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Check it out, my friend Arwen who also happens to be the President of the American Tarot Association, is hosting a radio show AND giving away a FREE Reading! Here are the details on how to enter at her blog. If for some reason you can’t make the event, you can always just visit her site at: http://www.tarotbyarwen.com/ and schedule a reading any time. She offers a variety of services to meet a full range of budgets.

Hi everybody!

There are LOTS of great events happening this month at Bitten by Books! Each event has some kind of giveaway/contest as well as lots of interesting conversation. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter on the right hand side of the website to keep up to date with current reviews and events. There is also a new Events Calendar on the website on the left side, you can click the highlighted date and see what is happening and when.

In other news, be sure to check out our new Vampire Wire News Feed on the right hand side of the website, Bitten by Books has teamed up with author Marta Acosta to bring you the latest news about paranormal books, movies and TV from her Vampire Wire blog.

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Guest Blogging TODAY July 2nd is author Davida McLea!
Here’s the direct link to her event.
http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=367

Monday July 7th author Linda Wisdom will be in our Author Spotlight for an interview and Q&A session all day! Info for this event is here:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?page_id=4

Wednesday July 9th author Earl Staggs is Guest Blogging
Here’s a chance to discuss your psychic experiences with Earl Staggs, award winning author of MEMORY OF A MURDER, a mystery novel featuring psychic investigator Adam Kingston. If your experience is the most interesting, you’ll receive a free copy of Earl’s book.

Wednesday July 16th author Ann Cory will be Guest Blogging about Werewolves
You can read reviews of Ann Cory’s work here:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?page_id=58&book_author_id=Ann%20Cory

Monday July 21st author Nancy Haddock will be in the Author Spotlight for an interview and Q&A session all day!
You can read the 5 Tombstone review we did of her book La Vida Vampire here:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=28

Wednesday July 23rd author Yasmine Galenorn will be Guest Blogging
Join national best selling author Yasmine Galenorn as she talks about why she loves writing the sisters so much–what she likes about their characters, why they have the flaws they do, and how she sees them evolving. She will be giving away a set of the first three books in the Sisters of the Moon/Otherworld series: Witchling, Changeling, and Darkling.

Wednesday July 30th author Faith Bicknell-Brown will be Guest Blogging
Ebooks vs. Print - The economy is frightening everyone, but what about writers? Will it have a bearing on publishing? Perhaps ebooks will see a spike in sales. Faith Bicknell-Brown discusses the economy vs publishing, ebooks, a fabulous new e-reader hitting the market, and her recent releases of her fiction–including all her pen names–plus, her Avoid Writers’ Hell series for writers!

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Blessings,
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Bitten by books is very excited to host Mark Henry, author of Happy Hour of the Damned in our author spotlight next Monday, June 16th! You can read more about the event on our Author Spotlight page.

You WILL want to attend this event. The Mark will be giving away a Mark-ed up copy of his book during the course of the event! AND Bitten by Books will be giving away a $30.00 Amazon.com Gift Card to one lucky participant.

Would you like to earn some extra entries into the drawings for these great prizes BEFORE the event even starts? All you need to do between NOW and next Monday is post this event on as many of your blogs, facebook, myspace, ning, yahoo groups and websites as you can (where it is acceptable to do so). Then come back to THIS post and respond with the links to where you promoted the event. For every link you provide you will get another chance to win. Example: You post 5 links, you get 5 entries. Easy as pie and prizes don’t you think? Don’t worry, there will be a way to get extra entries on Monday as well.

Spread the word! This is going to be a another GREAT event!!

Bitten by Books is very excited to host Marilu Mann, author of the amazing new release Changing Times in our author spotlight next Monday, June 2nd! You can read more about the event on our Author Spotlight page.

You WILL want to attend this event. The author will be giving away several AWESOME prizes during the course of the evening! AND Bitten by Books will be giving away a $20.00 Amazon.com Gift Card to one lucky participant.

Would you like to earn some extra entries into the drawings for these great prizes? (I knew you would say YES!). All you need to do between NOW and next Monday is post this event on as many of your blogs, facebook, myspace and websites as you can (where it is acceptable to do so). Then come back to THIS post on our review site and respond with the links to where you promoted the event. For every link you provide you will get another chance to win. Example: You post 5 links, you get 5 entries. Easy as pie and prizes don’t you think? Don’t worry, there will be a way to get extra entries on Monday as well.

