

Video game designer River Weston is ready to sell her soul to smooth out the glitches in her latest project. When she unwittingly taps into a parallel dimension via cutting-edge technology, a Dark Lord is quick to take her up on her inadvertent offer. Trapped in the world she thought she’d created for her game, River finds herself in a very real alternate dimension that she must escape from before her soul can be used to unleash evil—upon this dimension and many others.Also returning guest Skyler White will be here to talk about her newest book In Dreams Begin on Saturday November 6. Last years and Falling Fly was amazing.
River’s only ally is the sexy and mysterious Chase Hawkins. A prisoner of the Dark Lord, Hawk is a man adrift—literally. His body safe at home under the watchful care of the Guardians’ scientists, his astral-traveling spirit has been enslaved by his people’s worst enemy, the Dark Lord. Clinging desperately to his sense of self, Hawk is determined to turn the tables on his captor before the connection to his body is lost. When the beautiful, achingly familiar River enters the picture, he vows he will do everything he can to save her from her bleak fate.
Drawn together with an inescapable force, Hawk and River must wrest her soul from the Dark Lord’s grasp before it’s too late.
Anchored in fact on both sides of history, Laura and Ida, modern rationalist and fin de siècle occultist, are linked from the moment Ida channels Laura into the body of celebrated beauty and Irish freedom-fighter Maud Gonne. When Laura falls—from an ocean and a hundred years away—passionately, Victorianly in love with the young poet W. B. Yeats, their love affair entwines with Irish history and weaves through Yeats’s poetry until Ida discovers something she wants more than magic in the subterranean spaces in between.INTERVIEWS AND GIVEAWAYS
With her Irish past threatening her orderly present and the man she loves in it, Laura and Yeats—the practical materialist and the poet magus—must find a way to make love last over time, in changing bodies, through modern damnation, and into the mythic past to link their pilgrim souls . . . or lose them forever.
I was looking through the Shutterstock images, stumbled onto the sun background, showed it to Gordon, and he laughed. So now the website has a new cute fall theme. I even got all of our pets, with the exception of Sam, in the footer.The Galaxy Express reports that three SFR authors have made sales in Germany and include Ann Aguirre, Eve Kenin (Eve Silver) and Linnea Sinclair. Check out the full story.
I can finally announce that there will be a fourth Jane Jameson book. The details, such as title and release date, are still being settled.Apparently Trisha Telep, editor of many of the Mammoth books has another anthology coming out in September 2011 called Dark Fairy Romance.
- Linda Thomas-Sundstrom‘s next book will be called Golden Vampire, with a release date of April 1st, 2011.
- Sinful Slayer is the May 24th release in the Wing Slayer Hunter series from Jennifer Lyon.
- Amanda Ashley‘s next paranormal release is called Bound By Twilight, and is scheduled for a release date of September 6th of next year.
- Next up in the Dragon Kin series from G.A. Aiken (a.k.a. Shelly Laurenston) is Vigholf’s story, titled How to Drive a Dragon Crazy. It should be available next September 6th.
I am entirely delighted to announce that I have sold a collection of Old Races stories to Subterranean Press. Tentatively entitled BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER & OTHER TALES OF THE OLD RACES, it will include “From Russia, with Love”, “Five Card Draw”, “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” and three to five new stories centering around Janx, Daisani, Vanessa Grey and Baba Yaga’s daughter. And probably some other people. ;)
Win all the books featured in the rBooks Halloween Newsletter! You could win: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Spook's Bestiary by Joseph Delaney, I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett, Torment by Lauren Kate, The Stuff of Nightmares by Malorie Blackman, Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K Hamilton, and The Spook's Stories: Witches by Josephy Delaney.
Skyler Samuels (The Gates) will star in ABC Family's pilot Nine Lives, adapted from Celia Thomson's Nine Lives of Chloe King series of YA novels. Deadline.com reported that the pilot, "produced by Alloy Entertainment, centers on Chloe King (Samuels), a teenager with heightened abilities (super speed, agility, hearing... claws) who discovers she’s being pursued by a mysterious figure."Vampire Diaries Preview, Season 2, Episode 8
You're invited to join the fun at the 2010 Halloween Mash! Dozens of Writerspace authors will be chatting and giving away hundreds of prizes on Sunday, October 31st from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Eastern!
Authors will be dropping in to chat all during the evening and we will be giving away tons of new books and other fantastic prizes — autographed, hard-to-find, advance copies plus special treats like chocolates, gift cards and more. We hope to see you Sunday night! You don't have to be present to win, but you must be registered.
For details on all participating authors and the prizes they're giving away, visit http://www.writerspace.com/halloween
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Steampunk is...that poor bastard shoveling coal in the belly of the gleaming leviathanThe Story Siren has one of her excellent “Dear Publisher” articles up for Simon & Schuster. Must reader for book bloggers. She also recaps the links for previous articles posts covering many additional publishers.
Vincent Pendergast author of “Otto’s Elephant” as seen in The Clockwork Jungle Book
“Gone on quest. Found magic sword!” by @Pallekenl
Hearts at Stake has been nominated for the Ontario Library Association's White Pine Award! I'm so thrilled to be considered. Here's the full list, what great company to be keeping!
