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Let's marvel at the beauty of art and photography with books that showcase human creativity through canvas or lens.
If you enjoy reviewing books from authors who proudly convey their heritage in their books, please join. Everyone is welcome!
a group for all lovers of books about food, wine ... even simply books with wonderful food passages ,,, feeding your eyes, your mind, your mouth - all the senses at once!
This group is for giveaways offers for book bloggers who are also part of book clubs (virtually or real meet-ups) only.
Special offers for book bloggers:
Host book giveaways for your readers courtesy of Hachette Book Group. Select titles updated monthly available.
A group for bloggers interested in reviewing upcoming releases from the Hachette Book Group.
Review Hachette Audio titles--upcoming, replays, and box sets.
This is for anyone who has a book blog, loves to read and review books, and anyone who is interested in receiving more books. :)
A group for those who participate in the 24 Hour Read-a-thon
A place for lovers of historical fiction to talk about their latest acquisitions and reviews.
A place to get in on the action of blog tours and contests sponsored by the Hachette Book Group
Where good-hearted people get together for free books, and fun.
This group is for all of us who love those fun cozy mysteries.
A place to discuss virtual book tours with Pump Up Your Book Promotion.
A place to hammer out a common and shared set of principles to adhere to in book blogging.
Let's get together every 4 months and link our giveaways for one week to generate more traffic for everyone! Modeled after Bloggy Giveaway Carnival.
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I am the national bestselling, award winning author of six critically acclaimed novels. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.
“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”
I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. Yes, KINDLE purchases count!
And if you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering ad Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.
Peace & Light,
Bernice L. McFadden
www.bernicemcfadden.com
www.firstborngirl.blogspot.com
www.amazon.com
www.B&N.com
My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. My debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is being released from the University of West Alabama on March 1st, and is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com. I am writing because I was hoping you might be willing to mention it on your blog (or consider it for review). I've included a summary of the novel below:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894
Thanks so much,
Chris
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Christopher Tusa
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Editor, Poetry Southeast
http://www.christophertusa.com
mail@christophertusa.com