Showing posts with label Promo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Promo. Show all posts
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Promo - Trailers for Dust by Joan Frances Turner
Be sure to scroll down to learn more about Dust and Joan Frances Turner!
Kimberly Swan, Darque Reviews
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Promo - Mob Rules by Cameron Haley
The Underworld Cycle, Book 1
Cameron Haley
Luna
ISBN# 9780373803200
Release Date: September 1, 2010
About the Book:
As LA plunges into an occult gang war, mob sorceress Domino Riley must unravel a conspiracy that reaches beyond the magic-soaked mean streets into a world of myth and legend.
Domino investigates the ritual execution of a mob associate, a graffiti magician named Jamal. The kid isn’t just dead, he’s been squeezed — the killer stole his magical power or “juice.” Domino summons Jamal’s shade, and the ghost points to Adan Rashan as his killer. This is tricky, because Adan is the favored son of Domino’s boss, Shanar Rashan, a six-thousand-year-old Sumerian wizard. It’s even trickier because only a mobbed-up sorcerer could have squeezed Jamal and Adan isn’t a sorcerer.
As the corpses pile up, Domino must confront the killer and unmask an otherworldly kingpin with designs on her gang’s magic-rich turf.
MOB RULES is an urban fantasy novel of murder and magic, betrayal and redemption set in the supernatural underworld of Los Angeles.
About the Author:
Cameron Haley is the pseudonym for Greg Benage, an aspiring writer who lives with his wife, Maria, in Minneapolis. When he’s not creating stories, Greg creates spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations as a senior product manager for one of the largest commercial banks in the U.S. MOB RULES will be his first published novel.
Kimberly Swan, Darque Reviews
Friday, July 16, 2010
Promo - The Demon Hunt by Kris Greene
The Dark Storm, Book 2
Kris Greene
St. Martin's Press/Macmillan
ISBN# 978-0-312-94423-0
Release Date: August 3, 2010
About the Book:
Soul-sucking demons. Half-human killers. Doomsday prophesies. No, this isn’t a late-night movie on cable TV. This is Gabriel’s life—or least, what’s left of it—ever since he discovered his true destiny as a warrior knight in the battle against darkness. Once an ordinary college kid studying lost legends in books, Gabriel now finds himself face to face with actual demons. As a warrior, he has no choice but to fight them. And if he screws it up, the world is toast…
A dimensional rift has opened between worlds. Which means more demons—and more death—than you could shake a proverbial stick at. Luckily, Gabriel has just the stick for the job, an ancient trident that gives him awesome demon-bashing powers. To watch his back he has the butt kicking half Demon De Mona and several unlikely heroes who he’s picked up along the way. To make matters more complicated two of Gabriel’s college buddies wind up dead and he finds that the demons aren’t the only ones who want a piece of his hide. The cops want him too—for murder…
About the Author:
In the 3rd grade a teacher once asked Kris what she wanted to be when she grew up, to which she responded ‘A witch.’ Growing up under not so pleasant conditions she often depended on her imagination to escape her day to day hardships and dreamt of a way to make her fictional escapes real and when she stumbled across a tattered copy of Interview with the Vampire she knew just how she would go about it, which led her to start keeping journals full of short stories which would eventually grow into action packed tales of sex, power and magic set in the New York City underworld.
Kris is the award winning author of several urban-fantasy novels, with the Dark Storm series being her first major releases. Kris resides in New York City where she spends her time writing and working in her herb garden.
To learn more about Kris and her titles please visit: http://www.mistresskris.com/
Kimberly Swan, Darque Reviews
Monday, November 9, 2009
Promo - Sharon Ashwood's Program for Injured Animals
Injured dogs and cats that have been abandoned, are strays, or who belong to the homeless or to lower-income women and children in transition will benefit every time someone downloads a FREE alternative greeting card on http://www.sharonashwood.com/.
Each card offers unique and fun sentiments related to paranormal romance author Sharon Ashwood’s most recent book, SCORCHED. For example: “Chestnuts SCORCHED on an open fire. Hell hounds nibbling at your nose… Here’s hoping your Christmas is fiendishly merry!”
