Last Chance to Win!

You have one more chance to win!

Tomorrow I will randomly select winners from previous polls and

Prizes include:

Two "Vampire Boyfriends" from Velvet Brown Studio

A Coffin Ring and Slit-throat Choker from Tiana Rutledge
and a copy of Happy Hour at Casa Dracula from Marta Acosta at Vampire Wire

Happy Halloween Eve!

To enter, leave me a message telling me why you find vampires so attractive

Be sure to enter here to win a copy of Michelle Hauf's new book as well!

Haunts Around Town

First, I will say that I am super excited that I won Blood Ties: Season Two from Vampire Wire.

Speaking of Vampire Wire, Marta Acosta interviewed one of my favorites: Jennifer Rardin.
Jennifer Rardin just released Bite Marks - Book 6 of the Jaz Parks Series.

This weekend many of you wanted more vampire myth! And it just so happens, some of my guest bloggers have been digging into non-fiction vampire books.
Visit Magia Posthuma to read about what books he bought will traveling Europe:

I bought a couple of books while in London. One of them being Theresa Cheung's voluminous The Element Encyclopedia of Vampires: An A-Z of the Undead (Harper Element, 2009) 'dedicated to the memory of Montague Summers'.

Diary of an Amateur Vampirologist has been adding a handful of books on his wishlist that might interest you too!

...some books on Amazon that I've got my eye on.

Last night, a few more captured my attention.

It looks like Paul Barber's coming out with a new edition of one of the best ever books on vampires, Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality (1988). At least, I hope it's a new edition. The item's description only alludes to a "New Introduction".

Be sure to tune in Tuesday for Suburban Vampire guest blog!

Enter to Win Friday - Take 2!

We have a lot of great prizes to win this month!

Here are some of our prize contributers:

Tiana Rutledge

Cute & Creepy

Velvet Brown Studio

Vampire Wire

Genella deGrey

Michelle Hauf

Nicole Hadaway

So to enter to win in the big giveway on October 31st leave a comment answering the following question:

What vampire scares you the most?

this can be from any movie, TV Show, book, etc.

I will be accepting entries until 11:59PM Sunday night (Pacific Time)

Enter to Win Friday

We have a lot of great prizes to win this month!

Here are some of our prize contributers:

Tiana Rutledge

Cute & Creepy

Velvet Brown Studio

Vampire Wire

Genella deGrey

Michelle Hauf

Nicole Hadaway

So to enter to win in the big giveway on October 31st leave a comment answering the following question:

What is your favorite vampire movie?

There are also some other contests going on:

SciFiGuy is giving away copies of Nicole Hadaway's EBook

Marta at Vampire Wire is giving away copies of Blood Ties Season 2

Suburban Vamp is giving away copies of Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer

I will be accepting entries until 11:59PM Sunday night (Pacific Time)

Day 1 - Welcome to the 31 Days of Halloween!

Welcome Ghouls and Gals to my first ever 31 Days of Halloween!

I am excited to have some blogger favorites, as well as new and upcoming authors guest for the event.

There are also lots of goodies to be won! Fridays will feature a poll with your chance to win books and goodies - and you have four Fridays to enter - that's 4 chances to win! Earn another chance to win when you become a subscriber to my blog!

This month is all about vampires and Halloween! So stay tuned for what each day will bring!

31 Days of Halloween

Gearing up for 31 Days of Halloween!

If anyone is interested in participating - either link shout-outs, guest blogging, short stories, anything, email me at bookswithabite (at) gmail (dot) com.

Make a Video and You Could Win Vampire Goodies!

As the fall season approaches, the mortals over at TI Beverage Group, LTD., holding company of Vampire Vineyards®, Vampyre Vodka® and VAMP NRG® Drink, are hard at work as they gear up to launch the revamped Vampire.com website, scheduled to come out of the coffin on August 31,2009. In celebration of this most eternal occasion, TI BEV is giving away over $1200 in Vampire® prizes to the most wildly wicked video entries submitted in their Viral Video Contest.

