... around a specific category or two. So if you're writing a novel-length work of urban fantasy or paranormal romance, this third contest is for you! HOW TO SUBMIT E-mail entries ... to these two subgenres specifically. While you can incorporate a variety of fantasy elements, they still have to fall under these two categories. For those of you who are unsure, keep in ...

Spiral Hunt, a new urban fantasy by Margaret Ronald This is a cool new world, set in an alternate Boston and starring Evie, who has a talent for finding things.  People call her the Hound, ... if you liked Nancy Holzner's Dead Town, Simon Greene's Nightside books, or other urban fantasy reads, you'll like this one. The sequel, Wild Hunt, is already available.

Kim Harrison blogged at Bitten By Books yesterday, talking about romance versus urban fantasy, the death of Kisten, and asking for reader thoughts on romance, how long it takes to heal, and more. Read her thoughts on this at Bitten By Books, then write your own comments. Send in your thoughts there by 11: ...

... I hope you guys will participate.  Here are the general rules: Timeline: January 2010 to December 2010 Goal: To read 15 debut urban fantasy novels in 2010 The reading challenge is open to everyone. You don’t need a blog to participate. If you don’t have a blog – you can leave a comment with your book selection ...

... (pictured, via her Twitter avatar) recently sold her urban fantasy novel, Shadow of the Incubus--along with two sequels to the book. ... caught up with Pang, getting some exclusive advice about pitching an urban fantasy novel (or any novel, for that matter). "The only real advice I ... be utilized." She continued: "Read other urban fantasy books to make sure your vision is as fresh ...

... of my writer friends today (::waves at the FictionAngels::) and thought I'd ask you guys too: In your opinion, what's the difference between Horror and Urban Fantasy? Here's my take on it: Horror stories scare the pants off you. It's plotted to inflict terror and suspense on the reader. Urban Fantasy uses paranormal elements (in my case Vampires) in a modern ...

Fond of urban fantasy? The All Things Urban Fantasy blog has put up a list of 117 different contests going on around the web right now. This is a ridiculous list, folks, and if you're keen on the paranormal, I'd wager you could find a contest or two to your liking pretty easily in that great huge list. For added convenience, they're listed according to deadline.

... ! Congrats to Anita Blake by Laurell K. Hamilton for winning Battle of the Urban Fantasy Heroines Poll! She won by ONE vote! It was a very ... her and Rachel Morgan! ***NOTE*** Next week’s poll is going to be a Battle of the Urban Fantasy Villains! Give us a list of which Villians you think should make the cut and would win in a fight against one another. The top TWO characters with the most ...

Am I missing anything? Any paranormal, supernatural, urban fantasy, dark fantasy or horror that I am missing? Please comment and let me know so I can update my list! These are book release ... the bookstore...hard. >:)       Need more science fiction and fantasy. Anyone know of anything coming out this month in those genres? My file that had that info has disappeared. Yes. I have ...

The book I'm seeking was published some time before 1985. It was a young adult urban fantasy. Protagonist was a male teen, who maybe had a minor character female side-kick love interest. Protagonist has these dreams or visions of two archetypical powers, one a firey knight in armor on a horseback, ...

... encounter between the main character Persephone and the goddess Hecate in HALLOWED CIRCLE, Persephone performs a ritual. Now, I know that in many urban fantasy novels, witches are witches because they either have/acquire inherent power or they have/acquire knowledge that gives them power. In my novels, that’s not untrue, but it’s more ...

... have a strong 'derivative' feeling to them. It seems that urban fantasy, for the most part, has to contain some sort of vampire or werewolf and, quite ... , but I'm looking for something new, different and not something that looks like something else rehashed. This problem is even more pronounced in epic fantasy were the barbarian hero can't swing a two-handed broadsword without ...

... just a complete lack of specificity to indicate what the book is about. Sometimes our only indication that a book is Fantasy is that it sits on that particular shelf (or has that particular categorization, when we're talking about websites). ... "real" images look "unreal," and Urban Fantasy uses it quite extensively to great effectiveness. I, myself, used stock photographs to ...

... wanted to design an introductory course on science fiction or fantasy (doing both at the same time would be impossible). Selecting texts, however, is always a problem ... Torturer by Gene Wolfe (a unique and powerful fantasy story worth reading and discussing) -- 1986 ... of movements and genres--New Weird, Young Adult Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, and others. It's inevitable, though. So, any thoughts?

... covers (mostly).  Instead, things started trending toward a lot more urban fantasy.  A number of covers also incorporated fairies, and media covers ... in the magazine.  This one deals with a daydream that so many of us might have had when we younger: what if there was a fantasy world we could go to?  Would you go?  Would you leave everything behind to enter a world that until ...