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March 18, 2012 by Mandi Leave a Comment

The winner of Ward Against Death by Melanie Card is: Elaine L. Congrats! Continue Reading

AAD Spotlight: Melanie Card and Giveaway

March 14, 2012 by Mandi 15 Comments

Our Authors After Dark Spotlights continue with the very talented paranormal romance author, Melanie Card. Ms. Card likes to walk on the adventurous side with her action packed paranormal and fantasy stories. Currently writing for Entangled Publishing, Ms.Card’s love of story telling began at an early age. In fact, Ms. Card reminisces of two very special teachers who helped foster her love of storytelling in grade school through journal writing time. Ms. Card’s debut paranormal romance Ward Continue Reading

AAD Spotlight: PJ Schnyder

March 7, 2012 by Mandi Leave a Comment

Our Authors After Dark Spotlights continue with PJ Schnyder. Born and raised in the North East, PJ Schnyder spent her childhood pretending to study for the SATs by reading every fantasy and sci-fi novel she could borrow from the local and school libraries. She scored fairly high in the verbal portion. She was introduced to the wonderful world of romance a decade later by her best friend at an anime convention in Seattle. She now lives somewhere temperate watching the seasons go by with her Continue Reading

AAD Spotlight: Katie Reus

February 23, 2012 by Mandi 3 Comments

Our Authors After Dark Spotlights continue with the very talented romance author, Katie Reus. Ms Reus likes to walk on the dark side with her romantic suspense and dark PNR stories. Currently writing for Carina Press, Harlequin Nocturne, and NAL/Signet Eclipse (Moon Shifter series), Ms. Reus’s love of romance started at an early age with pilfered romance books from her mother. Even though reading and writing became her passion, it wasn’t until after she graduated collage and worked way to may Continue Reading

AAD Spotlight: Lara Adrian and Giveaway

January 23, 2012 by Mandi 56 Comments

Continuing our Authors After Dark Spotlights, today we are featuring Lara Adrian. She published her first Breeds book, Kiss of Midnight in 2007, and tomorrow will release the tenth book in that series. Lara Adrian’s Breed series is a dark, convoluted PNR world filled with non stop action, blood curling suspense, and hot smexy characters that will hold you hostage to the very end. The Breed is a group of otherworldly warriors, descended from aliens who landed on our world thousands of years Continue Reading

AAD Spotlight: Stacey Kennedy and Giveaway

January 2, 2012 by Mandi 45 Comments

Continuing our Authors After Dark Spotlight series, we are featuring Stacey Kennedy today. Stacey loves the paranormal/urban fantasy genre, which is apparent when you look at her extensive backlist.  An author of some extremely erotic and funny paranormal romances, Ms. Kennedy describes her books as being, “lighthearted fantasy, heart squeezing, thigh-clenching romance, and even give a good chuckle every now and again.” With over 20 books under her belt, Ms. Kennedy is working on her Continue Reading

AAD Spotlight: Carolyn Crane and Giveaway

December 5, 2011 by Mandi 32 Comments

Time for another Authors After Dark spotlight. Today it is Carolyn Crane! The final book in Carolyn Crane’s, Disillusionist trilogy, Head Rush comes out tomorrow! A favorite urban fantasy series of mine. I met Carolyn at this year’s Author’s After Dark convention and had so much fun chatting with her. As I have been asking many of the authors which character they would take with them to New Orleans, here is Carolyn’s answer: If you could pick one of your characters to go to New Orleans with Continue Reading

AAD Author Spotlight: Mari Freeman and Giveaway

November 28, 2011 by Mandi 49 Comments

Today, we are happy to be featuring Mari Freeman on our blog. I met Mari at Authors After Dark this previous year and she is a fun author to hang out with. Mari Freeman writes both contemporary and paranormal, although writing isn’t the first career she has tested out, including working in a morgue. ;) I’m looking forward to seeing her again in New Orleans next August! When asked -If you could pick one of your characters to go to New Orleans with you, who would you pick and what would you do? Continue Reading

AAD Spotlight: Eliza Gayle and Giveaway

November 21, 2011 by Mandi 41 Comments

Our Authors After Dark Spotlights continue with Eliza Gayle. After serving in the Marine Corps, getting married and having kids, Eliza Gayle read an erotic book and found her passion. With more than 20 books out she writes both paranormal and contemporary erotic stories. She also loves chocolate and music from the 80’s (Mandi gives a *fist pump*) and you can find out more fun tidbits about her here Inspired from her stories, she also has some recipes listed on her website – Southern Whiskey Continue Reading

AAD Spotlight: Melissa Schroeder

November 14, 2011 by Mandi 21 Comments

We are happy to spotlight Melissa Schroeder today at Smexy Books. She will be one of the many authors attending the Author’s After Dark conference in August 2012 in New Orleans. It was a pleasure to meet her at this year’s AAD conference. Her and Kris Cook sponsored a happy hour – a definite highlight of the conference ;) Melissa Schroeder has been a busy writer since her debut in 2004, having  published many books since that time. I not only enjoy reading her “Harmless” series but she is Continue Reading

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