Rob Thurman's Blog: The Reaver Report, page 9

The Extra Reaver Mile: Best AUTHOR Write-In Vote on Goodreads Choice Awards

Okay Reavers, so… it looks like you can also write in your nominations and vote for who you write in.

Well, as awesome as Rob treats her fans and after the brush-with-death she faced this year, I went ahead and wrote her in for Best AUTHOR, too.

If you want the same, click here. You will need to write in Rob Thurman Basilisk and it will automatically pull up her name and the book for you. Hit submit and "boom," there"s your write-in nomination.

Thank you for indulging the resident Reaver Webmistress.

-Jayda

BASILISK Needs Your Votes!

Vote for BASILISK Now!

Well Reaver Army, we did it!

We heaped so much love on The Korsak Brothers, BASILISK has been nominated for a GoodReads Choice Award in the Science Fiction category. Gotta love seeing Misha staring back at us along with Stephen-frakking-King in those top nominees!

But this is just the beginning.

To get into the Semifinals, Rob Thurman, Misha, Stefan and Godzilla need your votes – and lots of 'em, because the competition is stiff. We have until November 13th to get Rob and BASILISK into the semi-finals.

So spread the word, get over to GoodReads and vote! And if you do vote, please Tweet about it with #GoodreadsChoice as the hashtag, include #RobThurman and @Rob_Thurman in your tweets. Please also get the word out on Facebook, encourage your pals on GoodReads to vote… you know the drill – spread the word and get the Reaver Army all riled up for Rob Thurman and BASILISK.

And thank you so much ALWAYS for all that you do for Rob Thurman, Team Leandros, The Korsak Brothers and Team Trickster!

-Jayda

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All Hallow's Dead Contest: What's Your Official Candy?

Afreen A. - Munching Like Misha

Just because Halloween proper has passed doesn't mean it's over, especially when you're in Rob Thurman's Reaver Army.

Our own Caliban Leandros is half-monster – every damn day of his ass-kicking life, surrounded by vampires and werewolves and mummified cats, giant spiders and killer clowns and every other creature The Beyond can hurl his and his brother's way. Then we've got Misha Korsak – a mutant assassin with an insatiable sweet tooth. Add to that, all of the angels and demons and gods and goddesses in disguise with Trickster. I'd say when it comes to being a Rob Thurman fan, every day is Halloween. Or at least, darkly fun like Halloween.

So. Speaking of sweet teeth…right now, you're either 1. Out of candy completely. 2. Have too much of it on-hand because you "accidentally" stock-piled too much of it for "trick-or-treaters." or 3. Are raiding your kids' candy bags as I write this.

Or…perhaps all of the above?

Today, to be entered into the All Hallow's Dead prize drawing, tell us about your favorite candy, whether from childhood, adulthood or everywhere in-between. We already know the "Official Korsak Brothers Candy" is Three Musketeers, while Godzilla-the-ferret's choice would be Paydays.

How about you? What is your "Official Candy?"

-Jayda

All Hallow's Dead Contest: Say Trick-or-Treat!

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Wishing You a Very Auphe Halloween

Hell-Oh, Reavers!

All right, the All Hallow's Dead Contest just got easier for Halloween Day.

Simply say "Trick-or-Treat" or "Boo!" [or any other appropriately Halloweenie exclamation] here in the blog comments on Monday, 10/31 and you will be entered into the prize drawing. If you still want to talk about your favorite horror movies, Halloween foods and traditions, by all means, please continue at Friday's entry. But today, you can simply stop by as a trick-or-treater here at the blog to be entered into the drawing.

Hope you've had a great All Hallow's Weekend and may the party continue… Season's Screamings!

EASY All Hallow's Dead Contest Starts Today

It just would not be right to watch Halloween go by without a contest here at RobThurman.net. And although having a "Dress as Your Favorite Rob Thurman Character" costume contest would be fun, that's a lot of work! So let's just chillax and have some laid-back fun with this one.

Beginning today, all you need to do is comment on this blog post or tweet with a #RobThurman hash tag [remember to include @Rob_Thurman so we know you tweeted, too] or comment on Rob's Facebook page with an answer to any [or a combination] of the following questions:

What are your Halloween plans this year?
Are you dressing up for Halloween, and if yes, what are you going to be?
How about your kids – what are they dressing up as?
For those of you with furry family members, do you put costumes on your pets [you evil, evil people]? Okay, if you do, we may require photos on that one.
What are some of your favorite Hallowed traditions and/or foods?
What are some of your favorite horror movies?
Do you celebrate Day of the Dead, Halloween or both?
Do you have any fond, crazy memories of Halloween parties past?

