Join me over the next few weeks for Wicked Wednesdays!
The Wicked, the next novella in the Elder Races series, releases July 2nd. Hurray!
Check below for details for the international contest. Next week, for Wicked Wednesday, I’ll post an excerpt!
The adventure of a lifetime might just end in turmoil, but when it includes meeting your future mate, who gives a hoot?
A Novella of the Elder Races
For a librarian with a focus on rare magic books, Olivia’s new job is a dream come true. She has been hired as part of a team to help manage the safe transportation of the collection of books owned by the Vampyre sorceress Carling Severan. The fact that the library is located on a mysterious island in an Other land only heightens the adventure.
Head of security for the expedition, Sebastian Hale is tired of his rootless life of adventure and finds himself attracted to the calm, beautiful librarian. But he is living a personal nightmare. He has been hit with a curse that is slowly taking away his sight, and he doesn’t know if he will survive the results.
But the powerful feelings growing between them, along with Sebastian’s inner turmoil, take a backseat when they learn there is a traitor lurking among their expedition team. With Elder Races politics and a priceless library on the line, they’ll have to rely on each other to survive the experience.
Warning: When a librarian who likes to nest meets an owl Wyr who has always lived for adventure, their romance won’t just be fly-by-night…
International contest
To celebrate the upcoming release of The Wicked I’m giving away three digital ARCs (advanced reader’s copy). So you can win it before you can buy it!
In The Wicked, Olivia gets the chance to ‘play’ with the books of her dreams. Tell me, dear reader, what books would be on your dream list?
Leave a comment below to enter.
The winners will have their choice of e-book format including: .mobi, .imp, .epub, .pdf and more.
We’ll draw the winners on Wednesday, June 12th at 12 noon MDT (2pm EDT) and announce them on the blog. The winner must contact us at info@theaharrison.com by 5pm MDT (7pm EDT) Monday, June 17th to claim their prize.
**If the winner is unable to claim their prize by the time and date and time listed above, it will be allocated to someone else**
Good Luck!
I think I would love to look through older books on spinning (as in spinning fiber into yarn). It would be interesting, no matter what country it came from…
You could not possibly publish these fast enough! I love reading these. Thanks for all your hard work and that of your assistant(s) and the sacrifice of the time from your family. It is appreciated! EEEKKK so happy!
I don’t know why I left out my books, it’s a long list so a few would be the newest ones from DG (outlander) and JR Ward’s next two from the two series & the last Game of Thrones.
Of course the Elder Races books would be on my dream list along with A Discovery of Witches, Harry Potter, and everything by Julia Quinn.
outlander by gabaldon.
Moonheart by Charles De Lint
All of your books.
Thanks for sharing your writing talent.
Oh, my goodness… I don’t think that there is enough room for all the books I would want… mostly romance (all kinds) with tons of classics (first editions, natch) and I would hunt down every freakin Harlequin and Silhouette book I had ever read. I would need so much room… lol Now I’m excited! You definitely have my wheels turning now…
Oh wow. Hmm….decisions.
mmm…Mercedes Lackey, Simon R. Green, Howl’s Moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones
I have a list of about 45 books now that I want in the next few months and it grows every single week; but here are a few: Jayne Castle, J D Robb, Nalini Singh, Kerrelyn Sparks, Lindsay Sands just to name a few!!!
Nalini Singh’s psy/changeling world, Kelley Armstrong’s werewolf pack or Shelley Laurenston’s shifters books. Spending 24hours with dragos and pia would be awesome too!
The new Nora Roberts witch trilogy, and the Archangels book
Well.. definitely not a romantic answer, but I’d totally go with any Charles Dickens novel. I just love the writing and many of the characters and they world they lived in.
Congratulations on your upcoming release! 🙂
I just choked back tears. I found out less last Fall that I am losing my vision due to a rare eye condition with no treatment and no cure.
As for books I’d love to play with… any of the Elder Races books but particularly Dragon Bound and Oracle’s Moon, plus any of Richelle Mead’s books, or Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell books, and The Hobbit.
