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HUGE Multi-Author Sci-fi and Fantasy Event!

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Huge Speculative Fiction Multi-Author Event!

Authors - this is where the event will take place. Your books and blurbs will magically appear here later this week. :-)

Readers - this is where the event will take place. :-) It'll start April 18, 2017.

15 Books for a Buck... Plus 12 for Free!

Fifteen books for a buck... Fifteen edge-of-your-seat stories of fantasy and magic... Fifteen tales that grip readers and don't let go... All that, plus twelve books for free!

As a thank you to those who download Name Your Demon before the end of the promotional period (Sunday evening), several of the authors and I are gifting readers other books of ours! There are twelve books up for grabs, including Conceal, the sixth book in my Mosaic Chronicles series! We can't wait to share them with you. :-)

How to Get Your Free Books
Forward the confirmation email you receive after downloading Name Your Demon to andreapearsonassistant@gmail.com. Once we verify your purchase, we'll send you the free books in a response email.

THIS OFFER EXPIRES SUNDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 2017
If you don't have that confirmation email (or can't find it) go to the retailer where you downloaded the book and screen shot your proof, then send that screenshot image to andreapearsonassistant@gmail.com. For example, if you downloaded Name Your Demon from Amazon, you'd screenshot this page (you don't have to circle the purchase - that's just so you can see the proof here):



As mentioned above, you have until Sunday night to do this.

Any questions? Email me and let me know, and if you haven't yet downloaded the box set, there's still two days to get it for just $0.99! Here are the links:

Kindle

Ready, set, go!

Multi-Author Speculative Fiction Promotion

In celebration of the Name Your Demon box set, which features 15 novels from 15 fantastic urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors, the following authors and I are running a huge multi-author promotion! There are over seventy of us participating, so you're sure to find something you'll love.

All books are $0.99!
This promotion starts on the 10th of January and ends on the 14th. Please verify prices before purchasing, and also note that the authors rated their own books.


Without further ado, here are the books!

PG through R

Fifteen books for a buck! Fifteen edge-of-your-seat stories of fantasy and magic! Fifteen tales that grip readers and don't let go! Name Your Demon is the ultimate urban fantasy and paranormal romance box set of the year. It has something for everyone...Just name your demon.



PG13

A strange meteor crashes in a small city in Washington, disrupting technology and emitting a poison that pollutes the minds of those nearby. Will Nicole be able to master her powers before the poison overwhelms her and her friends?

Discern, book one in this series, is part of the Name Your Demon box set linked above.

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 Destiny is the daughter of an outcast witch. And she's gonna save the world one love potion at a time.

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Everybody has their demons... Ember's want her dead.

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PG

The leanan sidhe has lived for centuries, inspiring artists as she takes their soul in return. Until the day she meets the man who could be her undoing.

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In this dangerous game with time, someone's bound to lose.

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Going to a séance was supposed to be a harmless diversion in Victorian England, but for Delia Spencer, it was life altering.

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PG

CIA Courier Lucy James can see a cheater’s glimpse into the future if an innocent is about to be killed, while a firefighter’s touch traps her within his turbulent emotions, sending him tumbling into her world of premonition and death.

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Freedom to Choose is Paramount for any human, but when you are bound to a crown how is any choice your own?

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A heartless monster. An innocent girl. He holds her life in his paws, but she holds his soul in her hands.

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PG13

A beastly prince. An enchanting beauty. Only love can break the spell.

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True demons are sighted for the first time in centuries. Is there anyone to protect humanity?

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What if everything you’ve ever known, down to what you are, was a lie?

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PG13

The song of the wild west is played with hot lead notes.

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World War III took my family - would the destruction claim my heart?

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Citrus has a normal life until it is taken over by someone who looks exactly like her. Beware, the Doppelgangers are coming!

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PG13

There's a new breed of heist criminal in town: underwater reclamation specialists. But it's not theft if you put it back, right?

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The first book in an epic fantasy series by Nebula-nominated author Jake Kerr, The Guildmaster Thief is the story of Ralan, a street rat who rises to become the guildmaster of Ness' underworld.

