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Sunday, March 1, 2015

{Friday Reveal w/ #GIVEAWAY} Hunted (Sinners #2) by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki

Welcome to this week’s M9B Friday Reveal!

This week, we are revealing Chapter 2 of

Hunted (Sinners #2) by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki

presented by Month9Books!

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HUNTED is the electrifying sequel to the bestselling debut BRANDED, A Sinners Series, by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki.

It’s been three months since the revolt against the Commander’s fifty-year-old regime failed.

Under a new ruler, things were supposed to change. Get better.

But can anyone really be trusted?

Lexi and Cole soon find out, as life takes an unexpected turn for the worse.

In this ever-changing world, you must hunt or be hunted.

Lives will be lost.

Dreams will be crushed.

Fears will be realized.

Secrets will be exposed.

When Cole is once again faced with losing Lexi at the hands of a monster, one encounter will change everything.

Forever.

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Title: Hunted (Sinners #2)
Publication date: March 31, 2015
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.
Author: Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki

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You can read Chapter Two HERE!

Happy Reading and Enjoy!

Abi and Missy met in the summer of 1999 at college orientation and have been best friends ever since. After college, they added jobs, husbands and kids to their lives, but they still found time for their friendship. Instead of hanging out on weekends, they went to dinner once a month and reviewed books. What started out as an enjoyable hobby has now become an incredible adventure.

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{Blog Tour w/ #GIVEAWAY} Horror Business by Ryan Bradford

Title: Horror Business

Publication date: February 2015

Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.

Author: Ryan Craig Bradford

Armed with a passion for classic B-grade horror movies, a script co-written by his twin brother, and a wicked crush on his death-obsessed neighbor; hardcore horror fan Jason Nightshade must finish his student film.

But his plans are derailed when the children of suburban Silver Creek start disappearing – his twin brother among them. Battling a possessed video camera, a crazy zombie dog, a monstrous bully, and a frighteningly broken down family life, Jason embarks on a mission to find his lost brother so the two can write an ending for his story.

As any horror fan knows, saving the day won’t be easy, as Jason finds himself forced to face the real world where death isn’t just a splash of fake blood on a camera lens.

Buy Link
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What B-grade movie gave you the inspiration for this book?

It's impossible to track the origins of Horror Business to one single B-grade horror flick. I think, as any fan of the genre can tell you, that the inspiration is cumulative—the result of spending countless weekends in high school and college, watching slashings and gore amidst darkened basements. When you spend that much time watching horror, you end up watching a lot of terrible stuff, but you begin to recognize ambition and creative maneuvers that you don't really see in big budget movies. I think that independent spirit and the persistence to create your art without the luxury of time or budget has influenced me more in my own art than any sort of formal education.

So, while there is no single movie that inspired the plot of Horror Business, there is one movie whose spirit inspired me than most others: The Evil Dead. This movie has become so ubiquitous in the realms of horror fans that it's become somewhat of a cliché, but I think if you've been a horror fan at any time, it's impossible not to mention it.

Before I became a writer, I wanted to be a filmmaker. At my high school, we had a pretty robust video-production program. When we weren't watching movies, my friends and I would spend our free time making short films that would play during our morning announcements. We started our school's first A/V Club, which, in its first year, became the second-most attended extra-curricular club (after Drama Club… ugh). I drew upon these experiences when creating Jason, the main character in Horror Business. He's probably the most autobiographical character I've written.

Not only is The Evil Dead a great standalone horror movie, but it inspired us with its can-do attitude and a renegade spirit that—at one point—literally drips off the screen. My friends and I became obsessed with Evil Dead director Sam Raimi (who gets a significant shout-out in Horror Business), actor Bruce Campbell and producer Robert Tapert—all of whom were not much older than us when they made the movie. We saw ourselves in them, felt a kinship. We listened to every commentary track for every edition of the movie that came out. We read Bruce Campbell's If Chins Could Kill, which spends a large amount of time talking about the production of The Evil Dead.

