Cover Reveal for The Infected (PODs #2) by Michelle K. Pickett

 

The Infected (PODs #2)

by Michelle K. Pickett

Release Date: October 12th 2015

 

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From the author of the award winning Unspeakable, and the best selling PODs, comes the highly anticipated sequel to PODs. A world where death stalks the unsuspecting, and this time even the PODs might not save them.

 

A virus nearly wiped out humankind...

 

Months have passed since a human infection has been reported. Survivors of the deadly pandemic have finally started to build a life in a world left devastated by plague.

 

Ironically, for nineteen-year-old Eva, life made more sense when she battled the deadly Infected than it does in the serenity of her new home in Rosewood. Separated from fiancé and former POD-mate, David, after an impossible ultimatum, Eva finds her life a little lonely and a lot confusing.

 

But as troubled as Eva’s life is, it's about to take a turn for the worse as untold dangers watch and wait for the right moment to attack…

 

The virus refuses to die quietly.

 

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About the Author

 

I can’t write without a hoodie. Yeah, I live it Texas. We all have our quirks.

 

I majored in accounting in college. I was required to declare a major, but I had no clue what I wanted to do, so I picked accounting because it was the first thing listed in the booklet the counselor gave me. Surprisingly, I graduated with a 4.0 GPA. Go figure.

 

Forget coffee. Hand over the Red Bull or Monster Khaos and no one gets hurt. Seriously, just set it down and step away. I will turn into a normal human after I guzzle my can of caffeine.

 

I hate to cook, but love to watch cooking shows on television.

 

I paint my nails weird colors just to see my husband roll his eyes and make my 9 year-old twin girls giggle. Oh, and mortify my 13 year-old son.

 

I’m a hopeful romantic and love swoon-worthy endings that keep the butterflies going for days, but I don’t believe a HEA always ends with the boy getting the girl. Sometimes a HEA is an ending we don’t see coming, but is still best for the characters.

 

I write across genres in the young adult and new adult age groups while eating way too many peanut butter M&Ms (but we’ll keep that second part just between us).

 

I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, but now live in a suburb of Houston, TX with my very supportive family, a 125lb rescue “puppy” and a 12lb attack cat, also a rescue animal.

 

And last, (but certainly not least), I love my family with everything in me. Everything I am, is theirs. There are no words in any language known to man to describe my love for them. They are my center.

 

I’d love to hear from you. So drop me an email! Let’s chat. You tell me what you like in books, what you’d like to see happen in the writing community, what type of books you like to see more of…less of—I want to hear it all! So tell me, please. Because the one thing I wish I could put on my list, but I still haven’t figured out how to do, is mind-reading. But don’t tell my kids. I still have them fooled. J:)

 

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Jane Blond International Spy

By- Brianna Schatt & Stan Schatt

Genre- Middle Grade

Expected Publication Date- October 19th

 

Fourteen year old Jane thought getting through high school was difficult enough with her dad in prison and her mother dating. Throw in being bullied by the popular girl who has everything- it’s completely unbearable. But when terrorists kidnap a boy she cares about, she knows she is the only one who can save him. International Spy, Jane Blond, must prevent terrorists from blowing up her school during the President’s visit. She’ll need all of her courage along with the help of a teen with CIA secrets, a friend with Asperger’s and a parrot with an attitude.

 

 

 

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Dr. Stan Schatt spent many years as a futurist responsible for forecasting future technology products and markets for Fortune 500 companies. He served as a Fulbright Professor and taught at Tokyo University, USC, and the University of Houston. He is the author of over thirty books ranging from science fiction and paranormal mysteries to young adult novels. Schatt is a technology expert who has been quoted in the New York Times, Fortune, and BusinessWeek as well as CNBC.

 

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Enchanted Revenge

Empyrean Chronicles # 1

By- Theresa M. Jones

Genre- YA Fantasy

 

When seventeen year old Lily finds her parents brutally murdered, leaving her broken and alone, she is determined to bring justice to the fairies responsible. Her quest leads her to infiltrate The Empyrean, the land of the Fae where terrifying creatures lurk in every shadow. But with a political rebellion mounting, bloody battles and foreign enemies stand in her way. Alec, a mysterious and secretive fairy, gradually becomes her guide and dear friend in the unfamiliar world, and restores her faith in love.

 

Disturbing secrets about her parent’s true identity are revealed, causing her to be more involved with the devastating fairy war than she can afford. Her vengeful mission becomes compromised and her growing romance with Alec wavers. She must conquer her fear of the unknown, ignore her grief, and overcome her growing list of enemies if she is to succeed in avenging her parents’ death. Or ever make it out alive.

 

Enchanted Revenge will appeal to fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Julie Kagawa.

 

 

 

Book 2, Enticing Violence, will be available on November 2nd, you can pre-order your copy now!

 

 

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Theresa M Jones is just a regular small town, Texas girl, who loves reading, writing and playing with tech gadgets. When she isn't at work fixing computers and the like, you can find her at home with her husband and two beautiful (and rambunctious) kiddos.

 

In her spare time- as if there ever was such a thing as "spare time" - she reads and reviews books on her book blog, and writes paranormal romance and fantasy romance novels.

