I can't believe I haven't posted anything since Monday!! My allergies attacked me big time this week and I haven't been able to do much of anything. To make up for my lack of posting, please help me welcome one of my favorite authors back to ABG Reads, Gini Koch! She's here today with an excerpt of her newest book, The Night Beat! There is an E-book Giveaway to one lucky person at the end of the excerpt!
Thanks for stopping by on the Necropolis Enforcement Blog Tour of 2012! If you haven’t read the first chapter of The Night Beat, hit Deathless Prose over at my website (http://www.ginikoch.com/deathlessprose.htm) and check it out. Then, hit each stop along the way to get more of the story. Missed a stop? Check the website for the Tour Page and get caught up.
And
don’t forget to get entered to win a copy of The Night Beat at EVERY blog tour
stop along the way! Plus, follow the Tour ‘til the end and get entered for a mega-prize!
So, grab your badge -- it’s time to join Necropolis Enforcement!
The
majority of Prosaic City’s residents don’t know that their town exists on top
of another place -- Necropolis, City of the Undead. For the most part, the two
planes of existence manage to remain separate. And when they don’t, Necropolis
Enforcement has beings in place to ensure the general human population remains
blithely clueless.
Victoria
Wolfe is more than just a policewoman. She’s an undercover werewolf assigned by
Necropolis Enforcement to work Prosaic City Police’s Night Beat. Victoria’s
comfortable working the shift where all the weird comes out to play, especially
since her partner is also her perfect man. Or would be, if Victoria could ever
work up the nerve to tell him she isn’t like other girls.
It’s
hard enough being a werewolf in disguise, but when a creature from the Depths
of Hell shows up in an alley preferred by junkies, bums, and hookers, it’s
going to take more than just Victoria’s special gun and werewolf skills to
subdue the ancient Sumerian demon. Especially when the demon is merely the
start of what appears to be a major takeover attempt by the Prince of Darkness.
Soon
all of Necropolis Enforcement’s Undead Brigade is involved in the fight to stop
the Prince’s Major Minions from taking over Prosaic City and the rest of the
human plane. But it’s Victoria who has to face the Adversary and figure out
what intricate plan Lucifer has up his wings before everyone she cares about is
destroyed.
In
other words, it’s just another day on the Night Beat.
Now for the excerpt!
Taken from Chapter ten. To see what happens previously, check out Bibliognome's blog!
We
went flying -- in the vamps’ cases under their own control -- as Jack fired.
The riot gun held a lot of shots and it looked like he planned to use them all.
I
hit the wall over the trashcans and fell onto the top of one. Mercifully, the
lid was down and the thing was packed so full I didn’t crash through. I was
between Jack and Slimy, so I had a great view. Which was nice, because I’d
spent a lot of time being the tetherball and I couldn’t really move.
Jack
was firing, calmly and consistently, laying down a steady stream that hit Slimy
all over the place. He was also advancing while firing. Slimy, meanwhile,
seemed somewhat rocked but not stopped, and he was advancing, too. At current
rate and speed, they were going to slam into each other in front of me.
Jack
knew it, too. He maneuvered himself in front of me, so he was between me and
the monster.
I,
as the Count put it, panted after Jack because he was literally the most manly
man I’d ever met, seen or smelled. And he was in full-on manly mode at the
moment. I was lucky the moon wasn’t full -- I’d have been crawling on the
ground in front of him, whining, with my tail up, in between rolling on my back
and offering the full on “I’m your puppy mamma” routine. Hey, there are some
things a weregirl can’t control.
“Can
you move?” he asked me, still watching Slimy and firing steadily.
“Sort
of.”
One
of the undead benefits is an ability to concentrate on more than one thing at a
time. As a werewolf, I had enhanced senses under normal situations, let alone
during battles. So I’d counted the number of shots because I could and you
learned to do things like that because they helped you stay unalive. And I knew
Jack was out of ammo.
He
did, too. He tossed the gun back towards the car, turned, grabbed me, flung me
over his shoulder, and ran. It would’ve been more comfortable if I’d been in
human or werewolf form, but I didn’t complain. Slimy stomped the trashcan I’d
been on about two seconds after Jack grabbed me.
We
reached the car and he tossed me in it. I got the impression he was going to
attempt to drive away, but he went to the trunk. I remembered what we had in
the trunk. “I don’t think an urban assault rifle is going to help,” I called to
him.
“Can’t
hurt.” He leaned against the car and fired. This seemed to affect Slimy, but it
was still coming towards us. “Any suggestions?”
About the Author:
"Gini Koch lives in Hell’s Orientation Area (aka Phoenix, AZ), works her butt off (sadly, not literally) by day, and writes by night with the rest of the beautiful people. She writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files series, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles series for Musa Publishing. As G.J. Koch she writes the Alexander Outland series for Night Shade Books. She also writes under a variety of other pen names (including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch), listens to rock music 24/7, and is a proud comics geek-girl willing to discuss at any time why Wolverine is the best superhero ever (even if Deadpool does get all the best lines). She speaks frequently on what it takes to become a successful author and other aspects of writing and the publishing business. She can be reached through her website at www.ginikoch.com"
Where to Find/Buy the book:
Amazon Kindle Edition | Amazon Paperback | Smashwords | Barnes and Nobles
I am giving away one ebook copy of The Night Beat to one person! Giveaway is open until September 28, 2012. If I do not hear from the winner within two days of contacting them either through email or a winners post, a new one will be chosen. Not responsible if the winner does not see the winners post. The winner may also be contacted through email and not necessarily in a winners post. Please leave an email address so I can contact you if you are the winner.
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