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Rabid Reader Double Giveaway!

Hello 2012!  I hope you all had a wonderful time ushering the New Year in? Mr Mc and I greeted  it quietly with the requisite malt and shortbread while watching the spectacular fireworks at the London Eye on the TV :-D. Sadly, the excitement and late night (I'm such a lightweight :-D) must have been too much for me as the Migraine Monster attacked yesterday (not hangover related, more's the pity), but after crawling under the covers early afternoon and hiding until this morning, the MM is now only a tiny niggle and victory should be mine very soon. *relieved sigh* :-)

And so onto my first post this new year! Which is to give you the heads up that the fabulous Mardel at Rabid Reader has a giveaway for 'The Bitter Seed of Magic' (Out Now US *happy dance*, and UK!) and the amazing 'Doc Vampire Hunting Dog' by J.A. Campbell. So head over to there now and enter! (there's not a lot of entries, so the odds are good for winning :-)) Open to US only, I think, and ends Jan 15. So, go on, go enter! You know you want to *g*


Yay! Don't the black and red covers look purty together? Though I'm not sure my vamps would be too chuffed to bump into Doc, not with that stake of his! *G*

Six Things Make a Post!

So the US edition of  The Cold Kiss of Death released yesterday! Yay! And there's a couple of places below where you could win a copy - and even if you've already read it (Thank you!), then why not enter anyway . . . you could always gift the book to friend if you win! (Books are always my favourite gifts, along with chocolate, of course *g*)

1. I'm interviewed at The Qwillery - head on over to find out about my strange writing quirks (involves hopping!) + there's a giveaway for one lucky commentator for The Sweet Scent of Bloodand The Cold Kiss of Death. (Int. Ends May 4). The Qwillery also reviewed The Cold Kiss of Death here (She liked it! Woot! *g*)

2. The wonderful Mardel over at Rabid Reader is holding a Book Birthday giveaway for winner's choice of The Sweet Scent of Blood or The Cold Kiss of Death. (Int. Ends May 6)

3. I had a brilliant, albeit short time* at Eastercon over the weekend! It was great to see old, and new friends, and meet some fab folk in RL that I've only e-met before. Sadly, because of my short time there, I missed meeting up with lots more folk, and only managed to get to one panel (Combative women in SF & F - which I thoroughly enjoyed). So I now have a plan for next year to make sure I go for longer!

My reading* went well (in spite of me never having read to anyone other than my crit group before). I read about half of 'Full-Scale Demolition' which is the prequel Spellcrackers short story that will be in the Home Improvement: Undead Editionanthology out in August.I think I only fluffed it a couple of times! Sorry, folks! And our audience were kind enough to applaud! Thank you to all who were there :-). I read with Dan Abnett (who writes some very cool, and funny science fiction). There's another pic of me over at Warpcoresf.
picture courtesy of Amanda at Floor to Ceiling Books

4. Is a reminder for the week's celebratory giveaway for Jennifer Estep's Tangled Threads (or winner's choice of an earlier book in her series). You can enter here until midnight (GMT) April 28.(Int.)

5. There's the bonus giveaway for the first six peeps in the US to send me pictures of The Cold Kiss of Death on an actual shelf, in an actual book store in the US! I'll send them each 6 Spellcrackers Bling Pencils (one of each colour available - and yes they are sparkly Swarovski Crystals on the ends!). Email your pics to contest at spellcrackers dot com (remembering to replace 'at' and 'dot' with @ and . :-)), with Spellcrackers Pencil Contest in the subject line. And don't forget to tell me which city the store is in, please. *curious*

6. And there's yet another chance to win a copy of The Cold Kiss of Death (or choice of lots of other cool books!) over at Preternatura (Suzanne Johnson's blog) in her New Releases post . (Int. Ends April 29)


*Yep, I know the post is short too; as I'm in Deadline Hell. Sorry!
*Apologies for forgetting the mini eggs and liquorice torpedoes :-( 
*The pics are inspiring me to do the diet and exercise thing. Sitting around and hitting the keyboard is just not conducive to keeping the pounds off. And no, I don't need to be all sylph-like, but I really do need to fit into, and feel more comfortable, in my clothes.*sigh*

Five Links of Fang-tastic Love!

Happy Valentine's Day to all!
Hope you're having a Fang-tastic, heart-pumping, romantic time! *g*

Links of Love # 1.

Gollancz have a new Dark Fantasy Newsletter out, and you'll never guess who's the Guest Editor ... Lol! Well, okay, you probably will if you're reading this. *g* So, why not click on over and you can check out my editorial scribblings here, and there's a couple of great giveaways* to enter too!


 

Link of Love # 2

The lovely Book Chick City is hosting this! 

and today's post is from the fabulous Louise Court, who is a Publicity Assistant at Orion/Gollancz. Louise lets us in on what it's like to work with all the wonderful books, and what happens when they're getting published. Oh, and she's giving away FOUR fang-tastic* books (one of which you might just recognise *g*).

Links of Love # 3 -  Rabid Reader has a contest for a signed book*! (scroll down the post to find it) Oh, wonder which one that is? *g*


Links of Love # 4 - Get your Enchanted Boarding Ticket and take a tour of Supernatural London over at Falcata Times ... and once your tour is over, there's another magical chance to win a Spellcracker of a book*!


Links of Love # 5 - Shoot a Valentine's Day arrow at your favourite lovers, and pin them down in a comment here, and you could be all loved-up with Cat & Bones in their new book: THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE - JEANIENE FROST.


Right, off to make romantic chocolate covered strawberries for Mr Mc - thanks to an idea given me by a a very sweet friend this morning :-) Pic spam may follow ;p

ETA:


*This post is all about the book that shall not be mentioned here (shameless shelf promotion can only be taken so far ...), the same book that is officially released this Thursday!! Yay! And is already shipping from Amazon.co.uk, The Book Depository, and has been spotted in the wild in Waterstone's in Edinburgh!

The Bitter Seed of Magic - Teasers ...

Want a chance to win a signed copy of The Bitter Seed of Magic? Then head on over to the fab Rabid Reader's blog here (you need to scroll down on the post for the details of the contest). She's holding a contest, and there's not too many entries yet, so the chances are good :-)

You can read some teasers from The Bitter Seed of Magic too

Chapter 1 here
 
Start of chapter 2 here

Snippet from later on in chapter 2 (scroll down to read)

Teaser Tuesday here from page 25 - chapter 3

Oh, and Book Lovers Inc., reviewed The Bitter Seed of Magic here ... and they loved it! *blushes/beams* *whispers* the word Fanta-bulous might have been mentioned! Yay!

Yep, I know. More shameless self-promotion! Anyone would think I've got a new book coming out soon! *g* But hey, I've also been doing some guest blogs, writing about 'things that might be interesting' so they'll be coming up soon ... just watch this space.

Oh, and don't forget to enter this week's giveaway here for your choice of two of my books!

Sneak preview ...

The fabulous Mardel a.k.a. Rabid Reader has an exclusive sneak preview of Ch. 2 The Bitter Seed of Magic on her blog. So, go read! Go on, you know you want too :-D

Oh, and she says some wonderful things about my books! Thank you, Mardel! *BLUSHES* #I♥RabidReader
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