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Jaye Wells Guest Post: Giguhl’s Holiday Hollah!

Jaye Wells’ Sabina Kane series is excellent urban fantasy focusing on our favorite supernatural: a vampire. And as much as we’ve fallen in love with Sabina in Red-Headed Stepchild and The Mage in Black, we’ve also found we have a soft spot for that demonic, mischevious sidekick of hers Giguhl. As Vampire Book Club is all sorts of antsy for the Feb. 22, 2011, release of Green-Eyed Demon (psst! pre-order...

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Next Week: 2011 Winter Book Preview begins

If you haven’t already subscribed to the blog, now is going to be a good time. Starting on Dec. 9, we will spending three weeks previewing the books you’re dying to read in early 2011. Daily posts will include early reviews, author interviews, previews and  — gasp! — lots of giveaways. Authors we’ll be featuring include (in alphabetical order): P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (Awakened) Jeaniene Frost (This Side...

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National Buy a Book Day is September 7

In the last week there has been a lot of chat about National Buy a Book Day. in the event you’ve missed our tweets or blog items from Phil Athans and Jaye Wells, the idea is to simply buy a real, made-from-dead-trees book from a brick-and-mortar bookstore on Sept. 7. You can buy more than one, of course, but breaking the bank isn’t necessary. We keep hearing reports of indie bookstores shutting down (here...

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Contest Roundup: Awesome books galore and a Kindle 3

We spotted contests this week offering several books we either already love or are very excited about reading. That and a giveaway of the Kindle 3. (We were surprised, too.) Read on to find our favorites this week. We like Jaye Wells. Book Addicts also like Jaye Wells. They have a set of her Sabina Kane books to giveaway to a lucky entrant. Just comment on Book Addicts’ giveaway blog post to enter....

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Playing favorites with vampires and their authors

It’s no surprise we love vampires, but with so many talented authors taking on the dark, mysterious creatures, the types of vampires have expanded. We love it. Can they be in the sun? What kills them? Are they inherently evil? Are they just utterly sexy? With so many variations, we couldn’t resist asking which author writes your favorite vampire? We asked first on Twitter, (slightly) narrowed down the...