Category: Guest Post

Blog Tour: Faye’s Favourite Mysteries – My Secret Lies With You by Faye Bird

Posted June 10, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Blog Tour, Guest Post, Mystery, Thriller, UKYA, Usborne Publishing, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Monday Everyone. Today I’m really excited to kicking off the blog tour for Faye Bird’s latest YA thriller, My Secret Lies With You! It’s amazing and it’s certainly this summer’s top YA thriller of the year. You can read it one sitting like me. My full review will be up later this week. I’ve met Faye years ago when I first started as a librarian, and I bought her books at the event there and I couldn’t put them down. So I would highly recommend Faye’s book if you love Karen McManus and most recently Holly Jackson. The theme […]

BLOG TOUR: Top 5 Feel Good Musicals – SING Like No One is Listening by Vanessa Jones

Posted May 15, 2019 by Emma in Blog Tour, Contemporary, Guest Post, Music, MyKindaBook, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Today I’m ending the blog tour for Vanessa Jones’ debut book SING Like No One is Listening. I’ve nearly finished the book. (I know last minute reading, but work has been crazy so it was a lot later than I thought I would be reading it.) It’s such a great read and rather than doing a mini review of what I read I will be doing a few review this weekend. It’s such a feel good and easy read, perfect for sunny reading in the UK and just getting lost in some musical talent. Vanessa was very kind […]

Blog Tour – Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans: Kick-Ass Women in Science-Fiction

Posted May 12, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Blog, Blog Tour, Discussion Post, Guest Post, Science Fiction, UKYA, Usborne Publishing / 1 Comment

Happy Sunday everyone. Today I bring you a post as part of the blog tour for Kathryn Evan’s brand new science fiction thriller, Beauty Sleep. This is a book was featured on my most anticipated reads of 2019 and today I am finally reading it. It’s brilliant. Also the cover, the real book is even more beautiful. So today I am talking about my favourite women in sci-fi across books and film. But before that here is a little bit more about the gorgeous Beauty Sleep. My Favourite Women in Science-Fiction So instantly when I said I love to […]

Blog Tour – “A lifetime of ups and downs” – My Journey to Publication with T.E. Carter

Posted May 10, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Blog Tour, Contemporary, Guest Post, Hashtag Reads, I Stop Somewhere, Simon & Schuster, T.E.Carter / 0 Comments

Today I’m really excited to be part of T.E. Carter’s blog tour for her second book, All We Could Have Been. Since I received a copy and talking about the book at the S&S Big Book Brunch, it seems like more hopeful book that her debut I Stop Somewhere. I admit *ashamed* that I haven’t gotten round to this book yet, BUT it’s on my TBR this month. Finally, I know!!!!!! Last year when I first embarked on T.E. Carter’s first book, it blew me away quite literally and emotionally. If you haven’t read it, I would highly recommend it. […]

Blog Tour: Witchy Bookshops – Queen of Sea and Stars by Anna McKerrow

Posted April 30, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Blog Tour, Extract, Fantasy, Guest Post, Magic, YA / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Today I’m really excited to be part of Queen of Sea and Stars blog tour. Isn’t the cover gorgeous?! Anna describes it as: Faye Morgan, a hereditary witch, moves away from her tiny coastal village in Scotland to London to be with her new boyfriend, Rav. But though she hopes she can live a normal life in a new city, her blood bond to the realms of faerie can’t be denied. With a faerie war brewing, can Faye realise her destiny and discover who she really is? A tale of faery magic, desire and modern witchcraft. Queen of […]

Guest Post: The Twelve Isles of Viper Inspiration by Bex Hogan

Posted April 25, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Bex Hogan, Blog, Fantasy, Favourite Author, Guest Post, Pirates, Team Bkmrk, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Today I have a very special guest post from the lovely Bex Hogan, author of the best fantasy of the year – Viper, Isles of Storm and Sorrow Book 1. If you missed my review – find it here. From my countless tweets and fangirling review of this amazing book, you can tell I love it. One the most important and impressionable things when it comes to Fantasy is the world-building and I fell in love with Bex’s. So today Bex had dropped the anchor on this blog to tell you all about the Inspiration of the Twelves […]

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW & GUEST POST – SLAY ON TOUR by Kim Curran

Posted January 17, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Guest Post, Kim Curran, Slay, Usborne Publishing / 3 Comments

What a way to kick off 2019!! I’m so excited to be part of the SLAY On Tour blog tour. The excitement when this book came in the post a couple of days before Christmas felt like Christmas had came early for me. This was my first book of 2019 and what a way to start it. SLAY on Tour (SLAY #2) by Kim Curran Publisher – Usborne Publishing Release Date – OUT NOW! Buy – Amazon | Book Depository SLAY are BACK…and this time they’re headed to Tokyo to track down another hell-raising demon. When they’re invited on tour […]

Jason Reynolds talks about the inspiration behind BLACK ENOUGH… and GIVEAWAY

Posted January 9, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Blog Tour, Guest Post, HarperCollins / 2 Comments

GUEST POST – Tamsin Winter discusses her tips to surviving secondary school…

Posted September 10, 2018 by Emma in Guest Post, School, Tamsin Winter, Usborne Publishing / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, it’s a new term, a lot of us are returning to work like me as librarian or a teacher and some of you are heading back to school. Some of you are heading back for GCSE year, starting college of Sixth Form, going to University or could you be starting that journey from scratch with your first year in secondary school. There are a lot of books in Teen and YA that really captures a teenagers life, through school, family, friendships, and social media. So this month I’ve got some of my favourite authors that really talk about […]