Deadly Destinations & Giveaway: Kelly Meding’s Milo Grant takes us to Dreg City from ANOTHER KIND OF DEAD

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Deadly Destinations takes us to Dreg City today with Kelly Meding's Milo Grant from the Dreg City series.  The 3rd book, ANOTHER KIND OF DEAD hits shelves on August 2nd from Random House.  Dreg city is a scary place, especially if you’re not a Hunter like Evy Stone—even if you are, but is sure is interesting.  Thanks to the wonderful people at Random House, three of you who comment on this post will win a copy of the book!  See details below

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Milo Grant’s Guide to Dreg City
by
Kelly Meding

Hey, all!  My name's Milo Gant, and I'm your official Dreg City tour guide for the day.  Or I guess I should say unofficial tour guide, since I don't think there are any actual guided tours of the city.  I mean, who'd want to visit this place anyway?  Um, besides you good folk?

*cough*

You might be asking yourself: who is this guy and what qualifies him to give me a tour?  (Even if you're not asking that, listen up anyway, because ignoring someone who's talking is rude and I know how to hide bodies.)  Anyway.  I can't tell you what I do, exactly, because my job is Top Secret.  I can tell you that I'm in a special, unofficial branch of law enforcement and the stuff I've seen in the year and a half I've been doing this would give you nightmares for months.  Maybe years.  But I am definitely qualified to give the tour, because I've lived in this city my whole life.  I know where the culture is, where the crime is, and can give you good tips on how to get out alive—survive your trip—get the most out of your visit.

The most unusual feature of our fair city is the two rivers that come together in the middle and turn into one, kind of like a Y.  The Black River is to the west and is the wider of the two, and the Anjean River is to the east and feeds south into the Black.  Both rivers are the lines that divide up some of the biggest neighborhoods, like Uptown from Mercy's Lot, and  Downtown from East Side.  We also have a State College satellite campus, a gigantic three-story library, and an excellent hospital emergency room (I've been there more times than you need to know about).

Uptown is the place to go for upscale shopping, dining, museums, and all manner of cultural exhibits.  It's not my favorite, but if you pretty much stick to that part of the cit yyour visit will be fine.  Mostly.   You might see a random wild animal running around that looks like it shouldn't be there, or like it might have just escaped from the zoo (and we don't have a zoo), but don't worry.  You probably just imagined it and didn't really see it (tell yourself that, it's better in the long run).

Avoid Mercy's Lot entirely, but most especially after dark.  Trust me.  No really, trust me on this.  It may look cool, hip, or even excitingly dangerous, but you want to ignore every single word except for "dangerous."  That's where the majority of my secret job happens, and that's where people go missing.  Especially tourists.

*pointed look*

So if you ever want to go home again, stay out of Mercy's Lot.

East Side's not so bad, but it's also not very interesting.  There's an abandoned mall, a bunch of industrial areas, and some homes.  Not recommended unless you like taking photos and touring parking lots full of dandelion weeds.  It's your vacation.

Or your funeral.  Depends on whether or not you follow my advice.  I mean, that's what tour guides are for, right?  So have fun, poke around the city, and don't get killed.  And if I see any of you around Mercy's Lot tonight, it'll probably be because you're about thirty seconds from dead.

Stay safe; stay out of the Lot.

Better yet, you'll be a hell of a lot safer touring some other city altogether—like Detroit.

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About Kelly Meding

A native of the Delaware seashore, Kelly Meding lives in a small town near the beach, with a neurotic cat who occasionally meows at ghosts.  Kelly received her Bachelor's Degree in Communication in 2002 and she hasn't used it since. After discovering Freddy Krueger at a very young age, Kelly began a lifelong obsession with horror, science fiction, and fantasy, on which she blames her interest in vampires, psychic powers, superheroes, and all things paranormal.  When not writing, she can be found crafting jewelry, enjoying a good cup of coffee, or scouring the Internet for gossip on her favorite television shows. Visit Kelly Meding online: Website|Blog|Facebook|Twitter

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Giveaway provided by Random House

3 copies of ANOTHER KIND OF DEAD by Kelly Meding

Available on August 2, 2011 from Random House

Description:

She can heal her own wounds. She can nail a monster to a wall. But there’s one danger Evangeline Stone never saw coming.

Been there. Done that. Evy Stone is a former Dreg Bounty Hunter who died and came back to life with some extraordinary powers. Now all but five people in the world think she is dead again, this time for good—immolated in a factory fire set specifically for her. Evy and Wyatt, her partner/lover/friend, can no longer trust their former allies, or even the highest echelons of the Triads—the army of fighters holding back from an unsuspecting public a tide of quarreling, otherworldly creatures—they can trust only each other. Because when the Triads raided a macabre, monster-filled lab of science experiments and hauled away the remnants, they failed to capture their creator: a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist with a wealth of powerful, anti-Dreg weaponry to trade for what he desires most of all—Evy Stone: alive and well, and the key to his ultimate experiment in mad science.

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