Hello cowboys & vampires!

This is a guest post we wrote for Kacey’s Konnections

WARNING:  THIS POST IS HOT AND SEXY. DON’T READ ANYMORE IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY SUCH MATERIAL; HEAD OVER TO THE SQUEAKY CLEAN “ASK A COWBOY” INSTEAD!

Vampires are known for their insatiable sexual appetites and prowess, and for good reason. First, they are skilled lovers; it comes courtesy of centuries of practice (they can be selfish, though). Second, they are gloriously open to any and all sexual possibilities, unconcerned with gender, familiarity or even the number of partners involved. Third, at least for humans, they mix sexual pleasure with blood loss.  Read more >>продвижение сайта

We talk often about how the love between Tucker and Lizzie is a central theme in The Cowboy and Vampire Thriller Series. When people ask us to summarize the books, we usually say “a love story” – a funny, gothic, page-turning, apocalyptic, adventurous love story with a redneck western slant, but a love story nevertheless. Between a cowboy (Tucker) and a vampire (Lizzie). But in Blood and Whiskey, there’s another love story that can stand on its own. The love story between Elita and Virote. Elita is a beautiful, bored and bitchy vampire who revels in being evil. Virote is a human under the protection of – and in service to – Rurik, a senior vampire. Virote falls head over heels in love with Elita the moment she sees her. To her own surprise, even chagrin, Elita is eventually transported by Virote’s unconditional ardor and naive charm.  We were pleased when a recent reviewer commented on the love (lust?) between Virote and Elita. They are among our favorite characters. Read more about this hot couple at the book blog Reading Lark After Dark.seo продвижение стоимость

Dear Cowboy,

I’m a sailor and city girl, and I happened to find myself head over heels for a real cowboy: Hard-working, full of integrity, covered in muscles, and sweat. We rode tractor together, cooked dinner, rode the ridge-line and when he wrapped his arms around me I felt safe and inspired. We sat under the stars and worked out how to fix the irrigation.  He recently told me that he thinks our life interests are too different to ever make it work, and that he doesn’t feel like his heart is going to bust out of his spleen for me. I think politics don’t matter, butterflies (or lack of) do. I have two questions for you:

1. It seems that in our cross-cultural relationship there were some things lost in translation. How do I make sure in the future that I don’t misinterpret nice and kind for love?

2. How do I deal with this aching heart?

Signed, “Used to be a Hon”

Read the Cowboy’s answer here >> aracer.mobi

A message from Clark and Kathleen: Hi everyone, we’ve been all over the place lately, responding to interview requests and guest blogging. It’s been a blast. Book bloggers play an increasingly important role in the rapidly changing publishing world. As print book reviews continue to shrink in number, and those struggling to survive largely focus on the books coming from the corporate “big 6” publishing factories — options for readers to discover  new literary talent gets harder.  Book bloggers fill that role. Without them, the rise of indie publishing and small presses would be impossible. So all hail book bloggers! WIth a few exceptions, bloggers are smart, savvy and literary — and are conquering the literary world out of love of words. That’s pretty damn cool. We like them just about as much as we like librarians (and readers, of course)! Here a two recent interviews we did with very cool bloggers. The first is with She-Wolf Reads and the second is with Jess Resides Here. Enjoy!сайт

Blood and Whiskey opens with Rose Bauer, a young runaway living on the streets of Portland, Oregon, making a terrified phone call to her Uncle Lenny in LonePine, Wyoming, begging him to come get her. Then she disappears. Lenny is a true-blue survivalist with shadowy former ties to the military. He’s an eccentric, brilliant weapon’s expert, a conspiracy theorist and Tucker’s best friend. The search for Rose leads Tucker and Lenny on a wild journey across the west and when they discover who is behind her kidnapping, their worst fears are realized.

Here is a BLOOD AND WHISKEY EXTRA: a post-apocolyptic  interview with Rose by an unknown reporter from The LonePine Gazetteer. Enjoy! (The post first appeared in Butterfly-o-Meter Books).

Why did you run away? 
Have you ever looked at LonePine? I mean, it’s beautiful and all, the mountains, the rivers, but it’s boring. There’s nothing here for me to do, no job. At least nothing fun. Clerk at the Gas n’ Get. Bartender to a bunch of drunk cowboys. Maybe a schoolteacher, but only after Mrs. Sopolksy dies and that’ll be awhile. So I ran. I bolted. And I didn’t think too hard about where I would land. That was a mistake. L.A. is a mean city. I did some bad things there. Portland was a little nicer, but only until the other cowboy assholes showed up.

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