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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... 
VBC’s first ever photo challenge! Here at Vampire Book Club we love hearing about the books you love, whether it’s in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter. But now we want to see them too! That’s right, this October we’re going to be hosting the #VBCOctoberChallenge over on Instagram! What better month to start than the most vampire-y (or witchy or were-y… you get the picture) of them all! Never done an...
Start making bets and brainstorming your best pitches, because the Alpha Showdown starts next Monday, May 23. This is the sixth (ed. note: DAMN!) Alpha Showdown. It’s been one of our favorite events, and every year proves to be a great way for fans to celebrate their favorite characters and help others discover their new favorite book boyfriend or bestie. Speaking of besties, we have five phenomenal... 
Update: We’re still tallying the donations, but without including matching and direct donations, the auctions alone generated more than $4,000 for brain cancer research! I’ll include the grand total in Thursday’s Book Bits post. Thank you to all who donated, bid or shared the links. I’m amazed by your generosity. This is my first Father’s Day without my dad. I spent quite a bit of time trying to think of... 
Vampire Book Club passed its two-year anniversary on June 1, 2012. I can’t thank the readers enough for making this site a home for fans of paranormal romance, urban fantasy and speculative fiction. I love your comments and convincing you to add to your monthly reading list. This year 250,000 different people visited Vampire Book Club. Hot damn! And many of those people kept coming back. (Did I mention, I... 
It’s time for you to take the reins here at VBC again. We’ve hosted the monthly group read chat on Twitter for the last 11 months. Some were fantastic with hundreds of people joining in, others just had people mad about spoilers. I’ve been contemplating moving the group read chat to another format, but before I do anything drastic, I want to know what YOU guys would like. The group read chats are fun when... 
After my mad gush-fest on Kristen Painter’s Blood Rights yesterday, I’m encouraged to move forward with an overhaul to the VBC recommendations page. I know you guys use it quite a bit, and I try to make sure it only has the best of the best. If it’s on that page, I’ll personally vouch that it rules. But I’d like to be able to showcase more books via our recommendations page. Right now it’s mostly a... 
Today we’re over on For What It’s Worth for part of their Better Know a Blogger series. We’re talking auto-buy authors, couples that make us swoon and even admit the book that has been sitting in our to-read pile the longest (you’re going to wonder how it is we haven’t read it yet). Head over to For What It’s Worth for the Q&A with Chelsea from Vampire Book Club. 
A few weeks back the lovely folk at Harlequin asked if they could use our review of The Iron King by Julie Kagawa in marketing materials to promote the Iron Fey series. We love these books, so we gladly gave the OK. Yesterday, Janet from Harlequin emailed us the first ad featuring our recommendation. Check it out below (click to see a larger version). Also, big shout-out to one of our favorite bloggers...
