Weekend Book Buzz – 3/4 August 2019

Posted 4 August 2019 by Katie in Book Buzz, Christian Fiction / 0 Comments

Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz, reader friends! And hello August. Say what, now? Yes, August. Which means it’s the last month of winter here in Australia. (It might be my least favourite season of the year.) It also means there are a whole lot of new releases this week, and a bunch of new eBook sales, so happy reading everyone!

~ On the Blog ~

Top Ten Tuesday – Literary Firsts
First Line Friday – The Story Raider by Lindsay A. Franklin

~ 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

Beginning 29 July 2019 – Stars of Alabama by Sean Dietrich

Celebrate Lit

Prism Book Tours

JustRead Tours (from the previous week)

~ Giveaways ~

Author Catherine West has Summer news, an exclusive SUBSCRIBERS ONLY GIVEAWAY, and the first three chapters of her September release, AS THE LIGHT FADES, to share SOON! Sign up now!https://catherinejwest.com/

Here are some Goodreads giveaways!

All Goodreads giveaways are US only unless otherwise indicated.

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~ Cover Reveals ~

Two lovely new covers for you this week. And, not that I want to play favourites or anything, but how about The Aftermath! 😍

Click on the covers for more details!

~ Events ~

If you’re a suspense lover, you’ll want to check out the Summer of Suspense 16-book anthology releasing on 6 August 2019. For four days, 6-9 August 2019, the sixteen contributing authors will be hosting a release party on Facebook and there will be prizes up for grabs. Click on the graphic below to go to the event page.

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/

Ever wanted to visit Israel? How about visiting Israel with biblical fiction author Mesu Andrews as your guide? I dearly wish I could put my hand up for this! Trip takes place in March 2020. Click on the graphic for more information!

~ Pre-Orders ~

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 6 August 2019 – Summer of Suspense (16-author anthology), pre-order price $0.99
Releasing 26 August 2019 – Four Dreams of You (Sondra Kraak), pre-order price $3.99
Releasing 10 September 2019 – As the Light Fades (Catherine West), pre-order price $4.99

~ Freebies! ~

My featured author this week is contemporary romance/time-slip author Sarah Monzon. You can get a copy of her Christmas novella 12 Days of Snowmen by signing up for her newsletter at:
www.sarahmonzonwrites.com.

Australian author Jessica Kate has just released her debut novel! Sign up for her newsletter at http://eepurl.com/cIhfxP and you’ll not only get to download the first chapter, but also her free short story The Kiss Dare. Highly recommended!

If you sign up for Sondra Kraak’s newsletter, you’ll receive a copy of One Plus One Equals Trouble for FREE! It’s the first in her Love That Counts series, and book four releases at the end of August. If you love historical fiction with splashes of humour, you definitely want to check this series out! Sign up at www.sondrakraak.com/free-e-book/

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 August, you’ll find them listed here. In the meantime, here are the new releases for this week:

Releasing 6 August 2019