Showing posts with label Giveaway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giveaway. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

A Duel and a Giveaway, Oh My!

I'm sooo excited to have Chrys Fey here today with a guest post for her new release, Seismic Crimes and her already released companion novel, Hurricane Crimes! Such a clever way to offset the two novels against each with a duel..

So without further a-duel....

Here's Chrys!

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It’s a Duel!

When it was time for me to write the opening sentence of Seismic Crimes, I purposely made the statement opposite from the first sentence of Hurricane Crimes. And I, of course, had to show a contrast between the first paragraphs as well.

This is a duel!

Hurricane Crimes is in the red corner.

Seismic Crimes is in the blue corner.

Which story will come out on top?

You decide!


Hurricane Crimes:

Beth was going to die.

At least according to the nervous weatherman on her flickering television screen. An image of what was supposed to be Florida wavered in and out, except it was barely visible beneath the swirling mass of a Category 5 hurricane named Sabrina, which seemed to have a vendetta against the sunshine state. She never once sidled away from Florida but came head-on while gaining strength like a warrior preparing for battle.


Seismic Crimes:

Beth didn’t die.

The anxious weatherman forecasting Hurricane Sabrina’s arrival was wrong. She didn’t even die at the big, slightly calloused hands of Donovan Goldwyn, as she had thought she would. Accused of killing his brother, Donovan had shown all the signs of being a murderer, but she later realized he wasn’t a killer despite his suspicious mannerisms. Together, they had taken down one of the police officers responsible for killing Donovan’s brother, but one of the killers got away.


QUESTION: SO...Who won? Hurricane Crimes or Seismic Crimes?




Title: Seismic Crimes
Author: Chrys Fey
Series: Disaster Crimes Series (Book Two)
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Format: Digital and Print
Page Count: 282






DIGITAL LINKS:

PRINT LINKS:

BLURB:

An Internal Affairs Investigator was murdered and his brother, Donovan Goldwyn, was framed. Now Donovan is desperate to prove his innocence. And the one person who can do that is the woman who saved him from a deadly hurricane—Beth Kennedy. From the moment their fates intertwined, passion consumed him. He wants her in his arms. More, he wants her by his side in his darkest moments.

Beth Kennedy may not know everything about Donovan, but she can’t deny what she feels for him. It’s her love for him that pushes her to do whatever she has to do to help him get justice, including putting herself in a criminal’s crosshairs.

When a tip reveals the killer's location, they travel to California, but then an earthquake of catastrophic proportions separates them. As aftershocks roll the land, Beth and Donovan have to endure dangerous conditions while trying to find their way back to one another. Will they reunite and find the killer, or will they lose everything?


HURRICANE CRIMES 99¢ SALE!


  

DIGITAL LINKS:
Amazon CA / NOOK / KOBO 






Monday, September 22, 2014

Second Death: Is It Possible?

Today is Launch Day!

Discover the phenomenon of a second death.
How is it possible you ask?
Read to find out.
 
 
Second Death
Book I
The Afterlife Novella Series
 
Cover by Corona Zschusschen


Tweetable Character Quotes

 



“When faced with the strangeness of afterlife, a morbid sense of humor is a must...” Badger, Second Death. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N6TYPOE @UnRealms
 

 

 

“What do you mean by under the weather? He’s dead, how can he be sick?” Indigo, Second Death. #YA #PNR http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N6TYPOE @UnRealms

 
 
 
“If looks could kill…if he wasn’t already dead, I mean.” ~Sarah Scroggins, Second Death
#Afterlife series http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N6TYPOE @UnRealms
 
 

 
 
Blurb:
 
Second Death:
The Sabrina Shores spirit community is in crisis.
Ghosties are mysteriously disappearing at an alarming rate.
They’re simply…gone. A second death.
The clues are limited, but it’s clear that the one common factor is Gertrude’s Garden, the nightclub social center of the spirit community which just happens to adjoin the Sabrina Shores cemetery: the one place Indigo makes a point of not going. Ever. She has her reasons.
 
Indigo Eady:
Much to her chagrin, Indigo Eady is a celebrity among spirits. She’s the girl who can see and speak with them. She has a proven track record in helping spirits find their murderers, so it’s no surprise when she’s drafted onto the Missing Paranormal Committee. Who better to help them than the experienced teenage ghost whisperer- investigator and her friends?
 
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Blog Tour Stops:
(Book I)
(Yeah, I rub elbows with some awesome peeps!)
 
 
Check back in two weeks for book II release
of Ghostly Gallows and tour schedule beginning October 6th!
 
Then, two more weeks on October 20th is the release of book III, Secret Keepers - still need hosts for book III!
 
Giveaways!
 
