Little Black Dress Books (Informal) Challenge

Little Black Dress was an imprint of Headline Publishing and specialized in chick lit(ish) books. Little, cute one's. 

Some years ago I challenged myself to read all of their back catalog. Problem was, they released new books in the series faster than I could read them so I got sidetracked.

I recently came across another one of their books and went to their website to see how many hundreds of books they had by now, but they seem to have stopped publishing them :(

They used to have a website at http://www.littleblackdressbooks.com/little-black-dress-books.html but that's gone now too, sadly. There is a FB group but I don't think that's maintained either.

They were such cute books, I'm a bit sad that they are no more. I'm going to challenge myself to read them all and this time I'll do it! It's hard to find a complete list, even the website didn't keep up to date with a list of all titles but I've managed to track down 124 of them and add the missing ones to the database over there and that will be the goal at the start. If I find any more I'll add them to the total but for now....124 LBD books it is!!

I just like having them all in one place with a goal to work towards. Plus, the cover gallery for them all is a thing of beauty :)

Feel free to join the challenge and keep me company!! No start and finish date, just an informal dip in and out type challenge but I'd love to hear from you if decide to join in.

Cover Reveal - Wicked As They Come by Delilah S Dawson

OMG! I want to read this book so bad, I can almost TASTE it! Due to be released in Spring 2012 and I CAN NOT WAIT!.

So I'm trawling google for book reviews, news, cover pics... and this pic hover's onto the radar

WOW! Meet Criminy Stain.

Steampunk, Vampire's, Top hat's, Circus Freak's.... Oh yeah, sound's like a keeper!

WICKED AS THEY COME, Book #1 in the Blud series.

When Tish Everett forces open the locket she finds at an estate sale, she has no idea that a deliciously rakish Bludman has cast a spell just for her. She wakes up in a surreal world where Criminy Stain, the dashing proprietor of a magical circus, curiously awaits. At Criminy's electric touch, Tish glimpses a tantalizing future, but she also fore...sees her ultimate doom. Before she can decide whether to risk her fate with the charming daredevil, the locket disappears, and with it, her only chance to return home. Tish and Criminy battle roaring sea monsters and thundering bludmares, vengeful ghosts and crooked Coppers in a treacherous race to recover the necklace from the evil, Blud-hating Magistrate. But if they succeed, will Tish forsake her fanged suitor and return to her normal life, or will she take a chance on an unpredictable but dangerous destiny with the Bludman she's coming to love?

Holy! I want to read that soooo bad! Not sure why it's grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and hauled me into fangirl territory... all I know is that it Spring seems like a looooong time away.

I've trawled all over the interweb to find out as much as I can about this little gem and soaked up everything I can find about Delilah S Dawson and her new book and am REALLY excited about finding out more.

I'm going to stalk follow on
Blog | Website | Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook and have put in a Pre Order at Amazon UK

There's not a lot of info to be found yet, other than the blurb (taken from Delilah's Facebook page) but I'll be first in line to read any news about Wicked As They Come because Spring next year can't come fast enough for me.

I CAN NOT WAIT!! Did I say that already?...

Oh! And, as if all that's not enough to get your juices flowing... There are also vampire bunnies! WTH?! That in itself is worth buying the book for!