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Bring History to Life - Win a Trip to Washington, D.C.!

Posted by Krystal Larson at 7:15 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Bring History To Life Sweepstakes

Bring History To Life Sweepstakes:
Runs Monday, February 29th through Friday, April 1st

Enter daily for a chance to win a 4 day/3 night trip to Washington, D.C. for a family of 4!
Includes airfare and hotel accommodations.

Enter here: http://books.putmeinthestory.com/bringhistorytolife/
Official Rules: http://www.putmeinthestory.com/bring-history-to-life-sweepstakes-rules.html

Participate in the conversation! Share on social media who you think is the most inspiring historical figure with the hashtag #BringHistoryToLife

Themed around two Put Me In The Story books, My Name Is Not Isabella and My Name Is Not Alexander!

Your Trip to Washington, D.C. could include visits to:
·       International Spy Museum
·       National Archives
·       Capitol Hill
·       Air & Space Museum
·       American History Museum
·       National Zoo
·       American Art Museum
·       National Geographic Museum
·       Bureau of Engraving & Printing
·       Ford’s Theater
·       Walk the Washington Mall
o   Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, MLK Memorial, Gardens, National WWII Memorial, The White House
·       National Museum of Natural History
o   IMAX Theater - largest in DC/one of the largest in the world



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My Name Is Not Isabella by Jennifer Fosberry
$29.99 personalized book
A Mom’s Choice Award Winner!

In this New York Times bestselling children’s book, your daughter can turn into the imaginative Isabella and explore outstanding women who have changed history! This personalized and heartwarming story will empower your daughter to celebrate her unique personality and imagination. Encouraging your daughter to dream without limits, this is a book to pass down through the generations. Personalize the story with your child’s name and create a special dedication page with a photo and message from you.

My Name Is Not Isabella by Jennifer Fosberry
$29.99 personalized book

Just how big can YOUR kid dream? In My Name Is Not Alexander, your son becomes the star of an entertaining exploration through history while learning about the great men that helped shape America. This adventure will become a fast favorite! Kickstart your son’s imagination and celebrate his opportunities ahead. Personalize the story with your child’s name and create a special dedication page with a photo and message from you.




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All Chained Up By Sophie Jordan: Dream Cast and Giveaway!

Posted by Krystal Larson at 1:19 AM


Who do you envision playing the 2 lead roles if you got to play casting director for the movie version of the book?

Oh, tough choice. Since I’m fantasizing in the land of never-gonna-happen, here goes!

I’m a really big fan of the show Banshee. I could see a couple of the actors from that show as my hero lead. Tough choice!

1.       Anthony Starr (on the first episode of Banshee when he’s released from prison):

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/injusticegodsamongus/images/b/b8/Antony-starr_for_cole.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140211180130


2) Or! The super sexy Tom Pelphrey who also plays a hero struggling for redemption so excellently:


https://www.google.com/search?q=tom+pelphrey&biw=1440&bih=684&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj389vq7cPLAhVG5CYKHRHxDr8Q_AUIBygC#imgrc=dR-5yOoHPIEbUM%3A

For the heroine, I can see actress Holland Roden as my heroine. The hair is spot on, but she also has a wholesome quality that fits my heroine perfectly.

https://www.google.com/search?q=teen+wolf+holland+roden&espv=2&biw=1440&bih=684&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXofPR78PLAhWBLyYKHWz2DAMQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=2SzSL-XEVya44M%3A


ABOUT ALL CHAINED UP:
Some men come with a built-in warning label. Knox Callaghan is one of them. Danger radiates from every lean, muscled inch of him, and his deep blue eyes seem to see right through to Briar Davis’s most secret fantasies. But there’s one major problem: Briar is a nurse volunteering at the local prison, and Knox is an inmate who should be off-limits in every way.

Knox feels it too—a shocking animal magnetism that drives him to risk his own life to protect Briar’s. Paroled at last, he tries to resist her. She’s too innocent, too sweet, and she has no idea what Knox is capable of. But a single touch can lead to a kiss—and a taste . . . until the only crime is denying what feels so right . . .
ABOUT SOPHIE JORDAN:
Sophie Jordan took her adolescent daydreaming one step further and penned her first historical romance in the back of her high school Spanish class. This passion led her to pursue a degree in English and History.

