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When Copper Suns Fall  by KaSonndra Leigh   YA Dark Urban Fantasy Blurb: In fifteen-year-old Chela Prizeon’s city, alchemy is forbidden, and angels hide among the mortal. With a deadly virus ravaging the globe, Chela’s nightmarish memories compels her to experience a past riddled with gloom, and now her brother is infected. Chela’s only hope is the Caduceans, slayers sworn to protect the last seven Light Keepers and the ancient memories they share. A group led by the sometimes elusive, sometimes infuriating boy who intrigues Chela. But can she trust this boy with the mysterious past, someone who can influence her memories? With the Caduceans aid, Chela races to defeat her rivals, to unearth dark family secrets, desperate to find a cure…only to discover the glutovirus is far more than a simple disease. In this haunting debut, KaSonndra Leigh offers an escape into a world as intriguing as The Mortal Instruments and a story as chilling as Enclave. Full of celestial creat...

Happy Release Day to Kristin Miller's Vamped Up ( Vampires of Crimson Bay #2 , Avon Impulse). The author has stopped by with a wonderful guest post on those characters we can't help liking or loving--'bad boys.' She is also having a giveaway so be sure to follow the tour. We welcome Kristin Miller and the Vamped Up Book Tour to our blog today. Blurb: On the run from hungry vampires with his lover under arm, madly possessive Ruan has one thing in mind: keep the dirty fangs of his khissmates off the neck of his one true love—a human with mouth watering blood. The fact that from the moment he invited EVE into his bed, he’s been having eerily real nightmares about violently screwing her, then killing her? Yeah, that part wasn’t fitting too well into his carefully concocted plan to keep her safe.  Eve, a tantalizing biblical studies teacher at Crimson Bay University, has no idea her life is in jeopardy. Ironically, living with the knowledge of paranormal ...

Nate Rocks: Part Super-Hero, Part All-Star Athlete, Part Rock-Star… Part Fourth-Grader?  Ten-year-old Nathan Rockledge cannot catch a break. After all, life as a fourth-grader can be hazardous - what with science projects to deal with and recess football games to avoid. Everyone, including his best friend Tommy, seems to have bad luck when hanging around Nathan. Throw in an older sister who is a royal pain, a dad who is stuck in the past, and a mom who keeps trying to poison him with her awful cooking, and poor Nathan’s life as a fourth-grader appears to be completely doomed.  Armed only with his sketchpad, his imagination, and his wits, Nathan Rockledge navigates the perils of the fourth grade in style, to emerge heroic, as Nate Rocks, proving that even a ten-year-old can accomplish great things. Follow the adventures of ten-year-old Nathan Rockledge as his cartoons and adventures come to life. Guest Post by Karen Pokras Toz When I sat down to write my firs...

Earth Angel by E Van Lowe Heaven Can Wait! Just because Megan Barnett recently defeated Satan, has a fantastic new best friend, and has won the love of deliciously handsome, Guy Matson, doesn’t mean her troubles are over. Far from it. For Megan doesn’t realize it, but in her possession is a powerful weapon, a weapon sought after by both angels and demons and everything in between. They will do ANYTHING to get it. In E. Van Lowe’s humorous, romantic and thrilling sequel to Boyfriend From Hell, Megan winds up in a gripping life or death battle to save herself, the boy she loves, and all of mankind from unthinkable evil. Megan Barnett has recently defeated Satan, found a fantastic new best friend, and has won the heart of deliciously handsome, Guy Matson. But that doesn’t mean her troubles are over. Far from it. For Megan doesn’t realize that she is in possession of a powerful paranormal weapon, a weapon sought after by both angels, demons and everything in between. In...

Julie Smith is the award-winning author of twenty novels and as many short stories. She’s a former reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as a veteran of her own online writing school, plus an editorial service she founded with two other writers. She’s also taught writing at the University of New Orleans and in numerous private seminars. During her long career as a novelist, she has created four mystery series, including two set in New Orleans where she lives, featuring homicide detective Skip Langdon and poet/P.I. Talba Wallis.  In 1991, she won the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. Counting all the novels, all the stories in all the anthologies, the odd essay, and a progressive novel or so, her publishers include just about every big publisher – Ballantine, St. Martin’s, Tor, Walker & Company, Knopf, Doubleday, Avon, Harper-Collins, Berkley, Warner, and Oxford University Press– plus some smaller ones, in...

We have decided to incorporate more graphic novels and manga to our blog. Last month we ran the announcement from Sea Lion Books announcing they were going to publish C.S. Marks' Elfhunter series in graphic novel form in the spring of 2012. This is one series we really took note of--just look at the cover of the first book. Don't you want to pick it up? We do. Now we are able to share a guest post from the author/illustrator about her epic fantasy along with a gorgeous illustration ( a sneak peek for fans is below--yeah, let's hear it for Team Helllions). Enjoy! C.S. Marks Gust Post:  Keeping it Real When I was young, I believed I had a lot to prove, both to myself and to the rest of the world. I have always been rather clumsy and non-athletic–I can’t run fast, jump, climb, lift really heavy things, throw a ball very well, or…well, you get the idea. I’m a menace on the dance floor. At my wedding reception, I threw my own bouquet into the punch bowl. But there’s one ...

Death of Innocence, The Foxworth Coven, Book One ebook, First Edition , 319 pages Published July 11th 2011 by Solstice Publishing Blurb: Even unconditional love cannot always banish an eternal nightmare. The Foxworth family has blazed a trail through human and vampire history alike, changing the ways of both races in Canada for all time. The Council demands a full report for the long and twisted tale of how the Surrey Coven has come to be the most powerful and feared; an assemblage anyone would question before coming up against. The Leader of the Surrey Coven, Canya recalls how her family came to be. A story filled with pain and heartache, until she meets Gregory Foxworth: a debonair CEO to the family shipping company. Gregory remembers taking her away from a life that shocks him, hoping to shelter and love her. But little does he know all he has done, was make her a target for a sadistically warped man. One who will have her and his own personal brand of vengeance. Sometimes, a...