Thank you for your writing, but particularly right now thank you for writing about something that affects me so personally.
If I had to list them all, we would be here all day. Some of my must haves are JR Ward, Chloe Neill, Thea, Kresley Cole, Lara Adrian, Jeaniene Frost and many more. I am a huge fan of Paranoramal/UF.
Definitely all of your books, plus Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series, the Harry Potter books, Michael Ende’s Neverending Story, and a few choice books by Cherise Sinclair for, um, kinkier moods. ^^
Oh wow, hrmmm what comes to mind is Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series
Susan Kay’s Phantom
I just want an ARC of your book, Nalini Singh’s next angel book and Robin D Owens next Celta novel.
the Harry Potter books
Not necessarily a book, but I would have loved to have been able to browse through the Library of Alexandria!
Although I too would love to ‘play’ with rare magic books, especially if magic worked!
Of course THE WICKED:). Larissa Ione’s REAVER, Cynthia Eden’s FEAR FOR ME and many more :). Thank you.
Can’t wait!!!!!
Well of course all ur books and the rest adult
Paranormal Romace! Thank u for sharing ur
Craft! Congrats w ur new book can’t wait to
Read it! 🙂
Easy…Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings and Pride and Prejudice.
The Fever Series (Karen Marie Moning)
Psy/Changeling Series (Nalini Singh)
Lord of Vice Series (Alexandra Hawkins)
The League Series (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
Imortal After Dark Series (Kresley Cole)
And your series too!
Your Elder race series,J.r.wards,Lara Adrian,Cynthia eden,Dianne duvall,Larissa Ione so many it would be a big library. Lil. 🙂
As a librarian just like the heroine in Wicked I get to play with books everyday. But I dream of having my own giant personal library to play with. My dream list of books for my library would probably consist mostly of romance and fantasy with some history and archaeology sprinkled in there. I would definitely like to collect the full Oz series by Baum. I have great childhood memories reading those books.
Well, here goes my list: In Death series, Kate Daniels series, Elder Races series, Guild Hunter series, and so many more.
Mine would come from two groups. My classic favorites like Anna Karenina, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Enders Game and The Lord of the Rings. Then my new favorites like Kate Daniels series, The Parasol Protectorate, Elder Races and the Mercy Thompson series.
Psy/Changelings, Kresley Cole’s series, Elder Races, just to name a few. There are SO many! Thanks!
I’m going for the oldies,
The hardcover books I’d love in a library are every book or short story written by:
Mercedes Lackey
Anne McCaffrey
Tamora Pierce
Peter S Beagle
Ursula Le Guinn
Susan Cooper
Grace Chetwin
I follow 23 series, have a tbr pile of 38 in booksfree and a tb list of 24 coming out within the next 6 months. What books would I like to play with? All of them!
Well all the Elder Races books! And I have to have Ward, Clare, Ione, Kenyon, Cole….yeesh, I could go on and on and on. Thank God for ereaders. I can have all my faves with me. <3 you!
Congratulations Thea. I am looking forward to reading THE WICKED.
sandy(at)thereadingcafe(dot) com
Books by J D Robb, Nalini Singh, Patricia Briggs, Anne Bishop, Shelley Laurenston and of course the Elder Races by Thea Harrison
My dream list is so large…….. Would have include all of Anne Rice, Bronte sisters, Austin sisters, Christine Feehan, Nalini Singh, Elder Races, Dark Hunter, Karen Chance, Kim Harrison, Kevin Hearne, Steve Berry, Kate Mosse and Barbara Erksine along with many many more 🙂
Your books of course and books by Kim Harrison, Marjorie M Liu, Karen Chance, Ilona Andrews, Kresley Cole, Jim Butcher or Laurell K Hamilton just to name a few.
Not sure if this means you are actually in the books, visit the books or just would like to have a collection of the books…I love a lot of books that I’m not so sure I would like to live in or visit! Among those book worlds are S. Kenyon, JR Ward, GAAiken, and J. Frank. The historicals like E. James, L. Chase, C. Dodd, L. Kleypas, S. MacLean, G. Burrowes…would be nice. Love your Elder Races, T. Harrison. So glad you are continuing the series!
