Today, I’m excited to interview Alix, a girly-girl obsessed with crime fiction. She blogs about books and beauty on her blog, The Bookish Alix. LQ: Can you tell us what your blog is, in a nutshell? A: It started as just a creative outlet for me because I love writing, now I treat it like…
In The Book World
Here are highlights of the bookish news I’ve been reading lately. Author Willy Vlautin talks about how he joins together his music and writing career as he prepares for the Tuscan Festival of Books. Y.A. novelist A.S. King talks about her quirky writing process and how her love of writing started in high school. Professor…
A Free High Fantasy Romance Worth Reading
Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 1,311,890 My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Love’s Kiss is free on Smashwords. As much as I love browsing through self-published books on Smashwords and supporting indie authors, I have to admit that I’ve found my fair share of duds. So I was a little wary about committing to Love’s…
How to Be an Avid Reader When You’re a College Student
College years are supposedly the best years of our lives. But between classes, extracurriculars, and working a part-time or even full-time job, the “best years of our lives” dissolve into a huge pile of stress and exhaustion. In fact, 45 percent of college students feel more than average stress, according to The American Institute of…
Book Spotlight: Love’s Kiss by Sabrina Zbasnik
Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 1,311,890 This book is free on Smashwords. A massive collection of eight novels that follows the love and lives of couples over two generations as they struggle to overcome a world trying to tear them apart in order to find each other. Contains My Warden, My Templar, My Hope, My Future,…
2020 Vision: My Goals for Lover’s Quarrel
I’m so excited about the new year. 2019 was a great year for Lover’s Quarrel and I’m excited about what I can do in 2020. In 2019, I learned a lot about marketing myself and I invested more time into my blog and it paid off. In 2020, I want to do even more. Here…
Hall of Fame Round-Up 2019
2019 is drawing to a close and I hope it’s been as great of a year for everyone as it has for me. This year I’ve had the honor of welcoming Vicki Lesage and Zelly Jordan into the Read for a Better World Hall of Fame. This hall of fame is dedicated to authors who…
Books For Every #Indiecember Challenge
Megan Tennant created a fun way to spread the love for indie authors this December with a bingo game called Indiecember. Mark off squares on this bingo game by leaving a review for a matching indie book. Everyone who gets bingo before 2020 will be entered into an epic giveaway. Even though December is halfway…
Book Review: Fractured by Zelly Jordan
Genre: Science Fiction Page Count: 198 My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars I am many things. A man. A soldier. Trained to kill. Born to hunt. Focused and lethal. Nothing gets through the stoic control that hides my inner animal, an animal that simmers with rage and power. And that power makes me the…
Secret Book Deals To Scoop Up This Cyber Monday
Today is Cyber Monday and the internet is full of sales that will let you do some holiday shopping without breaking the bank (hopefully). But some of these deals you don’t know about, like these ebooks on sale at Smashwords. So take a break from buying presents for your family members and treat yourself to…