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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! Happy pinching, and happy green-beer drinking…. and if you haven’t read the Fever series (by Karen Marie Moning), now’s a good time to start!!

In the meantime, here are the latest author tweets!

• Larissa Ione informs us that the release date on her upcoming book ” Sin Undone (The Demonica Series) ” has been moved up to August 24th (I’m reading Ecstasy Unveiled (Demonica, Book 4) right now, and Sin is a kick! Can’t wait to read her book!)
• Jeri Smith-Ready has blogged Logan Keeley’s St. Patrick’s Day playlist (and a little excerpt from her upcoming book Shade) and here is a link to her upcoming book signings.
• Alyssa Day is working on her “secret” project (which includes a terrifying, dangerous hero)  – sounds good!
• Richelle Mead announces on her blog that her latest book “Succubus Shadows (Georgina Kincaid, Book 5)” is early! Pre-order to get an autographed copy (see her instructions for this)! See…this is what I miss about paper books (well, that and the beautiful covers). I’m an e-book convert for sure, but I do miss some things…
• Signed books available at these book stores! Mark Henry’s “Happy Hour of the Damned” in DC and Georgetown Barnes and Noble and Shiloh Walker’s “Broken (Berkley Sensation)” at the Borders on Shelbyville Rd in Louisville, KY and Rachel Vincent left signed copies of her Shifters and Soul Screamers book in the Waldenbooks in Penn Square Mall in OKC! Go get ‘em!!
• Marjorie M Liu twitpic’d a picture of the cover of an upcoming novel “A Wild Light (Hunter Kiss, Book 3)” coming out July 27th 2010. She’s also currently in China and hoping to write about some “mermen”.
• Christina Dodd’s “In Bed with the Duke” is still on the New York Times Bestseller List! Congratulations!!
• Kerrelyn Sparks is also on the New York Times Best Seller list (#5) and #25 on USA Today! Congratulations!!
• Stephanie Tyler blogs the pictures of her new covers for Lie with Me: Shadow Force Series, Book 1 & Promises in the Dark: A Shadow Force Novel (expected release dates Oct 26th & Nov 23rd 2010)

More to follow as I find more cool tweets…

Want to read these tweets directly? Check out my Authors Who Tweet post, and make sure to follow them! It’s always good stuff!

Some Twitter fun to keep me busy during my work breaks today (tee hee! Ok I admit, I’m being bad again!)

• Jenna Black is hosting a contest (electronic “demon hunters” trading cards!)
• Caridad Pineiro blogged some tips: Networking – The Day After the Conference Tips
• Diana Rowland is also hosting a contest! Prizes range from various autographed books to a Barnes & Noble gift card.
• Elisabeth Naughton is giving away 1st chapter booklets of her upcoming book “Marked (Eternal Guardians)” on her website.
• Richelle Mead just completed the first draft of “Last Sacrifice”, and will soon begin working on Iron Crowned.
• Leanna Renee Hieber offers up some “Alexi” details – he smells like clove tea…
• Who’s writing as we tweet? Shannon K Butcher (her hero needs to suffer), Katie MacAlister is plotting her next dragon book, Lauren Dane is working on an argument scene, Jenna Black is working on her next Sekrit project, Lori Devoti is writing in 500 word increments, Shiloh Walker is working on her latest contemporary romance and Terri Garey’s just writing (and will reward herself with reading).
• Sherrilyn Kenyon clears up some rumors…
• Karen Marie Moning posted some fan artwork
• Alyson Noel just twitpic’d an ARC copy of her book Radiance.
• Larissa Ione is writing…and her latest hero War is mentioning some unmentionable things…I think he’s being bad! *blush*
• Michele Hauf just posted the cover of her upcoming book “Angel Slayer (Silhouette Nocturne)“

More to follow as I find more cool tweets…

Want to read these tweets directly? Check out my Authors Who Tweet post, and make sure to follow them! It’s always good stuff!

 Ok so I’m late with today’s post, but I am actually backtracking through the latest tweets while I watch Idol, and I’m picking out the goodies for you! Once I’m done this, i’m off to re-read Gentlemen Prefer Succubi…Yes, I liked it that much! By the way, review for “Succubi Like it Hot” on the way . Also very good!!

