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Host: Suzanne Johnson. Alcohol-free ideas for staying sane while juggling multiple book series, genres, publishers, book tours, and author personas, as well as three blogs, six social media accounts, two critique groups, two dogs, one live-in senior adult—and one full-time day job.

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Suzanne Johnson is the author of Royal Street, the first in the new Sentinels of New Orleans urban fantasy series from Tor Books. Released April 10, Royal Street received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, was in the PW Top 10 science fiction and fantasy titles for spring, and was named one of Library Journal’s top picks for April. Susannah Sandlin is the author of Redemption, released June 12 as the first in a new paranormal romance series from Montlake Romance. Suzanne is a full-time magazine editor with Auburn University. Susannah goes along for the ride.


ROYAL STREET 


As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond.

Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans’ fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters.

While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the soldiers sent to help the city recover.
To make it worse, Gerry has gone missing, the wizards’ Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ’s new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for Gerry and for the serial killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter roux.


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