Giveaway winners

I love giveaways. Even cyber ones. It means everyone reading this is automatically excited already. I don't even have to do anything to snazz up this post to make it more interesting. You're already going to read it, looking to see who won. Easy for me. =P

I'm not going to draw it out and make you read a whole paragraph about what I watched on TV last night first, though it was tempting. I'm just going to give you your winners.

First prize goes to JEANNE!!!!

She will get a signed paperback of Dirty Blood, along with some cool bookmarks - one from me and one from Angeline Kace for Descended by Blood.

Thanks for entering, Jeanne, and I am so excited to have you as a new follower.

Second prize goes to Andrea (at The Bookish Babes). One of my awesome blogger friends. She will get the bookmark swag pack that includes a signed Dirty Blood bookmark, Descended by Blood bookmark signed by Angeline Kace, and the specially designed metal charm bookmark, made exclusively for Dirty Blood.

CONGRATULATIONS to both of you ladies!!!!

And thank you to everyone else who entered. There were well over 100 entries! I gained a lot of new followers on Twitter and Facebook and I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you. Thanks for entering and following. Feel free to drop me an email or comment anytime. And I always love to hear what you liked/didn't like about my books - or any book, for that matter. =)

Now that the excitement has been spread around, it's back to revisions for me. I am working hard at getting Cold Blood ready for you guys by Thanksgiving so I need to get back to it. This one's going to rock! I'll blog again when I come up for air.

Some things worthy of mentioning... and other stuff

This week has been miserable and wonderful all at once.

Miserable because I've been ill <--- perfect word for the all around nastiness I feel which kept me on the couch for most of the week. Boo!!

But wonderful because of all the nice things people are saying about Dirty Blood. Katrina over at Page Flipperz has the most recent review, I think, which was not only a super awesome review, but ALSO got her entered into my Race to Reviews giveaway. =)

Speaking of.. Let's update those numbers, shall we?

Across the Galaxy reviews/entries  - 6
Dirty Blood reviews/entries - 5

*Don't forget: if you 'tag' either book on Amazon, you get an entry for that too, but you MUST email me with what tags you used so I know to enter you for it.

Oh and another thing that must be said: Congratulations to A Book Vacation for winning the Dirty Blood giveaway this week over at the Bookish Babes. Enjoy ;)

Whew. Okay I'm actually sort of tired of talking about myself (or, more accurately, my book). Who ever thought I would say that? haha.

I'm sure I'll recharge and be back at it again later, fully amped to talk about and promote myself and my masterpeice, but for now, I need to take a break by thinking about something totally random and having nothing to do with me. I just read Water for Elephants which was brilliant but I can't talk about that because that sentence had the word 'I' in it so nevermind.

Oh, but that brings Robert Pattinson to mind, since he is in the movie. I could definitely sit and talk about him, as he's gorgeous and yummy and ... yeah you don't want to sit and listen to me though. It gets sappier and sappier. I'll just take a moment to myself. <pause. deep breath> Okay, I'm good now.

Actually, if I'm honest, there is an actor I love more than Rob. Its an affair that has been around since I was like twelve (yeah, I'm good at commitment) and I've never wavered in my devotion. CHRISTIAN BALE. Oh wow, he's just... Even when he was crazy in American Psycho. I usually can't watch movies like that (scaredy cat) but I watched that one, just to support him. I'm sure it meant alot to him that I did that.

It all started with a movie called Newsies and if you've never heard of it, then sadly, you have no idea that Christian can sing and dance - and you're missing out!! He was romantical and handsome and a bad boy and sweet all at once and I just couldn't help myself. (I was twelve!!) I think that was the beginning of my love for bad boys.

Oh and if you're wondering, yes, my husband knows about this. He's okay with it. He's still got a thing for Olivia Newton John so he can't say much.

So. I'm curious now... Who is your favorite male actor?

Race for Reviews Giveaway!!

Before I say anything, I have to give a shout out to Andrea at the Bookish Babes, for giving Dirty Blood such a great review. You can check it out here. She's also doing a giveaway on her site for Dirty Blood now through April 30th, as well as an interview by me. Go read it and come right back. I'll wait...

Okay, now that you're back...

I know there's been so much hype that you're all at the edge of your seats about the mysterious giveaway that I know for a fact I've mentioned at least twice now. For those of you who've been paying attention, I originally stated that I'd unveil the magnificent giveaway by end of last week so I'm running like 3 days late. (story of my life right now)

I took a little longer to really hone the details because I wanted to get it right. I am doing a number of giveaways in the coming weeks through other sites, and I didn't want to overlap or repeat myself. I also wanted to do something unique and something that is mutually beneficial, if you will.

So, Reviews.

Reviews are pretty important to us authors. They lend a certain credibility where there might not yet be any, especially for us newbies. And I'm a writer, a story teller, a liar - for a living. So I'm not offended to know that the reader doesn't trust me enough to take my word for it. They need to hear from some regular joe's, instead. (i.e. YOU)

This whole process becomes especially important as a self-published author, like moi. Reviews are sort of a life line in the marketing-advertising-promoting-platform-building smash up that we are always juggling. Now - let me stop and point out right here and now that I don't mean Stepford Wife-like reviews. I mean honest, opinionated, though never cruel, real life impression of my story kind of reviews. Those are the ones that count.

So. The details of the giveaway is this:

I'm going to have a RACE TO 30 REVIEWS!


Let's see how fast we can hit 30 reviews EACH. The first contestant in the race is my new paranormal romance: Dirty Blood. And the second, my YA Fantasy: Across The Galaxy. ITS A RACE!

Every review posted gets you entered into the drawing and as soon as we hit 30 reviews, I'll draw the winners. THIS IS A TWO PART CONTEST so there will be 2 sets of winners, one for each title. And yes, you can enter for both, and potentially win both! AND, if you've already read one or both, and left a review, it already counts towards the contest. AND if you've read one or both, but haven't left a review, go do it NOW!

So, here's exactly how you can be entered: (1) Choose either Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com or Smashwords.com and leave a review for one of my books mentioned above.
(2) You will receive an entry for EVERY review you post, so if you post to all three sites, you get three entries
(3) if you tag the book on Amazon, you will receive an extra entry. (Email me the tags you used so I know.)

As soon as we reach 30 reviews for a title, I'll do the drawing for that title. Here's what you'll get:

Dirty Blood Grand Prize: signed paperback of Dirty Blood, e-Book of Across the Galaxy, e-Book of Sleight by Jennifer Sommersby, AND an ARC of Cold Blood, the sequel to Dirty Blood, when its ready. (ARC will be ecopy)


Across The Galaxy Grand Prize: signed paperback of Across The Galaxy, e-Book of Dirty Blood, e-Book of Sleight by Jennifer Sommersby, AND an ARC of Cold Blood, the sequal to Dirty Blood, when its ready. (ARC will be an ecopy)


Two runner ups (for each drawing) will receive: 2 eBooks of their choice. (Can choose any of my titles as well as Sleight by Jennifer Sommersby) as well as ARC of Cold Blood when its ready.

The race is on.
Ready... Set... Go!