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First Love (and a Serial Killer) with Julie Anne Lindsey--and #Giveaway

Please help me welcome author Julie Anne Lindsey to Preternatura today! Julie's most recent release is Deceived, which was published on September 18. And read on for a chance to win a copy.


Julie Anne Lindsey is a multi-genre author who writes the stories that keep her up at night. In 2013, Julie welcomes five new releases in three genres including her newest title, DECEIVED, a YA suspense from Merit Press, and her first cozy mystery, MURDER BY THE SEASIDE, book one in the Patienc...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Locating a Dead Body with Betty Bolté (and #Giveaway)

Today, please help me welcome Betty Bolté back to Preternatura. Betty’s latest book is Hometown Heroines: True Stories of Bravery, Daring, and Adventure, a collection of historical fiction tales based on the lives of 19 girls living in the 1800s in America. These stories were inspired by the fact that each of these girls have a landmark dedicated to them in America as a result of their efforts. It's a really cool story premise! And she's giving away a copy to a commenter tod...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Interview With a #ShapeShifter #Dragon and Win Mina Khan's WILDFIRE

Today, please help me welcome author Mina Khan to Preternatura! Mina is one of my fellow RWA Southern Magic chapter members, lives in my former home state of Texas, and writes great, hot paranormal fiction with genies and dragons. (You know we all love a good dragon!) Her brand-new release is Wildfire: A Paranormal Mystery with Cowboys and Dragons, which was published on September 10.


Mina is a Texas-based writer and food enthusiast. She writes about djinns (genies), dragons, hunk...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

New Releases September 21-September 27 and Readers Choice C*ntest

Quick note: I'm over at the Lady Scribes blog today, blithering about my creative restlessness. Comment over there and tell me your hobby for an extra Reader's Choice giveaway!

The next couple of weeks are really going to challenge our book budgets. (Yes, I know I have the TBR version of Mount Everest, but one can never have too many books waiting when the zombie apocalypse arrives and one must barricade oneself inside.) The month of September ends with a 30-book bang, and you jus...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Weekly Winners and One Tired Writer

Nap. I NEEDS a nap. Drove down to New Orleans on Thursday, and the six-hour drive took an extra hour and a half because of heavy traffic solid from Mobile to NOLA.

Friday was the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance trade show, and it was a cool experience, as always, although most of the booksellers seemed friendly but perplexed by the whole paranormal genre.

My theory of this, formed on the drive back yesterday (which took more than eight hours because of blinding rainstorms) is that the...

Flibbertigibbets, Hellhounds and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Heart with Alyxandra Harvey (and a #giveaway!)

Please help me welcome author Alyxandra Harvey to Preternatura today. Alyx is the author of the six-book YA vampire series, The Drake Chronicles, which was published by Walker, as well as the books Haunting Violet and Stolen Away. She has an exciting new series, The Lovegrove Legacy, which will debut in January of 2014 with the first book titled A Breath of Frost (previously Witching Season: Stormcaster).
Alyxandra Harvey lives in a stone Victorian house in Ontario, Cana...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

A Spirit Guide, an Author, and Rampaging Ostriches--Meet author BarbaraMonajem (and G*veaway)

Today, please help me welcome author Barbara Monajem to Preternatura. I love her Bayou Gavotte series--fun and sexy paranormals, always with a great mystery in them! Barbara dropped by today with a few questions for her hero's spirit guide—who just happens to be hanging out at an ostrich farm! Barbara’s most recent release is Heart of Constantine, which is the third book in her Bayou Gavotte series and published September 10 by Thomas & Mercer.
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When Does Urban Fantasy Become Horror? Author Teresa Frohock Answers (and W*n a Book)

Please help me welcome author Teresa Frohock to Preternatura today! Teresa dropped by to talk about the razor’s-edge difference between writing urban fantasy and horror. She is the author of Miserere: An Autumn Tale, which was published on June 21, 201, by Night Shade Books. 
Raised in a small town, Teresa learned to escape to other worlds through the fiction collection of her local library. Although Teresa has been reading fantasy and science fiction since she was...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

A Pig, A Leprechaun and a Shapeshifter Walk into a Wizard's House--Free Read!

Short and sweet today, as I send you over to the Pearls Cast Before a McPig website for a bit of porcine flash fiction set in the Sentinels world that will answer the burning question: if a pig had a meal request, what would it ask for?

I just realized an inordinate number of my flash-fictions this past month have dealt with food...Hm....The result of six months of eating low carb, I think?

Anyway, enjoy the story!

New Releases Sept. 14—20 and Readers Choice C*ntest

Happy Monday! Oh, wait. That's an oxymoron. Anyway, looks like a week for fantasy this time out in our weekly tour of new spec fiction releases. Well okay, fantasy and zombies. Just when I think zombies have shambled off and died, here comes a new brain-eating bunch. But I guess that's the way with zombies, isn't it? 
Now...what do you want to read this week? As always, leave a comment telling me the book you’d most like to win, and maybe random.org will make your wishes come...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>