Supernatural Underground

Fun Times In Dallas!

2012-01-25T02:25:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Amy of Virginia who won the signed copy of Forbidden Nights with a Vampire! Thank you all for the comments! Please come back next month on the 25th for my next giveaway! Happy reading!This last Sunday, I had the pleasure of being invited to the American Library Association's midwinter meeting at the Dallas Convention Center. Not only did I get to meet wonderful librarians

Some inspiration for worldbuilding

2012-01-20T22:36:00.000-08:00

First, good news - there's going to be a brand new gadda story seeing print. The Black Star Killer will be published in Damnation and Dames, a paranormal noir anthology from Australian publisher Ticonderoga Press that will be out later this year. The Black Star Killer uses the gadda that I invented for my novels, but instead of being set in the modern age it's set in Chicago in the 1920s. Great

Upside of Darkness

2012-01-16T02:15:00.000-08:00

I’ve faced the same demon for the last six years. I call it ‘Future Earth.’ This is a post apocalyptic dystopia, one I’ve created for the Q E series. It’s not an easy place to be. Writing it, at times, made me ill. But there is a powerful upside to darkness. It can expand the mind. My worlds clash and the contrast is part of the enlightenment.Future Earth is a technological hegemony where

Maybe I'm NOT Old....

2012-01-15T08:23:00.000-08:00

Last night, I had a lovely date night with my husband. Dinner at PF Changs, browsing the Apple store, stopping by Starbucks, and coming back to a kid-free house and peace and quiet. Okay, so there was a moment of worry when, while waiting to be called for our reservations, three really rowdy toddlers threatened our evening. But, they were nowhere near our table and it ended up really nice. It

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...

2012-01-14T11:17:00.000-08:00

This is just filler to push the poem down. The lawn is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn, The sad intangible who grieve and yearn.... --T.S. ELIOT I've always loved a good ghost story. Put me in a spooky old house full of creaks and moans, thunder and lightning crashing, a mystery, a tragedy, or

Cover Reveal and Giveaway

2012-01-12T01:35:00.000-08:00

THANKS FOR COMMENTING! THE WINNERS OF THE GIVEAWAY: gatormom163 Amy Valentini BonnieCONGRATS!Happy New Year, everyone! Have you made your resolutions? Or, at least taken a deep breath and resolved to make 2012 a good year? Good. Me, too! And boy, oh, boy, I'm starting it off running. I have three books coming out between now and the end of May and a fourth due in March. The holidays over,

Dance Like No One is Watching...

2012-01-09T02:41:00.000-08:00

Hey all and Happy MONDAY!!! I'm deep in deadline doo doo so this is going to be short and sweet. I trust you all made it through the holidays and if you're like me, kind of happy that um, they're over? My kids are finally heading back to school today so in a way, my year is starting NOW. Now, I'm not really the one to make New Year's resolutions. Not really. I feel in a way it's like setting

8 for 8 - The Night Huntress Series

2012-01-08T06:10:00.000-08:00

While loitering on Twitter last week I came across a conversation between a few of my Twitter buddies. They were cyber drooling over a series they’d all recently read. Like any other book hungry reader, the sight of cyber drool over a story made me jump right in and hijack on the conversation. I just had to know what books had caused such bodice busting heavy breathing. And to my utter

A Quick Bite of Vampire Goodness

2012-01-07T07:00:00.000-08:00

Have you hugged your vampire recently? Have you held her close, admiring the way the candlelight dances on her fangs? Have you enjoyed the fact that he doesn't have that annoying heartbeat under your ear when you rest your head on his chest? Tell me, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? Err.. sorry, these questions had me channeling a little Jack, but I'm back now.

Claws and Effect!!!

2012-01-03T00:05:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Bonnie who one the giveaway! ______________________________ So, like most of us, I’m still recouping from Christmas (where I hosted twenty-four at my little house on Christmas Eve), New Years, (where I shopped like it was 1999), and a book launch in between.My brain is a little zapped, partially from the holidays and partially from the secret that I'm dying to tell you guys.So

Welcome to 2012---& “The Gathering of The Lost”, US Cover & Quote!

2012-01-01T21:43:00.000-08:00

. Giveaway Now Closed: Thank you for your positive comments on the new cover! Amanda's post is up so my giveaway has now closed—& because I have 10 cover flats to give away and eight commenters that means everyone gets one, which is very nice. :) Now I know some of you have had giveaways from me before so I already have your postal address, but if this is a first off then just drop me a line

2011-12-30T13:59:00.000-08:00

It is my great honor to announce the Winner of the First Annual Supernatural Underground Holiday Giveaway is: DONNA S. ! Donna will be receive a gift pack of lovely books from the Supernatural Underground Authors. * * * I’m sure that we have all heard of the movie White Christmas with Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and Danny Kaye. If we don’t know the movie, we know the title song and

Join us on Twitter!

2011-12-28T03:00:00.000-08:00

Here's a list of our authors who are on Twitter. Join the conversation! Dakota Banks @dakotabanks Leah Clifford @LeahClifford Leah Cypess @LeahCypess Merrie Destafano @merriedestefano Kim Falconer @kimfalconer Leigh Fallon @leigh_fallon Jeaniene Frost @Jeaniene_Frost Terri Garey @terrigarey Sable Grace @sablegrace Gretchen McNeil

Merry Christmas!!

