Friday Five and a half!

1. Supernatural Capital Tours are back with their new Troll Trail. Check it out over here at Falcata Times!


2. Lisa Ryans has a giveaway here for The Cold Kiss of Death. Ends Dec 31st (not sure if it's international).



3. Romantic Times Magazine has a great review of The Bitter Seed of Magic. Yay! Thank you! And they even have a picture of the cover! *g*

THE BITTER SEED OF MAGIC
by Suzanne McLeod

Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
  RT Rating

Fertility, a curse and the survival of various fae races are at the heart of what haunts gutsy Sidhe heroine Genny Taylor. McLeod uses her gift for storytelling to deliver a truly terrific read that is certain to keep you perched on the edge of your seat until the very last page.  Reviewed By: Jill M. Smith

Shameless Self-Promo Below:

The Bitter Seed of Magic is out now UK, 
The Bitter Seed of Magic is out Dec 27 in the US, 
and Jan 16 in German - Bittersüße Nacht 

 4. Argh! My TBR is out of control!

84 books in my kindle TBR file.

35 in the print TBR.

8 on my laptop.

Given that I've read around 80 books this year, it's going to take me most of next year to catch up. O_O

Saying that . . .

5. Book Tease Time

5 * + Books I've read that I think you're going to want to! *g*

Silver-Tongued Devil (Sabina Kane) Jaye Wells (12/27/11)

Blue-Blooded Vamp (Sabina Kane) Jaye Wells (5/22/12)

Devil's Punch: (Corine Solomon) Ann Aguirre (4/312)

Endgame (Sirantha Jax, #6)  Ann Aguirre (Sept 2012)

Outpost (Razorland, #2)  Ann Aguirre  (Sept 2012)

Shadow's Bloom by Tammy Moore (Date TBC)

Summoning the Night: (Arcadia Bell) Jenn Bennett (4/24/12)

5 1/2. Some books I'm itching to read

Deadlocked: (Sookie Stackhouse) Charlaine Harris (5/1/12)

Gunmetal Magic  Ilona Andrews (7/31/12)

Magic Without Mercy: (Allie Beckstrom) Devon Monk (4/3/12)

Full Blooded (Jessica McClain) Amanda Carlson (9/1/12)

So, what books are you all itching to read in 2012?

Superstitious reading . . .

. . . and one late arrival to the B'day book haul*. Yay!

So, onto superstitious reading . . .

The other day hubby and I were talking about superstitions and he admitted he had one. Not only was this was amazing (I was pretty much under the impression he didn't do superstitions, since that's what he told me when we first met - admittedly a loooooooog time ago - so this was a strange Huh, what? moment for me *g*) but his superstition is a really odd one I've never heard of before.

Here it is!

Whatever book he's reading, when he hits chapter thirteen, he *has* to read it all the way through without stopping**. So he won't start reading unless he knows he's got time to finish!

Weird, huh?

Or maybe it's just me that thinks that?

So, anyone else out there got the same superstition***, or any others to do with reading?


*I haven't read any of Meljean Brook's books before, just a short story which I loved. So I was thrilled when this one turned up in the B'day book haul, although I'm not sure how I managed to add book 3 to my wishlist instead of book 1. Hmm. I quite like reading series in order, so I might have to leave this one further down the TBR pile until I get hold of books 1 & 2.

**What's even weirder, is that we met on the 13th Feb, so thirteen is sort of our lucky number. Go figure :-)

***Of course, if you do, I in no way mean to imply you're weird, just my hubby, and he knows I love him, so he'll forgive me. Probably *g*

Birthday Book Haul!

Sunday was my birthday (many thanks to everyone who sent me Birthday Wishes!). I had a lovely quiet day: a trip to the garden centre to buy some plants (B'day vouchers to spend! Yay!), visits with family and friends, and writing :-) And lucky girl that I am, I had these!

Yay! My family are the best! (they know how to find my Amazon wish list *g*) So big hugs and thanks to them (and the authors) for many future hours of happy reading.

My wonderful hubby gave me lovely flowers, yummy cup cakes (help yourself :-)), my fav chocs, and a very beautiful ring.*

And finally sorry for being absent, and leaving you all with nothing but tomato pic spam, but the writing/edits/re-writes on The Bitter Seed of Magic are eating my brain cells/time like this little guy below eats roads, and I haven't a lot left for much else**. Even my B'day books will have to wait a while.

*Yep, I know, I should've taken a picture of it in RL . . .

**which is a good thing, cos that way the book gets the best of me, and that makes it even better, so it's a win, win situation :-) )

And don't forget you can enter for a chance to win my books, or if you've already got them, you can win one of my fav, autobuy authors' books. Check out my website here!