Trained since childhood in advanced biocyph seed technology by the all-powerful Crib empire, Edie's mission is to terraform alien worlds while her masters bleed the outlawed Fringe populations dry. When renegade mercenaries kidnap Edie, she's not entirely sure it's a bad thing . . . until they leash her to a bodyguard, Finn—a former freedom fighter-turned-slave, beaten down but never broken. If Edie strays from Finn's side, he dies. If she doesn't cooperate, the pirates will kill them both.
But Edie's abilities far surpass anything her enemies imagine. And now, with Finn as her only ally as the merciless Crib closes in, she'll have to prove it or die on the site of her only failure . . . a world called Scarabaeus.
It’s the smart, sophisticated story of a witch and a vampire who overcome their differences to investigate a lost alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782.Well that certainly sounds good to me. To promote the February release, they are running some excellent giveaways now and I have one for you here. Just fill out the form below and you will be eligible in a random draw to win 5 souvenir buttons now and a copy of the book as soon as it becomes available in January. Contest is open to residents of the US and Canada. The draw will be made on Monday, November 8.
Synopsis:
When historian Diana Bishop opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library it represents an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordinary life. Though descended from a long line of witches, she is determined to remain untouched by her family’s legacy. She banishes the manuscript to the stacks, but Diana finds it impossible to hold the world of magic at bay any longer.
For witches are not the only otherworldly creatures living alongside humans. There are also creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires who become interested in the witch’s discovery. They believe that the manuscript contains important clues about the past and the future, and want to know how Diana Bishop has been able to get her hands on the elusive volume.
Chief among the creatures who gather around Diana is vampire Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin. Together, Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the manuscript’s secrets. But the relationship that develops between the ages-old vampire and the spellbound witch threatens to unravel the fragile peace that has long existed between creatures and humans—and will certainly transform Diana’s world as well.
Medford lives on a neat, orderly island called—simply—Island.
In fact, everything on Island is named for its purpose, even the people who inhabit it. But Medford Runyuin is different. A foundling, he has a meaningless last name that is just one of many reminders that he's an outsider. And, to make matters worse, Medford's been keeping a big secret, one that could get him banished from Island forever.
- Islanders like names that say exactly what a thing (or a person) is or does. Nothing less.
- Islanders like things (and people) to do what their names say they will. Nothing more.
When the smelliest, strangest, unruliest creature Island has ever seen comes barreling right into his rigid world, Medford can’t help but start to question the rules he’s been trying to follow his entire life.
A whimsical fantasy debut about belonging, the dangers of forgetting history, and the Usefulness of art, The Unnameables is one of the funniest stories of friendship you’ll ever read, with a cast of characters you’ll never forget.
Vampire tales offering a fictional history of the most memorable vampire of them all - Count Dracula.
How will the King of Vampires adapt to the social and technological changes brought by the twenty-first century? Could the Count’s condition be cured by modern medicine? How does the mythology perpetuated by literature and movies affect the existence of a real bloodsucker? What if Dracula found himself ruler of a world controlled by vampires? Or perhaps political and ecological catastrophe will result in the Count’s final destruction? This tribute to the world’s greatest vampire collects together more than 200,000 words of Dracula fiction by masters of dark fantasy such as: Hugh B. Cave, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper, John Gordon, Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Roberta Lannes, Thomas Ligotti, Paul J. McAuley, Nicholas Royle, Guy N. Smith and many more.
It also includes a brand new story from Charlaine Harris.
CONTRIBUTORS AND KNOWN STORIES
C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp
Rachel Caine
Laura Anne Gilman ("Dusted"” Costa Nostradamus)
Chris Marie Green (“Soul Stains” Vampire Babylon story)
Simon R. Green
Justin Gustainis (Quincy Morris)
C.J. Henderson
Tanya Huff
Julie Kenner (Shadow Keepers)
Jackie Kessler (“Hell Bound”)
Caitlin Kittredge
T.R. Pratt
Lilith Saintcrow
Carrie L. Vaughn
Fantastical Giveaway One lucky commenter will receive an advance review copy of The Sworn and an additional two readers will receive a bonus-pack of The Blood King, Dark Haven, and Dark Lady’s Chosen. Contest guidelines at the end of the post. |
As plague and famine scourge the winter kingdoms, a vast invasion force is mustering from beyond the northern seas. And at its heart, a dark spirit mage wields the blood magic of ancient, vanquished gods.
Summoner-King Martris Drayke must attempt to meet this great threat, gathering an army from a country ravaged by civil war. Neighboring lands reel toward anarchy while plague decimates their leaders. Drayke must seek new allies from among the living – and the dead –- as an untested generation of rulers face their first battle.
Then someone disturbs the legendary Dread as they rest in a millennia-long slumber
beneath sacred barrows. Their warrior guardians, the Sworn, know the Dread could be pivotal as a force for great good or evil. But if it’s the latter, could even the Summoner-King’s sorcery prevail?
The Sworn is Book One of The Fallen Kings Cycle, and it picks up the adventures of Tris, Jonmarc and the Winter Kingdoms gang six months after the end of Dark Lady’s Chosen. There are all new challenges, lots of dark magic and the biggest threat Margolan has faced in 400 years.
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