Blog Tour : Spotlight & Giveaway : Alexis Hall – Shadows & Dreams

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Hello, and welcome to my second ever blog tour, celebrating Riptide Publishing’s release of Shadows & Dreams, the sequel to Iron & Velvet. Yay!

Thank you so much to Love Bytes Reviews for hosting me. And, to you, dear reader, for stopping by.

If you’d like to come with me and keep me company on my virtual wanderings, you can find a full listing of when and where I am.

There’s also some kind of contest type thing happening.  I had a bit of trouble choosing a prize for this one because most of the things Kate likes (booze, cigarettes, knives, women) are illegal to ship internationally. I thought about a fedora, but then I remembered people had differently shaped heads and there was no point sending somebody an item of clothing they wouldn’t be able to wear. So, basically, that leaves coffee and Bovril and nobody likes Bovril except people from the North East of England. I’m therefore going offer 250g of Jamaican Blue Mountain, the nicest coffee in the known universe, purchased from a wonderful speciality shop, ground or beaned to your specification. If you don’t like coffee, I’ll replace it with an equivalently lovely tea. I’ll also throw in a hard copy of Iron & Velvet (or the other thing I wrote) if that’s the sort of thing you’d like. I can even scribble stuff in it, thus reducing its re-sale value … or,  y’know, not do that. I’ll announce the winner a handful of days after the end of the tour.

About AJH

Alexis Hall was born in the early 1980s and still thinks the twenty-first century is the future. To this day, he feels cheated that he lived through a fin de siècle but inexplicably failed to drink a single glass of absinthe, dance with a single courtesan, or stay in a single garret. He can neither cook nor sing, but he can handle a seventeenth century smallsword, punts from the proper end, and knows how to hotwire a car. He lives in southeast England, with no cats and no children, and fully intends to keep it that way.

You can also find him all over the internet, on his website, Facebook, Twitter, BookLikes, and Goodreads.

ShadowsAndDreams_500x750About Shadows & Dreams

Second rule in this line of business: be careful who you kill.

My name’s Kate Kane. And right now, I don’t know which is more dangerous: my job, or my girlfriend. My job makes me the go-to girl for every supernatural mystery in London. My girlfriend’s an eight-hundred-year-old vampire prince. Honestly, I think it’s probably a tie.

A few weeks ago, I was hired for a simple missing person case. Next thing I know, I’m being arrested for murder, a vampire army is tearing up London, and even my dreams are out to get me. Something ancient, evil, and scary as hell is on the loose and looking for payback. The vampires are in chaos, the werewolves are culling everything, and the Witch Queen can’t protect everyone.

Which means it’s down to me. And all I’ve got to hold back the shadows is a stiff drink, a quirky sidekick, my creepy ex-boyfriend, and the woman who left me for a tech startup. It’s going to be another interesting day.

You can read an excerpt and, y’know, cough, buy the book, if you want, at Riptide Publishing.

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9 thoughts on “Blog Tour : Spotlight & Giveaway : Alexis Hall – Shadows & Dreams”

  1. Just have to say I love the humor that you infused into this blog entry. It was fun to read. I haven’t read the first book, still consider myself new to the genre, but it sounds very interesting. Good luck with the second book in the series.

    1. Thank you, that’s really kind.

      I’m a big fan of the paranormal genre in general and I think a lot of the book riffs on that (plus noir-esque themes) so … as ever … I guess it’s the sort of book you’ll like if it’s the sort of thing that you like 😉

  2. Well this book sounds interesting. If it’s as humour filled as the blog post it’s going to be a winner.

    1. Thank you 🙂 Kate Kane, the heroine of I&V and S&D, does have a slightly different style to me but hopefully if you find me amusing, you’d find her amusing too.

      I hope you enjoy it 🙂

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