Unnatural Release Day!! #Giveaway #Sale!

I'm super excited to announce that J.A. Belfield's UNNATURAL RELEASES TODAY!!!

Unnatural. One word to sum up werewolf Kyle Larsen—his mood swings, abnormal body, and choice of female.The first two, he blames on the vampire venom.
The third, though? No, feline shifter Brook Nicholls was all his doing—a female of whom the pack will never approve.
As part of the Coalition, an organisation with even stricter rules than the pack and a rigidly warped sense of responsibility, Brook comes with a whole lot of opposition of her own.
No wonder the two of them keep their relationship secret for as long as they can.
Now, distanced from his family by his own indiscretions, Kyle’s left to fight battles he’s unsure how to win—some of them even against his own pack.
Is one woman really so important that he’s willing to defy his Alpha for her?
If his heart has any say in the matter, the answer will be yes.

To celebrate Unnatural's release, CAGED, Holloway Pack 3 is on SALE!

The UNNATURAL Blog Tour begins tomorrow, and throughout the duration of the tour, CAGED will be available for just 99c.

AND there's a GIVEAWAY!

Up for grabs is:

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Good Luck!

To grab your own copy of UNNATURAL, click on any of the purchase links below.

Best known for her Holloway Pack Stories, J. A. Belfield lives in Solihull, England, with her husband, two children, two cats and a dog. She writes paranormal romance, with a second love for urban fantasy.
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Yay!! :D I've been eagerly awaiting UNNATURAL ever since I finished BLUE MOON, so I'm super excited that it's release day is finally here!!! :D 

Are you excited, too?

Have you started J.A. Belfield's Holloway Pack series yet??

If Only Blog Tour: Guest Post from A.J. Pine - Top Ten Pieces of Advice for Dating a Girl Who Loves BOOKS!

Title: IF ONLY

Author: A.J. Pine

Publisher: Entangled Embrace

Pub. Date: March 24, 2014

Pages: 342

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble

Sometimes it takes crossing an ocean to figure out where you belong.

It's been two years since twenty-year-old Jordan had a boyfriend—which means it's been forever since she, well, you know. But now she’s off to spend her junior year in Aberdeen, Scotland, the perfect place to stop waiting for Mr. Right and just enjoy Mr. Right Now.

Sexy, sweet (and possible player) Griffin may be her perfect, no-strings-attached match. He’s fun, gorgeous, and makes her laugh. So why can’t she stop thinking about Noah who, minutes after being trapped together outside the train’s loo, kisses Jordan like she’s never been kissed before? Never mind his impossible blue eyes, his weathered, annotated copy of The Great Gatsby (total English-major porn)…oh, and his girlfriend.

Jordan knows everything this year has an expiration date. Aberdeen is supposed to be about fun rather than waiting for life to happen. But E. M. Forster, Shakespeare, and mistletoe on Valentine’s Day make her reconsider what love is and how far she’s willing to go for the right guy.

A.J. Pine's Top Ten Pieces of Advice for Dating a Girl Who Loves BOOKS!

Hi Ambur! Thanks so much for celebrating IF ONLY’s release with me. Since Jordan is an English major and a diehard fan of British literature, I thought I’d share a top ten list inspired by her.

Top Ten Pieces of Advice for Dating a Girl Who Loves BOOKS!

10. Instead of trying to pick up a girl in a bar by buying her a drink, how about buying a girl a book in a book store? The odds of her saying YES just multiplied exponentially.

9. Never interrupt a girl when she’s in the middle of reading and contemplatively biting her bottom lip. On second thought, just never interrupt a girl when she’s reading. Period.

8. Try matching a date to her favorite book. Did she just finish Fangirl? Snuggle up and watch a Harry Potter flick. Did she love Anna and the French Kiss? How about French food for dinner? She just read Losing It? Yeah, you should be able to figure out what to do with that one.

7. Don’t try to compete with her book boyfriends. Just remember that you’re real. They aren’t. (Shhh!)

6. Try reading some YA or NA romance with her. See it as a how-to guide.

5. When getting ready to say those three words for the first time, you can’t go wrong if you phrase it like this: “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Then make sure you tell her that, of course, you read Pride and Prejudice.