Spread the word! This is going to be a GREAT event.

Helping Spread the word!

Those Raven Nights!

Raven Radio, as mentioned in Romantic Times Magazine, is moving to nights! Tune in every Wed at 11-12 PM EST and join Authors Michelle Pillow and Mandy Roth as they talk about everything, nothing and the paranormal. Guests include NY Times and USA Today Bestselling authors as well as those wonderfully talented authors soon to be there, editors, paranormal tour guides, psychics, ghost hunters, specialists and more!

www.ravenhappyhour.com or http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ravenradio

Listeners are welcome to join the live chat or call in to the show to talk to us and our guests. The show will move to its new evening schedule, May 28th where listeners can catch us every Wednesday at 11PM to 12AM EST. We have a lot of authors on the upcoming line up and you can see a full schedule of guests here: http://ravenhappyhour.com/raven_podcast_schedule_of_guests.htm

WANT TO JOIN THE VIRAL CONTEST AND HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT RAVEN NIGHTS? Go to Raven’s blog to learn how you could win free advertising packages! Contest open to authors, readers and other groups! http://ravenhappyhour.com/ravenblog/?p=463

Another day, another book read. Today’s review is about a new book by Mark Henry a fellow Seattleite. Amazingly enough the book is set in Seattle as well. Ok not amazing, but cool none the less! Happy Hour of the Damned is an urban fantasy about modern day and oh so hip celebrity ghoul (read zombie) Amanda Feral and her adventures as one of Seattle’s newly undead. You really have to admit Feral is a perfect last name for a zombie!

Let me start by saying that zombies are really not my thing, and more than once felt myself fighting back a dry heave, upon reading some of the flesh eating, putrefying commentary. There was a line about a guy munching on an ear like a potato chip that almost did me in LOL. Give me a vampire and a little blood sucking any day! Pus and exploding bowels…not so much. It gives the phrase “no it doesn’t taste like chicken” a whole new meaning. Thankfully there are also vampires, werewolves, and a few succubi involved in the storyline. Despite my initial squeamishness, I dug in and really got into this groovy tale.

I think none of you will be surprised that Starbuck’s is featured and is at the center of a plot for global destruction. I commented to Mark that I would never look at bucky’s the same after reading this great book. Our local Safeway barista really has an undead look to her gaze. <shudder>

Amanda is a hip and sassy undead fashionista with a skin care regimen to make Liz Taylor proud. Really, even I learned some things from her!

This book was a slower read for me than usual. for the most part I can knock out a book in just a few hours. One thing that is different that slowed me down were a lot of footnotes. Pretty much on every page. But these weren’t your regular footnotes denoting resources, but a running commentary on whatever was going on. So, you have to read them to get the deeper nuances of some of the humor Mark presents. Since my normal Ellen Woodhead Sped Redding course mode of reading so fast I barely see the pages move wasn’t working, I found myself forgetting the footnotes and then remembering and having to go back. It isn’t critical that you read them, but they definitely add another dimension.

The humor presented in this book is definitely scathing and razor sharp. I pride myself on being fairly quick witted (no commentary from the Peanut Gallery needed thank you very much), but even I missed a few things that were thrown in, only to realize later what I had missed. So, it was good for a fun read, during and after. I am still chuckling about a few things. Plus I have a few new cocktail recipes to boot!

All in all, I can say that is book gets a 4.8 star rating from this humble reviewer. While I won’t be going out and digging up (ha ha) any new sources of Zombie reading material, I cannot WAIT for the next installment in the Amanda Feral chronicles “Road Trip of the Living Dead”.

Book stats:

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758225229
• ISBN-13: 978-0758225221

Purchase a copy by clicking this link: Happy Hour of the Damned

If not, head on over to Jaye Well’s Blog today. MaryJaniece Davidson is the guest blogger, well more like Queen Betsy is.

If you post in the comments under MJD’s post you will be entered to win a galley of Undead and Unworthy (book 7 in the seires)! Which will be coming out a week earlier and available June 24th. SWEET!