Just One Sip featured three vampire romance stories by Katie MacAlister, Jennifer Ashley and Minda Webber, while Love at First Bite contained original tales from Sherrilyn Kenyon, Susan Squires, Ronda Thompson and L. A. Barks.
Originally published in different form as an e-book in 2001, The Hunter’s Prey: Erotic Tales of Texas Vampires contained eleven stories by Diane Whiteside. From the same author, Bond of Blood was the first novel in the “Texas Vampires” trilogy.
Blood Red was an erotic Regency vampire romance by Sharon Page, and The Burning by Susan Squires was an erotic vampire novel set in early 19th-century England that featured psychic Ann Van Helsing.
Meanwhile, Dracula found himself in a lesbian Europe in Wendy Swanscombe’s erotic novel Fresh Flesh. Edited by Bianca de Moss, Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Stories contained eighteen original stories.
Michael Schiefelbein’s Vampire Transgression was the third book in the gay “Victor Decimus” series, while David Thomas Lord’s Bound in Flesh was another erotic gay vampire novel, the sequel to Bound in Blood.
Dark Side of the Moon was the ninth volume and first hardcover in Sherrilyn Kenyon’s series about vampiric Dark-Hunters and shape-changing Were-Hunters. Seattle reporter Susan Michaels adopted a cat that turned out to be an immortal hybrid, being hunted by both supernatural factions.
A vampire fell in love with another werecat in Nina Bangs’ A Taste of Darkness. Michele Bardsley’s humorous I’m the Vampire, That’s Why featured a vampiric single mother and a crazed werewolf, and Riley Jenson was a hybrid vampire/werewolf working for a government investigation agency in Keri Arthur’s Full Moon Rising.
Kresley Cole’s A Hunger Like No Other and No Rest for the Wicked were the first two volumes in the “Immortals After Dark” series about a valkyrie assassin’s romantic trysts with werewolves and vampires.
Touch of Evil by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp was the first volume in a new dark fantasy romance series involving vampires, werewolves and a psychic heroine.
Jan Underwood’s Day Shift Werewolf won the 28th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest and also featured other image-challenged monsters.
Lori Handeland’s Crescent Moon, Midnight Moon and Rising Moon were all werewolf or other monster romances in the “Night-creatures” series, set in and around New Orleans.
Through a letter reputedly written by Jack the Ripper, pregnant werewolf Elena Michaels unwittingly unleashed a Victorian serial killer and a pair of zombie thugs into the modern world in Broken by Kelley Armstrong.
Late night radio host and celebrity werewolf Kitty Norville took on a Senate committee investigating the paranormal in Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn. The book also included a related story.
A werewolf and a werefox teamed up in Christine Warren’s Wolf at the Door, first in the “Others” series, while Gina Farago’s Ivy Cole and the Moon, about the eponymous female werewolf vigilante, was also the first in a series.
A new governess discovered the secret of Wolfram Castle in Donna Lea Simpson’s Awaiting the Moon, and a deadly legend had to be prevented from coming true in the sequel, Awaiting the Night.
A werewolf helped a woman who was turned into a were-jaguar by a serial killer in Howling Moon by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. A Native American shape-changer was unable to kill his victim in Lindsay McKenna’s Unforgiven, and witchy PI Rachel had to deal with a werewolf problem in A Fistful of Charms, the latest book in the humorous series by Kim Harrison (Dawn Cook).
A werewolf pretended to be a dog while investigating a murder in Master of Wolves, the third book in the romantic trilogy by Angela Knight.
Ronda Thompson’s The Untamed One and The Cursed One were the second and third books, respectively, in the “Wild Wulfs of London” Regency romance series.
Shadow of the Moon was yet another werewolf romance, written by Rebecca York (Ruth Glick), whose earlier novels Witching Moon and Crimson Moon were reprinted in the omnibus Moon Swept.
Wolf Tales III was the third volume in the erotic werewolf series about the “Chanku” by Kate Douglas, and Dead and Loving It collected four humorous werewolf romances by Mary Jane Davidson, including one related to the author’s “Betsy the Vampire Queen” series. Three of the stories were originally published as e-books.
Diane Setterfield’s debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, sparked an international bidding war amongst publishers. Days after the teacher-turned-first-time-novelist submitted the manuscript to an agent, it sold for £800,000 in the UK and a further $1 million in the US. A literary ghost story-within-a-story, the book went straight to #1 in America as the result of a major marketing campaign.
Following a global disaster, New York City was overrun by cannibal zombies in David Wellington’s debut Monster Island. The first in a trilogy about the walking dead, originally serialised on the author’s web site, it was followed by Monster Nation, which was set in California and looked back to when the dead first began to rise.
Sarah Langan’s debut novel The Keeper came with glowing quotes from Ramsey Campbell, Douglas E. Winter, Tim Lebbon, Kelly Link and Jack Ketchum. It was about yet another haunted house in Maine.
The Harrowing by screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff was set in a college over Thanksgiving break and involved the discovery of an old Ouija board and a tragedy that happened more than eighty-five years earlier.
Set in an alternate London, Mike Carey’s first novel The Devil You Know introduced hardboiled exorcist Felix Castor. After dying for two minutes, small-time private investigator Harper Blaine returned to life with the power to see beyond the veil in Kat Richardson’s Greywalker.
Dead City by Joe McKinney was about a virus that reanimated the dead of Texas as cannibal zombies.
Gordon Dahlquist’s heavily promoted first novel, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, bought by its US publisher for a seven-figure sum, was a Victorian murder mystery set in a world where magic worked. Paul Malmont’s The Chinese Death Cloud Peril was a tribute to the old pulp magazine heroes as authors Walter Gibson, Lester Dent and L. Ron Hubbard investigated the horrifying poisoning of H. P. Lovecraft.
A boy who thought he had superpowers was actually possessed by a demon in Sam Enthoven’s YA debut, The Black Tattoo.
Michael Cox’s Victorian murder mystery, The Meaning of Night, was written in just over a year while the author suffered a severe illness and the threat of blindness. The book followed the exploits of murderer Edward Glyver, who set out to convince himself that his acts of vengeance were justified.