Two more reviews to share from BookLoons and Flamingnet — a great site that is ‘Young Adult Books Reviewed by Young Adult Reviewers’.  Now, I’ll admit I was surprised by the book receiving a review as YA since my books aren’t YA, even though I think older teens would enjoy them. This young reviewer disliked the sex scenes and I can totally understand that!

Pocket has a new website up featuring Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance authors called Pocket After Dark.

It’s an online community of urban fantasy and romance readers, where top authors share exiting new content and interact with fans. Check here regularly for free books, live chats, exclusive blogs, photos, video and more! So belly up to the bar at Pocket After Dark.

This month you can win a copy of Kresley Cole’s A Hunger Like No Other (only 27 more days to win a copy) or my In the Blood (only 10 days left to win a copy)!

I’ll be attending the 2010 Northwest Author Fair in Lincoln City, OR August 21st and signing books from noon to 3PM.

Some of the other authors attending this fun event on the Oregon coast are: Kristine Kathryn Rusch (SF, mysteries, fantasy, romance), Dean Wesley Smith (SF, mysteries), Patricia McKillip (two-time World Fantasy Award winner), Jane Kirkpatrick (inspirational fiction and more), Daniel Wilson (science and humor), Mary Rosenblum (AKA Mary Freeman, sci-fi and mysteries), Nina Kiriki Hoffman (fantasy and YA fantasy), Diana Zimmerman (fairy fantasy), Ron Lansing (OR history), George Wright (historical OR fiction), Ron Lovell (OR mysteries), Heather Vogel Frederick (YA fiction), Jeanne Matthews (mysteries) Ann Littlewood (zoo mysteries), with more to be announced.

For more information, visit Bob’sbeachbooks.net.

Discussions about the book are taking place at several different sites. You can join in the discussion at Bitten by Books in the weekly book group (going through this weekend for BDM). I’ll be answering any questions y’all might have about the story and so will the characters.

You can also join in the fun at BN.com’s Paranormal & Urban Fantasy book club.

Or drop by the Club Hell Forum and visit the Black Dust Mambo thread and chat away.

Hey all! Comic Con is almost upon us! My official schedule is fairly light – which leaves me more time for writing and for looking around.

Thursday, July 22:  3:00-4:00 “Kiss Them or Kill Them? Conflict Management for the Creatures Among Us.”   Room 25ABC. Urban fantasy authors discuss when to kill the monster, date the monster . . . or both and in that order.  A signing follows right after in the Convention’s Autograph Area upstairs under the sails. I’ll be at table AA2 signing from 4:00-5:00.

Friday, July 23: Signing at the Mysterious Galaxy Booth at 5:00

Saturday, July 24: I have a signing at the Borders store in Riverside from noon until 3:00.  The address is 3615 Riverside Plaza Drive, Riverside, CA 92507

Hope to see you there!

I had a great chat with Matt and Shannon of Seattle Geekly.com as they put together a podcast featuring female authors including Marjorie M. Liu, Jessica Slade, Mira Grant, Seanan McGuire, Jennifer Brozek, and myself. Take a listen . . .

Couchemar by C.C. Adcock

I’m very excited about BLACK DUST MAMBO being a July featured read in BN.com’s Paranormal & Urban Fantasy book club.  Feel free to drop by and post your comments or ask a question. Membership is free and there are a ton of good books and reading recommendations in the book club.

Also, please check out Paul Goat Allen’s (book club moderator and reviewer) incredible review of BLACK DUST MAMBO and my career (thus far)!

Here’s the opening: “Even after almost 20 years as a genre fiction book reviewer, I’m still surprised—shocked—by how many mediocre writers hit it big while other singularly brilliant novelists wallow in obscurity. For example, in urban fantasy the most underrated writer is unarguably Adrian Phoenix, author of one of the coolest, thematically deepest, and most wildly entertaining series ever written in the genre: The Maker’s Song (A Rush of Wings, In the Blood, Beneath the Skin, and the forthcoming Etched in Bone), which features vampire goth rock star Dante Baptiste and former FBI special agent Heather Wallace.”

Read the rest.

Join me at Bitten by Books to help me celebrate the release and win a signed copy!

Join me for another fun interview and giveaway on All Things Urban Fantasy. Here’s what we’re giving away:

3 signed copies of BLACK DUST MAMBO, a bottle of hoodoo attraction oil & a handmade hoodoo mojo bag for love or protection or success, and a complete set of signed The Maker’s Song books (A Rush of Wings, In the Blood, and Beneath the Skin).

Join me on Patricia’s Vampire Notes for an interview about hoodoo and nomads. We’ll be giving away a signed copy of Black Dust Mambo along with a bottle of attraction oil and a mojo bag.

Here’s a taste of the interview:

PVN: How did you find the native voices for your characters and then turn them into the written word?

AP: Listening to people talk, picking up cadences from character speech in movies and on TV. Often when I’m writing, I’ll speak the dialog to get the rhythm right and to make sure it’s the way people would actually speak it. Meaning – proper grammar is a no-no. Most of us don’t use it in our conversations with friends and family. At least, I don’t. (I do for professional contacts and conversations, however.)

PVN: How does Hoodoo differ from Voodoo?

AP: The main difference is that Voodoo is a religion, with priestesses (mambos), priests (houngans) and devoted practitioners who participate in ceremonies to summon the loa (natural spirits and those of the dead), while Hoodoo is a system of folk magic following the same belief system as Voodoo, including the same gods/loas/saints.

Read the rest and enter the contest here . . .