BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY ~ BOOST BY KRISSY V!!

Title: Boost
Author: Krissy V
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: August 17, 2019
Cover Designer: Soxsational Cover Art
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Car boosting is all Zahara knows. She’s built her reputation as The Ghost and enjoys the anonymity. No one knows who she is, what sex she is, or when she is going to strike. That’s the way she likes it.
Nikolai Federov is the boss of one of the largest car boosting gangs in the States. He has a team of bratva working for him, and he doesn’t trust anyone.
One mistake brings their two worlds together, and what happens when they do, is explosive.
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When I open my eyes, he’s staring at me. I see the sides of his mouth lifting as he watches me lick my lips. Feelings I haven’t had for a long time start to flow through my body. It’s like molten gold running through my veins, warming me and flicking at parts of me that I thought had died. I take another bite of my pancake. Is it the food making me feel like this? Or is it the very intense, very handsome man staring at me?
He seems to have forgotten he was talking to his friend. He lifts his coffee cup in a greeting to me, and I feel the color flushing my cheeks. Oh my God, since when do I act like a blushing virgin? I’m normally in control of my life and my emotions, but right now I feel like I’m spiraling out of control.
I lift my cup in return, and he stands up.
Oh my God. Oh my God, is he coming over to me? My heart races out of control; now I’m panicking.
He hasn’t taken his eyes off me, and he’s definitely coming over. His friend reaches across and grabs his arm, then holds out a phone to him. Seemingly annoyed to be disturbed, he takes the phone, and his face changes in seconds.
Shit, something bad must have happened.
He starts shouting into the phone. “Are you serious? Who would dare do that?” I don’t hear anything else he says as he turns away from me. He gathers his briefcase as his friend picks up the papers, and they both storm out of the restaurant.
I finish my pancakes and coffee, then sit back in my chair, looking around me. I’m surrounded by businesspeople rushing to their first meetings, but I take my time to enjoy my last hour here.
Just as I’m about to leave, I get a ping on my phone.
Ghost Vincent Verse 1.2
I smile as I read it, then check out of the hotel and make my way home. I have research to do.

Krissy V hated English at school. Really hated it. She gave up on English literature in the fourth year because she detested writing stories; she couldn’t make them up to save her life. She disliked writing precisely and was horrendous at grammar. Having lived in Norway when she was younger, English was her second language. When she received her iPad six years ago, she started reading on the Kindle app and wrote to an author about how much she enjoyed her book. That opened up the whole Facebook author world to her. She started reviewing books–the irony is not lost on her–and then started beta reading–even more ironic–after pointing out several  mistakes in a book plot she was reviewing before release. She realised she had a story in her. While she knew everyone said that, she really believed she did. Thirteen books later… welcome to the world of Krissy V!

 

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SPOTLIGHT + AUDIO EXCERPT, & TOP 10 LIST ~ THE PRINCESS POSE BY AVEN ELLIS!!

