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Book Gossip
Upcoming books that give new insight into popular series
 Ardeur: 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series
Laurell K Hamilton has a very successful series following Anita Blake, a woman who has become very powerful with her metaphysical connections to vampires and lycanthropes, especially since the introduction of the ardeur. The ardeur is a metaphysical curse/tool involving sex and all forms of love and lust, and it must be fed regularly. Since the addition of it to Anita's powers back in Narcissus in Chains, Anita must have sex often, taking the series in a direction that many people are by turns fascinated or repelled by. Fourteen authors gives us their ideas and theories on the ardeur and what it means to Anita. Is it a good thing or not?
As a side note, Laurell K Hamilton wrote in her blog that a number of the theories are insightful while others are totally out in left field. The book is set to be released on April 6.
 True Blood and Philosophy: We Want to Think Bad Things with You
True Blood is an HBO series based on the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Series written by Charlaine Harris. Sookie is a telepath barmaid who must constantly concentrate to keep others thoughts out of her head. To humans, she comes across as crazy or not too bright, but to the supernatural community she comes to learn about, she's something special. Vampires are out of the closet thanks to synthetic blood, but there is a lot of prejudice and even a church that brings haters together. And lets face it, some vampires aren't on the "let's be good citizens" path. Most humans aren't aware of the rest of the supernaturals living among them.
Authors William Irwin, George Dunn and Rebecca Housel look at the different philosophical aspects of the books and TV series. The book will be out on June 1st.
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Dorchester Publishing is Sponsoring a Valentine's Book Giveaway!
A good reason to love Dorchester Books and those yummy candy hearts with the cute saying 's that we get every Valentine's Day. Dorchester Publishing is having a contest and giving away 75$ in book.! Dorchester books is sponsoring a contest to promote their new anthology - My Zombie Valentine and all you have to do is to come up with clever candy heart sayings and post them at Dorchester's message board ---> here.
Good luck readers!
1/19/10
One of the Reason's I'm Loyal to Amazon
Here is a little story that cements what I feel about Amazon and how they treat their customers.
I pre-ordered Divine Misdemeanors and when It came I realized I ordered the wrong thing, I had ordered the CD's instead of the book. I hadn't checked the Amazon order follow up e-mail that came (my bad!) I tried to make arrangements to return then but I was having trouble printing the labels I would need to send them back for credit. I re-ordered the book that night and added cash for over night shipping, we had a snow storm but my shipment was still going to come that day so I waited and waited and waited and finally around 6pm I tracked the order for the 53rd time and found out it had been delivered to my doorstep at 5:09 WRONG!!!!! No foot steps in the snow to prove that it had been delivered to me either! Well to make a long story short, I'll leave out the heated (actually tepid) conversation I had with an Amazon gentleman I had that night. Although he did his very best to help me, but it's UPS's problem at that point.
The next day I called Amazon again, and got this wonderful young lady---I explained the sequence of events and I told her I would be buying it (the book) for my Kindle. She understood and sympathized and went ahead and credited my account for the book, AND the shipping and told me that if it did show up I was to keep it with their compliments. Also when I explained about the CD fiasco she (without me knowing) went ahead and had UPS personally deliver me a sticker for the box!
WOW!
Well guess what? It showed up yesterday in my mailbox! Apparently whoever it was delivered to dropped it off. So I have my Kindle edition and the hardcover!
Merry Christmas!
I know that you all know that there are book series that cater to just about anything, and I just found a new one that caters to my obsession with coffee. Have any of you read the "Coffee House Mysteries" by Cleo Coyle yet? I have just picked up my very first one and to add to my pleasure it's a holiday mystery called "Holiday Grind". Ah, mystery and coffee. What great things to curl up with on a cold winters night. There are 8 books so far in the Coffehouse Mystery series.
By the way Cleo also writes another cozie style mystery series set in a bookshop. These are called "The Haunted Bookshop Mysteries" but they are written under her pen name of Alice Kimberly. I haven't read any of these yet, but I think I will be adding them to my Christmas Wish List! Santa Claus IS going to come to my house this year isn't he? I've been a good girl!!!
Did it ever occur to any of us 10 or 15 years ago that the paranormal or speculative fiction genre was going to be such a success? As for me I thought it might be a flash in the pan. Here today and gone tomorrow, And now I am seeing a huge rise in books being written about the Tuatha De Danann or the Sidhe as they've become to be know. what is it about such otherworldly creatures that is so fascinating to us?
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