Friday, May 10, 2024

#BookBlitz: Nights of Ink & Blade by Nikita Cassidy $25 Amazon gift card @XpressoTours


Nights of Ink & Blade
Nikita Cassidy
(The Rift Chronicles, #2)
Publication date: May 9th 2024
Genres: Adult, Fantasy

Everything Nova knew about her identity is a lie.

Truth is a scarce commodity on the island. Nova Lennox learned that the hard way.

What was supposed to be a brief stay turned into a dangerous game of survival. More secrets emerged. And the people who hold the information Nova needs–her boyfriend’s parents–are refusing to help.

But there’s someone.

Fae Prince Ramiel–cocky and not exactly her friend. However, he could give Nova what she seeks. She has no choice but to grab onto this opportunity. Instead of leaving the island with her boyfriend to start a new life after the nightmare they endured, Nova embarks on a journey into a realm of magical creatures and unknown danger to find out the truth about her parents. She owes it to her late mother.

But she also fears what she might discover in this treacherous place.

#BookBlitz: A Coat of Many Colors by Roy Schreiber @RABTBookTours



 

Putting Jewish Characters on Stage

 

Drama

Date Published: February 1, 2024


 

Showing diversity is the best way to undermine the negative stereotyping of Jewish people. The five plays in this book illustrate why stereotypes of any description don't work.

In Shylock Revisited, the main character won't give up his efforts to make the merchant of Venice, Antonio, pay what he owes. In "Good Deeds" a screen writer, Salka Viertel, pays the price for helping Nazi era Jewish artists escape from Europe.

Harry Houdini takes on a reluctant con woman in Margery Meets Harry. Educating Henry Adams has the queen of Tahiti convince the U.S. historian, Henry Adams, to help her write a family history that leaves out her Jewish heritage. And finally, in The Optimist, a Jewish college professor discovers that the world goes beyond the logical solutions he thinks will solve all problems.

Thursday, May 09, 2024

#CoverReveal for Havoc by J.L. Drake @GiveMeBooksPR






Title: Havoc
Series: Havoc of Sins #2
Author: J.L. Drake
Genre: Dark Billionaire Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Las Vegas
Mafia/MC Romance
Cover Design: TRC Designs
Release Date: June 11, 2024


BLURB

My family and friends are targets of an unseen enemy. How can I fight them when I have no idea when and where they will strike next?

Kenna lives by the same moral code as her friends who wear the cut of the Reaper. When she spills her secret to me, I'm enraged. The knowledge she carries affects us all but puts her directly in the crosshairs. This driving need to protect her is new for me.

As the truth is revealed, I discover those who were like friends are nothing more than traitors in this dangerous game.

When it happened, I never saw it coming. I was blinded by her. Guilt and pain send me into a dark spiral as I try to survive. Blood would spray across the city of Vegas until the truth showed its ugly face.

My world has been turned upside down. The true enemy could be in plain sight, but even if they are revealed, it could still be too late to save our empire—and the lives of those sworn to protect it.

#BookBlitz: Keepers of Time by M. N. Kinch @XpressoTours #Giveaway $20 Amazon gift card and ebook copy of Keepers of Time


Keepers of Time
M. N. Kinch
(The Keepers of Time Trilogy, #1)
Publication date: May 7th 2024
Genres: Fantasy, New Adult, Paranormal

A forgotten life.

A secret passed through generations.

A dangerous immortal with nothing to lose.

Joan Sanders is on track for a bright future at NASA, but a strange accident and even stranger dreams draw her to the Cardozas, three mysterious siblings with a charming coffee shop, a dark past, and an uncanny knack for knowing things they shouldn’t.

As Joan grows closer to the Cardozas (especially the grumpy, yet charming, older brother), she’s thrown into a world of secrets and magic that challenge everything she believes. And she realizes she may have more in common with them than she thought.

While Joan and the Cardozas race to unravel a centuries-old secret that could destroy time itself, an ancient, heartbroken drifter lurks on the edges of their lives, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

And he may know more about Joan’s past than she does.

In this funny and mesmerizing first installment of the Keepers of Time trilogy, M. N. Kinch weaves a magical story of romance and found family, with unforgettable characters you’ll love from the very first page.


#ReleaseBoost for HEA: Happily Ever After by @lucylennoxMM @GiveMeBooksPR






Title: HEA: Happily Ever After
Series: After Oscar #5
Authors: Lucy Lennox & Molly Maddox
Genre: MM Romance
Tropes: One Night Stand/Lovers to Friends to Lovers
Always the Groomsman, Never the Groom
Billionaire, Fake Dating
Release Date: May 2, 2024


BLURB

Have you heard the expression “twelve times a groomsman, never a groom”? Neither had I… until it suddenly became clear that every man I dated found their One True Love in the person they dated after me. 

Now I’m writing Best Man speeches for my former boyfriends twice a month, the “After Oscar” thing has become a legend, and I have finally accepted that Oscar Overton is nobody’s Happily Ever After.

Which is fine. 

Between running my investment company, providing for Frank, my emotional support hedgehog, and keeping my enthusiastic family from getting in my business, my life is plenty busy. The last thing on my mind is a relationship.

Until Hugh Linzee.

One hot night with the gorgeous wedding photographer somehow turns into a text conversation I just can’t quit, but I’m determined to keep my distance. Hugh has ideas… ideas about romance and fireworks and capital-L love… and I care about him too much to let him get those ideas about me.

Fate keeps throwing us together, though. After an accidental all-night phone call and a convenient wedding run-in, suddenly I find myself agreeing to be his fake boyfriend, and distance quickly becomes a thing of the past.

But how long until Hugh figures out he’ll only get his HEA… After Oscar?

#BookTour: L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 40 @RABTBookTours #Giveaway



 

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Short Stories

Date Published:  May 7, 2024

 

 

Spine-tingling

Breathtaking

Mind-blowing

Experience these powerful new voices—vivid, visceral, and visionary—as they explore uncharted worlds and reveal unlimited possibilities.

Open the Writers of the Future and be carried away by stories—and illustrations—that will make you think, make you laugh, and make you see the world in ways you never imagined.

Twelve captivating tales from the best new writers of the year as selected by Writers of the Future Contest judges accompanied by three more from L. Ron Hubbard, Nancy Kress, S.M. Stirling. Each is accompanied by a full-color illustration.

Plus Bonus Art and Writing Tips  from Gregory Benford, Bob Eggleton, L. Ron Hubbard, Dean Wesley Smith

#ReleaseBlitz for Tasty Cherry by JJ Knight @GiveMeBooksPR






Title: Tasty Cherry
A Pickleverse Standalone
Author: JJ Knight
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Age Gap/Experience Gap/Boss + Intern
Release Date: May 9, 2024


BLURB

I’m having the worst time getting rid of my V-card.

I tried all through college with no luck.

But I just landed my dream job with four other new hires. We all live on site at a castle hotel, and I know I have to do the deed, because I can’t break this seal with someone who might blab about it to my coworkers.

So the night before my first day, I head to a Colorado bar and decide to sleep with the first person I see.

I know. Terrible plan.

But I wind up dancing with a smokin’ hot local at least a decade older than me with the experience to match.

The night is memorable. Easy-going. A perfect first time.

And I never have to see him again. Never have to explain myself.

I show up for my new job with the best feeling about the direction life is headed, until the first staff meeting at the castle.

You know what’s coming, don’t you?

My one-night stand where I lost my v-card?

He’s my new boss.