Golden Blood of Deadhouse

Lauren Dane has posted an excerpt from her newly released novel, Goddess With a Blade.

Yasmine Galenorn has posted an excerpt from her upcoming Indigo Court novel, Night Veil, which comes out July 29th.

Check out the cover for Steven Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates.  The artist, JK Drummon, has done a fabulous job for the signed limited edition being published by Subterranean Press.  The sad news is, the novel hasn’t been published yet and it’s already 75% sold out.  If you want your hands on a copy, go preorder now!

There have been a ton of fabulous covers popping up lately. For all the new covers, I’ve added them to the FB album for your viewing pleasure.

Author Appearances:

• Allison van Diepen, author of The Vampire Stalker – All Things Urban Fantasy
• Allyson James, author of Shadow Walker – All Things Urban Fantasy
• Carrie Vaughn, author of Kitty’s Big Trouble – Dark Faerie Tales, Book Chick City
• Christopher Ransom, author of The Birthing House – Falcata Times
• Colleen Gleason, author of The Vampire Narcis – The Book Case
• Cornelia Funke, author of Reckless – The Book Smugglers
• Cynthia Eden, author of Never Cry Wolf – Fresh Fiction
• Dani Harper, author of Changeling Moon – Dark Faerie Tales
• Deanna Raybourn, author of The Dark Enquiry – The Book Pushers
• Deborah Cooke, author of Flying Blind – All Things Urban Fantasy
• Devon Monk, author of Dead Iron – The Book Pushers
• Diana Rowland, author of My Life as A White Trash Zombie – Dark Faerie Tales
• Elle Jasper, author of Everdark – All Things Urban Fantasy
• Ellen Datlow, editor of Naked City – Suvudu
• Gary McMahon, author of The Concrete Grove – Falcata Times
• Jeannie Holmes, author of Blood Secrets – Amberkatze’s Book Blog, Dark Faerie Tales
• Jennifer Estep, author of Touch of Frost – Books at Midnight
• Jess Haines, author of Deceived By The Others – All Things Urban Fantasy
• Jocelynn Drake, author of Burn the Night – Paperback Dolls, Supernatural Underground, Were Vamps Romance, Moirae (the fates) Book Reviews
• KA Stewart, author of A Shot in the Dark – Dark Faerie Tales
• Kalayna Price, author of Grave Dance: – All Things Urban Fantasy
• Kasey MacKenzie, author of Green-Eyed Envy – Odd Shots
• Kelly Meding, author of Another Kind of Dead – Drey’s Library
• Kevin Hearne, author of Hammered – Book Pushers
• Kim Harrison, author of Blood Work – Graphic Novel Reporter,Smart Bitches, Trashy Books,Fantasy Book Critic, Comic Beat
• Lara Adrian, author of Deeper Than Midnigh – Borders True Romance
• Lisa Desrocher, author of Original Sin – All Things Urban Fantasy
• Marie Brennan, author of With Fate Conspire – Jim C. Hines’ blog
• Meredith Duran, author of A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal – Borders True Romance
• Michelle Rowen, author of Bloodlust – Dark Faerie Tales
• Nancy Holzner, author of Hellforged – Babs Book Bistro
• Nancy Kilpatrick, author of Evolve 2: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead – Love Vampires
• PJ Schnyder, author of Heart’s Sentinel – Galaxy Express
• Rachel Caine, author of Bite Club – Dark Faerie Tales
• Rhiannon Frater, author of The First Days: As the World Dies – Bitten by Books
• Seanan McGuire, author of One Salt Sea – Jim C. Hines’ blog
• Stacey Kade, author of Queen of the Dea – All Things Urban Fantasy
• Suzanne Young, author of A Need So Beautiful – Dark Faerie Tales
• Vicki Pettersson, author of The Neon Graveyard – Las Vegas Review-Journal

Richelle Mead has post the description for the final Dark Swan novel, Shadow Heir, which is scheduled to be released January 3, 2012.

Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land’s prophecy-haunted queen, there’s no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born-children when a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld…

The spell-driven source of the blight isn’t the only challenge to Eugenie’s instincts. Fairy king Dorian is sacrificing everything to help, but Eugenie can’t trust the synergy drawing them back together. The uneasy truce between her and her shape shifter ex-lover Kiyo is endangered by secrets he can’t–or won’t–reveal. And as a formidable force rises to also threaten the human world, Eugenie must use her own cursed fate as a weapon–and risk the ultimate sacrifice…

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at reviewing?  If so, Tygna’s Reviews is looking to add a reviewer to their staff.

