Weekly Recap for May 21st - 26th

Welcome to our Weekly Recap. We will be sharing what books and goodies we got and will go over some of our favorite posts, giveaways, book covers and anything else that peeked our interest during the past week. Lets start things off with sharing what books we got.

   

For Review

- Widow's Web by Jennifer Estep
- Lustfully Ever After by Kristina Wright

This Past Week At Paranormal Haven

Monday - Review of Natural Evil by Thea Harrison
Tuesday - Release day review of Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione
Wednesday - Picture of the Week plus feature and giveaway of Undone Deeds by Mark Del Franco
Thursday - Places I'd like to visit.....Caldwell, NY from J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series plus a giveaway for a $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble gift card
Friday - My first audio book experience

We're now on Twitter!

That's right, Paranormal Haven is now on Twitter.  Check out this post for more and to learn how you can enter to win a $20 gift card.

Giveaways on other blogs

- Author Kristie Cook is giving away swag, signed books and a Nook Simple Touch during her Soul Savers blog tour
- Under the Covers is celebrating turning 1 buy giving away a copy of Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione, Bared to You by Sylvia Day, Demon's Bride by Zoe Archer and more
- If you'd like another chance at winning Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione, Romance Reader at Heart is also giving away a copy
- The Reading Cafe is giving away a copy of Flashfire by Deborah Cooke
- Hanging with Bells is giving away a copy of Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard

Cover Talk

House Rules by Chloe Neill seems to be the cover of the week.  We haven't had the chance to pick up the series yet but that doesn't mean we haven't enjoyed all the cover's badassness.  Book 7 in the Chicagoland Vampires series won't be out until February 2013.

My first audio book experience

So I decided to venture out and buy an audio book. I had a lot of reservations about doing so because I didn’t want anyone else’s voice in my head while I read. But then I decided to give it a try so that I could read and exercise (I’ve tried this with an actual book, it didn’t work out so well for me.  I was walking and I think I heard even the birds laughing when I fell).

At first it was a little weird but once I got over my initial uneasiness of having a man read to me, it was a lot better. The sex scenes were another obstacle for me.  In the beginning it was weird to walk by other people in the morning while having someone read a hot and heavy scene to me. Over all I thought that it was not a bad way of reading new books. I decided I could never listen to a book or series that I have previously read because that would ruin the illusion I have in my head as to how the characters all sound. I think I have gotten accustom to the man who reads the series I am listening to now, it may take some getting used to another person once I switch to a new series.

Right now I'm reading is the Karen Marie Moning Highlander series. I have read Beyond The Highland Mist and To Tame A Highlander.  I enjoyed both books. I think the stories are unique and fun. There is a good love story in each one with lots of heat and passion. I will continue the series in audio form.

Has anyone else had any good experiences with audio books?  Any suggestions to give me for new buys? As if I don’t have enough books on my shelf or on my Kindle, now I’m starting to get ones for the iPod. What a dangerous thing I have started. Well I hope to read (listen to?) a few more audio books and hopefully with your suggestions I can go spend money I don’t have and buy some more.
My Rating:

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Paranormal Haven is now on Twitter!  We tried doing this a couple years back when we first started our blog but we didn't really care for it so it never went anywhere.  We thought we'd give it one more try and this time we're really going to put forth the effort to make it work and we'd love some advice. 

For bloggers who use Twitter, what is the best way to use Twitter to help our blog grow?  For the non-bloggers, what are some tricks to using Twitter?  What about commenting?  Can we comment on any one's conservation we're following or should we keep our opinions to ourselves unless specifically asked?  Do we ask permission to retweet something we enjoy or think our followers will like being made aware of?  How often should we be posting?  Any information you can give would be extremely helpful!

On a separate note, what time during the day do you like to visit blogs?  Kind of an odd question but we're interested because we want to make sure we're posting our content at a time that it will receive the most viewer ship.  If you decide to leave us this information, please let us know what time zone, country or state you're in. 

As a thank you for answering some of our questions (and following us @paranormalhaven), we are offering up a $20 electronic gift card from the winner's choice of either Amazon or Barnes and Noble.  Giveaway ends on June 5th and is open internationally.

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