children’s’/Juvenile/Young Adult book. Hands down, Evidence of Things Not Seen was the most unique book on the list (and falls firmly in the Young Adult category – this is not for younger readers.) The other books on the…
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2017 Bloggers’ Choice Awards: Best Non-Fiction History, Best Biography/Memoir, & Best Western
The Lone Star Book Blog Tours team has voted, and the results are in! From Best Fiction to Most Engaged Author, we have seventeen awards to hand out to the awesome Texas books and authors featured on Lone Star Book Blog Tours in 2017. Today we are featuring our choices for Best Non-Fiction History, Best Biography/Memoir, & Best Western! From February 15-23, 2018, please join us as we hop around the LSBBT blogs and share the winners, runners-up, and shortlisted titles. Don’t miss it! First up is our pick for Best Non-Fiction History: the fascinating book Understanding Cemetery Symbols by Tui Snider. Click to learn more about: Understanding Cemetery Symbols by Tui Snider Yonderings by…
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2017 LSBBT Bloggers’ Choice Awards
I love bringing you new and wonderful books, and one way I’ve been able to do so (and give you the chance to WIN the books and maybe even some fun swag) has been with Lone Star Book Blog Tours (LSBBT). What I’ve featured on my blog is only a portion of the books on tour, and there have been some wonderful ones for which – if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook – you’ve seen my shares of posts from other participating book bloggers. We’re readers, first of all, so of course we have our favorites – and we voted for them. I’m very pleased to bring you…
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Lone Star Book Blog Tour: Aransas Morning
I’m joining up with Lone Star Lit for another book blog tour, and I’m really excited to introduce you to Aransas Morning by author Jeff Hampton. ARANSAS MORNING by JEFF HAMPTON Genre: Literary Fiction / Family Life Date of Publication: September 22, 2017 Number of Pages: 304 Scroll down for the giveaway! When Sam Barnes’ high-flying life in Dallas falls apart, he flees to the coastal town of Port Aransas, Texas and fades into the life of a reclusive beach bum. But things start to change when he meets Dave, a young widower working through his own loss; Shelly, owner of the Dream Bean coffee shop; Bo, a crusty…
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Bonnie and Clyde Resurrection Road Book Blog Tour: Review & Giveaway!
BONNIE AND CLYDE: Resurrection Road Book One in a New Trilogy by CLARK HAYS AND KATHLEEN McFALL Genre: Alternative Historical Fiction / Thriller Date of Publication: April 22, 2017 Pages: 308 Publisher: Pumpjack Press on Facebook Scroll down for the giveaway! In an alternate timeline, legendary lovers Bonnie and Clyde are given one last shot at redemption. The story begins in 1984 when a reporter gets a tip to meet an old woman at a Texas cemetery. Cradling an antique rifle and standing over a freshly dug grave, the old woman claims to be Bonnie Parker. Turns out, she says, it wasn’t Bonnie and Clyde who were ambushed fifty years…
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Book Review: Dying for Christmas
I’ll be reading a lot of “feel-good” Christmas tales, but I acknowledge that those aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. With that in mind, I’m bringing you something vastly different today. Because although Tammy Cohen’s Dying For Christmas is set over the Christmas holidays, there is nothing merry and bright about it. Curious? Check it out: Review of Dying For Christmas I may have mentioned that this is NOT your typical Christmas tale. In fact, it’s not a Christmas tale at all, so let’s get that out of the way right now. I think the phrase used in the synopsis – “most disturbing psychological thriller yet” – is…
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Book Review: Death In D Minor
DEATH IN D MINOR by ALEXIA GORDON Genre: Paranormal Mystery / African American Sleuth Publisher: Henery Press Date of Publication: July 11, 2017 Number of Pages: 236 Scroll down for giveaway! Gethsemane Brown, African-American musician and expatriate to an Irish village, solved a string of murders and got used to living with a snarky ghost. She can rest easy now. Right? Wrong. The ghost has disappeared, her landlord’s about to sell to a developer, and her brother-in-law’s come to visit. She scrambles to call her spectral roomie back from beyond and find a way to save the cottage from destruction. But real estate takes a backseat when her brother-in-law is…
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Blog Tour & Review: Mustaches for Maddie
Review of Mustaches for Maddie When a copy of the middle-grade book Mustaches for Maddie arrived in my mailbox, I had to wrestle it from my own sixth grader (also named Maddie) who was intrigued first by the title and then by the cover description. Inspired by their daughter’s own story (more on this below), authors Morris and Brown have crafted the inspirational, delightful (and sometimes heart-wrenching) story of a wonderfully quirky sixth grader who faces a pretty monumental health situation with bravery and an amazing attitude. They captured the voice of the middle schooler beautifully, the story itself reads more like fiction and less like the biography I was anticipating…
