Book Newsy Stuff, Excerpts and More!

• Over on her blog, Ilona Andrews has posted part of chapter one from Gunmetal Magic.  I lurv the Kate Daniels series and am really looking forward to Andrea's story. ETA: Here is the second part of chapter one.

• Jennifer Estep has just sold three more books in her Elemental Assassin series.  No info on release dates yet but there will be at least 10 books in the series.  I'm not sure how I feel about this news.  I like this series very much so more books should be a good thing but I am also getting tired of series that run their course and yet, still don't end.  At some point, this reader needs closure.

• Speaking of series that don't deliver on closure, Harper Voyager has published the first four chapters of Kim Harrison's 10th entry into the Hollows series, A Perfect Blood, online.  You can read them here:  One, Two, Three, Four.  Chapter five is also supposed to be posted but all the links I try don't seem to work.  

• L.J. Smith, author of the popular series the Vampire Diaries, has been fired by HarperTeen/Alloy.  Smith was hired back in 1990 to write the series for Alloy but doesn't actually own the rights.  The television series will not be effected  by the change.

• Alison Pang has an excerpt up from A Sliver of Shadow, the second book in her Abby Sinclair series.

• Angelfall, the fabulous ebook by Susan Ee, is now available for purchase in print.  You can find it here at Createspace or over at Amazon.

• One of things that impressed me about Angelfall was how well this self-published book was edited.  My (limited) experience with ebooks is that they are often riddled with typos, no matter who the publisher is. Kirkus Editorial has developed a book editing division for self-published and unpublished authors to help alleviate this problem and strengthen manuscripts before they are submitted to publishers.

Review: Angelfall by Susan Ee

I first heard about this book when I was tooling around on Goodreads.  Several people I follow posted excellent reviews of Angelfall (reviewers I consider pretty tough so when they speak highly of a book, I take notice.), and although I'm not much of an ebook reader, I decided to check it out, especially when I saw that Amazon had it listed for 99 cents.  I figured, what's the worst that could happen?  I spend a dollar on something I don't like?  Big whup.  Well, it turns out, it was money well spent.  There's a lot of bang for your buck here.

Angelfall by Susan Ee
Penryn & the End of Days, #1
ASIN B00522V6DQ
Published May 21st 2011 by Feral Dream
Grade: A
Blurb:  It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.
Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.
Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl.
Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco where she'll risk everything to rescue her sister and he'll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.