Reading, Reviewing, Guest Authors, Giveaways and more.
**What are you currently reading?
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
**What did you recently finish reading?
Sidney Sheldon’s After The Darkness by Tilly Bagshawe (Rating: 5)
Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer (Rating: 4)
**What do you think you’ll read next?
Dare To Die by Carolyn Hart
I Can See You by Karen Rose
Today we have author Becky Due stopping by while on her virtual tour. I am thrilled to have her visit with us. Please help me welcome her to my blog !!
Becky Due, like the main characters of her novels, spent many years running from herself, looking for love, crying a little and laughing a lot along the journey of finding herself. Through writing, Due found her passion. She is the author of several books and is currently working on her next novel.
Happily married she and Scott live in Colorado, Florida and Alberta, Canada with their two “kids” Buddy the Cat and Shorty the Pug.
Becky has been a guest on national radio programs and has been the subject of numerous newspaper and national magazine articles for empowering women through her novels. She has served as a guest speaker at Women’s Resource Centers, Shelters, Colleges and High Schools within the United States. Becky has had extensive training at Victim Services, worked the 24-Hour Sexual Assault Crisis-Line and was a Victim’s Advocate where she offered one-on-one assistance and support to rape victims. In 2007, Becky started, Women Going Forward, the first national women’s telephone support group, which ran for almost two years. After receiving much recognition for her novels, Becky’s focus turned back to her writing and empowering women through her novels.
Becky’s latest book is a supsense novel titled Returning Injury: A Suspense Chelebrating Women’s Strength. You can visit her website at www.beckydue.com.
About Returning Injury: A Suspense Celebrating Women’s Strength
Rebecca’s life just keeps getting better. With Jack away on business, she’s looking forward to foud days alone to work on her new client’s PR campaign to help women take back their lives. But her past intrudes. Roy, the man who stalked and assaulted her years before, has been released from prison. Home alone in her big, beautiful house out in the country, Rebecca has to learn to take back her own life while facing her fears and regaining her strength. But will she be strong enough when she faces the ultimate test?
Watch the trailer !!
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
You have to help me get rid of this obsession that I’m still not safe. That someone or something is out to get me.
Today we have author Becky Due stopping by while on her virtual tour. I am thrilled to have her visit with us. Please help me welcome her to my blog !!
Becky Due, like the main characters of her novels, spent many years running from herself, looking for love, crying a little and laughing a lot along the journey of finding herself. Through writing, Due found her passion. She is the author of several books and is currently working on her next novel.
Happily married she and Scott live in Colorado, Florida and Alberta, Canada with their two “kids” Buddy the Cat and Shorty the Pug.
Becky has been a guest on national radio programs and has been the subject of numerous newspaper and national magazine articles for empowering women through her novels. She has served as a guest speaker at Women’s Resource Centers, Shelters, Colleges and High Schools within the United States. Becky has had extensive training at Victim Services, worked the 24-Hour Sexual Assault Crisis-Line and was a Victim’s Advocate where she offered one-on-one assistance and support to rape victims. In 2007, Becky started, Women Going Forward, the first national women’s telephone support group, which ran for almost two years. After receiving much recognition for her novels, Becky’s focus turned back to her writing and empowering women through her novels.
Becky’s latest book is a supsense novel titled Returning Injury: A Suspense Chelebrating Women’s Strength. You can visit her website at www.beckydue.com.
About Returning Injury: A Suspense Celebrating Women’s Strength
Rebecca’s life just keeps getting better. With Jack away on business, she’s looking forward to foud days alone to work on her new client’s PR campaign to help women take back their lives. But her past intrudes. Roy, the man who stalked and assaulted her years before, has been released from prison. Home alone in her big, beautiful house out in the country, Rebecca has to learn to take back her own life while facing her fears and regaining her strength. But will she be strong enough when she faces the ultimate test?
Watch the trailer !!
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
You have to help me get rid of this obsession that I’m still not safe. That someone or something is out to get me.
Have you heard?? Julie from My Book Retreat is hosting a Summer Reading Challenge. I remember that I was probably the only kid who looked forward to Summer Reading when I was in school a few, many, many many, ok…in the days when the only transportation to school was one’s feet lol. So I had to join in. How about you? Criteria from Julie’s blog and link provided below along with my list of books.
Here’s how you can participate in this Summer Reading Challenge, which will take place from June 21 – September 21.
Create a list of the books you’d like to read or finish during this summer season. There’s no minimum and no requirements as to the type of books you put on your list ~ it’s all up to you how many you include, and whether they’re beach reads or classics or something in between.
Write a blog post with the list of books you want to read ~ and any other summer reading goals ~ and post it on your blog.
Come back here on June 21st to sign up. I’ll have a Linky set up that morning, so you can link up to your own Summer Reading Challenge post.
Read! Work through your list of books throughout the summer. Write reviews if you’d like. Have fun!
Write a wrap-up post at the end of summer to report on your results.
Come back here on September 21st to link your wrap-up post to the Linky I’ll post that day.
If you’re joining this Summer Reading Challenge, I encourage you to visit other participants to see what they’re reading. You may find some new books to add to your own TBR list. If you think you’d like to participate, leave a comment below so I can get an idea of how many people might want to join. Also, if you do plan to join, let me know if you’d like me to set up a Linky for keeping track of review posts as well. I’d be happy to do so if people are going to use it!
My List:
1. Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
2. Dare To Die by Carolyn Hart
3. I Can See You by Karen Rose
4. Never Let You Go by Erin Healy
5. Returning Injury by Becky Due
6. Through Hazel Eyes by Heather Hummel
7. Muffins & Mayhem by Suzanne Beecher
8. Living In The Hope Of My Imagination by William D. Simpson
9. Finding Marco by Kenneth C. Cancellara
10. Damaged by Pamela Callow
11. Grace Under Pressure by Julie Hyzy
12. Revenge Served Cold by Jackie Fullerton
I will probably add more to the list depending on how much I get read. But isn’t this great? It is bringing back memories of when I used to sit under the shade of a big tree we had in our yard, with my pile of books and a big glass of lemonade.
Today’s Question:
Name your top 2-3 favorite genres (the ones you read most from).
My Answer:
Today’s question is an easy one. My 1st choice, and as been for years, is the genre of Mystery/Suspense. Those books keep me engaged and love to try and solve the mystery. Maybe I was a PI in another life lol. The 2nd would be Contemporary Chick Lit/Romance. These you will find on my shelves and tbr list.
This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.
FINISHED:
Sidney Sheldon’s After The Darkness by Tilly Bagshawe (what a book !!! Rated a 5)
Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer (the perfect summer read. I rated it a 4)
READING:
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
UP NEXT:
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
Dare To Die by Carolyn Hart
