Blog Tour- CITY OF BEASTS by Corrie Wang With An Excerpt & Giveaway!

I am stoked to be hosting a stop on the blog tour for CITY OF BEASTS by Corrie Wang! I have an excerpt to share with you today check it out and enter to win the giveaway below!

About The Book:

Title: CITY OF BEASTS 

Author: Corrie Wang

Pub. Date: September 17, 2018

Publisher: Freeform

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 384

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle,  B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

"If you see a beast, and you have the shot, don't hesitate. Kill it."

For seventeen years, fees have lived separate from beasts. The division of the sexes has kept their world peaceful. Glori Rhodes is like most other fees her age. She adores her neighborhood's abandoned Costco, can bench her body weight, and she knew twenty-seven beast counter attack moves by the time she was seven. She has never questioned the separation of the sexes or the rules that keep her post-nuclear hometown safe. But when her mother secretly gives birth to a baby beast, Glori grows to love the child and can't help wondering: What really is the difference between us and them?

When her brother, at the age of five, is snatched in a vicious raid, Glori and her best friend, Su, do the unthinkable - covertly infiltrate the City of Beasts to get him back. What's meant to be a smash-and-grab job quickly becomes the adventure of a lifetime as the fees team up with a fast-talking, T-shirt cannon wielding beast named Sway, and Glori starts to see that there's more to males, and her own history, than she's been taught. Glori, Sway, and a motley cohort of friends will go to the ends of the earth to find her little brother. And maybe save their divided world while they're at it.

Now on to the excerpt!

Exceprt 2 City of Beasts by Jaime Arnold on Scribd

About Corrie:

Corrie Wang is passionate about libraries, recycling, and eating all the food, everywhere. Corrie grew up in Buffalo but spent her formative years in Brooklyn, where one of her last paying gigs was managing a three-story nightclub on the Lower East Side.

Writing to fix things that make her angry and explore things that frighten her, Corrie’s novels are about girls unapologetically conquering scenarios they should have little control over. Tired of seeing women and girls lose in this culture - spoiler - they never do in her stories.

Her debut novel, The Takedown was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by the New York Public Library and a 2018 YALSA selection for Best Fiction for Young Adults. City of Beasts is her second novel.

Seeing, as Corrie wrote an entire novel about the freakiness and perils of socializing too much on the internets her existence there is haphazard at best. Now, more than ever, she feels it is time for everyone to look up. (Also stand up, step up, and eat up.

Woot!) That being said, you may follow her poor photography skillz on INSTAGRAM. 

AND P.S. Wang rhymes with 'song' y'all.

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Each signed pre-order copy of City of Beats will come with:

·        1 set of 5 Battle Cards featuring different mercenaries

·        A special paperclip necklace made by Mouse which makes you a part of the City of Beast family

·        Entry to win 1 of 3 raffle prizes

o   1^st prize is a Jackrabbit Filly t-shirt/patch/ $10 gift card

o   2^nd prize $10 gift card to Jackrabbit Filly and t-shirt

o   3^rd prize $10 gift card to Jackrabbit Filly

ANY PREORDERS FROM AN INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE

Pre-order City of Beasts at your local indie and you will receive:

·        A signed bookplate

·        A set of 5 Battle Cards featuring different mercenaries

·        A special paperclip necklace made by Mouse, making you part of the City of Beast family

PRE-ORDERS FROM ANYWHERE BOOKS ARE SOLD!

ANY PREORDERS FROM AN INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE

Pre-order City of Beasts anywhere else books are sold you will receive:

·        A signed bookplate

·        1 of 5 Battle Cards at random

Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive finished copies of CITY OF BEASTS, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

9/2/2019- Country Road Reviews- Excerpt

9/3/2019- Two Chicks on Books- Excerpt

9/4/2019- Character Madness and Musings- Excerpt

9/5/2019- Shelf-Rated- Review

9/6/2019- BookHounds YA- Review

Week Two:

9/9/2019- Lifestyle of Me- Review

9/10/2019- Daily Waffle - Excerpt

9/11/2019- A Dream Within A Dream- Review

9/12/2019- Life of a Simple Reader- Excerpt

9/13/2019- Here's to Happy Endings- Review

Week Three:

9/16/2019- Jena Brown Writes- Review

9/17/2019- Kati's Bookaholic Rambling Reviews- Excerpt

9/18/2019- Wishful Endings- Excerpt

9/19/2019- Book-Keeping- Review

9/20/2019- Jade Writes Books- Review

Week Four:

9/23/2019- Eli to the nth- Review

9/24/2019- two points of interest- Review

9/25/2019- The Layaway Dragon- Review

9/26/2019- Smada's Book Smack- Review

9/27/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads- Review

Week Five:

9/30/2019- lori's house of reviews- Review

Blog Tour- THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS by Joe M. Solomon With An Interview & 4 $20 Amazon GC Giveaway!