For every card downloaded, Ashwood, a native of Victoria, Canada, will donate 54 cents, Canadian, to the Greater Victoria Animal Crusaders (GVAC). All donations will help defray veterinary costs for one of GVAC’s injured pets. Once that animal’s expenses have been covered, all donations from Ashwood’s program will then go toward the health care costs of another dog or cat. The author says she settled on 54 cents as the donation amount because that’s the current cost for a Canadian first-class postage stamp.
Since GVAC is run completely by volunteers and has no shelter or facilities to maintain (the strays and abandoned pets either live in “foster homes” while waiting to be adopted or are boarded at a veterinary hospital while healing), 100% of all donations to GVAC are used for direct costs related to the animals’ care. Read more about this terrific organization at: http://www.animalcrusaders.ca/.
Ashwood selected GVAC as beneficiary for the donations because she’s a long time animal lover. In fact her own beloved pet, The Demon Lord of Kitty Badness, was a rescue animal.
Author of The Dark Forgotten series, which began with RAVENOUS (February 2009, Signet Eclipse) and continues with SCORCHED (Dec. 1, 2009, Signet Eclipse), Ashwood is offering three alternative greeting cards on her site: one each for Christmas, warm winter wishes and Valentine’s Day.
At least one of these cards will be available for download from Nov. 16, 2009, through Feb. 28, 2010: Christmas and warm winter wishes Nov. 16 – Dec. 25; warm winter wishes and Valentine’s Day Dec. 26 – Feb. 14; warm winter wishes only Feb 14-28.
Photos of GVAC pets and artwork for the greeting cards can be found at: http://www.sharonashwood.com/gvac.php.
Each card offers unique and fun sentiments related to paranormal romance author Sharon Ashwood’s most recent book, SCORCHED. For example: “Chestnuts SCORCHED on an open fire. Hell hounds nibbling at your nose… Here’s hoping your Christmas is fiendishly merry!”
For every card downloaded, Ashwood, a native of Victoria, Canada, will donate 54 cents, Canadian, to the Greater Victoria Animal Crusaders (GVAC). All donations will help defray veterinary costs for one of GVAC’s injured pets. Once that animal’s expenses have been covered, all donations from Ashwood’s program will then go toward the health care costs of another dog or cat. The author says she settled on 54 cents as the donation amount because that’s the current cost for a Canadian first-class postage stamp.
Since GVAC is run completely by volunteers and has no shelter or facilities to maintain (the strays and abandoned pets either live in “foster homes” while waiting to be adopted or are boarded at a veterinary hospital while healing), 100% of all donations to GVAC are used for direct costs related to the animals’ care. Read more about this terrific organization at: http://www.animalcrusaders.ca/.
Ashwood selected GVAC as beneficiary for the donations because she’s a long time animal lover. In fact her own beloved pet, The Demon Lord of Kitty Badness, was a rescue animal.
Author of The Dark Forgotten series, which began with RAVENOUS (February 2009, Signet Eclipse) and continues with SCORCHED (Dec. 1, 2009, Signet Eclipse), Ashwood is offering three alternative greeting cards on her site: one each for Christmas, warm winter wishes and Valentine’s Day.
At least one of these cards will be available for download from Nov. 16, 2009, through Feb. 28, 2010: Christmas and warm winter wishes Nov. 16 – Dec. 25; warm winter wishes and Valentine’s Day Dec. 26 – Feb. 14; warm winter wishes only Feb 14-28.
Photos of GVAC pets and artwork for the greeting cards can be found at: http://www.sharonashwood.com/gvac.php.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Promo - Darker Angels by M L N Hanover
The Black Sun’s Daughter, Book 2
M. L. N. Hanover
Pocket Books
September 29, 2009
ISBN# 978-1-4165-7677-8
About the book:
In the battle between good and evil, there's no such thing as a fair fight.
When Jayné Heller's uncle Eric died, she inherited a fortune beyond all her expectations -- and a dangerous mission in a world she never knew existed. Reining in demons and supernatural foes is a formidable task, but thankfully Jayné has vast resources and loyal allies to rely on. She'll need both to tackle a bodyswitching serial killer who's taken up residence in New Orleans, a city rich in voodoo lore and dark magic.
