Hexes

Make sure you keep your eyes on Literary Escapism over the next couple of weeks.  There are some great guest posts coming with John Marco and Tez Miller along with a contest for each one.   We’ll be giving away a complete set of John’s Lukien trilogy tomorrow as well as a couple of Mary E. Pearson’s The Adoration of Jenna Fox with Tez’s post.

Guess what I just saw on Kelley Armstrong’s website….the 10th novel in the Otherworld series has been titled and we have a tentative release date. It’s going to be called Frostbitten and will be out sometime in November 2009. Yeah, it’s a year away, but some good news is that it will involve Elena and Clay. Yea! The werewolves are back.

When word comes of a series of humans apparently killed by wolves near Anchorage, Elena and Clay are sent to check things out. But they find more than they bargained for among the snow and trees of the savage Alaskan wilderness.

JF Lewis is guest blogging over at Paranormality today.  There’s a contest going on as well for a signed copy of Staked to one lucky commenter.

Loucinda McGary is guest blogging over at Bitten by Books.  She’s talking about What’s a Mere Mortal To Do? and there’s even a contest available at the end.  So make sure you go check it out.

Amber is still looking for questions to ask Jeri Smith-Ready; so if you have any, get over there and ask them.  Jeri has a couple of great novels coming out soon – The Reawakening and Bad to the Bone – and I’m sure everyone wants to know something.

Interviews:

• Jacquelyn Frank, author of the Nightwalker series, by Romance Junkies
• Chris Howard, author of Seaborn, by Amberkatze
• Leslie S. Klinger, editor of The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, by The Columbus Dispatch
• Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob Black in Twilight, by the Grand Rapids Press

Tate Halloway is showing off her new cover for Dead If I Do, which has a May 2009 release date.

If you’ve been around for awhile, then you know I’m usually a Weekly Geeks participant.  However, this week, I don’t think I’m going to participant.  The topic for Weekly Geeks #21 is to guess which books belong to the 100 first lines listed.  I think I figured out one and that’s only because it’s such an obvious one (Call me Ishmael. – Moby Dick, right?). So you won’t see a post for it this week, but I strongly encourage anyone else to join in if they think they can guess all the right answers.

Today’s artist spotlight is Timothy Lantz, who also happens to create a lot of our favorite covers.  He’s the mind behind the covers for Chris Howard’s Seaborn, Carole Nelson Douglas’ Dancing with Werewolves, and Jes Battis’ Night Child.  This print is actually the cover for Jes Battis’ newest novel, A Flash of Hex.