• Book Reviews

    Blog Tour: Book Review – Branded: Fall of Angels

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Branded: Fall of Angels Author: Keary Taylor Publisher: Create Space Pages: Paperback; 374 Release Date: March 4, 2010 Source: Book Tour ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a different kind of angel story. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Jessica’s had the nightmares for as long as she can remember. Nightmares of being judged for people who have died, of being branded by the angels. Her friends and family think she’s a crazy because…

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    Blog Tour: Other Sides – Author Interview

    If you haven’t already read my review for this book, you really need to! This is an amazing anthology and it now has me hooked into Webfiction. Today I’m pleased to welcome MCM, one of the many amazing authors featured in this anthology, for an interview! 1) Can you explain Webfiction for those who may not have had the opportunity to explore it yet? Web fiction is actually a very broad term that applies to a lot of types of writing. At its most basic (and obvious!), it means fiction that was written for the web. The key word there…

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    Blog Tour: Call Me Kate – Book Review

    Coming of age amidst the seething unrest of the Civil War era, feisty fourteen-year-old Katie McCafferty infiltrates the Molly Maguires, a secret Irish organization, to rescue a lifelong friend. Under the guise of Dominick, a draft resister, Katie volunteers for a dangerous mission in hopes of preventing bloodshed. Katie risks job, family, and ultimately her very life to intervene. A series of tragedies challenge Katie’s strength and ingenuity, and she faces a crisis of conscience. Can she balance her sense of justice with the law? Call Me Kate is suitable for readers from eleven to adult. The story is dramatic…

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    Blog Tour: Other Sides – Book Review

     Media Type: Ebook Title: Other Sides: 12 Webfiction Tales Author: Multiple Authors Publisher: Ergo Fiction Pages: Paperback; 114 Release Date: October 14, 2010 Source: Publisher ——————————————————- Genre: Multiple / Anthology of Webfiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone who is looking for an awesome anthology with different types of fiction. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The advent of digital publishing has seen the rise of a new breed of writers: independent, experimental and unfettered by convention. This brand new anthology features a small sampling of these very writers, in a speculative…

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    Blog Tour: The Ice Cream Theory – Book Review

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Ice Cream Theory Author: Steff Deschenes Publisher: Booksurge Publishing Pages: Paperback; 282 Release Date: July 14, 2009 Source: Pump Up Your Book Promotions ——————————————— Genre: Memoir HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an upbeat and “sweet” memoir. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Steff Deschenes first hatched her ice cream theory when she was sixteen and in the throes of that singular, devastating phenomenon known as first heartbreak. In the midst of her grief, she realized that, in the same way humans have ice-cream…

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    Blog Tour: The Ice Cream Theory – Steff Deschenes’ Guest Post

    Today I am more than pleased to welcome Steff Deschenes, author of The Ice Cream Theory, to my blog!  Her book is pure cuteness at the surface, but it has an underlying hard truth to it I loved! You’ll get the full review tomorrow so stop back by! For now though, I’ll give the floor to Steff and let her carry you away with her amazing wit and love of ice cream. I created something called The Ice Cream Theory when I was a teenager which became an twelve-time award winning book in my twenties. It was my own unique…

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    Blog Tour: Split – Cut Scene

    If you’ll recall, Swati Avasthi is on an epic blog tour to honor National Domestic Violence month. Each stop will feature auctions that are being used to raise donation money. For full details see this post! Today Swati is stopping by with a cut scene that didn’t make it into the book. That’s right, writing in its rawest form! How exciting! At the bottom of this post you’ll find the info for the auctions that are being hosted today. Please take some time to check them out and follow along with the tour! We want to meet Swati’s fundraising goal! Cut…

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    Blog Tour: Covert Youth Agency – Pi Character Interview & Giveaway

    Today I’m happy to welcome Pi, the main character of Covert Youth Agency, to my blog for an interview! He’ll be sharing some insight into CYA and himself. Guess what? He even brought an eBook along to give away! What a great guy! If you’re interested in finding out more about this book, you can read my review, or check the end of this post for more links.  1) Hello Pi, and welcome to A Fanatic’s Book Blog. First question, can you describe yourself for us in just one word? Perceptive. 2) The Covert Youth Agency is a really interesting…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    Blog Tour: Author Tara Taylor Quinn

    I was extremely excited when Tara Taylor Quinn asked me to host her blog tour! Today she will be putting it on all the table, and sharing with us why she writes romance. I loved this post so very much, you can see the passion Tara has for her work. Take a look! I was asked not long ago why I write romance. I don’t think I’ve ever been asked that question before. And after seventeen years of publishing, I thought I’d been asked them all. The question stopped me. I didn’t know what to say. And after a moment…

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    Blog Tour: Covert Youth Agency – The Case of Tangled Love

    An elite group of nerds fight injustices by running a clandestine operation in high school. The C.Y.A., a.k.a. Covert Youth Agency, hacked into the digital school sign and posted their message: – – – If ever you’re in need of help and you have nowhere else to go, seek out the C.Y.A. We’re always watching and we’re here for you – – – Peter “Pi” Samuels, a fourteen-year-old sophomore, runs the shadow operation. Pi’s obsessed with the high school band’s lead violinist, who’s as beautiful as the music she plays. When she contacts the C.Y.A. to find out if her…