I may be behind the times, but this is pretty cool!!

I’m looking for a series title for my Samhain series. Contributors emailing me at nikki@nikkiduncan.com with ideas will be entered in a drawing for a $20 iTunes gift card. The winning title contributor will win an advance read of SOUNDS TO DIE BY as soon as I do edits and my editor says I can release it to the world and a $25 gift card to the online bookstore of your choice (MBAM, Amazon, etc).

Elements of the stories to help [...]

Sylvia Day, if you aren’t aware has adopted the pen name SJ Day for a new Urban Fantasy series. I’ve had the honor of reading the ARC for the first one EVE OF DARKNESS and am in the middle of book two EVE OF DESTRUCTION.
This series is brilliantly written and focuses on the Mark of Cain. Essentially, sinners are marked and must battle demons to pay off the debt of their sins. Eve’s agnostic, gut she isn’t a major sinner, [...]

Samhain Author Alisha Rai is blogging and holding a contest! Come check her out here!

Nathan Bransford is doing a “game” on his blog called Be an Agent for A Day. Basically, he’s posted 50 real queries, you read the queries, and as an “agent” you request queries. The trick is that you only get to choose 5. Nathan himself admits that he would have chosen 5 or 6. Oh and 3 of the 50 are mss that went on the be published and yes you are supposed to find those 3 as part of [...]