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Oh, readers, this has been a crazy week. We started Character Love Letters here at VBC. All month long you’ll find love letters on the blog. Some are from readers to their favorite book characters. All are swoon-worthy. Also, I’ll be heading to the Olde City, New Blood mini-con this weekend in Florida. I have pretty new VBC trading cards on me. If you’re attending, do be sure to say hi. Now on to the news... 
Those following the @VampBookClub Twitter feed know I was in Toronto earlier this week. I escaped through a snow storm there only to come home to a wicked ice storm in Dallas. A girl can’t get away from bitter cold weather this week. So, for now, I’m distracting myself with good contests. We’re giving away a copy of A Guide to Mystic Falls, which is a collection of Vampire Diaries-centered essays written... 
The Vampire Diaries is one of my must-watch TV shows. And not just because of my mini obsession with all things Ian Somerhalder (yep, the eye candy to the right is him). The CW has brilliantly adapted the world from L.J. Smith’s series of the same name into something soapy, engaging with plenty of sex and violence. But before everyone was swooning over the TV versions of Stefan and Damon, they were all... 
Ed. note: Jason Henderson probably knows more about vampires than we do. We’re a bit in awe. We’re happy to see him bringing slayers back into current YA lit with his Alex Van Helsing series. As such, we’re handing this post over to his expert hands. Enjoy. (We did.) When I was a kid I loved vampires, but I loved Van Helsing more. Not just the doddering German professor of Stoker’s Dracula, but the...
