Witchcraft Book-Birthday Blog Bash #Giveaway

THE MEADOWSWEET CHRONICLES by KATIE M. JOHN - A modern tale of witchcraft.

October marks the first year anniversary of the release Katie M John’s ‘Witchcraft’, book one of The Meadowsweet Chronicles. 

The Meadowsweet Chronicles is an upper YA / cross-over, seven book series; blending together traditional English Folklore and the American Gothic. An epic scale, dark adventure with paranormal romance elements, The Meadowsweet Chronicles takes the reader to the heart of a sleepy English village, to the Witch Markets of Mexico, to Salem in the U.S.A and to the island of Haaiti. 

Heargton is an ancient English village, settled on the intersection of powerful and magical lay lines. For as long as anyone can remember, it has been steeped in the occult and pagan rituals, becoming a magnet for modern day paranormal investigators and tourists. However, behind the folklore is a dark and powerful truth. 

It is the year 2015 and a local college girl is found ritualistically murdered and displayed right at the very heart of the village. Her murder ignites deep rooted prejudices and village rivalries. The Meadowsweet sisters, long known to follow the ‘old ways’, come under increasing suspicion, but it isn’t until a young child is kidnapped that they really begin to understand the role they have to play and the powers they possess.  

It is during these fearful times that Jeremiah Chase arrives from New York. Heir to the Chase Family fortune, he is an exiled errant playboy sent to his Aunt, Lady Penelope Asquithe, Mistress of Cold Stone House. Only Jeremiah soon discovers the Chase family, despite coming from a line of infamous Witch Hunters, has been hiding its own evil and nefarious history. 

“In this highly charged, action packed, classic style occult horror series, Katie M John builds a world and characters that are truly dark and magical.”   

#Witches #Ghosts #Paranormal #Demons #Asylums #College #Salem #Folklore #Gothic #Contemporary #UpperYA #CrossOver

Throughout the months of October and November, Book One of the series is on Amazon Kindle promotion for just $0.99 / £0.99p

Published by Little Bird Publishing, Katie M John is the author of the U.K No.1 best-selling YA Paranormal Romance and Dark Fairy Tale series, The Knight Trilogy. 

You can find out more about Katie and her books at her: Website /@KnightTrilogy/ Blogspot

Giveaway

To celebrate the birthday of Book One, and the release of Book Two, Katie is giving away a signed paperback copy and mystery birthday party bag to one lucky Rafflecopter winner. 

Throughout the months of October and November, Book One of the series is on Amazon Kindle promotion for just $0.99 / £0.99p



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Waiting On Wednesday #43



Waiting On Wednesday is hosted Breaking The Spine by where we spotlight books we are highly anticipating.

Arrows by Melissa Gorzelanczyk



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Arrows by Melissa Gorzelanczyk is a modern cupid story set in present-day Wisconsin combining the fantastical elements of Greek mythology with the contemporary drama of MTV’s Teen Mom.

People don’t understand love.
If they did, they’d get why dance prodigy Karma Clark just can’t say goodbye to her boyfriend, Danny. No matter what he says or does or how he hurts her, she can’t stay angry with him . . . and can’t stop loving him. But there’s a reason why Karma is helpless to break things off: she’s been shot with a love arrow.

Aaryn, son of Cupid, was supposed to shoot both Karma and Danny but found out too late that the other arrow in his pack was useless. And with that, Karma’s life changed forever. One pregnancy confirmed. One ballet scholarship lost. And dream after dream tossed to the wind.

A clueless Karma doesn’t know that her toxic relationship is Aaryn’s fault . . . but he’s going to get a chance to make things right. He’s here to convince Danny to man up and be there for Karma.

But what if this god from Mount Olympus finds himself falling in love with a beautiful dancer from Wisconsin who can never love him in return?

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Publication: ARROWS will be published by Random House/Delacorte Press on January 26, 2016.

Why I'm excited?

This just sounds like a book I know I will love.

