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In case you hadn’t noticed (ha!), we have a new look here at VBC. We’re trying something cleaner that matches our new group blog vibe. I hope you like it and find it easy to interact with. Now on to awesome book news…
Cat and Ian Banter!
Jeaniene Frost has posted the first excerpt from the seventh Night Huntress novel Up from the Grave and it features Cat and Bones talking with that... 
Bitten as a TV show?
Maybe. A Canadian television network has ordered 13 episodes of a new scripted drama Bitten, based on — you guessed it — the Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. Now, you may wonder why this pleases me so much, if I live in the United States. Well, one, it’s always cool to see authors getting their works translated into other platforms, but also there... 
We’re pretty excited to talk about the January group read Street Magic by Caitlin Kittredge. The starting discussion questions are already up over at the VBC Goodreads group, but the real chat is scheduled for 8 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Jan. 31. This means you have one week to finish reading the first Black London novel. Feel free to read our spoiler-free review for motivation.
In the meantime,... 
Street Magic (Black London #1)
Caitlin Kittredge
Published: 2009 (St. Martin’s)
Purchase at: Book Depository, B&N or Amazon
Rating (out of 5): 3.5 stars
Pete has spent 12 years convincing herself magic doesn’t exist. She saw her crush killed by something. Everyone told her Jack was dead, magic and ghosts don’t exist and she focused on facts. Years later she’s a Detective Inspector...
I’m very excited to announce the January group read will be Street Magic by Caitlin Kittredge. It’s the first in her Black London series. It’s darker urban fantasy big on witchcraft and fey. And I’m confident those of you who love the grittier elements of Stacia Kane’s Downside Ghosts series will dig on Black London.
I’ll add group read discussions to our Goodreads...
We’re planning to spend Thursday chatting up Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed in Blood in our Goodreads group. But in the meantime, we need to select the group read title for January. (I know this is a bit late, but I’ve been traveling most of December. Don’t worry, I’m back at VBC HQ in Dallas again.)
We have six stellar titles to pick from for the January read. Let us know which...
