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We posted last week for our first stop on this Power Blog Tour featuring The Watcher. Our second stop is today and we host Bewitched, The Thaumaturgy Book One Blog Tour. Welcome. Bewitched (The Thaumaturgy #1) by Mark Jay Harris  YA fantasy*Paperback/eBook, 333 pages  Published March 1st 2013 by Inkspell Publishing Is it love or is it witchcraft? He’ll never find out if he kills her first. The first time Darren saw Samantha, she was floating above his high school gymnasium during a basketball game, invisible to everyone but him. Next time he sees her, she's sitting in front of him in class, wowing his friends and causing unexplainable things to happen that only he seems to notice. But things really get strange (and complicated) when his dying grandfather tells him that he is part of an ancient order, the “Pessum Ire,” whose duty is to destroy witches. What does he do now, since he’s almost positive Samantha is a witch…and he’s crushing on her pretty hard? ...

Title: DEMON DERBY  Author: Carrie Harris  Publisher: Random House  Genre: Paranormal  Age Group: Young Adult  Expected release: March 2014  Casey kicked cancer’s ass. Now a demon wants to kick hers...  Casey hates being known as the girl who survived cancer. She wants people to treat her like her old self, fearless and strong. And after a creepy encounter with a crazy guy in an alley, Casey is all about reclaiming her power.  So when she has a chance to try out for the Apocalypsies roller derby team, she jumps on it. Being a derby girl would prove that she doesn’t need anybody’s pity. It doesn’t hurt that Michael, the team manager, is almost unnaturally hot. Which makes sense when Casey finds out that he’s not even human.  Michael’s got a secret: he trains demon hunters. That crazy guy in the alley? Demon. And the fact that Casey went head to head with evil and lived makes her a threat to demonkind. Casey t...

W elcome. Que scary music. We are today's stop on the Writing Scary Scenes blog tour presented by Reading Addiction Blog Tours . This book is informative for any writer regardless of the genre(s) one is writing for. Rayne Hill has also provided us with a helpful guest post, our review is below and there's a giveaway.    Writing Scary Scenes by Rayne Hall Non Fiction - Writing Craft Ebook, 83 pages Date Published: 7/06/12 by Scimitar Press Are your frightening scenes scary enough? Learn practical tricks to turn up the suspense. Make your readers' hearts hammer with suspense, their breaths quicken with excitement, and their skins tingle with goosebumps of delicious fright.  This book contains practical suggestions how to structure a scary scene, increase the suspense, make the climax more terrifying, make the reader feel the character's fear. It includes techniques for manipulating the readers' subconscious and creating powerfu...

Ever wonder why we offer Book Blitzes and Promo Events? It's simple: we participate in these events because we have the opportunity to offer our readers a chance to win books. Who doesn't like winning a free book? Here is another blitz and it's for Trust In Me , a New Adult contemporary by Bethany Lopez. Read all about it below and enter the giveaway. Trust In Me (Friends & Lovers #3) by Bethany Lopez  New Adult Contemporary*paperback/eBook, 215 pages  Published February 28th 2013 (first published February 9th 2013)  Purchase: Barnes & Noble | Amazon | Smashwords Roni’s dreams of becoming a contemporary dancer were smashed under the brutal rage of her ex-husband's fists. Getting divorced and starting over at the age of twenty-two was never her plan, but maybe in Texas, she'll find her path. When the town's local player, Rich, opens a Rec Center, she sees a way to rekindle her dancing dreams...and maybe have a little fu...

  Amazon † Barnes and Noble Astart e's Wrath is the companion n ovel to...   Check out Trisha Wolfe's other books... A peek inside Astarte's Wrath... “I’ve found you.” I turn to see Xarion leaning against the frame of my terrace door. A slight smile curves his beautiful lips, and his arms are crossed over his bronze muscled cuirass. Feeling brave, I slip close and wrap my arms around his waist, the brass studs of his belt pressing against my stomach. “I wasn’t hiding,” I say, looking up into his face. I can see his exhaustion there, in the dark crescents under his eyes, though he’s putting on a good front. “I’d never tempt a great hunter.” He chuckles as he steps away long enough to slip off his breastplate, then he embraces me. Leaning down, he whispers in my ear, “You’re always tempting.” Running his thumb over my cheek, he lowers his face before mine, his breaths shallow. “In fact, your power of seduction is having its desired effect o...

Artificial Absolutes  by Mary Fan Sci-fi* ebook, 376 pages Published February 2013 by Red Adept Publishing Amazon | Barnes & Noble   Jane Colt is just another recent college grad working as an Interstellar Confederation office drone—until the day she witnesses her best friend, Adam, kidnapped by a mysterious criminal. An extensive cover-up thwarts her efforts to report the crime, shaking her trust in the authorities. Only her older brother, Devin, believes her account. Devin hopes to leave behind his violent past and find peace in a marriage to the woman he loves. That hope shatters when he discovers a shocking secret that causes him to be framed for murder. With little more than a cocky attitude, Jane leaves everything she knows to flee with Devin, racing through the most lawless corners of the galaxy as she searches for Adam and proof of her brother’s innocence. Her journey uncovers truths about both of them, leading her to wonder just how much...

We host the Perception and Volition tour today. There's an excerpt of the second book and two giveaways.  Perception   (Perception, Book One) by Lee Strauss YA Sci-fi/dystopian/romance  Release date: September 2012 Event organized by: AToMR Tours Purchase: Amazon Eternal Life is To Die For. Seventeen year old Zoe Vanderveen is a GAP—a genetically altered person. She lives in the security of a walled city on prime water-front property along-side other equally beautiful people with extended life spans. Her brother Liam is missing. Noah Brody is a natural who lives on the outside. He leads protests against the GAPs and detests the widening chasm they’ve created between those who have and those who don’t. He doesn’t like girls like Zoe and he has good reason not to like her specifically. Zoe’s carefree life takes a traumatic turn. She’s in trouble and it turns out that Noah, the last guy on earth she should trust, is the only one who c...