Working alongside Karen Black, a highly confident and enigmatic ex-FBI agent, Jayné races to track down the demon's next intended host. But the closer she gets, the more convinced she becomes that nothing in this beautiful, wounded city is exactly as it seems. When shocking secrets come to light, and jealousy and betrayal turn trusted friends into adversaries, Jayné will soon come face-to-face with an enemy that knows her all too well, and won't rest until it has destroyed everything she loves most....
You can read the first chapter of Darker Angels: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
Monday, September 7, 2009
Promo - Re-launch of the Blood Lines series by Maria Lima
With the upcoming third release in the Blood Lines series by Maria Lima, Juno/Pocket Books are re-launching the series starting this month with Matters of the Blood. Now is your chance to read Matters of the Blood and Blood Bargain before the release of Blood Kin in October (2009).
Matters of the Blood
Blood Lines, Book 1
Maria Lima
Juno/Pocket Books
September 2009
ISBN# 978-1-4391-5674-2
Book Blurb:
If you thought your family was strange...
Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, and grimoire) to Canada. But family duty means still having to keep an eye on cousin Marty -- a genetic aberration who turned out 100% human, poor guy. And recently Keira's been having violent dreams -- or are they visions? -- featuring Marty as the victim of a vicious murder. Something sinister seems to be brewing in little Rio Seco. Can Keira get to the bottom of it all while avoiding entanglement with her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson? And what does she plan to do about the irresistible and enigmatic Adam Walker? When this old friend shows up as the new owner of a local ranc and wants to get better acquainted, Keira is more than happy to be welcoming...until she suspects that Adam could be intimately connected to the dangerous doings in Rio Seco.
A review for Matters of the Blood can be found:
http://darquereviews.blogspot.com/2007/09/matters-of-blood-by-maria-lima.html
A review for Blood Bargain can be found:
http://darquereviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/review-blood-bargain-by-maria-lima.html
For more information on the Blood Lines series visit:
Maria Lima - http://www.thelima.com/
Juno Books - http://www.juno-books.com/
Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster) - http://www.simonandschuster.com/
You can also ‘Browse Inside’ Matters of the Blood:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Matters-of-the-Blood/Maria-Lima/9781439156742/browse_inside
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.co
Blood Lines, Book 1
Maria Lima
Juno/Pocket Books
September 2009
ISBN# 978-1-4391-5674-2
Book Blurb:
If you thought your family was strange...
Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, and grimoire) to Canada. But family duty means still having to keep an eye on cousin Marty -- a genetic aberration who turned out 100% human, poor guy. And recently Keira's been having violent dreams -- or are they visions? -- featuring Marty as the victim of a vicious murder. Something sinister seems to be brewing in little Rio Seco. Can Keira get to the bottom of it all while avoiding entanglement with her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson? And what does she plan to do about the irresistible and enigmatic Adam Walker? When this old friend shows up as the new owner of a local ranc and wants to get better acquainted, Keira is more than happy to be welcoming...until she suspects that Adam could be intimately connected to the dangerous doings in Rio Seco.
A review for Matters of the Blood can be found:
http://darquereviews.blogspot.com/2007/09/matters-of-blood-by-maria-lima.html
A review for Blood Bargain can be found:
http://darquereviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/review-blood-bargain-by-maria-lima.html
For more information on the Blood Lines series visit:
Maria Lima - http://www.thelima.com/
Juno Books - http://www.juno-books.com/
Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster) - http://www.simonandschuster.com/
You can also ‘Browse Inside’ Matters of the Blood:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Matters-of-the-Blood/Maria-Lima/9781439156742/browse_inside
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.co
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Promo - The Child Thief by Brom
Brom
EOS
August 25, 2009
ISBN# 9780061671333
The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief—a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children’s tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire’s Oz, is darker, richer, more complex than innocent world J.M. Barrie originally conceived. An ingeniously executed literary feat, illustrated with Brom’s sumptuous artwork, The Child Thief is contemporary fantasy at its finest—casting Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, even Captain Hook and his crew in a breathtaking new light.
Book Blurb:
Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief—and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life. He appears to lonely, lost children—the broken, hopeless, and sexually abused—promising to take them to a secret place of great adventure, where magic is alive, and you never grow old. But his promised land is not Neverland. . . .
