Blog Tour: Birthright (The Dark Gifts #1) - Guest Post

Birthright (The Dark Gifts #1) by AUTHOR
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: March 2, 2011
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Book Description:

For one-thousand years, Druid prophecies foretold of a young witch destined to alter the fate of both human and immortal alike. 

This witch-turned-vampire would be capable of harnessing the supernatural abilities of both and, in a bloody rise to power, would rule with unwavering control.

Unwillingly thrust into a world she never dreamed existed, Liz Markum is catapulted into an ancient war between rival vampire factions. She must choose between those she loves and the ever-present darkness attempting to devour her very soul.

Only one question remains: Will Liz claim her birthright or surrender to the dark gift?

One choice.

One chance.

Two destinies.

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Monster Love

I am frequently asked for my thoughts on so-called monsters playing the role of the good guy. Personally that's my favorite hero. One I can't resist. (Ever)

The essence of a good monster: Having just enough redeeming qualities to be appealing, regardless of glaring faults and monsterdom.

Blog Tour: Circle of Lies (Red Ridge Pack #2) - Guest Post -

Circle of Lies (Red Ridge Pack #2) by Sara Dailey and Staci Weber
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: December 20, 2012
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Book Description:

Aiden Wright is trying to figure out who he really is, but the truth could cost him his true mate—or his life.

Life has always been easy for Aiden Wright. He’s smart, athletic, funny, and the ladies adore him. But when tragedy strikes, Aiden discovers the truth about who he really is, and his whole world comes crashing down around him. Aiden thought that being a teenage werewolf was going to be awesome, but it might just cost him the one girl who could make him whole.

Since her mother’s disappearance, Teagan Rhodes’s life has been littered with her father’s empty beer cans and his hollow promises to change. Convinced that others would only let her down, she keeps everyone at arm’s length—but resisting Aiden’s charm is proving to be more difficult than she thought. Throw in a psychotic werewolf hunter out to terminate the species, and one wrong move, one wrong decision could destroy everything.

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Circle of Lies - A Red Ridge Pack Novel, Book 2

Authors: Sara Dailey & Staci Weber

Why Werewolves?

When we set out to write our first series, we chose werewolves for a number of reasons, but let's first explore why we didn't choose vampires, faeries, or angels. First of all, we already did angels in our first novel, Sinful. When we first began writing, here weren't any YA Romances out there like it. Yep, we researched it, and there was only one other popular angel series, and it was nothing like our own.
Unfortunately, things quickly changed right about the time we found a publisher.

Blog Tour: Popular (Popular, #1) - Guest Post - Gareth Russell

Popular (Popular, #1) by Gareth Russell
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 30, 2012
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Book Description:

On the first day of September, 16 year-old Meredith Harper rules over the teen it-crowd of Belfast, Northern Ireland. But beneath the surface, Meredith’s complicated web of manipulative lies and self-serving intrigue are slowly beginning to threaten her social position and she finds herself being challenged by handsome Mark Kingston, the only guy in the school who’s always hated her.

In a world where nothing stays secret for very long, Meredith and her friends will need all their skills to guess who’s in, out, coming out, going up, going down, dating, cheating, lying and trying to cope.... Let the games begin!

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What happens when people don’t like your characters? Gareth Russell
We live in the age of being “nice” and woe betide the author who doesn’t provide young adults with role models and inspirational figures. If a character is mean, then they have to be shown learning a lesson or having a heart secretly buried beneath their ice-cold front. But the problem I have with that is that it’s not only unrealistic, but it also assumes that young adult readers are so young and impressionable that they’ll do whatever a character does in the book. I don’t think that’s the case, clearly. However, there is a fine balance that a writer needs to get right if they’re going to write a book that heavily features characters behaving “badly.”

I have had to deal with that challenge myself. The central character in my book “Popular” and its sequel, “The Immaculate Deception,” is a girl called Meredith Harper, a 16 year-old brunette from Belfast in Northern Ireland with superb self-confidence and a savage wit. Meredith is manipulative, self-assured, self-possessed and incredibly ruthless. One reader told me that she thought Meredith was number 2 on the list of fictional villainesses, right below Dolores Umbridge.

Blog Tour: Dead Perfect by P.G. Shriver

Dead Perfect by P. G. Shriver
Publisher: Self Published
Pages: 228

Summary:

MEL

My lifelong dreams never included falling in love. Graduating top of the class, going to college somewhere far away and starting a life in a place where my alcoholic mother could never find me were the first three goals on my list. Then the unexpected auto accident with Mother, after her regular doses of vodka, altered all of that. With her gone, my life and my perspective changed forever.

DAVIS

Desperate to find Joanie so I could break free, I returned to my old school. The search led me to her, my Aphrodite, a familiar lost look in her soulful eyes. Fantasies of her forced reasoning from my mind. I had to meet her! Once fallen, would her love for me survive the ghostly secrets haunting us?

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