LipSmackin' GoodBooks has an Author Interview with R.D. Cole as well as Kimmi's Review for Learning to Live by R.D. Cole

Review by Kimmi:

I am the kind of reviewer that MUST begin writing all of the voices, emotions, and intense feelings I have after finishing the last page of the book I've just read. It is sad to say, but it must be said, that if there isn't a storm of craziness in my mind after I finish a book my followers can read in between the lines of my reviews and they can tell, with that being said this is SO FAR from that book, it is at the other end of the universe from that book. Now, I apologize for letting this crazy bitch off her leash before hand *unhooks leash* but if I don't let her out, she is going to take me out!

Holy Shit! No, freaking seriously! Holy Shit!!!! I don't think the readers that had their hands on this book and wrote their reviews were able to fully grasp or accurately explain the total phenomenon of epic proportions that lies with in this books pages! And I am sorry but dammit I effin' SCOFF at you!! Why?!?! Damn you WHY am I just now reading this book!?!?! Sheesus! R.D. Cole where in the hell have you been sister!!! Damn girl! R.D. Cole has a style unlike any other author I've read to date. She does NOT pull a single punch, hell she grabs you by the nape of the neck while shoving fist after fist of the bad and the ugly down your throat! Then she turns around and feeds you with a silver spoon the hot sexy sweet and you eat that shit up like a kid on the living room floor after trick or treating on Halloween! And when you aren't even looking she delivers an excellent round house kick that leaves you babbling, confused, and asking WTFH!?!?! However her writing magic lies within her finesse to do all of this without flooding your mind with unnecessary details and her ability to put you through the proverbial wringer, yet at the end you are not left in the midst of a bitch cliffhanger,  and you get the solitude of the character as she went through her journey of Learning how to live.

Trudy Love has been handed shit cards from the dealer of life since the beginning. In and out of foster homes who only saw her as a monthly check, she grows up starved of love, attention, and a sense of family. When she is finally granted one good hand, she immerses herself in every piece of love she is granted. She excels in dance, her grades remain at a 4.0 or higher, and she is finally able to make someone happy, not for the monthly check, but to see her succeed. Until her next hand is dealt, and her happy house of cards fall all around her, uncaring of the despair and devastation she is also left alone to deal with. When a guy she sees around school, not a student though sees her grieving over the loss of the only mother she has ever known she is grateful for his offer of a place to stay. But unbeknownst to her she has just walked into the devil's den. His kindness doesn't last long, and his hurtful words aren't the only thing that hurts when fists and bloody lips begin to become her norm. Now with a baby growing daily in her womb she knows that all she has to do is make it through her last year of school. Brad aka Satan doesn't know it, but she has been granted a full scholarship to a college in another state. So with her plans set in motion all she has to do is make it to the finish line and she can see it, it's just barely out of her reach. But life and plans for Tru are just like a deck of twisted cards, a game that she always seems to be on the losing end of. And yet again, she falls, yet again her plans become meaningless,  yet again she loses it all.

Was Jax born with money? Yes. Does Jax

take it for granted? Hell No. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph if I could hand select a fictional character to make fictional babies with, and ride away into our fictional future in our fictional minivan, it would be Jax, ALL DAY *coughs* AND ALL NIGHT BABY ;) I have loved a many fictional men, Kellen, Jake Wethers, Christian, Gideon, but I would take Jax's college boy ass over EVERYONE of them! He has a heart of an angel and the mouth with a sinful tongue. Holy cheese and crackers,  he is perfection.  Every damn sexy as hell inch of him.