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When the Templar knight she loves, brings news of the disbanding of his order and the arrest of its leaders, Allyson realizes the king of England will betray the Templars to his own advantage. Desperate to conceal her own magic, she must turn to the one man she dare not trust: her own husband

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PG

Fire burns. Love can hurt more. An ancient hawaiian romance.

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A bard accidentally brings his imaginary muse to life, only to discover that she isn’t the woman he expected. He has to find her before she kills off an entire village, but can he destroy her without destroying himself?

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They came from the poorest cities on Earth, they were sent to work in giant "castles in the sky". They didn't know that they, or their children, would never see Earth again. This is their story.

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PG

Britain still has an empire; World War One still rages, and these days, the military are in charge ... welcome to the twenty-first century.
...Wren is prepared to sacrifice everything to restore our world's timeline. But then he makes the biggest mistake of his life. He falls in love.

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The dragon Chaos threatens the magical world of Dryth. Can Xu Liang collect the six swords gifted by the gods that will defend it?

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Trapped on a volcano, hunted by savages, and locked in perpetual night, seventeen-year-old Lilik has little hope for survival unless she can master her ancient, innate magic.

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R

What do you do when your childhood hallucination turns out to be real? Cross the galaxy to run away from him of course!

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Brenna's life isn't the same after she discovers her unusual heritage. In addition to being a telepath, Brenna learns she has the Succubus Gift.

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Finn doesn't remember much about her previous life, and in a world that has been changed by the wars of the Tuatha De, where trust is hard to come by, answers are even more difficult to find.

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PG13

On their homeworld Rajipuri, Anjali and her two younger sisters look up at the stars and dream of escaping the limitations of a rigidly stratified society. At the same time, in a camp for war orphans, Mikhail also looks up at the stars and dreams of escaping a life of pain and abuse.

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Allison has always hated the psychic sensitivity that gives her nausea and headaches whenever someone near her tells a lie. But her curse becomes a gift after her friend is murdered and only Allison’s talent can unmask the real killer.

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Welcome to Dark Ink Tattoo, Las Vegas’s premier 24/7 tattoo studio, where needles aren’t the only things that bite...

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PG

Sometimes the little girl in the red hood doesn’t get eaten, and sometimes the wolf isn’t the most frightening thing in the forest.

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Tommy Travers is a 15 year-old recluse until he is pulled inside a book and becomes the main character. Now he must find a way to complete his quest or be swallowed up in the World of Books forever.

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June didn’t ask to keep her origins a secret nor for her faulty heart. Now her dad vanished & she’s his only hope.

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R

A dragon. An awkward college student. A broken immortal warrior... Enter the electrifying world of Fate - Fire - Shifter - Dragon where fate meets fire -- and fantasy meets science.

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The city of Nike needs a hero. What it gets is Gideon Quinn, his draco, Elvis, and Mia the dodger. What could go wrong?

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Serena lives in a world where only men do magic, and women are sold off for how much magic is in their blood.

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PG13

Can you imagine the frustration? A teenage witch trapped in the body of a 5 year old. No cats, no broomsticks, no pointy hats--pure magic

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A dragon, a hapless hero, and a maiden who doesn't need rescuing.

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"It is the end of days, the Apocalypse of Revelations has begun and terrorists have effectively taken out the super powers cleansing the planet of the 'disease of civilisation'.​
Small bands of survivors are forced to confront the horrors of a psychopathic enemy. They fight back the only way they can - with sudden and savage violence."

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R

Find out what lurks behind the plastic curtain and grab your copy today!

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A Plane Crash... A Hidden Valley... A Mysterious Civilization... An Ancient Prophecy... A Cataclysmic Scheme... Five Unlikely Heroes

"Astonishingly imaginative and thoughtful..." ~ Samuel F. Pickering, Professor of English & Inspiration for Academy Award-winning movie, Dead Poets Society ~

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An Irish Mage with a tragic past cursed by a bloodthirsty, occult serial killer. Magick will either save the day…or destroy it.


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PG

An abandoned alien technology launches humanity into space. But will humanity's first starship also be its last?

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Monsters, magic, and mayhem descend upon Pittsburgh as a scrappy team of flawed superheroes work to fight back against an apocalypse of their own making. Daredevil meats the Dresden files, The Catalyst is a true indie superhero novel.

