Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 11!
Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010.
Today’s Guest: THE Loretta Chase, writer of Historical romance novels. The person responsible for writing Lord [...]
Hello! We leave week one of Smugglivus behind and prepare ourselves for week two with loads more of exciting posts – if we may say so ourselves. But first, last week’s giveaway winners:
Joel Sutherland Giveaway
This is a special giveaway: the three winners get an [...]
Welcome to another Guest Dare – the August edition. For those new to the feature, our Guest Dare is a monthly endeavor in which we invite an unsuspecting victim to read a book totally outside of their comfort zone.
This month we invited Angie (from Angieville), one of our favorite bloggers and book [...]
5 weeks, several guests posts and giveaways and a grand total of 49 books reviewed later, we hereby declare our YA Appreciation Month closed. It was the best of times, but also the most mental of times and we wouldn’t have any other way! Now, while Thea is away celebrating her birthday, I bring you [...]
Loretta Chase, fabulous historical romance writer, is one of our favourite authors. Writer of Lord of the Scoundrels (the One Romance to Rule Them All) , Mr Impossible, Your Scandalous Ways amongst many others, her books are constantly praised as some of the best the genre can offer. Her latest novel, Don’t Tempt Me will [...]
Title: Don’t Tempt Me
Author: Loretta Chase
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Avon
Publishing Date: June 30, 2009
Paperback: 384 pages
Stand Alone or series: Stand Alone (although part of a “series” of books about Fallen Women)
Summary: “Spunky English girl overcomes impossible odds and outsmarts heathen villains.”
That’s the [...]
Happy Sunday, everyone! Another huge basketball game on the line, so everyone send some good thoughts the Lakers’ way.
Giveaway Winners:
We held THREE giveaways this week, and it’s time to announce the lucky winners. Drumroll please…
We had over 210 entries for all Demon’s Lexicon contest – THANK YOU to everyone that [...]
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We shall start by saying: yay, Roger Federer beat Roland Garros!!! He now holds the record (along with Pete Sampras) of 14 grand- slams titles. Congratulations to Federer – we are great fans here at the UK based office of the Book Smugglers!
OK, not that I got that off [...]
Day 4 (22 days to Smugglivus and counting)
Who: Loretta Chase , THE Loretta Chase, writer of romance novels. One of her books, Lord of Scoundrels, is considered by many to be the ultimate romance novel. It is one of Ana’s top 5 books of all time. For an interview we did with Loretta, go [...]
For this month’s dare we invited Karen Mahoney, writer of YA Urban Fantasy (her first story will be published in a YA anthology, The Eternal Kiss in Autumn 2009) . We love Karen’s livejournal (how could we not? A fellow comic book, Neil Gaiman and Melissa Marr lover!) and we dared her to read [...]
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