Release! Asleep by Krystal Wade

To celebrate the release of the spine-chilling YA psychological thriller ASLEEP by Krystal Wade, we have a full blog tour and exciting giveaways ahead! ASLEEP is the debut novel from Blaze Publishing, and answers the question of what happens when Sleeping Beauty meets Freddy Krueger. If you want to see more of ASLEEP, you can still find the Ten Weeks of Teasers and other great content on the Blaze Publishing blog. Order your copy now!

Asleep
Krystal Wade
Published by: Blaze Publishing
Publication date: February 16th 2016
Genres: Horror, Young Adult

“To cure fear, you must use fear.”
Rose Briar claims no responsibility for the act that led to her imprisonment in an asylum. She wants to escape, until terrifying nightmares make her question her sanity and reach out to her doctor. He’s understanding and caring in ways her parents never have been, but as her walls tumble down and Rose admits fault, a fellow patient warns her to stop the medications. Phillip believes the doctor is evil and they’ll never make it out of the facility alive. Trusting him might be just the thing to save her. Or it might prove the asylum is exactly where she needs to be.

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Follow the Blog Tour!

Tuesday 2/16	Wednesday 2/17	Thursday 2/18
Vicki Leigh: First Chapter Reading	Jordan Elizabeth: First Chapter Reading	Eve Langell: First Chapter Reading
Case Maynard: Promo Post	What A Nerd Girl Says: Interview	A Thousand Books: Teaser One
Friday 2/19	Saturday 2/20	Sunday 2/21
OriginiquEquanimity: Promo Post	Janelle Howard: Teaser Two	Archaeolibrarian: Teaser Three
Ryan Hill: Interview		Nerd Girl Official: Promo Post
		Tesairie’s Book Reads: Promo Post

Chapter 1 read by author:

Author Bio:
Krystal Wade can be found in the sluglines outside Washington D.C. every morning, Monday through Friday. With coffee in hand, iPod plugged in, and strangers-who sometimes snore, smell, or have incredibly bad gas-sitting next to her, she zones out and thinks of fantastical worlds for you and me to read. How else can she cope with a fifty mile commute?
Good thing she has her husband and three kids to go home to. They keep her sane.

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GIVEAWAY!

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Blog Tour: The Girl’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Daphne Lamb

The Girl’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Daphne Lamb
Published by: Booktrope Publishing
Publication date: August 11th 2015
Genres: New Adult, Post-Apocalyptic

Synopsis:

Welcome to the Apocalypse. Your forecast includes acid rain, roving gangs and misplaced priorities, in this comedic take on the end of the world as we know it, from debut author Daphne Lamb. As a self-entitled, self-involved, and ill equipped millennial, Verdell probably wouldn’t have ranked very high on the list of those most likely to survive the end of the world, but here she is anyway. Add in travelling with her work addicted boss, her boyfriend who she has “meh” feelings for, and a handful of others who had no businesses surviving as long as they have, and things aren’t exactly going as planned. But despite threats of cannibalism, infected water supplies, and possibly even mutants, Verdell is willing to put in as little effort as she can get away with to survive.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26148254-the-girl-s-guide-to-the-apocalypse?ac=1

Purchase:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1513701185

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-girls-guide-to-the-apocalypse-daphne-lamb/1122532764?ean=9781513701189&cm_mmc=AFFILIATES-_-Linkshare-_-GwEz7vxblVU-_-10:1

Playlist!

1.      “Village Green Preservation Society” - The Kinks

2.      “Knights of Cydonia” - Muse

3.      “We Come Running” - Youngblood Hawke

4.      “Pretty Persuasion” - R.E.M.

5.      “Don’t Believe in Love” - Dido

6.      “Honest Feedback” - Saint Motel

7.      “So Many Bridges” - FFS

8.      “Time for Me to Fly” - REO Speedwagon

9.      “Super Bad” - James Brown

10.    “El Salvador” - Jamie T

11.    “Every Breaking Wave”- U2

AUTHOR BIO:

Daphne Lamb was raised in the wilds of Colorado and now resides in a very different wilderness known as Los Angeles. She is a comedian and award winning writer who has worked in television, film and video games. In her spare time, she enjoys collecting comic books, discussing awesomely bad movies and thinks about what it would be like to own a cat.