When he first lays eyes on Trudy there isn't a question of if, it's mothafuckin WHEN..... He will play the part of a friend, he will play the part of a hero, hell he'll play any damn part he needs to and it isn't to win the game, it is to win her heart and soul. Well, he won mine the second he strutted his fine ass, dark brown eyed, dimpled smile self onto the pages! Sorry this review isn't about how Jax turned me into a crazy bitch in heat.... back to the story ;)

Nothing has ever come easy for Tru in life, and Jax's love and devotion seems to good to be true. With bumps in their paths left and right, and her deep need to keep her heart guarded, it seems like this is a love that cannot ever last. But Tru Love is Jax's True Love, and come all of hell and the highest floods of water, he isn't going to let her go, period.
When I finished this story I was a hysterical, crying, hot damn mess! I loved it, I hated it, then I fell even more in love with it. I love the authors way of beating me down, then building me back up, and then kicking my ass making me bust it into my happy house of cards. This story is beautiful, heart wrenching, heart warming, it is brutal, and gives you closure while leaving you begging for more all over again. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Learning to live gracefully nabs 5-where the hell has this book been all my life-Kimmi Stars ★★★★★

Learning to Live; Book Trailer

Need the link to FINALLY grab your copy? Look no further my love:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00EV43BHU/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1378872527&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX110_SY165

Kimmi's Author Review with R.D. Cole author of Learning to Live:

1) Give me a brief biography on yourself and tell me what, if you could say, is the most definite thing that inspired you to write?

~I live in good ole' Alabama (Roll Tide) but grew up an army brat. At age four my parents finally settled down along the gulf coast where they both grew up. I  have a wonderful husband who is 9 years younger than me and a 9 year old daughter who's blind and autistic. We love fishing, mud riding on anything, and shooting guns. I have a 38 revolver. Laughing is my favorite thing after creating. I love painting and not long ago took hold of my crazy imagination and started writing. I'm a weird person who doesn't care what people thinks of me. I love make-up and shoes and love dressing like a pin-up sometimes. And this is what inspired me to write.....was my life and experience. I wanted to write about some of my experiences in life that effected a large part of who I am today. But after I started, the story was not mine anymore. It quickly became Jaxon and Trudy's

2) What do you have in the works for us right now?

~Right now I'm working on Learning to Heal. It takes Jasmine aka Jazz, who you meet in the first book, and we get to see how the decisions she made during book 1 affect her and her future.

3) Can you name any authors that influenced you to become a writer or has a major influence on your writing style?

~Geez! So many have inspired me with their writing and the emotions they set in my heart. S.C. Stephens, Rebecca Donovan, Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Tara Sivec, C.M. Stunich, Jamie Mcguire, Kendall Grey, Hadley Quinn, and Many many more. Reading their words and feeling what their characters felt was unreal and I wanted to do that. I wanted to stir emotions in people so deep they would remember my characters.

4) While writing do you set yourself an allotted amount of time per day, or do you just follow the voices in your head?

~I definitely follow my characters lead. I'm constantly writing things down. It doesn't matter what time it is. If something comes to mind I scribble it in a notebook or on my dry erase board. But sometimes if I get in a funk I sit and just start writing. The funk will dissipate and fingers and imagination starts running. Its like  starting a lawn mower. Start tugging the rope with force and it will eventually start.

5) Do your characters have a face before you begin writing them? Are they ever based on an actor/actress? Or do your characters begin as a blank canvas that becomes more clear and develop physically while you are writing?

 ~I already have my main characters features in my head, but later I got online and found what matches not only their looks but their personality as well. My secondary character just morphed into their own person as I typed. I wanted variety because the world is full of variety.

6) What is your most favorite and least favorite aspect of writing a book?

~My most favorite thing about writing is falling in love with my characters and story. As I write it's like me reading it for the first time. I sometime have to remind myself that I can change things I don't like. Until I push publish of course.

My least favorite thing is the funk I was talking about earlier. I hate it and sometimes it feels like I won't get out, but when I do the excitement is addictive. You just want to shout and when I do they crazy looks can't bring me down. Boosh!!

7) If you could have any one of your characters be nonfictional and apart of your day to day life, who would you chose and why?

~I think I would choose Jazz. She is so much fun and full of pent up energy. Plus she has awesome clothes.

8) If you could give the new authors that are about to release their debut novel your shiniest pearl of wisdom,  what would it be?

~You cannot please everyone with your story. Don't take bad criticism to heart, because everyone has a preference. I love to please people but I've learned I cannot please everyone. I love my story and that is all that matters. Just take their words and use it to form and build next story. But nothing in this world is perfect.

