Author Ambush with Cat Adams

Hello Literal Addicts and Book Monsters! LITERAL ADDICTION and Book Monster Reviews are very happy to welcome Cat Adams back to our sites today!

Cat Adams is the pseudonym for the dynamic duo of CT (Cie) Adams and Cathy Clamp.

They began writing as a team in 1997 and quickly learned that their individual talents in writing created a dynamite combination in historical and paranormal novels. 

Cathy resides in the Texas Hill Country with her husband, dogs, cats and 24 Boer/Spanish cross goats.  Cie is currently relocating to the Denver Metro area with her dog and cats.

They love reading fan mail and anticipate a long and fruitful writing career (which we are VERY happy to hear!). 

Cie and Cathy are the proud creators of the BLOOD SINGER series (as Cat Adams) as well as the THRALL Trilogy and TALE OF THE SAZI series (as CT Adams and Cathy Clamp).

If you haven’t had the pleasure of reading the magical novels of Cat Adams/CT Adams and Cathy Clamp yet, we definitely recommend that you do! 

Make sure to keep up with Cie and Cathy online at their Website, Cie on Facebook, Cathy on Twitter, and their GoodReads pages for Cat, Cie and Cathy as well.

We’re here today to help Cie and Cathy promote and celebrate the upcoming release of “The Eldritch Conspiracy” and the entire BLOOD SINGER series. 

The BLOOD SINGER series currently has 4 books, with another on the way at the end of this month - “Blood Song”, “Siren Song”, “Demon Song”, and “The Isis Collar” are available now, and “The Eldritch Conspiracy” will be released on January 29, 2013!

For our readers who are new to the series, here are the synopses, some quick buy links, and our review of “The Eldritch Conspiracy” to get you all caught up…

“Blood Song”

BLOOD SINGER Book #1

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Bodyguard Celia Graves has definitely accepted her share of weird assignments, both human and supernatural. But her newest job takes the cake. Guarding a Prince from terrorists and religious fundamentalists is hard enough, but it seems like the entire supernatural world is after this guy too. When she is betrayed by those she is employed to help, and everything goes horribly wrong, Celia wakes to find herself transformed.

Neither human nor vampire, Celia has become an Abomination—something that should not exist—and now both human and supernatural alike want her dead. With the help of a few loyal friends—a sexy mage, a powerful werewolf, and a psychic cop—Celia does her best to stay alive. On the run from her enemies, Celia must try to discover who is behind her transformation…before it's too late.

“Siren Song”

BLOOD SINGER Book #2

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In Celia Graves’s world, vampires roam the alleys of Tinseltown, street corner psychics have real powers, and cops use memory enhancement spells. But Celia thought she was an ordinary human, albeit one with a clairvoyant best friend and a ghostly little sister.

The vampire attack that made Celia an Abomination forces her to take food in liquid form and gives a whole new meaning to the word “sunburn.” She’s slowly adjusting (therapy sessions and all) when she discovers that the attack awakened a hidden part of her heritage: Celia is part Siren, able to enthrall men—and enrage women.

Her best friend’s murder is unsolved; the cops think Celia should be in jail or staked; and her old lover, mage Bruno DeLuca, has something important to tell her. To top it all off, Celia’s been summoned to the Sirens’ island.

Celia Graves has more than one enemy. Some of them want her blood. Some of them want her soul. All of them want her dead. 

“Demon Song”

BLOOD SINGER Book #3

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In a world where magic is real and the supernatural is almost normal, bodyguard Celia Graves has survived a vampire attack which made her a half-vampire and awakened her latent Siren abilities. She’s battled a Siren Queen to the death and twice faced down a demon that wants to kill her--slowly. She’s also had her heart broken--twice--by her old flame, magician Bruno DeLuca.

Perhaps the worst thing was the discovery that Celia’s life has been warped by a curse laid on her during childhood--the cause of everything from the death of her little sister to the murder of her best friend the same night that Celia became an Abomination.