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Ava's only chance at freedom from the ruling Caelestia is to become a soul hunter: enter the human world, retrieve the required number of souls trapped in demons, and gain free will. But nobody told her the whole truth about soul hunters -- or how her only escape could be death.

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NC17

Will their fated love prove strong enough to end an ancient war?

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He's finished with Earth whether he likes it or not. But Earth isn't quite finished with Mr. Wilson.

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CSI with magic but without the gore

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PG13

Family secrets. Forbidden love. An empire on the brink of collapse. Will Mandhi's drunken brother save their people and bring down the Empire?

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After a brutal attack left the Komoro pack without its Alpha, Delana turns to the new—and dangerous—shifters who have taken up residence on their lands for help. With a soul too dark to be redeemed, Khet will do anything to protect the sweet female his beast claims is his mate. Even if it means going back to the Dark Lands—alone.

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Riley Hollis has quietly traced kidnapped children and quietly tipped the cops to their whereabouts one too many times. Now she's on the radar of Detective Clay Price, a cop in the pocket the mob. When he blackmails her into doing a dangerous trace for him, Riley will have to break every rule that keeps her safe, or become a pawn in a mob war.

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R

Guardian angel Enael struggles to keep her Wards on track when a demon interferes in their lives.

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Blade Runner meets Fight Club: "A little dystopian, a little cyberpunk, a little noir, Chasing Filthy Lucre is entirely thrilling."

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A reluctant messiah struggles with the rights and wrongs of using his godlike powers as religious conflict rages all around him.

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PG13

Two women are about to expose a terrible secret that will turn their world upside down: one will lead a revolution, while the other risks everything to tell the truth.

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When Hope Valley comes under attack from corporate developers, Timo and his bear clan perform in a charity strip show. And there’s a girl in the front row who can’t take her eyes off him. Can he convince her that there’s more to him than a smoking-hot body?

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While the first two books are free, in the third book in the trilogy, Freya and Garrve must get beyond the desert to the ends that they may pursue peace in the battling kingdoms, as Alban rushes to see his father one last time before it's too late.

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R

Dragon shifter Balthazar Andal believes archeologist Eva Haraldsdóttir holds the key to finding his missing scale, and together they race against time and enemies to restore Balthazar to his mythical glory.

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Star Wars meets Romeo and Juliette in this Action/Adventure Space Opera!

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Everybody dies. Kate Hale's job is to figure out when.

Conditional Probability of Attraction is book two of The Outlier Prophecies series—book one, Romancing the Null, is available through all ebook retailers in the Name Your Demon boxed set!

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R

After discovering that his estate is haunted, Lord Michael Baird seeks help from the village's wise woman. To his surprise she is both young and beautiful. Together will they be able to rid the estate of it's ghosts, or will they die trying?

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Two sisters -- one Fey, one a Hunter of the Fey -- who must find each other before the people they love succumb to a mysterious illness.

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What happens when you bite a wolf back on the night of the full moon?

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G

"This book was exceptionally interesting! A good clean book, vivid descriptions, thoughly enjoyable!"

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This clinical trial isn't going to win any ethics awards...

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Sublieutenant Rollo Molhollo adventures across the Universe in pursuit of fame, glory and just a little bit of fortune by conquering new worlds with a nine iron and a raygun, or at least conquering a vast and violent planet where golf is a bitter religion and far too many of its creatures have a taste for human flesh.

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A chance encounter with a powerful supernatural entity left former SWAT officer Cade Williams possessed of certain unique abilities, such as the power to cross between the lands of the living and the dead. Now he commands the Echo Team, a special ops squad of modern Templar knights, and the things they hunt are far darker and much deadlier than the criminals that he used to face.

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Book Signing and Buy One Get One Free Sale!

WELCOME TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF MY FIRST OFFICIAL BUY-ONE-GET-ONE-FREE SALE!! :-) 
This sale is in conjunction with the Local Authors and You book signing event, hosted by the Salt Lake County Library Services and held on November 5, 2016 from 1:00 to 5:00pm at 8030 S 1825 W, West Jordan, Utah 84121. There will be 76 authors participating.

Did you catch that?

