Book Blast: By My Side by Stephanie Witter

I'm excited about today's book blast! I haven't read BY MY SIDE but I'm a fan of the publisher, Anchor Group Publishing. I've enjoyed other books I've read from Anchor. And the cover of BY MY SIDE looks intriguing. AND it falls under the "New Adult" genre of which I'm quickly becoming a fan. 

See what other's are saying about BY MY SIDE: 

"Talk about an intense, in-your-face, emotionally charged read! By My Side by Stephanie Witter is that and more!"

~ Dianne, Tome Tender

"I absolutely loved this story of love, loss, heartache and so much more."  

~ Melissa Ringsted, Goodreads.com

Lily Saunders sees her family falling apart. Her father is deserting her, and her mother is drinking more and more. Even sarcasm can't help Lily. When she thinks her best friend, Andy Green, will help her, she discovers how his blinding jealousy will mess everything up.

And then Gabe Green comes back home. She thinks it'll be like always between them—sarcasms and curses thrown at each other—but she's mistaken. He's different, and understands right away the problems she's trying to keep for herself. 

But even if he's there for her, making her fall hard, they both know it'll end soon. Because at their age, you can't expect forever. Right?

Buy the book at Amazon!

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A GWR Publicity promotional event paid for by Anchor Group Publishing. Giveaway is sponsored by the author.

About the author: 

Stephanie Witter is a French dreamer. She started English at four and fell in love with the language.

Always with a book - or two - close by, she soon started reading in English when she couldn't wait to see Harry Potter translated in French.

After a while, reading wasn't enough and she started writing young adult and new adult contemporary novels always filled with drama.

Now she hopes to translate English novels in her mother tongue as her everyday job.

By My Side is her debut novel.

Author's Links:
http://stephanie-witter.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/Stephanie.witter.author
Twitter: @StephanieR76
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17565301-by-my-side

Short Story Sunday: Unspeakable

Hello y'all! This is just a little post to let you know what's going on in Alli's World...AND of course discuss some good writing. First, I want to tell you that the hubs, some of my family members and myself spent a couple of days together on Tybee Island, Georgia (and did the tourist thing in Savannah as well) earlier this week. Which was completely lovely and just what we all needed. The only unfortunate thing is that I didn't get to read as much as I thought I would while we were there, just not enough time to do it all! 

Second, my work schedule changed and I'm on night shift now. I'm still trying to adjust to that and it has really put a damper on my reading for the time being. (If I'm trying to read so late at night it tends to just make me more sleepy and that is certainly not what I need!) So, please just hang in here with me and the next 16 weeks of night shift will fly by and then we will be back to our regularly scheduled Alli's World. Heck, who knows, I might adjust so well I might want to stay on nights, we'll just have to see. 


So this past week I haven't really read much in my current read, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, not because it's not good of course but see above, for the whole night shift makes me narcoleptic thing exploitation. Plus once I get all done with it I really want to share with you guys some things we saw in Sav that you can also read about in the book. It's going be great, trust me. Until then I'll just give you one glimpse at the beautiful "Hostess City" of the South. This is the fabulous fountain at Forsyth Park, complete with the Live Oaks dripping with Spanish Moss.

BUT until I finish Midnight and get my "photo tour" ready to go live on the blog, I've actually been reading some short stories this week I downloaded on my Kindle app for my phone. The first two, I'm not even going to mention cause they were just that bad. Finally today though, I read some quality stuff! YaY!! I downloaded it a week or two ago and finally got around to reading it and it left me wanting MORE!!!

Click the pic for more info!

(Amazon-which I do NOT get paid for, 

just so you know, I just do this cause

I love books!)

I've been hearing about S.R. Johannes' The Nature of Grace series and my interest was piqued. THEN, I saw Unspeakable a short story to the first book Untraceable was a free download on Amazon I simply had to give it a try. Ohmygosh y'all! Just based off the little bit in the short story, I reallllllly want to continue reading. The characters are witty and mysterious. (What ARE they doing in the woods!?) And it ends on a cliffhanger that has me hooked. I told the hubs I think he might enjoy this one (and hopefully the whole series) because it has this whole out in nature aspect to it. (Bless hubs heart, he gets roped into reading most of what I read...but a family that reads together, stays together, right??) Basically, even though I'm like 20 books down in my to-read stack I really want to move this one to the top! PLUS the next book in the series Uncontrollable is due out late summer 2012 and I saw the third book is scheduled for a Christmas 2012 release date!


By the way, S.R. Johannes is a GEORGIA author! YaY for local authors! This makes me super happy! Here's a link to her site so you find out more info about the author and the books!


Anybody out there reading anything good? Got any good summer fun times, you'd like to share? Leave me a comment. I HEART comments!