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”.

• The Hunters: The Beginning (Books 1 & 2 — The Hunters: Declan and Tori AND The Hunters: Eli and Sarel)
• The Hunters: Interlude (Books 3 & 4) (Books 3 & 4 — The Hunters: Byron and Kit AND The Hunters: Jonathan and Lori)
• Ben and Shadoe (The Hunters, Book 5)
• The Hunters: Rafe and Sheila (Book 6)
• Hunting the Hunter (The Hunters, Book 7)
• Heart and Soul (The Hunters, Book 8 & 9)
• Hunter’s Salvation (The Hunters, Book 10)
• Hunter’s Need (The Hunters)
• Hunter’s Fall (expected to be released in 2011)

Spin-offs and Novellas

• The Hunters: I’ll Be Hunting You (e-book)
• The Huntress (available in this book: Legends: Hunters and Heroes )
• Hunter’s Pride (available in this book: Legends: Hunters and Heroes )
• Malachi (available in this book: Legends: Hunters and Heroes )
• Hunter’s Edge
• Hunter’s Choice (available in the The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance (Mammoth Books) anthology)
• Hunter’s Mercy (historical novella)
• Belonging (e-book)

SOUL SCREAMERS
The last thing you hear before you die…

• My Soul To Lose
• My Soul to Take (Harlequin Teen)
• My Soul to Save (Harlequin Teen)
• My Soul To Keep (release date TBA)
• My Soul To Steal (release date TBA)

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!

An excerpt from the author’s website:

I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.
 

• Stray (Shifters, Book 1)
• Rogue
• Pride (Werecats, Book 3)
• Prey (Werecats, Book 4)
• Shift (The Shifters, Book 5)
• Alpha (6th and final Shifter book – release date TBA)

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!

The demons in this series are quite something. Some of the hottest scenes are contained in the Woede brothers books. Hot I tell you! We were teased with promises of potential “horn licking”  (don’t look at me like that, you know you’re curious)! But teasing aside, this demon’s horns only got a little *rub* here and there…LOL!

Okay so we know Cadeon Woede to be the “black sheep” of the rage demon duo (Cade and Rydstrom). Cade managed to lose Rydstrom’s crown (Rydstrom was king) in a past battle, and is forever trying to make up for it.

“If you train me, I won’t stop until I have his head,” he vowed. “And once I do, I’ll pluck your crown from it and return it to you.”

Offered an opportunity to retrieve a sword that will kill the current king, Cade accepts the job, and sets out to find the female “Vessel” that he must trade for the sword. What is a Vessel you might ask? It is a rare female that comes around, ohh….every few hundred (or more?) years. Basically she will bring an immortal warrior into the world, and depending on who impregnates her, the warrior will be good or evil.

Cade quickly realizes that the human female that he has always believed to be his mate (Holly Ashwin), is the “Vessel” that he is required to hand over. While in the past, he has never acted upon his need to “attempt” Holly (human’s cannot survive a demon’s “way” of binding a relationship – uhhh yah you get the picture ), he realizes that Holly is part Valkyrie and quickly changing into her immortal status.

Just hours ago, she’d been living as a normal human – or near normal with some eccentricities. Now she had become something he never could have predicted. A Valkyrie. Or half one. he hadn’t know she’d possessed this latent potential. The shock of the ritual must have triggered the transformation.

Holly is freaked out! Here she is, a content, incredibly intelligent math genius, in a stable (unsexual – she’s still a virgin) relationship with only a “few” small quirks (her main one is that she suffers from an obsessive compulsive disorder – you know the typical germ issues, counting issues, re-arranging the furniture issues…).

One evening, she is kidnapped, stripped naked and tied down to an alter (all sacrifice-like), and about to be “taken”. While she has no idea that she has ties to the “immortal” world, or even what a “Valkyrie” is, because of her incredible fear, her Valkyrie powers and physical changes manifest themselves. Cade steps in just in time, and rescues her.

Cadeon hurdled the line of bullets to get to her. Scooping  her up in his arms, he tucked her against his chest. Just as shots reached them, he pressed her against the wall until his body covered every inch of hers.

He gritted his teeth when the first bullet hit him, unable to turn to run without risking her, She burst into tears. Two bullets, three, four…

He stared down at her, those jet eyes seeming to consume her, and grated, “No more…running from me. Yeah?”

“Y-yeah,” she whispered brokenly, crying harder every time his big body jerked from the impact.

Over his shoulder, he roared at them, a furious warning growl, and she whimpered. His voice a harsh rasp, he said to her, “No, no female. Shh.” He petted at her tears with huge fingers tipped with short black claws.

Cade is really suffering now. Here he is, next to the mate that he has been waiting for all his life, protecting her as he is naturally meant to do. He can even officially “attempt” her now, since she is strong enough for him (due to her unexpected immortal status). However, he has a terrible choice to make.

She equaled the crown he’d worked for nine hundred years to reclaim – the unyielding pursuit that had given him a reason to go on living.

Never had it been so close…

All he had to do was use and betray the woman he’d waited just as long to possess.

He either hands her over to potential evil in trade for the sword (to redeem himself in his brother’s eyes), or he once again renigs his responsibilities, and runs away with her for good to live in love for the remainder of forever.

This book is hilarious, exciting, anguished and extremely satisfying. I didn’t want to put it down. There’s a funny bar scene, Nix is her usual crazy and charming self, and the Valkyrie are on their game! 

Holly is as sweet as can be, and her OCD just adds to the funny in the book.  

He pulled a bottle of water from the space behind her seat, handing it to her. My favorite brand.

“Thanks.” She carefully twisted the cap, determined not to touch -

Crap! She’d touched the bottle rim. With a sigh, she put the cap back on and placed the bottle at her feet.

“Something wrong with the water?”

She debated not answering, but figured he’d encounter all her quirks over the next couple of weeks anyway – the eating difficulties, the germophobia, the endless arranging.

“I touched the rim.” She put her chin up. “There was transference. I can’t drink it now.”

On a long road trip together, both have many lessons to learn, and ideals to overcome (or at least re-evaluate). Cade proves himself to be loyal and gentle, protective and fierce and deliciously cunning. Sarcastically witty, he will have you both grinning and blushing at the same time:

“”You’re not going to distract me from this. We had a deal.”

“Maybe under duress. Did you ever think that I might be morally opposed to watching pornography?”

He snorted. “You’re not the good girl you used to be. You get drunk and carouse with demons, sitting on their laps and giving them horn jobs in front of an audience. You went rock star on this poor mom-and-pop motel room, you got me to show you my goods, though I was vulnerable and weak from a bullet wound.” He shook his head sadly. “Face it, Holly, you’re a bad girl.”

And yes…you read that right…horn jobs…tee hee! I don’t know why I love those horns so much, but the author is quite clever with that That bar scene was sweetly adorable and just plain naughty (but of course…all in a “Holly” innocence).
I heart Cade as much as Sebastian and Bowen. I can’t choose. I  just can’t.