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Preternatura Book Club: Halfway to the Grave, Chapters 11-12

Welcometo this week's "meeting" of the Preternatura Book Club! Today, we continue withthe first book in Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series, Halfway to the Grave.
Here'show it works. Each week, I'll post a summary (spoiler alert!) on two chapters,and we'll chat about them. Try to minimize spoilers beyond what's happened inthe book we've read so far. You can read along, read ahead, or just stop by andread the summaries. After the Book Club has been up a few days, I'll move it toarchives so...

Meet Author Shona Husk and win The Goblin King

If, like me,your image of goblins was formed by too much Harry Potter, you think of them as dark, ugly and dangerous. But how about tortured? How about acurse? How about a cursed man fighting to find a queen? Welcome to the world ofAustralian author Shona Husk, who spends her days as a civil designer and herevenings exploring history, myth and imagination. Her debut novel, The Goblin King, is being released thisweek by Sourcebooks, and we will be giving away two copies to a commenter...

Reader's Choice! Win One of Oct. 1-7 New Releases (Part 1)

Holybook release, Batman. There are fifty (!) new titles coming out this week, so youknow what that means? It's time for a double Reader's Choice contest. I'll listthe first half of the titles today, and will give away your choice of newrelease. Then, come back Friday, when you can enter for a chance to win oneof the second half of the list. (Tomorrow and Thursday, I'll be introducing youto a couple of really interesting authors and giving you a chance to win theirbooks.)

Asalways, Reader's...

Did You Win a Book This Week?

HappySunday! You know what time it is...and come back next week for more reviews and great contests. I'm going to be unloading some books this week!
Congratsto RABID FOX for winning the vampireanthology Blood and Other Cravings.
Congratsto JOANNA and MARIEE for winning Lydia Dare's NeverBeen Bit.
Congratsto JOLENE for winning a signed copyof Rebecca Zanetti's Fated.

Congrats to TINA MOSS for winning Sarah Beth Durst's Drink, Slay, Love.
Congratsto READING MIND for winning thisweek's crazy-huge...

Reminder: Last Day to Enter

My giveaway announcements have moved to SUNDAYS, so guestwhat? An extra day to win!

There's still time to enter if you haven't already. Just keep scrolling down,or hit the links. (And if you're waiting for a book to arrive from me, I'm running a little behind with my mailings but promise to get everything out by Monday!)

Enter to win:
* BLOOD AND OTHER CRAVINGS , a new vampire anthology edited by Ellen Datlow (these are scary vampires, by the way, not cuddly ones). Click HERE.

* NEVER BEEN BIT , a ...

Review & Contest: NEVER BEEN BIT by Lydia Dare

LydiaDare's Regency Vampyre trilogy concludes her stories of Scottish witches whomanage to tread the line between high society and the paranormal with Never Been Bit, which picks up the taleof witch Sorcha Ferguson, who's determined to find her a werewolf...but itmight not be in the cards. These paranormal romance novels (I'd rate the "heat"level as mild-to-moderate) can be read as stand-alones or in sequence.
Wantto win a copy? Read on!
Lydia Dare'sparanormal historical romances feature the...

YA Vampire Review & Giveaway: DRINK, SLAY, LOVE by Sarah Beth Durst

Question: When it is really okay for a vampire to sparkle in  sunlight?
Answer: When she really isn't sparkling--she's just never seen sunlight on skin before, and she kinda got staked by a sparkly unicorn horn the night before.


We're looking at a great new YA vampire read today--Sarah Beth Durst's Drink, Slay, Love.  It's funny, it's feisty, and I devoured it in two sittings. I would've finished in one sitting but, well, I'm old and need sleep and have Ye Olde Day Jobbe that requires my...

Preternatura Book Club: Halfway to the Grave, Chapters 9-10

 Welcometo this week's "meeting" of the Preternatura Book Club! Today, we continue withthe first book in Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series, Halfway to the Grave.
Here'show it works. Each week, I'll post a summary (spoiler alert!) on two chapters,and we'll chat about them. Try to minimize spoilers beyond what's happened inthe book we've read so far. You can read along, read ahead, or just stop by andread the summaries. After the Book Club has been up a few days, I'll move it toarchives so...

Rebecca Zanetti Weighs In on Bad Boy Love (& Win a Signed Copy of Fated)

Ilove a good bad boy, don't you? Today, I'm welcoming author Rebecca Zanetti,who's pondering why women love bad boys (with or without fangs).  By day, Rebecca is a college professor; bynight, she writes about, well, some bad boys with her Dark Protector seriesfrom Kensington Brava.
Thefirst book in the series, FATED , is about an overbearingvampire who thinks he knows what's best for everyone—especially his mate. Itwas hailed as a recommended spring read from Publisher's Weekly. The second...

New Releases Sept. 26-30 & Reader's Choice Contest

Aftera couple of light release weeks, it's time for another big blast of new booksin all our favorite speculative fiction genres, both adult and YA. (And nextweek is huge, too!) I'm also including a few titles from earlier in the monththat slipped by me. (Shame on you, titles—shouldn't be slipping by me.) An asterisk* aftera title means I already know I'll have a review coming soon and will also be doing a giveaway ofthat individual title.
Asalways, an international contest, so make your wish...