A couple of interesting Chicago tidbits this week: The Explosive Life and Death of the World’s First Ferris Wheel: Gawker explores the history of the world’s first ferris wheel, built in Chicago for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition. The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln: Smithsonian Magazine explores a previous, unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Abraham Lincoln,[…]
In my review last week of “best of” lists in 2012/2013 that included the Chicagoland Vampires, I missed one! My apologies to Vampire Book Club, who included Ethan in their Top 10 Swooth-Worthy Heroes of 2012 list! Thanks for including Ethan, ladies! And if I missed any other lists in my previous post, please let[…]
I’ve added a Chicago Bibliography to the Extras section of the site. It provides a list of fiction and nonfiction books that I’ve collected as I’ve researched Chicago for the Chicagoland Vampires and Dark Elite series. You can take a look at the Chicago bibliography here.
HOUSE RULES, the seventh book in the Chicagoland Vampires series, will be released in February 2013. In a city full of vampires, trouble never sleeps. At the tender age of 27, Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Since then, she’s become the protector of her House, watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground, and seen her Master fall[…]