The contest will change a little on Halloween day [Monday] and some more on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Contest ends at 11:59pm [Pacific] on Wednesday 11/2 – Day of the Dead's end.

Winners will receive assorted pieces of mad swag [and candy!] from Rob's [pirate chest of] Reaver Rewards.

Okay, then…go!

-Jayda and Rob

11.01.11: A Grim Fairy Tale by Rob Thurman in New Anthology

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Click to Read a DOUBLETAKE Excerpt

Hey Reavers!

Are you itching for some new Rob Thurman?

Well…you're in luck next HalloWeek, because a new anthology called Courts of the Fey is coming out on 11/1 – right smack in the middle of Halloween and Day of the Dead…kinda like the middle of an Oreo cookie from the Underworld.

Within these Seelie and Unseelie courts lurks a short story from our own Rob Thurman. It's called "First Ball…Last Call" – a grim, post-apocalyptic fey Western, which sounds just like what the mad scientists have ordered for this time of the year.

Now, the irony is that the book cover to this anthology looks like it's all love and light. I don't know what the other entries are like, but Rob has told me hers is very, very dark, and it sounds like it's right up any Cal Leandros fan's alley. So don't be fooled by the tiny tinkerbells and bright, pretty colors.

To celebrate this anthology's release and to get a jump-start on Halloween, we've decided to make the secret Doubletake excerpt [that all the Basilisk Contest participants got to see before anyone else] public. This is not the same Cal #7 excerpt from the back of Basilisk.

So enjoy this Doubletake excerpt and Happy All Hallow's Friday to you all!

-Jayda



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Happy Birthday, Rob!

Reaver Army!!

It's Rob Thurman's birthday – everybody doggie-pile the well-wishes and virtual presents on our favorite feisty Valkyrie author… oh, and buy a bunch of her books, too – that's the best present one can give to a writer.

We love you, Rob!

-Jayda

Hospital Anecdotes: The Vagoo Chronicles

Most of my Reavers have heard by now how I woke up in the hospital to a nurse's aide reading Twilight to me. Twilight. My first thought was this isn't a hospital, this is HELL. The second psyche-damaging event being all my nurse's aides watched reality TV 24/7. Dance Moms (obviously demons in human form), one in which people caught rattlesnakes for a living, one about a tattoo artist with a LOT of Nazi ink on her body…it was a white trash buffet. Yep, those were bad times.

Here's another lovely experience, this time for the medical personnel (not counting the male nurse I kicked in the chest.) They had me on so many drugs to sedate me when I was on the ventilator and then when I was off the ventilator but on dialysis (as I kept ripping out my IVs and dialysis port) that I hallucinated for all but six days of the 3 1/2 week stay ($95,000 hospital bill for those who think they don't need insurance. Yes, you didn't misread–$95,000.) During one of these episodes I hallucinated a man stole my identity, was dressing up as a woman and going to Conventions doing book signings as me. And all the nurses were whispering that I was the man (in a wig) and the identity thief was really me. What could I do? One thing…so apparently I insisted to every single person that walked in the room that they lift up my hospital gown and see for themselves I was a woman, vagoo and all (worse, I wasn't with it enough to charge a dollar a peek if anyone took me up on it.) Now there are probably fifty traumatized people roaming the city that I tried to entice to take a look at my goodies whether they wanted to or not. This is why I heavily fictionalize bedside hospital scenes. If Cal did that, how angsty would it be?

Although, Goodfellow would do it and the hell with the angst.

New FB photos

And they be naughty and potentially embarrassing. Go. Mock. Or, if you're a true geek, gawk at the cosplay!

http://tinyurl.com/3msr2jz

GOD-KING-EMPEROR

All Hail King Ralphy - Click for Larger Image

Dakota, my werewolf superhero and partner in crime, has been gone a while now. While the memories will never fade, someone has stepped up to handle what duties he can.

Meet GOD-KING-EMPEROR Ralphy.

Fear him. His ears detect sonar, his nose a morsel of food 2000 miles away, and his bark shatters glass. You may now bow and toss milkbones in his royal path.



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