 

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1. Please tell us about yourself using 3 adjectives, 1 quirk and a pop culture addiction.

Bibliophile. Loving. Technological. I crack like, every single knuckle and joint in my body.  Supernatural TV show Addiction.

 

2. Who do you consider the most swoon-worthy man/woman in the literary world? How about on tv/in the movies?

Right now, my favorite book boyfriend is Aiden from the Covenant Series by JLA.

 

On TV- Theo James as Four.

 

3. How do you come up with character names?  How do you come up with novel titles?

Almost every single character name has a specific meaning! In all of my books. Novel titles are hard for me. and I work a really long time on trying to find something halfway decent. ;)

 

4. Do you have any advice for anyone that would like to be an author?

Read and Write a LOT. Write even when you don't feel like it, even when you don't want to at all.

 

This or That-

 

*Morning or Night? NIGHT. Always.

 

*Vanilla or Chocolate? Chocolate!

 

*Summer or Winter? WINTER!

 

*Ebook or Paperback? Hmmm… Both?! Can I say that? I have a million ebooks, and I SO dont have room for all of those as paperbacks. BUT I love ALL my paperbacks and still want more!

 

*Fantasy or Paranormal? Both, again! I wrote both. I read both! I love both!

 

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Redemption by Alla Kar

(Huntsville #1)

Published by: Swoon Romance

Publication date: November 27th 2015

Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

 

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His second chance may cost him his sweetest addiction …

 

The truth about NEVEAH’S cheating fiancée hit hard—but not as hard as her right hook to his jaw. After ridding herself of him she travels back home to Huntsville, Texas to her father and his boxing gym where she grew up. When she finds a beaten man in the woods beside her home, her entire life changes and things get—complicated.

 

Ex-con RAGE only wants two things—for the man that set him up to release his sister, and for him to burn in Hell where he belongs. After being released from prison, he heads straight to the man that put him there, only to be beaten and tossed in the woods for dead. When he’s found by the most beautiful girl he’s ever met, he knows he’ll have a chance to rescue his sister even though she doesn’t realize she needs saving.

 

Neveah and her father, nurse Rage back to heath, offer him a job at their gym and quickly find out that he’s amazing in the ring. Without them knowing who he is, he knows he’s been given a second chance to live his life. The only condition is that he has to stay away from Neveah, which is a promise he soon realizes is hard to keep. The feisty southern beauty normally gets what she wants, and Rage wants to give her everything.

 

With the truth lurking in the shadows, Rage must decide if his sweetest addiction is worth giving up his second chance.

 

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My name is Alla Kar. I live in the deep south with my fiancé and Chihuahua. I love to write about alpha males, southern gentlemen and swoon-worthy men! :)

 

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Hookah by Cameron Jace

(Insanity #4)

Publication date: September 28, 2015

Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Young Adult

 

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A Plague Scarier than Death

 

Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who’d lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much.

 

A Cure Larger than Life

 

The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar’s darker pasts.

 

A Truth Madder Than Fiction

 

This time, the price of saving the world is too high. Alice will have to live with the consequences of the maddest logic of the world surrounding her.

 

Will Alice find who the Pillar really is? What he wants? Is she brave enough to handle the one Wonderland Monster she’d thought was a good friends? And even so, is the world ready the truth?

 

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“She’s not my daughter.” The Pillar purses his lips. He’s pissed at me. I know it. But you know what? I love the mushrooms’ effect. Because I don’t freakin’ care. “Don’t pay attention to her.”

 

“I’m beginning to lose my patience,” the machine gun man says. “You don’t know the password, and your daughter is a lunatic.”

 

“I told you she isn’t my daughter,” I hear the Pillar say while I’m trying to catch a diamond from the sky. “And I don’t know the answer to your puzzle. Divide a loaf by a knife? What kind of mathematical question is that?”

 

“Wrong answer.” The man is about to shoot the Pillar while I’m chasing stars.

 

This is when I find myself standing before the Pillar to protect him. “You will not shoot my father!” I have no idea what I am saying, or why I am saying it. It’s strange that in the middle of my hallucination I care for the Pillar.

 

“Tell her to move, or I will shoot you both,” the machine gun man warns.

 

Then another totally bonkers thing happens. This time it’s too insane to swallow.

 

“Tell you what? You look like you’re itching to shoot someone today,” the Pillar says, pushing me away toward the man. “Why not shoot her, and let me pass?”

 

Suddenly, I am two feet away from the machine gun itself, unable to determine if what I just heard was part of my hallucination or for real.

 

My attempt to turn back and confront the Pillar goes out the window when the machine gun man decides he’s had it with me.

 

He shoots me straight in the chest.

 

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Insanity 4 is available for pre-order Amazon.

 

Cameron Jace is the bestselling author of the Grimm Diaries and Insanity series. A graduate of the college of Architecture, collector of out-of-print books, he is obsessed with the origins of folk tales and the mysterious storytellers who spread them. Three of his books made Amazon's Top 100 Customer Favorites in Kindle 2013 & Amazon's Top 100 kindle list. Cameron lives in California with his girlfriend. When he isn't writing or collecting books, he is playing music.