Audiobook Series Tour: Modern Royals by Aven Ellis

The Princess Pose

Author: Aven Ellis

Narrator: Andrea Emmes

Length: 21 hours and 8 minute

Series: Modern Royals, Book 2

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Released: July 24, 2019

Genre: Romantic Comedy

A modern princess. A charming commoner. Can they hurdle tradition to find true love? Princess Elizabeth “Liz” of York isn’t interested in a fairy tale life. Determined to use her elite platform to champion children’s causes, she’d much rather raise awareness than find her prince. If only she could stop picturing one certain gardener with vivid hazel eyes…. When the relentless paparazzi invade her space, Liz’s crush comes to her rescue and steals her heart. Tossing aside centuries of tradition for something real, she takes Roman’s calloused hand and braces for the backlash. But after her progressive approach ruffles more than a few feathers, one member of the monarchy vows to keep the princess locked in her stylish but decidedly ivory tower. Can Liz break through her birthright to find a powerful kind of love?
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Aven began her publishing career in 2013 with her debut release, Connectivity. She currently writes hockey and baseball romances as well as a modern royal romance series. Her books are designed to make readers laugh out loud and fall in love. Happily-ever-after endings and good-boy heroes are guaranteed. Aven lives in the Dallas area with her family. She is a huge fan of both the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers. Aven loves shopping and fashion and can spend hours playing with fragrances in any department store. She can be found chatting it up on social media, eating specialty M&Ms, and crushing on the latest outfit the Duchess of Cambridge is wearing.
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Narrator Bio Best Selling, Award Winning Audiobook Narrator, Andrea Emmes was born in Hollywood, Florida, grew up in both Tennessee and Rhode Island and started her career in musical theatre. She’s enjoyed an eclectic career as a singer, dancer, Vegas Headliner, Magician’s Assistant, a Recording Artist and a Video Game Designer. A total book nerd, Andrea, now enjoys narrating all genres of audiobooks, especially YA, LitRPG, Mystery, Romance, and NonFictionat her professional home studio in San Jose, CA. Her wide range of character voices and dynamic/emotionally invested performances has reviewers and listeners alike commenting on how she effortlessly pulls listeners in and has versatility and charisma. Fun Facts: Andrea has a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design; was a game designer for Disney Interactive; and gets her gamer-geek on playing games of all kinds!
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Aven Ellis’ Top Ten Literary inspirations
  1. Sophie Kinsella. The moment I started reading Confessions of a Shopaholic, I felt as though I had never read anything like it before. It was so funny, so vivid, so bright. I knew instantly that these where the kind of stories I wanted to write-ones with humor and heart. And that began my path toward becoming a romantic comedy writer.
  2. Georgette Heyer. I absolutely love her regency romances, in particular Sylvester and The Grand Sophy, which had me laughing out loud. Absolutely brilliant writing.
  3. Jane Austen. The way she weaves together a story is masterful. These are re-reads for me.
  4. JK Rowling. The fact that she had such strength and perseverance to follow her writing dream is truly inspiring.
  5. Maeve Binchy. She wrote the most beautiful descriptions and stories with so many layers.
  6. Julia Child. Her book Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a masterpiece. When you read her book My Life In France, you see what a monumental undertaking it was to write that cookbook and in this book, you feel like you are on the journey. I absolutely love both of them.
  7. Julia Quinn. Her Bridgerton series is a master class in laying out a series. How the plots are so thought out, so interwoven to lead to the next book, is brilliant.
  8. Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind, need I say more? I love the way her plotting kept me turning the page.
  9. Helen Fielding. Bridget Jones’s Diary is humor at it’s best. She is another comedic inspiration for me.
  10. Emma MCLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, The Nanny Diaries. I still remember parts of this book, which made me laugh and made me sad. Most of all, I remember feeling it was totally unique and I loved that about their writing style.
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BOOK 1- A ROYAL SHADE OF BLUE
Aug. 25th: Country Road Reviews Viviana MacKade The Book Junkie Reads . . . Aug. 26th: A Blue Million Books KayBee’s Bookshelf, A Literary Blog One Last Page Book Blog T’s Stuff Aug. 27th: Author C.A. Gray My Creatively Random Life The Book Addict’s Reviews Aug. 28th: Valerie Ullmer | Romance Author Locks, Hooks and Books WonderlandiansBooks Aug. 29th: Jazzy Book Reviews Reading for the Love of Books Audiobook Ebook Fascination Aug. 30th: What Is That Book About Nesie’s Place BookishOwlette (Review, Giveaway) Turning Another Page Aug. 31st: Teatime and Books Haddie’s Haven Smada’s Book Smack Dazzled by Books Guilty Indulgence Bookclub
BOOK 2- THE PRINCESS POSE
Sep. 1st: Country Road Reviews Dazzled by Books Sep. 2nd: Valerie Ullmer | Romance Author The Book Junkie Reads . . . KayBee’s Bookshelf, A Literary Blog Sep. 3rd: A Blue Million Books One Last Page Book Blog T’s Stuff Turning Another Page Sep. 4th: Author C.A. Gray WonderlandiansBooks The Book Addict’s Reviews Sep. 5th: Viviana MacKade Locks, Hooks and Books BookishOwlette Audiobook Ebook Fascination Sep. 6th: Haddie’s Haven Smada’s Book Smack Reading for the Love of Books Guilty Indulgence Bookclub Sep. 7th: Teatime and Books Jazzy Book Reviews My Creatively Random Life

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SPOTLIGHT + AUDIO EXCERPT & AUTHOR INTERVIEW ~ A ROYAL SHADE OF BLUE BY AVEN ELLIS!!

Audiobook Series Tour: Modern Royals by Aven Ellis

A Royal Shade of Blue

Author: Aven Ellis

Narrator: Andrea Emmes

Length: 10 hours and 1 minute

Series: Modern Royals, Book 1

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Released: Aug. 14, 2018

Genre: Romantic Comedy

 

 

When art-history student Clementine Jones receives a message complimenting her latest internship project, she doesn’t hesitate to answer it. She never dreamed this decision would not only change her life, but the future of the British monarchy as well. Her response leads Clementine to the mysterious CP Chadwick, a British man studying history at Cambridge. Clementine finds CP charming, smart, and unlike any man she’s ever met. Most of all, when she confides her medical past to CP, his perception of her doesn’t change. He doesn’t treat her as fragile like her parents do. CP sees her as normal, which is something she cherishes. Clementine, however, has no idea CP is actually Prince Christian of Wales, who has never had a “normal” life. Christian is at a crossroad. His destiny is to be a working royal, but he is desperate to fill that role in his own way. Wary of others, he’s kept himself closed off from the world – until he lets Clementine in. A royal romance is never a fairy tale, but Clementine and Christian are determined to write their own version. Can they overcome their own fears – as well as the constraints of a royal life – to reach their own happily ever after?