An ancient rift between the demonic dimension and our own--sealed during the destruction of Atlantis--begins to open, threatening to loose all the demons of hell on humanity (including the one personally bent on destroying Celia). Celia’s hellish recent experiences have given her the unique combination of abilities needed to close the rift. But to overcome the curse, which nearly guarantees her failure, she’ll need to join forces with people she no longer trusts...and put people she has come to care about directly in harm’s way.

“The Isis Collar”

BLOOD SINGER Book #4

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Celia Graves was once an ordinary human, but those days are long gone. Now she strives to maintain her sanity and her soul while juggling both vampire abilities and the powers of a Siren.

Warned of a magical “bomb” at a local elementary school, Celia forces an evacuation. Oddly, the explosion seems to have no effect, puzzling both Celia and the FBI. Two weeks later, a strangely persistent bruise on Celia’s leg turns out to be the first sign of a magical zombie plague.

Finding the source of the plague isn’t Celia’s only concern. Her alcoholic mother has broken out of prison on the Sirens’ island; her little sister’s ghost has possessed a young girl; and one of Celia’s boyfriends, a powerful mage, has disappeared.

“The Eldritch Conspiracy”

BLOOD SINGER Book #5

COMING 1/29/13!!

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Celia Graves was once an ordinary human, but those days are long gone. Now she strives to maintain her sanity and her soul while juggling both vampire abilities and the powers of a Siren.

Not every bride needs a bridesmaid who can double as a bodyguard. But Celia's cousin Adriana is no ordinary bride: she's a Siren princess, and she's marrying the king of a small but politically important European country. She's getting death threats from fanatics who want to see the whole Siren race wiped out—including Celia herself, who is half Siren.


Luckily, Celia is on duty when a trip to a bridal salon is interrupted by an assassination attempt, so everyone survives. When Adriana returns to the Siren homeland to try to prevent a coup, Celia is free to hunt for the terrorists and the vile mage who is helping them (while keeping her eyes open for the perfect maid-of-honor dress).

Assuming the bride and groom both live to see their wedding day, this will be one royal wedding no one will ever forget.

Yes, we know you’re all clamoring to find and get the books, but before you do, let’s see what Cie and Cathy had to say when we let them take over the site for the day shall we!?

PRIORITIES

I love writing.  I love creating (hopefully) believable people, and having them interact in interesting ways.  I love creating new worlds.  I even love all of the research of esoteric facts that may or may not make it into the actual book.  (Things like -- how much does a Great Pyrenees weigh, and that they look different as puppies than as adults; or what is the name of the road in front of the Library of Congress and is it a one way street.)  

I don't mind writing newsletters, doing contests, posting on social media (although I'm not very good at the latter), I think blog tours are fun, and have enjoyed working on designing my individual website (http://www.ctadamsauthor.com is mine alone; http://www.catadams.net is my joint one with Cathy L. Clamp).

But I have one complaint:  TIME

There's never enough of it.

Never, ever, ever.  

The deadlines that seem so generous when you're negotiating the contract suddenly loom (picture the Grim Reaper with a VERY sharp scythe), and take no prisoners, ignoring the fact that you have family crises, copy edits, galleys to proof, the number of things that can drag you away from your writing and make you despair of ever meeting your deadline are endless.  And everything, every single thing, takes longer than you think it's going to.

It has forced me to be organized.  It has forced me to be professional.  It has forced me to go without sleep for longer periods of time than any human being of my age should be reasonably expected to. (Which, may I add, has led to some VERY interesting results when I got to the proofreading stage prior to sending things in to the editor.)

But the joy of seeing my "babies" on the shelf never fades.  The joy of hearing people actually CARE about whether a character ends up happy is huge.  So I will forever desperately struggle to juggle it all, make it all work.  When I succeed I am rightfully proud.  When I fail?  Well, all I can say is thank GOD for an understanding editor.

~C.T. Adams  1/2 of Cat Adams.

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