I am stoked to be hosting a stop on the blog tour for THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS by Joe M. Solomon! I have an excerpt to share with you today check it out and enter to win the giveaway below!

About The Book:

Title: THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS

Author: Joe M. Solomon

Pub. Date: June 11, 2019

Publisher: NES Publishing

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 538

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, iBooks, Kobo

March Madness has begun and college basketball playoffs are heating up, not that Robert Walker—a graduate student from Texas—particularly cares. He has decided to skip classes for the day, sleep in, and get some rest. Unfortunately, a brief spat on the phone with his fiancée makes that impossible. Hoping to take his mind off of it, he scans through TV channels in search of entertainment and instead finds one news report after another that warns of violence erupting in the streets.

People are randomly and savagely attacking one another all along the East Coast from Maine to Florida. Some speculate it may be related to strange lights that have appeared in the sky above the outbreaks. Before any solid conclusions can be drawn, however, the brutality spreads, sweeping across the country until it hits Houston, then proceeds on to the West Coast. Robert, a handful of classmates, and a few others manage to survive the first wave and find themselves in the midst of civilization’s blackest hour, surrounded by pandemonium, bloodshed, and masses of people who have been stripped of their humanity. Hours later, as those strange lights continue to dominate the sky, the vicious horde undergoes a new transformation.

There is no escaping the horror. Unable to reach his fiancée by phone, Robert sets out to find her, joined by a small ensemble of fellow survivors. The thirty-five miles they must cover are fraught with danger, and their terror grows with each step they take as they witness the genesis of a new Earth. Can they find a way to stop it? Will they even survive it? 

Now on to the interview!

Hey Joe!! First I want to say welcome to Two Chicks on Books I’m glad you could stop by for a chat! THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS sounds AWESOME and I can’t wait for everyone to read it!

Thank you for the interview. I’m happy to be here celebrating the big release.

For the readers: can you tell us a little bit about the THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS and the characters? 

In The Light: Houston, Texas, a handful of college students find their worlds turned upside down when mysterious lights abruptly appear in the sky and dramatically change (for the worse) anyone who looks up at them. Chaos and violence erupt. But this is only the beginning. And these students, boasting a variety of personalities and backgrounds, will have to work together to survive.

What are you working on now? 

I am working on an anthology that will include sci-fi, suspense, and horror stories, some with humor mixed in. I am also working on my next novel, which will follow the anthology.

Were any of the characters in the book inspired by people from your real life? 

No. They are a combination of personalities I have rattling around in my imagination: What if you insert this attribute into this deranged person or vice versa?

Who was your favorite character to write? What about your least favorite? 

Anthony was my favorite character to write. I wanted him to be horrible, awful, just a terrible person no one could root for. At the same time, I didn’t want him to be too terrible since everybody has a little goodness in them. However, if something unfortunate happened to him, I wanted readers to cheer.

My least favorite character to write is one who presents one face when you meet the person, but secretly possesses a nefarious motive. I know it is a simple character. We’ve all met people like that, too. But I hate writing characters like that. In Anthony’s case, he at least proudly proclaims that he is a snake so you know exactly what you’re getting.

What is your favorite passages/scenes in THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS?

This is an early scene in which Robert and Alex (Alexandria) are trying to wrap their minds around the chaos that has erupted, chaos that spilled into Robert’s studio apartment in the grad house. They are just coming out of hiding. Robert had sought refuge in a closet while Alex hid in a bathtub with a torn shower curtain thrown over her.

* * *

“Not good,” Robert told her softly. He stood slowly, the movement inspiring a moan. 

“Are you okay?”

With an almost catlike grace, she hopped out of the tub. “Are you?” she asked.

Robert gaped.

“Four years of high school basketball,” she said. “But you know that.”

He nodded.

“You want to turn that off?” Alex pointed at his cell phone. “Might need the juice later.”

“Oh. Yeah… yeah,” Robert said almost as an afterthought, then nodded toward the next room. “I guess we should go out there, huh?”

“I guess.”

“Okay. I have to officially say this: I’m scared shitless. I know I’m the guy, but—”

“What, are you crazy?” Alex interjected. “This isn’t about opening a door or picking up a check on a first date. This is the end.”

Robert nodded and took another nervous deep breath. “Yeah. Yeah.” He expelled it. “The Doors.”

Her brow crinkled in confusion. “What doors?”

“The Doors. Jim Morrison. This is the end. You know.”

“The Doors.” Watching him with an eagle eye, she added, “Right. Right.”

What kind of research did you have to do for the story?

