Monthly Archives: December 2015
LEIA STONE/JAYMIN EVE: WE WROTE ASH AFTER FACEBOOK CORRESPONDENCE
They are young and very successful writers. They combined their forces to create the first chapter of the new vampire trilogy Hive. And they did it!
Ash, the initial chapter of the series, was released on December 15. Leia Stone and Jaymin Eve bring a cool world full of interesting characters and stories.
Land of Books got a chance to finish the year with the last interview for 2015. Enjoy our fun chat with talented Leia and Jaymin.
Jaymin (left) and Leia (right) are the next jedi-writers generation in YA paranormal genre
– Leia, Jaymin, what is your book Ash about?
– Ash is about a human girl that lives in a realistic world of vampires and half vampire/human children, the ash. All ash are male and so the story really starts when Charlie, the lead heroine, and a female, finds out she’s an ash. The ash live in the Hive which doesn’t have enough room for the incoming batch of ashes. So Charlie needs to survive the culling, a barbaric fight to the death. The Hive only wants the strongest to become members of their society. We won’t spoil too much but Ryder, the lead Ash enforcer, has a soft spot for Charlie’s wellbeing. The story really develops further into the larger plot which you will find out if you read it. =)
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13 FACTS ABOUT JAMES PATTERSON AND CROSS JUSTICE
The adventures of the famous detective Alex Cross continue with book #23 Cross Justice. The novel was published on November 23 and without surprising no one headed NY Times bestseller list. For the past month the title stayed in Top 3 of the most wanted books of the prestigious rankings.
The readers showed their appreciation of the story with brilliant average of 4.7 Amazon stars from 350 plus reviews. Let’s welcome the famous New York writer at our 13 Facts rubric.
ELLA MAISE: I HAD TO FORCE MYSELF TO STOP WRITING TO LOVE JASON THORN
It’s time for our Christmas interview. It’s a special choice, because all holidays are full with love. Ella Maise released her new book To Love Jason Thorn on December 3.
The romantic comedy made a pretty nice launch. The novel received more than 100 reviews with pretty solid average of 4,6 stars.
Let’s welcome our next guest – the charming Ella Maise.
Merry Christmas to everyone
– Ella, what is your book To Love Jason Thorn about?
– To Love Jason Thorn is about an ordinary girl who falls in love with her brother’s best friend when she is only six-years-old and knows nothing about love. Sure, back then it is nothing more than a harmless crush, but even though years passes by and he breaks her heart—unknowingly—before he leaves the city for good, it does nothing to kill the love she feels in her heart for him. And isn’t that the best kind of love. First love.
Then life happens, more years passes by and Olive only gets to see Jason through the big screen since he has become a famous actor. When she is about to graduate from college, she publishes the first novel she ever wrote—which is loosely inspired by the love she felt for a boy…for Jason—and it becomes the number one bestseller. While everyone is talking about her book, a well-known production company gets in touch with her to option the movie rights. Coincidentally, they already have an actor they have in mind for the role and they want her to meet with him, thinking it’ll make it easier for her to accept their offer. And when Jason Thorn is the one who walks through the door…everything changes for Olive in that moment. The very last time she’d seen him, he had broken her heart, but as they slowly become friends again and Jason slowly starts to fall for the girl who had always been his…well, then the story only gets better. 🙂
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SAFFRON BRYANT: THE NOVA CHRONICLES ARE LIKE TOMB RAIDER IN SPACE
Are you ready for a new, fresh and original space adventure? Saffron Bryant (a.k.a. S. J. Bryant) created unique universe with her The Nova Chronicles. The series reached their episode #7 with the latest title Adventurer, which was released earlier in December.
It’s a great pleasure to introduce our next guest at Land of Books. Welcome!
– Saffron, what are your books from The Nova Chronicles about?
– The Nova Chronicles are a science fiction series that focus around Nova, a rebel bounty hunter who takes on dangerous missions, and her fight for survival. She has to battle blood-thirsty aliens and avoid the overbearing Confederacy in a desperate search for freedom. I like to think of it as “Tomb Raider in Space”, although some readers have said it’s more than that.
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LORETH ANNE WHITE: I WANT TO SHOW THE FEAR OF MY HEROINE AT IN THE WANING LIGHT
Loreth Anne White had a wonderful year. Her novel A Dark Lure became one of the biggest hits in 2015. The book topped the Amazon rankings, but it wasn’t enough for the good friend of Land of Books.
