We Have A Winner & More Contests!

The winner of Angie Fox’s book, The Accidental Demon Slayer, is Gayle Cochrane.  Congratulations!  I’ll be in touch soon.

Thanks to everyone for stopping by the blog.  My guest authors next week include Karen Whiddon and Katharine Ashe, so be sure to stop on by.  And don’t forget that I’m running a fabulous contest with a group of other authors, which includes giveaways of entire backlists of your favorite romance stars.  I’m giving away paranormal and romantic suspense author Cynthia Eden’s entire backlist, and other prizes include the backlists of authors like Julia Quinn and Lisa Kleypas.  Zounds!  You can find the details on how to enter this mega-contest here.


Guest Author: Angie Fox & Riding With The Harley Dogs!

I’m thrilled to welcome New York Times best-selling author Angie Fox to the blog!  Angie’s paranormals are sexy, adventurous, and a whole lot of fun.  I’m going to turn things over to her now, and she’s going to tell us all about riding with the dogs.

Riding with the Harley Dogs: One Author’s Adventure

I’d always known writing would be an adventure, but I never predicted my writing would put me on the back of a coal black Harley Davidson, with an Irish Setter in tow. I’d set out to write a paranormal about a straight-laced preschool teacher turned demon slayer who has to run off with a gang of geriatric biker witches. But my heroine has a smart-mouthed dog that, thanks to her new powers, can talk…and talk…and talk. And I really loved that dog. What’s a writer to do? Well, I went online and learned that there is a nationwide club of Harley bikers who ride with their dogs. So my heroine could have her pink Harley, and her Jack Russell Terrier too.

And of course I had to meet these Harley riding dog lovers. I called up a few of the members of a Biker Dogs Motorcycle Club and the adventure began. They invited me into their homes, introduced me to their dogs and, like my heroine, the bikers hoisted me up on the back of a Harley, with a dog in tow.

Things I learned right off the bat:

1. After an hour on a Harley, you’ll walk like John Wayne for a week

2. Helmets hurt when they are worn backwards

3. Dogs love riding motorcycles

Stone, the biker who spent the most time making sure I didn’t fall off his hog, showed me how to ride, invited me to some biker rallies (note to self: don’t wear pink next time), and helped make the Accidental Demon Slayer series as real as it can be (for books about a somewhat sheltered preschool teacher turned demon slayer).

So just when I thought I was writing fiction, it seemed my made-up characters from the Accidental Demon Slayer books weren’t so imaginary after all. One of the bikers I met even has a wife who is a biker witch. I’m wondering if she, like my heroine’s biker witch grandma, wears a “Kiss my Asphalt” T-shirt and carries a carpet bag full of Smuckers jars filled with magic. Maybe I’ll find out on my next adventure.

Want to win a copy of The Accidental Demon Slayer?Just take the What’s Your Biker Witch Name? quiz. Post your biker witch name in the comments and you’re entered to win. Good luck!

Vanessa, here.  Just for the record, my Biker Witch Name is Hog Wild Harriett Wheelie-Gig!  So hop on over to Angie’s quiz and find out what your kick-ass name really is!

Angie Fox is the New York Times bestselling author of several books about vampires, werewolves and things that go bump in the night. She claims that researching her stories can be just as much fun as writing them. In the name of fact-finding, Angie has ridden with Harley biker gangs, explored the tunnels underneath Hoover Dam and found an interesting recipe for Mamma Coalpot’s Southern Skunk Surprise (she’s still trying to get her courage up to try it).

Angie earned a Journalism degree from the University of Missouri. She worked in television news and then in advertising before beginning her career as an author. Visit Angie at www.angiefox.com.


We Have Winners!

The winners of Ruth Harris’s digital ebooks are:  Cate S., Christine Leone Shaffer, Maggie, Dalila, and Monikarw.  Congratulations, ladies!  You’ll be getting your copies of the ebooks soon.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the blog.  My guest blogger tomorrow is Angie Fox.  We’ll be taking the “Biker Witch Name” quiz, and giving away a copy of The Accidental Demon Slayer.  You won’t want to miss that!


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