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Catching Up with the Nebulas: The Awards Showcase 17 is Up for Grabs

I always enjoy the annual collection of the previous year's Nebula Award winners, the awards for the best science fiction and fantasy as voted by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. It's a great way to catch up, because it's almost impossible to keep up with my own writing and still read even half the things I want to. Also a great way to get introduced to new authors.

So today, I'm looking at -- and giving away a copy of -- Nebula Awards Showcase 2012, edited by Jam...

Royal Street Easter Eggs, Chapter 5: New!

Welcome to the weekly annotations for Royal Street. On Wednesdays, until we get the Preternatura Book Club started back up, I'm annotating one chapter a week from Royal Street. If you've read it, you can cross-check the annotations with the book. If you haven't, well, I hope it will at least be an interesting behind-the-scenes look at post-Katrina New Orleans and what personal things got pulled into the novel.

Unlike chapters 1-3, chapter four isn't available online, so I'll be referring to pa...

Booked! A Deleted Scene from ROYAL STREET

There's an oft-used saying among authors: Sometimes you have to kill your darlings. Appropriately enough, in this case, the originator of that phrase was Southern writerly icon William Faulkner. Although best known for the works he produced from his home in Oxford, Mississippi, Faulkner got his writing career started in New Orleans, renting a room in the French Quarter near St. Louis Cathedral on a street called, ironically, Pirate's Alley. The building where he lived is now Faulkner House Bo...

New Releases May 23-31 & Reader's Choice Cont*st

Not as huge a list today as I expected after last Monday’s big release week, but some interesting titles here spread across all the speculative genres, including the new title in Mike Shevdon's Courts of the Feyre series. Take a look-see, and pick the one you’d most like to win!
When Passion Lies (Shadow Keepers, Book 4) , by J.K. Beck (May 29, Bantam)FBI agent Alexis Martin knows that vampires exist—because one of them killed her sister. Assigned to investigate a series of bizar...

Did You Win a Book This Week?

Coming up next week...a great, big old Reader's Choice on Monday. Lots of new books out this week! Also, my "thinning the herd" project to whittle down my TBR pile will continue with another big giveaway or two, and I might just have a deleted scene from ROYAL STREET to spring on you one day!

Okay, now to the business at hand. Did you win a book this week? If you see your name, please contact me HERE with your preference of ebook or print. If ebook, make sure I have the correct email to send i...

Q&A with Alyson Noël and W*n FATED #YA

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Towering TBR Thursday--Five Book Surprise Pack

I warned you I was moving out some books this week! Today, I have five-book prize packs in your choice of 1) science fiction, which includes authors like Connie Willis and Tobias Buckell; 2) urban fantasy and paranormal romance, which includes authors like Cat Adams, Linda Wisdom, and Stephanie Rowe; 3) YA paranormal, which includes authors like Alyson Noel, Alyxandra Harvey, and Erin Morgenstern; and 4) Fantasy, including authors such as Robin Hobb and Sara Douglass.

Want to win? I will let g...

Royal Street Easter Eggs, Chapter 4--All New!

First off, I'm over at the fabulous Wicked Little Pixie blog today, with a pop quiz about New Orleans. Nah, doesn't matter how many you get right or wrong...you're still eligible to win a swag pack and signed book or poster from moi! Head over HERE to check it out and leave a comment.

Welcome to the weekly annotations for Royal Street. On Wednesdays, until we get the Preternatura Book Club started back up, I'm annotating one chapter a week from Royal Street. If you've read it, you can cross-ch...

TBR Meltdown: W*n All 3 Jana Oliver Demon Trapper Books

For the rest of May, on one or two days a week, I'll be "culling the herd," so lots of giveaways forthcoming! I'm drowning in books!



First, a brief commercial interruption (don't you hate those?). If you're in the mood for a sexy vampire romance with a heavy urban fantasy theme, check out Susannah Sandlin's interview today over at author Sharon Buchbinder's blog HERE . Susannah is giving away a copy of REDEMPTION, the first book in her paranormal romance trilogy that comes out June 12. Think st...

New Releases May 15-22, & Reader's Choice C*ntest

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