9) Ok, now, we all have our fav heroines, and our best book boyfriends, if you could chose a character from ANY book that you would you want to be, who would you be and why? And who is your book boyfriend? Out of ANY character from ANY book, who would you snag up as a husband if he wasn't fictional?

~Wowzers! This is hard. Hmmmm... I think if I could be a character is any book it would have to be Keira from Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens. And of course Kellan would have my named tattooed on him and write me songs. Totally Effing HAWT!!! I know their relationship was VERY rocky, but they have an awesome relationship with each other and their friends are Da Bomb!!! (D-BAGS RULE)

10) While you were writing your book was there a point when everything just started clicking together and you heard Johnny Nash singing "I can see clearly now the rain is gone." Or was it a bitter fight all the way to the end?

~No fight on this story, but book two has become one. But I will Kick ass in the end. I'm just working some kinks out before I get back in the ring. 

Thank you for this amazing interview Kimmi!

To keep up to date info or follow R.D. Cole Follow her on these links:
www.authorrdcole.com
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LipSmackin GoodBooks has the Cover Reveal for Anna Brooks- In Training by Margaret McHeyzer

Title: Anna Brookes - In Training (HiT #0.5 Novella) 
Author: Margaret McHeyzer 
Expected Release Date: October 8, 2013 
Genre: Suspense/Thriller 
Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets 
Goodreads Link:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18195507-anna-brookes---in-training     Synopsis:   
**Recommended for readers 18+**** 
Imagine watching your Father die in front of you because two men were sent to take you. The two men were sent by Roman Murphy, the boss of Hunter Inc. The sole job of Hunter Inc is to train and produce assassins. Anna Brookes, a 15 year old girl with a love and panache for precision and handling of weapons was sort out by Hunter Inc. One evening she encounters Lukas, a man she saves but a man who ultimately goes on to save her. The months that follow see Anna's intuition heightened and defined.  She is forced to deal with techniques that no ordinary 15 year old girl should ever encounter in their lives. Anna Brookes - In Training picks up from the moment she killed Damon and Nox in HiT 149. “I’ll agree that you, Anna, are not ordinary at all. You are simply… extraordinary” ~ Lukas 
Purchase HiT 149 - Anna Brookes First Chapter (HiT #1) before the release of Anna Brookes - In Training    
Amazon:http://amzn.com/B00D7ID3C4   
Barnes & Noble:http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hit-149-margaret-mcheyzer/1115555488   
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/hit-149     
Author Bio:   
I love to read. I'm a huge fan of books and when I start reading anything, I usually forgo doing everything else, I mean the housework will still be there in the morning (right?). When I love a story or book that I've downloaded, I usually refrain from sleep and am crabby the next day - but only until I pick my iPad up and start reading again! The idea for my debut novel HiT 149, came to me as I was chopping my vegetables for dinner and before the night was over I had written 10 chapters! My goal with writing is just to take people away from whatever is going on in their lives, even if it's only for a split second. I'm a go with the flow sort of person and don't really take a course of action to get where I am going. I live in the moment and don't usually worry about tomorrow because whatever life is due to bring me, I'll be happy to accept. I love my family and friends and will help anyway I can if someone needs it. But I can be a bit daft sometimes and need to be told very specifically or it'll go over my head! I really don't like people that are nasty just because they can be, I don't believe that's necessary, I mean life is hard enough as it is! I hope you enjoy my books, I've had a hoot writing them. There's more to come, and not all from the same series... Til next time   
Author Social Media Links:   
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hit-149/421541994596986   Goodreads:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7084793.Margaret_McHeyzer   
Twitter: @HiT_149   
Excerpt:   “I…” My head begins to spin, my eyes can’t focus and the room starts to go around in circles. “What’s happening Lukas?” I lose my balance and topple over to the right. Lukas catches me before my head hits the ground, he eases me to the floor and I can just make out his features. “Training,” he smiles. My eyes close and a slumber of black takes over.