I still think that a lot of people are dissuaded from creating art because there are too many gatekeepers: where will I get the money? The equipment? How do I get an agent? Who will publish me? These three filmmakers, on the other hand, set out to make a movie just to see if they could, and ended up making something meaningful to countless people around the world, and that attitude was very attractive to me, and one that I've tried to uphold in my own career.

Obviously, my career as a filmmaker didn't pan out, but creative writing is pretty much the same—it just requires a lot less people. I think composition, storytelling, editing and everything I learned from making movies carried over to my writing, as well as those renegade attitudes that were so influential. So when I wrote Horror Business—basically as an experiment to see if I could write a novel—I still felt inspired by the spirit of The Evil Dead filmmakers.

About the Author

Ryan grew up in Park City, Utah. His fiction has appeared in Quarterly West, Paper Darts, Vice, Monkeybicycle and [PANK]. He currently lives in San Diego where he acts as Creative Director for the nonprofit literary arts organization So Say We All. He’s the co-editor of the anthology Last Night on Earth and founder of the literary horror journal, Black Candies.

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

{Blog Tour w/ #GIVEAWAY} Fingers in the Mist by O'Dell Hutchison

Title: Fingers in the Mist

Publication date: F February 24, 20152015

Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.

Author: O’Dell Hutchison

Sixteen-year-old Caitlyn Foster never believed in the legend of the Redeemers. That was before the trees started to whisper her name. Before a murder of crows attacked the town. Before she and her family came home to find a bloody handprint on their front door, marking one of them as a sacrifice. As Caitlyn’s friends are ripped from their homes, she knows it’s only a matter of time before the Redeemers come for her. Caitlyn has the power to stop the terror, but she’ll have to decide if she’s willing to sacrifice herself to save those she loves.

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What was your inspiration for this book? Was it another book? A movie?

Inspiration for FIngers in the Mist came from a few different places. I’d have to say the seed was planted about ten years ago. I was sitting at home with one of my roommates, and we were talking about the rapture of all things. He was a religion major, and we’d often have some very interesting discussions. He told me how a certain religion (I don’t remember which) believes the rapture will take the good or “the worthy” to heaven, throw the world into total chaos and leave “the unworthy” to deal with the aftermath. When I asked what the aftermath would be, he said this same group of people believed that the world would be covered in a foggy darkness and those left behind would only be safe in their homes. The darkness would last for seven days and seven nights and all modern conveniences like running water and electricity wouldn’t work. To make things worse, if anyone is to step outside their home during this time, they would be ravaged by monsters. These same monsters would roam the streets, knocking on doors, trying to lure these poor people from their homes by tempting them with those vices that prevented them from being saved in the first place. I immediately put myself in this situation and realized how screwed I would be. I rarely keep my fridge and pantry stocked, so if I got left behind in the rapture (and let’s face it, I’m no saint, I would definitely be left behind) I’d probably get really hungry after a few days. If one of the rapture monsters knocked on my door offering me a big, greasy cheeseburger and fries, I’m going to open the door. Poor, dead me!

Flash forward a few more years. It’s around 4:30 AM (I get up very early to go to work) and I’m outside waiting for my dog to do her business. It always takes her forever, and as I’m waiting for her to do her thing, I notice how quiet and still it is outside. I live in a suburb of Houston, and while it’s not as noisy or busy as the city, it still has its fair share of noise. It was oddly quiet and still that particular morning, and a bit unsettling. I had noticed it was a little hazy when I stepped outside, but as I stood there, the fog started growing thicker and thicker and I immediately thought back to the story my friend had told me a few years before. Thanks to my overactive imagination, I started to panic a little. What if the rapture had happened, and the monsters were coming in the fog?

I gathered my courage, brought my dog inside and then braved the fog to get to work. I thought about my rapture monsters the entire way into the office. What if they were real? How would it all go down? What would I do if I was faced with some murderous entity out to get me?