To enter, fans simply upload their Vampire® videos to Youtube.com and tag them with the label “Vampire.com”. The top prize is worth over $600 and includes a seductively indulgent package of Vampire® Wines, Chocolates, and Coffees. Full details of the Vampire® Viral Video Contest can be found at www.vampireviralvideo.com.

WINNERS of the Tanya Huff Blood Ties Give-away

And the randomly selected winners (using random.org) for Blood Ties goes to...

Dottie

Mishia

and

Alexa

Don't forget to email me your contact info!

Congrats! I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did!

Blood Ties TV Series Review Episodes 1-8

Since I don’t have cable we finally broke down and got Netflix – which I am kind of excited about that fact that you can stream videos and TV shows from your computer as part of the package. But this isn’t a Netflix promotion; I only mention it because I received the first two disks of Blood Ties in the mail yesterday.

As mentioned before, I have read the Tanya Huff Blood series and enjoyed the books. I was glad to hear that the first season of Blood Ties had come to DVD on the second of this month. We watched both discs last night (8 episodes) and I would say it was pretty good.

My 21 year old brother, husband, and myself stayed up past our bedtimes last night to finish the discs that we had (thank goodness we didn’t have the 3rd of 4th disc or we would be quite tired this morning). We all enjoyed the episodes and didn’t want to stop the series to go to bed.

The first two episodes, appropriately titled “Blood Ties Part 1” and “Blood Ties Part 2” follow the first book – also named Blood Ties pretty accurately; there are some details a bit different (like how Henry is a graphic novel author and not a romance author as in the book) but overall it was pretty exact. I think that because the show debuted on Lifetime it toned down the book sex because there was really no sex in the TV series (unlike the book, where it is pretty modest, but still present), which can be a breath of fresh air to the overdone and sexed up HBO vampire show.

Unfortunately, only episode 1 and 2 were from the book. All the other episodes are non-book inspired – but entertaining none the less. I did have Henry pictured a bit different in my mind and all of us agreed that Celluci is too annoying, but we thought the series was overall pretty good and pretty funny too.

Don't forget to enter to win Blood Ties the first book in the Blood series!

True Blood - Season 2 Episode 1 - No Longer Following the Sookie Books

OK, so after watching the second season premier of True Blood, it might be much easier to list the things that were similar in book 2 that appeared in the TV show versus what WASN’T the same. Pretty much everything in the episode had nothing to do with book two; which was extremely disappointing – especially the whole Lafayette debacle. How the heck are they going to work that one out?

I am becoming more and more disappointed in the show. I really need to work on separating in my mind the book and the TV show because they are so different, especially leading into season 2.

Beware of spoilers if you haven’t read Living Dead in Dallas but here are some differences between book and show:

· Lafayette is dead in Andy’s car – not the phony exorcist that never even existed to begin with.
· Mary Ann does not exist in the capacity she does on the show – she makes a couple brief appearances but not in the form of “Mary Ann” and she certainly does not have some rich demented half-way house – nor does Tara even meet her – except at the end LDID.
· Because Bill never killed Long Shadow to begin with (ERIC DID), he certainly did not have to make a young and annoying vampire – who also doesn’t exist… at all.
· Sookie’s uncle died “falling down the stairs” I’m pretty sure she found out about this in book one though, and both her and her brother received and inheritance.
· Jason never comes close to joining Fellowship of the sun.
· Sam had a happy childhood and was never abandoned or resorted to stealing and "Mary Ann" certainly didn’t take his virginity.
· Because Lafayette dies in the beginning on book 2 he is never tortured by Eric
· Eric does not need to highlight his hair

I will be very upset if Eric doesn’t attend an orgy with Sookie and if he doesn’t take care of her when she gets hurt in Texas. At least episode was more entertaining than last season.

Any one else have any thoughts/complaints?

And don' forget to enter to win Tanya Huff's Blood Ties!

