Cover Reveal & Giveaway:The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Release date: November 5th, 2013 

 *The book will be available for preorder on Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Apple in the next week or so (unfortunately Kindle doesn’t offer preorders for indie authors)

Synopsis: 

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, right? At least that’s what twenty-year-old Ginny Bailey’s grandmother always told her, and Ginny believed it until Grama died. She even put on a brave face the following two Christmases, carrying on Grama’s traditions and decorating her house and café with Grama’s favorite decorations. But Ginny can’t pretend any longer. When she finds out she’s going to be alone for the holidays this year, her Christmas spirit goes out the window, along with her luck. Everything that can go wrong does, and Ginny just wants to spend the holidays hiding under the covers...until Dean Riley comes back into her life. With a shared past, old feelings begin to resurface almost immediately, and Ginny thinks Dean might just be the Christmas miracle she’s been waiting for to help her remember why Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year.

About the Author:

Marie Landry is the author of BLUE SKY DAYS (contemporary YA—January 2012), THE GAME CHANGER (women's fiction—November 2012), WAITING FOR THE STORM (contemporary YA—April 2013), and THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR (a new adult holiday novella-November 2013). Marie has always been a daydreamer; since early childhood, she's had a passion for words and a desire to create imaginary worlds, so it only seemed natural for her to become a writer. She resides in Ontario, Canada, and most days you can find her writing, reading, blogging about writing and reading, listening to U2, wandering around with a camera in her hand, watching copious amounts of TV on DVD, or having grand adventures with her nephews and niece. For more on Marie and her books, please visit sweetmarie-83.blogspot.ca

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Countdown To Halloween Starts Today

To find out more about it just click the boo berry Cryptkeeper logo. Whatever possessed me to think I'd ever be able to do this?! Oh well. 

Day 1

Out of the many great books with wizards, monsters, werewolves, ghosts, witches, vampires, faeries and other creatures comes one of my favorites that I love to read about.

The Harry Dresden files by Jim Butcher is about a wizard who investigates supernatural disturbances and helps solve murder investigations for the Chicago Police Department. He is the only one who is competent enough to defend and handle such cases involving supernatural creatures in the entire city of Chicago.

So in Grave Peril  Harry Dresden fights to stop a creature that is referred to as the Nightmare. The creature creates torture spells and eats part of people's soul.

"Let me get this straight. This creature, this thing, has been torturing powerful spirits for a couple of weeks with this barbed-wire spell. It tore up a bunch of stuff on consecrated ground. Then it blew through somebody's threshold and tore his spirit apart, and slapped a torture-spell on him?"-Grave Peril by Jim Butcher Chapter 14: Page 115 


There are many evil villains in this book. Leonid Kravos, being The Nightmare, is just the bigger one and the book's main focus. Agatha Hagglethorn's ghost is killed at the end of Michael's sword. Leanansidhe, Harry's evil faery godmother plays a part but turns out she only wants to help Harry, not kill him. Mavra the black court vampire wants to kill Harry as does Bianca St. Claire and her court of red vampires. This book is a lot of fun and one of the best in the series but then again I haven't finished reading all of 'em.

Quote-tastic ~ Charlie Manx In NOS4A2

Quote-Tastic is a meme held on Mondays by Herding Casts & Burning Soup. Join them every Monday and share a favorite quote that's grabbed you for one reason or another.

My quote today comes from NOS4A2 (nosferatu) a novel by Joe Hill. Charlie Manx is a bad man who's in a long-term-care ward called The Vegetable Patch and is threatening nurse Ellen .

"There's a place for Josiah John Thornton in Christmasland, and there's a place for you in the House of Sleep, Charlie Manx said. "The Gasmask Man would know just what to do with you. Give you the gingerbread smoke and teach you to love him. Can't bring you with us to Christmasland. Or I could, but the Gasmask Man is better. The Gasmask Man is a mercy."

