Hey! It's Sil. Happy Wednesday. Hope you are having a beautiful day. Because this is a very shiny and bright day here at the blog. Why, you ask? Because I have something special for you all. And I do mean SPECIAL. VERY SPECIAL. You all aren't ready for the great things I have for you. 

Rose Lerner's upcoming title and the first book of her brand new duology, THE SEA MAY BURN, is ready to show off.

• First of all, we have a synopsis! F/F Gothic romance? Hells to the yeahs. 
• And then there is also a cover! When I first saw the cover, I absolutely fell in love with it at first sight. Definitely. 
• There should be a Rose Lerner Book Universe like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, right? The Sea May Burn is set in the Lively St. Lemeston universe so we know our favorite Rose Lerner characters are there? They might show up? Only time will tell *lol*

Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Mary Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room.

I was the perfect choice to give Mary a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion.

I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Mary’s mother, Sir Kit’s companion, Goldengrove’s mistress.

All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her.

Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on the guitar I found in the music room, why all the doors in the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night…

The Sea May Burn is a Jane Eyre retelling set in the Lively St. Lemeston universe. Book 1 in my Rye Bay f/f Gothic duology, I hope to put it out sometime this year.

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I discovered Georgette Heyer when I was thirteen, and wrote my first historical romance a few years later. My writing has improved since then, but my fascination with all things Regency hasn’t changed. When not reading, writing, or researching, I enjoy cooking and marathoning old TV shows. I live in Seattle with my best friend.

Are you all ready to see this gorgeous piece of art? Are you suuuuuure? Alright . . .

Hey beautiful people. I hope you're doing well on this great Tuesday. I'm pretty happy myself because today is going to be so much fun on the blog. I have for you a beautiful cover reveal for one Therese Beharrie book. You know I adore evrything Therese writes and I'm so excited to be revealing this cover to the world. I hope you love it as much as I do! A Wedding One Christmas comes out Nov. 19, 2018.

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Being an author has always been Therese’s dream. But it was only when the corporate world loomed during her final year at university that she realised how soon she wanted that dream to become a reality. So she got serious about her writing, and now writes books she wants to see in the world featuring people who look like her for a living. When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with her husband and dogs in Cape Town, South Africa. You can find her on Twitter (@ThereseBeharrie) and Facebook (Therese Beharrie, Author), or catch up on her website, theresebeharrie.com, where she keeps a writing blog.

Hey beautiful people. How are you today? I hope you are doing more than great! I'm excited to share with you today a cover reveal. This one is for the fabulous upcoming title by Lydia Kang, Toxic. I'm so very anticipating this novel and story. It sounds just perfect. I hope you all check it out and without further ado, the cover is going to be revealed!

Hi, beautiful people. How are you today? I happily bring you something fabulous for today. Check out this cover reveal for the newest release by Lynn Turner. I know some people will add this to their TBR so quickly because it's their kind of book and I recommend everyone to do it to be honest. 

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Check out the paperback cover!

Lynn Turner inherited her writing gene from her mother, who created fantastic tales about witches, invisible worlds and talking animals, and read them to her children at night. Lynn isn’t as great with the voices as her mother, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. 

She discovered romance far too young, when a mission to find a young adult fantasy title led her to historical romance. She spent hours skimming those sumptuous pages, drinking in the vivid descriptions of settings and clothes, feisty heroines and looming lords, and poetic language. (She may or may not have enjoyed the PG-13 bits too, tucking a new title beneath her pillow at night). 

She enjoys character-driven narratives most, and anything that transports her someplace else. Passionate about food and travel, she features healthy doses of both in the stories she crafts. Above all, she is dedicated to writing inclusive stories that explore what it means to be imperfectly human.

When she isn’t writing, she’s traveling, dreaming of traveling, or watching old Samantha Brown travelogue videos and wishing she had her job. She and her husband share their home in California with their two extraordinary children, and hope to add a little furry one to the family very soon.

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Hello beautiful people! I'm so happy to be in this blog tour. I'm a big fan of Kit Rocha and you should all be to be honest. They're doing a rebranding of their Beyond series and let me tell you they're all fabulous. If you want to see every cover that has been revealed, you can check out all of them by clicking here.

Bree has some notes and words about the process of this particular cover.

Beyond Ruin has always been the troublesome cover in the bunch. Since it has two heroes AND two heroines, we have a lot of options when it comes to who gets to be on the cover. Both Scarlet and Jyoti could have been amazing, but we felt it was important to let our WOC heroine shine, front and center. 

And boy, does she shine! Finding this picture made me so happy. She’s beautiful and glamorous, of course, but Jyoti has always been more than that. There’s a look in her eyes, a hint of mystery, an alllmost quirk of her lips that says she knows something you don’t. As one of the most self-controlled and powerful women in the series, Jyoti usually knows more about what’s going on than she’s telling, and I think this cover captures it perfectly. 

I had a lot of choices for the background of this cover, but I went with a lush, exotic garden. Jyoti spends a lot of this book in Sector Two, in a very lavish house, and her refuge is always the gardens. And the gardens are where a very pivotal scene goes down.

Adrian Maddox fled his royal life—and tragic past—in Sector One, choosing instead to join up with the O’Kanes. For years, he’s lived by one rule: love fast, love hard, and always be willing to walk away. He’s managed to guard his heart, keep it whole and untouched—until now.

They couldn’t be more different—Dylan, the brilliant, burned-out doctor from Eden who drowns his pain with drugs and self-destruction. Scarlet, the sensuous, sexy rocker from Three, a woman unafraid to embrace the world. And Jyoti, the whore turned spy from Sector Two, who battled addiction and came out stronger than anyone he’s ever met.

Separately, they make Mad long to open his heart, to tumble head-first into a sea of possibilities and wild love. Together, they make him burn, inside and out, with lust and unbearable, unimaginable pleasure.

