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Cover Reveal & GIVEAWAY: Immortal Descendants Series by April White

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Cover reveal day is finally here for The Immortal Descendants Series by April White! What do you guys think? They were designed by Penny Reid. Be sure to enter the giveaway listed below!

We are celebrating the 3 year publication anniversary of MARKING TIME with a brand new look for the whole series! These newly-redesigned ebooks and paperbacks are now available to order at Amazon, and I am giving away a signed set, plus a $50 Amazon gift card and signed copies of Truth or Beard, by Penny Reid, and The Scribe, by Elizabeth Hunter (see giveaway below).

THE BOOKS

Marking Time is currently FREE for all e-readers!

→ Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1LS9PFD

→ Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1Mf7dkv

→ B&N: http://bit.ly/1P1gnpL

→ Kobo: http://bit.ly/1Mn3UxZ

→ iTunes: http://apple.co/1LSb2gh

Tempting Fate and Changing Nature are currently FREE to Kindle Unlimited subscribers!

→ Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1LSbj2F

→ Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1H4Vaok

The paperback versions of all three books are available here: http://amzn.to/1kIpBfs

Enter the rafflecopter below to win a three-book signed paperback set of The Immortal Descendants series with new covers, plus a $50 Amazon gift card, and signed copies of Truth or Beard, by Penny Reid, and The Scribe, by Elizabeth Hunter
→ http://bit.ly/1k7jmkJ

  • Covers designed by Penny Reid

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Special Feature: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE IMMORTAL DESCENDANTS SERIES by April White

by The Lit Bitch

We are celebrating the 3 year publication anniversary of MARKING TIME with a brand new look for the whole series! The big over reveal is coming on 11/1 so be watching for a post on Sunday! But if you simply can’t wait until then….here is a little preview!

These newly-redesigned ebooks and paperbacks are now available to order at Amazon, and I am giving away a signed set, plus a $50 Amazon gift card and signed copies of Truth or Beard, by Penny Reid, and The Scribe, by Elizabeth Hunter (see giveaway below).

Marking Time is currently FREE for all e-readers!

→ Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1LS9PFD

→ Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1Mf7dkv

→ B&N: http://bit.ly/1P1gnpL

→ Kobo: http://bit.ly/1Mn3UxZ

→ iTunes: http://apple.co/1LSb2gh

 

Tempting Fate and Changing Nature are currently FREE to Kindle Unlimited subscribers!

→ Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1LSbj2F

→ Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1H4Vaok

The paperback versions of all three books are available here: http://amzn.to/1kIpBfs

GIVEAWAY

Enter the rafflecopter below to win a three-book signed paperback set of The Immortal Descendants series with new covers, plus a $50 Amazon gift card, and signed copies of Truth or Beard, by Penny Reid, and The Scribe, by Elizabeth Hunter
→ http://bit.ly/1k7jmkJ

 

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Special Feature: The Spine Tingling Literary Canon List for Halloween

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Halloween is just around the corner and this week on The Lit Bitch we are talking about the books that make you want to curl up and hide under the covers of your bed. You know those books that scare you so bad that every little noise in your house makes you jump and wonder….is there a monster under my bed???

The folks at Casper Mattresses have a great blog called Pillow Talk and they are doing a super fun ‘haunted’ feature on their blog for Halloween where they talk about spooky hotels (including the Heathman Hotel in Portland, a personal fav of mine being from Oregon and all). Casper is a great company full of fellow bibliophiles like myself and they asked me to share what books I have read that have kept me up at night to celebrate Halloween!

I haven’t read a lot of ‘horror stories’ but I have read a few classic novels that certainly belong in the ‘spine tingling’ literary canon and I also added a few other books that were so suspenseful that I found myself jumping at any little noise. I am sure there are a lot of other creepy-tastic books out there that I am forgetting…..Stephen King comes to mind and I’ll be honest….I want to read Stephen King but I’m a little too scared! If you have a favorite scary book that makes you want to hide under your covers please share it in the comments below!

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Review: Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes by Anthony Horowitz #2) by Anthony Horowitz

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Shortly after Sherlock Holmes and his adversary, James Moriarty, go over Reichenbach Falls a body is pulled from the water. American detective, Frederick Chase, rushed to Switzerland where he hopes to identify the body as Moriarty’s and ultimately recover a letter sent from notorious American criminal, Clarence Devereux.

Devereux and Moriarty had planned to form a partnership that would make them the most formidable crime syndicate in Britain and America. But with Moriarty dead, that leaves Devereux holding the reigns.

Chase plans to stop Devereux by any means necessary. When he arrives are Reichenbach falls he meets British detective Athelney Jones who has learned many of Sherlock Holmes’s methods of deduction. The soon for a team and start investigating the links between Devereux and other criminals in Britain but at every turn they meet a dead end…..literally.

The body count is piling up and the pressure is on for Chase and Jones to stop the criminal gang before it’s too late. Chase has spent a good deal of time studying Devereux and though no one has seen his face, he suffers from a rare condition known as agoraphobia. Chase and Jones hope to identify Devereux by exploiting his phobia.

The two detectives encounter many unspeakable crimes and twisted plots as they track the gang through London. Together Chase and Jones make a great team….they almost mirror Holmes and Watson.

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Review: Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd

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Biographies and non fiction are always such an interesting genre for me. It must be such a challenge trying to research a person or subject so famous or well known and still be able to bring something ‘new’ to the table. Not to mention write a book that doesn’t read like a boring history timeline with a bunch of dates and milestones in a person’s life.

So I am always intrigued when non fiction and/or biographies come across my nightstand for review, if the person or subject interests me I usually give it a go. Wilkie Collins has been a very interesting literary figure for me since I read Drood by Dan Simmons a few years ago. While I didn’t really like the book itself that well…..the character Wilkie Collins appealed to me so much that I read his novel The Woman in White a short time later.

I have yet to read his magnum opus, The Moonstone, but I have it and am waiting for the perfect stormy fall night to start it. Something about Collins says ‘dark and stormy night’ to me. I don’t know much about Collins’s life or literary career besides these two popular books…..Collins often get’s obscured by Charles Dickens as they are both writers of the same period. So when this biography came across my nightstand for review, I did not hesitate to agree….the English Literature major in me was crying out to learn more about this often skipped over author!

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