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From Chelsea / VBC: Super happy to have Regan Summers on the blog again. Her Night Runner books are big on action and awesome. Make sure to read to the end for your chance to win Running in the Dark! Thank you so much for hosting me again, Chelsea. I’m so pleased to be here! I love my vampires dark and mysterious, and occasionally fatal. A tortured past never hurts. Simmering sensuality is pretty much... 
From Chelsea/VBC: This is the third in a series of spook-tacular posts leading up to Halloween. I’ve invited a few friends to fill us in on their favorite monsters. Today author Allison Pang talks about her love of werewolf movies. If you haven’t already, you should check out her Abby Sinclair novels. Love them. First book is A Brush of Darkness. Although I don’t consider myself a horror fan, for some... 
Note from Chelsea/VBC: I adore Karina Cooper’s novels. Her Dark Mission series offers excellent world building with a huge wallop of sexy. I strongly suggest starting with the first book in the series Blood of the Wicked (VBC review), and continuing from there. Today Karina agreed to stop by and talk about the volatile nature of the couple in Sacrifice the Wicked (Dark Mission #4): Parker and Simon. The... 
Hi, y’all! I’m excited to be visiting the Vampire Book Club today to talk about Demon Hunting in the Deep South, book 2 in the snarky paranormal series about demon hunters in Alabama. It’s the story of Ansgar, a frosty, emotionless demon hunter who melts like an ice cube on a hot July sidewalk when he meets shy, self-conscious Evie Douglass. Evie has spent most of her life trying to stay under the radar,... 
Supernatural Seattle was made famous by our sparkly neighbors in Forks, but we had a rich mythic tradition long before vampires showed up in our woods. The Pacific Northwest Native Americans tell tales about the Giant Animal People who lived before humans came to these shores. The animal people are shape shifters: they can turn between animal and human form by pulling back their beaks like a mask and... 
Thanks so much to Chelsea and Vampire Book Club for hosting me today! This is one of my favorite blogs to visit and Chelsea, you rock!!! We’ve all had that moment. We lower the book from our line of vision, pull back our arm, and prepare to launch the paperback into the next room. Or yard. Or lake/ocean/body of water. The MC is too stupid to live! WHY did she do that?!? How could she SAY that?!? What was... 
First of all, a huge thank you to Vampire Book Club for hosting me here today. And thank you so much to all the readers stopping by. My publisher has offered a copy of my upcoming release, Fire Kissed, to a reader who answers this question: Can angels have a dark side as shadowy as a vampire’s, and if so, does it make them… bad? Let me explain. I’ve yet to write a hero that doesn’t have a dark side. Most... 
My first book came out in 2007 with The Scent of Shadows and introduced a strong, complex female character who fit solidly into the emerging urban fantasy genre. Yet after six long years of following Joanna Archer — a casino heiress and reluctant superhero who battled dark forces in a Las Vegas more evil than anyone could have imagined — I knew it was time to say goodbye. I’d driven Joanna hard throughout... 
I love the supernatural. And I’m not just talking about the television show with the two hot brothers (although, how can you not love Jensen Ackles?) called Supernatural. Paranormal creatures are fascinating to read and write about. Vampires, werewolves, witches—what’s not to love? Of all the magical beasties out there in book land, I find succubi and incubi among the most interesting paranormal creatures... 
From VBC: Today we have author Amanda Havard on the blog as part of a blog tour. Her second novel in the Survivors series, Point of Origin, will hit shelves on Tuesday, June 12. We’ll let her explain how she fell into writing paranormal fiction, and then give away signed copies of both her Survivors novels and a most excellent swag bag to one lucky VBC reader. I’m intrigued by most things. Interesting... 
