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Fantasy writer Alexandra Lucas, aka Alexandra Livingston, on creating and inhabiting new worlds.

Happy Together 2009/11/20

My friends, a confession: I am a sucker. Little stray kittens and musty books and vegetably steamed dumplings . these things were basically made for me. And stories like this belong on the list of things for which I m a true sucker, and by like this I don t necessarily mean Austrian (though I don t mean decidedly not Austrian either). And I don t necessarily mean the sort of story that plucks your arteries and uses them to serenade you corrido-style. Although, again, I don t have anything against that either. But there s something about a perfectly wrought piece of existential blues that never fails to set me on fire, and it doesn t matter how heavy the hands that deal the metaphorical blow, I just lie down and prostrate myself to it, or dip myself in candy and find the nearest wrapper, sucker-like. And of course, if the story s painfully good (haha) on top of that, I m a total lost cause. Wrap up warmly and enjoy it. (and PS: I read german poorly, and there s not much Aichinger available in English translation, so if you have some, consider yourself lucky, or even better, generous (when you wrap it up and send it to me as a holiday gift))

The Lion Killer is the exciting first book in The Dark Continent Chronicles series by adventurer and author James Gardner. This is not a simple book about men hunting lions on safari, but a thrilling and gripping tale of men being hunted by men. All of the characters are drawn from real-life people James has encountered in the wilds of Africa. If you like the great men of adventure like John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart and Harrison Ford, then you will love the new modern hero and man of our age, Rigby Croxford. You'll experience every moment of the thrill, fear, intrigue, romance, desperation and action when you join him on this high intensity adventure. Start the adventure today! Buy The Lion Killer at www.theliokiller.net or call 561-752-3261 See James Gardner's blog and read the latest raves about the books at: jamesgardnernow.blogspot.com YakRider Media

This episode wraps up Season 2 of Podioracket.com and kicks off our winter hiatus but you we ve been putting in extra hours to ensure that you will never even know we are gone. Brian Rathbone our convention interviewer, and volunteer guest interviewers have provided plenty of entertaining information while we are out. However, new content will only be available from Podioracket.com. We will not be updating Podiobooker.com and there are no new BTR-PR shows until Season 3. In the next few weeks look forward to the Podiobooks.com promo special, interviews from our street team of interviewers, and finally the LIVE Blogtalkshow will resume in January. INTERVIEWS Dreaming of Deliverance by R.E. Chambliss Fiction website: rechambliss.com email: renee@rechambliss.com twitter: reneechambliss A facebook fan page is in the works! Tattoo by Paul Elard Cooley twitter: paul_e_cooley facebook: http://facebook.com/paul.e.cooley Find free, original visceral horror and urban fantasy stories at: http://shadowpublications.com NEWS Hutch does it again! From Podiobooks.com poster child, to Ipong magazine cover author, J.C. Hutchinson is featured on the cover of iProng Magazine’s 53rd issue with a killer interview about the hardcover release of 7th Son Descent. You have to see this for yourself: http://www.iprong.com/magazine/iProngMagazineIssue53.pdf Podioracket on BTR Podioracket has achieved top listing on BlogTalkRadio.com in Books and is now a Featured Show! See why by checking out the archives during our hiatus. New LIVE shows start again in January. Podiobooks.com Promo Lastly in the news, a big thank you from Podioracket.com to all the podcasters and authors that submitted a podiobooks.com Promo! We will be playing them all for you in an upcoming holiday special. CONTESTS The Mark As usual The Mark of a Druid has a contest going on and the 2009 contest series is almost over. Go to www.themarkofadruid.com for details on how to win on Nov 30 and how to have the chance to win the original oil on canvas Dec 31st. That s right, only two to go and the 2009 series is over. Twitter Amazon Giveway A.P. Stephens, author of THE STOLEN MOON OF LONDOR, is holding The Great Twitter Amazon Giveaway. Re-tweet and you could win a $25.00 Amazon gift certificate in time for holiday gift giving. Triple Threat Double Dipping Contest: This Wednesday, blog posts will appear at digitalmagic.com, metamorcity.com, and jdsawyer.net containing printable PDFs. These PDFs will contain a page of printable bookmarks. Your mission: Print the bookmarks out, cut them along the dotted lines, and take them to your local libraries and bookstores. Leaving a set of bookmarks near the checkout gets you one point, putting the bookmarks into similar books will get you two points each of the podcasters will have a number of authors listed in their blog posts whose books they re targeting. Do this as many times as you can before December 20th, and send in a photograph of each instance to the author. Each point you earn will get one copy of your name in the hat. On Dec 21, winners will be drawn, winners will get free books as prizes. Anyone who enters all three contests will get their name in a second hat for a second drawing the winner of this will get a basket with New Zealand and San Francisco goodies in it. NEW RELEASES The Sorcerer s Secret by J. A. Areces Fantasy The Rookie: Remastered MATURE AUDIENCES EditionEdition by Scott Sigler Science Fiction Theme and Variations by Michelle M. Welch, editor Science Fiction Cheating, Death by Teel McClanahan III Horror/Dark Fantasy NOW COMPLETE The God Conspiracy by Derek Gilbert Thriller Untrue Tales Book Three by Teel McClanahan III Science Fiction Handbook for the Criminally Insane by Brian Holtz Humor

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He appeared like a gift from the sea. The exotic stranger with no history But when his mysterious past comes crashing in, will he drown in the demands of his noble station, or will passion become his lifeline? WWW.MARYJOPUTNEY.COM