• Yasmine Galenorn’s latest book cover for Harvest Hunting (Sisters of the Moon) is up on her website for all to see. Beautiful!
• Jaci Burton’s Bound, Branded, & Brazen made it on Barnes and Noble’s and Borders Romance bestseller list last week. Congratulations!!
• Marie-Claude Bourque’s book “Ancient Whispers” made Amazon’s best seller list! Congratulations to you too! (I met her at last years Romantic Times Convention, and she had won American Title V award for that very book!)
• Juliana Stone’s book “His Darkest Hunger” is coming out on March 30th! Wow, my mom told me not to judge a book by it’s cover, but I think it’s okay to do so for paranormal right? Hot Stuff!! He’s a shapeshifter….
• Alyson Noel saw her books at an airport and she left some of her bookmarks in them! LOL! Okay, so not really news, but next time I see booksmarks in a book, I’ll suspect an author’s been by…
• Alyssa Day is pretty much writing as we speak… I find the writing process is so fascinating! Example: Ms. Day just “learned something horrifying” about her hero in this book. I wonder what?
• Ann Aguirre is writing too! And she too, has learned some pretty interesting things about her hero…”This hero just told me he’s a theoretical physicist. How the HELL am I gonna write this? I hate you, brain.” and then another tweet “So. This hero is a huge, tormented physicist w/ long hair, tattoos and uber anguish over his mistakes. Sounds like girl-nip.” – Sounds like my type of guy. Brains and brawn…mmm mmm mmmmm
• Ann Aguirre/Ava Gray published an excerpt of her upcoming book “Skin Tight” on her website (plus you can see the cover there too!). It’s coming out June 1st 2010.

Some yesterday tweets

• Leanna Renee Hieber was (is) working on Strangely Beautiful III (Alexi at age 16…should be interesting!)
• Jeri Smith-Ready is back to working on “Shift” (her Shade sequel).

More to follow as I find more cool tweets…

Want to read these tweets directly? Check out my Authors Who Tweet post, and make sure to follow them! It’s always good stuff!

 Well today is a BIG book release day, so here are the latest tweets

• Happy Release day to Alyssa Day. Read an excerpt of Atlantis Redeemed (Warriors of Poseidon)
• Mark Henry’s “Battle of the Network Zombies (Amanda Feral, Book 3)” is available as a free e-book! Kindle and Nook. Hey! What about for the Sony E-book? Poooor me…
• Another Happy Release Day to Shiloh Walker for her book entitled “Broken” (I’m actually reading part one of that series right now, called “Fragile” (not paranormal, but good anyway!)
• Chris Marie Green’s book, “Deep In the Woods (Vampire Babylon)“ was released today.
• Jenna Black is hoping to finalize revisions today, on her 2nd Faeriewalker book entitled “Shadowspell”.
• Moira Rogers gives us a “sneak peak snippet” to “A Safe Harbor”. She describes it as “…a Great-Depression-Era-Paranormal-Romance novella” – sounds cool to me!
• Shiloh Walker also gives us another random snippet of Broken.
• Richelle Mead provides a description and the first chapter for “Spirit Bound”.

I intend on reviewing Rydstrom’s book (Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole) this evening, and perhaps even Murdoch’s story from A Deep Kiss of Winter (one more book – Pleasure of a Dark Prince, and I’m all caught up in that series, and I hear the latest book is great!). I can’t wait!

Also, my blog’s birthday is coming up!! Feb 28th, it will be a year old Look at how much it has grown!

But, in the meantime, while I work, I will also "play" (bad…I know) but I will be updating you all day with today’s best author tweets

• Christina Dodd celebrated her 20th anniversary of getting "The Call". Check out her blog as she reminisces about her first 20 years.
• Moira Rogers has updated her blog with a snippet from her upcoming book "Sanctuary Unbound". She also informed fans that the third book (Alec’s) is due Jan 2011, and there maybe even be a book #4.
• Lara Adrian is currently writing…(I can’t wait to find out what….)
• Jeri Smith-Ready is currently working on copyedits
• Shiloh Walker grants us another snippet of her soon to be released book "Broken"..she likes to tease us, this one…
• Christina Dodd also posted the cover for her upcoming paranormal book "Chains of Ice: The Chosen Ones" – expected release date July 2010.
• Christina Dodd news is hopping this week!! She has another book coming out (In Bed with the Duke) – "…my first historical in 4 yrs!" – Read an excerpt on her website here
• Diana Rowland will be signing copies of Blood of the Demon (Kara Gillian, Book 2) this Saturday from 2-4pm at the Mandeville Barnes & Noble.

More to follow as the day progresses…

Want to read these tweets directly? Check out my Authors Who Tweet post, and make sure to follow them! It’s always good stuff!

Here are the author Twitter highlights of the day!