On Novemer 3 she released her next title In the Waning Light. The Romantic suspense was eaten by the fans of the genre, who gave splendid valuation averaging with 4.7 Amazon stars from 110 reviews.
If you miss our previous interview with Loreth Anne White, please check it here.
– Loreth, welcome once again at Land of Books. What the readers will find in your new book In the Waning Light?
– To win back her fiancé and a chance at a future she thinks she wants, Meg Brogan, an emotionally-shuttered True Crime writer must return to her small Oregon coastal hometown to tackle the one story everyone says she cannot write—the story of her sister’s brutal murder, and her own family’s demise 22 years ago—only to find that ‘The End’ was not what everyone thought it was, that the real killer could still be lurking in Shelter Bay, and that her future might just lie with a man from her past.
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CD REISS: FIONA FROM FORBIDDEN IS INSPIRED BY CELEBRITIES WITHOUT A PARTICULAR TALENT
CD Reiss’s fame as one of the best new wave romance authors continues to rise. Another prove of her magical pen is her latest book Forbidden. The novel was released on November 30 and already received amazing feedback. The title is standing solidly with 4.9 Amazon stars from 160 plus reviews.
The USA Today bestselling author is honoring Land of Books for the second time. If you miss the previous interview check it out here. It’s a great pleasure to welcome back CD Reiss.
– Christine, what the readers will find in your new book Forbidden?
– The book is about what happens to a person when their life is defined by limitless pleasure. It’s a rough read. It’s not for the faint of heart. Because Fiona has no idea how to deal with pain she feels everything acutely and reacts accordingly. So she has a lot of growing up to do and in the beginning she’s tough to love.
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13 FACTS ABOUT JANET EVANOVICH AND TRICKY TWENTY-TWO
Janet Evanovich topped once again NY Times Bestselling list with her novel Tricky Twenty-Two. The huge sales of the book came with positive feedback from the fans of Stephanie Plum’s adventures. After the release (November 17) of the latest title by the 72-year-old American writer, the numbers of Amazon reviews passed the prestigious mark 1000 and averaged 4.4 Stars.
So here we are with another episode of our 13 Facts rubric.
CRISTIN HARBER: TITAN SERIES IS A COMBINATION BETWEEN ACTION MOVIE AND ROMANCE NOVEL
She is talented, she is charming, she is NY Times and USA Today bestselling author. Our next guest is known as one of the top romantic suspense writers in our time. Her Titan series continued with her last novel Black Dawn. The book premiered in July. Cristin Harber’s fans are waiting for the next novel Delta: Rescue that will be released in February. With the kind assistance of Sara Shone we are happy to welcome lady Harber at Land of Books.
– Cristin, you are very productive as a writer. You are working on three different series at once. How did you accomplish such a difficult task of mixing stories and characters?
– All the characters live in the same “world.” Titan came first, and Delta is the ghost team/special ops which works with Titan. The Only series only involves one couple, however in the end, the happily ever after includes Delta and Titan. While it’s three separate series, they are all interconnected.
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SCOTT ALLAN MORRISON: TERMS OF USE IS ABOUT THE DARK SIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
It’s always great to see an author’s debut to hit the top of bestselling rankings. Scott Allan Morrison’s Terms of Use made a dream start. The official release of the novel is set for January 1, but thanks to Kindle first program the story is already available for the readers.
We are happy to introduce at Land of Books our next guest Scott Allan Morrison, one of the best technology reporter in the past 20 years.
– Scott, what is your new book Terms of Use about?
– Terms of Use is a thriller about the dark side of social media, where large Internet corporations use our data to analyze and manipulate our thoughts and actions.
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TIM DORSEY: I NEVER IMAGINED PEOPLE WOULD GET TATTOOS OF MY BOOKS
Tim Dorsey and his legendary Serge Storms series continue with book #19 Coconut Cowboy. The novel will be released on January 26. Already the top reviewers casted their critical opinion with the following sentences: “Entertainingly picaresque. … Dorsey deftly brings all his players to life.” (Publishers Weekly) and “Heartily recommended for readers who like their mayhem served up with belly laughs.”(Booklist).
It’s a great pleasure to welcome at Land of books Tim Dorsey for our nest Q&A.
– Tim, what is your next book Coconut Cowboy about?
– My obsessive and insane main character decides to ride a motorcycle down through Florida as the sequel to Easy Rider.
– How did you decide to write the story of Serge Storms?
– It was an accident. He was just going to be a villain, but then I made him crazier and crazier, and when I had him start ranting about all things Florida, I knew I had my main guy.
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