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Amish #Vampires? PLAIN FEAR by Leanna Ellis & G*veaway

First, my apologies today to Lexi George, who was supposed to be my interview guest today...and I cannot find her Q&A. I swear, Lexi, I never do that. And she's out of town for the weekend. So I promise, I'll get her on here next week to talk about her faboo new book, Demon Hunting in the Deep South. (I hope she doesn't send any demons after me. Thankfully, she's like the nicest person you'd ever want to meet.)
So today, we're going to look at a book that's caught my interest because, well...

Returning Soon: The Preternatura Book Club!

Yep, I'm going to restart the book club on Wednesday, August 15--with some changes that I hope will get more people into the discussion.

First, why wait until the 15th? Because beginning next Tuesday, and continuing through Sunday, August 12, I'll be blogging from Authors After Dark 2012 in New Orleans. I am SO excited....and I am SO not ready. I have goody bags to stuff, books to sign and gather, schedules to make out. I signed up for AAD last September, so how can I possibly not be ready? Si...

Q&A with James Jaros (& W*n #Dystopian CARRY THE FLAME)

Ready for a good dystopia? (I always am.) One of my favorite dystopian novels last year was the first in a new series by author James Jaros called Burn Down the Sky. It was dark, at times brutal, and definitely not a happy little read--but it also was riveting, with deep, complex characters I came to care about. I also learned that James Jaros is actually thriller author Mark Nykanen, a four-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter. So he knows a bit about the world we live in, and can write...

New Releases July 30-Aug. 4 & Reader's Choice C*ntest

Remember last week's mega list? Well, I'm repeating it with a few new additions. There were so many good releases coming out tomorrow, why not try it again? 
Now…Reader’s Choice! As always, leave a comment telling me the book here you’d most like to win, and maybe random.org will make your wishes come true. International? Of course!
Now, here we go….


Demon Hunting in the Deep South, by Lexi George (July 31, Kensington)
Evie Douglass doesn't know what's worse--the demons secretly infesting he...

Scene-Snippet Sunday (And Did You W*n a Book This Week?)

Scene-Snippet time! Today's snippet is from Elysian Fields, book three in the Sentinels of New Orleans series, which won't come out until August 2013, so enjoy the snippet :-). A major location in EF is Six Flags New Orleans, which was drowned under floodwater following Katrina and never reopened. Also never torn down. There's an uber-creepy video you can watch here. The video says the part was due to be demolished a while back, but it never happened. It's still here. It's scary. I've run thi...

Last Chance for This Week's G*veaways!

It's Saturday, and I'm on the road today, heading for Birmingham, aka "The Magic City." Although now that I think about it, I have no idea why it's called the Magic City. Oh well. I'll be attending the  July meeting of the Southern Magic chapter of Romance Writers of America. Quite a few of my colleagues have been off in California this week at the RWA national convention. Me? Not so much.

So play amongst yourselves today, my pretties. And come back tomorrow for a new Scene-Snippet Sunday...

Pirate Fantasy? Check out (& W*n) Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe

As always, check over at the Susannah Sandlin blog to see where the Redemption Virtual Tour is today--still time to enter for the prizes!

Today's featured book has a couple of my favorite elements: the self-deprecating, funny hero, and pirates. How can you go wrong?


Wake of the Bloody Angel is the newest in author Alex Bledsoe's terrific Eddie LaCrosse series, which has been described as a cross between fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. Actually, it's fantasy with an almost urban fanta...

Blade Runner Meets X-Men? W*n KM Ruiz' TERMINAL POINT

The quick commercial message...I'm over at the wonderful Jami Gold's blog today, talking about the five top lessons I learned on my recent book tour for Royal Street....some good experiences, and some not so good. You can find it here.

Now...today's featured book has one of those promo descriptions that always either intrigue me or make me laugh. I kind of find "Blade Runner Meets X-Men" intriguing. What do you think? The book is Terminal Point, which came out in mid-June, by author K.M. Ruiz,...

Annotated ROYAL STREET Chapter 12: Gerry's House

Note: ROYAL STREET annotations are a spoiler-free zone!

Today, I'm looking at chapter 11. In this chapter DJ makes her first post-Katrina foray into the neighborhood of Lakeview, where her mentor Gerry's house is located.
For Gerry's house, I used my own former residence on Bellaire Drive. It was what in New Orleans is called a Half-Double (in the rest of the world it's called a duplex), so a friend and I lived in the lefthand half, and a doctoral student and his dog lived in the righthand half...

Alternative History Tuesday: W*n CUTTLEFISH by Dave Freer

The quick commercial message (yeah, I know, they get old, but they help pay for this blog, after all!l): I have a Q-and-A up today over at the Booksniffers Anonymous website and am giving away (internationally) to one commenter a choice of signed print book, ebook (with book plate) or audiobook. They ran a review of Redemption on Sunday, and I'm back today answering questions. And you can find out if I, too, am a closet booksniffer! Stop by and say hello.

Also, imagine you're a vampire. Why w...