4. Per number five, while you may not be Mr. Darcy, you can certainly dress like him.

3. Watch her favorite book-to-film adaptations with her, even if it is a four-disc BBC miniseries.

2. If she’s crying at the end of a book, NEVER, under any circumstances, say, “It’s only a book.”

1. Don’t forget her birthday, and always buy her a thoughtful gift—a book.

Thanks again for having me, Ambur! I hope this makes finding Mr. Right a little easier for all the book lovers out there. ;)

About A.J.:

AJ writes stories to break readers’ hearts, but don’t worry—she’ll mend those hearts with a happily ever after…maybe. The first book she wrote was YA, but now she’s two-timing her first love Pine4BWwith NA. She’s always in the middle of reading two to three books, adores online shopping (everything from groceries to shoes), and she still loves vampires, whether it’s Eric Northman or the Salvatore brothers. When she’s not writing, AJ is sneaking off to her day job as a high school English teacher or hanging with her husband and kids in the Chicago burbs.

AJ’s debut NA novel, IF ONLY, releases with Entangled’s Embrace line on March 24!

Representation: Courtney Miller-Callihan at SJGA.


Author Links: Website/Twitter/Facebook/Goodreads

GIVEAWAY

1 If Only Swag Pack -An “I love you from here to Scotland” print, Ahava pendent, A pack each of Much Ado about Nothing and A Room With a View confetti, Much Ado about Nothing travel mug and A Room With a View Blu-ray (a $25 Amazon gift card will be substituted if winner is outside the US)

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TOUR SCHEDULE

Week One:

3/24/2014- Auggie-Talk- Review

3/24/2014- Ticket to Anywhere- Guest Post

3/25/2014- Taking It One Book at a Time- Review

3/25/2014- Curling Up With A Good Book- Excerpt

3/26/2014- Reading and Writing Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, and Romance- Review

3/26/2014- Kate's Tales of Books and Bands- Guest Post

3/27/2014- Lovin' Los Libros- Review

3/27/2014- FicWishes- Guest Post

3/28/2014- Reviews By Molly- Review

3/28/2014- YA Story Teller- Interview

Week Two:

3/31/2014- Allodoxophobia: The Fear of Opinions- Review

3/31/2014- Bibliojunkies- Excerpt

4/1/2014- LeAnn's Book Reviews- Review

4/1/2014- Step Into Fiction- Excerpt

4/2/2014- The Phantom Paragrapher- Review

4/2/2014- Michelle4Laughs: It's in the Details- Excerpt

4/3/2014- Books and Swoons- Review

4/3/2014- Creating Serenity- Guest Post

4/4/2014- Kindle and Me- Review

4/4/2014- Burning Impossibly Bright- Guest Post

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 Awww!! :D I loved A.J. Pine's list!!! :D Let's hope some guys heed her advice! ;D haha

What do you think? 

Did you enjoy A.J.'s Top Ten list?

And do you think If Only sounds like something you'd like to read?

Waiting on Wednesday (6): Since You've Been Gone!!

 

"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. It gives us the chance to fangirl over all of the books that we can't wait to read!

SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE by Morgan Matson

Hitting the shelves on May 6, 2014 from Simon & Schuster

Book Description:

The Pre-Sloane Emily didn't go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn't do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind of best friend—the one who yanks you out of your shell.But right before what should have been an epic summer, Sloane just... disappears. No note. No calls. No texts. No Sloane. There’s just a random to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-selected-definitely-bizarre-tasks that Emily would never try... unless they could lead back to her best friend. Apple Picking at Night? Ok, easy enough.Dance until Dawn? Sure. Why not? Kiss a Stranger? Wait... what?

Getting through Sloane’s list would mean a lot of firsts. But Emily has this whole unexpected summer ahead of her, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected) to check things off. Who knows what she’ll find?

Go Skinny Dipping? Um...

 MY THOUGHTS

I absolutely LOVE Morgan Matson!!! Her debut novel, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour, is still one of my favourite YA contemporaries, and I'm always recommending it to people! HEY YOU! If you still haven't read it, you totally should. ;) haha I also just loved her sophomore novel, Second Chance Summer, too! Her stories are so powerful, so true, and are jammed full of emotion! Just this last week, I actually received Since You've Been Gone in the mail...and I had a seriously fangirl freakout over it!!! I'm so excited to start it, and I'm hoping that once I'm finished all of my assignments for the semester, I can dive in and devour it! ;D

Is anyone else a Morgan Matson fangirl?

And what do you think of Since You've Been Gone?

Does it sound like a book you'd like to read?

Monthly Recap: So...what happened in March? #Recap

I've decided that I'm going to start doing recap posts every month. I'll probably mix the format up lots, but I'm gonna keep it simple and stick to the stuff that I found exciting, what I read, and what I've been kind of obsessed with over the month...so this is what I've done in January! :D

What I did this month:

This month was super weird for me! I always get more lethargic as the end of the semester approaches, especially during the Winter semester, and this time around it's been bad! I've just felt super duper lazy! On the plus side, I've kept up with my readings at the very least, but I haven't really been reading a lot outside of my class readings. I think it's because I actually got together with friends quite a bit this month, which has been pretty awesome...and I watched a whole lot of movies!

