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Resilient Cover Love + Giveaway!
Today I’m happy to help promote an amazing upcoming YA book with a rather gorgeous cover, Resilient by Patricia Vanasse. Livia has never felt like she fits in. As normal as it sounds, Livia is anything but ordinary. She can feel every emotion of every single person around her, and it’s maddening. In pursuit of some psychic quiet, she moves with her family from New York City to Whidbey Island in the lush and sleepy Pacific Northwest. But when a horseback riding accident in her new home gives her a broken leg that heals in a day, she finds that another…
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An Interview with Toni De Palma
Toni De Palma, author of The Devil’s Triangle, is my guest on the blog today! She was kind enough to spend a stop on her blog tour here on HDB, and I even had the opportunity to interview her. Please enjoy, and don’t forget to enter the giveaway at the end! When 17 year old Cooper dies in an attempt to burn down his school, he finds himself in the afterlife. Lucy, the Devil’s sister who has crossed party lines, decides to give Cooper another shot at heaven. The deal? Cooper returns to Earth and has to find a girl named…
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What’s Your Animal Totem?: A Guest Post by H.B. Bolton
Please welcome H.B. Bolton to the blog! Touring with her newest book in the Relics of Mysticus series, The Trickster’s Totem, H.B. is here to share with you some of the myth behind the story! What’s Your Animal Totem? Animal totems instruct and protect each of us as we learn how to navigate through our life’s journey. They are with us for a period of time and then are replaced by another animal, depending on the direction we are headed. The notion of our being guided by an animal is not limited to Native American beliefs. In fact, similar totemlike…
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Spotlight on The Warner Grimoire – Book One: Bad Apple
Today’s spotlight is on a book I have on my wishlist, and you should too! It was brought to my attention a few days ago, and I’m desperately working to clear space so I can devour it whole. Meet Simon Warner, a fourteen-year-old who drowned. Death was just the beginning. Dying awakens an angry and malevolent force inside Simon–magic, and before he can comprehend his mystical transformation his adopted father is kidnapped during a mysterious fire that destroys their home. Within hours Simon is violently yanked into the supernatural world, where the real trouble starts: he is the descendent of…
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Spotlight and Excerpt: The Mapmaker’s War
Today I’m spotlighting a book that is currently sitting in my TBR pile, and that looks utterly fabulous. The Mapmaker’s War is a book about adventure, loss and redemption. I’m here to convince you that it needs a spot on your reading list as well! Check out the synopsis. This will be the map of your heart, old woman. In an ancient time, in a faraway land, a young woman named Aoife is allowed a rare apprenticeship to become her kingdom’s mapmaker, tasked with charting the entire domain. Traveling beyond its borders, she finds a secretive people who live in peace,…
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Brad Cotton: Guest Post + Giveaway!
Please welcome Brad Cotton to the blog today! Brad is the author of A Work in Progress, an adult fiction novel that follows writer Danny Bayle. Check out the synopsis below! Writer Danny Bayle’s life is in shambles. His true love has left him and his grandfather — the last and most important influence in his life — has just passed away. Danny has spent the last few months languishing, unable to write a single word, but at the urging of a friend ventures out into the world in an attempt to jumpstart a new life, befriending in the process…
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Guest Post + Giveaway with Jenny E. Miller
A treat for you today! Jenny E. Miller is visiting the blog with her debut book, Asylum. Are you looking for a creepy read? One with mystery and twisted romance? Sounds like you’re looking for this book. June Foster’s summer is limping along. Her life on a 1950′s farm in eastern Washington is boring–full of milking cows, picking apricots and tending to the chicken coops. Her only friends are her record player and her books. But when gorgeous, turquoise-eyed Frank falls into her world, her life becomes anything but ordinary. June falls for Frank hard and fast–he’s beautiful, impossibly strong,…
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A Shard of Ice has a cover!
Chances are that you’ve seen this gorgeous cover peppering the blogosphere today. It’s so mind blowing and gorgeous though, that who could blame everyone for wanting to post it? Alivia Anders is an author who is near and dear to my heart, and who is talented beyond measure. I, for one, can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this book! Title: A Shard of Ice Series: Black Symphony Saga Publisher: Red Alice Press Release Date: April 14th, 2014 THEIR SOULS, REAWAKENED When 13-year-old Lilix Morgan is found alive and floating on a bed of ice at sea,…
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Author Interview: Charlotte Rains Dixon
Charlotte Rains Dixon is here on the blog today! Her novel, Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior is a new one I’ve added to my reading list and it looks scrumptious! Best-selling novelist Emma Jean Sullivan longed for a baby for years, but after she and her husband Peter were unable to conceive, she staunchly vowed to become the standard bearer for all childless couples. And she succeeds spectacularly. At age 48 (43 according to her blog, Life, Full Tilt) Emma Jean enjoys a rabid anti-baby fan base and her novels have sold millions. But now she confronts a dilemma larger than any…
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A guest post by Liz Gruder
Tour Link When New Orleans went under during Hurricane Katrina, I worked in the media. Martial law had been declared. Driving through the warzone, soldiers poked guns in my face as I held up ID. I saw the Xs painted on houses with a number declaring the dead. I drove to a beloved marina with boats piled up like Tinker Toys. All wildlife was dead and the seagulls had been blown away. Everything had been destroyed. I saw my husband, who had kept his boat there and loved the marina, the wildlife, and the sunsets, fall to his knees and…