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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Binary Love by The Rakes

    January 12, 2024 / 1 Comment


    Soundtrack to Evolved by N.R. Walker

    Binary Love by The Rakes for a book about an android who fell in love with his human.

    Don’t you ever pretend
    That we are more than friends?
    Despite the metal and wires
    I still have human desires

    I’ll wait here til the end
    For my dividend
    And when I turn off the lights
    I’ll wait here til the end

    Over and over she burns my circuits
    I feel fire rushing through my wires
    I can feel all the things that we can’t share

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    June 29, 2022

    LAST YEAR I WAS READING…(November 25, 2020)

    November 25, 2020

    DESERT ISLAND CASTAWAYS: Casey Cox

    July 12, 2022
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    SOUNDTRACK: Fire On Up by Paper Kings

    January 5, 2024 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Morelli Family: Beloved By The Boss by Leighton Greene

    Fire On Up by Paper Kings for a book an ambitious new mob boss carving out an empire from the ashes of an old one.

    I’ll be that silver, silver
    Lining to the story
    If you thought that I
    Would turn and run
    Then y’all don’t know me

    May my fears rest in peace
    ‘Cause that’s the old me
    Got this taste on my tongue
    I crave the glory

    Gasoline in my veins
    Be the fuel through my pain, oh
    As we rise, rise from the flames

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    FLICKer: Jakt (Hunt)

    February 6, 2025

    PROMO BLITZ: Holiday Huddle by Felice Stevens

    December 17, 2025

    COVER REVEAL: Rivaled by Nicole Dykes

    August 11, 2023
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    SOUNDTRACK: To Be by The Irrepressibles

    December 23, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Vitale Brothers: Say I Do by Brea Alepou & Skyler Snow

    To Be by The Irrepressibles for a book about a sham marriage between two bitter enemies becoming a bond of true love and family.

    I live a life of lies
    I love the truth you hide
    Can we accept the weight?
    Our love is born through hate

    Feeling the way you breath down my side
    I’ll never escape you, I can never try
    Seeing the way you look in my eyes
    I’m lost in illusion, my world set aside

    Are all my senses real?
    For all I am and feel?
    In you I see perfection in all I am and feel

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    RELEASE BLITZ: A Matcha Made in Hell by F.A. Ray (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    September 13, 2023

    RELEASE BLITZ: Not Used To Cute by Becca Seymour (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    August 22, 2020

    RELEASE BLITZ & AUDIOBOOK TOUR: Ginger Snapping All The Way by Gabbi Grey (Excerpt)

    November 15, 2021
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    SOUNDTRACK: Alive by Zeds Dead & MKLA

    December 8, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Reanimator Mysteries: The Reanimator’s Heart by Kara Jorgensen

    Alive by Zeds Dead & MKLA for a book about a reluctant necromancer, his undead love, and the tether that keeps them alive.

    There is a break in the light
    There is a place I can hide
    Where all the colors collide
    And the flame, it keeps me alive
    Might lose a part of my mind
    Searching for what I can’t find
    Held by the dark of the night
    And your flame, it keeps me alive

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: The Captain And The Father Of The Bride by Catherine Curzon & Eleanor Harkstead (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    April 20, 2021

    NEW RELEASE: House of Savage by Crea Reitan

    October 24, 2024

    PROMO BLITZ: Not That Guy by Felice Stevens

    September 16, 2025
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    SOUNDTRACK: Worth The Fight by Broods

    December 2, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Vitale Brothers: Paid in Full by Brea Alepou & Skyler Snow

    Worth the Fight by Broods for a book about a man battling demons, a boy hitting rock bottom, and the bond that made it worth the fight.