I would (among others) want all of T. Harrison’s, N. Singh, J. Frost, M. Lackey, A. Bishop, J. Butcher, F. Saberhagen, W. Spencer, Tolkein, CS Lewis, S. Breathnach, R. Riordan, A.C. Doyle, E.R.Burroughs, Lovecraft, E.A.Poe, J.Austen, K. Hearnes, P. Briggs, Dodd, & the list goes on. And thats not including the Shakespeare, Dante, etc. just because they are cool to read.
Mercedes Lackey 500 Kingdom books, any series from Patricia Briggs, Laurell K Hamilton’s Merry Gentry series, Robin D Owens Celta series, of course your Elder Races books, Kresley Cole’s Immortals after Dark series, yikes I could keep going and going…
All the Elder Races books so far.,Harry Potter, Discovery of Witches books, Vampire Academies, and throw in some Highlander books… I’d be in heaven! Thanks for the contest!
I’m a rare book librarian so I get to handle wonderful books all the time. I also have a lot of books at home. Dream books, hmmm. Well I dream of having ARCs of your next few books, those of Nalini Singh, Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, Michelle Sagara, Sharon Shinn, etc. etc. I also dream of having lots more rare children’s books of my own!
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern! I’d love to escape to a world that has dragons & firelizards – of course I’d want to be a dragon rider too (not a drudge!)
I don’t know if I could ever come up with a dream list because i’m always finding new authors that my favorite authors recommend that I fall in love with. So I guess my dream would be to just be able to have the job of reviewing books rather than a dream list 🙂 OR a magical book that I can say the name of the book I want to read and open it up and bam it’s there (wait that would be my kindle…ha ha) ….ok a free magical book!!!!
Can’t wait
I love sci-fi/fantasy and paranormal romance so it’s really hard to pick!
All of your books, Nora Roberts and J D Robb, Julia Quinn, Kerrelyn Sparks, James Rollins, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Harry Potter books, J.Austen and so on, and so on.
I just love reading.
A magic library? I would go to Dragon bound, Night Play, Persuasion and One thousand and one nights.
Other than Harry Potter, I’m having a hard time thinking of books for my dream list. I’d just like to have a Kindle with access to all of the world’s libraries. That should pretty much cover it.
I love the Elder series!
I would love to play with the Elder series, Harry Potter and the Mercy Thompson series.
Thea,
Thanks for this opportunity to win an ARC of Wicked! If I had a chance to play in a part of a book, the ones on my dream list would actually be two series. Your Elder Race series and Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series.
I think about a very long list! I wanna own a library too! I love Nalini Singh very much Guild Hunter series and Psy Changeling, Lora Leigh’s Breeds, your Elder Races mostly the Wyr, Stephen King Black Tower Saga and so much more…
I want to live and play in a library full of Paranormal Romance , Urban Fantasy . and every other genre of Romance possible!
So looking forward to The Wicked , I love the Elder Races.
I can’t even begin to list all the books I would love to play with. Romance, fantasy, scifi & scifan, chick lit, YA and more! Of course I’d need some crafty books in there – sometimes you need a break from the emotional heartache that comes when you finish the latest story!
MAGIC!!! … and space travel and … sheesh hard to decide! … manu
This is a tough one! Definitely Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and The Hero and The Crown. My list after that would depend on how many books I could select!
Obviously, the Elder Series. But also JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood and Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires!
I love the books in my own “library” but the opportunity to “play” with old books, maybe something Medieval with illuminated text and that super old book smell would be awesome.
Thanks for running the giveaway.
Cheers!
Tough question! Nalini Singh Psy/Changeling and Guild Hunter books. Any books by Patricia Briggs, Jennifer Estep, JR Ward, Lauren Dane and Vivian Arend. The Cut & Run series by Abigail Roux. Love your Elder Races series and so many more.
