It is now time to vote for your favorite cover in the May 2013
You Gotta Read Reviews Cover Contest.
One Vote Per Person.
It is now time to vote for your favorite cover in the May 2013
You Gotta Read Reviews Cover Contest.
One Vote Per Person.
Thank you to all of our May entries.
Below is the Voting Poll for May 2013 YGR BEST VIDEO TRAILER! You can use the index to view the videos or scroll down the page. Feel free to leave comments to encourage the authors and trailer creators.
Tell your family and friends – Get out and vote! Voting will close on May 27.
Title: The Rancher
Author: Dawn Nelson
Cover Artist: Dawn Nelson
Publisher: Gray Dog Press
Buy Link: Buy The Rancher Here.
Blurb:
When Laura Dawson’s husband left her for a wealthier woman, she took full custody of their two children and swore off love for good.
She’s a tough and resourceful rancher who could go it alone, but the money her ex offered to stay out of his new life was too much to turn down. She’s putting that payoff to use on a new stallion from South Dakota, where self-proclaimed bachelor Kyle Wilson owns and operates a 2,000-cow spread with no time for settling down.
For Kyle, life is nothing but calved and quotas until one eventful evening of Laura’s visit finds both of them considering a change of heart. Their growing attraction is at odds with Kyle’s individuality and Laura’s new independence, not to mention the two states that separate their respective ranches. Neither is ready to leave home behind for good. But for Laura and Kyle, emotions are stirring.
So is trouble. Someone wants revenge on the Rafter R Ranch, and collateral damage is not going to stop them. A friend is terribly ill, the past is roaring back, guns are being loaded–and Laura and Kyle are about to find out just how deep their new love is, and how much it can bear before it breaks.
Title: Fatal Promise
Author: Kelly Gendron
Trailer Creator: Kelly Gendron
Blurb:
When Rainey Ann McKenna’s dying husband asked her always to be there for his brother, Tex McCoy, she had no idea that five years later her promise would bring a murderer into her home. According to the conditions of his release, for the next three months Tex will be on house arrest. Obligated by a promise, Rainey Ann takes the gorgeous but dangerous felon in.
Tex McCoy may have gone to jail for murder, but after a decade of being incarcerated, he too is dead inside. Resurrecting any of Tex’s feelings—including the ones he once had for Rainey Ann McKenna—could be fatal. In jail, he fantasized about Rainey Ann. Behind steel bars it was acceptable to think of her in such a way, but in the real world, it’s dangerous.
Yet as desire awakens, Rainey Ann’s threat heightens. After years of being locked up, Tex is ready to reclaim some control, and his fantasy woman is only a touch away.
Title: Highland Healer
Author: Willa Blair
Cover Artist: Tina Lynn Stout
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Buy Link: Buy Highland Healer Here.
Blurb:
HE NEEDS HER FOR HIS CLAN.
HE WANTS HER FOR HIMSELF.
CAN HE HAVE BOTH?
Toran Lathan never expected to become Laird, and never expected to meet a woman like Aileanna Shaw. Her healing ability is just what his people need, but Toran cannot resist her beauty. Yet will loving him destroy her ability to heal?
Aileanna Shaw has a healing touch – and a special talent she must keep secret. Stolen from her home by a marauding army, she’s kidnapped again by the Highland Laird she heals. Is she a prize of war, or the prize of his heart?
While Toran battles the invading lowland army, he also battles his desire for Aileanna. And Aileanna must decide if she can trust her secrets to this fierce warrior who needs her talent, but wants her love.
Title: Lost in Infinity
Author: Travis Besecker
Trailer Creator: Travis Besecker
Blurb:
This book is not for everyone.
‘Lost in Infinity’ is a novel that many readers will find hard to define. In fact, it’s much easier to list what it is most definitely not, than what it really is. It’s not necessarily a tale of suspense or a thriller. It’s not a mystery by normal standards. It’s not inspirational, romantic or full of laughs. Depending upon your perspective and final take on the tale, it’s not even entirely fiction.
This book is not for everyone. ‘Lost in Infinity’ is a novel intended for a very specific audience…
The author would have you believe this is a “psychological roller coaster wrapped in the factual memoir of a chronic insomniac suffering from apeirophobia (the fear of infinity).” He would go on to explain that the “novel unfolds the history of his life as he tries to unlock repressed memories through a near schizophrenic relationship with his own splintered subconscious.” This is a clever ruse to suck in his niche reader. This book is not for everyone.
Influenced by Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut and Carlton Mellick III, the novel offers a unique look into the private confessions of a self-absorbed blogger on the precipice of a mental breakdown. The recurring theme of déjà vu leads you through the work giving glimpses of a dark past while offering anecdotes that will eerily relate to most readers. Mixing in humor and satire with a confused childhood spent under the microscope of therapists keeps the mood light while he digs deeper into his past looking for the root of his problems. The narrator pulls back the curtain and reveals his dark inner turmoil as he fears a slow deliberate path toward schizophrenia. A repetition of events and recollections leads the reader through the twisted break the author fears while touching on life’s everyday issues and questions. He delves into sleepless nights, stress, relationships and the pitfalls of education and careers while he openly offers opinions on religion, suicide, insomnia, depression and the meaning of life.
