Saturday, November 22, 2014

More than a Review Blog Blast!!

Loving The book November 22, 2014 1 comment

We're so excited to have Donna Feyen and her amazing blog site visiting us today!

Donna is the host of WWW.MORETHANAREVIEW.COM where she reviews tons and tons of books! It's a great resource for checking out those books you've been wondering about and deciding if they are worth the read! Or before you purchase!

A bit about Donna:

Meet The Founder

A bit about me:

More Than A Review (MTAR) founder, Donna Feyen, is an avid reader, a “stalker” (a.k.a. devoted fan) of popular band Third Day, and loves to scrapbook in both the traditional and digital styles using Creative Memories tools. She loves Beth Moore bible studies, has worked at the same company for 27+ years, and loves to travel! Some of her bucket list items include: visiting Hawaii, another trip to Germany (where her husband was born), and riding their motorcycle down interstate 1 in California. Donna lives in Northwest Arkansas with her husband and her 3 beautiful black labs.

Where did the vision for MTAR come from:

Donna started MTAR after reading several books that fell short of their “traditional” reviews and included more graphic content than she was expecting to read. These disappointments and the inability to research the content of a book before purchase, led Donna to the purpose and vision behind MTAR.

After discussing her ideas with friends and family, Donna began to develop the science behind creating a website that would provide in-depth book reviews while also including a detailed “grading” system to provide readers upfront knowledge about the content of books they choose to read.

How readers can become involved:

Currently, MTAR allows anyone to write book reviews once they have registered via the MTAR homepage login screen. Our hopes are that requiring a reviewer to register prior to posting a review will deter individuals who may cause havoc on the site. Should we miss someone, there is a “report abuse” button that any reviewer may click if they identify someone who is abusing the privilege of posting a book review.

What we do:

MTAR provides a platform for books to be reviewed by overall content and by four specific content categories.
MTAR provides the ability to search for books based on specific content levels and genre.
MTAR also provides book recommendations based on a registered users preferred content level.

In the coming months, we will add author interviews, excerpts from new releases, and a newsletter to provide additional noteworthy information for each genre represented in the titles found on MTAR.

To my amazing prayer warriors:

I believe that God puts people in our lives to help guide and mentor us along the path of life. The MTAR project has been no different! Thank you to my sister and my parents for their encouragement and continued support. To my mentor who was there when I was ready to give up and somehow managed to convince this hard-headed girl to enter her idea into a Start Up Cup competition, thank you does not seem nearly enough! To my great friends who spent the day with me entering in book reviews, I remember that day like it was yesterday and it was what fully jumpstarted me, thank you!

To ALL of my prayer warriors, you can move mountains!!!

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Book Tour: Blood Prophecy by Barb Jones

Loving The book November 19, 2014 No comments

Book Blurb:

Amber Stone, once a child prodigy, has just become curator of a special collection of Macedonian artifacts for the Seattle Museum of Natural History. Chloe, a prodigy of a different sort, holds a position at the museum focusing on tribal art. The two become fast friends, united by Amber's unsettling dreams and Chloe's unorthodox ways of dealing with them. Two strangers arrive in town, bringing with them a prophecy recorded more than three-thousand years ago, a prophecy that places Amber directly in the midst of a battle that has spanned a millennia.

Author Bio:

Having been born and raised in Hawaii, I loved telling stories ever since I was a child about vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, and witches. I was a little girl who loved scary stories, much to my mother's dismay. The scarier - the better. Hawaii was a perfect place for stories until I moved to Seattle. I decided to turn a love for the supernatural into writing stories to see if others would love them as much as I do. Currently, I live in Florida but since I'm a Seattle girl at heart, my stories take place in the Northwest. I continue to write supernatural stories of vampires, werewolves, witches, and more while enjoying the beaches and sunshine. I also love to help others and give back to my community.

SOCIAL MEDIA

www.facebook.com/bloodprophecybooks

@TheBloodProphecy_1 (TWITTER)

www.thebloodprophecy.com

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Queens-Destiny-Blood-Prophecy-One-ebook

Barnes & Noble:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/queens-destiny-barb-jones/1120422798?ean=2940150745094

Also Available on ITunes

Tour Schedule:

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November 24 semishort.blogspot.com

November 25 http://sweet-n-sassy-book-a-holics.blogspot.com/

November 25 http://rebeccalamoreaux-anauthorinprogress.blogspot.com

Book Tour: The Ginnie West Adventures by Monique Bucheger

Loving The book November 17, 2014 No comments

We are excited to get to kick off this amazing tour for Monique Bucheger!!!

