The Saint City Street Fair

One of my new Favourite Authors, Lilith Saintcrow, has set up a message board for her fans. The Saint City Street Fair is the place to go to discuss all her books. I devoured her Watcher series in less than a week and am eagerly awaiting the release of "Cloud Watcher" the 4th book which is due out in the fall. I just finished "Working for the Devil" and will be getting book 2 in the Danny Valentine Series "Dead Man Rising" just as soon as I see it in a store. Oh ya, and I just finished reading book 1 of The Society Series and dove right into book 2 "Hunter, Healer."

I only discovered Lilith about 3 months ago and am totally won over! If you enjoy your books a little (or a lot) on the Dark Side, check her out! Did I mention you have a chance to win a book too? If you are one of the first 100 people to post in the "Top Secret Contest" thread on the "Welcome" board of The Saint City Street Fair you could be the proud owner of your very own *signed* copy of "Dead Man Rising." But don't get your hopes up too much, I'm gunna win. ;)

the Big Meow

I just finished reading the first chapter of The Big Meow. It is a subscription story which provides Book 3 of the Feline Wizardry series by Diane Duane. the Feline Wizardry series is a spin off of the Young Wizard series, before there was Harry Potter, there were Young Wizards! Great books, you must read them, so say I. :)

I sooo enjoyed this first chapter! I recently read the first 2 books so I was very excited when I found out that DD was going to finally get a chance to write Book 3. I was brought right back into the Feline Wizardry universe and felt at home again. My only wish was that the chapter was longer because I hated to see it end. I now have to wait a whole month for the next chapter! There are going to be 10 chapters in all. I wish there were more planned but 10 chapters is better than no chapters. OK enough gushing, back to work for me. Everyone go to the Big Meow website and sign up for your own copy of the chapter!

If you like Harry Potter...

You will want to check out Psychic Serpent by Barb! This is a great series of novel length Harry Potter FanFic which covers years 5-7 at Hogwarts and a prequel. Four books set in the wonderfully rich Harry Potter world. Barb has done a great job blending her view of how Harry and his friends should develope with the world that was created by JK Rowling. These are must reads if you are in any way interested in HP FanFic. Find these stories and more at Barb's yahoo group Psychic_Serpent.

I have read the first 2 books and am working my way through the third. I can't put them down and have stayed up late more nights than I care to mention reading them. I even created Mobipocket versions of them all so that I could read them on my iPAQ! Of course I put those files up on Barb's Psychic_Serpent2 site so that everyone can access them too. It just blows me away that someone could/would take the time to create these stories knowing they get nothing back but the appreciation of thier fans. Barb certainly has my appreciation, she has brough hours and hours of enjoyable reading into my life.

They certainly came in handy the last few days when all I have felt like doing is reading. Being sick isn't fun, but stories like this that can take you out of your own world for a little while make it easier to bare.