  1. Everyone who comments here or at any of the stops during my Afterlife Blog Tour will be put into a drawing for FREE ebooks of Second Death, Ghostly Gallows and Secret Keepers. Five copies will be given away during the two week release period of each book.
  2. Everyone who leaves a review of any book in the Afterlife series by October 31, 2014 will be put in a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card.
  3. Everyone who purchases the complete ebook set or boxed ebook collection set by the end of the Afterlife blog tour (by October 31, 2014) will be put in a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card (boxed ebook set available October).
  4. A print book giveaway of the series will also be up for grabs - stay tuned for more details!
Send your purchase links with the heading "AFTERLIFE" in the subject line to GwenMGardner@cox.net to be entered into the drawings.
 
 
 

IF you feel like buying now:

 



 

 
Connect with me here:
 
 
 
 


Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Untethered Realms Giveaway!

Our group over at Untethered Realms has reached over 100 Followers! That's cause for celebration, of course. So, if you love to read, you're going to love our giveaway.

Check it out!

  a Rafflecopter giveaway

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Ready for a Journey? Christine's Odyssey

J.L. Campbell is sharing the book love by giving away special Two-Pack YA novels to celebrate her new YA release, Christine's Odyssey.
 
 
Of course, The Partners in ParanormYA are so happy to be participating in the celebration--
both Givin' Up The Ghost and Neverlove (The ParanormYA Pack) are among the prizes! But it's winner's choice - pick any pack you want!
 
 
 
But first, a few words from Christine, the cutie with the starring role in Christine's Odyssey!
 
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Howdy. I’m glad you’ve stopped in. My name is Christine and although I’m only eleven, I’m what some adults might call precocious. A lot has happened in my life, some of it bad, but like my dad used to say, good things can result from the bad stuff that happens to us.
To help me celebrate overcoming my challenges, a great gang of authors have teamed up and will be giving away copies of their books. Sweet, yes?

For a chance to win a pair of the books listed, you can do anything included on the Rafflecopter below or on Facebook. However, for those who’d like to win a $10.00 Amazon Gift Voucher, hop on over to the Jamaican Kid Lit Blog to enter for that.

Anyway, I tend to talk a lot, so before I get carried away, here’s my story:

Raised in a hotbed of arguments and fights, eleven-year-old Christine Simms is the victim of her mother's cruelty. A domestic dispute ends in tragedy, sending the family into a tailspin.

A shocking discovery sends Christine on a quest to find the stranger who left her behind in Jamaica. Determined to unravel the mystery of her birth, Christine uses every tool at her disposal and treads with courage where no child should.


Thanks so much for dropping in! I hope you win the novels of your choice. I should tell you that you get to choose books based on how the Rafflecopter does the drawing of the winners. So, if your name comes up first, you get to say which pack you want.
 

Available in ebook format at  Amazon US
 
About the Author:

J.L. Campbell is a proud Jamaican, who is always on the hunt for story-making material.

She writes romantic suspense, women's fiction and young adult novels. She is the also the author of Contraband, Dissolution, Distraction, Don't Get Mad...Get Even, Giving up the Dream, Retribution and Hardware (written under the pen name Jayda McTyson).

Visit her on the web at http://www.joylcampbell.com.

Enter to Win!




 Rafflecopter for the $10 Gift Card is below:



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Show Some Book Love to Frailties of the Bond

 
 
I am so happy to help Angela Brown announce the release of her new novella, Frailties of the Bond! I've read it of course, and it is absolutely one of my favorites.
 
I'm sure you'll love it, too, so I'm thrilled to show some book love by giving away an e-book of Frailties of the Bond to a commenter. Yep, just leave any comment to enter and I'll pick the lucky winner randomly!
 
 
About Frailties of the Bond:
 
 
NEO – Network of Extraordinaires and Otherworldlies:
 
Those who answer the call from NEO play their part in maintaining balance in our ever-changing times. With power-hungry malcontents, jealous gods, and even those with misguided good intentions, the fate of our world has oft been held in the hands of unsung heroes such as those that are members of NEO.
 
But before NEO, these heroes and heroines had lives, loves, issues and interests that didn’t involve saving mankind.
 
In Frailties of the Bond, it only takes one bite to change a life
 
After a hiking trip gone wrong, sixteen-year-old Luca should have been dead. Since then, he’s drifted from one school day to the next, annoyed by the looks of suspicion. When a vampire attack claimed his mother and forced his first shift into animal form, Luca set out for Texas, vengeance bound, only to discover so much more when Aimee crossed his path.
 
Flesh-born of vampire parents sixteen years ago, Aimee shouldn’t exist. Magic, though, made dreams come true for an undead couple desperate for a child all their own. But this magic came with a price, a cost Aimee discovered after one forbidden bite.
 