She loves connecting to fans and readers, so feel free to connect!

Author links:

https://twitter.com/daphne_lamb

http://www.daphnelambwriter.com/

https://www.facebook.com/daphnelambbooks/

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Fall Into Fantasy Week #9

Welcome to the Fall Into Fantasy Tour, where we are keeping your mind off any end-of-summer blues and welcoming the cooler weather by introducing you to some incredible fantasy reads to curl up with and giving you plenty of chances to win awesome prizes!

Week 9: Salvation by James Wymore

 A man wakes on a frozen battlefield when a scavenging couple finds him among the dead. As they nurse him back to health, he is struck with the horrible realization he can’t remember who he is or anything about his past. Taken in by the kind pair, he begins helping with their farm. She even takes him to meet her family, especially her single sister. The ideal life offered in the high mountains of Winigh is shattered when he sees a transport bringing enemy monsters to the shores below. Cut off by high snow on the pass, their fate will soon be the same as the town his company failed to protect in the last battle, if this estranged soldier cannot help them fight off the next wave of invaders. Even worse, the people of the town don’t trust this Selene soldier. He has a strange resistance to their folk magic which some say make him as dangerous as the enemies preparing to destroy them.

Buy it from: Amazon  Barnes & Noble  Kobo

Or add it to Goodreads

ABOUT JAMES WYMORE

On a lifelong search for fantastic worlds hiding just out of sight, James Wymore writes to explore. With three books and six short stories in print after just one year, he continues to push the boundaries of imagination. Journey with him at http://jameswymore.wordpress.com

Find James online: 

Website & Blog  Facebook  Twitter

Want to get involved with the Fall Into Fantasy promotional tour?

• Don't forget to join us at the Facebook party here! 
• If you are interested in joining up as a blogger, you can always sign up here. We are happy to welcome more bloggers into the fold as the promotion continues. 
• If you are an author or blogger and want to sign up to help with the party, please fill out this form.

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Fall Into Fantasy Week #7

Welcome to the Fall Into Fantasy Tour, where we are keeping your mind off any end-of-summer blues and welcoming the cooler weather by introducing you to some incredible fantasy reads to curl up with and giving you plenty of chances to win awesome prizes!

Week 7: The Daath Chronicles
Book One: Broken Forest
Book Two: Wicked Path

Hopeless he’ll never be more than the boy who didn’t save his brother, 17-year-old Avikar accepts his life as the family stable boy, trying to forget the past. But when his sister, Jeslyn, is kidnapped, the thought of losing another sibling catapults him on a desperate quest. With his best friend by his side, and using the tracking skills he learned from his father, he discovers Jeslyn has been taken, kidnapped by one Lucino, the young lord of Daath, a mystical place thought only to exist in fables.

And Lucino has plans for Jeslyn.

His shape-shifting brethren feed off the auras of humans, and Jeslyn’s golden hue is exactly what Lucino needs to increase his power. The longer it takes Avikar to reach her, the more entranced she becomes with Lucino’s world, and the harder it will be for Avikar to set her free.

He failed his family once. He won’t fail again.

Buy it from: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo
Or add it to Goodreads

EXCERPT:

The wagons surrounded the site in a semi-circle. Sweat pooled in my palms. I had to take out the guards closest to that entrance. If I failed, so did the mission.

Get a grip. 

I clenched the arrow in my right hand. Brushfire shifted nervously, sensing my fear. I rubbed her neck. I felt safer with her. She’d been with me since Jimri’s death. At night when the nightmares taunted me, I’d sneak out, riding until dawn forced us home. I’d rescued her from the burning woods, she’d rescued me from despair — today, I prayed both of us would make it out alive.

In Wicked Path: Book Two of the Daath Chronicles brother and sister are forced to opposite sides of Tarrtainya on a fast-paced adventure where the wildlife isn’t the only thing trying to kill them.

Three months have passed since Avikar defeated the Reptilian Prince, and he still can’t remember his battle with Lucino. On the hunt for answers, he returns to the scene of the fight and discovers a strange connection between his family’s dagger and the mysterious kingdom of Daath, and it seems only his distant father can reveal the truth behind it all.