I grew up in a very small town in southeastern Idaho. It’s a town where everyone leaves their doors unlocked and their keys in the car. It’s a place where everyone knows everyone (and usually everyone’s business). Not much ever happens there, but when it does, it’s big. I’d always wanted to write a book set in a place that seems quiet and safe on the surface, but is tainted by something dark and evil. A place where safety and peace comes with a price, and what is more priceless than the lives of friends and family? Someplace similar to my hometown would be the perfect setting for my fog monsters. Thus, the Redeemers and the sleepy, creepy little town of Highland Falls was born.

I hope you enjoy the book. Thanks for having me on the blog today!

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ABOUT O’DELL HUTCHISON:

O’Dell was born in a small rural town in Idaho. There were no Redeemers living there (that he knows of). After attending college in the Pacific Northwest, he found his way to the Houston area. By day, he is a Business Systems Analyst and at night you can either find him sitting at home, dreaming of random super powers he wishes he had, or directing plays and musicals at various theaters around Houston.

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Friday, February 27, 2015

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{YA Wednesdays Book Blitz w/ #GIVEAWAY} Louder Than Words by Iris St. Clair

Welcome to the first

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This week features

Louder Than Words by Iris St. Clair.

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Disappointment has been on speed dial in Ellen Grayson's life lately. Her dad died, her mom numbs the grief with drugs and alcohol, and her so-called friends have slowly abandoned her.

Trusting a popular teacher with her troubles should have been safe and should NOT have led to an unwelcome seduction attempt that made her desperate to escape the final moments of Junior year. Lesson learned. Best to keep all the sordid details to herself and trust no one.

Enter Rex Jacobi, a cocky boy, recently transplanted from New York City and fellow summer camp employee. Though his quick wit and confidence draws her in, she can't let him get too close. And summer is just long enough and hot enough to keep a boy like that at arm's length.

But by the time Rex's charm wears down her resistance, it's too late. He's put Ellen on the "just friends" shelf and has shifted his romantic attentions to the impossibly annoying and perky anti-Ellen. Even worse, the teacher who tried to get her to sleep with him is still at it, preying on other girls while Ellen struggles to come to terms with what happened.
With her ability to trust as shaky as a chastity vow on prom night, Ellen must decide if she has enough remaining courage to speak up about the well-liked teacher and risk retribution, tell Rex how she really feels about him and risk heartbreak, or hold all her secrets inside. After all, it's the only safe place she knows when the only thing louder than words is the fear of being rejected.

Title: Louder Than Words
Publication date: September 16, 2014
Publisher: Swoon Romance
Author: Iris St. Clair

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Iris St. Clair is the pen name for a long-suffering cubicle worker by day, a Walter Mitty-like dreamer by night. (Her alter ego Tatiana Ivanadance also choreographs gravity-defying routines in those fantasies, but that's another bio.)
No matter what genre she writes, she prefers witty, insecure heroines and kind, persistent heroes able to break through to the gooey heart inside.
In high school she was voted most likely to win at Monopoly and Clue, but least likely to throw a ball anywhere near a target. Thank goodness writing requires less hand-eye coordination, punctuation errors notwithstanding.
Iris believes in the two-year "fish or cut bait" dating rule and has a 20+ year marriage and two teenaged sons as proof of concept. She lives, writes, dreams and dances in the rainy Portland, OR area.

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"Sugar, Jules and I had run for our lives. Only our shadows had followed us. And no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't outpace them."