With this haunting, provocative, relentlessly thrilling reconsideration of a timeless children's classic, the acclaimed artist Brom dramatically displays another side of his extraordinary talent. Exploring the stygian blackness that gathers at the root of the beloved Peter Pan legend, he carries readers into a faerieland at once magically wondrous and deeply disturbing.
Fourteen-year-old Nick would be lying dead in a Brooklyn park—murdered by drug dealers—had Peter not sprung out of the trees to save him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him into a strange and unsettling mist swirling around the bay. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, nowhere in New York City is safe for him now. And what more can he possibly lose?
There is always more to lose.
Accompanying Peter to a gray and ravished island that was once a lush, enchanted paradise, Nick finds himself unwittingly recruited for a war that has raged for centuries. He must learn to fight or die as he struggles to fit in with the "Devils"—Peter's savage tribe of lost and stolen children.
Here, Peter's dark past is revealed: left to wolves as an infant, despised, tormented, and hunted, Peter moves between the worlds of faerie and man, struggling to understand what he is and where he belongs. The Child Thief is a leader of bloodthirsty children, a brave friend, and a creature driven to do whatever he must to kill the dreaded Captain and stop his murderous crew of "Flesh-eaters" before they blight every trace of magic left in this dying land.
Beautifully illustrated by the author with haunting portraits and indelible images, Brom's The Child Thief is a daring novel of darkest contemporary fantasy that will, at once, haunt and exhilarate any reader who agrees to follow Peter on his desperate crusade.
You can learn more about The Child Thief by visiting Brom’s website: HERE
Eos is giving readers a chance to win original artwork from THE CHILD THIEF. To enter, fans can visit www.thechildthief.com or http://www.harpercollins.com/features/ChildThief/.
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.co
Monday, August 24, 2009
Promo - Live Chat with Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman, author of the new fantasy novel THE MAGICIANS and book critic at Time magazine, will be doing a live chat this Wednesday from 12:30pm – 1:30pm EST at Penguin’s Water Cooler site.If you have any questions for Lev, please tune in. THE MAGICIANS just debuted at # 9 on the New York Times bestseller list, so I imagine many of your readers are currently checking it out. Please let them know about this chat if you think they’d be interested.
Also if you haven’t had a chance to check out http://www.themagiciansbook.com/, please do. There you can see all kinds of added features to the book—an official website for Brakebills, Christopher Plover’s author page and a fan site for the Fillory books.
About the Book:
Quentin Coldwater is a brilliant but unhappy young man growing up in Brooklyn, NY. At 17, he remains obsessed with the fantasy novels he read as a child, set in the magical land of Fillory. One day, returning home from a college interview gone awry, he finds himself whisked to Brakebills, an exclusive college for wizards hidden in upstate New York. And so begins THE MAGICIANS, the thrilling and original novel of fantasy and disenchantment by Lev Grossman, author of the international bestseller Codex and book critic for TIME magazine (Viking; On-Sale: August 11, 2009).
At Brakebills, Quentin learns to cast spells. He makes friends and falls in love. He transforms into animals and gains powers of which he never dreamed. Still, magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he thought it would, and four years later, he finds himself back in Manhattan, living an aimless, hedonistic existence born of apathy, boredom and the ability to conjure endless sums of money out of thin air.
One afternoon, hung over and ruing some particularly foolish behavior, Quentin is surprised by the sudden arrival of his Brakebills friend and rival Penny, who announces that Fillory is real. This news promises to finally fulfill Quentin’s yearning, but their journey turns out to be darker and more dangerous than Quentin could have imagined. His childhood dream is a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.
At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, THE MAGICIANS pays intentional homage to the beloved fantasy novels of C. S. Lewis, T.H. White and J.K. Rowling, but does much more than enlarge the boundaries of conventional fantasy writing. By imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions, Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.
About the Author:LEV GROSSMAN is a senior writer and book critic for TIME magazine and author of the international bestselling novel Codex. He is also the creator of the Time blog Nerd World (http://www.nerdworld.blogs.time.com/). Grossman holds degrees in comparative literature from Harvard and Yale. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Promo - SF/F/H Book Reviewer Meme - 2nd Edition
A huge thank you to John at Grasping for the Wind for all of his hard work in developing this meme and sharing it with all of us! :)
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Author News - Charlaine Harris - NY Times Bestseller List
An Unprecedented Nine Titles - Eight Paperbacks and One Hardcover - On List Simultaneously
New York, NY (August 5, 2009) - Berkley Publishing Group author Charlaine Harris, the bestselling writer of the Sookie Stackhouse novels that are the basis for HBO's hit television show True Blood, makes an impressive showing on the August 9th, 2009 New York Times Bestseller List with each of the nine books in her series appearing on the list simultaneously.
