What inspired me to write Lakota Honor:
Once the promotion and marketing had settled down with my first book Chasing Clovers, I had the itch to write another book. Soon my fingers found the keyboard and I was ready to let loose a fantastic tale full of grand adventures.
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What is urban fantasy to me? I have read a wide variety of books, but urban fantasy is a rare animal indeed. To me, urban fantasy is a story of our modern world that has elements of fantasy woven in successfully. To be done well requires a fine balance in the story. Harry Potter doesn’t qualify because it switches back and forth without really meshing to two worlds. It’s either one or the other. Twilight is out as well because once again it
Hi, I’m Lisa Carlisle. I write in many genres, mostly paranormal erotic romance for Ellora’s Cave. Lately, I’ve been writing about gargoyles. I’m fascinated with them and have been for many years. You should see my study. There are three framed photos of Notre Dame gargoyles above my monitor, a winged gargoyle statue on the left, a dragon gargoyle on the right, and book end gargoyles on the shelves behind me.
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Note From the Editor: This is the second installment of an ongoing series of articles on the Urban Fantasy genre and what it means to different authors. Today’s guest blog is from author Rachel Rawlings. I hope you will all give her a warm welcome and answer some of the great questions she’s posed.
Decoding the Genre: UF - What Is Urban Fantasy
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Note From the Editor: This is the first installment of an ongoing series of articles on the Urban Fantasy genre and what it means to different authors. Today’s guest blog is from author David Andrews. I hope you will all give him a warm welcome and answer some of the great questions he’s posed.
Write what you know. Have you heard that before? Well, for the record, that doesn’t EXACTLY work for all writers, especially if they write dark fantasy. Don’t ask me where some of my ideas come from… sometimes, I have to wonder myself. But, come to me they do, and I fell totally in love Read More »
About three weeks ago, in utter defiance of winter, I started some cool weather seeds. I followed that a couple of weeks later with a flat of sweet peas and herbs. I ordered a little greenhouse online and put it up this past weekend and then transferred my flats to the greenhouse. I was very excited, and then I got home Monday. My seed flats were ruined. Read More »
Horny Little Devils
Hi, I’m JL Merrow, and today, I’m here to talk about sex.
Whoops, no, sorry—missed off a word there. Today I’m here to talk about sex demons. 
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Writes and Wrongs:
Why I Love to Write Paranormal but Don’t Tend to Read It
I’m not just socially awkward. I’m everything awkward. Which is probably why I chose to write fantasy, or paranormal, or supernatural or satire-natural…whatever you want to call what I do. See, writing is an endeavor (profession isn’t quite right as that infers compensation) that is inhabited by outcasts, looking to hide away from the world. Read More »
The Proper Care & Feeding of a Small Paranormal Town
When it came time to write Haunt Me, I knew I had to have the right “setting.” The house, Summerfield, was a huge player, but beyond Mac’s walled garden was a whole town and it was really important that the town add to the atmosphere of the story. What I didn’t expect was just how much life Penny Hollow would breathe into my story.
Why you’ll Love Forgotten in Darkness
I’m thrilled to be celebrating my release of Forgotten in Darkness, the second in my paranormal romance Scimitar Magi series, here at Bitten By Books! I’ve a scrumptious excerpt below for you, but first let me give you four reasons I think you just might love my new book.
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The Story Behind the Story
Persephone Alcmedi series
series is now six books deep. While I hope to write the full nine books that I have loosely plotted out, there have been some surprising changes to the original plan. For instance, when it was time to show the readers the wærewolves’ den, Read More »
Hello, this Andrea Speed, author of the Infected series and the Josh of the Damned series, which I will be talking about today. Thanks to Bitten by Books for having me today.
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We are so excited that Caridad Piñeiro has given us an exclusive to unveil her gorgeous new book cover for Die to Love. What a HOT cover it is, the artwork sexy and alluring .
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Hello dear readers,
The time has come once again for the annual Preditors & Editors yearly poll for the best of the best in many literature categories. Including best review site of 2013!
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We are so excited that Caridad Piñeiro has given us an exclusive to unveil her gorgeous new book cover for Born to Love. What a HOT cover it is, the artwork so vivid and chilling.
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RACHEL CAINE is the author of a number of kick-ass novels, including the Weather Warden, Outcast Season, Revivalist and Morganville Vampires series.
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CHRISTINA HENRY is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and enjoys running long distances, reading anything she can get her hands on and watching movies with samurai, zombies and/or subtitles in her spare time. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son.
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Robyn Thurman, writing under the name Rob Thurman, is a New York Times Best Selling American novelist living in rural Indiana. To date she has written three series and two short stories, a stand-alone novel, fourteen books total to date (not counting anthologies), has stories in four anthologies, and writes urban fantasy as well as and paranormal thrillers. She has been published in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.
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CHLOE NEILL is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of the Chicagoland Vampires and Dark Elite novels.
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