Many casual readers will be turned off by the jumping timeline. Some will be confused by the author’s back and forth focus on his missing memories. The first person pseudo-oral narrative will leave others simply frustrated. The rest will grow sick of the author’s defense mechanisms, most often hiding behind his pretentious recollections of growing up a childhood ‘genius’. This book is not for everyone.
Now that you’ve been properly warned and many have moved on to their next light read…
‘Lost in Infinity’ is part social commentary, part psychological mystery and part diary. What begins as an egotistical journal from an overconfident, yet anti-social, bratty blogger slowly dissolves into the twisted chaos of a mind on the brink of collapse. The reader is eventually forced to decide if the book is a cry for help from a man attempting to rationalize his schizophrenia or a clever ruse to make them stop and contemplate the meaning of existence. Lost in Infinity’ will leave the reader questioning everything they thought they knew about the author’s sanity, about their own life, about existence and the infinite universe beyond.
Title: Rescuing Lacey
Author: Rebecca Heflin
Cover Artist: Rae Monet
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Buy Link: Buy Rescuing Lacey Here.
Blurb:
When tough battle-scarred photojournalist-turned-wildlife-photographer Lacey Sommers travels to Costa Rica in a last-ditch effort to save her job, she meets beach-bum-gorgeous Luke Hancock, an outdoor guide, environmentalist and expert on economics and sustainability, who’s been hired by her magazine to serve as her pilot and wilderness guide for the duration of her stay.
It’s clear from the outset there is a powerful physical attraction between the two, but strong personalities, pre-conceived notions, an unexpected and contentious family connection, and the scars from a tragic death and a terrifying event threaten to keep them apart.
Will Lacey shed the mantle of Kevlar she’s worn for so long and allow Luke inside her heart? Or will her ostensible strength be her downfall?
Title: Half a Million Dead Cannibals
Author: Kari Gregg
Trailer Creator: Kari Gregg
Blurb:
All that’s keeping Riley from the man he’s falling in love with is the ruins of a city filled with half a million dead cannibals.
Strangers, Riley and Graham sheltered together in a basement storage unit when the zombie outbreak slammed into the world three months ago. They lived through the first blast of the plague, but they may not last much longer among survivors scrambling for dwindling resources. They agree to hike from the city and to the safety of the mountains.
They don’t count on the storm they hoped would cover their exit developing into a Nor’easter, though, and they sure don’t think their visibility will shrink so badly that they’ll have to hike into the leading edge of a zombie swarm, either. In the chaos of escaping the ravenous horde, they are separated, with Graham racing toward feral dog packs to the east and Riley sprinting to hostile survivors hunting them to the west.
Nobody said finding and keeping a quality guy (alive) during the apocalypse would be easy.
Title: The Oligarch: A Thriller
Author: G W Eccles
Cover Artist: Tabitha Eccles
Publisher: G W Eccles/PigeonLab
Buy Link: Buy The Oligarch: A Thriller Here.
Blurb:
Following his controversial election for a third term amid widespread protests and allegations of vote rigging, the Russian President is determined to destroy the oligarchs before they destroy him. When the global economic meltdown decimates their wealth, the President seizes this chance to demolish their power base. His greatest opponent – Anton Blok, owner of the mighty Tyndersk Kombinat – has a secret agenda and faces far more than just financial ruin as his empire threatens to fall apart, and the President knows that his old enemy will stop at nothing to avoid catastrophe. With battlelines drawn, he turns to Alex Leksin, a British business troubleshooter of Russian descent, to thwart Blok’s plans. Against the challenge of hostile Arctic conditions, Leksin must tread a dangerous path through a labyrinth of corruption, terrorism and obfuscation until the exciting and unexpected denouement takes place in Russia’s northernmost seaport.
Set in Moscow, Ingushetia (Chechnya’s neighbour), and Tyndersk, a Siberian mining town inside the Arctic Circle and geographically cut off from the rest of Russia, this thriller’s plot twists and turns within an authentic and disturbing background.
Title: OMG, A CUL8R Time Travel Mystery
Author: Bob Kat
Trailer Creator: Kathy Clark
Blurb:
OMG is the first book in the CUL8RTM series about four teenagers who travel back in time to solve mysteries.
Four teenagers travel back in time to save a life and solve a mystery. Will they be successful? Will they make it back?
OMG begins when Kelly, whose parents died in a car accident, moves from Texas during early summer to live with her Aunt Jane who is an assistant district attorney. Kelly quickly becomes friends with her quirky next door neighbor Scott who has a reputation as the school’s number one geek.
Scott’s best friend is Austin, the hot and popular quarterback. Even though he runs with the cool crowd, he has stayed loyal to Scott. He joins Scott and Kelly as they embark on an adventure after Scott invents a way to travel back in time.
Zoey is on the cheer squad and hangs with the popular kids. She barely even notices that Scott and Kelly exist, but she is very focused on getting Austin’s attention.
Through a twist of technology, they go back in time to find a girl who has begged for their help. They solve the mystery, but are then faced with the dilemma of whether or not to right a wrong or to let history stand. The four end up on the time travel adventure of their lives.
The series is unique in that he creator / authors are conducting a cover model search to find the two lead girls and guys to become the ongoing series faces of the four main characters. Details on the website and YouTube.

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