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

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I've been planning my reading and listening book pile geared towards halloween without imbibing too much of the scare factor cause I'm not a big fan of horror books and movies. That said, I will be reading a lot of spooky themed thrillers in October though, in fact let me share the ones I've been reading so far...

Last Week I read: 

• The Ghost and the Graveyard by Genevieve Jack
• Booster and Reeves: The Night of the Revenants by Troy Blackford
• Pretty When She Destroys by Rhiannon Frater
• The Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• I just finished Horns by Joe Hill
• God's of Nowhere by James Tipper

What I'm Currently Reading: 

• Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
• NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

What I Plan On Reading 

• Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Night
• NightWhere by John Everson
• Ruler- Blood Magic #3 by Monica S. Kuebler
• Vicious by V.E. Schwab

Boo Berry The Cryptkeeper

I've been busy gearing up for an allhallowsread blogoween and the task isn't going to be an easy one. Starting in October, I will be joining with all kinds of halloween bloggers in the 2013 Countdown To Halloween, where I am posing as the Boo Berry Cryptkeeper. It is my desire to share a few scary books for this halloween facade and festivity and I'm also counting on boo berry to help me from being scared to death. Sorta like Bob the Skull was to Harry Dresden

If I do get scared from all the horror I will turn into bruised berry causing me to swear repletively and then I'll be the scary one *shivers.

from Tom Krohne's site

As far as it goes, I had never read a Stephen King novel or liked reading horror books or movies before. BUT I am determined to slowly change that. So, I've made some book choices, some horror, some not so much, that I will be sharing with you all in the next month. I've realized though, that I generally prefer paranormal to horror. Ghosts don't scare me, they never have, at least not yet anyway. Enjoy yourselves this Halloween folks!

Quote-Tastic ~ Summer Knights

Quote-Tastic is a meme held on Mondays by Herding Casts & Burning Soup. Join them every Monday and share a favorite quote that's grabbed you for one reason or another.

Summer Knights is (The Dresden Files #4) by Jim Butcher and honestly there are a dozen quotes I could add from his repertoire but this one comes when Harry goes to meet his friend Karrin who's a cop at a Wal-Mart to ask her for her help in finding the one who killed the Summer Knight. He is dealing with faeries mostly and they are rather dangerous. They get trapped in the store by some deadly mist and an Ogre. Karrin is scared out of her wits.


 

“Karrin."
She looked up at me.
She looked very young somehow.
"Remember what I said yesterday," I said. "You're hurt. But you'll get through it. You'll be okay."
She closed her eyes tightly.
"I'm scared. So scared I'm sick." 
"You'll get through it."
"What if I don't?"
 I squeezed her fingers. "Then I will personally make fun of you every day for the rest of your life," I said. "I will call you a sissy girl in front of everyone you know, tie frilly aprons on your car, and lurk in the parking lot at CPD and whistle and tell you to shake it, baby. Every. Single. Day."
Murphy's breath escaped in something like a hiccup. She opened her eyes, a mix of anger and wary amusement easing into them in place of fear. "You do realize I'm holding a gun, right?” ― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

Synopsis 

 "Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago s only professional wizard." "But in all Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone completely postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble - and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly." Someone - or something - is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn't figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

THE DRESDEN FILES by Jim Butcher

Last week I listened to

Fool Moon
Grave Peril
Ghost Story
Cold Days

I'm currently listening to

Summer Knight
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Before September ends 

I hope to have read/listened to the rest in the series. I know it's a lot of Dresden but I don't mind. Cold Days and Fool Moon take place around Halloween. Harry Dresden's birthday is on Halloween. Even though they are a little less spooky than your average haunting horror tale I couldn't have picked a better time to read them. I felt it appropriate. I borrowed them from my library in either book format or audio.
I confess that the only one I didn't like is Ghost Story. It's lucky that it's in the latest novels and I'm crossing my fingers that the others I haven't read will not be as ridiculous.

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