Welcome to Odd Shots
Come on in. Grab a drink. I’ll be your bartender for the evening. What’s your poison?
The Odd Shots isn’t one of those dark trendy bars, filled with melancholy writers staring broodily into their drinks. We don’t take ourselves that seriously and this is where we get tipsy and bar talk. We have no definite topic, which means one day you might get a bit of writing advice and the next you’ll see pictures of action figures making out. We may make you laugh, we may make you sad, we may ask for some cheese with our whine, but we won’t bore you.
So let me introduce everybody since this is opening day and it happens to be my shift.
Over there with a margarita is the unbelievable Meljean Brook. She leaps tall buildings in a single bound and writes superhot paranormal romances featuring angels, demons, and vampires and things they kill. There are rumors of a steampunk, but she won’t let me see it yet. I’ve been considering spiking her drink and going through her pockets to see if she has a manuscript stashed somewhere.
Next to her is Jill Myles with an amaretto sour. Jill specializes in paranormal romances with a dash of humor and a lot of hot sex. Her series features a succubus who is shy and shameless at the same time and who is stuck between a vampire and a nephilim. I’ll leave the exact mechanics of that to your imagination. Jill has a thing for taking perfectly normal fairy tales and turning them inside out. Check out her website at your own risk.
Over there sipping her apple martini is Nalini Singh. She hails from New Zealand and brings with her the fascinating world of psy and changelings and the sexy and violent adventures of archangels and immortals. Did you know her characters have telekinetic sex? One minute you’re reading Caressed by Ice and considering the ethical implications of robbing psychics of their emotions and the next, boom, telekinetic nookie.
The tall blonde with a mojito is Patrice Michelle. Patrice writes hot nocturnes set in the world of Scions and chronicles the love lives of Kendrian vampires. Patrice might just have the hottest Nocturne cover ever. The cover is tame compared to the book. Seriously. I have to wrap her stuff in one of those thermal foil lined bags to keep it from scorching the rest of the books on my shelf.
Finally there is me with my sangria. I write violent urban fantasies featuring a girl and a werelion and dabble in paranormal romances populated with country families and zombie grandpas named Cletus. At some point we were chatting, and Patrice was a bit late to the conversation. Jill tried to bring her up to speed by helpfully explaining that I was telling a story about glow in the dark dildos in a window of a sex toy shop. Patrice just shrugged and said, “That’s nothing. I’ve seen her drunk.” That pretty much sums me up right there.
So here we are. And we’ve got some door prizes for you.
Give away: a copy of MUST LOVE HELLHOUNDS
To enter, please leave a comment.
If you link to our site on Twitter or your blog and post proof of a link here in the comments, your entry will count as three chances to win instead of one.
Winner will be selected randomly. The deadline to enter is Sunday, 09/06.
181 people have bellied up to “Welcome to Odd Shots”
Congrats! This is an amazing host of authors
Ohhh… the five of you? TOGETHER???
Let the awesomeness begin!
Settling down to enjoy… scotch in hand-
Tracy
I’m so excited by this! Nalini Singh and Ilona Andrews are two of my favorite authors, so this is fantastic! And I’m looking forward to hearing from the other authors I’m not familiar with–after all, they keep great company
Looking forward to all the new posts! Congrats on the new site.
Love this post! I am putting ya’ll on my favorites cause I have a feeling that it is going to be a wild ride here!
Count me in, please. =]
What a great idea to run a website together. Looking forward to all your posts.
some of my favorite authors all in one place and even one I’ve not read yet lol. But I am working on it. Sounds like a happening place to be. Oh hell did that date me why yes it did rofl. I will add you to my blogroll and post about this on my blog and myspace too.
http://www.bookcrazyscrapbookmama.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/Pamk258
Love the intro!
Am looking forward to reading some of my fav authors under the one umbrella, or in this case is it under the one bar table?
This is a great group of authors and I can’t wait to see what fun stuff comes out of this blog!
What an excellent idea for a blog as well as for a carrot to get comments. I’m all about a copy of Hellhounds. Gimme! Gimme!
that is quite an introduction of the five of you…
Well, since up to now I only have the work of one of the five to keep me company and to entertain and…. and to need so much more on Kate Daniels… i guess I’ll have to check my account again and start ordering a bit from all the other goodies up there… (seriously, I’m a litle slow on the uptake of new series but when i do get started…. well… I won’t stop easily…)
Thanks and I’ll try to stop by for my usual red vodka with orange juice….
I look forward to the hilarity!
Five rockin’ authors on one site – what a wonderful idea! The intro was beyond funny, and I can hardly wait to read each new post.
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