Check This Out – Voice Promos
Kimi is a Twitter friend of mine and asked if I’d post these for her. These are voice promo’s for books, as opposed to visual book trailers. Let us both know what you think!
Bitter Night – Diana P Francis’s urban fantasy.
Ecstasy Unveiled – Larissa Ione’s paranormal romance.
You can find Kimi here on her site
Anton Strout – Lupercalia (Short Story)
- Paperback: 320 pages
- List Price: $7.99 US/$9.99 CDN
- Publisher: DAW; Original edition (February 2, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0756406145
- ISBN-13: 978-0756406141
Buy A Girls Guide To Guns & Monsters at:
Thirteen urban and paranormal tales of strong women, armed with weapons they are not afraid to use, as well as fists and feet of fury, who face monsters and bad guys-and are not above rescuing men in the process.
Lupercalia is a short story (page 92-113) by Anton Strout, in the anthology A Girls Guide To Monsters. Mr. Strout doesn’t have a blurb about the book, so I harrassed him to provide me with one on the spot:
Lupercalia is the story of a young NYU student and modern day love gone wrong with a dash of demonic cherub drowning
The young NYU student, Leis, who’s had a ton of relationship issues and sets out to right that wrong and kick some cherub arse. She drags along her roomate Helen and the two set out to confront Cupid. At risk of ruining a short story, lets just do this:
- Leis is a freaky bitch
- Helen is an unlikely heroine
- Cupid’s a pimp
If you are a fan of Anton’s writing, check out Lupercalia for something totally different. Even if you want to smack the crap out of Leis. Anton’s writing is filled with enough action to make you wish this wasn’t a short story but a full length.
WLP Blog Questions
It’s closing on almost a year of this websites existence and I have a few questions I want to ask you readers about my content.
I am going to keep WLP Wants To Know, because I like hearing your responses to the topics. But do you want this once a week, or on a specific date all the time?
I am obviously going to keep doing reviews, but I was wondering again do you want to see these on a specific day or should I just review as I read?
I see a lot of bloggers doing memes, I am not a fan of the meme…especially when I look at my feed reader & there’s 40 blogs all doing the same meme with no actual content other than what books they want, or what they’re reading etc. You can see what I am reading by looking at my sidebar or following me on GoodReads, so I don’t think I need that specific meme but there’s tons…so do I need any?
Speaking of other blogs, they also post book covers when they come out. I’m not a big fan of cover blog posts because most of them lack the actual content of the book and to be honest its a lot of work searching out new covers. Would you like that done here?
As always, the monthly list of releases will always be available on the top on it’s own page “Upcoming Releases”
Authors Interviews will happen when they happen, as will contests.
Is there anything you’d like to see that I don’t do? Or anything I should change? Let me know! Is the format of the blog itself bother you? Anything, just let me know.
But thank you all for following this weird journey with me. I never would have thought people would hang around and care what I had to say.
Moira Rogers Release Party
Go say hi to Bree & Donna aka Moira Rogers over at Bitten By Books! Trust me, you’ll love them.
WLP Wants To Know: Book Trailers
We’ve watched them, we’ve seen them posted on many blogs…but do we like them?
Book Trailers make me giggle. I admit it. I think they are usually extremely cheesy. I have yet to see one that actually did make me want to buy the book, for the most part I was going to buy the book before I knew the trailer was out. Nor has a trailer made me not want to buy a book, though some have came pretty close.
I cannot stop me from cackling whenever I see a particularly bad one. Which to me is most of them, if not 99% of them in my little opinion. It’s come to the point for me, that I won’t even click the link to see it because I know it’ll make me shake my head. One particularly bad one had a theme song, seriously A THEME SONG FOR A BOOK!! WTF was the author/publicist thinking. Nope, I’m so not posting it. LOL sorry guys. The author would hunt me down, I am sure of it.
I am more inclined to buy books based on Reviews, Book Blogs and Book Blurbs. Not some YouTube video that usually doesn’t work for me. I don’t think making a video brings the book to life, that’s why we have imaginations and I’d like to use mine without seeing a video that features someone who ruins the character for me. I have read they barely make an impact on the adult market, sure they may work for teens but not us over 20′s. I have no doubt that, that is true. Like I said, cheese just doesn’t do it for me.
That said, if they don’t work. WHY KEEP MAKING THEM? I don’t understand it, if we aren’t really purchasing based on these videos why spend the money to make them? Who knows, I’m not in marketing so I don’t have the slightest clue as to how much these things cost to do.
So my friends, I ask you…do you like book trailers? why? which one(s) do you like? have you bought a book based solely on a trailer?
Wicked Lil Pixie wants to know.
First Drop of Crimson – Jeaniene Frost
- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- List Price: $7.99 US/$10.99 CDN
- Publisher: Avon; Original edition (February 9, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061583227
- ISBN-13: 978-0061583223
Buy First Drop of Crimson at:
The night is not safe for mortals. Denise MacGregor knows all too well what lurks in the shadows—her best friend is half-vampire Cat Crawfield—and she has already lost more than the average human could bear. But her family’s past is wrapped in secrets and shrouded in darkness—and a demon shapeshifter has marked Denise as prey. Now her survival depends on an immortal who lusts for a taste of her.
He is Spade, a powerful, mysterious vampire who has walked the earth for centuries and is now duty-bound to protect this endangered, alluring human—even if it means destroying his own kind. Denise may arouse his deepest hungers, but Spade knows he must fight his urge to have her as they face the nightmare together . . .
Because once the first crimson drop falls, they will both be lost.
