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Update: Voting in this round is now closed. Curran emerged the victor with 68% of the vote. Welcome to the 2018 Alpha Showdown at Vampire Book Club where each year we crown the Biggest Book Badass in the paranormal world based on your votes. This is our eighth Showdown, but the competition is just as fierce as ever. Check out the bracket here. Round 6 features another former Showdown Champion, Curran...
Update: Round 4 of Alpha Showdown 2018 is now closed. With 74% of the vote, the winner is Adam Hauptman. He will advance in the bracket. Welcome to the 2018 Alpha Showdown at Vampire Book Club where each year we crown the Biggest Book Badass in the paranormal world based on your votes. This is our eighth Showdown, but the competition is just as fierce as ever. Check out the bracket here. Round 4 features...
Update: The voting is now closed. With 70% of the vote, Round 3’s winner is Griffin Sinta! He will advance in the Alpha Showdown. Welcome to the 2018 Alpha Showdown at Vampire Book Club where each year we crown the Biggest Book Badass in the paranormal world based on your votes. This is our eighth Showdown, but the competition is just as fierce as ever. Check out the bracket here. Round 3 features one of...
Update: The voting is now closed, and with 84% of the vote Kate Daniels is the winner. She will advance in the bracket. Welcome to the 2018 Alpha Showdown at Vampire Book Club where each year we crown the Biggest Book Badass in the paranormal world based on your votes. This is our eighth Showdown, but the competition is just as fierce as ever. Check out the bracket here. Round 2 features a pair of Alpha...
Update: The voting is now closed, and our winner with 71% of the vote is Connor “Mad” Rogan! Welcome to the 2018 Alpha Showdown at Vampire Book Club where each year we crown the Biggest Book Badass in the paranormal world based on your votes. This is our eighth Showdown, and the competition is just as fierce as ever. Check out the bracket here. Before we start, I’d like to take a moment to thank all the...
Update: The 2018 Alpha Showdown is now over. Kate Daniels from Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels series is the 2018 Champion. To look back over this year’s matches, please check the Alpha Showdown 2018 tag. Are you ready for the eighth annual Alpha Showdown? We are. The bracket is set with sixteen kickass alpha characters. Each alpha in this competition was selected by VBC reader votes. Each alpha also is from...
My favorite event of the year is almost here! (Check out my Snoopy Dance!) That’s right, it’s Alpha Showdown time! The time when the biggest badasses in the paranormal book world battle for bragging rights. Get ready to fangirl (or fanboy) flail all over your favorite characters! Can you believe this is the 8th year for Alpha Showdown? Last year we had our first female champion, Kate Daniels from Ilona...
Every year VBC’s Alpha Showdown celebrates the Biggest Book Badasses in the supernatural world. But it occurs to me that since last year’s event, we’ve seen a lot of powerful people abusing their positions IRL. And I worry that they may have given “alphas” a bad name. So I want to reclaim that word. When we talk about Alphas here, we’re really talking about heroes—characters who accept the great...
Update: Round 5 is now closed. With 67% of the vote, Reyes Farrow wins Round 5. He will advance in the Showdown! Welcome to the 2018 Alpha Showdown at Vampire Book Club where each year we crown the Biggest Book Badass in the paranormal world based on your votes. This is our eighth Showdown, but the competition is just as fierce as ever. Check out the bracket here. Like her husband Griffin in the previous... 
Magic Triumphs is almost here! To say the VBC crew is excited would be an understatement. Kate Daniels has won the Alpha Showdown. Curran has won the Alpha Showdown. We know you love this series, and while we’re sad to see it end, we’re so excited to see what Ilona Andrews has in store for us with Magic Triumphs (out Aug. 28, we pre-ordered. Did you?). To celebrate, Ace Books and participating blogs (hey,... 