2011-12-25T02:39:00.000-08:00

The winner is....drum roll....Eveeer!! Please contact me at kerry@kerrelynsparks.com so I can get your address! Thank you all for the lovely comments. Please come back Jan. 25th when I'll give away another signed book. Happy New Year!!Since I blog every month on the 25th, I get the special honor of wishing all of you Supernatural Undergrounders a very merry Christmas!! It's a day for giving

Books for Christmas: A Celebration of Story

2011-12-24T02:23:00.000-08:00

Giveaway Winners! And the draw winners are: SandyG265 ~ 'The Heir of Night' Llehn ~ 'Thornspell' JacquiR ~ JAAM 26 Congratulations to the winners and my thanks to everyone who commented---remember to stay posted for the 'Grand Supernatural Underground Draw' on the 30th. And of course I'll be back on the 1st for my regular slot and with something I hope you'll agree is special ...

The Twelve Days of Christmas

2011-12-21T13:01:00.000-08:00

Christmas DownunderChristmas for us in the lovely old land of Oz is a very different beast to what you in the northern half experience because down here, it's Summer.For a long, LONG time, the old Christmas traditions were stuck too. So we went looking for greenery (although the typical colour of the bush around here by the end of December is brown). We cooked roasts and turkeys and puddings (

The 12 Days of Christmas: Retro Christmas

2011-12-20T12:24:00.000-08:00

By Merrie DestefanoCONTEST WINNER INFO:Thank you all for sharing your Christmas memories. I really enjoyed reading them all!I used Ranom.org to select a winner and she is: CrystalGB.Congratulations, Crystal! I'll be contacting you by e-mail to get your mailing address.I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, Chanuka and New Year!!I have to confess I love old things. It doesn’t matter whether

12 Days of Christmas: Counting Down

2011-12-20T03:00:00.000-08:00

Winner of the signed copy of Sacrifice plus the $25 Amazon gift card: Michelle Bledsoe! Thanks, everyone, for sharing your stories here. - DB The Christmas that made me cry - three times It was going to be a memorable year for me, but I didn't know it yet. It was right after Thanksgiving. I was eight years old and had heard a lot of talk at school that Santa Claus wasn't real. To be on the

12 Days of Christmas: 'Tiz the Season for Miracles

2011-12-19T07:00:00.000-08:00

THREE LOVELY MIRACLES submitted by readers below, and all so amazing that it's too hard to choose a winner, so there's three winners today! ... Sharon, Billie Jo and SandyG265... if you can please email me by 31st December 2011, at needie35 AT hotmail DOT com with: * your postal addie * the first name of the person for whom you'd like the book to be personally autographed (you or a friend?) *

12 Days of Christmas, Briefly Interrupted...

2011-12-18T12:09:00.000-08:00

Thank you everyone for commenting and for sharing your memories! They were all fascinating. The randomly-selected winner is Ambur of http://burningximpossiblyxbright.blogspot.com/. Congratulations!<!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style

12 Days of Christmas continued....

2011-12-16T02:34:00.000-08:00

A dream can come true when you put your heart into it. ~Walt DisneyThe WINNER of the Quantum Enchantment Giveaway is Bonnie (not because she was first in but because of Marshmallow Marsh!)Thank you everyone for joining in and bringing such wonderful memories and experiences! Keep checking back as we continue to giveaway books right up until the grand prize at the end. All can enter! Blessings :)

12 Days of Christmas continued....

2011-12-15T08:50:00.000-08:00

WINNER HAS BEEN DRAWN! CONGRATS TO THE YEARNING MERMAID. Please contact us at sablegrace (at) ymail (dot com) and we'll get a signed copy of Ascension out to you. We're continuing the Christmas Memory theme for the 12 Days of Christmas giveaway with a little memory from both halves of Sable Grace. Heather: My earliest Christmas memory set the stage for most of the

12 Days of Christmas Giveaways!

2011-12-14T04:08:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to MamaMasseyWVU, who's won a signed copy of SILENT NIGHT, HAUNTED NIGHT! Mama, please send your mailing address to TerriGarey@gmail.com, and I'll put your book in the mail! Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by and shared your Christmas memories ! Only 12 more days until Christmas! While we here in the Underground can offer no swans a-swimming, no lords a-leaping, no gold

Merry Christmas From Hell.......

2011-12-09T02:22:00.001-08:00

Happy Friday all! It's been a bit of a crazy week for me with tons of stuff to get done over the next few weeks and Christmas is days away! Holy heck, when did that happen? I've been writing like a mad woman, trying to finish up the 2nd book in my new series, League of Guardians. KING OF THE DAMNED has been a ton of fun, but already I'm looking forward to the next one! That is the addiction

8 for 8 - The Eight Days of a Supernatural Christmas

2011-12-08T08:13:00.000-08:00

*Clears throat* *Sings to the melody of the 12 days of Christmas* On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...a sparkly vampire high in a tree.On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me...2 wolves in shorts, and a sparkly vampire high in a tree.On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me...3 angelic demons, 2 wolves in shorts, and a sparkly vampire high in a