Weekend Book Buzz – 22/23 June 2019

Posted 23 June 2019 by Katie in Book Buzz, Christian Fiction / 1 Comment

Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz, reader friends! Have you been enjoying all the fantastic cover reveals in the last few weeks? I certainly have, and there’s another fantastic bunch for you to drool over and pre-order in this week’s post.

It’s also the last Book Buzz for the month, so this is the last week for the monthly sales. If there are some you’ve got your eye on that you haven’t purchased yet, now is the time! Happy browsing. 🙂

~ On the Blog ~

Top Ten Tuesday – Most Anticipated Releases for Winter/Summer 2019
First Line Friday – The Art of Rivers by Janet Ferguson

~ Blog Tours ~

Blog tours are great for getting a cross-section of reviews on a book, and they often have giveaways associated with them too! Click on the hyperlinks or the tour banners to find our more information about each tour. Please note that these links will only be live once the blog tour begins.

Yellow Lantern Blog Tour

Author Angie Dicken has put together a blog tour that will run throughout June-August that will share some of the interesting details about the heroine in her upcoming release The Yellow Lantern. There will be a new blog post up each week on subjects such as factory life, apothecaries, and grave-robbing, and there will be prizes too. Click on the graphic below for more information and to check out the schedule.

TLC Book Tours

Ending 10 July 2019 – Summer by the Tides by Denise Hunter
Ending 12 July 2019 – Murder in the City of Liberty by Rachel McMillan

Celebrate Lit

JustRead Tours (from the previous week)

~ Giveaways ~

Here are some Goodreads giveaways!

All Goodreads giveaways are US only unless otherwise indicated.

Ending 24 June 2019

Ending 28 June 2019

Ending 30 June 2019

Ending 2 July 2019

Ending 8 July 2019

Ending 16 July 2019

~ Cover Reveals ~

Plenty more cover reveals this week. Just check out these beauties! Click on the graphic for more information about each title.

~ Events ~

This year’s CFSRS is just around the corner, and sponsor registration closes on 24 June 2019, so if you’re an author who would like to participate, now is the time to register! For more information visit http://bit.ly/cfsrs19. Reader registration also opens on 24 June 2019, so check out the website for more details if you’re interested:
http://christianfictionsummerreadingsafari.blogspot.com/

Join 14 historical fiction authors for a Summer Book Bash on Facebook on 1-3 July 2019. Click on the graphic for more details!

Baker Book House’s Fiction Readers Summit takes place 8-10 August 2019 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Check out their website for all the details: https://fictionreaderssummit.com/

~ Pre-Orders ~

If you pre-order a copy of Shawn Smucker’s Light from Distant Stars before 16 July 2019, make sure you claim your pre-order bonuses!

Lindsay Franklin also has some pre-order goodies if you pre-order The Story Raider before 23 July 2019. For full details, check out her Facebook page.

The first book in Dani Pettrey’s new romantic suspense series releases on 6 August 2019 and there are some great perks available if you pre-order! Click on the graphic below for more details.

Here are some pre-order special prices for you! As far as I am aware, these prices are only available if you order prior the eBook prior to release day.

Releasing 30 June 2019 – The Art of Rivers (Janet W. Ferguson), pre-order price $0.99
Releasing 1 July 2019 – A Cuppa Trouble (Angela Ruth Strong), pre-order price $2.99
Releasing 1 July 2019 – Where Dandelions Bloom (Tara Johnson), pre-order price $4.99
Releasing 9 July 2019 – Cold Aim (Janice Cantore), pre-order price $4.99
Releasing 10 September 2019 – As the Light Fades (Catherine West), pre-order price $4.99

~ Freebies! ~

This week my featured author is suspense/thriller author Ronie Kendig. Ronie’s eBook novella The Warrior’s Seal is a prequel to her Tox Files series and is permanently free, and you can get it at the following retailers:

Amazon US | Amazon AU | Nook | iTunes | Kobo

Author Tari Faris’s debut novel You Belong With Me releases in September 2019, but you can get a free story from her right now if you sign up for her newsletter. https://bit.ly/2MkbAYm

P.S. You really want to sign up!

Lindsay Harrel also has a free short story for those who sign up to her newsletter at www.lindsayharrel.com/signup. And did I mention that it’s about a woman who gets stranded overnight on a small tidal island off the coast of Scotland?

Check out my Discover a New Author posts for more author freebies!

~ New Releases ~

I now have a permanent list of new releases for 2019 on my website! If you’d like to know when your favourite Christian Fiction author will be releasing their next book, make sure you check out my list of new releases sorted by author on this page. If you’d like a complete list of Christian fiction books releasing in June, you’ll find them listed here. In the meantime, here are the new releases for this week:

Releasing 24 June 2019