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Discover a New Author: Carla Laureano

Welcome to the weekend, book lovers! Are you ready to discover a new author with me?

This week’s author is contemporary romance author Carla Laureano (who also writes fantasy under the name C.E. Laureano). You can discover her for free by signing up to her newsletter, which comes with a free copy of her contemporary romance novel Jilted. 

Sign up at www.carlalaureano.com 

Once you’ve read Jilted, I’m pretty sure you’re going to be wanting to check out the rest of her books!

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29 June 2019

Starstruck (Carla Laureano) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Novelist Christine Lind has achieved her lifelong dream—a string of best-selling books and a cable-TV adaptation about to go into production. But on her way to London FanFest for the cast reveal, disaster strikes: their leading man is injured in a motorcycle accident… and his replacement is the one person she hoped she’d never seen again. Nick Cleary has clawed his way to recognition as a Hollywood actor, but it’s long past time he get the chance to show he’s more than a pretty face and a chiseled set of abs. His big break comes

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3 November 2018

Cover Reveal – Starstruck (Carla Laureano)

Welcome, reader friends. I’m excited to be sharing this cover reveal with you today for a contemporary romance that can be in your hot little hands in just a few weeks! Starstruck by Carla Laureano releases on 1 November 2018, and I know I’m looking forward to getting my copy. But in the meantime, let’s look at the cover, shall we?

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17 October 2018

The Saturday Night Supper Club (Carla Laureano) – Review + Giveaway

~ About the Book ~ Denver chef Rachel Bishop has accomplished everything she’s dreamed and some things she never dared hope, like winning a James Beard Award and heading up her own fine-dining restaurant. But when a targeted smear campaign causes her to be pushed out of the business by her partners, she vows to do whatever it takes to get her life back . . . even if that means joining forces with the man who inadvertently set the disaster in motion.

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22 February 2018

Weekend Book Buzz – 3/4 February 2018

Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz! I hope you’ve had a chance to stick your head in a good book this weekend. Our family went to the cricket in Sydney this weekend—a two hour drive each way from where we live—but it certainly didn’t stop some of us from getting some reading done. And I’m not just talking about myself! This is my youngest reading at the cricket. It seems she’s taken at least one piece of her mother’s wisdom to heart: Never go anywhere without a book! I didn’t even know she’d brought one with her, but apparently she

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4 February 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Books I Can't Believe I Haven't Read

Happy Tuesday, book lovers! I’ve actually turned today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic on its head. Today’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is actually Books I Can’t Believe I Read, but it turns out I can’t think of many books that fit that category (without being nasty, anyway) so I decided to do a Books I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read instead. So, here goes:   These three novels would have to classify as stalwarts of the Christian fiction genre, and I confess, I’ve not read any of them. 😱 In the case of Janette Oke, I have to go a step further and say

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30 January 2018