Chimera

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...

We are planning to contact the BASILISK party attendees who won “door prizes” personally by email sometime next week. We will also announce it all here, but first, by email. Also, we are planning to reveal the DOUBLETAKE sneak preview to ALL who participated sometime next week. We’d originally intended on announcing it all this week, but… Misha & Cal decided to take their blog invasion to Rob’s house after their AAA meeting. WHEW. Need I say more? As if nursing a fluffernut-and-Three-Musketeers hangover from OUR party wasn’t enough to contend with. Hope you all had as much of a blast as we did! If you want to go back and look through ALL the entries, click here. Happy Friday! -Jayda

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...

Cal: He’d given me a bigger bratwurst, he wasn’t afraid of me, he actually was excited I was a monster. I’d almost grown not to loathe him…which for me is willing to die for someone. Now I changed my mind. “A waitress?” Misha repeated, looking at his bag full of C4 and my autograph as if suddenly the last one wasn’t as valuable as he thought. “Hold on there, sugar. I have proof. Miss Terrwyn always backs up her word.” She gave him a bit of a smile. I had a feeling it was something most ladies did—part of the genetic experimentation. You just wanted to like the kid. Even if he didn’t deserve it. Waitress. Like that had...

The first ever meeting of AAA Astoundingly Annoying Anonymous Misha: “You’re really a monster? I mean I definitely can detect the non-human, but monster? That is the shit. Did I use that right? ‘That is the shit’? I’m having a difficult time with that. Never mind. You’re a monster?” I eased my messenger bag to the floor, crouched beside it, opened it and dug out a pen and piece of paper. “Can I have your autograph?” Cal, I hoped it wasn’t short for Calvin—Calvin isn’t a good name for a monster, eyebrows lifted, mouth dropped open slightly, head shook lightly as if he couldn’t believe it. “You want my autograph? Most monsters piss at the sight of me and...

Cal: I hated him. I didn’t have a problem hating people younger than me. So he was nineteen at best. I hated him and right now I was hating Niko and Robin for drugging me and dumping me here. They kept on and on about interventions and meetings and blah blah. Then Goodfellow gave me a beer and I wake up handcuffed and worse. Then I try gating out of the restraints, which I hadn’t tried before, and end up gating out of everything, naked in front of some guy who was twirling a pair of Robin’s furry handcuffs around his finger and smiling and it damn sure wasn’t a sympathetic smile. It wasn’t a mean smile either, but…shit…more...

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