Eight of the Sookie Stackhouse titles are currently available in paperback and will appear on this Sunday's mass market fiction bestseller list in the following positions:
#5 Dead Until Dark (Ace Books, 2008)
#6 From Dead to Worse (Ace Books, 2009)
#8 Club Dead (Ace Books, 2003)
#9 Living Dead in Dallas (Ace Books, 2002)
#11 Dead to the World (Ace Books, 2005)
#12 Dead as a Doornail (Ace Books, 2006)
#13 Definitely Dead (Ace Books, 2007)
#15 All Together Dead (Ace Books, 2008)
Dead and Gone (Ace Books, 2009), the ninth and most recent book in the series, will hold the #11 slot on this weekend's New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. The hardcover debuted at #1 on the May 24th bestseller list and has spent a total of 12 weeks (and counting) on the list.
This unprecedented showing comes on the heels of Harris's recent appearance at Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA where she met fans and signed hundreds of books. About 800 fans showed up in hopes of scoring one of 150 tickets to Charlaine's afternoon autographing session on July 24th. The excitement continued the next day when Harris participated in a panel discussion with the cast and creator of True Blood. Harris answered several fan questions and thrilled the audience of 5,000 with the announcement of a new three book contract, promising that Sookie Stackhouse's adventures will continue into 2014.
About the Sookie Stackhouse seies:
The Sookie Stackhouse series began in 2001 with the publication of Dead Until Dark. Not a traditional mystery, nor pure fantasy or romance, Dead Until Dark and its sequels broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of readers. Each subsequent book about the telepathic barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, has drawn more readers. There are currently more than 10 million copies of the nine-book series in print in the U.S.- a number that is growing exponentially each week.
About the Author:
Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and family. In addition to the Sookie Stackhouse series, Harris also wrote the Aurora Teagarden and Lily Bard mysteries and is currently working on the Harper Connolly mystery series.
For more information about Charlaine Harris, visit her website at www.charlaineharris.com.
For more on HBO's True Blood series, visit www.hbo.com/trueblood.
Penguin Group (USA) Inc. is the U.S. member of the internationally renowned Penguin Group. Penguin Group (USA) is one of the leading U.S. adult and children's trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Berkley Books, Dutton, Frederick Warne, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Grosset & Dunlap, New American Library, Penguin, Philomel, Riverhead Books and Viking, among others. The Penguin Group is part of Pearson plc, the international media company.
http://www.penguin.compenguin/
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
New York, NY (August 5, 2009) - Berkley Publishing Group author Charlaine Harris, the bestselling writer of the Sookie Stackhouse novels that are the basis for HBO's hit television show True Blood, makes an impressive showing on the August 9th, 2009 New York Times Bestseller List with each of the nine books in her series appearing on the list simultaneously.
Eight of the Sookie Stackhouse titles are currently available in paperback and will appear on this Sunday's mass market fiction bestseller list in the following positions:
#5 Dead Until Dark (Ace Books, 2008)
#6 From Dead to Worse (Ace Books, 2009)
#8 Club Dead (Ace Books, 2003)
#9 Living Dead in Dallas (Ace Books, 2002)
#11 Dead to the World (Ace Books, 2005)
#12 Dead as a Doornail (Ace Books, 2006)
#13 Definitely Dead (Ace Books, 2007)
#15 All Together Dead (Ace Books, 2008)
Dead and Gone (Ace Books, 2009), the ninth and most recent book in the series, will hold the #11 slot on this weekend's New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. The hardcover debuted at #1 on the May 24th bestseller list and has spent a total of 12 weeks (and counting) on the list.
