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Our house panther, Grizzy, lays in a languorous black pool in the heat. She loves being warm, so I’ve turned all the air conditioning off in my office, opened the windows, turned on some fans, and I’m letting her soak up the summer heat. It’s 84F outside, and I was raised without air conditioning so I can do it fairly comfortably today. But even if it had been over 90F today I would still have done it. Today the Kit-Kat, one of her many nicknames, can have anything she wants, and I mea...

Happy Spring Equinox and Blessed Ostara! Smolder, the latest Anita Blake novel comes out tomorrow! I can’t wait to share it with you all, but it’s extra special this year of 2023, because this is the 30th anniversary of the Anita Blake series. We’re starting the celebration with two events. March 21st St. Louis HiPointe theater live and in person with a virtual streaming of that both version require a ticket. It’s hosted by Left Bank books. Everyone’s been lovely and agreed to mask for me, I got...

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I’m so excited to share that I’ll be in person AND virtual with Left Bank Books for Smolder!

Tuesday, March 21, 7pm CT
In person at Hi-Pointe Theatre
1005 McCausland Ave
St. Louis, MO 63117

Masks ARE required for in person attendance

This is a ticketed event, follow the link below for details: https://www.left-bank.com/event/laure...

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I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be doing a virtual event with Barnes & Noble for Smolder!

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B&N Presents: Laurell K. Hamilton in conversation with William McCaskey
March 22 at 7:00pm ET
Barnes & Noble Virtual Event
Ticket required

Ticket link:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bn-virtually-presents-laurell-k-hamilton-discusses-smolder-tickets-524653953097

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Once when I still believed I’d get my doctorate in English literature, and write on school breaks, one of my favorite teachers had an epiphany in our upper level lit class.

 

One fine spring day, a literature prof named, Dr. Lalka declared that he would not read children’s literature to his soon to be born baby. He would read them only Literature, serious Literature like Shakespeare and Chaucer, Keats and Shelley. Children’s books he doubly declared, damaged a child’s brain and ruined ...

Each month we are going to be doing giveaways to help celebrate 30 years of Anita Blake!. Head over to the contest page to view what current contest is running.

EDIT: We are aware that there is an issue with the contest. We are working on getting it up and running.

EDIT 2: I’m pretty sure that I have got the contest fixed and running.

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Have you Pre-ordered Smolder, the next Anita Blake novel coming March 2023? If you have, please go to this form and fill it out to receive your own bookmark and holiday card from Anita and the Gang!

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[image error]What was your first bird of the year? The first bird you saw outside on New Year’s Day. Mine was cardinal for the second year in a row, but 2022 it was a single scarlet male the only color in a winter landscape full of snow. This year the day was gray looking more like late November here than December. Three female cardinals fluttered around the bird feeders their soft brownish tan bodies with the tips of faint red at crest, wing and tail blending into the dead leaves and bare trees so that only...

I’m so excited to share the beautiful cover and spoiler free cover copy of Smolder, the next Anita Blake novel with you!Hints and one reveal that starts on page one, so I’m not giving anything away.[image error] Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It’s part of her job as a Preternatural US Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn’t enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything—and everyone—she loves.Anita Blake is engaged to Jean-Clau...

[image error]When I was a little girl I saw a man walk on the moon. I still remember that grainy black and white film that showed Neil Armstrong taking that small step for man and giant leap for mankind. That was July 20, 1969. Men landing on the moon for the first time ever was one of the goals of NASA’s Apollo program.

Tomorrow morning, August 29, 2022 you have a chance to see the first launch in America’s second reach for the moon when the first of the Artemis missions sends an uncrewed spacecraft into th...