Author Promo Opportunity! LASR 14th Anniversary Bash!

June 16, 2021 By

Long and Short Reviews is having a big 14th Anniversary Bash!!

This celebration is for all fiction genres we feature and review (romance, erotic romance, YA/Middle Grade, Mystery/Suspense, SFF and mainstream fiction) as well as non-fiction books (memoirs, self-help, etc.) and poetry, and will run August 23 – 27, 2021. We expect a huge turnout, with thousands of visitors, just like we’ve had every year on our anniversary! It’s a chance for some significant exposure. We’ll also be heavily promoting on all our social media accounts. Additionally, this year we’ve partnered with Goddess Fish Promotions to help promote the event even more!

Along with several other prizes, we plan on giving away at least two $100 Amazon/BN GCs, and several smaller Amazon/BN GCs, all of which are sure to be a draw. Number and dollar amount of prizes will be based on participation. The more authors who participate, the more and bigger prizes we’ll offer and the more eyes on YOUR book! So… share this invitation everywhere ?

To win one of the $100 GCs, we’ll be posting a blurb, book cover and buy link on a post, and in order to earn entries, our visitors must read the blurb and answer a question on a rafflecopter. The idea is that they’ll be intrigued by what they read and buy your book! Author participation will cost $5 per book, but you will receive a $5 credit toward any cover ad or service offered by Long and Short Reviews or by Goddess Fish Promotions. So, it’s practically free!

For the other $100 GC, we’ll be offering social media spots for participating authors. Our visitors may enter by visiting you (Facebook page) or following you (all other social media). Each social media link will be an additional $1 fee.

It’s easy to participate. Simply complete this form: https://form.jotform.com/41804468836160

If you have any questions, please email us at lasreviews@gmail.com

Thank you,

Marianne and Judy

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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for June 16, 2021

June 16, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Wednesday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly “blog hop”. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

NOTE: we also host the Friday Five–a fun writing prompt blog hop and would love to see you there!

Every month, we’ll have a giveaway with four winners — prizes for June will be winner’s choice of a $5 Amazon GC -or- a 3 month LASR Cover only ad! Enter on the Rafflecopter below (but make sure you also include your URL on the link list).

Today’s topic is: The best parts of each season

Thank you for joining our Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge! Please put the direct URL to your blog post here so other participants can visit your post. Thanks!
1. Tanith Davenport  7. Shari Elder  
2. Judy Thomas  8. M | RAIN CITY READS  
3. Megan Slayer  9. Kate Hill  
4. Lydia Schoch  10. Colletta's Kitchen Sink  
5. Michael Mock  11. Emily The Book Nerd  
6. lisa jung  

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Summer 2021 TBR

June 15, 2021 By 40 Comments

Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Here are the ten books I’m most looking forward to reading this summer. If a publication date isn’t listed, the book has already been published.

1. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo 

Why: I’ve often wondered what it was like to live through the Jazz age.

 

2. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Why: There aren’t a lot of fictional books out there about workplace bullying and abuse. This one sounds good.

 

3. A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)  by Bethany C. Morrow  

Why: I love magical realism and mermaid tales.

 

4. The Very Nice Box by Eve Gleichman

Why: I don’t know I’ve ever read a satirical thriller before. That combination of genres sounds amazing.

 

5. Sisters of the Snake (Ria & Rani #1) by Sasha Nanua

Why: There’s something fascinating to me about a princess switching places with an orphan.

 

6. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur  by Alka Joshi

Publication Date: June 22

Why: It sounds like good historical fiction.

 

7. Rescue on Turtle Beach  (Wind Riders #1) by Jen Marlin

Publication Date: July 6

Why: This story sounds adorable. I rescued a turtle once when I was a teenager!

 

8.This Poison Heart (This Poison Heart, #1) by Kalynn Bayron

Publication Date: July 15

Why: Briseis sure sounds like she has an amazing magical ability. I can’t wait to see what it would be like to make plants grow with a simple touch of your hand.

 

9. The Hand of the Sun King  by J.T. Greathouse

Publication Date: August 5

Why: There’s something about hot, humid summer days that makes me want to read high fantasy. Maybe it’s because I read so much of it during summer breaks when I was a kid?

 

10. Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow

Publication Date:August 24

Why: Ms. Chow sounds like she’s had an interesting life. I’m curious to read her thoughts on grief.

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Friday Five Writing Prompt Challenge for June 11, 2021

June 11, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Friday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly five word writing prompt. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Every month, we’ll have a giveaway with four winners — prizes for June will be winner’s choice of a $5 Amazon GC -or- a 3 month LASR Cover only ad! Enter on the Rafflecopter below (but make sure you also include your URL on the link list).