What I read this month:

This month I read six books...so, not too bad, but I definitely wanted to read more. :P Here's hoping I get a lot more read in April because I am super behind in my Goodreads challenge. haha

These are the books I read this month: 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy #1) by Margaret Atwood

Night Games by Collette West

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Four of these books are for my classes...so I'm definitely serious in saying that I was doing class readings this month, and I'm feeling chatty, so I'm going to share a bit about each book. :P

• I did finally end up finishing Frankenstein, and I liked it. I didn't really love it or anything, but I did enjoy it. I think if I ever reread it, I'll try the 1818 version because the one I read was the 1831 version of text, and it was modified quite a bit. For all I know, the differences that were made could've been the reason that I wasn't a huge fan. :P 
• I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep for my Comparative Literature class on Science Fiction and I really enjoyed it! It was different, but very interesting. 
• I finally read The Fault in Our Stars this month, too!!! :D It made me sob like a baby, but I still absolutely loved it, and I can't wait to see the movie!  
• Oryx & Crake was also for my Sci-fi class, and I wasn't really a huge fan. I just found the main character so unlikable that I just didn't enjoy it all that much. I did like it, but more because I thought that Atwood's world was so intricate and interesting, and I really enjoyed reading about the Crakers, too...but seriously, she could've done so much better with Jimmy. :S
• I really enjoyed Night Games! It was a light, easy read, and a sports romance, so I had a blast reading it. :)
• PERSUASION!!! :D It's been too long since I've read on of Austen's books! I reread Persuasion for my Romantic Lit class, and I loved reading it again!!! :D It's been a while since I first read this one, so I loved my little "revisit" when I reread it this time around. :D

What I watched this month:

Like I said, I saw A LOT of movies this month! I watched Veronica Mars twice, saw That Awkward Moment and Pompeii with my friend Alisa, and I saw Divergent with one of my good friends and fellow Edmonton blogger, Cassie, from Vamps, Weres, and Cassay! I also watched some movies for my film studies class, and I finally caught up on the BITTEN tv show, and The Carrie Diaries! Plus, I watched Frozen several times (I'm not telling you specifically how many :P) since I bought it! haha :)

I gushed over movies in these posts this month: 

• Random Sundays: VERONICA MARS!!
• Fangirl Fridays (4): DIVERGENT!
• Fangirl Fridays (2): FROZEN!

What else did I do:

I didn't do a whole lot this month. I'm getting closer to the end of my undergraduate degree, so keeping up with school has pretty much been dominating everything other than my movie watching this month. ;P haha I really did enjoy getting to catch up with so many friends this month though! It made the month go by so quickly though....and I must admit, I'm starting to get an eensy bit nervous about finishing my BA. :P I'm trying to not stress and get nervous though! haha

I did interview two of my favourite characters from Krista and Becca Ritchie's Addicted series and spin-off books this month though, and it's one of my favourite blog posts ever! So, here's the link to my Ryke & Daisy Character Interview -- just a warning, Ryke likes to use a certain word beginning with the letter "F" just in case you're sensitive to swearing :P

So, my March was dominated by movies, what did you do this month?

Anything exciting????

Tea Tuesdays! (6): Making Your Own Tea Holder! :)

I'm totally obsessed with tea, so every Tuesday, I'm sharing one of my favourites...and maybe sometimes something just totally awesome and tea-related.
 

Recently my biggest tea obsession has been loose tea! If you're new to loose tea, check out my first Tea Tuesday post and see how easy it is to brew! You can also click my "Tea Tuesdays!" button above to see my previous tea posts! :D

Today my "Tea Tuesdays!" post is going to be a little different! :D

Instead of sharing one of my favourite teas this week, I'm going to share an awesome "how-to" from DAVIDsTEA about making your own tea holder!

I did this a little bit ago, and it was so easy! It also looks really adorable!!

Here's DAVIDsTEA's step-by-step guide on Snapguide on "How to Build a Holder for Your Tea Collection!

It's super duper easy! All you need is a bag with handles, scissors and some tape! The bag can be a DAVIDsTEA one, or it can be from anywhere else, too. If you want to make one, just click the link I shared above, and it'll show you how to do it! :)

And this is how my tea holder turned out:

It's perfect for my loose tea bags, and when I still had room (it's gotten a bit fuller since I took this picture :P), I kept my tea canteen in there, too! ;D haha

What do you think?
Will you be making yourself a tea holder soon?