Winners!!

Without further ado, the winner of Fallen by Traci L. Slatton is...

Vickie, who commented:

I love Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, starting to dig on Grimm. I like Sanctuary, love Eureka, Warehouse 13, Haven, and Alphas.

Congrats! Please email me with your mailing information so that I may forward it along to the publisher.

**Also, I am still waiting to hear from the Blood Eternal winner. ML, if your out there, please email me with your mailing information! If I don't hear from you soon another name will be chosen.

Guest post and Contest with Traci L. Slatton

Let's all show some love for author Traci L. Slatton, who is here today to talk about her favorite paranormal shows. I love her choices and have very fond memories of watching X files each week, starved for the truth that I was so sure would be revealed and never really was. I didn't care much for the movies but I attribute that to my overly high expectations at the time. The show was the first television show that I remember talking about with friends, testing theories and plotting possibilities. And Mulder was so hot!

My current favs are Bedlam, Supernatural and Dr. Who. What about you? Leave a comment and you could win a copy of Fallen! This contest is open to US/Canada only. The winner will be chosen at random next week. Good Luck!






My Favorite Paranormal TV Show
By Traci L. Slatton,
Author of Fallen

This question posed a dilemma: do I choose The venerable X Files, because of Fox Mulder's dry, noble passion for the truth, so beautifully counterbalanced by Dr. Scully's crystalline, analytical braininess? Or do I vote for Torchwood, charmed as I was by Captain Jack's lusciousness, and the wacky humor that often made me giggle through my shivers of fear?

Unforgettable images abound in The X Files: remember the slimy fluke man, with his gaping, fanged mouth? Those remorseless, unslaked, sucking prongs still show up in my nightmares. And Eugene Tooms, slithering through the narrowest openings to feast on human livers. But then there's the pterodactyl flying around the Torchwood hub, and the malignant weevils slipping through the rift to torment the citizens of Earth. The episode "Immortal Sins" featured a brain parasite that caused insanity and intended to make Nazi Germany victorious.

In terms of setting, there's the question of Cardiff vs. Vancouver, which I personally think is six of one and half-dozen of another. Neither of those shows depended on place so much as they did on inventiveness, originality, spookiness--and well-drawn characters. In The X Files, Mulder had his heart-rending back story: the abducted sister, his guilt, his anguish over his parents' possible complicity, and his determination and frustration. Scully wrestled with the evidence her own eyes kept showing her, evidence that repeatedly contradicted the scientific paradigm that stood at the heart of her life mission. And how was she to integrate her own abduction by extraterrestrials? In Torchwood, Captain Jack was immortal, warm-hearted, dutiful, and pan-sexual. He fell in love easily but lost his paramours. Police constable Gwen Cooper agonized over what and how much to tell her fiance. She is humane and grounded, leading the life of an ordinary house-holder while fiercely battling the supernatural elements that attack our very existence. She leads a double life, and it takes its toll.

Alas, I shall have to ramble along both roads at once, and name two favorite paranormal shows.

Author Bio

Traci L. Slatton, author of Fallen, is a graduate of Yale and Columbia, and she also attended the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, sculptor Sabin Howard, whose classical figures and love for Renaissance Italy inspired her historical novel Immortal and her contemporary vampire art history mystery The Botticelli Affair. Fallen is the first in a romantic trilogy set during the end times.

For more information please visit http://www.tracilslatton.com and follow the author on Facebook and Twitter

Review: Fallen by Traci L. Slatton

Book Description:

When the world ends, all that is left is love....
As chaos descends on a crippled Earth, survivors are tormented by strange psychic gifts. In this time of apocalyptic despair, love is put to the test. One woman with mysterious healing power guides seven children to safety. Charismatic Arthur offers her a haven. Slowly Emma falls for him. But at the moment of their sweetest love, his devastating secret is revealed, and they are lost to each other. Will Emma stay with him?
The first in a romantic trilogy set during the end times.

Review:

The world we know is no longer here. A strange mist has been traveling around the world killing people or making them out of their mind.  People who are left are either trying to hurt each other or trying to find safety in numbers and care for each other.  Emma is trying to survive with her own daughter and seven other children that she has found parentless, or all alone.   She knows how to stay safe from the mists but is unable to stop them if they get into her companions. She has made a vow that if anyone is attacked by the mists she will just kill them because she does not want them to suffer.   Emma is looking for a place to keep herself and her children safe when she meets Arthur. They strike a deal, he will take her and the children to his camp and offer them safety in exchange for Emma being his and offering him whatever he asks. She takes the deal and they are off.  While living in camp, Emma feels like she is part of the group and feels safer, she also feels that there is something about Arthur that she cannot trust. As she falls for him, complications arise that will test their relationship, she holds a secret and so does he.  Will they find a way to stop the mists, and be together or will they be torn apart?

                This was an interesting book.  I never knew what was going to happen from one chapter to the next. The whole time reading I kept thinking I had it figured out and then something would change.  I liked how the relationships among the survivors were played out. They were all trying to keep themselves safe as well as work somewhat together to continue the human race. There was one group camp of people that was only women because they did not trust the men in the world that were left, while until Emma and the children arrived Arthurs camp was just men.  It made me think about what would really happen if this story became true. Would people work together or would we naturally segregate ourselves into groups to feel safe.  There were also some unexpected secrets on the part of the two main characters that really threw me for a loop and made the book that much better. I really think that this book would be best for high school age and older readers, it deals with mature topics that are best suited for the more world experienced reader.  All in all this is a great read!!

Author website:

http://www.tracilslatton.com/index.htm

*Reviewed by Jenny O. for Bite Club