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RELEASE DAY! Meet the Characters: River Road by Suzanne Johnson (& G*veaway)

Happy release day to me! River Road hits the bookstore shelves today, and I’m beyond excited. Royal Street was my love letter to New Orleans, but River Road is in many ways the first real book of the Sentinels of New Orleans series. We know the characters, the hurricane is gone, and things are settling into a new normal that, well, isn’t normal at all. Weregators, anyone?
Before I introduce you to the characters of River Road, a few announcements.
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New Releases Nov. 12-19 and Reader's Choice C*ntest

First, today is the kickoff of the online tour for River Road, which comes out tomorrow! There are tons of prizes with this tour—see the TOUR PRIZES list in the righthand column. Each day, I’ll be running the URLs of the tour stops and what you can win at each. Here are today’s stops:
***I’m being interviewed at Reading and WritingUrban Fantasy ; enter for the official tour prizes; a comment will enter you for the $25 GC and a mystery book.
***I'm talking about the world of my Merp...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Read Chapter 1 of River Road (& Win a Copy)

Bear with me for some announcements...this week's winners will be announced here.

First, it's release week! On Tuesday, River Road, the second book in my Sentinels of New Orleans series comes out and you can catch up with what DJ and the gang have been up to since Royal Street. If Royal Street wasn't quite your cup of tea, give River Road a try--the hurricane is gone, the characters are back in normal mode, and it's a clearer picture of what the series will look like moving forward.

I've put so...

#Steampunk Friday Review: STEAMPUNK POE (& W*n a copy!)

Today, I’m looking at Steampunk Poe. It’s not a brand new release—has been out a while, in fact—but it somehow slipped past my radar and I wish it hadn’t. It’s a gorgeous book, with full-page color illustrations that are, well, gorgeous. The book combines some of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic stories and poems such as The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart, and illustrates them with steampunk-influenced art. Note: these are NOT Poe’s stories rewritten as steampunks, but...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Q&A with #fantasy #pnr Author Marsha A. Moore

Today, I’m pleased to welcome a longtime online author friend Marsha A. Moore, an author of fantasy romance—and also a talented artist! After a move from Toledo to Tampa in 2008, she’s happily transforming into a Floridian, in love with the outdoors. You can learn more about Marsha and her Enchanted Bookstore Legends series at her website. The newest book in the series is Lost Volumes.
Now, let’s hear from Marsha—welcome!
Give us the “elevator pitch” for LOST VOLUMES.Considering my...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Preternatura Book Club: Harry Dresden, Fashion Plate

Welcome back to the Preternatura Book Club! We'll be talking about topics that are related to the book we're reading but are general enough for you to pipe up and voice an opinion.
Each book read will last four weeks, which is a much faster schedule than we've done on previous books. Today, we finish reading STORM FRONT, book one in the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher. We will take a couple of weeks off for some special River Road release week fun and a Thanksgiving special bl...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Q&A with #YA Author J. Barton Mitchell (& W*n MIDNIGHT CITY)

Today, I’d like to welcome debut YA science fiction author J. Barton Mitchell to Preternatura! His new SF YA novel, MIDNIGHT CITY, is the first in the new Conquered Earth series, published by St. Martin’s Press. He’s also a screenwriter and has created the POE comic book series. You can learn more about him at jbartonmitchell.com.
In the meantime, want to win a copy of Midnight City? (You really do…it sounds faboo.) Read on…

ABOUT MIDNIGHT CITY:  Earth has been conquered. An...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

New Releases Nov. 5-11 and Reader's Choice C*ntest

A busy-ish week in new releases as we start the march toward the holidays. I am SO not ready for holidays. Can we postpone them this year? Maybe until March? I might be ready for Thanksgiving by March. Maybe Christmas in June?
What do you want to read? As always, leave a comment telling me the book you’d most like to win (or the first in its series), and maybe random.org will make your wishes come true. If the book is part of a series, you can request the first book in the series....<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Scene-Snippet Sunday: RIVER ROAD--DJ's Pjs (& Weekly Winners)

It's a very late episode of Scene-Snippet Sunday here as I traveled to Birmingham yesterday for the Southern Magic RWA's annual Readers Luncheon (fun!) then went to Montgomery to celebrate a friend's birthday. Home at last.

Today, we have a scene from River Road (only a week until release--yay!), that gives a taste of the kind of relationship DJ and her partner Alex have settled into now that the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has passed. It is a scene I always liked and is actually...

Stay tuned...

I am on the road today but will post today's scene snippet and weekly winners this evening!