Throughout the two weeks of this tour, bloggers from around the world will feature the different books of this series, but to kick it off, we get the pleasure of featuring Author Monique Bucheger, and just a little bit about each of her books!

Author Bio:

When Monique Bucheger isn’t writing, you can find her playing taxi driver to one or more of her children, plotting her next novel, scrapbooking, or being the “Mamarazzi” at any number of child-oriented events. Even though she realizes there will never be enough hours in any given day, Monique tries very hard to enjoy

the journey that is her life.

She shares it with a terrific husband, her dozen children, an adorable granddaughter, a son-in-law, three cats, and many real and imaginary friends. She is the author of several books and plans to write many more. You can find more about Monique and her works at:

Blog:

http://moniquebucheger.blogspot.com/

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monique-Bucheger

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/MoniqueBucheger

Barnes and Noble:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-secret-sisters-club-monique-bucheger

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Sisters-Club-ebook

Secret Sister's Club Book Blurb:

Twelve-year-old BFF’s Ginnie and Tillie, want to be sisters. Tillie's divorced mom plus Ginnie's widowed dad could equal a lifetime of round-the-clock girl talk and slumber parties. Too bad Dad vowed to never marry again. Ginnie and Tillie form a secret club. They come up with the perfect mission to change his mind: ‘Operation Secret Sisters’.

Before long, Tillie seems happier about gaining a dad than a sister. Ginnie suspects Tillie has turned ‘Operation Secret Sisters’ into a scam called ‘Operation Steal My Dad.’ Things get more complicated when Ginnie stumbles across her real mom’s hidden journals. Ginnie can finally get to know the mother she doesn’t remember and Dad doesn’t talk about.

When Dad discovers she has the journals, he takes them away. Ginnie needs to figure out what the big mystery is before her relationship with her father and her best friend are ruined forever.

Trouble Blows West Book Blurb:

Putting her body in motion before her brain is in gear creates a mountain of problems for 12 year-old Ginnie West. She is certain that defending her twin brother, Toran, from the biggest bully in sixth grade was the right thing to do. But Ginnie couldn’t be more wrong.

She quickly figures out that Toran doesn’t appreciate being rescued by a girl any better than Pierce likes being knocked down by one. When Pierce seeks revenge on Ginnie, Toran sets aside his anger and helps her plot a playback prank at Pierce’s house.

Sadly, Ginnie learns that Pierce has a reason for being a bully when she sees his dad drop him to the floor like a ragdoll with one awful blow to the chest. Realizing he's a boy in big trouble, Ginnie switches gears and decides to be his ally, even if he won’t let her be his friend.

Simply West of Heaven Book Blurb:

Twelve-year-old BFFs schemed to get Ginnie’s widowed dad to fall in love with Tillie’s divorced mom. When their parents go along with the matchmaking, the girls are stoked. Sweet! Not long after though, Ginnie stumbles upon her late mom's journals, making life even more awesome sauce … until her dad confiscates the journals, determined to protect Ginnie from a danger he won’t name.

Ginnie is counting on her future sister's help to make Dad change his mind, but Tillie's not so sure the ghost of Ginnie's mom will make a good addition to their new family tree. Besides, Tillie is too busy trying to keep the memory of her abusive, no-good , rotten-excuse-for-a-birth-father from bubbling to the surface to worry about what's bugging Ginnie. He left six years ago and Tillie’s knows a better dad when she sees one … Ginnie’s dad.

The girls' world gets flipped upside-down when a blast from the past shows up and makes Tillie go nutburgers. Ginnie is torn between helping her best friend and what could be the answer to her prayers. Life gets complicated lickety-split in what is sure to be the most pivotal summer of Ginnie’s life.

Being West is Best Book Blurb:

Twelve-year-old BFFs, Ginnie West and Tillie Taylor, are matchmaking geniuses. Together, they maneuvered Ginnie’s widower-dad into proposing to Tillie’s divorcee-mom. Sweet! Certain they are well on their way to sisterhood, each girl is floored when Tillie’s lousy-excuse-for-a-father puts in an appearance after a six year absence. Too bad “lousy dad repellant” doesn’t come in a can. Even though Tillie’s dad has sobered up and is determined to make amends, Tillie would rather he just disappear again. If he stays, “Operation: Secret Sisters” may need to be renamed “Operation: Not Gonna Happen.”

If that’s not bad enough, the biggest bully in seventh grade comes over often and wishes he could call the West’s farmhouse “home.” When the bully’s abusive dad shows up as well, Ginnie thinks it’s time to change her family’s motto from “When you’re here, you’re family” to “There’s no more room at the West’s.”