LipSmackin' GoodBooks has the cover reveal for Promise Me Light by Paige Weaver

Title: Promise Me Light

Author: Paige Weaver
Series: Promise Me #2
Available: September 24, 2013
Cover Design: Sarah Hansen of Okay Creations

Book Links:
Add to Goodreadshttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17862129-promise-me-light
Pre-order at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Promise-Me-Light-ebook/dp/B00EAY9PDU/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1378498743&sr=8-1&keywords=Promise+Me+Light

Synopsis:
The epic conclusion of New York Times bestselling book “Promise Me Darkness”
“I’m darkness, Maddie. Stay away from men like me. You’ll only get hurt.”
At one time my life was simple. Easy. But that was before the war. Now I was no longer an average college student. I was a survivor. A woman living in a ravaged world. My future was not bright and my life was far from perfect. The war had taken so much from me… but it wasn’t finished yet. It wanted more.
It wanted my heart. My soul. The one person I couldn’t live without.
It wanted Ryder Delaney. My best friend. The bad boy. The one person who could fight like no other and love me like no one else. I watched him walk away one hot summer day and I prayed he would return. I needed him like I needed air to breathe and water to drink. Without him I was lost. A light without her darkness.
Until he returns, I’ll wait for him. And I believe he will return because love is powerful…
And so is the light calling him home.