Speaking of Tynga’s Reviews, she has found some fabulous deals from Simon & Schuster, which includes deals from Gena Showalter, Kresley Cole, Nancy Gideon, Melissa Mayhue, Adrian Phoenix, JF Lewis and Jeri Smith-Ready just to name a few.

One of my favorite perks for having an ereader is all the free books.  Check out these that have recently become available.  Warning, some books may only be free for a limited time, but at the time of this post, they were free.

• Lord Demon’s Delight by Gia Dawn at Amazon and Barnes/Noble
• The Fire Lords Lover by Kathryne Kennedy at Amazon and Barnes/Noble
• Kiss At Your Own Risk by Stephanie Rowe at Amazon and Barnes/Noble
• Summer’s Crossing by Julie Kagawa at Amazon and Barnes/Noble
• Dead(ish) by Naomi Kramer at Amazon and Barnes/Noble
• The Gauntlet by Karen Chance at Barnes/Noble

For those of you in the UK, Angry Robot Books is doing a fabulous summer promotion and offering a bunch of their books for $.99.   Book Chick City has a list, but some of those titles include Sixty-One Nails by Mike Shevdon and King Maker by Maurice Broaddus.

Blastr has gotten their hands on a few stills from the upcoming Captain America movie.  For some reason, I never really associated Captain America as a war movie and I’m not one who normally likes those, but it does look interesting.

A bunch of authors and bloggers have gotten together for a charity auction to benefit LA Banks with her medical bills.  There’s a ton of great stuff up for grabs and it goes to a worthy cause.  I would head on over and check the items.  Sadly, I’ve already been out bidded for the Authors After Dark 2012 Hotel Room in NOLA.  Some other items up for grabs: set of Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampire series and Dark Elite series, set of The Signs of the Zodiac series, set of Angela Knight’s Mageverse Books and signed set of Lori Handeland’s Phoenix Chronicles.

Holy crap…Amazon just bought out the Book Depository.  Hopefully that doesn’t mean that the free shipping online retailer will change it’s shipping policy, but one never knows.

Contests:
Marta Acosta is giving away an ARC of Haunted Honeymoon – ends July 15th.

Read Me Bookmark Me Love Me is giving away copies of Maria Snyder’s Inside Out and Outside In – ends July 23rd.

GoodReads is giving away 10 copies of Lisa Desrochers’ Personal Demons – ends July 30th.

Supernatural Underground is giving away a copy of Leah Cypess’ Nightspell – ends July 10th.

Dark Faerie Tales is giving away two copies of MaryJanice Davidson’s Undead and Undetermined – ends July 19th.

Amberkatze’s Book Blog is giving away a fabulous UF/PNR novel – ends July 12th.

GoodReads has posted a bunch of new giveaways.  Check these out:

• 3 copies of Mandy Hubbard’s Ripple – ends July 10th.
• 50 copies of PC Cast’s Dragon’s Oath – ends July 10th.
• 2 copies of M. Leighton’s Blood Like Poison – ends August 6th.
• 1 copy of Sara Humphreys’s Unleashed – ends August 10th.
• 5 copies of Rosemary Clement-Moore’s Texas Gothic – ends July 20th.
• 10 copies of Lisa Desrocher’s Personal Demons – ends July 30th.
• 50 copies of Darynda Jone’s Second Grave on the Left – ends July 15th.
• 5 copies of Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié’s Damned – ends August 1st.
• 20 copies of CE Murphy’s Wayfinder – ends July 13th.
• 1 copy of Katie Salidas’ Pandora’s Box – ends July 12th.
• 1 copy of JA Saare’s Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between – ends July 31st.
• 1 copy of Kiki Hamilton’s The Faerie Ring – ends September 1st.
• 2 copies of Elspeth Cooper’s Songs of the Earth – ends July 15th.
• 20 copies of Tim Waggoner’s Dark War – ends July 15th.
• 2 copies of Caris Roane’s Ascension – ends July 15th.
• 50 copies of Shannon Delaney’s 13 to Life – ends July 30th.
• 1 copy of Shona Husk’s The Goblin King – ends July 31st.
• 1 copy of Myra McEntire’s Hourglass – ends August 4th.
• 52 copies of Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson’s Dry Ice – ends July 15th.