Before Avikar can travel back home, Lucy assaults him in the market and forces him to flee to Nod Mountains—a place few dare to enter, and even less return from. With Raven and her childhood friend by his side, they must survive the treacherous journey through the pass with a vengeful Lucy hunting them. If they don’t, they’ll never see home again.

Jeslyn’s new life in Luna Harbor is the perfect remedy for her confused and broken heart. But when a group of mercenaries kidnap her beloved Grandfather, interrupting her daily routine as his jewelry apprentice, she's forced to join forces with the one person from her past she tried to forget.

And his assistance comes with a price.

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Or add it to Goodreads 

ABOUT ELIZA TILTON:

Eliza graduated from Dowling College with a BS in Visual Communications. When she’s not arguing with excel at her day job, or playing Dragon Age 2, again, she’s writing.

Her YA stories hold a bit of the fantastical and there’s always a hot romance. She resides on Long Island with her husband, two kids and one very snuggly pit bull.

Find Eliza online:

Website / Twitter / Facebook / Goodreads / Instagram / Pinterest / Google+

Want to get involved with the Fall Into Fantasy promotional tour?

• Don't forget to join us at the Facebook party here! 
• If you are interested in joining up as a blogger, you can always sign up here. We are happy to welcome more bloggers into the fold as the promotion continues. 
• If you are an author or blogger and want to sign up to help with the party, please fill out this form.

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Book Blitz: Dream Boy by Madelyn Rosenberg and Mary Crockett

Dream Boy

by Madelyn Rosenberg and Mary Crockett

Release Date: 07/01/14

Sourcebooks Fire

Summary from Goodreads:

Annabelle Manning feels like she’s doing time at her high school in Chilton, Virginia. She has her friends at her lunchtime table of nobodies. What she doesn’t have are possibilities. Or a date for Homecoming. Things get more interesting at night, when she spends time with the boy of her dreams. But the blue-eyed boy with the fairytale smile is just that—a dream. Until the Friday afternoon he walks into her chemistry class.

One of friends suspects he’s an alien. Another is pretty sure it’s all one big case of deja vu. While Annabelle doesn’t know what to think, she’s willing to believe that the charming Martin Zirkle may just be her dream come true. But as Annabelle discovers the truth behind dreams—where they come from and what they mean—she is forced to face a dark reality she had not expected. More than just Martin has arrived in Chilton. As Annabelle learns, if dreams can come true, so can nightmares.

Available from:
Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Kobo Books * The Book Depository

Advanced Praise:

“Dream Boy explores the mysterious world of dreams, where we access our deepest desires…the authors expertly weave fantasy and the real world in a perfect blend.”

-- Erica Orloff, author of In Dreams

"Eerie, twisty, fast and funny, Dream Boy will forever change the way you see your dreams--and your nightmares. An exciting, imaginative look at what might happen when people from the corners of your mind suddenly show up in your real life."

-- Lois Metzger, author of A Trick of the Light

Reviews:

“The perfect book to add to your summer reading list. An awesome balance of love, humor and action, this new read may just be your dream come true!” – GirlsLife

"Hits the chick-lit and romance buttons, adding suspense and an intriguing idea as well for nicely rounded entertainment." -- Kirkus Review

"An original, twisty paranormal romance." -- Booklist

“Five stars... Perfect writing, perfect characters … perfect plot.” -- Paperback Wonderland

“Dream Boy skillfully and creatively tackles the common theme of good and bad dreams coming alive.... The writing is tight and well-paced, and nicely balances action with Annabelle’s character development as she tries to unravel the mysteries of... her dreams. Her teenage voice is spot on: unsure of herself, but spirited, with a sarcasm that masquerades as confidence. The plot twists and moves in unexpected yet fascinating directions." -- The Roanoke Times

About the Authors

Mary Crockett likes turtles, licorice, and the Yankees. Madelyn Rosenberg likes cats, avocados, and the Red Sox. Luckily they both like the weirdness of dreams (and each other) enough to write novels together. The friendship has survived three moves, six kids and countless manuscript revisions. Madelyn lives just outside of Washington, D.C. Mary remains in the mountains near their hometowns in southwestern Virginia.