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
My dream book, I’d really like to read all the poems that John Keats would have written if he hadn’t died so young.
I also have odd moments of wanting to read whatever it is the characters I’m reading about are reading . . . only to remember that the books don’t exist.
There are sooo many. My various wish lists have over 100, and generally they only include the “next” book in each series… In Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics, there’s a library that contains all the books that have been dreamed, including those that haven’t been published. I want that. Barring that, though, my top wants for books that will be published soon include Kinked, Meljean Brook’s Guardian Demon, Ilona Andrews’ Magic Rises, Nalini Singh’s Archangel’s Legion, and Seanan McGuire’s Chimes at Midnight. Or, maybe, just the next book that I’ll fall in love with. 🙂
Definitely the Elder Series! But also JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood and Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires!
I’d love to experience the moment when Kate Daniels (from Magic Bites, by Ilona Andrews) first says, “Here, Kitty Kitty.” I’d love to see when Dragos first tracks Pia down. Just got done reading “Inked in Red” by Anne Bishop and LOVED the two werewolves fighting over a doggie bed. I’d love to meet almost any Charlaine Harris heroine; they’re all made out of steel overlaid with Southern manners. So many fun worlds out there to explore!
Old illuminated manuscripts would be what I would like to interact with
Guild Hunter and Psy-Changeling books, Shelly Laurenston books, Karen Chance books, Meljean Book books, Patricia Briggs books and Elder Races books.
Oh my goodness, I forgot Ilona Andrews.
Your Elder Races series, Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunters series, JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series, Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling and Guild Hunter series and anything by Elizabeth Hoyt, Lori Handeland and Julia Quinn.
Ones by all my favorite authors – Nalini Singh, JAK/Amanda Quick, Shelly Laurenston, Sherrilyn Kenyon, etc.
Nalini Singh books, Anne Bishop books, Ilona Andrews Magic series, Bec McMaster books, Harry Potter, Jennifer Roberson Cheysuli books. The list could be endless….
My dream list dream list of books to play with would be anything and everything related to ancient Celtic myths and history. A first edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass would be pretty fantastic too.
Can’t wait to read the next novella (and even more impatient for the next novel about Aryal!
I am already surrounded by books – which is just the way I like it. Some of my favorites are the Elder Race series, Shelley Laurenston’s shifters, Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changelings, Doctor Who series and I’d also love to have the ElfQuest books (which are hard to get your hands on these days – except at the library).
Can’t wait to read more Elder Races!!!
Too hard to choose…but yours of course and Lauren Danes De La Vega Cats would be fun to play with, and Space Family Stoneby Robert Heinlein
I’m super excited for this and would take all your books.
I also really really like Iona Andrews (All of them)
Shelly Laurenson
And Linda Howard
are probably my top favorite must-read-now Authors.
(and atlases caus I really love me some maps.)
I would pick Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind; The Dialogues of Plato; and Dragon Bound (I love Graydon). The worlds of Kresley Cole, J.K. Rowling, and Michelle M. Pillow would be a joy to experience.
I am so excited about your new Elder Races book! I have a hard time picking out just a few books, but any by Mercedes Lackey, Laurell Hamilton, Thea Harrison, JRR Tolkien, Vivian Arend and Cynthia Eden would have to be on my list.
any well-written book or a bad book with great pictures. i had the old grace harlowe from my mom & a grand collection my dad helped me with; all the signet, jove & harlequin regency. really any book that did not move away when i reached for it.
Kinked
Rule Breaker by Lora Leigh
Macrieve by Kresley Cole
Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews
Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt
Fury of the Demon by Diana Rowland
No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah Maclean
Archangel’s Legion by Nalini Singh
Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha!
My three books – Dragon Bound, Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh and Dana Marie Bell’s Blood of the Maple. So, fingers crossed for contest!!!
I think I would have to pick one (or all) of the Harry Potter books and maybe a little Pride & Prejudice.
Don’t want to win, but wanted to participate! ^_^
Bogwoppit by who? Don’t know but I’ve been looking for this YA gem for about 15 years with no luck.
