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Random News and Such

Ilona Andrews has posted a snippet from an upcoming Kate Daniels short story.

A prequel novella to T.A. Pratt's Marla Mason series has been posted.

Saskia Walker is offering her novel, The Strangeling for free.

Amberkatze has some exclusive scoop from Jeri Smith-Ready of the WVMP series.

All fans of Katie Macalister's Dark Ones series: She's written a short that deals with Alec, from Zen and the Art of Vampires and Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang, and his quest for a Beloved. Check it on on Penguin's site.

The completed letter from Grant, of Marjorie M. Liu's Hunter Kiss series, to his unborn child is up at Penguin's site as well.

Drops of Crimson has posted their YA issue and it has tons of articles and interviews.

The Discriminating Fangirl has created this great community database of Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance characters. Anyone with a Google account can contribute.

Here is Kelley Armstrong's latest newsletter. Don't pass this up - there's tons of info that you'll definitely want in there, including LOTS of great giveaways.

Maggie Stiefvater, author of the upcoming novel Shiver, has posted the book trailer on her blog. Take a look:

Here a couple of other books I'm looking forward to

Speaking of Blue Moon, Free Book Friday Teens is offering a sneak peek for all who enter their contest for a copy. They also have an interview with Alyson Noel.

Interviews and the Like

Author Brandon Sanderson will be doing a live Tweet-chatting session about his newest book, Warbreaker. Visit Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists for complete details.

Erica Hayes, who's debut Shadowfae is due for release October 13th, has a guest post up by Alex Bledsoe, author of The Sword-Edged Blonde (a book Erica gushes about).

Vicki Pettersson, who's City of Souls hit stores today, will be doing a live podcast with Authors On Air at 2 PM (EST) Thursday, July 2nd, when she'll be interviewed by Kim Harrison.

Rachel Vincent is over at Amberkatze's Book Blog.

Contests Linkage

Maggie Stiefvater is giving away ARCs and finished copies of Shiver so head over there for details.

Karen Mahoney is giving away a copy of Prom Nights from Hell and Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison to one lucky commenter over at Deadline Dames.

Rachel Vincent is giving away a copy of her latest, Prey, along with a copy of Vicki Pettersson's new City of Souls.

Seems like everyone is giving away Prey. Try for it at Fang-tastic Books, Amberkatze's, or at A Journey of Books.

In anticipation of her upcoming release, Branded by Fire, Nalini Singh is offering a chance to win a copy of Christine Feehan's Hidden Currents or Dakota Cassidy's Kiss & Hell.

Bitten by Books is giving away copies of Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine AND a Sony Reader.

Caffey of Caffey's Reads is offering a copy of Gale Force by Rachel Caine.

Alaine at Alaine, Queen of Happy Endings is offering up an early copy of Blood Promise by Richelle Mead.

Win a copy of Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh over at The Book Smugglers.

Marta Acosta has copies of Stephanie Meyer's The Host are up for grabs at Vampire Wire.

Suzanne McLeod, author of the Spellcrackers.com series, is giving away copies of The Eternal Kiss: Twelve Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire or Jim Butcher's Mean Streets, plus a signed copy of either of her books, The Cold Kiss of Death and The Sweet Scent of Blood.

A signed ARC of Hush, Hush is on offer over at Confessions of a Wandering Heart.