Thursday, January 31, 2013 0 comments

ETERNAL by Kristi Cook | Cover Reveal

THERE’S NO HIDING FROM DESTINY…

In the final book of the Winterhaven trilogy, Violet McKenna and her friends find themselves right in the middle of a vampire war. The stakes have been raised, the danger unavoidable now. As the Warriors’ senior year draws to a close, not everyone makes it out alive. Who will be left standing at the end of it all? Will Aidan be a part of Violet’s future, or is he just a specter of the past?






About The Author


YA author Kristi Cook is a transplanted southern gal who lives in New York City with her husband and two kids. Her YA debut, HAVEN, was released in Feb. 2011 by Simon Pulse.

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Crazy Stupid Love: New Adult Giveaway Blog Hop

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Blog hop runs from 12:01AM Feb. 21st through to 11:59PM Feb. 28th
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We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate our newest book obsession, New Adult, than to host our very first giveaway blog hop here on Talk Supe!

What is New Adult?

New Adult is a recent category of fiction for young adults. Books in the New Adult category are marketed to both YA readers and adult readers. Intended to appeal to readers aged 14 through 35, new adult books deal with themes deemed too racy for YA set but with YA's familiar tropes and narrative arcs.

Protagonists in new adult stories usually range from the ages of late teens to early twenties (18-25). This is typically the time young adults have just graduated high school, going off to college, moving away from home for the first time, or going off into the adult world. New adult books tend to be more….

It's seems like every week a new adult book is hitting the best-seller lists of Amazon, Wall Street Journal, NY Times or USA Today. So, if you love drama and crave that crazy, stupid kind of young love story that has you staying up till the early morning hours reading, then you'll definitely love this new-ish genre. New adult is perfect for readers who might have grown too old for YA but are not quite ready to jump into the more adult reads out there. 

Examples of New Adult Books



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Circles of Lies - Sara Dailey and Staci Weber | Giveaway Promo



Title: Circle of Lies (Red Ridge Pack #2)
Authors: Sara Dailey and Staci Weber
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
Description:

Aiden Wright is trying to figure out who he really is, but the truth could cost him his true mate—or his life.
Life has always been easy for Aiden Wright. He’s smart, athletic, funny, and the ladies adore him. But when tragedy strikes, Aiden discovers the truth about who he really is, and his whole world comes crashing down around him. Aiden thought that being a teenage werewolf was going to be awesome, but it might just cost him the one girl who could make him whole.
Since her mother’s disappearance, Teagan Rhodes’s life has been littered with her father’s empty beer cans and his hollow promises to change. Convinced that others would only let her down, she keeps everyone at arm’s length—but resisting Aiden’s charm is proving to be more difficult than she thought. Throw in a psychotic werewolf hunter out to terminate the species, and one wrong move, one wrong decision could destroy everything.
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Monday, January 28, 2013 1 comments

Interview With Kerry Wilkinson



Kerry Wilkinson, thank you for being with us today. You are being called an accidental author after your success in the series. How did all this happened? Can you tell us about your writing to publishing journey?

I always thought I was capable of doing something other than simply "having a job". When I turned 30, I figured it was about time I got on and actually tried, so I started writing...


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The Voice - Jennifer Anne Davis | Excerpt



Chapter 1

Lying in the dark cabin, I tried not to think about the foul smell of body odor mixed with the stench of urine. I tried not to think about how hungry I was, or when I would eat again. About the plastic zip ties cutting into my wrists, or the spider crawling up my arm. I kept trying and failing. There was nothing to do but think.

Audrey? he spoke in my mind.
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The Voice - Jennifer Anne Davis | Book Blitz

With Xpresso Book Tours, today we have The Voice Book Blitz. Jennifer Anne Davis' debut YA contemporary novel will be hitting the shelves today. Here is the synopsis and the first Chapter (click here) of the book just for you! And there is also a giveaway, don't miss out!


The Voice by Jennifer Anne Davi - YA Contemporary novel - Publication date: January 29th, 2013

During her abduction and assault, Audrey begins to hear a voice. She hopes she’s not going crazy, because after what she’s experienced, that’s the most logical explanation. However, as she begins to listen to the voice, Audrey realizes that someone may be telepathically trying to help her.

