Weekend Book Buzz – 8/9 June 2019

Posted 9 June 2019 by Katie in Book Buzz, Christian Fiction / 0 Comments

Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz, reader friends! It’s a bumper edition this week, especially when it comes to cover releases. Have you seen them popping up on social media or in your inbox? There are some fabulous covers, but more importantly, some fabulous stories coming our way!

~ On the Blog ~

Top Ten Tuesday – Favourite Christian Historical Fiction Authors
First Line Friday – The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

~ 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.

Special 75th Anniversary of D-Day Blog Tour

Seven authors of WWII fiction are hosting a blog tour to celebrate 75 years since the landing at Normandy on 6 June 1944. The tour will run from 3 June to 11 June. You can find out more on Sarah Sundin’s Facebook Page.

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 10 June 2019 – Summer by the Tides by Denise Hunter
Beginning 10 June 2019 – Murder in the City of Liberty by Rachel McMillan

Celebrate Lit

JustRead Tours (from the previous week)

Singing Librarian Book Tours

~ Giveaways ~

I’m not sure how long this giveaway is open for, but Nicole Deese, Amy Matayo, and Varina Denman are giving away SIX books in honour of Women’s Fiction Day. Sign up for their newsletters to enter: Sign up

Melissa Tagg has a giveaway to celebrate the release of Now and Then and Always. It’s open until 11 June 2019, and you can get all the details by clicking on the graphic below.

Here’s another fantastic summer giveaway, open until 13 June 2019. Check out the books up on offer:

The Secrets of Paper and Ink by Lindsay Harrel plus a custom wood-burned bookmark and Reading Weather candle
Summer by the Tides by Denise Hunter plus an ocean-scented candle
Strands of Truth (ARC) or Secrets at Cedar Cabin by Colleen Coble plus lavender soap
Coral (ARC) by Sara Ella plus one sampler packet of Savoy Miracle Mermaid Tea and one Spireside Sun Soaked Shores wax melt pack
Daughters of Northern Shores by Joanne Bischof plus a nautical journal
A Glitter of Gold (ARC) by Liz Johnson plus a pirate box with gold feather necklace and a custom Sparkle of Silver candle
The Dating Charade (ARC) by Melissa Ferguson plus custom playing cards
Porch Swing Girl by Taylor Bennett plus a world map print with quote
Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes plus a nautical scarf

Click on the graphic below to get more informtion on how to enter!

Here are some Goodreads giveaways!

All Goodreads giveaways are US only unless otherwise indicated.

Ending 10 June 2019

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Ending 2 July 2019

~ Cover Reveals ~

Cover reveal time has rolled around for the next batch of covers from some of your favourite traditionally published authors. Check out these covers that have been revealed this week! For most of these books, you can get more information by clicking on the cover image.

~ Events ~

Roseanna White will be doing her final Facebook live for this series on Monday 10 June 2019 at 7pm EDT where she’ll be revealing the cover for the second book in her Codebreaker’s series:

https://www.facebook.com/RoseannaMWhite/videos/449792345815142/

This year’s CFSRS is just around the corner. Sponsor registration for this fun bookish reading event is now available. For more information visit http://bit.ly/cfsrs19.

~ Pre-Orders ~

The next book in Karen Barnett’s Vintage National Parks series releases on 18 June 2019 and if you pre-order, you can claim a special gift from the publisher. Click on the graphic below for more details!

Lindsay Franklin 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 29 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

~ Freebies! ~

This week my featured author is contemporary romance author Toni Shiloh. You can get a free novella by signing up to her newsletter at www.tonishiloh.com

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 9 June 2019