Blood Ties Book Giveaway

I am a fan of Tanya Huff's Blood series - I read them towards the beginning of my Books with a Bite Book List. The books are about Vickie Nelson, once cop, now private detective who ends up solving paranormal crimes with the help of a steamy vampire.

Blood Ties also was turned into a TV show on lifetime and now with a renewed interest in all things vampire, and after many pleas, wishes, and requests from fans, Blood Ties was released on DVD June 2nd – which I am very excited about. I can’t wait to watch them – I’ve been waiting!

To view the official Blood Ties Site to read about the plot, characters, and cast and some other fun stuff, click here.


I am also jumping on the bandwagon and I have a few copies of Blood Ties the first book of the Blood Series to giveaway– comment or email me the name of your favorite character is any vampire genre – books, movies, TV. Winners will be randomly selected on June 30th.

Bear with me while I sort through issues with my new (and not improved) firewall.

To watch the trailor and other Blood Ties videos, click HERE.

Winner!

with the help of a random number picker. And number 3 happens to be LORI!


Thanks for everyone who participated and congrats to Lori!

Interview on Wednesday with Jaz Parks Auther Jennifer Rardin and Enter to Win!

Wednesday we will be having a special interview with Jennifer Rardin, author of the kick-butt Jaz Parks series!

So make sure to check back in Wednesday! Also... if you are someone you know is a fan of vampire fiction the Jaz Parks books are great, plus number 5 is coming out January 5th!


Plus.... don't forget to Enter to win free jewelry and vampire goodies from Lulu McCleary!

Contest to Celebrate 100th Post (and because it's almost Christmas)

So in the spirit of Christmas and my 100th blog post... Free Stuff!

Enter to win unique jewelry and other special goodies from Lulu McCleary



Maybe something from the online store, or maybe something specially made, plus extra vampire treats!

Perfect for a gift for yourself or a friend!

To enter:
Leave a note or email me what's something you like about this blog or something you would like to see on here.
Deadline December 19th at 8:00am
Winners will be choosen at random

Goodluck!

Vote!

I didn't realize it, but Suburban Vampire has a poll for best vampire website on the side bar. Whether you vote for me (that would be nice) or not, go vote!

Contest Pictures

In case you were curious, Wicked was the winner of the book contest and here is what she received:

Stay tuned for more contests and news!

Contest Winner!

The winner of When Twilight Burns Book 4 Of the Gardella Vampire Chronicles by Colleen Gleason was randomly choosen.... and is.....

Erin! Congrats!

Contest Entries So far

Win When Twilight Burns Book 4 Of the Gardella Vampire Chronicles by Colleen Gleason. I also have a few more vampire goodies to add to the prize!

Comment me or email me either suggestions of vampire books I should read (that I have not read yet) or a song you think would belong on a vampire playlist.

Contest will end Monday, September 29th.

Here are a few entries so far:

Songs:
Rev 22:20 (Dry Martini Mix specifically) by Puscifer
The Root of All Evil by Abney Park
We Ate Eachother by The Robot Ate Me
Oh Oh Oh Sexy Vampire by Fright Ranger

If I was your vampire by Marilyn Manson

Books:
Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith
Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
Vampire Beach by Alex Duval
Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck by Christopher Moore
Otherworldlies by Jennifer Anne Kogler
City of Bones series by Cassandra Clare
I am Legend (the book, not the movie!!) by Richard Matheson
House of Night series by P.C. Kristen Cast
Peeps and the Last Days by Scott Westerfeld
Vampire High by Douglass Rees

Raven Hart's Savannah Vampire series. First one is The Vampire's Seduction

The Historian

Contest! Win Free Stuff!

Win When Twilight Burns Book 4 Of the Gardella Vampire Chronicles by Colleen Gleason. I also have a few more vampire goodies to add to the prize!

Comment me or email me either suggestions of vampire books I should read (that I have not read yet) or a song you think would belong on a vampire playlist.

Contest will end Monday, September 29th.

Good luck!