After seemingly countless days of pre-countdown, followed by 25 days of countdown craziness with authors guest blogging and more giveaways than we can count, we finally made it! Smugglivus is here!!! Hooray!!! So what will happen next? For the…
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Day 24 (2 days to Smugglivus and counting) We are getting to the end of our Countdown to Smugglivus and our last countdown guest is Erin Galloway, Manager of Marketing for Dorchester Publishing with what we can expect from…
Day 23 (3 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Meljean Brook, writer of Paranormal Romance and Steampunk (soon to be published). We are admittedly, Meljean Brook’s fangirls: we love her Guardian series (one of the best Paranormal series out…
For this month’s dare we invited Marg from Reading Adventures – we invited Marg because, well, she explain it all in her post. Here it goes: Title: It Author: Stephen King Genre: Horror Stand alone/Series: Stand Alone Why Did…
Smugglivus is coming! Smugglivus is coming! These are the final days of the countdown and then on the 26th, Smugglivus *officially* starts! Yay! So this is what we have lined up this week for you: Monday – Susan Holloway…
8 Rated Books Book Reviews Smugglivus
Smugglivus Muy Special Book Review: Hope’s Folly by Linnea Sinclair
Title: Hope’s Folly Author: Linnea Sinclair Genre: SciFi Romance Stand Alone/Series: third book in Linnea Sinclair’s Dock 5 series but it can be read as a stand alone. But really, you should read Gabriel’s Ghost and Shades of Dark…
Day 18 (8 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Stephen Hunt, writer of Fantasy (steampunk) books. Stephen is also now on the management, technical and editorial boards for SFcrowsnest.com, the science fiction and fantasy web site which is currently…
Title: The Girl Most Likely To…. Author: Susan Donovan Genre: Contemporary romance Stand Alone/ Series: Stand Alone Summary:Kat Cavanaugh was sixteen when she hitchhiked out of Persuasion, West Virginia, and vowed never to return. Who could blame her? In…
Day 17 (9 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Kim Lenox, writer of paranormal romance. She debuted this year with her first book in her Shadow Guard series, set in Victorian times and with Jack, the Ripper as a…
Day 16 (10 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Victoria Dahl, writer of Historical and Contemporary romance novels. Victoria Dahl has an unique style and her characters, specially the female ones are not the usual run-of-the-mill heroines and they…
Hello there!! We had loads of giveaways this week so let’s get down to business shall we? *wink* (Please note: we use Random.Org to pick all the winners, but we like to call it our Sorting Hat) Nalini Singh’s…
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Ana meets Karen
I believe one of the best things about blogging is the friendships that have been born since we started. One such good friend is Karen Mahoney – a few months ago, this Karen person started to comment on the…
Saying adieu to week 2 nearly breaks our hearts but we have so much to look forward to with week 3 so here is the line up: Monday – Lisa Shearin: writer of a fantasy adventure series featuring her…
John from Grasping for the Wind is updating his blogroll of Fantasy and SciFi reviewers and is asking for help. This is what he has to say: My list of fantasy and sf book reviewers is woefully out of…
Day 12 (14 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Angie Fox, writer of Paranormal romance with a Demon Slayer as the heroine, surrounded by quirky characters such as a Griffin (who happens to be the hero) and a whole…
Day 11 (15 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Mike Stone, writer of horror stories. Michael’s work has appeared in numerous organs. Most recently Dunesteef, Dred, Pseudopod, Triangulation, TQR, Strange Stories of Sand and Sea and The Beast Within.…
Day 10 – (16 days to Smugglivus and Counting) Who: John Marco, writer of Epic Fantasy novels. So far he has published 2 trilogies: Tyrants and Kings and the Lukien Trilogy. You can check the author’s website here Recent…
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…
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…
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.…
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…