Showing posts with label Author News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Author News. Show all posts

Friday, November 4, 2011

News from Lara Adrian


I grabbed this from Lara Adrian's Facebook page.

Happy Friday, everyone! To help kickstart your weekend, I wanted to share the pretty cover art for my ebook original novella, A TASTE OF MIDNIGHT, which will be releasing from Bantam Dell on 12/5 (not the 8th, as previously reported). To recap, this is a completely stand-alone romance, featuring Danika, a Breedmate who first appeared in Book 1, KISS OF MIDNIGHT. If you're following the series timeline, A TASTE OF MIDNIGHT will take place toward the end of DEEPER THAN MIDNIGHT (Book 9) and before the events of DARKER AFTER MIDNIGHT (Book 10). More info to come!








Friday, September 2, 2011

Author News: Sierra Dean

After reading and reviewing an eARC of The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters a few months ago from I feel in love with Secret McQueen and found a new favorite author. {REVIEW}.

I've since purchased Something Secret This Way Comes but I've been waiting to read it so I can read it with the 2nd book A Blood Good Secret.

Then I read the news that there will another Novella in the series coming out this year. Secret Santa and there is a pre-order SALE. You can get for $3.85 instead of $5.50. This makes me VERY happy.

I plan on having a Secret read-a-thon in my very near future. If you have not checked out this series I highly recommend it and I've only read the 1st Novella but if the rest is as good ... OH MY!

Fans of : Riley Jensen {by Keri Author}, Jaz Parks {by Jennifer Rardin} and The Chicagoland Vampires {by Chloe Neill} will want to read this series by Sierra Dean.





Something Secret This Way Comes
Secret McQueen, Book 1
May 10, 2011

Some secrets are dangerous. This Secret is deadly.

For Secret McQueen, her life feels like the punch line for a terrible joke. Abandoned at birth by her werewolf mother, hired as a teen by the vampire council of New York City to kill rogues, Secret is a part of both worlds, but belongs to neither. At twenty-two, she has carved out as close to a normal life as a bounty hunter can.

When an enemy from her past returns with her death on his mind, she is forced to call on every ounce of her mixed heritage to save herself—and everyone else in the city she calls home. As if the fate of the world wasn’t enough to deal with, there’s Lucas Rain, King of the East coast werewolves, who seems to believe he and Secret are fated to be together. Too bad Secret also feels a connection with Desmond, Lucas’s second-in-command…

Warning: This book contains a sarcastic, kick-ass bounty hunter; a metaphysical love triangle with two sexy werewolves; a demanding vampire council; and a spicy seasoning of sex and violence.




The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters
A Secret McQueen Novella
July 19, 2011

Are blind dates supposed to be this bloody?

They say it’s impossible to find a man in New York City. Secret McQueen needs to find two in one night. Of course, it’ll mean pulling off the impossible—find and kill a displaced rogue vampire without disrupting the first promising date she’s had in ages. As a werewolf hybrid used to walking a fine line of survival in the vampire world, though, Secret eats impossible for breakfast.

Somewhere between hello and the first round of drinks, Secret makes her move. Her target, Hollywood’s biggest star, shouldn’t be hard to spot. Just look for swarms of fans. Except every time her vampire liaison, Holden, helps keep her mission on track, her date runs further off the rails.

Either Holden has a hidden agenda, or he knows more than he’s letting on about her quarry. One way or another, Secret is determined to get her man, and meet Mr. Right. Or die trying.

Warning: This book contains a sword-wielding assassin whose barbs are sharper than her blade, a vampire with serious brooding issues but a skilled tongue, and an A-lister with a bad habit of eating his fans.




A Bloody Good Secret
Secret McQueen, Book 2
Coming September 20, 2011

THIS BLURB CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR SOMETHING SECRET THIS WAY COMES

I didn't post blurb because of the spoiler warning.

Warning: Contains an ever-plucky heroine with no shortage of weapons, super-hot mind games, an ever-complicated love triangle and one hell of a creepy amusement park.





Secret Santa
A Secret McQueen Novella
Coming November, 2011

’Tis the season for ho-ho-homicide.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The season for mistletoe, Christmas lights…and a killing spree. When Secret’s friend, Detective Mercedes Castilla, asks for help to solve a series of murders longer than a string of lights, Secret resigns herself to the fact her holidays will be anything but peaceful.

It seems someone is killing New Yorkers in an unusually gruesome way, and as the bodies pile up faster than presents under the tree, the police are no closer to finding the killer than Secret is to finding the perfect present for one of her boyfriends, Lucas.

Tracking down a monster in Manhattan the week before Christmas is almost as difficult as shopping for her ever-expanding collection of loved ones. When tragedy strikes close to home, Secret must do everything in her power to put an end to the horror in time for Santa to come down the chimney.

Warning: Contains a less than merry McQueen with a sword and a reason to use it; a festive new use for mistletoe; and a promise that will haunt Secret like the Ghost of Christmas Future.


About the Author:

Sierra Dean is a reformed historian. She was born and raised in the Canadian prairies and is allowed annual exit visas in order to continue her quest of steadily conquering the world one city at a time. Making the best of the cold Canadian winters, Sierra indulges in her less global interests: drinking too much tea and writing urban fantasy.

