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First off, welcome to all the new names who are stopping by to play! It’s always nice to see. 
Welcome to this week’s By Any Other Name book game!
We didn’t quite get to the challenge number of titles last week so the number stays the same.
Congratulations to Becca! I’ll be emailing you shortly.
The numbers stay the same this week, so here we go!
If you’re new to the challenge, this is a game from my dear friend Calliope that gets us to play with book titles.
The game works like this:
1. Each week I will choose and a book title that features that word.
2. Then it’s your turn to come up with book titles containing the same word, without duplication (yes, that includes my titles). The author would be nice, too, in case I want to check it out.
It’s really not complicated. I pick a word and you list titles with that word. Easy peasy.
The current challenge:
Titles to Reach: Seventeen
Titles Per Person: Three
What can you win? The winner receives any one of the books on this page along with a bookmark (or two!).
I’ve decided this is a much better way of doing things rather than offering the SAME book over and over. Plus, I will be adding to the giveaway shelf as much as I can, so keep checking in to see what’s on offer.
So if you’d like a chance to win, join in!
If you don’t reach the goal, we’ll try again next week. If you reach the goal, I’ll have a brand new challenge for you next Wednesday where you’ll get another chance to win a book – regardless if you have won a book previously!
The word this week is:
Child
I Say: A Child Called It by Dave J. Pelzer
You Say…
First off, welcome to all the new names who are stopping by to play! It’s always nice to see.
Welcome to this week’s By Any Other Name book game!
We didn’t quite get to the challenge number of titles last week so the number stays the same.
Congratulations to Becca! I’ll be emailing you shortly.
The numbers stay the same this week, so here we go!
If you’re new to the challenge, this is a game from my dear friend Calliope that gets us to play with book titles.
The game works like this:
1. Each week I will choose and a book title that features that word.
2. Then it’s your turn to come up with book titles containing the same word, without duplication (yes, that includes my titles). The author would be nice, too, in case I want to check it out.
It’s really not complicated. I pick a word and you list titles with that word. Easy peasy.
The current challenge:
Titles to Reach: Seventeen
Titles Per Person: Three
What can you win? The winner receives any one of the books on this page along with a bookmark (or two!).
I’ve decided this is a much better way of doing things rather than offering the SAME book over and over. Plus, I will be adding to the giveaway shelf as much as I can, so keep checking in to see what’s on offer.
So if you’d like a chance to win, join in!
If you don’t reach the goal, we’ll try again next week. If you reach the goal, I’ll have a brand new challenge for you next Wednesday where you’ll get another chance to win a book – regardless if you have won a book previously!
The word this week is:
True
I Say: True Colors by Kristin Hannah
You Say…
Do you ever watch book trailers? Have you ever heard of book trailers?
If you watch them, have they ever influenced your purchases whatsoever?
Do you think book trailers are useful?
(Okay, so more than ‘a’ question…)
About the Book
Wes Pennington finally has a mystery manuscript worth selling, but the price might be his life!
More than anything, Wes wants to see his writing in print and for sale. After a horrendous break-up with his vampire-obsessed girlfriend, his well-meaning roommates sign him up for a writers’ conference in Cincinnati. We is elated when a New York literary agent likes the draft of his manuscript and arranges to meet him at the conference.
Once there, Wes meets the girl of his dreams and feels on top of the world…until the agent turns up dead!
The Long Story
One of the first rules you learn as a writer is that you don’t write stories about writers. The stories rarely read well. But, if you can write it well…
Wes Pennington is a funny, slightly overdramatic character I couldn’t help but love. He is like a shaggy puppy that might annoy you in other ways but is too cute to abandon. He’s by no means a superhero, but I highly enjoyed reading the story from his perspective.
Horger writes with a focus on events and people rather than description, something that lends to an authentic first-person perspective.
My nitpick for this book comes at the end. While Horger has set up an interesting premise for his mystery overall, he throws me out of it in the ‘explanation phase’ and didn’t bring me back in. I felt as if there was a large part of the story – namely involving Alexandra’s family – wasn’t explained well enough for a satisfying ending.
Even so, I didn’t feel so left out of it that it changed my overall opinion of the book.
The Short Story
I recommend this book as a fairly light read that has both humor and mystery.
***
Rating: 3 Stars
[What do the ratings mean?]
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Whom Must I Kill to Get Published?
By Jason Horger
Buy it on Amazon
ISBN: 9781907386008
Length: 249 Pages
First off, I apologize for the late posting. I’m still struggling with the flu.
Welcome to this week’s By Any Other Name book game!
We didn’t quite get to the challenge number of titles last week… but I feel like giving a book away anyway.
Congratulations to Becca! I’ll be emailing you shortly.
The numbers stay the same this week, so here we go!
If you’re new to the challenge, this is a game from my dear friend Calliope that gets us to play with book titles.
The game works like this:
1. Each week I will choose and a book title that features that word.
2. Then it’s your turn to come up with book titles containing the same word, without duplication (yes, that includes my titles). The author would be nice, too, in case I want to check it out.
It’s really not complicated. I pick a word and you list titles with that word. Easy peasy.
The current challenge:
Titles to Reach: Seventeen
Titles Per Person: Three
What can you win? The winner receives any one of the books on this page along with a bookmark (or two!).
I’ve decided this is a much better way of doing things rather than offering the SAME book over and over. Plus, I will be adding to the giveaway shelf as much as I can, so keep checking in to see what’s on offer.
So if you’d like a chance to win, join in!
If you don’t reach the goal, we’ll try again next week. If you reach the goal, I’ll have a brand new challenge for you next Wednesday where you’ll get another chance to win a book – regardless if you have won a book previously!
The word this week is:
Bad
I Say: Bad Blood by John Sandford
You Say…