Winners of Jaz Parks Books, Vampire Life Songs, and "Supernatural" Thursday

We have winners for the contest for Jaz Parks books, by Jennifer Rardin. Thanks for all your great entries, and thanks to Jennifer for visiting Vampire Wire and telling us about her books. You rock, Jen!

The winners are:

Nicole M. - who wanted a copy of Bite Marks
Adrienne, aka Angeleyesak, who is new to the series, so we'll send her book one, Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Nicole and Adrienne, please send me an email at marta at martaacosta dot com, and I'll forward it on so you'll get your books.

I hope to have more contests to run next week, but in the meanwhile, you can enter the contests listed on the right sidebar.

Chris at Stumbling Over Chaos is guest blogging today at Desert Island Keepers and she shares one of her great vampire music lists. "What I am I listening to? I'm listening to Vampire Life, which is a mix I put together for day(or night)dreaming about hunky vampires. Sure, I'll share it with you... if you'll think about sharing some of those hunky heroes y'all are hoarding... ;)" Chris shared a few of her great mixes with me, and I love her eclectic, whimsical, quirky selections. I listen to these songs all the time as I write, and so I highly recommend that you check out her selections.

Covers you loove? Covers you hate? Covers so bad that you hide the book behind an old Highlights that you stole from the dentist's office? Leave a comment because Doug Knipe, SciFi Guy, and I are going to have a bloggers summit to discuss the state of the cover today. If you are highly qualified (i.e., a Nobel Prize laureate, a cover designer, a member of a major international think tank, or someone who collects fantasy covers with unicorns on them) and would like to participate in this important discourse, please tell me.

Speaking of covers, I especially like Chloe Neill's Some Girls Bite, because the model looks like one of my favorite actresses, Allyson Hannigan, who played Willow in "Buffy" and now shows her comic skill in "How I Met Your Mother."

You can read James Gormley's review of Some Girls Bite at Vampire Books Navigator. James says, "Kind of over the puling teenage angst of books titularly related to dusk, moons and dawn? Well then, author Chloe Neill’s Some Girls Bite may be just the book for you."

Estefanie at Night Time Romance reviews Chloe Neill's second book in the Chicagoland Vampires series, Friday Night Bites. "Her plot just thickens with her who done it storyline that get more addicting with each new page. In addition, things are sure heating up between the love triangle of Morgan, Merit and Ethan.

Michelle Rowen is having a contest for her brand-new release, Hot Spell. The book description is:

Everybody knows there’s no love lost between paranormal investigators Amanda LaGrange and sexy Jacob Caine. They can’t even stand being in the same room together….

Well, unless it's an enchanted bedroom. And they’re trapped there, at midnight. And the sexual tension suddenly becomes too powerful to resist… Then that bedroom gets really hot, really fast! But come morning, they still can’t keep their hands off each other.

Are they cursed forever? If so, neither one’s complaining….


"SUPERNATURAL" Thursday


Any decent person totally hearts Jim Beaver, the wonderful character actor who plays Bobby Singer on "Supernatural." As I overheard Chuck Norris say while we were both getting a mani-peddy, "To know Beaver is to love Beaver." I have been crazy about the actor (Jim Beaver, not Chuck Norris) since his turn as the decent and lovelorn Ellsworth in "Deadwood," but he's been in dozens of shows...and he's always fantastic.

You can read an interview with Beaver about his role as Bobby in tonight's episode of "Supernatural":

"Well, as the viewers are going to find out, Bobby's not doing well with his new situation-- with being partially paralyzed. He's not handling it well, and he's both, I think, angry and despairing. Which are-- we've seen Bobby angry before, but we haven't really seen him despairing, and so out of that despair comes a sense of desperation. When this magical fellow with his magical poker game shows up and offers Bobby a chance to get his youth and his health back, I think out of that desperation, Bobby jumps at it. Of course, any time on Supernatural when a bad guy offers you something good, it's probably got a catch." (Starpulse)

I'm glad he's out on the interview trail. TV Over Mind also has a Q&A with Jim Beaver:

"You’ve got a show with two young incredibly hunky guys in the lead, I just never would have expected the audience to react at all to a third incredibly hunky guy. I’m pretty well taken aback by the whole thing. Surprise is good in life."

Yeah, it just makes you love him more.


GRATUITOUS VIDEOS OF THE DAY

It's both Day Four of Bon Jovi Week and "Supernatural" Thursday, so I think you can guess what's coming next. Incredibly hunky guys driving a bitchin car and rocking out to Bon Jovi.