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New Releases Nov. 14-21 and Reader's Choice

Apretty short list of new releases in speculative fiction this week, althoughthere are some interesting Young Adult titles.
Ihave a couple of these coming up for review in the next couple of weeks, mostnotably the new book from Brenna Yovanoff...so stay tuned!
Asalways, Reader's Choice is an international giveaway, so dig in! (And if a bookin a series catches your eye, you can always request the first in the series instead.)
*Genrekey (at the end of each listing): SF=science fiction; F=fantasy...

Did You Win a Book This Week?

It's all about the winners today! I'll be back tomorrow with a new list of weekly releases and an international Reader's Choice contest, plus lots of reviews and giveaways and general book talk this week. In the meantime...To the winners: please send me your snail-mail address to suzannej3523@gmail.com -- don't make me come looking for you :-)

Congrats to SULLIVAN MCPIG for winning the Reader's Choice last week, picking the first book in Jay Lake's Green series.

Congrats to TANYA and MNJCARTER ...

Reminder: Last Day to Enter Weekly Contests!

 My giveaway announcements have moved to SUNDAYS until theend of college football season (don't even ask), so guest what? An extra day towin!
There's still time to enter this week's contests if you haven't already. Justkeep scrolling down, or hit the links—well, don't hit them. That might hurt.Just click on them.
Enter to win:
To win a new release of your choice in this week's Reader'sChoice contest, click HERE.
To win a copy of Anita Clenney's fabulous new paranormalromance, Embrace the...

Self-Destructive Heroes--Featured YA Book PAST CONTINUOUS

How do you feel about self-destructive heroes and heroines in the books you read? Does it matter if the hero/heroine is an adult or a teen?
Our featured book today is K. Ryer Breese's Past Continuous, a Young Adult paranormal about a seriously self-destructive--but ultimately redeemable--hero. First, let's look at the official blurb for the book, then talk some of our favorite heroes and their bad habits!
ABOUT THE BOOK: Ade Patience has done what he was told he couldn't. He's broken the...

Music in Fiction: THE HUM AND THE SHIVER

Timeto shake things up a little here at Preternatura—change is good, right? I'mgoing to try something new for the next couple of weeks and see how it goes. Alot depends on you, my friends, because instead of sticking up a book, runninga three-sentence "review" and sponsoring a giveaway, I want to take a featuredbook and talk about something related to it—and still sponsor the giveaway, of course!And we'll still have our Monday new releases and Reader's Choice and ourWednesday book club, so...

Preternatura Book Club--Halfway to the Grave, Chapters 21-22

Welcome to this week's "meeting" of the Preternatura BookClub! Today, we continue with the first book in Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntressseries, Halfway to the Grave.
Here's how it works. Each week, I'll post a summary(spoiler alert!) on two chapters, and we'll chat about them. Try to minimizespoilers beyond what's happened in the book we've read so far. You can readalong, read ahead, or just stop by and read the summaries. After the Book Clubhas been up a few days, I'll move it to archives so ...

Meet Author Anita Clenney and Embrace a Highland Warrior?

Ready for somesteamy Scotsmen? (Well, duh.) I'm happy to welcome author Anita Clenney to theblog today. Anita's USA-bestselling Awakenthe Highland Warrior was one of my favorite paranormal romance reads inrecent months, and on Nov. 1 she released the second book, Embrace the Highland Warrior (which can be read as a standalone).Anita writes from her home in Virginia, and you can learn more about her fromher website, www.anitaclenney.com. Youcan also find her on Twitter at @anitaclenney or...

New Releases Nov. 6-13 and Reader's Choice Contest

Okay,remember I said we'd have short list this week since the last two were so huge?Ha! It's still a fairly busy release week in the world of speculative fiction,so get your list-making supplies ready and comment to tell me which one you'remost looking forward to.
Asfor me, I'm a big Stephen King fan (uh, hello, who else would have signed onfor a two-year read of the entire Dark Tower series over at Tor.com—join us onMondays if you're a fan). So I'm really looking forward to seeing what he...

Did You Win a Book (or Swag) This Week?

A late posting after a fun trip to Birmingham yesterday for the Southern Magic RWA luncheon (and Angie, if you want more info on the chapter, email me here). But now, it's back to the business of books--and reading them and sharing them and even giving them away. Okay, and writing them too, but that's my job.

So, lots of winners this week! Here we go, and if you see your name, please email me with your snail-mail info.

Congrats to JENN3128, who won the Halloween giveaway of Alex Bledsoe's terri...

Baskets, swaggishness, and other stuff

Happy Saturday! I'm writing this late on Friday night, after making up what seemed like a million "table favor" baskets for tomorrow's Reader's Luncheon in Birmingham, hosted by the Southern Magic chapter of the Romance Writers of America.

My urban fantasy has some "romantic elements" in it, but even though it's not a romance, the nice folks at Southern Magic let me hang out with them anyway. Some great authors will be there, like Lexi George, Jennifer Echols, JF Lewis and keynote speaker Vict...