First, I want to say THANK YOU to every freaking one of you. Thank you for spreading the word about Descended by Blood's free promo. Thank you for downloading it. Thank you for the RTs and the Facebook posts and shares. And special shout out to Bookish Brunette and Stuck In Books for doing a blog post about the freebie! You ladies rock my face off! And anyone else who blogged about it that I'm un aware of THANK YOU!! We had over 15,000 downloads in the US and over 1,200 in the UK. I'm blown away! That is a HUGE amount of potential readers! If only 10% of those downloads end up being people who will actually read the book and like it, that's over 1,600 new fans!! In TWO DAYS!!! Thank you guys! Seriously! I'd be a sad little author with no readers if it wasn't for all of YOU! <3
Now, we can get to the juicy stuff!! That's right! The letters to you from Jaren and Mirko! Now the letters will be sent out in the form of my newsletter no later than next weekend! Yep, if you aren't signed up, you best hurry, yo! But here's the thing, Mirko and Jaren have stuff they want to tell you, but they also want to know what YOU want to hear from them!! Yep! We're taking REQUESTS people!! So in the comments below just tell me what you wanna know and who you wanna know it from! Simple, right!? And AWESOME!! It's like a direct line to these guys!
On your mark!! Get set! GO!!!!!
Oh, and I'll leave you with some eye candy while you think about what you wanna know! Just remember this is at least PG 16. lol :)
Hello my lovelies!! I have so many things to tell you all, but the first, most immediate item is
Descended by Blood is FREE!!
Yeppers! You can download this bad girl off Amazon RIGHT NOW for ZERO dollars people! And it's free on all the Amazon sites around the world! Please download it and share it with your friends, tweet it, Facebook it, get the word spread like it's the end of the world yo! I greatly appreciate all your love and support and sharing! Mucho LOVE from this wee author! ((Hugs)) Oh! And if you're a blogger, if you'd blog about it, I'd seriously love you forever. Well, I already do, but it'd sure make me smile!
Next up, we have some winners! Congrats to Annie for winning the Kindle on the St Patty's day hop. And Congrats to Tiffany, Wendy, and Megan for winning the Descended by Blood over 10,000 copies sold giveaway.
I also have a giveaway going on right now for the Kick Butt Characters hop. Your choice of some wicked awesome books! Oh! And we're giving away a copy of Descended by Blood, a copy of Dirty Blood or Cold Blood by Heather Hildenbrand, and a copy of Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer over on the Accendo Press blog! Check these out guys!
So go get your free on and your hoppin' on! Descended by Blood is FREE on Amazon ONLY today and tomorrow!
ALSO!!! OMG, you guys!!! You do NOT wanna miss this either!! Across the Galaxy by Heather Hildebrand is FREE too!! It's #6 in Adventure in the Kindle free store, so you wanna get this one!
Hello my lovelies!!! I have another giveaway for you all! And this one's FUN! The hop is hosted by I'm A Reader Not A Writer and Good Choice Reading. The idea is to offer up books with some kick butt characters! Right!? So much fun! I would offer up Descended by Blood or Dirty Blood by Heather Hildenbrand, but you can get those on the Accendo Press blog because it's in the hop too!! However, the books I've selected for your choice are pretty rocking awesome! Yeah, they are!
So you get to pick which book of awesome you want!
Choice #1 is Graceling by Kristin Cashmore. I read this book like forever ago and Katsa still sticks out in my mind for being a serious kick butt character! She so doesn't get enough play in the reading and blogger world, so SOMEONE had to recognize, right!?
Choice #2 is any one of the books in Maria Snyder's Poison Study series. I read this one a while ago too and I still think Yelena was pretty rocksauce awesome dude! Any chick willing to eat and drink something to check if it's poisoned is pretty hard core!
And Choice #3 is Enclave by Ann Aguirre. This was a book I was crazy anxious to get my hands on! No joke! I LOVE Ann Aguirre. She's seriously such a talented writer! And Enclave did NOT disappoint! Deuce is so freaking kick butt! Seriously, she takes those slashes in her arm like a pro, right!? I'm actually kind of jealous that I'm offering you all a physical copy when I only have the ebook. But I love you, so you getz it if you wantz it! <3
Okay, so when I signed up for the hop, was thinking it would only be open to the US, but no! I'm stepping it up people!! Anywhere the Book Depository ships to, you can enter and win, yo! So get your entering on and then you're hoppin' on!
Hey guys!! Boy do we have a special treat for you all! The lovely K.A. Tucker has put together a fun event! The idea is that you visit each blog, meet the leprechaun and get the letter, then put it together for the secret answer! One lucky person will win a KINDLE!!! This is one day ONLY, so get to hoppin'!
Here's what you need to do:
1. Visit each stop to meet the Leprechaun and collect thepurple letter.
2. Collect all the letters.
3. Fill in the blanks to answer the secret question:
"Where can Aengus find Caer, the girl of his dreams?"
