Rolling out the ALL SEEING EYE blood-spattered carpet for July, we thought a new “thrillers” site design was a good place to start… You like? -Jayda & Rob
Oops! My bad. I originally posted that the Goodreads Choice Awards ballots were open through Sunday, but I was wrong. So… while you’re back at work after Thanksgiving weekend and need something to procrastinate with, *mischievous giggles* head on over to GoodReads and cast your votes for BASILISK in Science Fiction. Today – Monday – IS the last day to vote for Rob Thurman in the 2011 GoodReads Choice Awards. So get it while it’s still hot, Reavers! Hope you all had a fantabulous turkey day! -Jayda
BASILISK has made it into the FINALS in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Go Misha, Go Misha! The number of books in each category has been cut down to only ten, so the competition is waaay tight this round and we have done GOOD, everyone. Seeing Rob Thurman right there with Stephen King in the finals makes me giddy all over again. This is the final-FINAL round now – your last chance to vote for Rob. Voting ends on Sunday, so get online real quick-like today or this weekend and vote for our beloved BASILISK right here. To all of our fellow American Reavers, Happy FangsGiving! To everyone else: Happy Almost-Weekend! xoxo, Jayda
Reaver Army, Thanks to you, Rob Thurman is still kicking ass and taking names in the Goodreads Choice Awards! BASILISK is now in the semi-final round for Best Science Fiction, and… and… are y’ready for this? You all were incredible in writing in your votes for Best Author because… guess what? Rob is now a nominee in the Best Author Category, too! Check her out on that sexy list along with Jim Butcher, Ilona Andrews, Richelle Mead and Cassandra Clarke. This is a huge deal, and I cannot thank you enough for writing her into a category that we all know she so deserved to be nominated in. Now then, once again, we need your votes to get Rob...
Okay Reavers, so… it looks like you can also write in your nominations and vote for who you write in. Well, as awesome as Rob treats her fans and after the brush-with-death she faced this year, I went ahead and wrote her in for Best AUTHOR, too. If you want the same, click here. You will need to write in Rob Thurman Basilisk and it will automatically pull up her name and the book for you. Hit submit and “boom,” there”s your write-in nomination. Thank you for indulging the resident Reaver Webmistress. -Jayda
Well Reaver Army, we did it! We heaped so much love on The Korsak Brothers, BASILISK has been nominated for a GoodReads Choice Award in the Science Fiction category. Gotta love seeing Misha staring back at us along with Stephen-frakking-King in those top nominees! But this is just the beginning. To get into the Semifinals, Rob Thurman, Misha, Stefan and Godzilla need your votes – and lots of ‘em, because the competition is stiff. We have until November 13th to get Rob and BASILISK into the semi-finals. So spread the word, get over to GoodReads and vote! And if you do vote, please Tweet about it with #GoodreadsChoice as the hashtag, include #RobThurman and @Rob_Thurman in your tweets. Please...
Reaver Army! Rob and I have chosen the BASILISK contest winners and wanted to share these entries with you in a re-cap post… you all made it SO. DIFFICULT. TO. CHOOSE. Soooooooooooo many amazing entries, you all really just blew our minds! We cannot thank you enough for all of the support you’ve shown BASILISK, for rallying behind the Korsak Brothers and for the outpouring of love and healing and care you displayed during quite possibly one of the most trying, difficult times an author could ever possibly imagine experiencing in a lifetime… In short: You are are IN-fucking-CREDIBLE! Finally, the super secret VIP excerpt of DOUBLETAKE has gone out as a newsletter this morning to all BASILISK Contest...
An excellent review of BASILISK has been posted at Bookshelf Bombshells as a follow-up to their CHIMERA review written in early August. …From the moment the brothers hit the road, the story takes off like a rocket. Like any good thriller, there are car chases, gun fights, hand-to-hand combat, abductions, and incendiary devices. Basilisk has a strong voice and maintains a constant tension, except for the rare occasions when the flawed heroes stop to catch a breath. Naturally, that’s when everything goes wrong. Misha must find ways to protect his all-too-human companions — his ferret seems to do fine on its own. It would be so much easier to be the killer he was trained to be, but maintaining his hard-won humanity...
Cal: “Time to get the hell out of here before I do shoot you,” I grumbled, dropped the purple stained apron to the floor, and grabbed my jacket. “I’m going home, apologizing to my brother, doing my and his laundry both and then I’m not leaving the apartment for six months. If it’s the only way to be sure I don’t end up half dying and then waitressing for a hundred days when I recover, then that’s what I’ll do.” Was the Misha guy worried? Of course not, the bastard. “I’ll be fine,” he dismissed. “Maybe I’ll build a personal force field, one that repels bullets, out-of-control trucks, and collapsing buildings. Any project that keeps me away from building...
Misha: Cal looked morose and guilt-stricken over causing his brother all that anguish. Fortunately, besides getting kidnapped at the age of seven…theoretically and it wouldn’t be my fault anyway no matter the theory or reality of it…I didn’t cause my brother any anguish. I dug a fluffernut sandwich out of my bag, a little squashed from the C4, and opened the plastic. “He does need some work, Miss Terrwyn. Between all the maiming, moping, and pretending to be a monster…” I shook my head and took a bite of the sandwich, chewed and swallowed. “Ruffles. He wore ruffles. And he has a pair of leopard spotted furry handcuffs. He’ll lie and say they belong to someone else, but who...
