Top Ten Tuesday--Beach Reads

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme sponsored by the Broke and the Bookish blog. I don't participate every week, but it's a fun meme with great topics each week.

I'm actually going to the beach this summer...to the Oregon beach toward the end of July for a few days. I grew up in Oregon and love the Oregon beach...some beautiful beaches to walk on. However, the beaches aren't usually ones to laze on. The Oregon coast gets lots of rain--even in the summer--and when it's not raining it's usually only about 60 maybe up to 70 degrees! The water is cold, too, but it's still beautiful.

My husband and I and our three adult children are flying out and meeting in Oregon. My brother and sister-in-law who live in Oregon will meet us there and possibly my niece and her family. I can't wait! I won't read all ten books on my vacation...I do need to spend some time with my family...lol!

Here are the e-books I plan to put on my e-reader:

Trying to catch up

Where Serpents Sleep (Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries, book 4) 

by C. S. Harris book

I'm way behind in this series, so I'm going to start here and re-read this one.

An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire 

A great series...I want to catch up with October Daye and plan to re-read the third book.

Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

I love the Liaden series and am so glad Lee and Miller are continuing the series. I love the characters and space opera adventure. I think I'm three books behind!

New series to start

 

The Shape of Desire by Sharon Shinn

A Shifting Circle series, book 1

Sharon Shinn is one of my favorite authors, but I haven't read this book yet. It was published a year ago and only one more book in the series so far (Still Life with Shape Shifter)!

The Silvered by Tanya Huff

I've read and enjoyed many of Tanya Huff's books. This was published last November and I've been wanting to read it since I read about it.

New authors

The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand

Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

Hounded by Kevin Hearne

the Iron Druid Chronicles, book 1 

A little romance

 

An Invitation to Sin by Sarah Morgan

I enjoy Sarah Morgan's books and a Harlequin Presents is the perfect quick beach read!

The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James 

I bought Once Upon a Tower in May and then realized I hadn't read the book which came out last fall

Sunday Post Meme

I found the Sunday Post Meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer and decided to participate. This sounds like a fun activity for a Sunday...kind of like reading the Sunday paper. 

News I found from around the Internet:

The Science Fiction/Fantasy Daily Deal today:

I read this book in January and wrote about it on my blog. God Save the Queen by Kate Locke is really good and today it's only $1.99. If you use a Kindle and like fantasy buy it today!!

A few things about favorite authors:

From the Ilona Andrews blog:

Andrews/Gordon Ink Two

The husband-and-wife writing team of Ilona Andrews and Andrew Gordon have signed two deals, with different houses. Agent Nancy Yost, at Nancy Yost Literary, handled both agreements. In the first, Yost signed the pair up to continue their Kate Daniels at Ace Books series for mid six figures, with Anne Sowards acquiring world English rights. In the second deal, also for mid six figures, Yost sold world rights for the first three books in a new series to Erika Tsang at Avon. Yost said the Avon series will be set in a world controlled by “modern Medici-like dynasties with paranormally enhanced abilities.”

Publisher’s Weekly

The new series sounds good and I'm so glad they will continue the Kate Daniels books, too.  I enjoy their books and stories so much! Congratulations to both of them. A new Kate Daniels book is set to come out at the end of July.

When I was looking at Sharon Lee's blog for a blog post I wrote on Friday I discovered there are going to be more books in this series! I loved this book and wanted more after I read it, but at that time when I visited Sharon Lee's Carousel Tides blog she didn't mention more books. However, now the second book Carousel Sun was turned in to the publisher in February 2013 and Sharon Lee is working on the third and last book in the series.

I loved Archer's Beach and could relate to it since I've spent some time at the Maine coast. My husband's sister and brother-in-law live in Waterville, Maine (fairly close to where Sharon Lee and her husband Steve Miller live, I think). I read the Liad Universe books Sharon Lee and Steve Miller write together and love those, too.

I visited  Sharon Shinn's website and discovered there will be a sequel to Troubled Waters. I like her books so much. You can also find t-shirts showing blessings from Troubled Waters. Such a good writer and I'm always on the lookout for more of her books.

On my blog this week I hope to write at least two posts:

• Top Ten Tuesday post (sponsored by the Broke and the Bookish blog ) about the top ten books I recommend the most.
• A book review of a new author I've read.

What are you up to this week...on your blog or in real life?!?