First Drop of Crimson (the first book in the Night Huntress spin off series) focuses on Denise, Cat’s best-friend that we’ve only had small glimpses of in past novels. Denise has pulled herself away from all contact with vampires, even pulling away from Cat, after loosing her husband Randy in the last vampire war. Suddenly members of Denise’s family start dying of heart attacks, when Denise witnesses a family members last moments she realizes it’s not heart attacks that are killing them off, its a demon. One of her distant relatives reneged on a deal with a demon and he’s out to get her whole family. She must find this relative or risk loosing every single family member left and worse, he’s marked her. Denise doesn’t want to get Cat or Bone’s involved and all she has left is asking Spade for help. Spade realizes, it’s going to be a lot harder than he expected when he tastes that first drop of crimson.
Readers of the Night Huntress series will not be disappointed with First Drop of Crimson, Ms. Frost keeps true to the series but adds new life! This book was action packed from beginning to the very end, with all sorts of twists and turns. Denise is still having panic attacks around vampires due to the vampire war, so you feel her struggle to get past it and grow stronger. There is appearances by old characters like Ian, Bones & Cat among others. So even if there isn’t a Cat & Bones book until 2011, you do get some time with them in First Drop.
If you haven’t ever read a Jeaniene Frost book, you can pick this one up without reading the previous novels. There’s just enough back story that you won’t feel lost if you start from First Drop and you’ll quickly pick up the storyline.
Fans of “Chapter 32″ from Jeaniene Frost’s novel One Foot In The Grave, will get a big laugh out of…Chapter 23. Seriously, chapter 23. I giggled when I saw what chapter I was reading. Well done Ms. Frost, even if it wasn’t intentional! The chemistry between Spade and Denise was intense, and let me tell you…hot hot hot! Cat & Bones have some competition!
Go out and grab a copy on February 9th, trust me. You won’t be able to put it down!
WLP’s Bloody Valentine Giveaway!
My lovely immortal friend V the Vampire at Vampire.Com and I are giving two lucky commenter’s the chance to win something fangtastic for Valentine’s Day!
The first place winner will get 2 bags of Vampire Coffee & 4 Vampire Chocolate Bars of their choice.
The second place will get 1 bag of Vampire Coffee & 2 Vampire Chocolate Bars of their choice.
To enter, tell me your worst Valentine Story or your worst Date Story in the comments section!
+2 if you are already a follower via Google Friends Connect.
+1 for new followers.
The winners will be chosen on Saturday February 13th by none other than Dakota Cassidy!
The Nymphos Of Rocky Flats – Mario Acevedo
- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- List Price: $7.99 US/$10.99 CDN
- Publisher:Eos (December 26, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 006143888X
- ISBN-13: 978-0061438882
Buy The Nymphos of Rocky Flats at:
The first and only vampire book to be declassified by the federal government . . .
Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire.
Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He’ll find out the cause of all these horny women or die trying! But first he must contend with shadowy government agents, Eastern European vampire hunters, and women who just want his body . . .
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats is the first book in Acevedo’s Felix Gomez series, which centres around the ex-soldier who gets turned into a vampire while on active duty in Iraq. Felix and his company, accidentally kill a group of innocent civilians and the ultimate punishment for Felix was being turned. Because of the guilt he still feels, he refuses to drink human blood instead surving on animal blood. Which begins to take a toll on his powers. Now a Private Investigator Felix’s old roommate Gilbert asks for Felix’s help after an outbreak of nymphomania (“the sickness”) at the Department of Energy in Colorado. What starts out as a simple assignment (find the cause of the nymphomania), turns into a huge mess that turns out not to be so simple.
From Government conspiracy, UFOs, Roswell, Vampire Hunters, Dryad’s to Felix’s inner struggle with drinking human blood this book is action packed from beginning to end. The ending totally throws you for a loop, you just won’t see it coming. Acevedo has a very unique twist on vampires with Felix Gomez. Felix can go out in the sun, but only slathered in sunscreen and a ton of make up. There were some laugh out loud moments with lots of snark, my favorite being:
“No mistress of the dark, she looked more like a matron of the refrigerator”
For a book about nymphos, there was very little sexual interaction. Few scenes of Felix being come onto by those infected, but again no sex scenes. The Nymphos of Rocky Flats has so many different story-lines going on, sometimes I felt it a little hard to follow but overall it was pretty good, more Christopher Moore than a straight up Urban Fantasy novel, it’s worth a read. It’s definitely different that’s for sure and in a good way!
WLP Wants To Know – Hard Covers
Hard Covers. You know you love them, okay fine not so much. They are not portable, you can’t stuff em in your pocket or in your purse. You can’t read them in the bathtub and one handed reading is out of the question. Did I forget to mention the price? Yes, we all love HC’s.
I told an author last weekend, who wasn’t too happy with my views on the Amazon/Macmillan deal that I paid $28.99 CDN for one of her HC’s before seeing it months later in the bargin bin for $7.99 CDN. Her response: “My book was never that much!” Umm sorry Mrs., yes yes it was…In Canada. After she realized that I was from Canada and had in fact paid that, I kid you not she stopped talking to me. Another HC off my list of to buys.
There are only few books I will pay for in Hard Cover: Kim Harrison, J.R. Ward, Charlaine Harris and Suzanne Collin’s YA series. I have decided those are the only HC books I will buy this year unless something amazing comes out, that everyone is talking about. I can’t pay over $25.00 for a book that will come out months later in Paperback, I can wait thank you very much.
I want to know:
Do you buy Hard Covers?
Who do you HAVE to have when it comes out, even if it’s in Hard Cover?
What is the most you are willing to pay for a Hard Cover?
Do you like to have books in Hard Cover?
Another Kindle Giveaway
Ash Elizabeth @ Tartitude is giving away a kindle! Last day to enter is March 15th.
Here’s the link
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