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Urban Fantasy: What’s Weird, What’s Next?

Sonya Bateman and I want to know: what do you want to see in urban fantasy this year? I don’t mean vampires and werewolves, Battle Extreme round XVII. Urban fantasy has expanded to include a whole mess of folklore and mythology, and it shifts rapidly to include things I’d never heard of before. So what are you interested in, and what are you tired of? You like genies, dislike faeries? Dig selkies living in the Central Park pond (they’d be very green) but are tired of crouching gnome, hidden leprechaun? What weird thing would you never expect to see in an urban fantasy? (I am personally hoping for an entire LINE of Sheela na Gig urban fantasies: She’ll kick your ass… and her vagina doubles as a U-Store-It!)

Sonya has two ARCs of her next book to give away to random commenters (US only please), to increase your impulse to Google bizarre mythology. Hit me with your best folkloric oddity. 

Winner Winner Video Games Over Dinner!

Thanks for your comments and suggestions to Darek from OrchidGames for our Solitaire giveaway. Behold, a message from Derek:

Thank you, thank you! Your response was wildly beyond my expectations. I learned so much from your comments. I knew before that many of you play games, but I had no idea that some are so hard core! Impressive. Also, thanks a lot for all the books recommendations. I’ll be looking them up on Amazon and ordering a few.

Few direct comments:
- BevQB: I might just take you on that dare, who knows!
- Kelly S: yeah, it was supposed to say “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”—bad typo, sorry… it was a late evening ;)
- Jean T: please drop me a note at support@orchidgames.com and I’ll do my best to help

Ok, so let’s sum it up. When reading the comments I noted about 20 that popped out at me and from them, with help of http://www.random.org, I picked 5 winners:

* Bibliophile - 02.03.10 at 01:33 AM
* ReganB - 02.03.10 at 09:28 AM
* DianeN - 02.03.10 at 12:02 PM
* EliG - 02.03.10 at 01:06 PM
* AndieG - 02.03.10 at 02:56 PM

If you’re on the list, please email me at support@orchidgames.com and I’ll set you up with a free copy.

Thanks again and have fun!

Darek from Orchid Games

Thanks for the fun and games, Darek!

Winner Winner, Baseball Dinner

Thanks to Jill for picking the winners, here are the folks who get a spanky copy of Jill Shalvis’ upcoming book, Slow Heat:

1. Sharon
2. Wendy
3. Peggy P
4. Kara
5. Melody
6. Carolyn
7. Sandy H
8. Liz M
9. Lil¹ Deviant
10. Chris.
11. Tina C
12. Lisa Hendrix
13. Carrie.
14. Theresa
15. Francesca

If you’re a winner, please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing address and “Shalvis” in the subject line. Thanks for playing - and happy reading!

Friday Videos Like a Good Pat

Kathy sent this in and I was grinning like a fool. The best part starts at 0:45.

May your weekend be excellently spanky!

Ebook Survey Ahoy

Jane from DearAuthor, Angie James from Carina, and I are on a panel at the O’Reilly Tools of Change in Publishing conference about what readers want, and I’m hoping that you have a spare 10 minutes or so to complete a survey about your reading habits, your buying habits, and, if you’re a digital reader, some of your pet peeves about that subject.

The survey is online, is absolutely confidential (we ask you about piracy, and not the sexy puffy shirt kind, either) BUT if you complete it, you’re entered to win a drawing for $250 towards the ebook reader of your choice.

Thank you in advance for your time - we will definitely discuss the results as we collate, assemble and do sexy mathematical things to them.