Undead Update

Watch Charlaine Harris author of the Sookie Stackhouse books on Penguin's Project Paranormal. As most of you know this series was turned into a mega-hit, called TRUE BLOOD, by HBO.

In case you can't get enough of all things Twilight Nordstroms is offering a new line of clothing:
"Take your pick. Order now to be one of the first to wear our exclusive fashion line inspired the Twilight Saga: New Moon." I didn't bother looking for prices.




Just for grins be sure to watch Blood the Last Vampire Anime Retold by Conan O'Brian and Andy These two very funny guys don't need anything resembling a script. The voice over syncs so well with the moving mouths on the anime, it's downright creepy!

On Literary Escapism read an interview with Chloe Neill author of Chicagoland Vampires series:

Some Girls Bite: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel
NAL Trade (April 7, 2009)

Friday Night Bites NAL Trade (October 6, 2009)



Marta Acosta (author of the Casa Dracula series) at Vampire Wire says, "My new contest is all kinds of fabulous. Eagle Rock Entertainment is giving me two copies of the just released second season DVDS of "Blood Ties." Contest closes October 18.
I have to remember to enter this contest. Blood Ties was one of the best TV series ever. It was based on the "Blood" books of Tanya Huff.


Chris Marie Green's Deep in the Woods (Book 6 in her Vampire Babylon series) has been sent to Ace. (from Locus Sept. 2009)

Verizon is going crazy for vampires

According to MediaPost.com
"Verizon Wireless is partnering with MTV on "Valemont," a new short-form series premiering Sept. 29 that will appear on television, online and mobile via the wireless carrier's V Cast Mobile TV service."...

Plot summary from IMBD : "An teen girl's brother is murdered at Valemont, an elite college on the east coast. Disguised as a student, the girl works undercover to unravel Valemont's dark secrets from within."

 

The Vampire's Assistant

The Vampire's Assistant, based on the books of Darren Shan, will open in theaters October 23rd. Go to AceShowBiz (see below) for a clip from the film with the lovely Salma Heyek

Salma Hayek Gets a Vision in New 'The Vampire's Assistant' Clip

Internet Sites of Paranormal Interest

Here is a place for those, like me, who are intrigued by ghosts and there hunters. "Welcome to The Shadowlands Ghosts and Haunting page, the Internet's original ghost website. We have assisted 1000's of people through this website alone. We have also educated the general public and ghost hunters from the points of view of researchers as well as that of someone who is experiencing things they do not understand. This page is a place where you can get information, comfort and help - Dave Juliano and Tina Carlson."

Amberkatze Book Blog has an excellent review of the vampire comedy Accidentally Dead by Dakota Cassidy.


To win a copy of Black Magic Woman by Justin Gustainis go IMMEDIATELY to Temple Library Reviews and make a comment to be entered. Entries must be in by July 4th!


Enter to win all 12 books in the Dark-Hunter® Library signed by Sherrilyn Kenyon! This offer from St. Martin's Press is to celebrate the upcoming publication of Acheron on August 5, 2008. Also find information on receiving a free copy of Kenyon's Seize the Night.

The Morganville Vampires is a popular Young Adult series by Rachel Caine. Book one The Glass House was published in 2006. The publisher's blurb read: "Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero...
Read the Morganville short story Lunch Date.

Go to DragonBytes.com for full texts of classic vampire stories: Vampyre by John Polidori; Feast of Blood/ Varney the Vampyre by James Malcolm Rymer; Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu; Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker: Dracula by Bram Stoker, and from the lunatic fringe comes The Vampire: His Kith and Kin by the eccentric clergyman Montague Summers.


Mippy Carlson has posted a review of Twilight Falls (The Darkyn: Book 6) by Lynn Viehl on Paranormal Romance. Carlson says, "there are also some revelations that will shock long- time readers of the series."


Davida Mclea, guest blogger on Bitten By Books, wrote an interesting article on ley lines which some believe to be a source of magic in the world.