Unfortunately, rescue isn’t all she needs. In order to leave behind the constant reminders, she flees to her Aunt Kate’s house in San Diego, and assumes a new identity. It works—until the eighteen-year-old twin boys who live next door threaten to break through the protective walls she’s worked so hard to build.

Thursday, January 24, 2013 0 comments

From This Moment On - The Sullivans - Bella Andre | Excerpt


Enjoy the following excerpt for FROM THIS MOMENT ON...


Marcus Sullivan was known for his patience. After helping to raise his seven siblings, he’d learned to wait out tantrums, fistfights, even tears.
But tonight, he was all out of patience.
He’d come to the club tonight to find a woman, to proposition her, to claim her for one no-holds-barred night, but he’d been watching the dancers for long enough to know that he wasn’t going to take a single one of them to bed. None of the women who’d walked in through the thick red curtain in the past thirty minutes had been contenders, either.

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Kiss of Fire - Rebecca Ethington | Cover Reveal




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The Forgotten Ones - Laura Howard | Cover Reveal


The Forgotten Ones
Author: Laura Howard
Genre: NA Paranormal Fantasy Romance
Expected release date: May 15, 2013
Age Group: New Adult
Cover Designer: Stephanie Mooney 

Book Description:

Allison O'Malley just graduated from college. Her life's plan is to get a job and take care of her schizophrenic mother. She doesn't have room for friends or even Ethan, who clearly wants more. 

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Sylvain Reynard Interview on Gabriel's Trilogy | Interview


Sylvain Reynard’s Gabriel’s Rapture is a nominee for the GoodReads Choice Awards 2012 for Best Romance, along with this years some hottest bestsellers; Fifty Shades Freed and Bared to You.
Gabriel’s Rapture picks up where the national bestseller, Gabriel’s Inferno, left off.
Professor Emerson and Julianne Mitchell, who have finally put their relationship out in the open, are enjoying their romantic visit in Florence. But jealous colleagues, conspiring students, former lovers and academic politics await their return. Is their love strong enough to endure the tests they face?
Mr. Reynard is here with us to talk about Gabriel’s story…


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The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap - Paulette Mahurin | Review & Interview



Rating : B+
Author: Paulette Mahurin
Pages: 212
Language: English
Publisher: PSelf-Published

The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap is the debut novel by award-winning author Paulette Mahurin.  It is a historical novel about tolerance, love, friendship and loyalty, set in 1895.

It begins with Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment in Britain, for indecency, under the new law that made sex between males a criminal offense.

Mildred Dunlap is living with Edra in a small town called Red River Pass, in Nevada. They have a secret…

Edra, who is known to the people of Red River Pass as Mildred’s cousin, is, in fact, her friend and life partner.

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More - T.M. Franklin | Review & Interview



Rating : C+
Author: T.M. Franklin
Pages: 253
Language: English
Publisher: TWCS Publishing House

T.M. Franklin’s debut novel, More, hit the shelves in early October.

It is the story of  Ava Michaels, who believed she had magical powers all her childhood. She is now a university student and those dreams are long pushed back…

When Caleb Foster is assigned to help Ava in her physics classes, her life begins to change. He is handsome, mysterious, and has a mission of his own – which is, of course, not limited to just teaching her physics.

With what Caleb shows her, Ava realizes everything she believed about her life was an illusion. She is something “More,” as she always thought. And that is just the beginning…

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Bring Up The Bodies - Hillary Mantel | Review



Rating : B+
Author: Hillary Mantel
Pages: 407
Language: English
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc. 

Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize 2012 with her novel Bring up the Bodies. The book is her sequel to the 2009 winner, Wolf Hall.

With this award, she has become the first British writer and the first woman to win the Man Booker more than once.

At London’s Guildhall on Tuesday evening, She accepted her award with the words “You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize. Two come along at once.”

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The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng | Review


Rating : A+
Author: Tan Twan Eng
Pages: -
Language: English
Publisher: Mrymidon 

Tan Twan Eng, the writer of The Gift of Rain, a Man Booker Prize Longlisted book in 2007, is back with his second book.

With The Garden of Evening Mists, an alluring, historical story of loss and grief,  he is in the running for Man Booker Prize again. This shortlisted book is published by independent publisher Myrmidon Books.

The story takes place in three different time periods; the second World War, Malaysia in the aftermath of World War II, and the present.