An Excerpt:
 

The pulse of the bass line traveled across the field and rattled the body of Mouse’s Challenger, the rave at full swing. Glow sticks waved in the air to the fast-paced rhythm of synthesizers high on musical ecstasy. The bouncer tore our tickets, spouted his “don’t cause a riot” act then gave us a head nod, universal for “get the hell in already”.

Shelley drifted into bloodlust, fangs extended, eyes glossed over with a dull yellow sheen. By party’s end, they would be a blazing gold after she got her fill. She peeled from us and disappeared from sight.

Mouse stayed with me just long enough for a Thor look-alike to ask her to dance. She chucked me the peace sign and left.

There I stood. All alone. By the bar.

Three feet away, a vampire fed on a girl. Out in the open! It was a spectacle I hadn’t seen before. Her blood ran like red tendrils pooling onto her cleavage. Sloppy eater.

“Care for a Bloody Joey?” the bartender asked, pulling me out of the moment, and probably saving me from the embarrassment of gawking like the newbie I was.

“A bloody who-what?”

“Bloody Joey. Mary’s supply always depletes five minutes after the party starts. We still have Joey, Alexander and Alice. I’d recommend Joey. His blood has a smooth texture.”

I was stuck, too ashamed to ask if he would put the blood in a cup or pass the person over the bar.
 
 

About the Author:

Before we move on to the bio, let's share some random things about Angela that we don't know:

Five Things You May or May not Know About me

1.      I stole a box of Chiclets gum when I was five. Guilt tore me apart. I haven’t had the stomach for stealing anything since.

2.       My then fiancé couldn’t attend my senior prom due to distance, so I had his name drawn on my left ring fingernail in white to match my all white dress.

3.       I’m addicted to chocolate and Wild Cherry Pepsi (lol!! Most of you probably already know that.)

4.       I’m a middle child (who may or may not suffer from that silly middle kid syndrome lol!!)

5.       I’m an Aquarius J

Did someone happen to check my horoscope today? If it’s bad news, I’d rather remain blissfully ignorant lol!
 

Born and raised in Little Rock, AR, Angela now calls Central Texas home.

Reading and writing have been lifelong passions. It was around the time she gave birth to her forever-love, nicknamed Chipmunk, that she really took writing seriously. After all, how could she teach her child to follow her dreams if she hadn't tried herself?

As a YA fantasy/sci-fi reader and author, she favors the magical, mysterious, the darker side of life...even harbors a secret fright for things that go bump in the night.

NEVERLOVE is a special project spawned from a blog-challenge-turned-blog-opera, 
the Abby and Basil affair. It is the first in the Shadow Jumpers series.
FRAILTIES OF THE BOND is the first in a series of novellas and short stories introducing heroes and heroines of the secret organization, NEO – Network of Extraordinaires and Otherwordlies.

Buy Links:

Amazon US .  Kobo .  B&N
 
Connect with Angela:



Angela Brown in the Pursuit of Publishness blog: http://publishness.blogspot.com/




Friday, March 15, 2013

A-Z, Review Giveaway and Other Stuff

Hey, how are you all doing on preparations for the A-Z Challenge? I was starting to get worried that I wouldn't finish the pre-writing and then I'd be stressed out trying to write them on a daily basis--or more likely, I might have had to drop out.

Well, now I only have about 5 posts to go so I'm feeling a lot better. I think I have F, J, K, Q and Z left to write. I'm thinking Z is going to be the problem! Anyway, feeling less stressed and sooo excited to do my first A-Z! I'm even a minion :-]

How about you? Are you participating? Pre-writing? Minioning? 
 
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So here's a pretty cool deal. Angela Brown is doing a $25 - $50 Amazon card giveaway! Check it out...

Readers and reviewers are the lifeblood of any author, no matter what path taken to publish their work. Whether the author Tweets dozens of times a day or barely has a presence on Facebook, no readers spreading the word about their work boils down to no one buying or reading an author's book.

Readers and reviewers, YOU ARE THE BEST!! To show my appreciation, I'd like to offer a chance for one of you that read and reviewed Neverlove to win a $25 Amazon e-gift card. The giveaway is a month long, so that means if you have Neverlove in your pretty little hands and you'd like to enter, you've got plenty of time to do so.

For those yet to purchase Neverlove, it is $0.99 at BN.com, Amazon and Kobo. Grab your copy and make sure to put your review at all these places (along with Goodreads which is a great site where other readers are interested in your thoughts about books).

Make sure to enter the Rafflecopter below. Of course, because this is a Reviewer giveaway, please bear in mind the mandatory option for this giveaway is that you share the link of one of your reviews so you can enter to win.Those who've already reviewed are ahead of the game. Go and grab your permalink so you can enter to win.

