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Karen Marie Moning Teases Iced On her Facebook page, Karen Marie Moning offered up an excerpt from Iced. If you don’t already know, Iced is the first in Moning’s Fever World series. The spinoff books feature Dani O’Malley as the main character. I was skeptical but the excerpts I’ve read all make it look good. Here we go: “You’re not patient. You zero in on something and lock on like a missile. You’re the... 
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 are Canadian shows... 
Looky! It’s Rachel Morgan! Kim Harrison shared the cover art for the next Hollows novel. The artwork for Ever After features our favorite witch/demon/badass Rachel Morgan in what sure looks like the Ever After. It’s set to release Jan. 22, 2013. The book is available for pre-order already. Taste of Falling to Ash (that didn’t come out right…) Karen Mahoney posted a nice snippet from her forthcoming novel... 
It was the battle many of you asked for: Bones vs. Curran. And the lion clawed up the vampire. Yes, the Beast Lord from Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels series fought ruthlessly to take out master vampire Bones in the final round of the Alpha Showdown 2012. In addition to the great Twitter banter between authors Ilona Andrews and Jeaniene Frost, your comments in favor of Curran proved his alpha status....
It’s officially time for Alpha Showdown 2012! We’ve pulled together 16 of the most kickass characters from urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels and with your votes placed them into a NCAA-style bracket. Only one will be named champion. Round one brings together a master vampire known for being ruthless with everyone except his wife and a witch who is not to be trifled with (she does have vampires,...
Thanks to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions on yesterday’s captcha-related post. I am going to look into utilizing additional spam filters before considering bringing back captcha. Also, did you know Alpha Showdown 2012 starts on Monday? It does. And it will be epic. Have you started placing your bets? Excerpt from Karen Mahoney I enjoyed The Iron Witch and The Wood Queen by Karen Mahoney,... ![Let’s talk breather books [H&H Post]](http://vampirebookclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/HandHlogo-300x75-9431_200x75.jpg)
Remember my ho-hum reaction to Kim Harrison’s A Perfect Blood? Yeah. I labeled it a breather book, because I’m not willing to give up on Rachel Morgan just yet. We’ve gone through this time and again — more than once with Sookie Stackhouse — and so I’m over at Heroes & Heartbreakers talking about what makes a breather book. Read the post, then join the discussion. 
A Perfect Blood (The Hollows #10) Kim Harrison Published: Feb. 21, 2012 (Harper Voyager) Purchase at: Book Depository, B&N or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 2.5 stars — yeah, I know Note: While this review is free of spoilers for A Perfect Blood, it does make reference to events in prior novels. Right now you’re looking at that star rating and thinking what on earth happened. And that’s a fair question. I was... 
In an effort to help you keep that to-read list updated, I’ve compiled the hot urban fantasy and paranormal romance releases for February 2012. All dates are U.S. and tentative. I’ve included genre classification with each book: UF is urban fantasy, PNR is paranormal romance, F is fantasy and YA is young adult. FEBRUARY 2 Harbinger by Sara Wilson Etienne YA Pulse by Tricia Rayburn (Siren #2) YA FEBRUARY 7... 
We’re gearing up for two fun things right now, readers: group read goodness and Character Love Letters. The former is rather straightforward. Next week we’re talking Street Magic and I need you to vote in the Feb. group read poll soon. The latter is made up of awesomeness, full details are coming, but you can get some insight into just what this Character Love Letters thing is right now. Cover reveal:... 