I had to research various aspects of NASA, learn about SOFIA (The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), nuclear submarines, military compounds, and detailed mapping of certain parts of Houston that Google Maps don’t really show, as well as surrounding areas.

Who is your ultimate book villain?

Pinhead from The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker.

What inspired you to write this story?

I always begin with, “What if. . . ?” From there I plug in different ideas, and this was the result of them.

Lightening Round Questions

What are you reading right now? Or what do you have on your TBR that you’re dying to read?

Cell by Stephen King. HG Wells’ Complete Short Stories.

What Hogwarts House would the Sorting Hat place you in?

I’ve never read Harry Potter, so I have no idea.

Twitter or Facebook?

Facebook

Favorite Superhero?

Man of Steel version of Superman

Favorite TV show?

On the air now: Modern Family.

Sweet or Salty?

Salty

Any Phobias?

No

Song you can’t get enough of right now?

“Duality” (Slipknot)

2019 Movie you’re most looking forward to?

Endgame on dvd

Thanks so much Joe for answering my questions! I can’t wait for everyone to read THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS!

Thanks again for the interview. I hope your readers will enjoy the story.

About Joe:

Joe Solomon earned both master’s and doctoral degrees from Rice University and is a writer, a director, an independent filmmaker, and a composer.  His first novel—a supernatural thriller entitled The Darkness: Giger, Texas—reached #2 on Amazon's Best Seller list and is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. His next novel—The Light: Houston, Texas—will release June 11, 2019. He has also completed a collection of short stories that arose from the macabre and will release next year.

  

An award-winning screenwriter, Joe has completed seventeen screenplays and nine stage plays. He has also been very active in the independent film industry, directing four short films, one feature film (post production), and six music videos. His screenplays have won Best Screenplay at the Mediterranean Film Festival (Cannes, France), been Official Selections at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, been a Finalist in the American Movie Awards, won the Final Draft Screenwriters Award, won the Screenwriting Showcase Award, reached the Second Round in The Sundance Feature Film Program, and been a Finalist in the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. His music videos have won Best Music Video at the Honolulu Film Awards, the Silver Remi Award for Creative Excellence at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, won the Maple Leaf Award at the Canada International Film Festival, been an Official Selection of the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema—Milan, been an Official Selection of the Switzerland International Film Festival, won Best Director—Music Video in the Honolulu Film Awards, and been a Finalist in the American Movie Awards. They have also been Official Selections of many additional international film festivals.

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Giveaway Details:

4 lucky winners will receive a $20 Amazon Gift Card, International.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

6/4/2019- BookHounds- Interview

6/5/2019- Book Sniffers Anonymous- Excerpt

6/6/2019- Simply Daniel Radcliffe- Review

6/7/2019- Tyto Forest- Excerpt

Week Two:

6/10/2019- fictitious.fox- Review

6/11/2019- Lifestyle of Me- Review

6/12/2019- The Tired Buyer- Interview

6/13/2019- Burgandy Ice- Excerpt

6/14/2019- Two Chicks on Books- Interview

Week Three:

6/17/2019- Pacific Northwest Bookworm- Review

6/18/2019- A Dream Within A Dream- Excerpt

6/19/2019- Owl Always Be Reading- Guest Post

6/20/2019- Adventures Thru Wonderland- Review

6/21/2019- Bookbriefs- Review

Week Four:

6/24/2019- Smada's Book Smack- Spotlight

6/25/2019- Don't Judge, Read- Interview

6/26/2019- KayBee's Bookshelf, A Literary Blog- Spotlight

6/27/2019- A Gingerly Review- Review

6/28/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads- Review

Week Five:

7/1/2019- Reads & Reviews- Review

7/2/2019- Jaime's World- Excerpt

Blog Tour- THE CIRCLE: TAKEN by Sage Sask With An Interview and Giveaway!

I am happy to be hosting a stop on the blog tour for THE CIRCLE: TAKEN by Sage Sask! I have an interview with Sage to share with you today check it out and enter to win the giveaway below!

About The Book:

Title: THE CIRCLE: TAKEN

Author: Sage Sask

Pub. Date: March 7, 2019

Publisher: SBSK Corp.

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 357

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, TBD

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From USA Today, Washington Post and Amazon Charts Bestselling author and Goodreads Best Fiction Finalist comes an exhilarating new YA series.

Abandoned at eleven with no memory of her family, Alexia seeks her true identity. Under the new government’s regime, sixteen year-olds are evaluated for their desire to harm others. Throughout the test, Alexia struggles to conceal her psychic ability to read the past and future of anyone she touches. When her secret is revealed, Alexia is taken to an island where other highly skilled agents and readers like her train to survive.

As Alexia gains more control over her abilities, she desperately tries to piece together her elusive past. In her quest for the truth, Alexia’s loyalties are tested when forced to make an impossible choice between those she loves and the family she can’t remember.