• Caridad Pineiro has provided a “free read” (an excerpt from her book Sins of the Flesh) – it’s pretty steamy so adults only!
• Shiloh Walker provides yet another snippet from her upcoming book “Broken”. I hear this book is AWESOME, and that the first one “Fragile” is awesome too.
• Richelle Mead is wrapping up a UK Tour and has blogged about it on her website (pictures too!!) – woops she just got back and tweeted that she fainted on the flight (says she’s fine and promises to blog about it later)
• Jeri Smith-Ready offers us a visual treat with a picture of a cover flat for her upcoming book (Bring on the Night – expected release date July 27th 2010) —-> can’t wait for this! Her characters are sexy and hilarious!
• Gena Showalter currently working on chapter seven of “Darkest Secret”
• Erin McCarthy has just finished a Christmas novella and will be starting “Evan’s book”
• Marta Acosta’s “Vampire Wire” blog has a cool guest blogger (author Lois Gresh) and a contest.
• Laurell K Hamilton just blogged! “Fever Dreams, Sex, and Zombies“
• Alyson Noel has just blogged too! All of our questions…answered (well…at least in regards to her books, anyway)
• Lauren Dane has great news! She is starting a new paranormal series, and Bound by Magic will be out in 2011, and “Cope’s book” is due out this November 2010 (entitled Inside Out – gorgeous cover!!).
• Rachel Vincent just twittered that “Shift (The Shifters, Book 5)” is out!! My release list indicates that it was scheduled for March 1st, but hey, a few days early is even better!
• Shiloh Walker also tentatively finished her latest book today, entitled “If You Hear Her” (which is the first in a new, romantic suspense, three part series). She expects them to be released late 2011 (back to back, one per month). One of her favorite characters in the book will be the hero in book#3. She also insists on teasing us with some lines from it. It worked!. I’m titillated. I want to read it!
• Sherrilyn Kenyon just confirmed that the Simi doll will have a bottle of BBQ Sauce and a Black Amex that will fit in her coffin purse. Ha! I can’t wait to see her.
• Kresley Cole announced that her latest book “Pleasure of a Dark Prince (Immortals After Dark)” is doing well! “…debuted @ 4 on NYT list & scored USA Today personal best–16″. That is the next book in my TBR pile. I can’t wait. I hear it’s great!
• Jeaniene Frost’s latest is also doing well (and I enjoyed it very much). “…First Drop of Crimson  still on the NYT at #10 and the USA Today at #53″. Congratulations ladies! Keep writing and I’ll certainly keep reading
• Nalini Singh gives us a sneak peak of her soon to be released novella “Whisper of Sin” (that will appear in the Burning Up anthology – release date Aug 3rd 2010)

More to follow as the day progresses…

Want to read these tweets directly? Check out my Authors Who Tweet post, and make sure to follow them! It’s always good stuff!

Today’s Twit-Bits

So, since I stalk Twitter for all the cool updates that authors let us in on, I thought I’d tempt you with some of these tidbits:

• Larissa Ione has presented the cover for her upcoming book called Sin Undone (part of her Demonica series) on her blog. It’s awesome!
• Shiloh Walker is blogging random snippets of her upcoming book “Broken” – check it out! (release date 03/02/2010)
• Jeri Smith-Ready is having a cool giveaway for a WVMP Lifeblood of Rock ‘n’ Roll dog t-shirt (to celebrate her mass market release of her Bad to the Bone book) – deadline to enter is March 1st – so get on it!
• Another book released today – Demon Possessed! Here’s an excerpt to tempt you, from Stacia Kane.
• Rachel Vincent has too many books, and will be drawing names for giveaways on Friday. Enter here. 
• Ann Aguirre is working on her latest Jax book (Killbox), and declared “Might be longest Jax yet.” Yay! I love long books!
• Sherrilyn Kenyon gave us a couple of sneak peaks for her upcoming “Simi” doll (and there will also be an “Ash” – much hotter than a Ken doll!) Both to be released in June. Check out the rest of her Twitpics for more cool stuff!
• Sherrilyn Kenyon also giving us tidbits on upcoming characters, and favorite quotes in her next book (Nick’s book) ”Infinity”, and each Chronicles of Nick book will span one year of his life: She says: “The maturity level of the books will grow as he does”
• Anya Bast having a good (and easy) time writing her latest “JADED”
• Alyssa Day also gives us a sneak peak to “Atlantis Redeemed” (coming out March 2nd 2010). Check out her excerpt of when Brennan returns:

     ——-> HOT!

More to follow as the day progresses…

Want to read these tweets directly? Check out my Authors Who Tweet post, and make sure to follow them! It’s always good stuff!

Sort of old news for some of you, but I have just found out that the book "The Host" will be made into a movie! Check out the report on Variety.com

Here’s a fun list at the Examiner.com with the chosen "dream cast" for the Host movie as voted by their readers (note: this is NOT the official cast of the actual movie. Just a fun "dream cast" if you will…)

In other news, I read in one of her interviews that she intends on making The Host, a trilogy. Wikipedia sites:

^{In March 2008, Meyer stated that she was "almost done" writing a possible sequel to The Host, entitled The Soul.[73] If she were to continue the series, the third book would be called The Seeker.[74]}