Book Cover Reveal and Giveaway Info: Snow White Sorrow by Cameron Jace

I'm so excited for this book to come out!!  I enjoyed the prequel series (my review) and have come to admire this author's work.  And to kick off this reveal and the Christmas holiday, Mr. Jace is having a generous giveaway.  Two, $10 Amazon Gift Card, yeap that's two winners!!  Please visit his blog HERE to enter and for details. But that's not all, he's also offering The Grimm Diaries Prequels Bundle (6 ebooks) for only 99 cents (12/12 and 12/13 only)!  That's 6 ebooks for the price of 1!   Aaahhhhh, that's an amazing deal!!  See below for the link.

Cover Reveal

Pretty!!

Snow White Sorrow by Cameron Jace
Expected publication:  February 2013
Find Book:  Amazon | Goodreads

Sixteen year old Loki Blackstar is no Prince Charming. His mother is a ghost. His only friend is a red Cadillac that talks to him through the radio. He looks like an Angel but acts like jerk. No wonder he has been banned from Heaven, which is the least of his troubles. Loki needs a job to pay for school and support himself.

Still, Loki has a rare gift: He is a Dreamhunter. One of the few in the world who can hunt and kill immortal demons in their dreams so they never wake up again.

When Loki is sent to kill a sixteen-year-old vampire girl the locals call Snow White Sorrow, he is pulled into a magical but dangerous world. The locals believe the monster to be Snow White.

The real Snow White... living in the ruins of an ancient castle in a small town. She is described as horribly beautiful, terrifyingly enchanting, and wickedly lovely.

What he finds instead is a beautiful monster girl filled with rage and hurt, who has an epic untold story to tell of things such like why the Brothers Grimm altered the fairy tale, who the Evil Queen really is, where the mirror came from, and who possessed it.

Snow White has killed every person who has dared come near the castle where she once lived with the queen. Mysteriously, she lets Loki live, and whispers two words in his ears; two words that will change his life forever.

The Grimm Diaries Prequels Bundle Deal

Only 99 cents!

About Author

Find him:  Facebook | Website
(what a cute looking young man!)

Wonderlander, Neverlander, Unicorn-chaser, enchanter, musician, survived a coma, & totally awesome. Sometimes I tell stories. Always luv the little monsters

I write young adult paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and science fiction mostly. The Grimm Diaries series is a seven book saga that deals with retellings of fairy tales from a young adult POV - it connects most of the fairy tales together and claims to be the truth about fairy tales.

I live in San Fransisco and seriously think circles are way cooler than triangles.

Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors

Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This week's topic:  Favorite New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2012.  Looks like I have a lot of Indie authors!

Here's my list in alphabetical order. 

title The Secret Life of Copernicus H. Stringfellow: Surreptitious Superhero

author Barber, Lorin K.

title Always the Baker Never the Bride

author Bricker, Sandra D.

title Love Your Frenemies

author Esguerra, Mina V.

title Taste

author Evangelista, Kate

title The Lost Saints of Tennessee: A Novel

author Franklin-Willis, Amy

title Daughters for a Time

author Handford, Jennifer

title Remy Broussard's Christmas

author Howard, Kittie

title Snow White Blood Red (The Grimm Diaries Prequels, #1)

author Jace, Cameron

title The Faerie Guardian, Part I: Guardian

author Morgan, Rachel

title True Grit

author Portis, Charles

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"Finding the Baby Jesus"

Welcome to my stop in this blog tour hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer.  A big thank you to author, Kimball Fisher, for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Don't forget to swing by the Tour Schedule for other fun stops in this tour.  Mr. Fisher is also giving a generous Giveaway for this tour, $25 Amazon GC or Paypal, so be sure to enter that below!

 

 

My Review

by Kimball Fisher, YR, 2012, Smashwords for mobi-edition ebook, 36p, rating=3.5
Source: provided by author through tour host
Purchase: Amazon | Smashwords

After being forced to wear lederhosen for the annual holiday card picture, twelve-year-old Chris thinks that the least his parents can do is get him the Tony Hawk skateboard he wants for Christmas. But when he recovers the hand-carved Baby Jesus that everyone thought had been destroyed in a fire the year his Grandma died, Chris realizes that some gifts are even more important than skateboards.
 

It's easy to forget that for some, the Christmas season is not a jolly time but perhaps a sad one.  This was the case for twelve year old Chris.  He had fond memories of his late grandmother, especially during this time of the year.  His grandmother always had a special gift under the Christmas tree each year for him and this was to be the third year that such a special tradition would not occur.  So Chris figured he deserved the second best, a Tony Hawk skateboard. Then comes Hyrum who would be grateful to receive a coat that would fit him.  This jumpstarts the softening of Chris's heart.  Moreover, after discovering that his grandmother indeed left a special gift under the tree for him, Chris hearkened to her written words and found the true spirit of Christmas and his heart was full.