A spell-binding adventure of friendship, love, unforeseen twists and learning that our most dangerous enemies are often the people we trust the most. A captivating novel filled with forbidden romance and shocking betrayals that demand the question – Can One Decision Determine Your Destiny?

Book Trailer:

Now on to the interview!

Hey Sage! First I want to say welcome to Two Chicks on Books I’m glad you could stop by for a chat! THE CIRCLE: TAKEN sounds AWESOME and I can’t wait for everyone to read it!

For the readers: can you tell us a little bit about the THE CIRCLE:TAKEN and the characters?

At ten years old, Alexia was found on a beach with no memory of her past or family. Placed in an orphanage, she desperately tries to keep hidden her ability to read the past and future of anyone she touches. When her secret is revealed, she is sent to the Circle where other readers like her train to help keep the world safe from a group called the Resistance. During training, she builds friendships with other readers and agents only to discover their ulterior motivations. She must choose between the ones she loves and the ones she trusts. Will her decision determine or destroy or destiny?

How many books are planned for the series?

4-5 Books

Were any of the characters in the book inspired by people from your real life?

Growing up I had some sixth sense-type experiences that really fascinated me, so Alexia came from the idea of having the ability to sense the future. I love Jackie's bada** attitude and would love to have her skills.

Who was your favorite character to write? What about your least favorite?

Alexia was definitely my favorite. I love her attempt to always do right while discovering her abilities and trying to figure out whose side she belongs on. Harrison was my least favorite to write because I couldn't find a good side to him. Maybe in the second book I'll have to force him to make a choice that will bring a more humane side of him out.

What is your favorite passages/scenes in THE CIRCLE: TAKEN?

Without giving away any spoilers, I would choose the final scene of the Evaluation when the whole team comes together and decides who stays and who goes home. It really displays their teamwork and love for each other.

What kind of research did you have to do for the story?

The flight scene took a lot of research because I've never flown a plane before and the details had to be authentic. Also, it was really fascinating to understand psychics and sixth sense phenomena and read about how many people have experienced something similar in their lives.

Who is your ultimate book boyfriend?

 Four from Divergent. I love how he supports and stands by Tris no matter what.

What inspired you to write this series?

I wanted to learn more about psychic phenomena because of my own experiences and I love powerful female characters.

Lightning Round Questions

What are you reading right now? Or what do you have on your TBR that you’re dying to read?

The new Throne of Glass novel

What Hogwarts House would the Sorting Hat place you in?

Slytherin. I took a quiz once and that was my house. Still trying to understand why. :)

Twitter or Facebook?

Facebook. I always want to use more than 280 characters. :)

Favorite Superhero?

Toss up between Captain America and Black Panther

Favorite TV show?

Sons of Anarchy

Sweet or Salty?

Sweet

Any Phobias?

Snakes

Song you can’t get enough of right now?

Sunflower by Post Malone and Swae Lee

2019 Movie you’re most looking forward to?

Avengers Endgame

Thanks so much Sage for answering my questions! I can’t wait for everyone to read THE CIRCLE:TAKEN!

About Sage:

Sage S.A.S.K. is a team consisting of USA Today, Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Sejal Badani and a group of young adult writers. Kiran, Akash and Sienna are the creative force behind the story concepts, editing, social media, marketing, and book trailers for the novel.

Kiran

Kiran is still processing the bait and switch pulled by his parents of having been promised a sports car and ending up with their old minivan. When he’s not running track or falling asleep in class, Kiran can be found driving around with his friends blasting Travis Scott.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive finished signed or unsigned copies of THE CIRCLE:TAKEN, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

4/15/2019- Lone Tree Reviews- Excerpt

4/16/2019- Lisa Loves Literature- Spotlight

4/17/2019- Jheartlovesbooks- Review

4/18/2019- BookHounds- Interview

4/19/2019- Reese's Reviews- Review

Week Two:

4/22/2019- Writing on the Sunny Side of the Street- Excerpt

4/23/2019- Life With No Plot- Review

4/24/2019- Daily Waffle- Excerpt

4/25/2019- Two Chicks on Books- Interview

4/26/2019- Dorky Girl and Skeletor- Spotlight

Week Three:

4/29/2019- Buried Under Books- Review

4/30/2019- Smada's Book Smack- Spotlight

5/1/2019- Taking It One Book at a time- Review

5/2/2019- A Dream Within A Dream- Excerpt

5/3/2019- Smada's Book Smack- Excerpt

Week Four:

5/6/2019- Adventures Thru Wonderland- Review

5/7/2019- Mama Panda Bear- Review

5/8/2019- Jaime's World- Guest Post

5/9/2019- A Gingerly Review- Review

5/10/2019- Book Briefs- Review