Contributors of the upcoming short-story collection MANY BLOODY RETURNS: Tales of Birthdays with Bite will celebrate the book's "birthday" at bookstore events across the country on September 4, the day the book is officially released to the public. Booksigning events have been scheduled in five cities, and birthday cake will be included in the celebration.

Jim Butcher will be appearing in Kansas City, MO, at the Barnes & Noble in Country Club Plaza.

Kansas City, MO * 7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
Country Club Plaza
420 W 47th Street
816-753-1313

The other four parties are as follows:

Toni L.P. Kelner and Christopher Golden
Framingham, MA * 7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
1 Worcester Road
508-628-5567

Charlaine Harris, P.N. Elrod, and Rachel Caine
Dallas, TX * 7:00 PM
BARNES AND NOBLE
616 Preston Royal Shopping Ctr
214-363-0924

Elaine Viets
Delray Beach, FL * 7:00 PM
MURDER ON THE BEACH
273 Pineapple Grove Way (at NE 2nd Ave.)
561-279-7790

Carolyn Haines
Mobile, AL * 6:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
3250 Airport Blvd B-30
251-450-0084

A fun and unique story collection, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, MANY BLOODY RETURNS contains thirteen all new, never before published stories, each one offering a fresh take on the concept of what birthdays mean to the undead. "Toni and I had some wonderful planning sessions about the theme for the anthology," writes Charlaine Harris in the introduction to the book. "We decided to pick two apparently unrelated concepts—vampires (the dead) and birthdays (normally considered a celebration of life)—and see what different ways some very talented writers could combine the two." Contributors include: Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner, Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, P.N. Elrod, Rachel Caine, Jeanne C. Stein, Tanya Huff, Carolyn Haines, Tate Hallaway, and Elaine Viets. Harris and Kelner were careful to choose an even balance of traditional mystery and traditional fantasy writers; the result is an outstanding anthology and "a fantastic introduction for new readers to some of the best-known writers in the field" (RT Book Reviews).

MANY BLOODY RETURNS: Tales of Birthdays with Bite, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, will be published in hardcover by Ace Books on September 4, 2007 ($24.95/ISBN: 978-0-441-01522-1).

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