Authors After Dark on Bourbon Street!

Welcome to Bourbon Street! 

New Orleans has a fascinating history and this summer, a group of enthusiastic authors and readers will decent at the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the Authors After Dark convention.

Unfortunatelly I won't be able to go to New Orleans, to experience the culture and craziness, but because I really wanted to and I am excited Jackie will get to go, I joined up with Literary Escapism to feature a bunch of the Small Press authors who’ll be attending Authors After Dark as well.

Between now and Fat Tuesday (the 21st),  Jackie and I will be featuring 27 authors as they give us their impressions of New Orleans through the eyes of one of their characters.  Check out who’ll be visiting Jackie's Blog and Mine :

Abigail Barnette	Megan Grooms
Trinity Blacio	Cat Johnson
Boone Brux	Stacey Kennedy
Stephanie Burke	Rosalie Lario
Melanie Card	Lacie Nation
Kris Cook	Kris Norris
Teresa D’Amario	Sophie Oak
Jae Lynne Davies	Melissa Schroeder
Gail Donnelly & Robyn Mackenzie	Arianna Skye
Mari Freeman	Damon Suede
Eliza Gayle	Julia Tabot
KT Grant	BA Tortuga
Bronwyn Green	Beth Williamson
Tilly Green

As the authors visit LE and  Literary Escapism, we’ll update the above table with links to their posts, which is important to know.  Some of these authors have offered up copies of their novels for contests and what better way to try an author than to get a novel for free. More importantly, you’ll want to make sure you stop by as Larissa and I will be giving away two $25 gift cards to All Romance Books and all you have to do is to stop by one and see what these fabulous authors have to offer.  Two winners will be selected from all the comments on the 27 Bourbon Street posts, which means you have 27 chances.   Jackie and I hope we can introduce you to a new author while we visit Bourbon Street.

Even though we won’t be giving any additional entries, you can still help support the authors by sharing this event and their articles on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, or anywhere you can. After all, the more people who are aware of these fabulous authors will ensure we get more fabulous stories.

The contest will stay open until February 28th at which time we’ll determine the winners with help from the snazzy new plug-in I have, the Research Randomizer and the List Randomizer.

I have not been contacting winners, so you will need to check back to see if you’ve won.

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Nathalia’s Guest ARC Review: Seven Years to Sin by Sylvia Day

 

 

 

The longer the resistance...

Seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, proper Lady Jessica Sheffield witnessed a licentious scene no innocent young miss could imagine. Shocked, yet strangely titillated, she'd held her silence regarding scandalous Alistair Caulfield, and walked down the aisle as expected. But through years of serene, unremarkable marriage, Caulfield's image remained burned into her imagination, fueling very illicit dreams. . .

...the sweeter the reward

Alistair ran far from the temptation of the prim debutante with the fire of passion in her eyes—all the way to the West Indies. As a successful merchant, he has little in common with the rakehell youth she knew. But when newly widowed Jessica steps aboard his ship for a transatlantic passage, seven years' worth of denied pleasures are held in check by nothing more than a few layers of silk—and the certainty that surrender will consume them both. . .

From Goodreads.

• Publisher: Kensington Brava 
• Release Date: August 30th, 2011   
• My Copy: ARC received at AAD.
• Pages: 352 
• Series: N/A
• Genre: Historical Romance 
• Author's Website
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Seven Years To Sin

*NO Spoilers

Fantastic! Alistair, Jessica, Michael and Hester are amazing characters and make it possible for this book to have an amazing lesson about love. Sylvia Day just wrote one of the best historical erotic romances of the year.

I had never read any books by Sylvia Day, and I'm pretty happy that I did! We follow the story of Alistair and Jessica since their very spicymoment  before Jessica gets married and their re encounter after her husband's death.

At the same time we read about Hester, Jessica's sister, and Michael's relationship. These secondary characters are so lovable! We fall in love with  Alistair's charisma and charm - he's a rake after all- and also Jessica's strength and courage.

The final twist was a surprise and what I liked most about Seven Years To Sin is that it's never late to love and overcome our past.  The author also approaches physical abuse towers women, what's their role in the society, their financial independence and the married life. All of them treated with honesty and truth.

The problems the hero and heroine have to go through are very real and the story is full of burning hot scenes. I would love, love, love to read more about Hester, and we might get it. If you've read it and feels the same way, show it! Speak up!

 

 

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AAD {Authors After Dark} Philly 2011 Wrap-Up Post! + Top 11 Reasons I Loved it & 3 Things I Wasn’t Fond of

 

Hey Everyone! I know I’m probably the last one to do this, but here is my AAD wrap-up post =)

I wanted to do Vlogs, so it took me a while to get someone to film it (since I lost my tripod). I finally got the BFF to do it last night, so here I am LOL

Picture Time:

Pics staring from the left: Lara Adrian, Larissa Ione, Me and both of them, Me with Karin Harlow, Me with Jess Haines, Leana Renee Hieber and Lia Habel, Alexandra Ivy, Lea and Jojo, Leanna’s BF and Leanna, My roomies J.A. Saare and Sarah, Binah the bold, Heather from Decadent Pub, Best night ever!, Dakota Cassidy, The Blogger (missing some though), Kat, me and Bells (KLB), Damaris (Good Choice Reading), UK Bloggers (Sarah and Minx) and Philly Cheesesteak! 

For MORE and LARGER Pics check out my Facebook AAD Album!

 

Top 11 reasons I loved AAD Philly 2011!

• Had my Bday Dinner with Lara Adrian and my roomies!
• Got to be Larissa Ione’s roommate for a night.
• The sisterhood of The Werefly!
• Having Dinner with Larissa Ione on her Bday!
• Meeting AMAZING Bloggers that were also incredible people: Spaz, Bells, Tigris Eden, Sarah, Minx, Twimom, Jen (Not now, Im reading), Smexi, Dren, Penny, Lush, Marq, Rayna, Damaris…
• Seeing some of my fave ladies again! – Jojo, Robyn, Jess Haines, Leanna Renee Hieber + meeting Jojo’s mom!
• Meeting some of the authors I have been talking on twitter for like forever and simply LOVE! – Carolyn Crane, Nancy Holzner, Nicole Peeler, Dakota Cassidy, Jennifer Estep.
• Getting to know some great authors and people that are new to me, but I can’t wait to read: Karin Harlow, Jessa Slade, Erin Kellison, Anton Strout, Alexandra Ivy, Meljean Brook, Heather, Kristin Painter, Lia Hieber, Mel Schroder, PJ Schnyder, Sahara Kelly and so many more!Airport Adventures with Jen from Not Now I'm reading.
• Getting soma awesome books signed!
• Getting Bday gifts from both Lara Adrian and Larissa Ione! WOOT!

3 Things I Wasn’t Fond of

• The hotel messing around with the convention rooms
• The Steampunk Sideshow
• Not getting the meals I thought I was getting

All in all I LOVED it for the most part and will be surely attending AAD in NOLA 2012!

Check out the awesome books I got and some swag and also a bit more about the experience I had on the Vlogs bellow:

 

 

Hope you enjoyed it! and Im sorry if I forgot someone! I love you, but I suck at the same time hehe

 

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