Perhaps the first thought in a child's mind about Christmas is receiving presents.  This short book would be a wonderful family Christmas reading to help demonstrate that Christmas is about baby Jesus and giving.  A sweet story of change of heart, from a selfish one to an altruistic one.  With the hussle and bussle of this holiday, we can use a reminder of why we give presents. Chris's story would do that.

About Author

Facebook | Website

Kimball Fisher writes novels for young readers. He is also a best-selling business author, professional speaker, and management consultant. Some of his past jobs include: sailboat builder, ghost writer (not as scary as it sounds), illustrator, and factory manager (more scary than it sounds). For fun he builds furniture, stained-glass windows, and writing pens.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities (with minors in English, Asian Studies, and Japanese), and a Master of Organizational Behavior degree from Brigham Young University. He and his amazing wife Reenie live in Portland, Oregon, where they have seen pheasants, coyotes, and a bobcat in their own backyard.

Tour Giveaway

$25 Amazon Gift Card or Paypal Cash

Ends 12/26/12

Open to anyone who can legally enter, receive and use an Amazon.com Gift Code or Paypal Cash. Winning Entry will be verified prior to prize being awarded. No purchase necessary. You must be 18 or older to enter or have your parent's permission. The winner will be chosen by rafflecopter and announced here as well as emailed and will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is in no way associated with Facebook, Twitter, Rafflecopter or any other entity unless otherwise specified. The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.

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"Friends Forever"

Friends Forever by Danielle Steel, Performed by Nick Podehl, AF, 2012, Playaway digital audio book, 8hrs, rating=2
Source:  library

Two girls and three boys, all with strikingly different looks and talents, meet at the Atwood school as young children. Together, they become an inseparable group - known to outsiders as "The Big Five" - and lean on one another through all the bumps and bends of childhood and adolescence. But when the tight-knit group graduates and scatters to different colleges, their lives diverge dramatically, and some of the friends are lost forever... Those who remain will struggle to understand that even bonds that once seemed unbreakable are not proof against tragedy - but that they can also transform into something new and entirely unexpected... (Goodreads)

This is definitely not a Christmas read!  Not that it was advertised to be one but just letting you know that it was not a jolly book.  Quite depressing actually.  It practically didn't let up.  I was hanging on to the hope that there will be a happy ending.  Well, let's just say that I was so dispirited that it would have taken an amazingly, over-top ending to snap me out of my displeased trance. 

The premise was sweet enough, from kindergarten to adulthood these five individuals demonstrated the important bond lifelong friends can have.  In between were rough trials that tested their friendship and relationships with their parents and siblings.  Overall with a theme of examining a generational age prone to self destruction or tragedies.  Usually that kind of look in life is right up my alley but I didn't buy it here.  There was something about the storytelling that just didn't quite pierce into me.  There were several heart wrenching moments that should have but they felt superficial instead.  The repetitiveness didn't help as well but rather became somewhat annoying. 

Bless Mr. Podehl's heart because he did a great job at narrating but it was the script that just didn't allow him to convey depth.

This wasn't an awful book because there were tender moments and complex relationships worth exploring.  Perhaps that's part of the problem, too many things were going on.

Top Ten Tuesday: Dear Santa, I Want ...

Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

 

This week's topic: Top Ten Books I Wouldn't Mind Santa Bringing Me.  ~I really, really want the first two!! ;)

1.

title The Wedding Letters

author Wright, Jason F.

2. 

title The Time Keeper

author Albom, Mitch

3.

title Before Ever After

author Sotto, Samantha

4.

title The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

author Ness, Patrick

5.

title Son (The Giver, #4)

author Lowry, Lois

6.

title Seraphina (Seraphina, #1)

author Hartman, Rachel

7.

title Perception (Clarity, #2)

author Harrington, Kim

8.

title Perla

author Robertis, Carolina De

9.

title Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, #1)

author LaFevers, R.L.

10.

title The Casual Vacancy

author Rowling, J.K.

How about you?  What books would you like from Santa?  Maybe I have it and we can swap.  :D

Christmas Books Giveaway Hop

Welcome to my stop and thank you Kathy and Laurie for hosting this giveaway. 

The following are up for grabs.  All I ask is that you are a follower of this blog, at least 13 years old, and fill out the entry form.  A winner will be notified via email within 3 days after end of contest and will have 72hrs to reply.


Kindle ebook edition:

All I Want byRachael Renee Anderson , Kaylee Baldwin , Jolene B. Perry

Kissing Under the Mistletoe byMarina Adair

Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story byWally Lamb

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