Musing Monday: Act your age! Or read it? (Call for Reviewers!)

This week’s musing asks…

Which do you prefer: Adult -or- Young Adult books? Or, both? Why?

My answer to this: 

It's a difficult one for me to say, I honestly just love both pretty much equally. I do believe it's nice to have a variation and what I read is often based on how I am feeling when I pick up a book to read. Fantasy is one of the genre's I absolutely adore and there are a lot of fantasy books coming in from both authors of adult and young adult at the moment because it appears to be a very popular genre - with many sub-genres. I'm sure fantasy used to do less well, sales wise, but I can no longer see how that even applies any more these days. Either way, it's a very lucky, lucky time to be reading so much of both!  I don't always act my age, so I don't always need to read my age! What about you?

Sassy Shout Out:

I do actually need British reviewers living in the UK/Europe who like reading urban fantasy! It's for an American client I have wishing to spread the word around this side of the pond more. If anyone is interested, please do get in touch via my contact tab. (Top left). Thank you. 
 

For anyone else not living in the UK (and also Brits!), we do need reviewers of erotica ebooks.  

 

What ever your reading preference, it's a great way to share your writing skills - whether you be a reader or author! Good publicity for all. And of course free books!

Giveaways soon closing! Check below for details!

Musing Monday is hosted by MizB, check out the other entries here! What's your answer?

February 2011

Author in the Spotlight

Allison Pang
Visit Allison Pang's Spotlight Author Page

-- ۞۞GIVEAWAYS۞۞ --
Allison Pang's 'A Brush of Darkness' Urban Fantasy paperback.
Sara Reinke's signed paperback of Dark Thirst Book One in The Brethren VAMPIRE Series
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*All giveaways are open to all WORLDWIDE unless otherwise stated.

Join our Thursday Chat over at the
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Book Bloggers! Leave your link here! I'm refreshing my blog pal list!

I'm building my new book blogger buddy list, because sadly many of my book blogging friends are no longer blogging. I also thought it would be a good starting point for many authors who are looking for more places to get their books reviewed.

Please leave your book blog title and the main genres you review. Add if you accept erotica.
Added: If you can fit it in, it might be nice to add where you are from, too.

I will start the ball rolling with my own blog here! If you'd like to grab the code to add to your blog site, that is fine, too. There's no way we can review everything that comes in, so this way authors will get to choose from a good selection of current, active reviewers. Plus, every author needs more than one review per book!

I would also love to have you as a guest reviewer, should that be something you are interested in. If you leave your email when you leave your link below I'll email you with a no obligation list/selection of books to choose from.  

Hey, I just made all you fantastic book blogger buddies a cute sticker! How many can you collect? I'm going a bit mad with them lately, but they are so cute! Please feel welcome to link back to this page using this link :

Let me know! I'll link back to you, add your logo if you have one, and follow you everywhere! (In a supportive, Facebook - Twitter - non-creepy way, of course!)

THANK YOU, book blogger buddies! You ROCK!

SSSS: Author Writing Prompts! Today Daniel Arenson Gets Our Juices Flowing...

For all you authors and aspiring writers out there, here is the Sassy Sunday Story Starter, brought to you by author Daniel Arenson, author of fantasy fiction.

The cat spread her butterfly wings, flew off the tree, and gazed into the pool. 

Check out Daniel's newest release The Gods of Dream, an epic fantasy novel, here! 
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Title:  The Gods of Dream Website:  Twitter: Facebook:  The Gods of Dream for Kindle US:  Kindle UK:  Smashwords:  

Tagline:  "Visited Narnia and Middle Earth?  Now escape into Dream."

 

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  About the Sassy Sunday Story Starter (Writing Prompts) 

If you'd like to have your prompt featured, please email it to us! We'd love to hear from you.

For full details of what to send, and for ideas of how writers can use these prompts please check out the SSSS guidelines by clicking here.

Check out previous prompts. Good luck and happy writing! 

May the muse be with you! 

*Jedi Sassy* and *Darkside Devlyn*

:)

February 2011

Author in the Spotlight

Allison Pang
Visit Allison Pang's Spotlight Author Page

-- ۞۞GIVEAWAYS۞۞ --
Allison Pang's 'A Brush of Darkness' Urban Fantasy paperback.
Sara Reinke's signed paperback of Dark Thirst Book One in The Brethren VAMPIRE Series
*
*All giveaways are open to all WORLDWIDE unless otherwise stated.

Join our Thursday Chat over at the
Yahoo Chat and Promo group!

(and claim your free e-books!)