Teaser Quotes:
“I’ve got to feel you. Touch you. God, I’ve got to make sure you’re real and I’m not dreaming.”

~~~~~

 “I love you, Maddie, and I sure as hell know how to show it.”

Promise Me Book Trailer:

http://youtu.be/PkL9xddhWbM

                        Paige Weaver

About the Author: Paige Weaver lives in Texas with her husband and two children. Her love for books became a love for writing at a young age. She wrote her first book as a teenager and continued writing throughout the years. Encouraged by her husband, she finally decided to self-publish. Her debut novel, Promise Me Darkness, was released in April 2013 and quickly became a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. Her second book, Promise Me Light, will be released in September 2013. She is currently working on other novels to be released in 2014.

Author Links:

website http://www.authorpaigeweaver.blogspot.com/
twitter https://twitter.com/AuthorPWeaver
facebook https://www.facebook.com/AuthorPaigeWeaver
goodreadshttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7034900.Paige_Weaver
Click here for your chance to when a copy of Promise Me Light:

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LipSmackin' GoodBooks has THIS SUMMER'S HOTTEST GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!! Tears of Tess by Pepper Winters

Ok! So Helena, Kimmi and Lil' Max along with the swag queen Lisa Watmough have put our forces together for THE HOTTEST GIVEAWAY OF THE SUMMER!!!!! And it is all in honor of THE Pepper Winters and her debut release Tears of Tess. When? Begins today. Where? FB and Amazon of course! How? You share the giveaway and for every person that buys a copy of Tears of Tess, shares it on FB from Amazon with a comment saying who's link they followed to buy their copy (make sure they tag you!) The more copies of Tears of Tess you contribute to selling, the closer you are to winning some BAD ASS SWAG via Lisa Watmough aka Rockdat designs! Get ready for the giveaway that will blow your mind y'all!!!!! Muah! Kimmi
Ready, Set, GO !!! Lets get this party started, and here is a peek at your swag prize ;)
Only picture sparrow, black, brown and champagne crystals or stones, Tears of Tess pics, Q's and 58 as charms:

 Well, actually lookie what I just got.... the beginnings of your prizes ;)



Now go grab your copy and have your friends grab theirs by following the link below:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00EV9LSJI/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?ref_=tsm_1_fb_lk

Oh Hell Yeah! LipSmackin' has The Cover Reveal for Fighting to Forgive by JL Salsbury!!!!!!!!

Holy mother of God!!!! I can't freaking wait to get my hands on this book!!! I've waited FO EVA!!!
The Cover Reveal for Fighting to Forgive by JL Salsbury

Fighting to Forgive by JL Salbury Book Blurb:
Fast and hard, just the way he likes it. Blake Daniels flies through life the way he burns through women: on his terms, no regrets.

His fighting career in full swing, he has no need for attachments. He knows what he wants, but when a haunting secret from his past threatens his future, he teeters on the edge of sanity.

She’s through with men. After the fifteen-year marriage that never should have happened, Layla Moorehead moves on to start a new life—one that focuses on making amends for the irreparable damage she’s caused her sixteen-year old daughter.

Saddled with shadows from their past, their lives come crashing together in a violent mix of passion and betrayal.

Is love enough to overcome history?

Or will they be left Fighting to Forgive?

 

Here is the link to Kimmi's review, Blake, the male lead character in book 2 kicked ass so much that I actually gave HIM a Blakism Montage in book one's review! I did this review all the way back in March! lmao, here is your link to Blake's Montage and Book 1, Fighting for Flight's review:

http://lipsmackingoodbooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/fighting-for-flight-by-jb-salsbury.html

Your link to grab book one, Fighting for Flight:

http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Flight-The-Series-ebook/dp/B00BLADDIY

Your link to pre order Blake's story Fighting to Forgive coming out this fall:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EYFQD8U

 

A Brutal Tenderness by Marata Eros

Review by Kimmi:

For every single story in the history of time, there is always more than one side to each and every story to be told. We learned this lesson in High school and our first semesters in our college years by reading about the two headed God, Janus a figure well known in Roman religion. The double headed coin, aka People, all people have two sides.... A good side, a Bad side. A past, and a future. Two Sides, on every story, on every coin.

I don't know nor am I sure if you read A Terrible Love (Jess, aka Jewell's POV) However, I MUST STATE AT THIS TIME that I unquestionably loved A Terrible Love (Jewell's POV), back when my blog was nothing more than a baby, a sprout blog if you will, lol, I read and reviewed A Terrible Love...... Dear Lawd baby Jesus, DO NOT LAUGH! Ok, you are allowed 3 giggles....
http://lipsmackingoodbooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-terrible-love-by-marata-eros.html


Now back to A Brutal Tenderness, Fucking Hell!!! Have I mentioned that I'm all about bro's before ho's or dicks before chicks, WTF ever, bottom line..... Kimmi is a SMUT... WHAT?!?!? YES, WHORE! And what does the best smut whores pant and get hot over........ Fuck YES, you got that right, HIS POV!!!! Have you learned nothing ladies? Christ on a cracker, her POV (hell yes we are talking sex scenes here) it is just really so emotionally beautiful, it is...... lovely.....BORING!!!!!!!! I WANT HIS POV, his words, her pu$$y grasped my dick like a velvet hard sheath, Bitch don't judge me! You wash your kids school uniforms in the same detergent I do ;) You just don't like to confess to your smutty ways, that's ok, stay anonymous, lol. I am only here to lead you to your next HAWT read baby girl. Do you need to read A Terrible Love prior to A Brutal Tenderness, No. Will it make the sweet sweeter, yes.  Is it a necessity no, well maybe....if you want the full experience. 