Ever since she was a young girl she has loved the idea of the supernatural coexisting with the mundane. As an adult, however, the idea evolved from the notion of fairies in flower beds, to imagining that the rugged-looking guy at the garage might secretly be a werewolf. She has used her overactive imagination to create her own version of the world, where vampire, werewolves, fairies, gods and monsters all walk among us, and she’ll continue to travel as much as possible until she finds it for real.

She’s also a book lover (of course!), obsessive collector of OPI nailpolish and the owner of way too many pairs of shoes.

Sierradean.com

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

L.A. Banks Has Died


Novelist L.A. Banks has died after a battle with late stage adrenal cancer.
Leslie Esdaile wrote many novels under different pseudonyms, but published her popular Vampire Huntress Legend series and the Crimson Moon series under the name of L.A. Banks. The writer will be honored at a memorial event on August 6th.
Her fan club president posted this brief message on Facebook; add your thoughts and tributes there: “It is with profound sadness that I announce that Leslie Esdaile Banks, our Queen literary passed this morning."
~ News Source: Galley Cat
  The Cursed (Vampire Huntress Legend #9) Bad Blood (Crimson Moon, #1) Bite the Bullet (Crimson Moon, #2) Undead on Arrival (Crimson Moon, #3) 

New Look: Caressed by Moonlight

I received an email from Ms. Green letting me know that there has been some changes to Caressed by Moonlight. New cover and new edition.


A new edition of Caressed by Moonlight by Amanda J. Green will be released for the Nook, Kindle and All Romance eBooks on August 12, 2011. With the new printed edition released in about a month.

The second book Caressed by Night will be released in February 2012.


Stay tuned. I will be hosting a giveaway of the ebook soon. 

Caressed by Moonlight (Rulers of Darkness #1) by Amanda J. Green  
 See my review HERE.







OLD cover
NEW cover




I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but the new one is AWESOME!

What do you think?

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Author News: Jennifer Turner

The Ascension Trilogy

Note from Turner: While the Ascension Trilogy is set in the Darkness Within world, the storyline runs parallel to the series books. Meaning, that Darkness Within series books and Ascension Trilogy novellas can be read independently of each other. Granted, the two stories complement each other rather well, at least in my opinion, but you don't need to read one to understand the other.



                                                         

          The Revelation                                 The Reckoning                                  The Rapture
          Novella 1                                           Novella 2                                            Novella 3 
          August 2011                                     February 2012                                  August 2012



If you have not already read the Darkness Within series, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Seriously these books are awesome and I'm adding The Ascension Trilogy to my wishlist!

To find out more about Jennifer Turner and her awesome writing visit her website. 


Darkness Within Series





Eternal Seduction, Book 1
BUY:
Amazon ● B&N ● BAM ● Powell's ● Kindle ●All Romance ● nook ● MobiPocket ●Smashwords









Eternal Hearts, Book  2
BUY:
Amazon ● B&N ● BAM ● Powell's ● Kindle ●All Romance ● nook ● MobiPocket ●Smashwords








Eternal Embrace, Book 3
October 2011






Wednesday, June 8, 2011

News from Frost about Vlad Series

I grabbed this from Ms. Frost's blog after receiving a book recommendation from a Goodreads friend. I thought what's Night Prince about and then I saw the author and Vlad. I ran over to Frost's Facebook page and blog to find out more and this is part of the blog post that has to do with Vlad's books. If you want to read the whole post just click on her blog logo (green image below).

Vlad and Lelia's book still doesn't have a title. I'm kicking around a few possibles with my editor, but we haven't hit an "aha!" moment yet. We did, however, agree on a series title for V & L's books, so I can share the news on that.

*drumroll*

Vlad and Leila’s books will be part of the new Night Prince series.

Okay, why “Night Prince”? For one, the word “Night” will – hopefully – let readers know at a glance that these stories are set in the same world as my Night Huntress series and Night Huntress World novels. Second, contrary to the most popular fictional rendering of Vlad the Impaler, he was not a Count. He was essentially a Prince of Wallachia during his reign (Wallachia now being part of modern-day Romania). So there you have the Prince part of the series title.
Tentative release date for the first book in the Night Prince series is spring 2012. It may be pushed back to summer if (a) I don’t write it fast enough, or (b) what I write needs a lot of revisions. So cross your fingers for me that I will write well, and quickly, lol. I haven’t seen the cover yet for the first book, but as Tom Egner has done such a fabulous job with all my other covers, I’m sure he’s cooking up something very cool.
Before anyone asks, no, this doesn’t mean Cat and Bones stories will be put on a long hold while I kickstart Vlad and Leila’s new series. First, still to come in 2011 for our mayhem-loving vampire couple is One Grave at a Time (August 30th) along with a special holiday novella that’s almost half the size of a regular book in The Bite Before Christmas anthology (October 25th). Vlad and Leila’s book will come, as stated, in early 2012, but then after that, we’ll be onto Cat and Bones #7 (still untitled, but expect the word “grave” in there somewhere).