Teddy Rose Book Reviews Plus More


Giveaway: The Spanish Revenge by Allan Topol

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on November 7, 2012
Posted in My Past Giveaways  | 5 Comments

Thanks to Erin McNichols of  Meryl L. Moss Media Relations. Inc, I am giving away one copy of The Spanish Revenge.


Book Description:


Allan Topol’s new novel, the second in the trilogy featuring Craig Page and Elizabeth Crowder, deals with the age old conflict between Christians and Muslims in Western Europe. It explodes into the 21st Century in an intricate tale of deadly revenge.

China Gambit villain, General Zhou, joins the delusional Ahmed Sadi in a plot to wreck the Western world.


Craig Page, the bold and daring EU Director of Counterterrorism, becomes the focal point of an effort to stop the feared terrorist Ahmed Sadi, whose goal is to provoke a Muslim uprising in Western Europe.  Ahmed, a Muslim fanatic born in Paris to parents who emigrated from Algeria, calls himself Musa Ben Abdil, after a Muslim hero from the Fifteenth Century War with Spain.  Page teams up once again the resourceful Elizabeth Crowder, a newspaper reporter who has also become his lover.
 

Ahmed’s plans become far more menacing when he is joined by Chinese General Zhou, who had been exiled to France for his devious actions in The China Gambit.  With Zhou’s assistance, Ahmed’s plan is to launch a horrific attack on the heart of Christianity.  At the same time, Ahmed wants to retake militarily for Islam a portion of Southern Spain.  He relies upon a medieval parchment he claims to have uncovered, in which Queen Isabella on her death bed in 1504 ceded a portion of Southern Spain to the Muslims in perpetuity.  His one main obstacle: Page himself is hot on his trail, determined as ever to save the world from a master criminal.  From Spain to Morocco, and beyond to Italy, Page and General Zhou renew their battle, even as Ahmed plots his deadly revenge.


About Allan Topol:

Allan Topol is the national bestselling author of eight novels of international intrigue, including Spy Dance. His novels have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Hebrew. He is a graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology, who majored in chemistry, abandoned science, and obtained a law degree from Yale University. A partner in a major Washington law firm, and an avid wine collector, he has traveled extensively, researching dramatic locations for his novels. You can join him on Facebook


This giveaway is open to the U.S. and Canada and ends on November 21, 2012.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.




a Rafflecopter giveaway


Tweet

Copyright 2007-2010: All the posts within this blog were originally posted by Teddy Rose and should not be reproduced without express written permission.

Giveaway: Sad Desk Salad by Jessica Grose

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on November 6, 2012
Posted in My Past Giveaways  | 10 Comments

Thanks to Heidi RIchter of William Morrow/Harper Collins, I am giving away 2 copies of Sad Desk Salad.


Book Description:


Alex Lyons gets paid to be a bitch. As a staffer at Chick Habit, a popular website for women, she’s fulfilling her dream of being a professional writer. Maybe she’s not writing about virtuous women’s rights issues like she did in college, but now she has the attention of a huge-and hugely devoted-audience. From methy former beauty queens to bathtub-birthing moms and the antics of various Kardashians, it’s all in a day’s work for Alex.


So what if it means burrowing into the couch while her boyfriend is at the office, compulsively scouring the Web for twelve hours a day, wearing the same muumuu a few days in a row, and eating a sad desk salad for every lunch because she’s chained to her laptop? The last time she left her computer for more than 10 minutes, a 70s TV star died, and Alex’s boss tore her a new one because she didn’t get a post up before the body was cold.  Since Chick Habit’s parent company has been cracking down about page views, Alex knows her job is at risk if she doesn’t keep posting the most salacious items she can find in the most inflammatory manner possible. When an anonymous tipster sends Alex the juiciest scoop of the year—a politico’s squeaky-clean Ivy League daughter caught in the act of some very R-rated activity, posting it seems like a no-brainer. But as Alex prepares to ignite the next Internet feeding frenzy, she hesitates: is she ready to ruin the girl’s life?  What Alex doesn’t anticipate is how the big scoop will send her own life spiraling out of control.


Acquiring editor Katherine Nintzel fell in love with Grose’s work because of her own fascination with pop culture, “I will be honest here: the first thing I do when I come into work in the morning is check thesuperficial.com to see what shenanigans the celebrities have been up to. I love celebrity gossip. I love that Joshua Jackson seems to be such a good boyfriend to Diane Kruger. I really wish Lindsay Lohan would get herself cleaned up. I don’t understand why Rooney Mara feels the need to dress like Lisbeth Salander ALL THE TIME.  So SAD DESK SALAD was sort of tailor-made for me. It’s a sharp, fast-paced, zipline of a read that takes you behind the scenes of one of New York’s major industries—and is at the same time very sharp about our celebrity- and media-obsessed culture.”


Pop culture and women’s interest websites have enjoyed enormous popularity over the past few years, based largely on the all-important scoop. Grose hits just the right notes, humorous but honest, putting a fresh, timely spin on light women’s fiction.  SAD DESK SALAD also offers behind-the-scenes look at the life of a blogger, and it’s not always pretty.  Perfect for readers who check their favorite blogs while picking at their own sad desk salad lunch.


About Jessica Grose:


Jessica Grose is a writer and editor. She was previously a senior editor at Slate and an editor at Jezebel. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Glamour, Marie Claire, Spin, Salon.com, and several other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.  You can find her on Twitter: @JessGrose


This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on November 20, 2012.  Please us Rafflecopter to enter.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tweet

Copyright 2007-2010: All the posts within this blog were originally posted by Teddy Rose and should not be reproduced without express written permission.

Mailbox Monday

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on November 6, 2012
Posted in Mail Box Mondays  | 11 Comments

For November, Mailbox Monday is being hosted at Edgy Inspirational Romance

This is what I received last week:

Thanks to my dear BIL who renews the subscription for me every year. 

Thanks to Paula Krapf of Author Marketing Experts for sending me the PDF of this book, as I requested.  












Tweet

Copyright 2007-2010: All the posts within this blog were originally posted by Teddy Rose and should not be reproduced without express written permission.