 

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Aven began her publishing career in 2013 with her debut release, Connectivity. She currently writes hockey and baseball romances as well as a modern royal romance series. Her books are designed to make readers laugh out loud and fall in love. Happily-ever-after endings and good-boy heroes are guaranteed. Aven lives in the Dallas area with her family. She is a huge fan of both the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers. Aven loves shopping and fashion and can spend hours playing with fragrances in any department store. She can be found chatting it up on social media, eating specialty M&Ms, and crushing on the latest outfit the Duchess of Cambridge is wearing.

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Narrator Bio Best Selling, Award Winning Audiobook Narrator, Andrea Emmes was born in Hollywood, Florida, grew up in both Tennessee and Rhode Island and started her career in musical theatre. She’s enjoyed an eclectic career as a singer, dancer, Vegas Headliner, Magician’s Assistant, a Recording Artist and a Video Game Designer. A total book nerd, Andrea, now enjoys narrating all genres of audiobooks, especially YA, LitRPG, Mystery, Romance, and NonFictionat her professional home studio in San Jose, CA. Her wide range of character voices and dynamic/emotionally invested performances has reviewers and listeners alike commenting on how she effortlessly pulls listeners in and has versatility and charisma. Fun Facts: Andrea has a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design; was a game designer for Disney Interactive; and gets her gamer-geek on playing games of all kinds!

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Q&A with Author Aven Ellis
  • Are you an audiobook listener?
    • What about the audiobook format appeals to you? Yes, I’m always listening to a book-when I’m in my car, and right before bed. I love the audiobook format because it allows me to read at times when I can’t. As a writer, when I’m done writing for the day, my eyes need a break. Audiobooks fill that need nicely!
  • How did you select your narrator?
    • The Modern Royals Series is produced by Tantor, and they gave me a couple of narrators to choose from. But I requested Andrea because I heard a clip of her British accent and I knew she was perfect to carry the series forward! Her accent is so good I had a British friend ask if she was British! There’s no greater compliment than that!
  • Were there any real life inspirations behind your writing?
    • I have been fascinated with the British royal family since I was a tween. People always come to me to talk royals and finally another author said, “Why aren’t you writing a royal series? You would be perfect for that.” So I thought about it and decided I wanted to create an alternate reality British royal family. I use the real palaces and traditions in the books, and it’s been a tremendous research project to get those details right, but I absolutely love telling royal stories.
  • What gets you out of a writing slump? What about a reading slump?
    • If I get to a sticking point with my writing, I bounce ideas off my critique partners and beta team until the story is back in the right direction. For a reading slump-I’m lucky, I’ve never had one.
  • How did you celebrate after finishing this novel?
    • I always treat myself to a bottle of perfume after finishing a novel, and that’s what I did.
  • If you had the power to time travel, would you use it? If yes, when and where would you go?
    • You know what? I wouldn’t. I’m grateful for the time I’m in and wouldn’t want to go back to any other time.
  • What do you say to those who view listening to audiobooks as “cheating” or as inferior to “real reading”?
    • If you are consuming a story, if you are enjoying escaping to another world, to me that’s all that matters. Personally, if you are listening to a one of my audiobooks you are consuming my story and that’s all that matters.
  • What’s your favorite:
    • Food: steak
    • Song: Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe
    • Book: Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
    • Television show: MasterChef
    • Movie The King’s Speech
    • Band: Don’t really have one at the moment
    • Sports team: Dallas Stars
    • City: Dallas
  • Are any of those things referenced in appearance in your work?
    • My favorite foods appear all the time! I set a series in Dallas, too.
  • What’s next for you?
    • I’ll be releasing the third book in my Rinkside in the Rockies series-Outscored. That is a romantic comedy and yes, it will be in audio, too.

