Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Birthday & Summer Giveaway!


Hello Book Addicts!

The past June 25th was my Birthday and due to a tight schedule I couldn't do anything blog-related to celebrate it with you guys. But I am doing it now. YAY!


And since summer is here; making us sweat, wanting to all the ice creams available in the supermarket (not cool, summer. I spent a lot of time at the gym for nothing...), distracting us from the final exams and making us want to go to beach and spent there all day... may as well do it in good company! And by company I mean characters, fictional characters. Of course I am talking about books!


I had the opportunity, as you guys might have read in previous posts, to go to BEA so my gifts to you this year are BEA 2016 goodies! YAY!!! You can win some ARCs I thought you guys would love to read:



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Friday, October 31, 2014

Month9Books Birthday Bash


Book Addicts! It's the birthday of Month9Books! They are turning 2 and they have decided to celebrate it with us by letting us, bloggers, hosting amazing posts with their authors and giving away amazing prizes. 


Lifer
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.
Release Date: December 16, 2014
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Synopsis:

Asher is a Lifer, a slave aboard the spaceship Pelican. A member of the lowest rung of society, she must serve the ship’s Officials and Astronauts as punishment for her grandparents' crimes back on Earth. The one thing that made life bearable was her illicit relationship with Samuai, a Fishie boy, but he died alongside her brother in a freak training accident.

Still grieving for the loss of her loved ones, Asher is summoned to the upper levels to wait on Lady, the head Official’s wife and Samuai’s mother. It is the perfect opportunity to gather intel for the Lifer’s brewing rebellion. There’s just one problem—the last girl who went to the upper levels never came back.

On the other side of the universe, an alien attack has left Earth in shambles and a group called The Company has taken control. Blank wakes up in a pond completely naked and with no memory, not even his real name. So when a hot girl named Megs invites him to a black-market gaming warehouse where winning means information, he doesn’t think twice about playing. But sometimes the past is better left buried.

As Asher and Blank’s worlds collide, the truth comes out—everyone has been lied to. Bourne Identity meets Under the Never Sky in this intergalactic tale of love and deception from debut novelist Beck Nicholas.


by Beck Nicholas


I’m so happy to be here to celebrate Month9Books birthday. I won’t sing though because I don’t want to injure anyone’s ears.

While I love to write in quiet (silence preferably) music often helps me in the ideas part of a story. A song (or several) can help me work out or capture the mood of a book or a scene. It can help me return to it quickly and pick up where I left off writing and that was particularly true for LIFER.

Below I’ve listed a few songs and their meaning for the book, without giving too much away.

Starships by Nicki Minaj

This song reminds me of Lifer every time it comes on the radio. I think of it as the Lifer anthem for the feel of the book.


Ink by Coldplay

Lifers have a tradition of marking their skin in remembrance of someone who has died. The opening scene is Asher marking her body for her lost boyfriend. When this song plays I’m right there in that scene with Asher feeling the needle go into my skin.


Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

The first time we meet Blank he is waking in a garden. In the middle of the garden, surrounded my stone and fake bushes is a single living tree, encased in glass.


Pictures of You by The Cure

Asher is grieving. While she has no images of her brother, she’s at one point surrounded by many photos of her lost boyfriend. At first she thinks they’re a treasure but soon, like in the song, she begins to forget every memory but those captured in the pictures. She fears that’s all she’ll have left of her lost love.


Numb by U2

This sums up how Asher feels as the book goes on. She becomes numb to the terrible pain and focused on her goal to find out what happened when her brother and boyfriend died. When she suffers more loss she wonders if she’ll ever feel again.


These songs are a few of those that make me think of LIFER.

Thanks for having me as part of the celebrations and I can’t wait for December when Lifer is out and you can all meet Asher and Blank.


Don't miss any Month9Books author and post!

Sarah Bromley will be hosted by A Book and A Latte
Steve Bryant will be hosted by Jump Into Books
Brynn Chapman will be hosted by A Backwards Story
Scott Craven will be hosted by Books and Ashes
Ty Drago will be hosted by The A P Book Club
Jennifer M. Eaton will be hosted by Book Briefs
Kit Forbes will be hosted by Book Lovers Life
Amanda Gray will be hosted by Aspiring Joy
Nicola Marsh will be hosted by ReadWriteLove28
Georgia McBride will be hosted by YA Sisterhood
Pab Sungenis will be hosted by Classy Cat Books
Rachel Tafoya will be hosted by Jessabella Reads


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I always wanted to write. I’ve worked as a lab assistant, a pizza delivery driver and a high school teacher but I always pursued my first dream of creating stories. Now, I live with my family near Adelaide, halfway between the city and the sea, and am lucky to spend my days (and nights) writing young adult fiction.




Win (1) New Kindle with touchscreen (US only) loaded with all our Month9Books titles (US Only)

Win (1) Paperback prize pack of 5 Month9Books Titles (US Only)

Win (2) eBook Prize Packs of 5 Month9Books titles (INT)




Wednesday, June 25, 2014

It's my birthday!



Book Addicts!

Today is my birthday! YAAY! *Throwing confetti* And I wanted it to sort of celebrate it with you all. Before we start with the good stuff, I wanted to thank each one of you for following my site and spreading so much love for books. You guys are rock stars and I truly appreciate that you are there to support all those amazing authors out there dying to share their stories with us.


Also wanted to thank the FFBC Team for their incredible job in each and every FFBC Tour and our amazing FFBC authors that we love them and their amazing books!

And don't want to forget either of my sisters: Anasheh Satoorian (at A Reading Nurse) and Nikki Kelly (author of the Styclar Saga) who are simply amazing, making me laugh every time we have a twitter conversation.

But Anasheh, my US sister, is beyond awesome and I am very very very lucky to have had the chance to get to know her (virtually, 'cause... have you checked out the distance in google maps? It's more than just a walk). And she's spreading her book loving and awesomeness for my birthday throughout the blogosphere by giving away three amazon gift cards! With Rosa's help, she even made me a banner!!!!

Okay, so after spreading my love for you all, let's start with the book-party! We'll start with Anasheh's amazing and completely unexpected gifts. She's hosting three giveaways for the chance to win a $5 Amazon Gift Card. Click on the icons below to go to each giveaway:


We can party a little bit more and If you lived closer to me I'd offer you some cake, but for some of you that would be kind of impossible (we have talked about the distances... hate them).



So to compensate the distances, I'm hosting a super birthday giveaway. Since it's my birthday and offering any book you want. Meaning, the winner gets to choose a book. It can be ebook format or paperback. Pre-order or not pre-order. Young Adult, New Adult or Adult. Any book you are dying to have in your hands and read it until the pages are torn! 

And since this is all about book-loving, this my list of books I highly recommend to you. Some of them are series, so I recommend all the books in the series: 




  • The giveaway is international as long as Bookdepository ships to you.
  • If the format of choice is ebook format, the book will be gifted via Amazon.
  • There's no price limit. But no book boxes. And a friendly reminder that I am a fellow student and that means that I am broke, but I'm willing to throw some money 'cause it's an special occasion! :P
  • Must be 13 or older to enter
  • Giveaway starts JUNE 25th and ends JULY 10th
  • All entries are double-checked and false entries will be disqualified
  • Winner will be notified via email and needs to answer in 48 hours letting us know if he/she accepts the prize and send us his/her full name and address.
  • Your personal information won't be used or be seen unless you're the winner of the giveaway. I won't sell it nor use it in a bad way. Just to send you lots of goodies and books!