Seventy-six authors will be signing!
Is "Seventy-Six Trombones" running through anyone else's head right now?? :-)
It's going to be PHENOMENAL. Trust me. You don't want to miss this event.
So, why am I doing a buy-one-get-one-free sale?

Many of you know we swapped out my Mosaic Chronicles covers to new ones. I've got a box of books with the old covers, and I've also got a bunch of proofs that have little errors on them (odd lighting on the covers, a typo here and there on the front or back, etc.). All of these have the complete, unchanged story inside.

If you've been wanting to get your hands on my books, now is the time to do it!

You can snag one (or all - I won't judge) of these babies by coming to the book signing and purchasing a full-length book at $12 (down from $15.99) for each free book.

Here are the BOGO ones that need a good home:



And here they are listed out, along with their prices if purchased separately (linked to Amazon so you can read descriptions and reviews):

Discern , old cover, multiple copies ($7 each) (From the series that has had over 100,000 downloads!)
One full set of Mosaic Chronicles Books 1-5 with the old covers ($30 for the set)
One full set of Mosaic Chronicles Books 1-5 with the old covers that are also proofs ($30 for the set)
One full set of Mosaic Chronicles Books 1-5 with the NEW covers and that are proofs ($30 for the set)
Rise of Keitus , four copies ($7 each)
The Golden Symbol , two copies ($7 each)
Bezza's Book of Enchantments , one copy ($3)
The Jewel Thief , one copy ($3)

All of my regular-purchase books will be discounted to either $12 or $5.
And that's it!

PLEASE NOTE: YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE BOOK SIGNING TO GET YOUR COPY - I WILL NOT BE SAVING THEM FOR YOU OR SHIPPING THEM OR MAKING ARRANGEMENTS TO GET THEM TO YOU. NO EXCEPTIONS! (Even for family or friends.)
If you are interested in any of the above BOGO books, I'm willing to hold them at the signing until 3:00pm. Make sure you come between 1:00 and 3:00pm. I make no promises after that, as I'll be harassing random people to take the books off my hands. :-)

LAST BUT NOT LEAST: I'm doing a workshop (at this book signing) called Creating Villains Readers Love to Hate from 3:15 to 3:45 PM in Viridian A at table Z. If you'd like to learn how to make your villains believable, horrible, and unique, come hang out with me at my workshop! And if villains don't pique your interest, come choose from the many other workshops that will be available.

I hope to see you there!


Authors participating:

Volunteers Needed for My Promotion!

I'm looking for volunteers to help me spread the word about my book, Discern! My goal is to hit #1 in the Amazon free store. I've been hovering around the #250 range for over a week now, which is absolutely fantastic! My BookBub promotion is September 14, and I need to be as high as possible before then. You can share any day you'd like to! Today, next week, etc.

If you're interested in helping, please share the following on social media and/or your blog:

1. Facebook Share:

(Right click, select "save image as," save the image, then upload it with your Facebook post. As an FYI, Facebook will help other people see your post more if you have an image in it.)
What to say (reword as needed):
I have an author friend who writes bestselling urban fantasy. She's got a couple books in her urban fantasy series available for free right now. Here's a quick description for Discern, book one: "He's dark and powerful, a magical anomaly. She's inexperienced and untrained. Can they set aside their differences in time to save themselves?" Find it here: books2read.com/u/bxgZY6 I hope you enjoy it!

2. Twitter Share:

(Right click, select "save image as," save the image, then upload it with your Twitter post. As an FYI, Twitter will help other people see your post more if you have an image in it.)
What to say (reword as needed):
My author friend's bestselling #urbanfantasy is free today! books2read.com/u/bxgZY6 #freebooks

3. Blog Share


What to share (again, change it as needed):
I have an author friend who writes bestselling urban fantasy. The first two books in her series are available for free. Here's a quick description for Discern, book one: "He's dark and powerful, a magical anomaly. She's inexperienced and untrained. Can they set aside their differences in time to save themselves?"

Find it here. You can also download Praxis, the second book, for free here. I hope you enjoy them!


AND THAT'S IT!

Feel free to snag any of the above images for any other social media sharing!

