Warm up the TiVo...Pull out the BOOKS....

What do you think of the new cover for Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris? I think it’s cool and goes right along with the new HBO series True Blood I’m a huge fan of the Sookie Stackhouse books and I’m lovin’ the new show. It’s sexy, I told you guys it would be, but Alan Ball has really brought those books to life. Tell everyone to watch because I want more, more, more of this vampire drama!

There are so many great books out this month so I’m going straight to the e-mail:

I love me some Nalini Singh. Her new one Hostage to Pleasure is the fifth book in the Psy/Changeling series. Ashaya Aleine was separated from her son, forced to create a neural implant that will forever enslave her psychically gifted Psy race. After fighting a desperate battle to save her child and escape the PsyNet, she’s led not to safety, but into the lethal danger of a sniper’s embrace. Dorian, the DarkRiver sniper who is the hero of this book, has been one of the integral characters in the series - he's dangerous, beautiful, and so very angry at what the Psy have stolen from him," Singh says. Dorian wasn't ready for his book for a long time, but with HtP, he burst onto the page and took over! Just as well that his heroine is tough enough to take him on. Tawny Weber’s new one is Risque Business and she says, I’m a huge fan of the makeover stories and have always wanted to write one. My heroine sees her makeover as a mask, so I had a great time exploring the question of what happens when someone gets what they think they want via a makeover and how they deal with all the doubts and questions that success creates.” I happen to love makeover stories too, and am totally downloading this one to the Kindle! Everlasting Bad Boys is a new anthology with Cynthia Eden, Shelly Laurenston and Noelle Mack. "The inspiration for my hero, Luis, was the boogeyman, says Cynthia about her novella Spellbound. Seriously, I wanted to create a being who instilled fear in all of my (many) paranormal characters and Luis was born. He is the man that the supernaturals fear in the darkness. I call him a soul-hunter. A soul-hunter is produced from the mating of a witch and a level-ten demon. He’s strong, deadly, and more than a little bit bad. And I had a fabulous time writing him. Unwrap Me is the latest from Susan Lyons. It’s one of the sexy stories in the new anthology by the same name. Lyons’ says she was the last person who she thought would ever write a Christmas story because she has issues with the holiday. But in the summer of 2007, my publisher asked if I’d like to participate in a Christmas 2008 anthology, she says. So I immediately wondered how I could write something cheery and uplifting when I had such negative issues about the whole thing? Well the answer was, give my heroine, Jude, some negative issues too, then match her up with a guy, Nick, who loves Christmas. And do it 12 days before Christmas, so he has twelve days to help her work through her pain and rediscover the true spirit of Christmas. Crossfire is by JoAnn Ross and is about FBI Special Agent Caitlin Cavanaugh. She’s in charge of stopping a mad man sniper in South Carolina. She has to work with former Navy SEAL Quinn McKade, who makes her feel deliciously out of control, says Ross. When the killer starts leaving chillingly familiar clues, the pair knows that the murders aren’t random… and Cait and Quinn could be next. Stephanie Julian’s new release is Seduced and Ensnared. This is the third story in my Magical Seduction series of contemporary paranormals, she says. My stories are based on an Etruscan mythology, heavy on magic and romance. Cam de Feo needs Stella Palmer as bait to trap her evil uncle. But when he seduces her, heated passion threatens his carefully laid plans and Cam must choose between vengeance and the woman he loves. Christine Wells has a new debut with The Dangerous Duke. This book came about through a series of what ifs, Wells says. What if you were a passionate woman trapped in a loveless marriage and you didn’t want to have affairs? How would you find an outlet for all that turmoil inside? My heroine found one by creating a fantasy lover and writing about her encounters with him. But then she is widowed and the most devastating man comes into her life. But he’s not at all like the lover between the pages of her book. Does she prefer the dream or he flesh and blood man?”

Until next month...Candy

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Candy is a nationally syndicated entertainment columnist, who has interviewed just about every celebrity there is in Hollywood and written thousands of articles. She is the author of the Charmed & Dangerous series including Charmed & Ready Charmed & Dangerous and Charmed & Deadly. Her latest book Like A Charm is available now!

Her non-fiction prose includes Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy, and essays in Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6, and Five Seasons of Angel. She's also the entertainment critic providing the latest on TV, film and celebs for the radio station 96.3 KSCS. And she's the managing editor for FYI Television.

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