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28 Reasons to Hit the Bookstore

25 October 2011 Jackie 1

As if anyone needs a reason to run to their favorite bookstore, check out all the fabulous titles that have hit the shelves today. There’s a ton of great authors here…why are you still reading this, go to the bookstore now! *grin* The Bite Before Christmas an anthology featuring Lynsay […]

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Until I Die In Between Two Worlds

24 October 2011 Jackie 0

I know it’s still early, but over the weekend I announced the 2012 New Author Challenge as well as a new one. The Outlander Reading Challenge will ocus on the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. That challenges start January 1st and the sign-up pages are active. Yasmine Galenorn has posted […]

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Contest: Stories for Nighttime and Some for Day

24 October 2011 Jackie 6

Thanks to the wonderful people at Penguin, I have another fabulous collection of stories to give away this Halloween season. Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory Loory’s collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people–and monsters and trees and […]

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Get Ready! 2012 Reading Challenges

23 October 2011 Jackie 1

I know it’s not 2012 just yet, but everyone is starting to get their reading challenges in order and prepared for the shotgun start on January 1st.  So I’m announcing the ones that LE will be sponsoring/hosting for 2012. For the fourth year, LE will again host the New Author […]

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Tempt Me Saturday from Amberkatze

22 October 2011 Jackie 0

Recently I was looking at the weekend features and thinking they were a little too close to each other. I mean, Tempt Me Saturday and Sunday Surprise were the same thing except in different formats.  So I began of thinking of ways to change up Tempt Me Saturday and inspiration […]

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Weird Fiction Contest

22 October 2011 Jackie 6

Thanks to the wonderful people at Penguin, I have two fabulous collections to give away during this Halloween season: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft and S.T. Joshi An unparalleled selection of fiction from H. P. Lovecraft, master of the American horror tale Long after […]

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A Vampire Head Rush Affair

20 October 2011 Jackie 1

Kelley Armstrong has posted the ninth chapters to her Online Story. Here are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth chapters. Yasmine Galenorn has posted a new snippet from her upcoming novel, Courting Darkness, which releases November 1st. Kelly Meding has posted the first chapter to her […]

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Guest Author: Theresa Meyers

20 October 2011 Jackie 17

I am excited to welcome author Theresa Meyers, who is getting ready to release the first novel in her new Legend Chronicles, The Hunter. They’re the Chosen—Winchester, Remington and Colt—brothers trained to hunt down supernatural beings using the latest steam-powered gadgetry. It’s a hard legacy to shoulder, and it’s about […]

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Graveminder by Melissa Marr

19 October 2011 Jackie 2

I’m a huge fan of Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely series, so I was equally excited to read her new adult novel, Graveminder. Sadly, after reading it, I can’t say I’m still excited. The New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series delivers her first novel for adults, a […]

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Casey’s Literary Rants

19 October 2011 Casey 7

In which I first rant about why I’ve been MIA So this is the first time I’m posting a rant in two weeks and that’s really depressing*. But there’s a totally good reason for it. Well, not good, but excusable. See, I’ve been sick. Horribly sick. Can’t eat, can’t breathe, […]