 

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Giveaway: $25 Amazon Gift Card

Modern Royals Giveaway: $25 Amazon Gift Card https://js.gleam.io/e.js

 

BOOK 1- A ROYAL SHADE OF BLUE

Aug. 25th: Country Road Reviews Viviana MacKade The Book Junkie Reads . . . Aug. 26th: A Blue Million Books KayBee’s Bookshelf, A Literary Blog One Last Page Book Blog T’s Stuff Aug. 27th: Author C.A. Gray My Creatively Random Life The Book Addict’s Reviews Aug. 28th: Valerie Ullmer | Romance Author Locks, Hooks and Books WonderlandiansBooks Aug. 29th: Jazzy Book Reviews Reading for the Love of Books Audiobook Ebook Fascination Aug. 30th: What Is That Book About Nesie’s Place BookishOwlette (Review, Giveaway) Turning Another Page Aug. 31st: Teatime and Books Haddie’s Haven Smada’s Book Smack Dazzled by Books Guilty Indulgence Bookclub

BOOK 2- THE PRINCESS POSE

Sep. 1st: Country Road Reviews Dazzled by Books Sep. 2nd: Valerie Ullmer | Romance Author The Book Junkie Reads . . . KayBee’s Bookshelf, A Literary Blog Sep. 3rd: A Blue Million Books One Last Page Book Blog T’s Stuff Turning Another Page Sep. 4th: Author C.A. Gray WonderlandiansBooks The Book Addict’s Reviews Sep. 5th: Viviana MacKade Locks, Hooks and Books BookishOwlette Audiobook Ebook Fascination Sep. 6th: Haddie’s Haven Smada’s Book Smack Reading for the Love of Books Guilty Indulgence Bookclub Sep. 7th: Teatime and Books Jazzy Book Reviews My Creatively Random Life

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SPOTLIGHT REVIEW + AUDIO EXCERPT ~ KISSING MAGIC BY DAY LEITAO

Audiobook Blog Tour: Kissing Magic by Day Leitao

Author: Day Leitao

Narrator: Winona Owen

Length: 12 hours and 22 minutes

Series: Portals to Whyland, Book 2

Publisher: Sparkly Wave

Released: Jun. 14, 2019

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Kiss him. Don’t fall in love. Break a spell with a kiss. Karina has heard and seen enough weird stuff for this request to sound legit. At 16, Karina has a shot at adventure–and an odd first kiss – when she’s called to Whyland, a kingdom in another dimension, to save a guy she barely knows. Why her? No clue, but she’s happy to help, and kissing Sian isn’t torture, even if he isn’t to be trusted. Karina’s smart enough not to fall in love – or at least to tell herself not to. Once in Whyland, she realizes that risking a broken heart is the smallest of her problems. When truths are unraveled, Karina will need to stand between an ancient darkness and the kingdom. But what hope does she have against mysterious powers when she can’t even control her own heart? If you like fantasy and adventure with a dash of romance, give Kissing Magic a try. This novel is recommended for listeners 13 and older. This is book two in Portals to Whyland series but you can jump straight into it without listening to book one.
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  Originally from Brazil, Day Leitao lives in Montreal, Canada. She likes stories with action, humor, and heart. For more information, for a free novella, and to get news and updates, go to https://dayleitao.com
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First and foremost, I truly enjoyed listening to this book. Winona Owen did an amazing job narrating Kissing Magic. She did a great job portraying the emotions of the characters. I definitely felt their highs and lows. It was also very easy to distinguish which character was which from the tone of voice she used. I can’t remember ever getting bored or distracted, aside from my kids wanting food. I will definitely listen to more books narrated by Winona.
I have been obsessed with audiobooks since about 2014 when I didn’t have enough time to sit down to read and preferred still being able to read on the go. Believe me neither of us want to count the number of books I’ve listened to. Lately I am in love with all things paranormal and fantasy-based romance.  Kissing Magic was exactly the next book I needed as I’ve run a bit dry on magical books to read.
Now about the book! I fell in love with Karina and Sian from the beginning. Throughout the story the struggle was real to decide who I loved the most. Without going into detail, just when you think you understand everything the plot thickens. Karina has a few different personalities depending on what is going on with her, like many females. It did drive me a little nuts when I just wanted her to use her brain a bit more. She has an innocence about her and that’s probably the part that got to me, but at times she did display strength and growth. 
Sian on the other hand keeps you guessing all the way to the end. Believe me definitely never a dull moment with him. He is a jerk at times and yet one of the most devoted guys as well. Unfortunately, at times that devotion gets him into trouble. He is definitely a character that will keep you on your toes. Much like with Karina, I wish he used that brain he has a bit more. I wanted to jump into the book and knock some sense into both of them.
Overall, the supporting characters were portrayed perfectly as well. There is a lot of back story that is discovered with Kayla as well. Not exactly my favorite part. I think she is the most stubborn person in this book. Thankfully Darian is the perfect match to balance her. The story will certainly keep you engaged and experience this crazy adventure with each character.
I would definitely recommend this audiobook to anyone that loves books involving magic and fantasy. The production of the book was great and Winona definitely did the narration justice. Day Leitao did a great job with the story. I’m not happy I have to wait for another book.  I totally hate cliff hangers and this one was a whopper of a cliff hanger. I am glad I had the chance to experience the adventure I experienced while listening this book.
  I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Day Leitao. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
 
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