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Alley Ciz’s “Sweet Victory” is LIVE & she’s sent over a 5 Fun Facts + she’s giving away a $25 giftcard & a signed copy!

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<— Sweet Victory: (BTU Alumni #3) JUST WENT LIVE & author Alley Ciz is this week’s newsletter sponsor!! 😀 And early Merry Christmas to us ’cause we’re celebrating with fun facts, a $25 gift card + a signed book giveaway! But first…

What’s it about?

SWEET VICTORY is the third book in the BTU Alumni series and can be read as a stand-alone.

This book features a Christmas-loving hot mess of a baker, an alpha-dirty-talking MMA fighter, and the best group of friends ever (even if they don’t know how to mind their own business). HEA guaranteed—being on Santa’s Nice List…not so much. read more

Book Review – Willing Victim by Cara McKenna

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Willing Victim: Remastered
Excellent little book (only 119 pages), if I do say so myself! Usually I don’t get enough from a short story to emotionally connect with the characters, but this one had me riveted. Not because of any action or suspense, but simply because the dynamic between the two main characters captured me. A little bit of the unknown, and an already shy’ish woman takes a huge chance on someone she can’t stop looking at. She approaches him.

The original cover!!

“You asking me out?” read more

Fun Facts About Beautiful Disaster – One of My Favorite Books Ever!

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I have an upcoming interview scheduled with the author of Beautiful Disaster (Jamie McGuire), but thought I’d compile a bunch of cool facts I’ve found regarding this book. Jamie speaks candidly on her Facebook pages, and has divulged some very interesting stuff!

So to hold us over until the interview, here’s a little treat for all of you Travis and Abby fanatics. A deeper look into this fantastic book that kept us up all night 😉

  • Beautiful Disaster is not a Young Adult novel (rated mature, and is for ages 17+).
  • “…this book was never meant to be published. It was just supposed to be “for fun” to stretch my writing wings a bit with a more mature piece. My fans have completely embraced it and I am thrilled!”
  • As per a recent Facebook post, she used the names of some of her college friends for a few of her characters (highlighting America, Finch, Brazil, Shep).
  • Jamie points out that the book originally had a different title:

“Fun Fact: Beautiful Disaster was written under the working title “Red Flag”, which later became the name of the first chapter.” read more

Book Review – Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

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Beautiful Disaster
I went on a book-bender this week, but the “bender” consisted of only one book. This one. This is the first book, in all of my reading experience that I have ever finished, just to immediately start reading again. Not because I didn’t understand what happened and had to re-read to comprehend it (it’s an easy,albeit emotionally-involved, read). I didn’t re-read it because I forgot what happened, and needed to refresh my memory for this review. No. Every scene is permanently burned into my brain. I read it twice, simply because I loved it that much. read more

What I Am Reading Today – Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

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Beautiful Disaster
Annnnnd I’m obsessed again. This is getting a little embarrassing 🙄 I’m halfway through the book, and I’m already antsy about it being almost over. What am I going to do when there’s no more Travis? How am I going to ever look at another bad boy again? It seems each time I find another one of these “bad boy” books, I think to myself, “this one can’t be beat”, and then boom!!! I find another badder and hotter then then the last. Hotter than Brian of Rock Me? Hrmmm… okay, no. read more