Pygmalia Blog Stop and Giveaway

Title:  Pygmalia

Author: Stephanie Constante

Published:  May 31, 2013

Word Count:  81000

Genre:  YA Sci-Fi Romance

Content Warning:  It contains scenes of a sexual nature, profanity, underage drinking, and graphic violence. 

Age Recommendation: 15+

Synopsis:

Lily is the heir to her father’s family fortune, except she wants no part in it. Especially if it means having to spend months away from her loving mother, being ignored by her genius, yet reclusive father, and tormented by her domineering grandmother.

Since her parent’s divorce, Lily has been forced to spend every summer, bored to death, at her father’s dilapidated estate in England. The one consolation is that this is the last summer she will have to visit before her eighteenth birthday frees her of this obligation. What Lily didn’t expect to find was someone who is just as lonely and out of place as she is. Someone that could make her actually want to stay at the rundown mansion.

Deep in the basement of her father’s home, she finds Adam, who is half human, half machine. He is her father’s latest prototype: a creation built for war, but able to do so much more than just basic fighting tactics and artillery protocol. Lily cannot help but be drawn to her father’s experiment, though she’s certain nothing can come of it. When she realizes that Adam will eventually be taken from her and potentially destroyed, she must decide whether putting her family in jeopardy is worth the risk of helping him escape.

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About the Author:

Stephanie was born and raised in Miami where she currently works as a mental health counselor. In her spare time she loves to read, write, spend time with loved ones, travel, and watch anything made in the UK. Her other works include books one and two of The Draconi Series.

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Giveaway Details:

There is a tour wide giveaway. Prizes include the following:

• 8 Swag Packs (including 1 notebook, 1 sticker, and 1 button)
• 5 paperback copies of Pygmalia
• 5 eBooks

Giveaway is International for ebooks, US only for print copies and swag.

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Schedule for Blog Tour (& Giveaway) Hosted by Lady Amber's Reviews

BONJOUR! Today kicks off the Creatura Blog Tour hosted by Lady Amber's Reviews. I hope you have time to swing by her blog, as well as the rest of the stops on the tour, where you can find out more about Creatura. Below you'll find the complete schedule for the blog tour. Don't forget to enter the giveaway and to share it every day for greater chances of winning. 

BLOG TOUR SCHEDULE:

8/1

Lady Amber's Reviews

8/2

Jazzy Reviews

Escaping Life's Craziness With Books

8/3

Books, Brownies and Barkers

Kelly P's Blog

8/4

Airicka Phoenix

Paperback Cowgirl

8/5

Fated Paranormals

8/6

Sabrina's Paranormal Palace 

8/7

Self Publish or Die

8/8

The Book Diaries

Bawaka's Bookfair

8/9

Book Crazy

8/10

Ever and Ever Sight

8/11

Jess's Book Blog

Word to Dreams

8/12

Tsk Tsk What To Read

Emma Michaels' Blog

8/13

Sweet Treat Reading Reviews

Bianca2b

8/14

Racing To Read

Fun With Books Blog

Deus Swag and Ebook Giveaway!

Have you read Deus? 
If your answer is "no", then here's your chance to win an ebook copy from Amazon or Barnes and Noble... PLUS SWAG!

This Giveaway is international and 2 winners will receive:


1 signed bookmark 
1 postcard 

1 ebook copy of Deus

*Remember to share everyday 
to increase your chances of winning.

 G O O D   L U C K! 

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The Shadow Tour Blog Stop plus Giveaway!

Hello, readers! Today it's my pleasure to welcome my guest, Adrian Lupşa, author of Necessary Evil. Be sure to check out the giveaway below! 

Adrian, can you tell my readers and me about how it is that you began blogging and writing, and the point at which you decided to publish your book? 

Ever since I can remember I loved literature, reading and especially writing, making up my own stories, stepping into a fantasy world of my own. When I was 12 years old I got a computer that changed my life. From that moment I knew what I wanted to be, what I wanted to do, so here am I - student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Ovidius University of Constantza. 

In February 2012, I wanted to have a blog and I chose Blogger services and published a few posts that were in the Computer Science & IT domain. I was thinking if this is going to be a success I will have an advantage when I finish college. Unfortunately, I found it very difficult to promote my blog, so I switched to Wordpress. There, I started to write about different things from my life and thanks to the news feed (a facility that Wordpress has) the blog’s popularity grew quickly. I continued posting and my work became more and more appreciated. I was doing something I like, I was writing about the things I love.

When I was in high school, I wrote some poems and short stories, but I never published them. I regained the interest in writing when I met a person who was reading a lot of books and I remembered the old times. After I began to blog, I thought that it would be great if I could write a short story and an idea just popped in my head. I wanted to publish it somewhere on the Internet and find out the opinion of the people around the world. In a week it was done, but the result was not the one I expected. I felt that something was missing, so I decided to write a “real book” —  a novel. I think it took me about one month to write it and two others to translate and edit the manuscript. The novel was originally written in Romanian, but I heard about the Amazon KDP Services and I knew that this was a great opportunity to launch my book abroad. My family was skeptical about this service (how in the world something can be free?), but the good thing is that I heard about a lot of self-published authors that had success and I gave this service a try. 

I remember that before publishing, my sister wanted to read my book and I gave her a copy of the manuscript. She read it in a few days and she started to ask me a lot of questions and I knew that this was a good sign. Now she is waiting for the second book of the series because, in Necessary Evil,  some things remain unsolved.

Currently I am supposed to work on the second book, but I started a short story and I wrote about 6.000 words and I’m only at the beginning of the story, so I will probably end with another novel. This is going to be a very busy year for me, because I have the graduation and I still want to blog, write, read and have a life in the same time, but I have to keep myself on position, to give the best I have.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
At almost eighteen years, Christine considers herself an adult, a grown woman, with her own principles and ideas about life, ready for every challenge that she would have to face. Or at least this is what she thinks. When her parents go on a business trip, Christine decides to invite the most handsome boy in school in her house. After a party with her friends, strange things start happening in the Taylor’s house. The girl tries to find out what is going on and in the same time wants to have a normal life along with her friends. Christine discovers a connection between the silhouettes inside her house and the dreams she has lately, but will she be able to regain peace knowing that she must release a greater evil?








ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Adrian Lupşa currently resides in Romania with his family. He is a student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Constantza, but in his free time he enjoys reading and writing. Adrian had written short stories since he was a child, but encouraged by the many authors with whom he came in contact, he decided to face the world and write his debut novel.

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