Jess or Jewell in her previous life that she ran away from because in her home she was a victim of her brothers sick and twisted ministrations and as long as she stayed in that hell called home she knew she would always remain her step brothers primary target. After witnessing her step brother brutally murder her best friend Faith, she knows she cannot stay in the hell called home any longer, so after making her statements and laying her friend to rest Jewell high tails it out of town and becomes Jess.
She enrolls into college in a new town as far away from her home state as possible.

Cas is the cousin to Faith, and even though he never met Jewell he blames her weakness on letting his cousin Faith, who was raised like a sister to him be murdered in such a cruel and unnecessary way. Now Cas, an FBI agent has found little miss rich bitch Jewell, and with new murders that mimic Faith's happening all around "Jess" and her college campus, he has her clocked. With the plan of epic proportions and many players involved, Jess will become the perfect bait, for the perfect check mate on her step brother lurking in the shadows of this Seattle college town.

But when Cas is up to his eyeballs in this case, and his check mate plans are crumbling around him because his heart and mind have decided to go against him for the first time ever, he finds him self head over hills in love with the one girl he has no business falling for. This wasn't in his plan. And with his instincts screaming at him to protect the bait, the bait his investigation team set up, what in the hell is he supposed to do? Save this girl that has captured him mind, body, and soul......or let this plan continue and walk this razors edge?
With two sides to every story, like two sides on every coin, both A Terrible Love and A Brutal Tenderness were such captivating and nail biting reads, I LOVED A Terrible Love, but I gotta say because A Brutal Tenderness was Cas's POV, I LOVED it SO MUCH MORE!!!! I want to make babies and grow old with Cas's side of the coin A Brutal Tenderness, lmao.
A Brutal Tenderness nabs up 5-HELL YEAH IT'S IN A MANS POV!!!!-Kimmi Stars *****

Helpless (Book 2 of Lethal Obsession Trilogy) by Shandra Miller

Review by Lil'Max:

Beep Beep Beep****This is a special Report*** For the love of God before you read any further go to Amazon and one click Lethal Obsession.  I repeat one click Lethal Obsession because this review will pick up where that left off. That being said, are ya’ll ready for this shit? Nah you ain’t ready. Shit I wasn’t ready.  I thought I was but damn it Shandra Miller did it again.   Detective Angela Martin is lost.

And Angela just fucking checked out after mistakenly killing Tanner....... Yes, I said Tanner. The man she risked her career just to be with.

Angela needed to experience sexual arousal from pain and pleasure that comes with giving up control to someone…not just anyone…him, Tanner.  Since she has been suspended from the force, now she just aimlessly hooks up with random people she meets online that are into the BDSM scene. She is becoming more reckless by letting these men use her to self inflict her punishment for mistakenly killing Tanner.  Don’t get it twisted though, it isn’t all pain. She has enough hurt inside for it to be punishment for her actions, but she gets just enough pleasure to make it worth her while. During her suspension, she is seeing a psychiatrist.  She is making a little head way in realizing all of this with her new psychiatric therapy. However her old boss wants her to come back to work.  Now remember this is a small ass town she lives in so everybody knows now...... that the hot blond detective has got some kinky ways.
Okaaaaay…Now, when Anthony Carr the hotshot freelance writer from New York shows up in this poe dunk town to do a story on the murders and Angela’s involvement, she has an immediate and instant attraction to him.

Which is shocking because she hasn’t even felt interested in a man if it wasn’t for some type of pain/pleasure release?  However she is not interested in having to re-live her life around the murders and Tanner’s death no matter how sexy his panty melting smile is.  As soon as Angela is re-instated, BOOM the murders start again.  Of course, like before she is again, somehow linked to each in some way.  I mean this girl can’t catch a break for nothing.  As she digs deeper into the investigation, here comes Anthony’s fine ass hot on her heels trying to write his story.   Anthony is a smooth talker.  I mean he’s a writer. He knows what to say and how to get what he wants when he flashes that megawatt smile.  However, the shit is not that easy with Angela.  She wants nothing to do with him and I think this intrigues him even more. And, just his luck, there is a break in the case and awwwww goodie, goodie...... he is needed to help bait the suspect.  Anthony is not wanting to pass up an opportunity to get to know more about Angela, so he quickly accepts. During the operation things get ehhhh a little hot and steamy between Angela and Anthony, but he did just so happen to come into to town right when the murders started happening again. Ain’t that sumthin. IKR?!?!?!?!  Sooo, once again Angela is caught in the middle of this crazy ass investigation.  WTF? Who is out to get her? I fucking swear, it’s like playing clue damn it.  Shit it could be her husband, some psycho homeless guy, someone on the force and ohh ya, it could also be that sexy ass mothafucka Anthony. Shandra will have you thinking you figured that shit out and then ummmm, yeah NO YOU DIDN'T!!!!!  So if you need to know,  then you should get your ass over to Amazon. Again, I thought I had it all figured out but ahh.. Shandra got me twice now.  I give this 4.5 BadAssDirty Who Done it? Stars!!!! ★★★★ & 1/2★