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So, Google alerts brought up a British urban fantasy author named Suzanne McLeod who's giving away region 2 DVDs (those are the UK ones and they don't play on this side of the poned) of Blood Ties in a contest she's running on her web page this week.
I haven't read either of her books (yet) so this isn't exactly an endorsement but I certainly appreciate a person who manages to do marketing for me while she's doing marketing for herself so this is the web page if you want to check it out.
She also has a link to Vampire Wire and their Ultimate Hawtest Vampire Poll -- recently won by a certain Henry Fitzroy.