SASSY SPECIAL: Offer entitles you to all the benefits of Audible membership during your 14 day free trial, including: a free audiobook of your choice from our range of over 50,000 titles, exclusive member discounts, access to our popular Members' Page, free gift downloads and more. If you decide that Audible isn't right for you, you can cancel at any point and keep your free audiobook.

What Makes a Person Unforgettable?

By Amy Romine - AR Affiliate Author
The Ascending Butterfly Blog Spot recently talked about Daisy Fuentes' new book, Unforgettable You. The question of 'what makes a woman unforgettable?' was posed and I began thinking about the answer to such a illustrious query.
To be honest, I think the question is completely subjective. Something that makes a woman unforgettable to me may not be so unforgettable to you. If we talk in generalities there are certain traits that align with the 'unforgettable' classification. I would say that many of these traits are androgynous in nature. As the question was posed in regards to women I am going to have to defer to 'person' as the qualities are the same.

To do this we should look at some of the most 'unforgettable' people of our time. Please understand I am choosing these people based on their celebrity, mere as a common thought process ( picture of my Grandmother is less likely to translate well).

As you review the list think about what qualities all of these people have in common. This again is going to differ to person but I am going to list the qualities that I see...

Strength - of will, of character, of spirit and of integrity.



Beauty - I am not referring to outer beauty. I am referring to an inner beauty or shine that comes with true actions of the heart.

Independence - the ability to stand alone without regret

Belief - in themselves, in others, in justice, in humanity

Each of these amazing people were able to embrace themselves, and the world with an honest and accepting understanding. Being unforgettable to me, is first being unforgettable to yourself. Accepting who you are, why you are and loving the person you see in the mirror. Once you decide that it is good to be you, you become unforgettable.




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February 2011

Author in the Spotlight

Allison Pang
Visit Allison Pang's Spotlight Author Page

-- ۞۞GIVEAWAYS۞۞ --
Hardcover of Madame Tussaud and a pair of Marie Antoinette cupcake earrings from Michelle  Moran!
Allison Pang's 'A Brush of Darkness' Urban Fantasy paperback.
Sara Reinke's signed paperback of Dark Thirst
*
*All giveaways are open to all WORLDWIDE unless otherwise stated.

Join our Thursday Chat over at the
Yahoo Chat and Promo group!

(and claim your free e-books!)

SASSY SPECIAL: Offer entitles you to all the benefits of Audible membership during your 14 day free trial, including: a free audiobook of your choice from our range of over 50,000 titles, exclusive member discounts, access to our popular Members' Page, free gift downloads and more. If you decide that Audible isn't right for you, you can cancel at any point and keep your free audiobook.

INK V's Pencil: What's your preference when writing? (Author Blog Hop Thurs, 24th Feb)

We have now opened our Thursday chats to guests once a month! To book a group chat, or to see our guest list please check here.  From midday UK GMT Time onwards please visit our Yahoo chat group to chat with our affiliate authors and their guests AND check out our latest blog hop!

THIS WEEK'S AUTHOR BLOG HOP QUESTION IS: 

Ink vs pencil: If you write your manuscripts, do you use pen or pencil? Do you use a journal to take notes about ideas and characters? Or do you type everything on the computer in a completely different fashion?

What is author blog hop? Blog hop, also known as blog hopping, is to move from one blog after another to read the entries or to leave comments.

 Grab the above logo - Write your post (NEW!: I now supply a question for you to answer, for anyone not sure what to write about) - Leave your link in the Linky Tools spot below - then hop from blog to blog meeting and greeting! 

GRAB - WRITE - LINK - HOP!

THE ALTERNATIVE-READ.COM AUTHOR BLOG HOP

Discover a new author today!

Need help? 

Check the Author Blog Hop Guide here:

http://bit.ly/eUfhnq

February 2011

Author in the Spotlight

Allison Pang
Visit Allison Pang's Spotlight Author Page

-- ۞۞GIVEAWAYS۞۞ --
Allison Pang's 'A Brush of Darkness' Urban Fantasy paperback.
Sara Reinke's signed paperback of Dark Thirst
*
*All giveaways are open to all WORLDWIDE unless otherwise stated.

Join our Thursday Chat over at the
Yahoo Chat and Promo group!

(and claim your free e-books!)

SASSY SPECIAL: Offer entitles you to all the benefits of Audible membership during your 14 day free trial, including: a free audiobook of your choice from our range of over 50,000 titles, exclusive member discounts, access to our popular Members' Page, free gift downloads and more. If you decide that Audible isn't right for you, you can cancel at any point and keep your free audiobook.