 

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The Finn Factor

by Rachel Bailey

Release Date: 09/28/15

Entangled Embrace

 

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A new adult romance from Entangled's Embrace imprint...

 

Sometimes all a girl needs is a little practice...

 

It's been twelve months, three days, and eleven hours since accounting student Scarlett Logan made it past a second date. A pitcher of mojitos in hand, she employs her supreme graphing skills to narrow things down to one horrifying explanation. Kissing. Clearly someone needs to teach her how to kiss properly. Like, say, her best friend and roomie, Finn Mackenzie. He's safe, he's convenient, and yeah, maybe just a little gorgeous.

 

Finn knows exactly why Scarlett's boyfriends are disappearing quickly. Him. Not a single guy she's brought home is nearly good enough. And he'll be damned if he lets some loser give her "kissing lessons." No. He'll do the honors, thank you very much. The moment their lips touch, though, everything turns upside down. But Scarlett deserves the one thing Finn can't give her. And if he doesn't put an end to the sexy little shenanigans, he'll teach Scarlett the hardest lesson of all...heartbreak.

 

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“I haven’t forgotten we kissed, obviously, but I can’t remember details, like what the most effective elements were.”

 

I shifted in my seat. Every second of that kiss was burned into my memory bank. It seemed that hadn’t been as mutual as I’d suspected. I blew out a breath and focused on being a teacher in the situation, not a man who’d been carried away with his own lesson.

 

“I think you’re over-analyzing this. The elements don’t matter on their own. It’s more about the big picture.”

 

“Would you say that to your undergrads? Don’t worry about the specifics of the aqueducts, or which emperor came to power in what year. It’s more about the big picture of knowing there was a Roman Empire?”

 

“Well, no, but it’s completely different,” I said, looking down the hall and wondering if I could escape the conversation by simply leaving.

 

“How?” she persisted. “In both cases, you’re teaching something. So the student needs the topic broken down into bite-size pieces.”

 

At the word “bite” all the air left the room. Scarlett must have interpreted my silence to be disbelief because she grabbed a pen and a sheet of paper.

 

“Here.” She smoothed it out on the coffee table in front of us. “I’ll graph it for you.”

 

That snapped me back. “You’re going to graph our kiss?”

 

She drew an X and Y axis, then a line that went up across the page, but not smoothly—there were spikes and bumps along its progress.

 

“So, here, for example”—she pointed to a sharp rise in the line—“you did something and the kiss took off. What was it?”

 

“Seriously?” She wanted to talk as if it had been a clinical experience?

 

“If this had been a kiss for kissing’s sake, then, sure, we could leave it alone. But it was a lesson. How am I supposed to learn if I don’t remember the stimulus that caused the response?”

 

“You don’t need to. You were great. There’s nothing more to learn.” Better than great. Her kissing had been phenomenal.

 

“Again, if an undergrad wanted to learn more about the Roman Empire than they needed to for the first-year exam, would you tell them they were fine, or would you point them to more resource material?”

 

I blinked. “I’m resource material?”

 

She threw her hands up in the air, as if she was the one who was exasperated. “You’re the one who offered the lesson in the first place, so yes. You are my resource material on kissing.”

 

I looked over at the array of empty beer bottles on the coffee table. “We really need to make it a rule that we don’t talk about kissing after we’ve been drinking.”

 

“You’d rather have this conversation stone-cold sober?”

 

“I’d rather not have this conversation at all.”

 

“Oh.” Her face fell.

 

“What?” I asked warily.

 

“It’s just occurred to me that although I thought the kiss was good, you might not have enjoyed it at all. That’s why you’re fighting so hard against a follow up lesson.” She scrunched up her nose. “It was awful for you.”

 

I rubbed my temples—I was getting a headache trying to keep up with her thought processes and keep us out of dangerous territory.

 

“It wasn’t awful.” Amazing would be closer.

 

“Then why are you so against a follow-up lesson so I can focus on the bits I’ve forgotten?”

 

Something in the way she said “forgotten” made everything inside me rear up and protest. Maybe it was vanity, maybe it was neediness, but whatever it was, I didn’t want to be considered a forgettable kisser. Especially by Scarlett.

 

My gaze zeroed in on her mouth as I wrapped an arm around her and tugged her closer, but not quite touching. Her eyes widened and her pink tongue darted out to moisten her lips. I groaned.

 

“See if you can forget this,” I said, and lowered my head.

 

About the Author

 

As a teenager, I was a voracious reader of science fiction, until one day when I was 16, I saw Pride and Prejudice on television. The old version with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. I adored it. I’d seen it in the TV guide and, since I had a crush on Laurence Olivier after seeing him in Henry V, I’d taped it.

 

I watched that tape so often I can still recite most of the dialogue by heart. I sought out the book, devoured it, then found every other Jane Austen book and read and reread them frequently. I only discovered romance as a genre as an adult. Imagine my delight when I first read modern versions of Jane Austen!

 

Now I read most subgenres of romance, from category to historical to romantic comedy. Such a banquet!

 

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