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Q&A with #PNR Author Roxanne Rhoads & W*n a Prize Pack

Today, I’m pleased to welcome debut author Roxanne Rhoads to Preternatura as part of her virtual tour for Hex and the Single Witch, the first in her Vehicle City Vampires series. Roxanne is a writer and publicist (her Bewitching Book Tours has handled the Susannah Sandlin tours and will be doing River Road tour as well), as well as running the popular Fang-tastic Books blog. You can learn more about Roxanne and her books at her blog, and on Facebook and Twitter.
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Preternatura Books Club: The Vampire World of Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

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.

First, a quick commercial message. The Susannah Sandlin book tour for ABSOLUTION (out October 9) continues today. Check the website for the link to today's tour stop. Up for grabs: A Kindle Paper White (or $100 gift card) and signed books, plus a couple of $25 gift cards for commenting on the individual...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Q&A with #SciFi Author Paul Tremblay & W*n Your Choice from the ChiZine Catalog

Today, I’d like to welcome author Paul Tremblay to the blog to talk about his new book, Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye. It’s one of the funniest Q and As I’ve had on the blog, so it’s made me anxious to move this book up on my TBR stack (as well as the very, very cool cover). Plus, it’s kinda Orwellian, and I do love me some George Orwell. Anyway…
Paul is a two-time nominee of the Bram Stoker Award, has sold over fifty short stories to markets such as Razor Magazine, CHIZINE, Weird Tal...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

New Releases Oct. 1-7 and Reader's Choice C*ntest

First, a commercial message. The Absolution Tour for Susannah Sandlin kicks off today. Follow each stop of the tour and at each one you can enter to win the tour prize of a new Kindle Paper White or $100 gift card to your choice of online book retailer. You can find the links each day HERE .

I'm also at the Romance Magicians blog today as part of their big BlogFest promoting our November 5 Reader's Luncheon in Birmingham. Lots of great prizes to be won! A comment enters you for a s...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Scene-Snippet Sunday: Jean Lafitte Makes a Date (& Weekly W*nners)

Check my "official website" today for a new snippet from RIVER ROAD (on sale November 13 in the US and two weeks later in the UK!)

In the meantime, here are our weekly winners. Please contact me with your mailing info. I'm slowly catching up with my mailings but am still running behind, so please be patient!

SUSIEBOOKWORM won the signed copy of Tonya Hurley's The Blessed. This is a print copy.

ROGER, SUSAN, SANDYG, RACHEL V, and ELLA GRAY won UK versions of Royal Street. These are print copies.

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Last Call: Weekly C*ntests and Plotting Class

Tomorrow (Sunday) is the last day to sign up for my "Plotting for Pantsers" online class, which begins October 1 and runs through October 25, or a little later if we need the time. I'll be plotting a new series book along with the class, so it should be a lot of fun (and, yeah, some work). If you're interested, you can find info here .

Tonight at midnight US Central Daylight Time, all the week's contests will end, so if you haven't entered, scroll on down--lots of interesting stuff this week!


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#YA Friday: W*n a signed copy of THE BLESSED by Tonya Hurley

A couple of housekeeping notes. Commenting on the sites below can win you a UK copy of Royal Street .

The pirate Jean Lafitte has a guest post over at the Serendipity Reviews blog today--go over and see how obnoxious he can be!

I'm also telling secrets about the Royal Street characters at the Feeling Fictional website today. Do you know why DJ is a wizard and not a shapeshifter?

Finally, go over to the Grave Tells website and vote for my alter-ego Susannah Sandlin and Redemption for...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

UK Release Day for ROYAL STREET--W*n a Signed UK Copy!

Okay, showing my age here, but I got up singing the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the UK” today because (drum roll) it’s release day for Royal Streetacross the wide Atlantic! So, yeah, I had to dig around and listen to it a couple of times, followed by the Clash’s “Hitsville UK” and the Kinks’ “Victoria.” So I’m in a proper mood this morning, even if I don’t have spiky blue-tinged hair anymore. (This is a good thing.)

Check out the website of my UK publisher, Headline, for a new blog p...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Preternatura Books Club: Native Americans in Urban Fantasy

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 tackle the next few chapters of SKINWALKER, book one in the Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter.
Today’s giveaway will be a mystery unclaimed prize of your choice of genre: paranormal rom...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

Q&A with #UF Author Nick Mamatas & W*n Your Choice of ChiZine Ebook!

Today, I’d like to welcome author Nick Mamatas to the blog. Nick is the author of the recent release Bullettime from ChiZine Publications, as well as four (and a half) previous novels, including The Damned Highway with Brian Keene, and Sensation. He recently coedited the Haunted Legends anthology with Ellen Datlow and The Future is Japanese with Masumi Washington. Nick’s a native New Yorker now living in California. You can find him at his website, on Facebook, and h...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>