Where to find Mary:  Website | Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook 

Where to find Madelyn:  Website | Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook

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Release: EXACTING ESSENCE by James Wymore

Book Blurb:

Remember waking up late in the night after a nightmare? Your mother holding you tight and whispering it's all just a dream and everything would be all right?

She lied.

Evil clowns haunted Megan's dreams for years. Even though nobody ever said she was crazy, she knew they were all thinking it. With her life falling apart, she turns suicidal until a new therapist suggests the impossible: dreams are real. Nightmares are living, breathing predators, feeding on dreamers' fears by Exacting Essence.

Most, of course, forget theirs as soon as they wake up. Megan is not so lucky. She's also not so powerless.

But is even a power nurtured within her dreams enough to fight off the horrors lurking just beyond the veil of sleep?

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 Author Bio:

On a lifelong search for fantastic worlds hiding just out of sight, James Wymore writes to explore.  With three books and six short stories in print after just one year, he continues to push the boundaries of imagination.  Journey with him at http://jameswymore.wordpress.com/

There is a Facebook Release Party for Exacting Essence today!

https://www.facebook.com/events/561039640679339/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Aussie Owned Book Trailers: Forget Me Not by Stacey Nash

As you probably know, I'm part of a blogger group called Aussie Owned and Read. You may not know, though, that most of us are signed with publishers, if not already published. So, I wanted to feature my girls by showing off their trailers.

So here is Stacey Nash's trailer for her book Forget Me Not being released this month! I CP'ed this one, and highly recommend it!

Branded Release Day!

Today is the release of my Romantic Suspense novel, Branded. For the next few weeks follow the blog tour and show some love to the wonderful people who stepped in to help me out. A special thanks to J.R.Richardson for making the tour banner and book trailer.

I will be running a tour giveaway, which you can find on the rafflecopter below. Also, add Branded to your Goodreads list here. Or buy it here.

I am excited and nervous about this book. Being set in my hometown, it holds a special place in my heart. But it touches on controversial issues. Don't worry, Nick makes them all better!

I hope you enjoy this book like you did the Kiya Trilogy. It's very different in many ways, but still has sexy male leads! I can't live without them ha ha!



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Funny Vid: An Oldie, but a Goodie!

So it's been a few years since this one was viral, but I remember quoting and ROFL over it for several months. Yay for flashbacks. Enjoy

Candy Mountain, Charlie!

And check out my Wattpad serial An Exchange. New chapters are posted every Wednesday and Saturday. Please, leave your feedback :-)

Podcast by Andrew Buckley (@abuckley23)

All week, Andrew Buckley is posting "Tales Out Loud" to prepare us for the release of his latest novel Stiltskin. Here is the link for today, and check out Monday's and Tuesday's while you are at it. Enjoy!

http://www.planetkibi.com/1/post/2013/12/fairy-tales-out-loud-part-3-the-tragic-tale-of-the-messy-wizard.html

Funny Video Day

I am a mother, so yes, I watch kids shows. But kids shows can have some great humor for adults, too!

P.S The first installment for my Wattpad serial went up today! Find it here and leave me some sugar. xoxo

Sunday Inspirational video

I won't give up, I won't break down.

Yodelling

Again, I give you Jimmy Fallon. Yes, I'm pretty much in love with his stuff at the moment. Enjoy his yodeling with his guest yodeler!

Sunday Inspiration

We all need to be reminded at times what matters most.

Africa at Summer Camp

So I'm pretty much obsessed with everything these two do together. They have fantastic chemistry and it turns out hysterically funny.

Weekend Inspiration

Channing Tatum

This video is just too funny for words.... Oh and watch for Matt Damon.

Inspiration Music - Battle Hymn

I reference this hymn in "Branded" as the song sang by the rebels in their uprising. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is stirring, and MoTab performs it magnificently!

Skeleton Prank

My husband and I are constantly pranking each other. Since our honeymoon when I locked him outside in the snow naked, we've been back and forth, taking any opportunity we can to freak each other out. So naturally, this is something we both found incredibly amusing and seems perfect for Halloween. Enjoy!

This week's Humorous Video

So lately, Jimmy Fallon and sexy Justin Timberlake have been rocking it with the hysterical skits and videos. Here is on of their most recent ones and it had me rolling laughing!

Thanks for all the fish!