What are you waiting on?

Top Ten author duos you would love see write a book together

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the bookish

Topic: Top Ten five author duos you would love see write a book together.

This is a great topic and not one I have ever thought much about, but am going to give it a try. I am going to go with 5 awesome teams duos.

Team one

The first pair that came to mind are my two favourite authors, Deborah Harkness and Charlaine Harris. If these ladies ever wrote a book together, I would literally fight a gladiator, a dementor and a vampire to get ny hands on a copy. I think they would have to do a paranormal novel using Deborah's historical knowledge to make it epic.

Team two

Michael W Buckley and Rick Yancey. I don't read many male authors but I read both these authors books this year and they write EPIC reads. Together a book by them would be of the charts. 

Team three

I am going to pick two contemporary authors I like, one YA and one adult. They are Stephanie Perkins and Cecilia Ahern. They both write amazing contemporary and I would love to see Cecilia Ahern try her hand at YA contemporary and with Stephanie's input it would be awesome 

Team four

Richelle Mead and Rachel Caine. I just think these ladies could write the most epic vampire book in existence and I would be first in line for it.

Team five

I want to pair two totally different authors together to see what they could come up with. So I am going to go for E.L James and J.K. Rowling. It feels like sacrilege putting theses authors in the same sentence but hell I would love to see what they came up with.

(Some people are taking offensive to team 5. I wouldn't want this to happen but I just wanted to put two authors together who where totally two polar opposites and not even on the same writing scale. I like both authors separately. As I said above it feels like sacrilege putting them in the same sentence but...it would never happen so you all don't need to worry :)

What duos would you love to see?

Canvas Bound by Laura M Kolar Book Blitz #Giveaway

Canvas Bound by Laura M. Kolar 

(Captive Art #1) 

Publication date: July 3rd 2013

Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult

Synopsis:

Sixteen-year-old Libby Tanner’s art comes to life. Her painted skies turn from day to night, leaves rustle on trees, and sometimes, a mystery boy appears.

While attending England’s Aldridge Art Academy, Libby meets charming Brent Henderson, a performing arts student who showers her with attention. But his rival, gorgeous Dean James, is the one who occupies her mind, even though he’s very much attached to his current girlfriend.

Libby soon learns there’s more to both Brent and Dean than she ever imagined. In order to save her future and the boy who’s captured her heart, she must unlock the secrets behind her art by entering the most dangerous place of all… the world within her paintings.

But once she steps into the canvas, she risks being trapped forever.

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Note: The book is on sale for the length of the blitz. Get it for 0.99c

AUTHOR BIO:

Laura M. Kolar lives with her husband and daughter in a one-stop-light town in northern-lower Michigan. Though she didn't discover her love of books until she turned thirty, as a self-declared hopeless romantic, she has spent the past few years reading and writing stories with mostly happy endings. If not at her day-job or with her family, you will find her sipping a cup of chai latte while sitting in her favorite rocking chair, hunched over her laptop writing or spending entirely too much time on Twitter.

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The Infected (Pods #2) Book Blitz #Giveaway

The Infected (PODs #2)

by Michelle K. Pickett

Release Date: October 12th 2015

Summary from Goodreads:

From the author of the award winning Unspeakable, and the best selling PODs, comes the highly anticipated sequel to PODs. A world where death stalks the unsuspecting,

and this time even the PODs might not save them. 

A virus nearly wiped out humankind...

Months have passed since a human infection has been reported. Survivors of the deadly pandemic have finally started to build a life in a world left devastated by plague. 

Ironically, for nineteen-year-old Eva, life made more sense when she battled the deadly Infected than it does in the serenity of her new home in Rosewood. Separated from fiancé and former POD-mate, David, after an impossible ultimatum, Eva finds her life a little lonely and a lot confusing. 

But as troubled as Eva’s life is, it's about to take a turn for the worse as untold dangers watch and wait for the right moment to attack…

The virus refuses to die quietly.

