Michele Lang’s NETHERWOOD, BLOOD LITE & Adrian Phoenix

(Image taken from here) I just wanted to let you know about Michele Lang’s Netherwood (25th April 2008), as it may have slipped through the cracks. You can purchase it here.

There’s a new sheriff in town…and her name is Talia Fortune. Her mission: capture the cyber outlaw, Kovner, a man who knows she is more than just a sheriff – Talia is also a woman, with a woman’s desires. Scion of the Fortune family and primary shareholder of the mega-conglomerate FortuneCorp, she is the Hand of Fate…or at least of the Home Office. With the power to punish, she’s been sent to Fresh Havens – a corporate off-world colony run by her uncle. But the colony is full of hidden danger. Sabotage, deception, destruction…it will take every ounce of Talia’s strength and courage, fighting skills honed in the Amphitheatre and knowledge learned at the Academy, just to survive. Her ability to love and trust will be sorely tested, especially in the clutches of her quarry, the Outlaw of Fresh Havens, her cyber-lover and now her enemy. He and the answers lie in the Gray Forest, in a reality beyond the bubbledome, the Grid, and everything she’s ever known. Her future lies in…Netherwood.

Just received info for the humorous horror anthology, Blood Lite (21st October 2008). You can preorder it here.

This anthology puts the fun back into dark fiction, featuring humorous and highly entertaining examples of horror. Ranging from wry wit, unexpected irony, and downright laugh-out-loud funny, the stories in Blood Lite will reach a wide commercial audience that may turn away from ultra-graphic and deeply disturbing stories. The anthology will be edited by HWA founding member Kevin J. Anderson, multiple award-winning and international bestselling author. HWA members who are guaranteed to contribute stories to this book include:

Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Joe Lansdale, Sharyn McCrumb, Kelley Armstrong, Mike Resnick, J.A. Konrath and F. Paul Wilson, Nancy Holder, Janet Berliner

Also, Adrian Phoenix is starting a Street Team, so please contact her for more info. She’s the author of A Rush of Wings (8th January 2008) and the upcoming In the Blood (30th December 2008). You can purchase A Rush of Wings here, and preorder In the Blood here. Here’s the info for A Rush of Wings:

HIS NAME IS DANTE. Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination. HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY. F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be “nightkind”: in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own. HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS. What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer – and she’s pretty sure that link makes him the CCK’s next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man – who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire – in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante’s past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny…

My pal Atrain stumbled across a cover with the same cover art as that of Stacia Kane’s Personal Demons. Have a looksy here.

My Reading Wishlist has been completely updated with new titles and release dates. It always seems to get longer, no matter how many books I read