You can’t go back to school without a few essentials, right? Karen Chance wanted to be here, but due to deadlines (and we totally want more stories, right?), she was unable to participate. However, she’s sent along this fabulous beauty instead – a copy of Fury’s Kiss + a basket of Dory’s Favorite Things – and I know you want it. *grin*
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing…
Dory is used to fighting hard and nasty. So when she wakes up in a strange scientific lab with a strange man standing over her, her first instinct is to take his head off. Luckily, the man is actually the master vampire Louis-Cesare, so he’s not an easy kill.
It turns out that Dory had been working with a Vampire Senate task force on the smuggling of magical items and weaponry out of Faerie when she was captured and brought to the lab. But when Louis-Cesare rescues her, she has no memory of what happened to her.
To find out what was done to her—and who is behind it—Dory will have to face off with fallen angels, the maddest of mad scientists, and a new breed of vampires that are far worse than undead…
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Meet Karen Chance!
Karen Chance grew up in Orlando, Florida, the home of make-believe, which probably explains a lot. She has since resided in France, Great Britain, Hong Kong and New Orleans, mostly goofing off but occasionally teaching history. She is currently living in Tampa where she continues writing.
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- Title Yet To Be Announced (2013)
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- Midnight’s Daughter at Amazon | Book Depository
- Death’s Mistress at Amazon | Book Depository
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- Buying Trouble at Amazon
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Strange Brew at Amazon | Book Depository
On the Prowl at Amazon | Book Depository
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Contest Time!
Karen is giving away a copy of Fury’s Kiss + a basket of Dory’s Favorite Things. To enter, all you have to do is answer this one question: What is your most bizarre memory from your own school days? Remember, you must answer the question in order to be entered.
Even though I’m not giving the additional entries any more, you can still help support this author by sharing this contest on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, or anywhere you can. After all, the more people who are aware of this fabulous author ensures we get more fabulous stories.
The winner must post a review of the novel someplace. Whether it is on their own blog, Amazon, GoodReads, LibraryThing or wherever, it doesn’t matter. Just help get the word out.
All School’s In contests will remain open until October 7th at which time I’ll determine the winner with help from the snazzy new plug-in I have. Have you checked out the other School’s In contests yet? Check out the Master List to see all the School’s In giveaways
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I guess the most bizare thin I can remember is one of the kids hidding in a supply closet and jumping out to scare the teacher.
I can’t wait for Fury’s Kiss! I’m totally hooked on Dory and it’s been a long wait between books.
Luckily, I can’t think of anything too bizarre from my school days, except for the time that we were sent away to a camp in 4th grade. This wasn’t summer camp where you and your parents got to choose the place. This was a school sponsored thing where the entire 4th grade just up and went to this camp for a week. All I remember were the awful rubber pancakes for breakfast and the nightly tick inspections where each of us had to buddy up with another girl and inspect her entire body for ticks (we were at a camp in the woods in NJ and were hiking every day).
I love Karen :D
My most bizzare memory would be my drunk teacher dancing acroos the classroom in her fur coat and rubber bbots with white polka dots singing Over the rainbow. The whole class was speechless but then we burst out laughing. She did have a habit of coming drunk in lass and speak nonsense but that was the most bizzare.
darn, I hate that I was a good kid so I don’t have any bizarre memories from school but I guess there was the time I was in chemistry and the teacher spilled a bunch of chemicals will we were taking a written test and the whole school had to be evacuated
The most bizarre memory for me must be having to take my 11+ exam in the head master’s office because I had kept fainting in class whilst taking it. Turns out I was aenemic and not, as they thought, trying to cheat by leaving the room all the time :S Managed to pass it too :D
I fell and broke my ribs and wrist just before finals, and I had to go to the principal’s office to prove I wasn’t faking it just to get out of my finals. It was strange going there on drugs, all hunched over because my rubs hurt so much.
When I was in 4th grade I got really mad at my teacher. He was this sour old white haired man, and no one liked him. I stood on my desk and started yelling every bad word I knew at the time at the top of my lungs. All the kids cheered me on, and when my mom found out she laughed. The school principal was not laughing though.
I don’t have anything too bizarre from my school days, but I remember when I first got glasses, I’d get all the way to school and then realize I didn’t have them and I’d have to get permission to run home to get them. Luckily we lived close so it didn’t take too long.
I really don’t have too many bizarre tales, other than in my 8th grade science class, we were informed that if we wanted xtra credit, we could kiss our dissection frogs. Of course, being who I am, I needed the credit, so I fixed the frog! I am a HUUUUUGE Karen Chance fan and would love to win a copy of Fury’s Kiss and goodies! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Thanks for the fabulous giveaway! Like everyone else here, I’m a huge Karen Chance fan and I’m dying for Fury’s Kiss :) ummm… most bizarre was my 5th grade teacher Mrs. Smith. Her husband died during the summer from cancer and she was very emotional. If anyone misbehaved in class, she’d turn off all the lights, have us put our heads down on our desks and she’d proceed to literally scream at us for what seemed liked forever. Later, other students would tell us that the next door classes’ teachers had to yell over her b/c she was so loud. But I think that b/c of her loss, the principal and other teachers never really said anything to her. Sadly, that’s the only thing I remember from that grade and when I saw her years later, I’d avoid speaking w/ her b/c it was so horrible. She might have been a great teacher and/or person, but she traumatized me. I’m 32 and I still shudder about that.
