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Today we have a really great guest post from Alma Katsu, author of this weeks Book of the Week! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*   Is Life Like a Fairytale? Once upon a time there was a young girl who loved to read.  She loved to read because books were more interesting than her life, which was sometimes not [...]

We are so excited to be a part of the Surrender Blog Tour! Today we are featuring a guest author post from the author of Surrender, Elana Johnson and a fun This or That! But first, let’s take a look at Elana’s new book Surrender. From Goodreads… The thrilling and seductive sequel to Possession puts love on [...]

AZURE, by Cheree Alsop Azure, the fifth book of the Silver Series, is about an alpha werewolf who rescues a human from the vengeful grasp of his pack. Nora is the only person who is not afraid of Vance’s size or strength, and in return she gains his respect.  When Vance is pushed to the edge of [...]

Today we are stop number 3 on the Take a Bow Sneak Peek tour! Of course we picked Ethan! First, a little about Take a Bow (from Goodreads) From the fantastic author of The Lonely Hearts Club and Prom & Prejudice comes a story of all the drama and comedy of four friends who grow [...]

Today’s blog tour feature is called Invisible, by Jeanne Bannon! We have all sorts of fun stuff to share with you! Let’s start with the cover of this book: I love that cover! The colors and the font is so appealing to me! But wait ’til you find out what this book is about: Lola’s [...]

  We are very excited to be a part of the Until Next Time Blog Tour! On the tour stop today, we have a guest author post and an author interview with Amy Lignor! Eve’s Fan Garden is all about Girl Power. So we asked author Amy Lignor to share some of her thoughts on [...]

We are happy to be part of the official blog tour for Untraceable by S.R. Johannes, and today we have a fun treat for you.  S.R. Johannes has written a guest post for us about bringing the setting of her book to life. For more information on this book tour, and to see the other [...]

This whole week we are featuring Grave Expectations here on EFG. We have a fantastic giveaway going on right now. Enter to win a copy of Grave Expectations (see below). Yesterday we heard from Sherri all about the experiences of writing mash-ups, and today we are going to have a little fun with Sherri! Coke [...]

This whole week we are featuring a new book called Grave Expectations by Sherri Browning Erwin. Today we are so pleased to share with you a guest blog post written by Sherri all about her experiences with writing mash-up novels. Grave Expectations is her second novel in which she took a classic (Great Expectations) and [...]

Lisa Schroeder’s latest book, The Day Before, was released on June 28.  Lisa wrote this guest blog about how and why she uses music in her books. Some of the reviews of THE DAY BEFORE have mentioned my use of songs (and movies in this case)and I thought it’d be fun to talk a little [...]

If I’d written to trends, my first YA novel never would have been published. That sounds pretty funny now, because Bones of Faerie is set in the aftermath of of a magical War between faeries and humans, and it combines two fairly trendy elements: faeries and post-apocalyptic fiction. But neither of those things were at [...]

The Future of Publishing by Jon Skovron If I am at home and working on a project and suddenly realize I need to re-read The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson for research, I just pick up my iPad, download it from the Apple Book Store, and ten minutes [...]

Marketing Is a Moving Target By Saundra Mitchell For all we talk about marketing, nobody really knows how it all works. If there were a key, an absolute path to marketing success, every book would be a bestseller. Midlist titles would never suddenly become lead titles; lead titles would never fail to perform. But they [...]

Material Girls By Natalie Zaman and Charlotte Bennardo The jig is up. Char and I. Love. Stuff. And somehow, that materialistic streak (not too wide, we hope!) found it’s way into our debut YA novel SIRENZ. Clothes, shoes, gadgets, accessories are essential to the story, and we were excited to get some cool bling to [...]

The Arts and Crafts of Self-Promotion By Sarah Darer Littman Being a writer these days requires an almost Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-like personality. On the one hand, you must be comfortable spending long periods of time in seclusion, capable of enormous feats of self-discipline to get your butt in the chair and fill that [...]