A Little Charlaine Harris for Everyone
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I thought I would check and see what the grand lady for our little Sookie is up to these days, seeing as this is our Sookie site for all things Sookie. Of course, as I am sure most of you know already, Charlaine is getting ready to release the latest adventures of Sookie soon. The new one, Deadlocked, will be out in May, just a few months away. The wonderful bit of news regarding her book tour is that she is going to be making it out to the South for this tour. She is really pleased by this although the exact cities have not yet been announced. I will let you know as I plan to visit her blog regularly for this site and report back whatever I can glean.
I see that she is planning another anthology of great paranormal stories with her old collaborator Toni Kelner. The book will be called An Apple for the 
Creature and it sounds interesting. I will keep you posted about this one. If it is only half as great as the one they did last year, Home Improvement, The UnDead Edition, it will be wonderful!
And finally – if you are a lover of the covers for the Sookie Stackhouse books you will be happy to know that the artist for those is Lisa Desimini and she has a website that features them. Not only that – she sells these gorgeous signed archival prints of them. These are not some quickie run off the printer folks, these are beautiful and yours for the asking. Well, for the buying at any rate. A 10 x 14 print is $110 and if you know anything about archival quality art prints, you know that is a great price. Be sure to check this all out at her site here.
That’s it for now – hope to have more news for you soon!
Jane Austen is Up to No Good
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If you are a fan of Michael Thomas Ford’s hilarious series about Jane Austen as a vampire, you will probably be really happy to hear that he is getting ready to release the next in the series – Jane Vows Vengeance. I was up on his Facebook site tonight checking to see what he is up to because I am going to be interviewing him on our sister site BestFantasyStories for February.
If you want to read a series about vampires that will keep you giggling while you read, then you have got to check out this series. I am half way through the second book, Jane Goes Batty and can’t wait to see the third one when it comes out next week!
For those of you unfamiliar with the story – Jane Austen was turned into a vampire back in the day, and now she lives here amongst us. And guess what – she writes romance stories! I love the very tongue in cheek look at the whole world of romance stories and the online reviewers that he does in these books.
The vampires are not the bloody scary things of the old days, nor are they the overly-sexy high school hunks of today. Nope, they are writers trying to survive in the big bad modern world.
So if you are looking for some vampire stories with a nice deft touch of humour, I really recommend you check these out. Start with the first book Jane Bites Back and before you know it you will be downloading Jane Goes Batty onto your kindle in a heartbeat. Even if your heart doesn’t beat- you are still gonna love this sweet and funny take on the world of vampire writers.
Top Vampire Novel: Blood Legacy: Origin of Species
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Title: Blood Legacy: Origin of Species
Author: Kerri A. Hawkins
Release: December 10, 2011
Pages: 264
Genre: Vampire
This is the second book in the series, and this time Ryan Alexander is going through a frightening change. She knows that the root of her problems, the physical and mental battering she is constantly fighting is from the contact she has had with the one species she wishes she could avoid. The species are those that spawned her kind and continue to do so. She struggles to control her new found abilities and even more her memories of how the Old Ones came to be. What is more frightening is that as those memories come the memories that are hers begin to fade.
In Blood Legacy, even those that are closest to her have no ability to assist, and are forced to stand by helplessly as they begin to fear that she has become more of a liability to her own that a help. But worse, she finds that lately she has begun to see things, beings that no one else seems to see. She begins to fear she is losing her sanity or worse yet that they are a manifestation of her own guilt. Her captivity coupled with the torture she endured has had a toll and the blood contact may have been the worst of it all. She feels that she is changing deep within herself and wonders if the blood mutation that has created her vampire like symptoms are the cause. Can she be changing again, this time into a yet more fearful being?
