Category Archives: Jill Elaine Hughes

Spotlight & Contest: Jill Elaine Hughes’ Zombie, Incorporated

Title: Zombie, Incorporated by Jill Elaine Hughes
A Katie Allred Novel
Publisher: Hackberry Books
Genre: Contemporary, Zombies
Length: 213 pages

Summary:

Twilight. With zombies.

Eighteen-year-old Katie Allred is socially awkward and unpopular at school. The only child of parents who had her right out of high school, Katie is herself about to leave the nest, even though she hardly feels ready.

Katie’s new after-school job at the Zimble Box Corporation draws her into the complex social strata of high school cliques and backstabbing friends in ways she never imagined. Katie soon discovers there’s something very strange about the “in” crowd at school—and about her employer, too. Shortly after starting her new job, the Contagion breaks out, plunging her town and the entire nation into chaos as zombie shadow forces come out into the open, ravaging the streets. Katie goes into hiding and her parents disappear, along with almost everyone else she knows.

But Katie soon discovers she has special powers that help her survive. She’s a Beacon, someone with the innate ability to help zombies produce children. It’s a power her employer — and what little remains of the U.S. government — both want to exploit for their own ends. Not only that, it runs in her family—which has a secret past Katie never knew about until now.

Enter Agent Morehouse of the FBI Special Zombie Control Unit. A reformed zombie working undercover, he suppresses his urge to eat human flesh in order to serve and save humanity. But Agent Morehouse can’t help but be attracted to a Beacon like Katie, and she to him. Even as they fight zombies the world over, they must fight their intense attraction to each other, hoping to keep Katie from suffering Agent Morehouse’s terrible zombie fate.

Author’s Note: THIS IS BOOK ONE OF A PLANNED SERIES. THERE IS A CLIFFHANGER ENDING.

Find Ms. Hughes on the web: Website * Twitter * Facebook * Goodreads


Contest:

Ms. Hughes is giving away a digital copy of Zombie, Incorporated to one lucky winner. Here’s how to enter today’s contest:

You must Do TWO of the Following:

1. Sign up for e-mail updates (upper left corner). One email daily with the day’s posts.

OR:

2. Be or become a fan of Book Reviews & More by Kathy Facebook page

OR:

3. Follow me on Twitter (@BookReviewsMore)
OR:

4. Friend Book Reviews & More by Kathy on Goodreads

Make sure you have filled out the contest entry form:

5. To be eligible to enter contests on Book Reviews and More by Kathy you MUST fill out the contest entry form (found HERE). This form only needs to be filled out ONCE. Your privacy is important to me, and I will not share your information.

And don’t forget to:

6. Leave a comment on this post by 5 PM Mountain Time Friday afternoon.

It’s that easy! The winner will be selected using random.org. Ms. Hughes will e-mail the winner a copy of Zombie, Incorporated in their preferred format. The winner will be posted HERE on Saturday.

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Spotlight & Contest: Jill Elaine Hughes’ Templand

Title: Templand by Jill Elaine Hughes
Publisher: Jill Elaine Hughes Books
Genre: Contemporary,Romance
Length: 269 pages

Summary:

The heroine, Melanie Evers, is a plucky young working-class woman from Akron, Ohio struggling to support herself in Chicago in the post-9-11 economy. TEMPLAND follows Melanie’s journey through the temporary employment world from a college student on “just a summer job” to a 28-year-old woman with a lot of intelligence (and a heap of student loan debt to match) through multiple layoffs and a series of ever-more-wacky temp assignments, as she struggles not only to survive, but also to find romance and always remain true to the honest, working-class values instilled in her by her beloved grandfather.

In her long, solitary journey through Templand, Melanie encounters adventure and romance on her search for that always-elusive Permanent Job—which she finally gets, along with her man. TEMPLAND is a highly entertaining, wickedly funny social satire, contemporary romance, and mystery novel all rolled into one.

