Monthly Archives: July 2012

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contest closed.  Winner to be posted 8.10.12

From Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews (this is an old snippet, swiped from her blog)

“I have had it with this shit.  Woken up, in the middle of the night, didn’t get any sleep, rode across the fucking city, nu na cherta mne ato nuzhno*.”  He waved his hand in front of his face.  “Damn magic everywhere, making me sneeze.”

The monster next to him opened its mouth.  Roman whacked it with the top of his staff on the nose.  “You – shut up.”

The beast looked like a cat who got popped with a newspaper: half-shock, half-outrage.  Roman looked the two of us over.  “What’s the matter with you two?”

The magic melted, taking the visions with it.   My mind struggled to formulate a coherent thought, any thought.  I opened my mouth.  “Your pants have Eeyore on them.”

“I like Eeyore.  He is sensible.  A sober look on life never hurt anyone.”

I fell in love with Roman with this line.  Yeah, yeah.  The book is about Raphael and Andrea, but Roman is awesome, too.

Want to win Eeyore & Roman? (and Andrea and Raphael)?

I’m giving away an unsigned copy of Gunmetal Magic and Eeyore. The book works fine as a standalone, so if you haven’t read any of the Kate Daniels’ books (and why haven’t you?) this is a good place to get your feet wet.  It’s awesome.  You want to read this.  Want to win?

Just tell me your favorite Winnie the Pooh character…if you can’t think of one, tell me your favorite UF character.  If you can’t think of one…um, your favorite character, period. O.O

I’ll draw one name at random and post the winner here next week.  A quick run-down on my contest rules…you must check back to see if you’ve won.  That’s how the winner is notified, and I don’t redraw names. DO NOT POST TO TWITTERSWEEPS/SWEEPSTAKES SITES…if this happens, I can and likely will end the contest without drawing a winner.  Open internationally. One entry per household. Void where prohibited, blah, blah, blah…read the rest of the rules here.  FYI, entering the contest means if you have read and agreed to the rules.

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Over at Lauren Dane‘s… and you can read about the character inspiration behind Damon in Blade Song…and it references things like pinterest.**

Just two more days, guys…

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Over at Pure Textuality. You can get a bit more insight into what it was like writing Kit.

We celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary on Friday…

My guy bought me flowers…an unexpected surprise, because we’d decided we’d go out of town for a short trip as our celebration.  We’re heading to Chicago for a couple of days, leaving this afternoon once he’s done with work.  We’ll be there until Wednesday, so I’ll be off and on for a couple of days.

In case I don’t the rest of my blog tour stops posted, for the rest of the tour, I’m at…

7.30 Lauren Dane

8.01 The Book Pushers 

8.02 Paperback Writer

And I also have an interview going up for under the covers book blog on 8/2, I believe…

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It’s say anything day… author’s choice.

FRAGILE!  Coming out in mass market paperback soon!

Uneasy, she grabbed her purse and slid the strap around her neck, adjusting it so that it would lay crossways over her chest and then she dug the pepper spray out.  Holding it in her hand, Devon climbed out of the car and headed for the front door.  Her gaze darted back and forth.  Her heart slammed against her ribs.  Part of her insisted, Relax.  Relax.

The other part was going, Yeah, right.  Relaxing was so not going to happen. Her hands shook as she slid the key home and she breathed out a sigh of relief as she turned the doorknob.  Then a hand landed on her shoulder. Yelping, she whirled around, her hand lifting up the pepper spray, pushing down–

Long fingers caught her wrist, jerking her hand aside at the last second.  Air wheezed out of her lungs as she stared up at Luke’s face. A muscle jerked in his jaw as he studied her face.  Almost imperceptibly, his features softened and he tugged on her wrist, urging her closer.  “I was across the street, talking to Danielle again. I’m sorry.  I didn’t mean to scare you.”

Cuddling up against him, she sucked in air and waited for her heart to level out before she even tried to speak.  “It’s okay.  I’m just a little jumpy.”  Something bit into her fingers and she looked down, saw that she was holding the little canister of pepper spray so tight, the grooved plastic was cutting into her skin.  With a grimace, she murmured, “Okay.  A lot jumpy.”

Strong, gentle hands stroked up and down her back and he nuzzled her neck.  “It will be okay, Devon,” he whispered.

Turning her face into his, she replied back, “I know.”  Their lips were all but touching and unable to resist, she leaned in, covered his hard, unsmiling mouth with her own.  He opened for her and she pushed up on her toes, winding her arms around his neck.

He felt so damn perfect against her, warm and strong, his hands cradling her so gently, his mouth moving against hers in a rhythm that felt as natural as breathing.  She felt safe with him–but more than that, she felt whole.

Whole–and hungry.  All the pent up adrenaline channeled itself into heat, burning away her fear but leaving her so aching, and so empty, it almost hurt.

Wiggling closer, she rocked against him, shuddering as she felt the heat and strength of him through their clothes.  Devon forgot where they were.  Nothing seemed to exist, but his mouth on hers and his arms holding her close…

read more…

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Megan Hart:Read in bed!
Leah Braemel
Jody Wallace
Eliza Gayle
Mandy M Roth
Lissa Matthews
Mari Carr
McKenna Jeffries
Myla Jackson
Taige Crenshaw
Delilah Devlin
HelenKay Dimon
Lauren Dane
Shelli Stevens

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I’m over at Smexy Books today, talking about how BLADE SONG ate my brain. It really did. You also have another chance to enter the Blades and Books give away…

I have a few more pics to post, too.

We went to Central Park and down to see the Statue of Liberty.  We didn’t go out to see the statue, and I didn’t get any good pics of her, but here are some from Central Park and Battery Park.

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They’ve got this really cool wall art in the subway tunnels…that was by Central Park.

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Some of you know that my husband is an Alaskan Native-he’s actually Inupiat, if I recall correctly. He’s an Eskimo. This is the statue of Balto, in Central Park. Balto, and a bunch of other sled dogs and their mushers were the heroes for a small Alaskan village in 1925.

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So… over here, you can meet Kit. And enter the Blades and Books giveaway…

And HERE… you can read an interview about Mica and Colby and stuff…Also! enter ANOTHER giveaway…

AND!!! LOOK!

Image via Janelle Denison

IF YOU HEAR HER won the Booksellers Best Romantic Suspense!