*****To make this even more enjoyable, let's add a challenge. If the number of reviews at Amazon reaches 35 before the end of the giveaway, I'll add $15 to the gift card. If it reaches 50 reviews, I'll make the gift card $50. You read that right. If we reach 50 reviews for Neverlove, the $25 gift card will double to $50.*******

You can enter the rafflecopter HERE.  
 
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And you can still win an autographed paperback of Givin' Up The Ghost on Facebook HERE  or on GoodReads HERE.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Fresh Baked Pretzels!

Haapppy Friday!

We made it through another week!

Want to play a guessing game?
It's easy--just guess where this photo was taken. Go on, guess! I'll let you know the answer on Monday!


Can you tell I'm on a low carb diet? LOL!

I would kill for one of these pretzels right now!


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Untethered Realms is hosting the first of its monthly contests today. I'm sure Mary Pax will be making it fun and easy - with a great prize at the end!

Check it out HERE!

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Curious about orbs? They play a part in my novella.
I'm talking about them over on Partners in ParanormYA.
Check it out HERE.

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And speaking of prizes...

I'm still having two autographed paperback giveaways. One on GoodReads and one rafflecopter.

The GoodReads giveaway is HERE.

The FaceBook Rafflecopter is HERE.

Want to enter the rafflecopter? Just tweet or retweet one of the provided tweets or make up your own. You're on the honor system, so I won't ask you to paste the URL - that's such a pain!

Just tweet one of these:

RT plz! Murder and Ghosts and Mayhem, Oh My! Givin’ Up The Ghost http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b
#tween #ebook #UnRealms

 
An awesome #tween #read Givin' Up The Ghost, a cozy paranormal mystery. Get it on your #Kindle #ebook now http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A Little Fun With Tigers and Napalot

How about a little fun?




The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo allows you to get a little up close and personal with some of the animals. Not too close, mind you. But close enough.

Did this tiger...

A) Throw me his toy

B) Splash me

C) Scratch me

D) Spray me

 
That's all I'm going to say :)
What do you think?

Leave your guess in the comments, I'll post the answer on Friday!

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Also....

I'm on Myndi Shafer's blog today.
I even wrote a spur of the moment haiku about napping.
Hope you can stop by and check it out!

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And...

Thanks to all who tweeted and promoted me through Writers 4 Writers. I'll post the results soon.

Still having a Rafflecopter and Facebook giveaway HERE.

or

Rafflecopter HERE.

And...

A GoodReads giveaway HERE.

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Monday, February 18, 2013

W4WS Most Wanted Detained!


Most Wanted!
Reward!





Gwen "The Rogue Writer" Gardner
 has been detained as a "person of interest" by
Writers 4 Writers.


They now have her in custody and she
needs you to spring her!

The cost of her ransom bail?

 

Tweets,
Retweets and
Facebook Shares.
As many as you want or can.

The loot is hidden below. Grab some.

Hurry! And Thank You So Much!
(and I hear Melissa needs sprung, too)

Tweets to copy and paste:


For Monday and Tuesday GUTG is FREE:

RT plz! Snuggle on down with Givin’ Up The Ghost. #FREE 2/18 – 2/19 a cozy read http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #Kindle #GivUpTheGhost #UnRealms #W4WS

RT plz! Murder and Ghosts and Mayhem, Oh My! Givin’ Up The Ghost FREE 2/18 – 2/19 http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #ebook #GivUpTheGhost #W4WS #WS4U

RT plz! Attn bookworms, cozy down with Givin’ Up The Ghost for #FREE ! 2/18 – 2/19 http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #ebook #YANinjas #W4WS #WS4U

For Wednesday and Beyond:

RT plz! Snuggle down with Givin’ Up The Ghost. A cozy paranormal mystery http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #GivUpTheGhost #ebook #UnRealms #W4WS #WS4U


RT plz! Murder and Ghosts and Mayhem, Oh My! Givin’ Up The Ghost http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #ebook #UnRealms #W4WS #GivUpTheGhost #WS4U

RT plz! Attn bookworms, cozy down with Givin’ Up The Ghost, a cozy paranormal YA mystery http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #ebook #kindle #W4WS #WS4U

Easy Retweets:
Retweets are easy. Just go to your
Twitter page and enter any of these hashtags in the search bar.
Click Retweet on any Givin' Up The Ghost tweets.

#GivUpTheGhost
#W4WS
#WS4U


Tweets for Giveaways:


RT plz! FREE autographed paperback giveaway of Givin’ Up The Ghost on GoodReads. Open to 10 countries. http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/44462-givin-up-the-ghost #GoodReads #FREE
RT plz! 1000 Tweet giveaway  1 signed paperback of Givin’ Up The Ghost per every 100 tweets!  http://bit.ly/TQ4AQr   #W4WS #GivUpTheGhost


Rafflecopter:
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