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Book Bits: Pottermore, Karen Mahoney, SF/F poll, charity auction and Contest Roundup

I traveled all last week, and didn’t get nearly enough reading done. I’m making up for this week, but next week your favorite vampire book blogger will be on the road again. I’m planning to crack Mira Grant’s Deadline on the plane next week. Any other travel reading suggestions? (Or just anything you really want me to review?) You think on it. In the meantime, let’s get down to this week’s book-related...

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PSA: There is help for your True Blood Withdrawal

Because this was just too clever to not share, we give you HBO’s latest PSA promoting the TBWithdrawal.com site (and, in conjunction, the season 4 premiere on Sunday, June 26.): And don’t forget to join us in the June group read of Charlaine Harris’ Dead to the World, the novel on which season 4 is based.

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Book Bits: Downside Ghosts, Vlad, Breaking Dawn, True Blood and Skarsgard awesomeness, more

Today we’re trying something new. Instead of simply the triumphant return of contest roundup (which is toward the end), we’re giving you some of the best book-related news and happenings from the last week. Chances are we’ve already told you about these via Twitter or Facebook. But those move so quickly. In the event you missed any news, it’s all piled in on convenient place. Also, we’re embedding the...

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June Group Read: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

I’ve always loved the Southern Vampire Mysteries (or as they’ve been relabeled as of late the Sookie Stackhouse books), particularly the first eight novels. And even when Eric was being a creepy, manipulative jerk in the early books, I kept thinking “I wish they would get together.” Because I love the complicated bad boys in novels. Eleven books later, Eric is still manipulative and arrogant and I still,...

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Waiting on Wednesday: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

We’ve all waited for more information on the fourth installment of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. City of Fallen Angels is set for release on April 5, but Cassie is still being the writer version of a samurai guard with the details of the novel. And maybe that’s part of what makes this little video she put together so much fun. Instead of dropping hints about what will happen in the...

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Waiting on Wednesday: Afterlife by Claudia Gray

We’re cheating on Waiting on Wednesday this week. We’ve already read Afterlife. We featured the epic finale to the Evernight series during our 2011 Winter Book Preview in December. (You can view all the books featured here.) We loved it. The surprise answers, the hardships, the love in Afterlife will make you very happy with Claudia Gray. While, of course, we’d love for you to read our spoiler-free early...

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Tidbits: Charlaine Harris and Kim Harrison excerpts, Rachel Vincent release update

Ooo, do we have delicious tidbits for you… READ A CHAPTER OF DEAD RECKONING Charlaine Harris posted the first chapter of the next Southern Vampire Mystery (a.k.a. the Sookie Stackhouse books) up on her website today. It’s 19 pages of Sookie, Eric, Sam and even some of the fae family members. The 11th book in the series, titled Dead Reckoning, will be — like all Sookie books before — released in May. So,...

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Waiting on Wednesday: Divergent by Veronica Roth

We have a really good feeling about Veronica Roth’s debut novel Divergent. The book doesn’t come out until May 2011, but by then we’re going to be aching for another good YA dystopian novel. (OK, and the cover is gorgeous.) We found this clip of Roth talking about the book and one of its morally bankrupt characters and found ourselves adding the book to the to-read list. Watch it, and see if you don’t...

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Tidbits: Iron Fey Book 4, Vampire Academy teaser and tour

A FOURTH IRON FEY BOOK? While we’re all anxiously awaiting the release of the “final” chapter in the Iron Fey trilogy, The Iron Queen, author Julie Kagawa decided to further excite everyone by announcing the upcoming release of The Iron Knight, book one in Ash’s story. We finished our advanced copy of The Iron Queen last week (we’ll have a special advance review next month, and you’ll love it), and we can...

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Waiting on Wednesday: Ghost Town (Morganville Vampires #9) by Rachel Caine

I like Rachel Caine’s world-building and the way she loves to make things very difficult for her characters. That isn’t going to stop with the ninth book in her Morganville Vampires series Ghost Town. When I talked with Caine a few weeks ago she told me how excited she was for this release. She’s been releasing books for nearly 20 years, but this is her first hardcover. Pretty awesome. (And about time,...