4. Enter your answer into the Rafflecopter for your chance to win a Kindle!! Awesome right!?
“Oh, thank Dagda! I have been searching for hours and have become weary. You are the only person I have stumbled upon in two days!”
“’Igh, Aengus, you come here to cause me trouble? I’m up to me skivvies in dis here water. What make ye tink I’m gonna help ye?”
“Please, Murtagh. I’m looking for my one true love, Caer. You must have seen her. I need you to tell me where I can find her.
“’Igh! Ye fair maiden. ’Igh. Yes, yes, I know where she be. But a price, a price ye pay in gold to find ye fair maiden.”
Aengus pulls a coin from his pocket. “Here. Please, take it and lead me to her!”
Murtagh’s eyes light up. “I seen ye fair maiden over by da light post near da tall mushrooms trail. Follow me. Follow me.”
Murtagh grabs the coin from Aengus and leads him away, skipping and hopping while twisting and twirling his shiny new coin in the moonlight.
When they reach the light post, Murtagh puts the coin under his hat. A clink and clang rattles below the brim and the hat changes shape and color. What was black is now a dark green with a golden buckle on the front.
Aengus growls. “No more games, Murtagh! I gave you the coin. Now take me to her at once!”
Murtagh scratches his head and his hat wiggles as if alive. “’Igh, but ye paid me to lead ye to her. Where she was and where she be are not da same. Where she was will cost ye one, but where she be will cost ye a ton.”
Aengus reaches behind his back and pulls a satchel off his shoulder. He releases the tie and gold spills out. “Now tell me, Murtagh, where can I find Caer?”
Murtagh squeals and jumps in the air, clicking his heels together and then rushes to the pile of coins on the ground. He fingers the gold, causing the coins to dance along his knuckles. “Dis be a fine ton! Ye maiden followed de moonlight, through demountain’s valley, and over the monster’s back.”
Aengus looks out over the valley, and without turning back to Murtagh, he takes off at a breakneck speed.
Murtagh scoops up the gold and carries it back to his secret hiding spot. When he reaches his pot of gold, he dumps his treasure into the pot. He takes three coins from a file on the ground and places them under his hat. The hat jingles and jangles and shivers and shakes. The brim pops up and covers his head with a bright green hat and an extra shiny buckle.
“I may have lied to da lad. But only dis much,” he says as he pinches his thumb to his finger and laughs over his pot of gold.
Have you visited all 7 author stops and collected all 7 letters? Great! Now figure out what the secret answer is by plugging the letters in below!
_ _ A _ O _ S _O _ _ H
Once you've figured it out, enter for your chance to win a Kindle! Make sure to share the event with others for additional entries!
***Must be 13 years old or older. Open to where ever Amazon Prime ships to within the contiguous U.S. (PO Boxes excluded) and Canada.
*Credit to KA Tucker for the details part of the post!
I have something HUGELY exciting to share with you guys!
Descended by Blood has now sold OVER 10,000 copies!!!
That's right! This was an important milestone for me. I've always felt like 10,000 copies sold was a point in sales indicating that an author "made it". Weird, I know. And to reach this level in just 6 months has blown my mind!!
I couldn't have done it without you guys: the bloggers, the authors who've supported me and read my book, the retweeters on Twitter, and THE READERS! Thank you sooo much! I can't express to you how lucky I feel. I swear I have the BEST readers in the whole wide world. An author couldn't ask for better readers than the ones that have found me! And since my "thank you" still feels EPICLY lacking, I figured I'd give you guys stuff!
So here's the deal:
The giveaway is international! I don't care if you live in Zimbabwe! You win the prize, I'll pay the $50+ to ship it to you! Because I love you! All of you!
Now, there will be 3 winners.
Winner #1 will get their choice of a SIGNED Paperback copy of Descended by Blood, a SIGNED book mark, a nail polish matching the book's cover AND a paperback copy of Born at Midnight by CC Hunter
OR
a Descended by Blood Kindle skin (keyboard version) or Nook (original version), a SIGNED book mark, a nail polish matching the skin AND a paperback copy of Born at Midnight by CC Hunter!!
*Not shown Born At Midnight by CC Hunter, which is included
Winner #2 & #3 will get their choice of a skin (see above for options available) or a SIGNED paperback copy of Descended by Blood, and a signed bookmark!!
I would love nothing more than to also reward you with the release of Enemy Within, but it's just not ready yet. In the meantime, I will be offering the readers who've subscribed to my Newsletter some exclusive content. Ya know? Nothing BIG. Just a letter from Jaren AND Mirko this month!!!! ;) Also, subscribers will be the first to know of Enemy Within's release date once it has one, and they'll get the first peeks of Chapter 1 when it's ready! Subscribe via the sidebar or here!
Code to grab the button for your blog & get extra entry points!
Again, THANK YOU all. Much love from this happy, ecstatic, grateful author!
And shout out to the FABULOUS #ZombieQueen, Blogger extraordinaire, Genius designer The Bookish Brunette for creating the beautiful giveaway banner and the button! Love you forever chick! ♥
Now get your giveaway entering on!! Good luck! Love you!