Author’s Note: This book has a sequel (not yet released), but it still stands alone.

Find Ms. Hughes on the web: Website * Twitter * Facebook * Goodreads


Contest:

Ms. Hughes is giving away a digital copy of Templand to one lucky winner. Here’s how to enter today’s contest:

You must Do TWO of the Following:

1. Sign up for e-mail updates (upper left corner). One email daily with the day’s posts.

OR:

2. Be or become a fan of Book Reviews & More by Kathy Facebook page

OR:

3. Follow me on Twitter (@BookReviewsMore)
OR:

4. Friend Book Reviews & More by Kathy on Goodreads

Make sure you have filled out the contest entry form:

5. To be eligible to enter contests on Book Reviews and More by Kathy you MUST fill out the contest entry form (found HERE). This form only needs to be filled out ONCE. Your privacy is important to me, and I will not share your information.

And don’t forget to:

6. Leave a comment on this post by 5 PM Mountain Time Friday afternoon.

It’s that easy! The winner will be selected using random.org. Ms. Hughes will e-mail the winner a copy of Templand in their preferred format. The winner will be posted HERE on Saturday.

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Spotlight & Contest: Jill Elaine Hughes’ Domino

Title: Domino by Jill Elaine Hughes
The Domino Trilogy Book One
Publisher: Hackberry Books
Genre: Contemporary, BDSM, Romance, Thriller
Length: 301

Summary:

21-year-old Nancy Delaney is finishing up her third year of college when her magazine-editor roommate asks her to go review an art opening in downtown Cleveland. The artist is mysterious international playboy and eccentric Peter Rostovich, and the art is like nothing innocent, virginal Nancy has ever encountered before. Multimedia artist Rostovich has created an erotic art installation all about S&M bondage — complete with a live sculpture that’s so realistic, it gets the whole exhibit shut down by the Cleveland police.

Aspiring journalist Nancy’s nose for news smells a hot story idea, which she sells to the Cleveland Plan Dealer. But as she works to get her story, she soon becomes intimately entangled with Rostovich, who finds her irresistible. Rostovich becomes Nancy’s ticket to sexual awakening, and she soon discovers she has an appetite for bondage, too.

And there’s far more to Rostovich than just his art — he’s involved in a strange, violent criminal underworld that kidnaps Nancy and spirits her halfway around the world, where she’s held prisoner and made to serve as private Dominant-for-hire somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Will the sexual powers Rostovich helped awaken in her be Nancy’s only hope for escape?

An erotic thriller.

NOTE: THIS IS VOL. 1 of a planned trilogy. THERE IS A CLIFFHANGER ENDING.

Link to a recent review of Domino, a book that weaves New Adult fiction and literary erotica into an international crime thriller: http://booksandmoviesandcrap.com/2013/04/21/domino-the-domino-trilogy-volume-one-by-jill-elaine-hughes-2013/

Find Ms. Hughes on the web: Website * Twitter * Facebook * Goodreads


Contest:

Ms. Hughes is giving away a digital copy of Domino to one lucky winner. Here’s how to enter today’s contest:

You must Do TWO of the Following:

1. Sign up for e-mail updates (upper left corner). One email daily with the day’s posts.

OR:

2. Be or become a fan of Book Reviews & More by Kathy Facebook page

OR:

3. Follow me on Twitter (@BookReviewsMore)
OR:

4. Friend Book Reviews & More by Kathy on Goodreads

Make sure you have filled out the contest entry form:

5. To be eligible to enter contests on Book Reviews and More by Kathy you MUST fill out the contest entry form (found HERE). This form only needs to be filled out ONCE. Your privacy is important to me, and I will not share your information.

And don’t forget to:

6. Leave a comment on this post by 5 PM Mountain Time Friday afternoon.

It’s that easy! The winner will be selected using random.org. Ms. Hughes will e-mail the winner a copy of Domino in their preferred format. The winner will be posted HERE on Saturday.

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