Most bizarrre thing. My civics/econ class freshmen year only had six people (including myself) in my hour so we were always playing pranks on the teacher and then he’d play one back. The most bizarre thing about the class though was that he had a sheepskin and a beaver pelt that a friend of his who was a Park Ranger gave him and sometimes while he was teaching he’d pick up one of the pelts and start brushing them.
My most bizarre memory was having pen fights with my best friend under the desk! One time the teacher caught us and I claimed we were looking for a dropped penlid – for some reason she bought it! :-)
I remember having one teacher in particular who wouldn’t let us have anything to eat or drink in class but he’d bring his coffee every day to class and one of the bad boys in the class put skoal in it every day. That man must have not had any taste buds or stomach lining left.
this went on until the boy was expelled must have happened for about 3 months. funny thing was he was expelled for something completely different.
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I dont really have any bizarre memories from school. It was pretty tame,
Can. Not. Wait. For. Fury’s Kiss!!! I seriously LOVE all of Ms. Chance’s books!! Pritkin is so dreamy. ;)
Growing up in rural upstate New York there were plenty of things most people would consider bizarre; cows blocking the road and delaying the bus, helping the bus driver put chains on the tires during a bad snow storm, watching deer graze on the soccer/baseball field during class, getting the first day of hunting season off from school…
For me the most bizarre memory was getting kicked out of SADD (Students Against Drinking and Driving) for signing up too many students. They said that I was making a joke out of the organization by signing up just anyone. For my part I thought I was doing a good job by getting students to pledge not to drink and drive. That one had me scratching my head for a very long time.
Walking into the girls bathroom last day of freshman year in high school with my best friend to find 2 cold beers sitting on the sink…hmmm Oh I for got to tell you I went to a Catholic school with Nuns and required uniforms…
YAY for any Karen Chance book! Love her, love her books, and can’t wait for Fury’s Kiss!
Most bizarre memory from school… wow. That was just so long ago, I am having a hard time remembering. I think it has to be the fact that some of my classmates called me “Wendy” because they said I looked like the mascot from the fast food restaurant of the same name. Now, I did not have freckles. I did have red hair, but never wore it in pigtails or braids. So honestly I have no idea how that name came to be. There was also a teacher in our school that looked almost like Dave Thomas, so they said he could be my father. They had us take a picture together for either the yearbook, or school paper (can’t remember which now), stating that a celeb siting was seen in the school of Dave Thomas and his daughter Wendy. So bizarre.
My 9th grade science teacher was a thin, elderly man. Good ol’ Mr. Kuhnert. When we were chatting he’d say, “I’m gonna box your ears!” when telling us to be quiet and we’d laugh because he was so old and adorable. However, it turns out when my parents had him back when they were in high school, he was a former college football player with the stature to match–and he really DID box your ears!
I guess the most bizarre thing was when we were at a band contest, we were getting off the bus. the bus started backing up, just as one of my friends leaned over to pick up his saxophone. The bus hit him in the head. He was fine, but it’s not every day that someone gets hit by a bus and walks away unscathed.
Love Karen’s books and can’t wait for Fury’s Kiss!
I guess the most bizarre memory I have from school is when they busted the chemistry teacher for having a still at school. We wondered why the hall always smelled like sulfer. LOL.
I think the most bizarre thing from my high school days was finding out that the vice principal, Ms. Davis, was sleeping with a member of the football team! To really be appalled, you have to understand that I went to a Catholic High School and our principal was a priest!
I think the most bizarre thing that happened when I was at school was when the football team pushed the coaches old vw beetle into the estuary to see if it would float.
Karen Chance is my favorite author! I can’t wait until Fury’s Kiss comes out!
Let’s see.. Most bizarre school memory..
Okay, this may be a little confusing.
I moved around a lot, so I ended up having to retake some classes that I only missed like 3 weeks of(in my sophomore year). I had A’s in them. I ended up having to retake geometry (in my senior year), after I had taken Algebra 2. So, I learned a lot of different ways to complete the math problems and ended up doing all the work while she was still teaching how to do stuff. I love to read so whenever I finished my work, I’d pull out a book. My 2nd geometry teacher yelled at me for this, even though I’d completed my work, saying if someone looked in they would think she wasn’t teaching or something. I don’t know. So she says help the people around me. Then they like my way of solving the problems better than her round about way, which reaches the same answer, so they would ask me how to do it instead of her. Then she got mad about that and said I needed to “shut up, turn around, and mind my own business”. I asked her what she wanted me to do then since I couldn’t read a book and couldn’t help anyone. She had me sitting there staring at a wall. Somehow, even though I got an A on every test, completed all my work correctly, I got a B in the class? I don’t think she liked me very much. lol
The most bizarre thing that happened to me in high school was the time I got sick while standing in front of my entire health class.
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In elementary we had the squeez bottles for ketchup and mustard on the lunch tables. Well one of the boys in my class decided to squeez one and slam it on the table at the same time. Well when it came down it came down down all over my head. I will always remember that