A brief stint in law school taught her that case law was not nearly as interesting as literature - teaching English seemed the natural recourse. After several years teaching high school students to love Antigone, Sophie resigned with the birth of her first child and decided it was time to pursue the long-held dream of writing.

In less than three years, her first book, Once Upon A Wedding Night, a 2006 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Nominee for Best First Historical, hit book shelves. Her second novel, Too Wicked To Tame, released in March 2007 with a bang, landing on the USA Today Bestseller's List.
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Giveaway:
3 Finished Copies of ALL CHAINED UP (US Only)

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The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas

Posted by Krystal Larson at 12:00 AM

The Darkest Corners is a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly truths those lies become.
    There are ghosts around every corner in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Tessa left when she was nine and has been trying ever since not to think about it after what happened there that last summer. Memories of things so dark will burn themselves into your mind if you let them.
    Callie never left. She moved to another house, so she doesn’t have to walk those same halls, but then Callie always was the stronger one. She can handle staring into the faces of her demons—and if she parties hard enough, maybe one day they’ll disappear for good.
    Tessa and Callie have never talked about what they saw that night. After the trial, Callie drifted and Tessa moved, and childhood friends just have a way of losing touch.
    But ever since she left, Tessa has had questions. Things have never quite added up. And now she has to go back to Fayette—to Wyatt Stokes, sitting on death row; to Lori Cawley, Callie’s dead cousin; and to the one other person who may be hiding the truth.
    Only the closer Tessa gets to the truth, the closer she gets to a killer—and this time, it won’t be so easy to run away.

 Goodreads Summary

 I can't turn down a good mystery and when I saw this book at ALA I didn't need convincing to pick up this book!  It was a little hard to get to know Tessa in the beginning.  She's a bit of a prickly pear as far as main characters come.  Paranoid and clever, she will lead the reader through the mystery full of twists and turns.  It was fun connecting past events to present issues that connect with the mystery.  The author is a master at fooling the reader (me, at least!) into believing that the culprit is someone it is not.  I repeatedly thought I knew the answer to the mystery, but the ending still surprised me.  I liked how the author tied up all of the loose ends and chose an unusual, yet ideal (for the plot) ending. 

 Callie's character fit into the somber, gloomy vibe that the novel, at time, gave off.  This book feels like it was written in a graveyard, but that aspect only adds to the appeal.  I felt bad for her.  She had alcohol problems and a bad case of "running from the past."  Tessa was a pretty good friend to her.  They had their problems, but the two were thick as thieves for the most part.  I liked how the author chose to canvas the friendship instead of giving in to the more typical "love interest" that is so prevalent in young adult books.  Overall, this book was a fun and intriguing read.

 4 stars
The INTRO, and EXCERPT were revealed on EntertainmentWeekly.com and linked to our IMMERSIVE dedicated websiteTheDarkestCornersBook.com, which features original content to build intrigue around the string of girls who have gone missing along the Ohio River in Fayette.

NOW TheDarkestCornersBook.com website includes a teaser video and new original article by author Kara Thomas, check it out!

The cultural obsession of Making  a Murderer, Serial, and The Jinx show a growing hunger for dark, psychological thrillers and this is the book that will satisfy. Readers won't be able to stop turning the pages of THE DARKEST CORNERS.

THE DARKEST CORNERS (Delacorte Press For Young Readers/ On sale April 19, 2016 / Ages 14 and up)

« “Thomas carefully crafts the suspense, leaving present-tense narrator Tessa—and readers—to doubt even those she loves the most… An unsettling story of loss, lies, and violence lurking in the shadows of a small town.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

A tight, twisted thriller, full of deft reversals and disturbing revelations--deeply, compulsively satisfying!”
—Brenna Yovanoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Replacement


"As dark as Gillian Flynn and as compulsive as Serial...Kara Thomas's mystery debut is intricate, chilling, and deeply compelling. Unforgettable!”
—Laura Salters, author of Run Away

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 KARA THOMAS lives on Long Island, where she writes full-time. To learn more about Kara and her books, visit her at kara-thomas.com and follow @karatwrites on Twitter.