This unprecedented showing comes on the heels of Harris's recent appearance at Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA where she met fans and signed hundreds of books. About 800 fans showed up in hopes of scoring one of 150 tickets to Charlaine's afternoon autographing session on July 24th. The excitement continued the next day when Harris participated in a panel discussion with the cast and creator of True Blood. Harris answered several fan questions and thrilled the audience of 5,000 with the announcement of a new three book contract, promising that Sookie Stackhouse's adventures will continue into 2014.
About the Sookie Stackhouse seies:
The Sookie Stackhouse series began in 2001 with the publication of Dead Until Dark. Not a traditional mystery, nor pure fantasy or romance, Dead Until Dark and its sequels broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of readers. Each subsequent book about the telepathic barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, has drawn more readers. There are currently more than 10 million copies of the nine-book series in print in the U.S.- a number that is growing exponentially each week.
About the Author:Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and family. In addition to the Sookie Stackhouse series, Harris also wrote the Aurora Teagarden and Lily Bard mysteries and is currently working on the Harper Connolly mystery series.
For more information about Charlaine Harris, visit her website at www.charlaineharris.com.
For more on HBO's True Blood series, visit www.hbo.com/trueblood.
Penguin Group (USA) Inc. is the U.S. member of the internationally renowned Penguin Group. Penguin Group (USA) is one of the leading U.S. adult and children's trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Berkley Books, Dutton, Frederick Warne, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Grosset & Dunlap, New American Library, Penguin, Philomel, Riverhead Books and Viking, among others. The Penguin Group is part of Pearson plc, the international media company.
http://www.penguin.compenguin/
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Promo - Spellbent by Lucy A. Snyder
While looking up a book on the Randomhouse website this afternoon, I saw the cover for Spellbent in the list of other books in the sidebar. While Spellbent doesn't actually release until the end of December, I just had to share what I found. :)
Spellbent
Jessie Shimmer, Book 1
Lucy A. Snyder
Del Rey
December 29, 2009
Author’s Synopsis:
Jessie Shimmer's roguish lover, Cooper, has been teaching her ubiquemancy, the art of finding the magic in everyday things. But things go terribly wrong when the couple try to call a rainstorm in downtown Columbus. A hellish portal opens, and Cooper is ripped from the world. Worse yet, a vicious demon invades the city. Jessie barely manages to slay it, but she's gravely wounded and the capital's center is destroyed. As if losing an eye and a hand isn't bad enough, the city's ruling mage, Benedict Jordan, brands her an outlaw. With only her ferret familiar to help her, Jessie must find the dimension Cooper's trapped in and bring him back alive before sinister machinations make both of them vanish for good.
About the Author:
Lucy A. Snyder is the author of Sparks and Shadows, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, and the upcoming Del Rey novel Spellbent. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Farthing, Masques V, Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, Chiaroscuro, GUD, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
Lucy was born in South Carolina but grew up in the cowboys-and-cactus part of Texas. She currently lives in Worthington, Ohio with her husband and occasional co-author Gary A. Braunbeck.If genres were wall-building nations, Lucy's stories would be forging passports, jumping fences, swimming rivers and dodging bullets. You can learn more about her at http://www.lucysnyder.com/.
You can read chapter one of Spellbent: HERE
You can read FAQs on Spellbent: HERE
You can learn more about Ms. Snyder and her books: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
SpellbentJessie Shimmer, Book 1
Lucy A. Snyder
Del Rey
December 29, 2009
Author’s Synopsis:
Jessie Shimmer's roguish lover, Cooper, has been teaching her ubiquemancy, the art of finding the magic in everyday things. But things go terribly wrong when the couple try to call a rainstorm in downtown Columbus. A hellish portal opens, and Cooper is ripped from the world. Worse yet, a vicious demon invades the city. Jessie barely manages to slay it, but she's gravely wounded and the capital's center is destroyed. As if losing an eye and a hand isn't bad enough, the city's ruling mage, Benedict Jordan, brands her an outlaw. With only her ferret familiar to help her, Jessie must find the dimension Cooper's trapped in and bring him back alive before sinister machinations make both of them vanish for good.
About the Author:Lucy A. Snyder is the author of Sparks and Shadows, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, and the upcoming Del Rey novel Spellbent. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Farthing, Masques V, Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, Chiaroscuro, GUD, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
Lucy was born in South Carolina but grew up in the cowboys-and-cactus part of Texas. She currently lives in Worthington, Ohio with her husband and occasional co-author Gary A. Braunbeck.If genres were wall-building nations, Lucy's stories would be forging passports, jumping fences, swimming rivers and dodging bullets. You can learn more about her at http://www.lucysnyder.com/.