Where the Red Fern Grows – I know… I actually own it but I walk around with my Nook and it’d be awesome if I could flip through it whenever I wanted!
& Dulcie Bly which is an old regency that I’ve also been looking for. Would love to find that one in any form! Must’ve read it about 20-30 times in high school!
Couldn’t say any of Thea Harrison’s books because I bought the first one when I got my Nook and the rest soon thereafter! Lol!
Tasha, you can buy Dulcie Bligh as an ebook on Amazon now! It’s listed as being by Maggie MacKeever (the author’s real name, I think, although it was originally published as being by Gail Clarke, a pen name).
Oooh!!!! Thank you! Off to go buy!
The next two Psy-Changeling books and Archangel’s Legion by Nalini Singh. The King by J R Ward. The new Dark trilogy by Christine Feehan and all future Elder Races books. I wish I could hold them in hands right now.
Ooh. I’d go for a book of spells (so, one quite likely to show up in Carling’s library)! I can’t wait to read this novella.
think it would be cool to own some first editions of some popular books such as Harry Potter series or older books such as by Poe; but would be happy to get all the books (past & future) of some fave authors 🙂
There’s so many books I’d love to play with starting with ‘the wicked’ but it would be a lot of fantasy, romance and urban fantasy. Lauren Dane, Tanya Huff, Lilith Saintcrow, Kaje Harper, Nora Roberts, Nalini Singh and a lot I can’t think of off the top of my head.
I am fortunate enough to already own all of my favourite books, they sit on their own bookshelf waiting to be reread yet again. They include the Kate Daniel’s series by Ilona Andrews, any books by Terry Pratchett featuring Sam Vimes, your Elder Races novels, Gail Carriger’s books and Jeaniene Frost’s books.
Thanks for this!
Books on my dream list would include the next Nalini Singh books (more Psy-Changeling! More Angels!) and also the next Meljean Brooks steampunk novel… But top of the list if possibly the next Stacia Kane novel – I really need to find out what happens next with Chess and Terrible…
:o)
Ooh some many books that i would love to have but my all time top books that i would have on my dream wishlist would be the newest elder races books, all the Ann McCaffery: dragonriders of pern seires, and Pactricia Briggs books.
Hmm, my dream list would be made up of all Marjorie M. Liu’s work (pnr, uf & comics), and the J.D. Robb series, and LKH’s Merry Gentry series 🙂
The Wicked, btw, sounds awesome!
Books by Shel Silverstein, Edgar Allen Poe, and unedited first drafts of Thea Harrison, Shelly Laurenston, Sherrilyn Kenyon (not the Nick series) and G.A. Aiken.
My dream library would be full of the classics as well as contemporary books, all in first edition hard covers of course, including Alice in Wonderland, all the Harry Potter books, the LOTR books, the Hobbit, all the Elder Series, all Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews books, the complete works of Shakespeare, all of Shelly Laurenstons books, Jane Eyre, Dracula, the Portrait of Dorian Grey, and… so many more… too many dream books to list them all! Can’t wait for The Wicked and Kinked! 🙂
While I know that authors choose when/if a series gets continued or not, I think I’d LOVE a chance to play with the next Robin McKinley book set in the SUNSHINE universe. Her characters were amazing and the world building honest, especially when it came to the threat that vampires posed to humans.
Any of Julie Garwood’s older historical books. My mom introduced me to the romance genre thru her books when I was a not so nice teenager and we bounded over them. They’ve always held a special place in my heart and as my darling daughter approaches her teenage years I will introduce her to the books too.