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Man Booker Prize 2012 Shorlisted Authors & Books


The Man Booker Prize 2012 will be awarded to one of the six shortlisted books on October 16 at a dinner in London, and the competition is high.

Every year, a different judging panel decides what books are in the running and the winner.
This years’ judges are; Sir Peter Stothard, the editor of Times Literary Supplement, he is also the Chairman of the panel; Dinah Birch, English Professor in the University of Liverpool and a literary critic; Amanda Foreman, an award winner historian and author; Dan Stevens, the famous actor of the tv series Downton Abbey and an editor; and Bharat Tandon, an author and critic.

Six shortlisted books of the 44th Man Booker Prize were announced, on 11 September. Each shortlisted writer will be awarded  $4000. The winning author/book will be receiving an additional $80.000, and of course, a significant increase in the sales of their book is inevitable.

The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan EngThis year’s common themes are old-age, memories, and loss. Here are the six shortlisted books;

Bring up the Bodies – Hillary Mantel
Umbrella – Will Self
Narcopolis – Jeet Thayil

2009 Man Booker Prize winner Hillary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies was the least surprising name on the list. Apart from winning it once, Mantel was also long listed with Beyond Black in 2005.
Mantel’s new book is the sequel to the award winning Wolf Hall. However, a British author has never won the prize twice. We will have to wait and see if this changes.

Will Self’s Umbrella may to be chosen to erase the effects of the readability approach of last years judging panel. In 2011, the judging panel admitted that they wanted the listed books to be read, rather than to be admired. Umbrella is very far from this approach, with its very complex structure. This year’s panel calls Will Self “the radical of modern literature” because of his modernized Elliot and Joyce influence.  “Both moving and brainy and we place it on the shortlist with the conviction that those who stick with it will find it much less difficult than it first seems.” Says the panel’s chairman, Stothard. But be aware, this is a 400-page book with no paragraphs or chapter divisions…

Jeet Thayil’s debut novel Narcopolis is also in the shortlist,  The writer, who is also a poet and a musician,  has lived in Hong Kong, India, and the US.  Narcopolis is a story about Mumbai’s opium and heroin addicted days in the 1970’s, garnished by Thayil’s own experiences. Kevin Rushby, The Guardian book critic, says “ I wished that this book, like some long and delicious opium-induced daydream, would go on and on. The end, sadly, does eventually come.” We will soon find out what the judging panel thinks about this…

Malaysian writer, Tan Twan Eng has been on the Man Booker longlist once before. Now with his second book, The Garden of Evening Mists, he is shortlisted. It is the story of a lawyer, Yun Ling Teoh, living in Malaysia in 1949, in the aftermath of WWII.

The award winning writer of short stories, Alison Moore, is one of the most talked about writers, with her debut novel, The Lighthouse. The book came out from a small, independent publisher, Salt Publishing. It is a melancholic and haunting story about a man’s walking journey in Germany.

The final book of the six is Swimming Home, by Deborah Levy. Her first novel in fifteen years proves that the most interesting secrets we keep are the ones we kept from ourselves. It is also published from the same independent publisher as The Lighthouse. Stothard says, “We loved the shock of language shown in so many different ways and were exhilarated by the vigour and vividly defined values in the six books that we chose,”.

Which books on the Man Booker shortlist are your favorites? Which one do you think will win? Leave your comments below!

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The Lighthouse - Alison Moore | Review


Rating : B+
Author: Alison Moore
Pages: -
Language: English
Publisher: Salt Publishing

Less than a week to Man Booker Prize 2012 gala,  The Lighthouse,  Alison Moore’s debut novel, is one of the most talked about shortlisted books.

Alison Moore takes a tale of an ordinary man and turns it into an extra ordinary book.

This short, but powerful, story begins with Futh’s appearance on a North Sea ferry. He is a middle-aged man, running away from a broken marriage. He is on his way to a week-long walking holiday in Germany.

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There You'll Find Me - Jenny B. Jones | Review


Rating : B+
Author: Jenny B. Jones
Pages: 314
Language: English
Publisher: Thomas Nelson

There You’ll Find Me is a young adult novel by four-time Carol Award winner by Jenny B. Jones.
Finley Sinclair, a witty, tough, and driven eighteen-year-old girl, has lost her balance with older brother Will’s death.

