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Uses for Boys  by Erica Lorraine Scheidt YA contemporary*Paperback & e-book, 240 pages Expected publication: January 15th 2013 by St Martin’s Press Goodreads Purchase:  Amazon Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and everything made sense. When she and her mom were a family, just the two of them against the world. But now her mom is gone most of the time, chasing the next marriage, bringing home the next stepfather. Anna is left on her own—until she discovers that she can make boys her family. From Desmond to Joey, Todd to Sam, Anna learns that if you give boys what they want, you can get what you need. But the price is high—the other kids make fun of her; the girls call her a slut. Anna's new friend, Toy, seems to have found a way around the loneliness, but Toy has her own secrets that even Anna can't know. Then comes Sam. When Anna actually meets a boy who is more than just useful, whose family eats dinner together, laughs, and t...

GUEST POST: Retro Is The New New Thing      Things have loosened way up in publishing since I wrote DEATH TURNS A TRICK, and what a relief for female readers! In 1 982, when it was first published, it was pretty daring—it had a hookers’ union in it, a certain amount of swearing, and a smart-mouthed female lawyer. Guess what the daring part was? Right—the mouth on that female mouthpiece, scrappy   lawyer Rebecca Schwartz. In DEATH TURNS A TRICK, Rebecca holds an impromptu press conference to make her client’s case in the public arena. An editor  (female, I’m horribly afraid) told me I had to cut the scene because that would be “unprofessional”. Since when, I argued, is a lawyer shooting off her mouth considered unprofessional? Isn’t that her job? I won, but even then I thought it curious that a woman editor was still so timid about female assertion. And now? Ha! Look at the portrayal of women on DAMAGES. Now female lawyers can not only be asse...

This is the third week of our Author of the Month special featuring K.A. Tucker's books. This week we shine the spotlight on Asylum , Book Two of K.A. Tucker's YA paranormal series, Casual Enchantments .  Asylum (Casual Enchantment, Book Two) by K.A. Tucker YA paranormal*Paperback & e-book, 252 pages Published December 12th 2011 by Papoti Books Goodreads Tucked away in Sofie's wintery asylum with no hope of release for years, Evangeline must come to terms with her situation: the curse still plagues her, she's now hunted by a two thousand-year-old vampire, and the guy she's in love with tried to kill her.  Plus, she's locked up with a cranky Max and the Forero kids—two people everyone  seems to prefer dead over alive. Things aren't looking good. Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, Sofie struggles to keep forty trapped and bloodthirsty Ratheus vampires at bay and a desperate Viggo from killing Evangeline's friends, all  while hin...

Incendiary   (The Premonition #4)  by Amy A. Bartol YA paranormal*Paperback & e-book, 460 pages Published November 28th 2012 by CreateSpace Purchase:  Amazon  |  Smashwords Cold, fine drops of rain fall softly on my cheeks as I emerge from the darkness of the ship's interior to the gray, overcast sky of the main deck. Pulling my dark pea coat tighter to my body, the wind lifts red tendrils of my hair. I walk slowly to the railing overlooking the water. I catch my first sight of the Irish coastline; its craggy landscape makes me shiver in dread. I find it difficult to imagine now how the Gancanagh had made this their home for so long without anyone realizing it. The cold, moss-covered edifices practically scream their presence. As I study the shadows between the falling-down stone, I imagine creeping shapes of undead Faeries grasping the rock, waiting for our ship to draw nearer to their position. Tipping my face up, I let the rain was...

The Cadet of Tildor by Alex Lidell YA fantasy*hardcover & e-book, 400 pages Published by Dial (January 10, 2013) Purchase: Amazon Tour organized by:  AToMR Tours Tamora Pierce meets George R. R. Martin in this smart, political,  medieval fantasy-thriller. There is a new king on the throne of Tildor. Currents of political unrest sweep the country as two warring crime families seek power, angling to exploit the young Crown's inexperience. At the Academy of Tildor, the training ground for elite soldiers, Cadet Renee de Winter struggles to keep up with her male peers. But when her mentor, a notorious commander recalled from active duty to teach at the Academy, is kidnapped to fight in illegal gladiator games, Renee and her best friend Alec find themselves thrust into a world rife with crime, sorting through a maze of political intrigue, and struggling to resolve what they want, what is legal, and what is right. About the author: Alex Lidell ...

Obscura   Burning  by Suzanne van Rooyen  December 7th 2012 /  Etopia Press Purchase:  Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble  |  OmniLit The world's going to end in fire…and it's all Kyle's fault. Kyle Wolfe's world is about to crash and burn. Just weeks away from graduation, a fire kills Kyle's two best friends and leaves him permanently scarred. A fire that Kyle accidentally set the night he cheated on his boyfriend Danny with their female friend, Shira. That same day, a strange new planet, Obscura, appears in the sky. And suddenly Kyle's friends aren't all that dead anymore.  Each time Kyle goes to sleep, he awakens to two different realities. In one, his boyfriend Danny is still alive, but Shira is dead. In the other, it's Shira who's alive...and now they're friends with benefits. Shifting between realities is slowly killing him, and he's not the only one dying. The world is dying with him. He's pretty sureObscura ...

The Edge Of Never  by   J.A. Redmerski New Adult  Contemporary Romance  Release date:  November 15, 2012 Tour organized by:   AToMR Tours Purchase:  Amazon  |  Barnes and Noble Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart. Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind.  With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose board...