Day 9 ( 17 Days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Nalini Singh, a NY Times bestseller, writer of romance novels. Her Psy-Changeling series (paranormal romance) is a fan favourite with its fantastic balance of world building and romance. She…
December 2008
Title: Life As We Knew It Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer Genre: Young Adult, Speculative Fiction Stand alone or series: Book 1 of the ‘Moon Crush’ trilogy. Both Life As We Knew It and book 2, the dead and the…
Day 8 (18 Days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Melissa Marr, bestselling author of the modern day tales of faerie Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange. Wicked Lovely won a RITA for best Young Adult novel in 2008, and Ink…
The Smugglers’ Sorting Hat (AKA Random.org) has spoken! The winner of a signed copy of Poison Study (YA edition) by Maria Snyder is: Dan And the winner of the Flash Giveaway – Erotica edition (5 books in total) is:…
It is Adios to week 1 and hola to week 2 in our Countdown to Smugglivus. This is this week line up: Monday – Melissa Marr: writer of YA novels. Melissa won a Rita this year for her first…
It’s the first weekend of our official countdown to Smugglivus, and we present you with our first FLASH GIVEAWAY! Why the Flash, you ask? Because each giveaway will only last for the duration of the weekend–you only have until…
Day 5 (21 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Joanna Bourne, writer of romance novels who released her first novel The Spymaster’s Lady (our review), in early January with a bang – as the writer has been acclaimed for…
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…
Bubbles and Blossom team up again after the last two (failed) attempts to read something that we both enjoy. (Buttercup is still MIA, last time we heard from her, she seemed to have ditched Batman in order to camp…
Day 3 (23 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Meredith Duran, romance novel writer who debuted in 2008 with a romance many hail as one of the best of the year. It has made Ana’s top 10 of 2008.…
Day 2 (24 Days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Maria V. Snyder, author of the bestselling Study series. Maria exploded on the scene in 2005 with her debut novel, Poison Study, and has since gained a huge following of…
Title: Frozen Blood Author: Joel Sutherland Genre: Horror Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel Why did I read this book: When we contacted Joel to participate in Smugglivus, he graciously agreed and offered us a review copy of…
Countdown Day 1 (25 Days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Joel Sutherland, author of speculative fiction and the first ever author to contact us when we started the blog. So, who better than Joel to kick off Smugglivus? Recent…