You can read chapter one of Spellbent: HERE
You can read FAQs on Spellbent: HERE
You can learn more about Ms. Snyder and her books: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
Promo - The Devil's Queen by Jeanne Kalogridis
The Devil’s QueenA Novel of Catherine de Medici
Jeanne Kalogridis
St. Martin’s Press
July 21, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-312-36843-2
Book Blurb:
From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author ofI, Mona Lisa and The Borgia Bride, comes a new novel that tells the passionate story of a queen who loved not wisely . . . but all too well.
Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming mother-in-law to Mary, Queen of Scots, and architect of the bloody St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history. In her latest historical fiction, Jeanne Kalogridis tells Catherine’s story—that of a tender young girl, destined to be a pawn in Machiavellian games.
Born into one of Florence’s most powerful families, Catherine was soon left a fabulously rich heiress by the early deaths of her parents. Violent conflict rent the city state and she found herself imprisoned and threatened by her family’s enemies before finally being released and married off to the handsome Prince Henry of France.
Overshadowed by her husband’s mistress, the gorgeous, conniving Diane de Poitiers, and unable to bear children, Catherine resorted to the dark arts of sorcery to win Henry’s love and enhance her fertility—for which she would pay a price. Against the lavish and decadent backdrop of the French court, and Catherine’s blood-soaked visions of the future, Kalogridis reveals the great love and desire Catherine bore for her husband, Henry, and her stark determination to keep her sons on the throne.
About the Author:Jeanne Kalogridis lives with her partner in North Carolina, where they share a house with two dogs. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novelsThe Borgia Bride and I, Mona Lisa and other numerous dark fantasy and historical novels. (photo © Ruth Miller)
Bonus Ebook:
Don’t miss some of Catherine’s favorite black magic spells and dark charms in the free mini-ebook, Book of Black Magic: The Devil’s Queen Grimoire. You can find it: HERE
You can learn more about Ms. Kalogridis and her writing by visiting her website: HERE or by visiting the St. Martin’s Press website: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Promo - Book Trailer - Storm of Visions by Christina Dodd
Storm of Visions is the first installment in The Chosen Ones series that releases on August 4, 2009. Check out the trailer for Storm of Visions by Christina Dodd:
You can learn more about Storm of Visions by visiting Ms. Dodd’s website: HERE
You can read a review of Storm of Visions: HERE
You can read an excerpt from Storm of Visions: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
You can learn more about Storm of Visions by visiting Ms. Dodd’s website: HERE
You can read a review of Storm of Visions: HERE
You can read an excerpt from Storm of Visions: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
Friday, July 24, 2009
Promo - Project Paranormal with Laurell K Hamilton
For those readers who are Laurell K. Hamilton and Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter fans like myself, she’s Project Paranormal‘s newest guest. You can check out part one in this video, then click the link below to see the episode in its entirety.
You can view the full episode of Project Paranormal with Laurell K. Hamilton: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
You can view the full episode of Project Paranormal with Laurell K. Hamilton: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Promo - The Immortal Series by Alyson Noel
St. Martin’s Press and Alyson Noel invite and welcome readers to their brand-new website created for Alyson’s #1 New York Times Bestselling teen series, The Immortals.For the past three months they’ve worked directly with the website designer and with Alyson to make the site the best it can be. In it, you’ll find many great features. A favorite section is their “Overheard in Summerland” seek and find. They have hidden eight pairs of tulips around the site, and when you find one and click on it you’ll get to hear an exclusive audio clip between the characters which Alyson penned for the site.
In addition, they have a very cool aura photo upload tool that allows you to select your “mood” and have your photo placed in a colored crystal ball which can then be downloaded to your computer. And of course, you’ll find book summaries, excerpts, audio book excerpts, trailers and more – including a letter from Alyson thanking all of her fans for the success of the series.
http://www.immortalsseries.com/
You can read my reviews of the The Immortals series: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Promo - Faefever by Karen Marie Moning (Mass Market Release)
FaefeverFever series, Book 3
Karen Marie Moning
Bantam Dell
July 28, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-440-24439-4
Book blurb:
He calls me his Queen of the Night. I'd die for him. I'd kill for him, too.