Then one fateful moment shakes their world to its foundations—and leaves the sectors on the verge of all-out war with Eden. It’s the biggest fight the O’Kanes have ever faced, and Mad and his lovers are at the dead center of it. They could end up with everything they never knew they wanted—or lose it all. Including their lives.

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Kit Rocha is the pseudonym for co-writing team Donna Herren and Bree Bridges. After penning dozens of paranormal novels, novellas and stories as Moira Rogers, they branched out into gritty, sexy dystopian romance. 

The Beyond series has appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, has been nominated for best erotic romance in the RT Reviewer’s Choice award five times, and won in 2013 and 2015.

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Hi lovely people! Good morning to you all and happy Friday.

When I was approached for this, I was over the moon. Firstly because wow. I totally didn't expect it and I was so happy I could cry. And secondly because it was for a book that I was already excited about so it made things ten thousand times better to be honest? I had added this book on various lists and I'm so happy I get to show you all the perfect cover of 500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario. It's a book you want to TBR and keep on your sight when it releases. 

You can also check out the exclusive interview we had with author Juleah del Rosario.


The Book Voyagers: Can you tell us the process of how the final cover came together?
Juleah del Rosario: Sarah Creech a designer at Simon Pulse worked with illustrator Cannaday Chapman to create this striking cover after reading an early draft of the novel. My editor presented me with this design about a month after we finished the final edits. This was actually the second cover designed, and I loved it when I first saw it. What I love about this cover is that there are so many different details that I notice each time I see the cover, which is kind of like the experience of reading a verse novel. I really wanted to create a story that works on different levels, allowing readers to have different experiences with the story. I think this cover reflects the layers that exist in novels written in verse, but particularly in 500 WORDS OR LESS.

The Book Voyagers: Tell us a bit about the novel. What can we expect from the insides of this book? Or are we up to some surprises *grin* 
Juleah: 500 WORDS OR LESS is about a high school senior, Nic Chen, who has been branded as the girl who cheated on her charismatic and lovable boyfriend. She seeks to redefine her reputation by writing her Ivy League-obsessed classmates college admissions essays.

But the more essays Nic writes for other people, the less sure she becomes of herself, the kind of person she is, and whether her moral compass even points north anymore.

In writing 500 WORDS OR LESS, I really wanted to explore the type of people who can be extremely driven and accomplished on the outside, and yet deeply flawed on the inside. Without the accolades and GPAs and laundry list of extra- curriculars that we write on our college applications, do we know who are we?

I also explore the concept of identity throughout. How is one’s identity as a person of color shaped by living in a predominately white community? Who are we if our identity is performative, if we are always performing a version of our self? What does it mean to be a daughter when one’s relationship with one’s mother is fraught? These are the questions that I wanted Nic, and the characters in 500 WORDS OR LESS to grapple with.

The Book Voyagers: How excited are you to get this book out to the world? What are your thoughts and what are you feeling? 
Juleah: 500 WORDS OR LESS is ultimately a story about messy and flawed people, and explores complexities of life that can’t be tied into a neat little bow. There have been many moments in my teenage and adult life where I needed to read about flawed people, to feel that I wasn’t alone, to see the complexities in relationships and life that didn’t always end neatly, or even satisfyingly. I hope that this book can reach readers who might see something or feel something in this story that validates their own lived experience—in all its messy and unsatisfying complexity.

The Book Voyagers: What’s that one thing you’re anticipating so much to see/do when your book is out? 
Juleah: I’m a librarian and a complete library nerd. While seeing the book in my local public library would be amazing, what I’m most excited about is view the catalog record of my book in WorldCat. How many holdings will my book’s record have? What will be the book’s OCLC number? Which subject headings will be assigned? These are all super nerdy librarian questions.

I am also looking forward to smelling the pages of the hardcover. I love the smell of a new book.

The Book Voaygers: I was so excited (still am!) when I found out your novel is written in verse. That’s so enchanting. For you, is it easier to write from prose or harder? What drew you in? And why did you think it was a perfect way to tell this story? 
Juleah: While I am an avid reader, I’m also a slow reader. I have been drawn to reading novels written in verse because I can read and finish something that is still full of depth and meaning.

The first draft of 500 WORDS OR LESS was written in prose. But I got to the end and I felt like the emotional quality of the novel was off. Something wasn’t working. So I started to experiment with form and verse.

Now that I better understand verse novels, I think writing in verse is more reflective of the type of human experience I want to explore in my writing. Our experiences are filled with unknowns, with white space, with feelings we cannot easily explain.

The Book Voyagers: I would love to know from whom or where you draw inspiration, for example for writing. Who are your favorite authors you look up to? 
Juleah: Two of my all-time favorite authors are Jacqueline Woodson and John Green. I love the way both authors use language, and the way each word they write feels deliberate and inventive without distracting from voice and character.

In terms of verse novels, here are a few of the titles that were influential in writing 500 WORDS OR LESS

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff

The Book Voyagers: What are your 2018 resolutions?
Juleah: I have started working on a new project, but have found that it is extremely challenging to go from finishing a novel with fully formed characters whose inner most secrets you have lived with for 4+ years, to meeting a new character who essentially has said two words to you and you attempt to create a novel out of the brief interaction thus far. But as a writer, I also know this is just an excuse to not write. So my 2018 resolution is to get over it and just sit down and keep writing until I finish this next project.

Juleah del Rosario is a librarian at a university thus fulfilling her love of books and leafy green campuses simultaneously. Author in the in between hours. Born & raised in the Seattle area. Now calls Colorado home. According to Teen Vogue out of all the Emmas, she is most like Emma Watson, and according to Seventeen, her prom dress style is classic-preppy. Both results feel spot on.