    Something tipped me over, someone knocked me down
    Emptied out my inside, poured it on the ground

    A cavern for a body, the deeper darker kind
    For all I hear are echoes, repeating inside my mind
    I thought the shade around me, was making me feel blind
    I thought I was a hero, but I was just a child

    So fill me up and let me try
    To show you beauty from inside
    I pray I will, I pray I might
    Still be somebody worth the fight

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Trust is Fraught by Emily Carrrington (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    October 16, 2024

    FLICKer: In Half

    April 22, 2021

    BOOK TOUR: So Witches We Became by Jill Baguchinsky

    July 24, 2024
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    SOUNDTRACK: Dream by Boo Seeka

    November 25, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Devastating Magic: Imperfect Illusion by Vanora Lawless

    Dream by Boo Seeka for a book about forbidden love that blossomed in dreams and thrived despite trauma, fear and war.

    What would you like to be?
    Tell me everything I need to know

    With or without a reality
    There’s a reason that we need to go
    There’s a reason that we need to fly
    Either stars that lead and glow
    What would you like to be?
    Come and follow me, follow me

    Come and dream with me, honey

    …

    Fight what is underneath
    Baby, something needed years ago
    Why won’t you come and breathe?

    Settle down, come and find the flow
    There’s a reason that we need to try
    Read the stars of your shadow
    Come be the c’est la vie
    Would you follow me, follow me?

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    RELEASE BLITZ: Wilder by Ana Night (Giveaway)

    January 2, 2026

    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: If A Butterfly Don’t Fly by Mell Eight (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    April 5, 2021

    RELEASE BLITZ: It Might Be Hot by Ariella Zoelle (Excerpt & Giveaway)

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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Tethered Bones by Talos

    November 17, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Folk Lore: Where the Devils Says Goodnight by K.A. Merikan

    Tethered Bones by Talos for a books about a priest and a bad boy tethered to the land, to each other, and to a demon.

    I’m forested
    I live alone
    I’m islands in the sea
    I’m tethered to your bones

    I’m forested
    I live alone
    I’m islands in the sea

    In the pouring rain
    We did oscillate
    Has our fastening meant endlessness for our love?

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    RELEASE TOUR: Level Up by Max Walker (Giveaway)

    July 1, 2024

    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Perishable by J. Hali Steele (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    January 28, 2023
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    SOUNDTRACK: Matter by Yatch

    November 10, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Mytho: Lust and Other Drugs by T.J. Nichols

    Matter by Yatch for a book about old myths and new worlds, old fears and new perspectives, and a promise fulfilled when no else bothered.

    Chiroplastic in the sea
    You may not matter and you matter to me
    All the stories no one reads
    You made a verb with other words, all I need
    Mediated war zones and countries full of death
    We all die on our own without anybody’s help

    In a world this wide we feel limited
    Even if we try we can’t let it in
    ‘Cause the world is small but it’s infinite
    And the future’s all undistributed

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    NEW RELEASE: Road to a Cowboy by Amy Aislin (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    August 11, 2024

    COVER REVEAL: Suddenly Beck by Vawn Cassidy (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    July 9, 2021

    RECENT RELEASE: Summer and Shadows by Kathryne Lentes (Excerpt + Q&A with Author)

    September 14, 2026
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Wayward Love by Jeremy Enigk

    November 3, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Wayward by Mary Calmes

    Wayward Love by Jeremy Enigk for a book about man who had to die to live the life he deserves.

    Bury me you someday what do you feel our enemies would say

    Knuckle of ties and bows that break
    Renewal of life my heart that takes

    …

    We would live we would love

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    March 14, 2023
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Pieces by Andrew Belle

    October 27, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Vitale Brothers: Take Me Apart by Brea Alepou & Skyler Snow

    Pieces by Andrew Belle for a book about forbidden love, betrayal, falling apart, and falling back together.

    You and me got ourselves a problem
    I can see this better than I solve ’em
    I believed I found a way around it
    I will leave this better than I found it

    There’s too much smoke to see it
    There’s too much broke to feel this
    I love you, I love you
    And all of your pieces
    …

    History’s a letter made of scarlet
    Victories look better when you’ve called it
    Misery’s the moment when I lost you
    It’s pleasure in a costume
    It’s more than what it cost you

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