PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’S and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us at the live event with author Stephen Zimmer here: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=79108 at Noon Central on 7/17/14.

Join us on 7/17 with author Stephen Zimmer for an interview, chat and contest. This event post goes up at 12:00 pm Central and runs into the evening. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link, we are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
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That Which Goes Bump in the Night: Our Paranormal Peculiarities

The paranormal and steampunk go together like tea and scones, cogs and gears, mad scientists and giant robots. At least that is what we discovered as we began to build the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences.
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So here’s a confession. I’ve never seen a ghost.

Molly Harper, believer in all things paranormal, has never seen a whisper of an apparition. I’ve seen things that I thought were apparitions that turned out to be shifting curtains or tricks of light. I have had dizzy, cold, uncomfortable feelings in old buildings. Hell, I avoid antique stores because I think I’m too sensitive to whatever emotional residue people leave behind on their belongings. Read More »

Writing one book can be a challenge keeping up with the plot much less the height and hair color or your hero. Add a series to this mayhem and you have literary chaos. I’ve had heroines whose eye color changed with the turn of the page, steps that simply went missing and rooms that moved more than Hogwarts’ staircases. As any good writer (or writing team) would do, I’ve come up with a few tips.
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed. We will let you know when the new event date will be. Thank you for your understanding.

Join us on 6/17 with author Jackie Uhrmacher for a guest blog, chat and contest. This event post goes up at 12:00 pm Central and runs into the evening. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link, we are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
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PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’S and comments for this post are now closed. The event is starting early due to a family emergency on MY part. The authors will be here at this link: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=78781 at Noon Central on 6/17/14.

Join us on 6/17 with author Marilu Mann for a guest blog, chat and contest. This event post goes up at 12:00 pm Central and runs into the evening. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link, we are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
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PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’S and comments for this contest are now closed. Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event post be going earlier than originally anticipated. Please join author Molly Harper at this link:http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=78801 at Noon Central on 6/18/14

Join us on 6/18 with author Molly Harper for a guest blog, chat and contest. This event post goes up at 12:00 pm Central and runs into the evening. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link, we are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
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PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’S and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us at the live event with Pip and Tee at this link: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=78819at Noon Central on 6/20/14.

Join us on 6/20 with authors Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris for a guest blog, chat and contest. This event post goes up at 12:00 pm Central and runs into the evening. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link, we are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
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Natural History Museum

This, for me, is where it all started. I probably wouldn’t have written my Enemy series of zombie books if I’d never visited the place. When I was a kid I loved coming to London for visits, and I have very vivid memories of going to the Natural History Museum. My father tells the story that he took me on an outing to the museum when I was very young and lost me. After a couple of very anxious Read More »

Pom-poms for Vampires

Vampires are not meant to be taken seriously.

Okay, now my inbox is filling up with missives from outraged alpha bloodsuckers ready to cancel my subscription to Fangs Weekly and bar me from the I Heart Bram Stoker clubhouse. But really, my dearly undead, the leather jacket and furrowed brow can only take a plot arc so far. Paranormal tales need Read More »

You might be asking yourself, What’s this word—merrow?

Fair enough. I’ll tell you.

Merrow is a Gaelic word. It comes from moruadh or murúghach, which comes from a combo of muir, meaning sea, and oigh, a maid.

So Heather (that’s me, the author), isn’t a merrow a mermaid? Read More »

BBB: What’s the funniest thing that has happened to you while writing a book?

VLT: I eat at the computer. In other words, I eat while my laptop is in my lap. Crumb City. So when I got the black screen of death while on deadline, I knew it was from all the glop in my keyboard. I’d backed up on flash drives, and I had a clunky old computer I could use, but I liked THIS one. So I turned Read More »

BBB: What is the strangest thing you ever did to research something for a story?
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Thank you for having us here with you, Rachel and Bitten by Books! We have been so excited about this event! You may have seen us around Facebook throwing crazy book parties, hanging out, having fun, and sharing our love of sexy romances and troubled alpha men you can’t help but fall in love with.
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BBB: What’s the spookiest thing that has happened to you while writing a book?

DM: I was writing a book in which the heroine broke her collarbone, so I was asking around what that would feel like. As I headed out the door that day to go riding with a friend, my husband said, “Now don’t you break your collarbone for research!” Sure enough, the horse threw me and I ended up with first-hand knowledge of the subject. Read More »

BBB: If you could mix three animals together, which ones would you choose to make the ultimate animal?

MMG: Wow, good question. If I was going to create the perfect animal, I think I would choose a lion, a horse, and a dragon. The body and back legs would be that of a horse, the head and front legs a Read More »

Why I Love Monster Hunters

I’ve always loved monsters. Every culture has some form of creature living in the shadows that not everyone believes in, but that they all secretly fear. One thing I love just as much as monsters, is the people that hunt them. Monster hunters are underdogs. They move in the same dark world as the creatures they kill. Outnumbered and weaker, they’re the monsters that monsters fear. Read More »

Priya Drake is a reporter with the Washington Post investigating a string of unexplainable crimes in the D.C. Metropolitan are. She also appears in Shifter’s Claim, release date July 8, 2014, where she continues to work to validate the claims of cat people living amongst the humans. On this night, however, before her official investigation even begins, she’s at a local bar, talking to a waitress by the name of Zoe Fallon, who appears in Hunger for You, release date June 10, 2014.
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PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’S and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us with author Vicki Lewis Thompson at this link: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=78614 at Noon Central on 6/12/14.

Join us on 6/12 with author Vicki Lewis Thompson for an interview, chat and contest. This event post goes up at 12:00 pm Central and runs into the evening. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link, we are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
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PLEASE NOTE: RSVP’S and comments for this post are now closed. Please join us with author Sharon Ashwood at this link: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=78629 at Noon Central on 6/12/14.

Join us on 6/12 with author Sharon Ashwood for a release party, chat and contest. This event post goes up at 12:00 pm Central and runs into the evening. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link, we are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
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