Bitter Blood by Rachel Caine Release Day Give Away

Bitter Blood (The Morganville Vampires #13)by Rachel Caine
Releases: Nov. 6, 2012

For years, the human and vampire residents of Morganville, Texas, have managed to co-exist in peace. But now that the threat to the vampires has been defeated, the human residents are learning that the gravest danger they face is the enemy within…

Thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the draug, the vampires of Morganville have been freed of their usual constraints. With the vampires indulging their every whim, the town’s human population is determined to hold on to their lives by taking up arms. But college student Claire Danvers isn’t about to take sides, considering she has ties to both the humans and the vampires.

To make matters worse, a television show comes to Morganville looking for ghosts, just as vampire and human politics collide. Now, Claire and her friends have to figure out how to keep the peace without ending up on the nightly news… or worse

Morganville Vampire Official Website

excerpt from Bitter Blood

About the Author:

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Rachel Caine is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of more than 30 novels, including the immensely popular Morganville Vampires series, the Weather Warden series, and the Outcast Season series.

In 2011, Rachel published the first novel of her new trilogy, The Revivalist Series, with the release ofWORKING STIFF in August, followed by TWO WEEKS’ NOTICE in August, 2012.

She has been honored with a Paranormal Pearl Award and an RT Booklovers Award, and was recently awarded a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times. Her first young adult novel, Glass Houses, was chosen for the Texas Tayshas List in 2009.

She was born at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, attended Socorro High School in El Paso, Texas, and earned a bachelors degree in business administration from Texas Tech University. She’s worked in many jobs, including accounting, graphic designer, insurance investigation, corporate communications, and web design, to name just a few. She became a full time writer in 2010.

Rachel is married to award-winning fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, and has two iguanas as pets: Popeye and Darwin.

Book #14 Fall of Night (May 2013)

I received a copy of Bitter Blood for review, but I haven't read this series so I will give my copy to one winner. I admit, I did read the last few chapters to find out what happens <G> and I am not telling!!!

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Our Dragon*Con Experience in pictures + giveaway

Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe!

This was our first trip to Dragon*Con and the first time we met in person!! We were able to stay at my aunt's house in an Atlanta suburb (Roswell) and take the train right to the convention site. This is our story in pictures...its better then us trying to do an interpretive dance!

Sharon: I had a 5 1/2 hour drive from NC. Baaart was so excited and not once did he ask if we were there yet.

Katie: I flew out from Sunnyvale, CA! Sorry, no pics. Was sleeping.

Sharon: This is our first day at Dragon*Con we are fresh and ready to roll. Katie was actually sparkling!

Katie: That's just how I roll! Bling-bling!

Sharon: Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media convention and known for the percentage of people who wear costumes. I'd say at least 80% of attendees were dressed up.

Sharon: We met Kalayna Price (bottom left, in corset!) and some red people. Baaart got eaten by a library dolphin and posed with all sorts of people. You also see Baaart having grits and bacon at the Waffle House.

Katie: I like posing with shirtless buff dudes.

Sharon: Steampunk bad guys, hotties eating Baaart, Predator loving and zombie loving.

Sharon: I went to the Big Damn Heroes! panel. This was the best picture I could get of Adam Baldwin, Sean Maher, Jewel Staite because I was at the back of the room. The big panels were hard to get into. People started lining up hours before hand. We also ran into these bad ass chicks pointing guns at Baaart. And once again...something is trying to eat Baaart.

Katie: Baaart and I posed with this Monster guy (bottom right) who was part of a campaign to get people to stop smoking!

Sharon: We managed to locate the very busy Elizabeth Kolodziej (author of the Last Witch Series) She had her steampunk on.

Sharon: Guess who Baaart found? <G> I love a man in uniform and underbrush. We got a pic of this yellow haired character from behind, but...(snicker) we can't show it on this website.

Katie: A sexy, tuff Snow White stopped to say hello!

Sharon: I did the monster mash! Crazy pig tried to eat Baaart.

Katie: Sharon loves her some monsters!

Sharon:Sad that he has nicer legs than me <G>

Katie: And me...

Sharon: This is how we looked when it was all over...

Katie: Spent, but loving every minute of it.

Sharon: My over all thoughts about Dragon*Con, a freaking hot mess. Events are spread out between 4 hotels. Atlanta in August is humid. You spend the first day just trying to find where things are. The MARTA (Atlanta train/bus system) didn't run on time and couldn't handle the nighttime loads. There were 5 major events going on in town that weekend.

The hotel, restaurant and law enforcement people were polite and helpful. Even though there were 10's of thousands there I never had to wait for a bathroom! and they were always spotless.

Will I go back? Probably not. I am glad I did and if I was in my 20's and cosplaying I would absolutely go again.

Katie: I have to agree with everything Sharon said. Disorganized compared to the other conventions I've been to. With so many people coming out it was still not a big enough venue. I hope Dragon*Con looks into convention centers at some point.

Will I go back? No. BUT I had a great time meeting every one there and spending face time with my girl, Sharon.

***GIVE AWAY***

We picked up tons of great stuff to give away. There will be three prize packs. One international winner and two US/CAN winners. You must be a follower to enter. The little DOA bags were something we gave out to all the author's we interviewed. Got sheep swag inside!

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