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About the Author

I can’t write without a hoodie. Yeah, I live it Texas. We all have our quirks.I majored in accounting in college. I was required to declare a major, but I had no clue what I wanted to do, so I picked accounting because it was the first thing listed in the booklet the counselor gave me. Surprisingly, I graduated with a 4.0 GPA. Go figure.Forget coffee. Hand over the Red Bull or Monster Khaos and no one gets hurt. Seriously, just set it down and step away. I will turn into a normal human after I guzzle my can of caffeine.I hate to cook, but love to watch cooking shows on television.I paint my nails weird colors just to see my husband roll his eyes and make my 9 year-old twin girls giggle. Oh, and mortify my 13 year-old son.I’m a hopeful romantic and love swoon-worthy endings that keep the butterflies going for days, but I don’t believe a HEA always ends with the boy getting the girl. Sometimes a HEA is an ending we don’t see coming, but is still best for the characters.I write across genres in the young adult and new adult age groups while eating way too many peanut butter M&Ms (but we’ll keep that second part just between us).I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, but now live in a suburb of Houston, TX with my very supportive family, a 125lb rescue “puppy” and a 12lb attack cat, also a rescue animal.And last, (but certainly not least), I love my family with everything in me. Everything I am, is theirs. There are no words in any language known to man to describe my love for them. They are my center.I’d love to hear from you. So drop me an email! Let’s chat. You tell me what you like in books, what you’d like to see happen in the writing community, what type of books you like to see more of…less of—I want to hear it all! So tell me, please. Because the one thing I wish I could put on my list, but I still haven’t figured out how to do, is mind-reading. But don’t tell my kids. I still have them fooled. :) 

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Sunday Post #28- Autumn has arrived & so much internet goodness

The Sunday Post was created by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer this is a post where we recap the going on's on the blog the previous week and the week coming up as well as the awesome books we have received for review, brought or gifted.

Autumn has finally arrived in the UK and I am super happy. I didn't think I would ever wish for rain but those few days of heat we had killed me. Especially as in work, our building is glass fronted and it makes our room like a green house. I am so happy to see you Autumn.

What happened this week on my blog?

Mon 5th October: Celebrate 10 years of Twilight & #Giveaway

Tues 6th October: Celebrating The Illustrated Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone with the Harry Potter Spells Tag
#Giveaway Time Warper: Fated byPeggy Martinez Blitz

Wed 7th October: Waiting On Wednesday #42

Thurs 8th October: #Review This Man Confessed (This Man #3) by Jodi Ellen Malpas

Fri 9th October: Here They Lie by D.K.Burrow Blog Tour #Excerpt & #Giveaway

Sat 10th October: World Mental Health Day 2015

Coming this week:

Mon 12th October: Review: House of Night books 1-3
Infected by Michelle Pickett (Pods #2) release blitz

Tues 13th October: Top Ten Tuesday- Author duos you'd love to see write books together
Canvas Bound by Laura M. Kolar Blitz

Wed 14th October: Waiting On Wednesday

Thurs 15th October: Review: House Of Night books 4-6

Fri 16th October: Review: Emmy and Oliver by Robin Benway
The homecoming core blast

Sat 17th October: Thirty Nights by Ani Keating teaser blitz

Bookish news

There has been so much internet goodness this week that I have to talk about it all, so bear with me. First off the Shadowhunters TV Trailer. It looks amazing, and we didn't get one but two teasers. The second trailer that was released via Buzzfeed is frickin incredible. Dom Sherwood as Jace is going to be sensational. I didn't think he was going to be as good as Jamie Campbell Bower. I am just so excited for Shadowhunters. Check out the trailer here and let me know what you think.

Also in other Shadowhunter news the cover for Lady Midnight ( Dark Artifices #1) by Cassandra Clare was released at NY comic con and it is creepily, beautiful and atmospheric. I am so excited and pumped to get back into the Shadowhunter world. Hurry up March 2016. What do you all think?