Today’s five words to use as your prompt are: essay, sound, question, game, defend

Thank you for joining our Friday Five Writing Challenge! Please put the direct URL to your blog post here so other participants can visit your post. Thanks!
1. Judy Thomas  2. Megan Slayer  

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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Wednesday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly “blog hop”. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

NOTE: we also host the Friday Five–a fun writing prompt blog hop and would love to see you there!

Every month, we’ll have a giveaway with four winners — prizes for June will be winner’s choice of a $5 Amazon GC -or- a 3 month LASR Cover only ad! Enter on the Rafflecopter below (but make sure you also include your URL on the link list).

Today’s topic is: The best gift I’ve ever received

Thank you for joining our Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge! Please put the direct URL to your blog post here so other participants can visit your post. Thanks!
1. Tanith Davenport  5. Shari Elder  
2. Judy Thomas  6. Tory Richards  
3. Lydia Schoch  7. Michael Mock  
4. Megan Slayer  8. M | RAIN CITY READS  

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Friday Five Writing Prompt Challenge for June 4, 2021

June 4, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Friday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly five word writing prompt. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Also coming in June (would have started today, but Rafflecopter is currently not allowing us to get the code): giveaways each week for participants in this blog hop. There is a monthly giveaway at the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. Upcoming prizes will include Amazon GCs, print and digital books and free advertising on the site. Keep an eye out!

Today’s five words to use as your prompt are: image, bar, express, redeem, privilege

Thank you for joining our Friday Five Writing Challenge! Please put the direct URL to your blog post here so other participants can visit your post. Thanks!
1. Judy Thomas  3. Patrick Prescott  
2. Echo Ishii  4. Megan Slayer  

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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for June 2, 2021

June 2, 2021 By 1 Comment

Each Wednesday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly “blog hop”. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

NOTE: we also host the Friday Five–a fun writing prompt blog hop and would love to see you there!

Every month, we’ll have a giveaway with four winners — prizes for June will be winner’s choice of a $5 Amazon GC -or- a 3 month LASR Cover only ad! Enter on the Rafflecopter below (but make sure you also include your URL on the link list).

NOTE: Last month’s winners were Astilbe, Shari Elder and Wendi Zwaduk — please email us at lasreviews@gmail.com and let us know whether you’d prefer an Amazon GC or a 3 month cover ad at the site. Thank you!

Today’s topic is: My favorite book and how I’d cast it for a movie

Thank you for joining our Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge! Please put the direct URL to your blog post here so other participants can visit your post. Thanks!
1. Tanith Davenport  5. Shari Elder  
2. Megan Slayer  6. Judy Thomas  
3. Patrick Prescott  7. M | RAIN CITY READS  
4. Lydia Schoch  

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Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes from Persuasion

June 1, 2021 By 29 Comments

Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday!  This week is a Freebie week.  Last week’s topic was on quotes, and I’m still in the mood to find good quotes.  A while back I did a post on quotes from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and so this week I decided to pick quotes from Persuasion.  I really need to make time for a re-read of it.  Enjoy!

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”

“There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”

“The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.”

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

Yellow Roses in Clear Glass Vase on Brown Wooden Table

“Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge – that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.’
‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best.”

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.”

Which of these is your favorite?  Have you read Persuasion?
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May Book of the Month Poll Winner ~ Numbers Game by Desiree Holt and Liz Crowe

May 31, 2021 By 1 Comment


Numbers Game by Desiree Holt and Liz Crowe
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Contemporary, Erotic Romance
Rating: 5 stars
Reviewed by Larkspur

Voted BoM by LASR Readers 2013 copy

Former professional football player and coach Duncan “Hatch” Hatcher fumbled his career and marriage. Now divorced and ready to tackle his future, he has an opportunity to redeem himself as coach of his college alma mater’s football team. But how can he turn the team’s losing streak around and keep the secret of his downfall buried when the school agrees to a documentary that will allow a lovely journalist to dig her way into his past…and into his heart?

Olivia Grant’s ex-husband almost wrecked her journalism career while he definitely did a number on her self-esteem. The documentary on Duncan Hatcher is the perfect way to rebuild both. As a freshman in college, she’d had a crush on the senior football hero, but he hadn’t known she existed. She never expects the sparks that fly between them as they work on the project nor the struggles they must face if they both want to win.

READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE!

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Friday Five Writing Prompt Challenge for May 28, 2021

May 28, 2021 By Leave a Comment

Each Friday, Long and Short Reviews hosts a weekly five word writing prompt. For more details on how to participate, please click here.

Also coming in June: giveaways each week for participants in this blog hop. There is a monthly giveaway starting this week at the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. Upcoming prizes will include Amazon GCs, print and digital books and free advertising on the site. Keep an eye out!

Today’s five words to use as your prompt are: resource, food, extinct, address, tumor

Thank you for joining our Friday Five Writing Challenge! Please put the direct URL to your blog post here so other participants can visit your post. Thanks!
1. Judy Thomas  3. Aymee  
2. Megan Slayer  

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