What started off as a simple book blog that posted the personal reviews of the site owner has grown into a site where authors and readers can connect. Since then we’ve given away books, gift cards, reviews, tours, and free promotion to authors. Check out Sandra’s Book Blog to find out more! To celebrate all the readers and authors that have been a part …
Category: Book Reviews
This book, chronicling a forgotten part of Jewish history, follows the life of one extraordinary Jewish bard, and it is told with wry humor
A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard by Jill Culiner Genre: Nonfiction Biography, History, Travel Culiner’s intrepid pursuit of the elusive troubadour and the lost world from which he emerged enriches us with a double depiction of the turbulent times and places of the bard’s era and the galloping commercialization of our own. Like a chef who manages to document great recipes before they …
Eva Rae Thomas, soon finds herself in too deep and realizes she can’t trust anyone’s motives…but by then, it is too late, and the killer is already tracking her down
Such a Good Girl Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 9 by Willow Rose Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge. A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C. Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the …
Tips on how to Write a Book Review?
A review is a personal view of the story you have just read. Author’s love reviews; they sell books. So consider writing a review every time you read a book. It doesn’t have to be huge, just five well-written phrases will do. Always start with something good about the story. Things like: “It is an interesting story” or “A quite fascinating reading,” even, “I couldn’t …
“Emerine’s Nightmare”
Anna del C. Dye, as a YA author of High Fantasy and she makes sure her books have high standards and are fit for the whole family. One day a challenge to write a fairy story was placed and she wondered if she could write a book about fairies, since all her book were about elf. “Amerine, Fairy Princess” was the result of that thought. This story, …
The Roilden Stones of Elf Mountain – blog tour
The Roilden Stones of Ef Mountain tour is here. The Roilden Stones of Elf Mountain, is the prequel to my elf series. It is also the last book in the series of seven. In this book you will discover the Elfs, an eternal race that chooses to live in a world full of woe, away from their native motherland. You will fall in love with …
An Award! Why thank you
Shaunna Gonzales, a great writer, has bestowed upon me what is called the “Liebster Blog Award.” What is the Liebster Blog Award? Legend has it that The Liebster Blog Award originated in Germany. Liebster means dearest or beloved, and Liebe is love. The award is meant to encourage readership of small, lovable blogs with fewer than 200 followers. In accepting the Liebster Blog Award, the …
Your kids don’t love books…help them
Usually it takes motivated parents to get a kid to read. For example, Monica has four boys and she started reading to them when they were babies.
16 Tips to promote your book—before and during launch
1. Send out free PDFs, or ebooks, to bloggers who have tons of followers. If your book is non-fiction, send out digital copies to influential journalists. Ask the bloggers a review it in their blogs. (Some bloggers or reviewers need a month to read the book. Always ask way beforehand. 2. Pull out excerpts of the book to use as articles. Post them on free sites. 3. Create …
The Possibilities of Sainthood
 By: Donna Freitas for Ijustfinished.com
Donna has created a great tale with lots of Italian flavor in its pages. Her characters are believable and easy to relate too. I enjoyed the cover, it is a picture perfect of its content. The story, its characters, and the many saints that Antonia prays to are very real in the protagonist’s life. Antonia, the main character, is a fifteen-year-old catholic schoolgirl living in …
Executive Review of The Vatta’s War Series
The books in the Vatta’s War series are fast moving and full of excitement throughout. They contain space battles, spies, other people who do not like what is going on in their world, murderers (some of them in the character’s own family) and a lot of plots to keep you entertained. If you like SF and space travel, and are looking for something exciting to read… …