All-around bad boy, and twenty-five-year-old heir to the Jameson fortune, Tommy Jameson, knows three things: - His family is disappointed in him. - Overcoming his addictions won't necessarily crush his vices. - He is wildly in love with Sugar Scarborough, a girl who is dealing with her own addictions and an insatiable need to please. Danger sends Tommy, Sugar and their friend, Julian Fitzpatrick, a heavily medicated, socially dysfunctional genius, fleeing from Green Willow Recovery Center. Now, together, they will face the outside world and uncover a horrifying mystery while being forced to confront their inner demons

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Tess Oliver is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Freefall. She is a former teacher, who now dedicates her morning caffeine rush to writing romance instead of teaching math and reading. Tess lives in California, the land of perpetual sunshine and traffic, with her husband, kids and five dogs. She is a longtime romance junkie, who likes her hero to be an alpha with a twist of compassion and if he has long hair and rides a horse or a motorcycle all the better. She writes young adult, new adult and adult romance in both contemporary and historical settings. When she’s not reading or writing romance, she can be found hiking, vacuuming up dog hair or baking goodies for her family.

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{Cover Reveal w/ #GIVEAWAY} Adrenaline by Sunniva Dee

Title: Adrenaline

Author: Sunniva Dee

Genre: New Adult

Release Date: April 30, 2015

Cover Design: CT Cover Creations

Synopsis

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Life’s the shit!

Chicks squeal over how wild and yummy I am, play their silly games trying to tie me down. But I’m free as a bird, doing what makes life life: kicking extreme-sport-ass!

I base jump, snowboard, bungee jump. I do anything for the rush.

Then, Ingela blows into town for college—a cool Swedish blast of trouble. Foulmouthed and runway-gorgeous, the girl seeps in like poison and melts the freaking brain.

To Ingela I am what chicks were to me: pastime, leisure, entertainment, pleasure. She’s killing me, and I’m digging it. There’s a new rush in town! Yeah, I hunt down my highs, and now the chase is on. I’ll catch her soon enough, just, what’s the deal with her ex?

With Ingela, sex is a dance. A slow tango where skin flows over skin. It is slick readiness, a quiet welcome. It’s smooth, warm, right, and all wrong.

On and off. On and off. Again, she’s wrecked with grief. It’s a reminder of how I destroy her, how crushed relationships shouldn’t be revived.

We’ve done this for years, now, but clearly we’re in for more.

Excerpt

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The chase is over. Right here, right now, this is it. Even if it only lasts thirty seconds, the rush of what I’m about to do floods me and makes me feel. It’s so intense, every muscle in my body goes rigid with anticipation. The air is sharp and early-morning raw. I stare out from my post on an overhang off Firam Peak. Let my eyes judge the steep drop into the ravine on the backside of the mountain. Jagged granite walls form unpredictable patterns that crash to the bottom the way I will soon, and a light dusting of snow contrasts starkly with the somber stone. I shake my arms. Not to relieve the tension but to make sure I’m nimble and ready. I didn’t invite my friends Dan and Marek along today. I’d be better off with someone else around, of course, but nothing compares to the thrill I experience as I step forward alone. I’m on the edge, now, in every sense of the word. I draw in a breath of icy oxygen. Crack my fingers inside my gloves and adjust the strap on my helmet. I’m ready. It’s so easy to plunge off the cliff. All I do is heave up on my toes and extend my arms. A light bend at the knees and I’m off, flying. Ah, yes. I fly.

About The Author

Originally from Norway, I moved to the United States twelve years ago. I hold a Master’s degree in languages and taught Spanish at college level before settling in at the Savannah College of Art and Design as an adviser.

I write New Adult fiction, sometimes with a paranormal twist—like in “Shattering Halos,” published by The Wild Rose Press in February 24th 2014 and in “Stargazer,” estimated release date, November 2014. The first book I’m self-publishing is the New Adult Contemporary novel “Pandora Wild Child,” which will make me a proud indie author in October 28th 2014!

I specialize in impulsive heroines, bad-boys, and good-boys running amok. Then, there’s the intense love, physical and emotional attraction beyond reason—sensory overload for the reader as well as for the characters. Like in real life, I hope you’re unable to predict what comes next in my stories.

Yes, so I write what I love to read, and depending on the reader, you’ll find my books to be a fast-paced emotional rollercoaster—or disturbing because the struggles of love aren’t your thing. Here’s to hoping you have the same reading vice as me!

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