Last of the Red-Hot Vampires is here!

I know how patiently many of you have been waiting for today, and at last, it's officially publication day! I much appreciate the restraint shown by those of you who fought temptation and did not rush out to snag a copy of this book before today. It means a great deal to me, and I'm truly grateful to everyone for their support.

Enough of the warm fuzzies--let's get to the good stuff!

Physicist Portia Harding's life is grounded in facts. There's nothing that can't be explained by logic and science...until she travels with her best friend to England and accidentally summons an ethereal virtue who bequeaths her gift of weather control to Portia.

Now Portia is walking around with a literal cloud over her head, and a heart stoppingly handsome maniac trying to kidnap her. But Theo North is no run-of-the-mill lunatic. He's a nephilim - the son of an angel - who needs Portia's help to change his fate. Problem is, Portia's down-to-earth attitude frustrates beings from both heavenly and hellish realms, and gets Theo turned into a vampire. But at least he has Portia to satisfy his newfound hungers...and possibly save his soul.


Dark Ones Books

I receive a lot of questions about what order the Dark Ones series books are best read. As I mentioned in a recent Barnes and Noble interview the Dark Ones books aren't actually a series where you have to read each book in order - the books are loosely connected, sometimes with overlapping characters, sometimes not. In the case of Last of the Red-Hot Vampires , you can read this book before having read the others (although Christian does make a very brief cameo appearance). Noelle the Guardian also has a small role to play in this story, although you don't really need to know her background before reading this book.

Other Dark Ones books (in order of publication date):

As I mentioned in the B&N interview, I'm trying to bring some new elements of the Otherworld into my Dark Ones books. Last of the Red-Hot Vampires introduces the Court of Divine Blood, which is pretty much the counterpart to Abaddon...but just as Abaddon isn't exactly hell, so the Court isn't quite heaven. I hope to have some information about the hierarchy of the Court available on my website soon; until then, tidbits of information about it can be found in Last of the Red-Hot Vampires.


Future Projects and Other News

I will be participating in a Last of the Red-Hot Vampires chat on Sunday, April 29th at 3pm Pacific (that's 5pm Central, 6pm Eastern, and 11pm Greenwich Mean Time). If you'd like to join the chat (and I'd love to talk to you!) you will need to register at my message forum. The chat room is accessed at the top of the message forum navigation bar - simply click on Flash Chat and you will be taken to the chat room.

Currently, I'm hard at work on two projects: the first is a short story for an anthology which will be titled My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon (to be published by St. Martin's sometime in early 2007), and the second is a new, as yet untitled Dark Ones book. I'm just diving into the research on that, so I can't say much about it, but I will spill with details as I have them.

Coming up in October is an anthology titled Ain't Myth-Behaving, which contains two novellas featuring Viking ghosts and a sexy Irish god. I just saw the cover for the book, and will post it on my website (along with info about the anthology) as soon as I get the word it's final.

November is dragon month at Rancho Katie, and that means the next Aisling Grey book will be out! Holy Smokes is the fourth Aisling Grey book, and I'm very excited about it since there are some Big Happenings in it. You can check out the cover and information on my website; an excerpt will be coming soon.


Contest!

My editor tells me that there should be an increased number of Katie Mac cardboard book displays at bookstores and other stores. Friends and family have seen these displays, but they seem to elude me. And since I'm stuck at home writing the next book, I won't be able to tour the area in search for one of these displays.

Since I'm dying to see one, I figured I'd run a contest to reward vigilant readers! Yes, it's the Hunt For a Katie Mac Display Contest!

If you spot a cardboard Katie Mac book display (commonly called a "dump") in a store, send an e-mail to me at katie@katiemacalister.com with the subject line Contest Entry, and containing the following information:

  • Your name
  • Your e-mail address
  • The name and city of the store where you saw the display
If you want to go wild and crazy, you can include a digital photo of yourself next to the display (no bonus points will be awarded to pictures, but they will entertain me greatly).

Please note that the display must be one of the cardboard displays dedicated to my books, not just books on a shelf, or books in display with other authors. I'm interested to see how many stores actually have just the Katie Mac displays.

The contest ends on April 30th at midnight. Five winners will be randomly chosen from the pool of entries, and sent a signed copy of one of my books (winners will be able to pick which book, assuming I have it) and a really spiffy pearl beaded double knot Celtic heart bookmark, as pictured.




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