When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sister's journal, she is stunned by Alina's desperate words. And now MacKayla knows that her sister's killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.
Mac's quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with V'lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul.
As All Hallows Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worlds with devastating consequences.
To learn more about Faefever, please visit Ms. Moning’s website: HERE
You can read the original review for the hardcover release of Faefever: HERE
You can also visit the author’s page on Darque Reviews: HERE
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Promo - Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse: DuneFrank Herbert
ACE
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-441-01721-8
Book Blurb:
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest—the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power.
Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse, and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy—the spice Melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes—a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib.
To learn more about Chapterhouse: Dune, please visit the official Dune website: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
Promo - Berkley Prime Crime - 08-04-09 Releases
Inked UpA Stamping Sister Mystery, Book 2
Terri Thayer
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22912-5
Book Blurb:
Halloween is scarier than ever in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, when professional rubber stamper April Buchert discovers a dead body in a "haunted" corn maze. The police suspect the victim's husband murdered her, but April knew the couple, and she and the Stamping Sisters are determined to find the real killer before he catches another in his murderous motif.
http://www.territhayer.com/
Larceny and LaceA Vintage Magic Mystery, Book 2
Annette Blair
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22911-8
Book Blurb:
Maddie Cutler has it all in the bag: fashion, magic—and murder!
If that dress could talk...
With all the stress of opening her new vintage clothing store (in a renovated old morgue) Madeira Cutler feels like a bag of bones—until she discovers the real deal, unearthed by an intruder, in an old body drawer. And the bones are as vintage as Maddie's stock, or so says Maddie's resident ghostly hunk, Dante Underhill.
Could the break-in have something to do with the local playhouse and its curator going down in flames? Somehow Maddie will have to juggle dressing the store, party planning, and crime solving. Add to the brew the local witch's costume ball, being held at her store, and Madeira is wishing she knew how to ride a broom right out of there...
http://www.annetteblair.com/
You can read an excerpt of Larceny and Lace: HERE
Sew DeadlySouthern Sewing Circle, Book 1
Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22910-1
Book Blurb:
The rules of South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle are hard and fast, and the new Yankee librarian, Tori Sinclair, will need to catch up. She'll also need a Northern-to-Southern dictionary—and a way to clear her name of murder...
Ever since she moved to Sweet Briar, South Carolina, Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair has been the talk of the tiny town. But she's been so busy at work, winning over the sewing circle, and trying to forget her cheating ex that she hasn't even had time to baste together a pillow, let alone mind local gossip. Then she finds the hometown sweetheart dead at her back door...
Everyone believes the police investigator, who's just fixin' to link Tori to the murder in a love triangle gone bad. To clear her name, Tori will have to rely on her new sewing sisters and stitch together the truth—or be darned.
http://elizabethlynncasey.com/
Spackled and SpookedA Do-It-Yourself Mystery, Book 2
Jennie Bentley
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22913-2
Book Blurb:
A mystery surfaces behind the walls in the new Do-It-Yourself series.
Home renovation is never easy, especially when the home's inhabitants are dead. Avery's hunky boyfriend and business partner, Derek Ellis, wants to flip a seriously stigmatized ranch house where murder occurred two decades ago. It's a good thing Avery has more faith in her boyfriend than in ghosts.
Their renovations are quickly interrupted when a presence is felt—and it's not happy with the new alterations. Could it really be that the property is possessed? If they're going to flip this house, all the outdated fixtures—including the supernatural squatters—must be disposed of, or else this project will haunt them forever...
http://www.jenniebentley.com/
Bundle of TroubleA Maternal Instincts Mystery, Book 1
Diana Orgain
Berkley Prime Crime
August 4, 2009
ISBN# 978-0-425-22924-8
Book Blurb:
First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby—and bringing down a killer.
Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you're going to be up all night anyway, you might as well solve some crimes. But when a body is pulled from San Francisco Bay that may be her brother-in-law, Kate must crack the case faster than you can say "diaper rash" in order to keep her family together.
http://dianaorgain.com/
You can read an excerpt from Bundle of Trouble: HERE
Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com
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