She plays violin and needed to compose an audition piece for her upcoming interview at the Manhattan music conservatory. However, Finley finds out she has lost her creativity, and she agrees to enter an exchange program in Ireland, to follow Will’s travel journal with the hopes of finding answers, and her, inspiration again.
Monday, January 14, 2013 0 comments

Building Stories - Chris Ware | Review


Rating : A+
Author: Chris Ware
Pages: -
Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon

Chris Ware’s new graphic novel, Building Stories, was published on October 2. At the age of 45, he is one of the most well-known and creative American comics artists.

His new book is a work of art and genius. It comes in a large rectangular cardboard box, assorted as 14 various sized booklets, pamphlets, magazines.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky | Review



Rating : B-
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Pages: 213
Language: English
Publisher: MTV Books


The Perks of Being a Wallflower movie, based on the novel by Stephen Chbosky, is now in limited release and is set for a nationwide release in the US on Oct 5th.

So what’s the book and movie about? Well let’s take a look at them – starting with the book, and without giving too much away!

The coming-of-age novel was published in 1999. The main character is an almost sixteen year-old boy name Charlie. We have insights of Charlie’s freshman year in high school through his letters, written to an anonymous friend.

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Swimming Home - Deborah Levy | Review


Swimming Home is Deborah Levy’s first novel in 15 years and is short-listed for the 2012 The Man Booker Prize.

The book was first published in 2011 by a British independent. It was later picked up by a mass-market publisher and will hit store shelves on October 16.

The story is set in Southeast France during the heat wave in 1994. The main characters of the story are Joe Jacobs, a poet who came to England from Poland, right before the WWII, at the age of five; Isabel Jacobs, Joe’s wife, a war-correspondent; and Nina Jacobs, their fourteen year-old daughter. And of course… there’s the stranger, Kitty Finch, a young, beautiful, unstable, would-be poet and, so called, botanist.
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Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl | Review


Moviegoers are always hungry for the next YA hit.

The last one was Hunger Games. This next time around? It very well may be Alcon Entertainment’s adaptation of Beautiful Creatures.

If you are unfamiliar with it, Beautiful Creatures is the first book in the Caster Chronicles series. The series currently includes three published books. Two more are on the way.

Coauthored by Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia, the series is a dark story that involves a young adult paranormal romance. It centers around a love-story between Ethan Wate, a 16 year-old mortal boy, and Lena Duchannes, a soon to be 16 year-old caster girl.

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Joseph Anton : A Memoir - Salman Rushdie


Yesterday, Salman Rushdie released his new book, A Memoir: Joseph Anton.

After his book The Satanic Verses was published, as some might remember, he was sentenced to death with a fatwa by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Valentine’s Day in 1989.

The book was found highly offensive to Islam by many. However, he described The Satanic Verses as his least political book, “…an artistic engagement with the phenomenon of revelation.”

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The River - Michael Neale | Review


The Dove-award winning songwriter Michael Neale’s debut novel, The River, is getting its place on the shelves today, September, 18th.

The River is an inspirational story about loss and redemption. With the fast pace, you should get ready to be drawn in quickly and to have a hard time putting it down.

The story takes place in the Colorado Rockies and “The River.” Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River; he witnessed a terrible event, something no child should ever see, on The River when he was five years old, and his life changed forever. He withdrew into his own world and became mostly unreachable. You will read through his whole life, filled with pain and resentment, until something brings him back to The River.

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The Passage - Justin Cronin | Review


The Twelve, a sequel to  Justin Cronin’s The Passage, is set for an October 16 release date.

With almost a month before the release, if you are not familiar with The Passage, the most talked about and hyped book of Summer 2010, you better be a fast reader! This epic-trilogy is massive.

Justin Cronin is an award-winning writer and a professor of English at Rice University and yet this wasn’t enough to save him from the vampire craze. But be aware, this is not the type of the story, where the charismatic, handsome vampire fallen in-love with the innocent girl, you are used to read. Not at all! “This is a mixture of Stephen King’s “The Stand” and “Salem’s Lot” in that lab at Jurassic Park, with rich infusions of Robert McCammon’s “Swan Song”, “Battlestar Galactica” and even Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.”” says the infamous Book Critic Ron Charles.  So it is!

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