Ooh, I have sooo many books and series, too many to choose from. Can’t it be like in bed knobs and broomsticks where I can just jump into whatever story I like? That way I can visit them all 🙂
My stacks to play with would start with all of yours, which I have already admitted I have read & listened to beyond the point of memorization, Lara Adrian’s Midnight Breed, Larissa Ione’s Daemonica and Horsemen, J. R. Ward’s Brotherhood, Jacquelyn Frank’s Nightwalkers, etc, Dianne Duvall’s Immortals, Maya Bank’s Highlanders, Sophie Oak’s hilarious books, Christina Lauren’s titles and Jennyfer Browne’s “In Your World” series (even though only the first book is out). I’m sure there are more but that’s my trunk full of books I wouldn’t want to play without! I can’t wait for this expedition to the island! Maybe Carling’s friends will leave a feather for us as well!
Lets see…if I was stranded on a desert island with only 5 books I would say I have to have :
The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen Woodwiss
Dragon Riders of Pern First Flight by Anne McCaffery
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Dragon Bound!! Must have
Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey
I’d want the complete works of Shakespeare, Tolkien, Rowling, plus Krentz/Quick/Castle, YOU, Singh, Brook, SEP, Howard AND a comprehensive book of knitting patterns and stitches!!!
so I probably need a Kindle Fire HD and a secure internet, eh?
It wouldn’t be easy to pick, but for sure I would pick Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter and Psy-Changelings series. Also, Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark. Plus of course the Elder Races series (Dragon Bound is my favorite.)
Looking forward to THE WICKED. Love the Elder Races.
JR Ward’s-BDB
Diana Gabaldon-Outlander series
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity
There is just not enough room for me to list all of the many books I want to read, lol! I have been addicted to romance novels ever since college so anything in that genre! I am in-love with all of your books and can’t wait for more! Thanks so much for all that you do : ).
That’d be a whole bunch of Elder Races including novellas. I would read it all over again starting from Dragon Bound. Also other listing would be Lisa Kleypas’s books because I love historical romance as much as Paranormal.
All books from
Nalini Singh
Thea Harrison
Lara Adrian
Kresley Cole
Larissa Ione
Janine Krock
Katie MacAlister
Richelle Mead
Shelly Laurenston
Anne Bishop
Alexandra Ivy
would be on my dreamlist and all books which are going to be written by these authors.
I can’t await the future.
yes please I am entering for The Wicked!
I love any type of romance novels,be it paranormal or historical and if it has mystery in it then its my dream come true.I love all the books of these authors:-Nalini Singh(specially her guild hunter series),Thea harrisons Dragon bound and lords fall,Julie Garwood,Maryjanice davidson,Eloisa james and not to forget Pride and Prejudice and the Famous Five and The secret seven(no romance but lots of mystery!!)
I love love love these books! Dream book list is never ending so let me just say all romance novels in all genres! 🙂
Charlie and the chocolate factory 🙂
I love everything you put out. I am a big fan of paranormal romance. I enjoy Kresley Cole and Nalini Singh.
I have to many books to list on my dream book list, but I have recently been eyeballing Daniel Abraham’s Long Price Quartet series. I would love to own those.
Well, If they are “magic” books then they would have to be all the books that weren’t written by all the amazing authors that are no longer with us.
If they are “real” books, my shelves would have to have all of Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey & Piers Anthony’s to start… 🙂
PS: thanks for getting this list started, I’ve found at least 10 new authors to try 🙂
Love the Elder Races, Nalini Singh, JR Ward, Kresley Cole- to name just a few!
I think either the Elder Races, Or Doctor Who books. I really love both and it would be thrilling to bounce around in them for a while!
My “dream list” would fill a small library. There’s my lifetime favorites like Andre Norton and Anne McCaffrey. Then there’s more recent favorites like JD Robb, CL Wilson, Ilona Andrews, Charlaine Harris, Gini Koch, Nicole Peeler, Carrie Vaughn, Nalini Singh, Cat Adams, and Thea Harrison (of course). And that’s just a short list.
I wouldn’t leave anything out of my dream list! So to name a few, definitely the Elder Races, the Fever series, am loving Blade series by J C Daniels/Shiloh Walker, Nora Roberts, JR Ward, to many really to list!
Oh there’s so many, my top ones would be Dragon Bound or Oracle’s Moon, anything by Karen Moning, any from Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series, and Kresley Coles I.A.D…