In other bookish news, Twilight Re- imagined. I really don't have a big opinion on it as I haven't picked it up yet but let's just say am really intrigued. Like everyone else I would have preferred Midnight Sun which many people where thinking the bonus material was in the 10th Anniversary Edition but am still excited to have something from Stephanie Meyer. You can enter to win a copy of Twilight's 10th Anniversary Edition here

Another bit of bookish news is in an interview with Ellen Degeneres Dakota Johnson said filming of 50 Shades Darker starts filming in the New Year.

Things am loving this week:

Fall means all my shows are starting again which makes me super excited and for the first time in so long here in the UK we are only a week behind the U.S. Three shows I am pumped for.

Empire: The first episode of season two aired in the UK during the week and I was so excited to see it back. I watched all of season one back in August and fell in love with the show. As a friend said this season looks like it's going to be more darker. The music in episode one was just meh for me but it was only the first episode.

Arrow: You don't know how excited I am for this. We are only a week behind the U.S. which is incredible. I can't wait for it to start on Wednesday. Arrow is one of my favourite shows, if not the favourite and I am super pumped for it.

The Returned: I have been waiting two years for The Returned. TWO YEARS. The first series was sensational. It's a French drama with English subtitles, about dead people who return to life in this small village in France. I can't do it justice talking about it. You just have to watch it. I actually think it's based on a book but don't quote me on that.

Finally two very different videos. We have The Vamps new music video and song that I love, and then a video from a YouTuber that broke my heart. It's breast cancer awareness month here in the UK and Louise AKA Sprinkle of glitter told her story of losing her mum to breast cancer at the age of seven. The video is heartbreaking and Louise is such a strong woman. Check out the videos below.

Now for the books, and there's quite a few this week:

I received an e-ARC of Rescued by Pheobe Kitanidis for a blog tour in November, it's the first book in a New Adult romance that releases November 10th. The Devils Gate by Rue Volley is also for a blog tour in November. It's the first in an Erotica mystery romance. (Ebook)

Hot Toy by Jennifer Crusie and The twelve dates of Christmas I got on Netgalley they are adult holiday reads that sound fun. They both release this month and I am going to read them during the Ho Ho Ho read a thon in November.

This song is not for you I got on netgalley it releases January 5th. I received a paperback proof of Beautiful Broken Things from Macmillan it releases February 2016 and it says if you like All the bright places by Jennifer Niven you will love this and I loved All the bright places.

I won an ebook of Taken Chance as part of the YA Scavenger hunt. The Billionaires Heart was an amazon kindle freebie.

Sugar Kisses and The Rush where both amazon freebies.

I brought both The Fiery Heart (Bloodlines #4) and The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines #6) to complete my collection. I am loving this series.

I brought Username: Evie it's my first graphic novel and am excited to read it.  I received a hardback of Carry On for review and it is so beautiful. I am super excited to get to it.

Phew that was a long post. How was your week? Let me know in the comments below.

World Mental Health Day 2015

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Today is World Mental Health and this year the theme is dignity in mental health. Every one has the right to dignity, whatever your gender, age, religion, ethnicity, and sexual ordination. Dignity is something lacking in today's society, even more so when surrounding mental health issues. Every human has the human right to dignity.

Having a mental health problem is like any illness, the person didn't ask for it, they just have it. Any body else with an illness not related to mental illness is given the dignity  and respect they deserve, no they have the right to this dignity. A person with a mental illness is the same. They are a human being who deserves the same respect and dignity. To see what you can do to raise awareness of the stigma head over to the link below where the WHO has a great pamphlet on what you can do in your community and what they are doing to help change this issue.

Information Dignity in Mental Health found here  (World Health organization)

This year YA is trying to break the stigma of mental health with many books dealing with mental health issues, you can check out a post I did a few months back on the topic here

Remember Mental Health illnesses are real, they can't be brushed under the carpet. Do something to fix the stigma!