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 . . . 
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.”
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 . . .
Join Von and Lucien at Paranormal Haven for their fun interview.
Lucien: *with a straight face* Absolutely not. I am infinite patience incarnate. A paragon of understanding.
Von: *chokes on his swallow of beer*
Lucien: *pounding on his back* I’ve heard that it’s best not to inhale liquids.
Von: *coughing* I’ll do my best to remember that in the future.
Read the rest at Paranormal Haven . . .