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My Role as a Book Manager: Guest Post and Promo by Dane Cobain!

Posted by Krystal Larson at 2:24 AM Monday, March 21, 2016


Hi, folks! My name’s Dane, and I’m a book manager. Now, I guess you’re asking yourself what a book manager is, and what exactly it is that a book manager does. Luckily, I’m here to enlighten you!
See, my writing is published by a company called Booktrope, which uses a community-based model to hook authors up with a team of likeminded individuals to get a high quality book out. I’m a writer too, and I work with a bunch of talented people to get my own books out, but I also work in marketing, which means that I have an edge over other authors.
Which is why I also work with Booktrope as a book manager. Basically, every author who releases a book through Booktrope will be required to work with a book manager – think of them as like a marketing manager, only with an extra edge.
Book managers take on the role of guiding authors through the publishing process and then working with them on a comprehensive launch plan to help to get their books out into the world and into the hands of readers. Book managers need good project management skills and an eye for detail, as well as plenty of experience in marketing and public relations.
I work as a book manager for myself, as well as for two other Booktrope authors – Michael-Israel Jarvis, the author of a fantasy novel called Gravedigger, and J. G. Clay, the author of a collection of short stories called Tales of Blood and Sulphur. Both of them are great guys and fantastic authors, which helps – it’s always nice to work for people that you like on a personal level.
My job as a book manager is to help them to sell books, and there are a whole heap of different ways that we try to do this. A big part of it is blogger outreach, which is why I’m here in the first place – authors love to work with bloggers, because it introduces their work to a new audience and it also gives them some unique content that they can share on their social media profiles. Bloggers love working with authors, because they can wrangle guest posts (like this one) for free and with no effort involved from the blogger, and they also often get free books and competition prizes.
Contacting bloggers and offering to work with them has worked really well for us. We’ve set up a number of guest posts, competitions and reviews that we wouldn’t otherwise have been able to release, and it also has an impact on the bottom line – helping to sell books, which is what we need to do once we’ve got a release out.
But the responsibilities of a book manager don’t end there – I’ve helped to organise book launch parties, read, reviewed and interviewed them both, and I even travelled to Birmingham for the Second City Signings to support J. G. Clay at his first major author event. In return, he came down to High Wycombe to help me out by being a guest speaker at the writers’ workshop that I used to organise.
Authors are better together, and what better way to work than with a community of friends? It all comes round in the end – if I offer my marketing expertise, then I’ll be able to source an editor, or a proofreader, or a cover designer when I need one.
Ultimately, relationships are reciprocal, whether we’re talking about my relationship with the authors that I manage, my relationships with the readers of my work, or whether we’re talking about relationships between myself and the authors that I manage, and with the bloggers that we work with.
Making friends is cool. Reading books is cool. And when the two come together, you’re onto a winner. I wouldn’t change the way that we work if you paid me. But let’s not put that to the test though, yeah?

No Rest for the Wicked: Synopsis
When the Angels attack, there’s NO REST FOR THE WICKED.
Father Montgomery, an elderly priest with a secret past, begins to investigate after his parishioners come under attack, and with the help of Jones, a young businessman with an estranged child, Montgomery begins to track down the origin of the Angels.
The Angels are naked and androgynous. They speak in a dreadful harmony with no clear leader. These aren’t biblical cherubs tasked with the protection of the righteous – these are deadly creatures of light that have the power to completely eradicate.
When Jones himself is attacked, Father Montgomery knows he has to act fast. He speaks to the Angels and organises a final showdown where he’s asked to make the ultimate sacrifice.

BIO


 Dane Cobain is a writer, poet and musician from a place you've probably never heard of, somewhere in England. When he's not writing books, he's reading and reviewing them on his book blog - SocialBookshelves.com - or working at his day job in social media marketing. Find him at Facebook.com/DaneCobainMusic or follow @DaneCobain on Twitter.

This product or book may have been distributed for review, this in no way affects my opinions or reviews. COPYRIGHT © 2014 LIVE TO READ
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