The promotion ends around September 18th, depending on a few promotional websites I'm still waiting to hear back from. You can share any day between now and then.
Many, many, many thanks! :-) :-)
Andrea

New Covers and Series Name!

I'm super excited to announce that my Katon University series books have received a face lift by way of covers and name! The series is now called Mosaic Chronicles, and here are the updated book covers:

Download Discern

Download Praxis

Download Perceive

Download Observe

Download Reclaim

Download Conceal

Download Obscure

Enshroud will be coming soon! I'm madly writing it. :-)
Withhold is coming soon! :-)
I've got a few more books planned for this series. Stay tuned! :-) :-)

Huge Giveaway for My Readers! :-)

Howdy, Peeps!

Pardon the massive numbers of possible prizes, ha ha. :-) I decided to go all out with this giveaway and offer like, a billion things. :-) This means that at least THIRTY-TWO PEOPLE will win, and maybe more.

The full rules are here, (which is also where you'll enter the giveaway), but in short, you don't need to post a review to enter the giveaway. If you do post one, however, you'll get an extra entry point for each book and each retailer/website where you post a review.

Here's the awesome thing:Most people won't post a review and will go for the free entry. Those of you who post reviews have a much higher chance of winning! 
A note about reviews: they can be as long or as short as you'd like. And they can be posted pretty much anywhere, as long as the location receives traffic. You can also copy and paste the same review for the same book to all the different places where you post one.

Here are the books I'm needing reviews on:

Discern (Amazon, Goodreads, Nook, iTunes, Kobo)
Mosaic Chronicles Books 1-5 (Amazon, Goodreads, iTunes, Kobo, Nook)
The Key of Kilenya (Amazon, Goodreads, iTunes, Nook, Kobo)
The Complete Kilenya Series (Amazon, Goodreads)


To enter and to see the rules, click here.

Here are the prizes being offered:

Digital Prizes
Three $10 gift cards to Amazon, to be awarded to three separate people.
Physical Prizes
Twenty print copies of Discern, to be awarded to twenty separate people.

Two copies of Midian, to be awarded to two separate people.

Two sets of my Ranch City Academy series books, to be awarded to two separate people.

Two Illustrated Monster books (has illustrations of my Kilenya series monsters in it), to be awarded to two separate people.

One full set of my Kilenya series books in print. That's $75 of free books! To be awarded to one person. (And gah... I just noticed how crooked the picture is. Trying not to cringe... trying not to cringe... trying not to cringe...)
Misc Prizes
Tons of Bookmarks! I've got 22 inches of bookmarks that have the old series name them. All the other information is correct, but I can't use them at book signings anymore. One inch of bookmarks equals about 70 bookmarks. If you're interested in winning bookmarks, please tell me so on the giveaway form here. I know some of you LOVE swag, so I'll probably have a bunch of people ask for at least an inch each. Number of possible winners is unknown at this point.

Facebook Cover Photo Images! Five people will be awarded the cover image of their choice, to be selected from this website. I hope you like the quotes I selected - I found them in the popular highlights of Discern. I'll ask for suggestions for more quotes at a future point.

Beta Reading for Andrea

I've had a bunch of people ask me recently if I'm accepting new beta readers right now. The answer is yes and no. :-) What I'm looking for: people who catch errors and help me strengthen my stories. What I'm not looking for: people who want a free read. :-)
I've put together a system where I'm able to tell who is who. :-) If you're interested in helping out, read over the following selection from a short story I wrote a few months ago and email me (ap@andreapearsonbooks.com) a list of the errors you find in it. Those who snag the most will be accepted into my beta reading list.
(When submitting your list, quote a few words surrounding the error so I know what you're referencing.)
The Blackwood Relic
Travis Blackwood hurried to finish hooking up the plow to the tractor. Not only would pa tan his hide if he didn’t get the fields done today, but Cassidy was coming over in a few hours, and he didn’t have much time to get his chores finished before she arrived.      He paused, staring at the forest on the edge of the field. Though the sun was directly overhead, the shadows there were deep and elongated.       Even sunlight seemed to fear the trees.      Travis had learned quickly not to ask why he struggled breathing, why his hands felt clammy when he was near the forest. Pa refused to talk about anything that concerned the place. He was determined to tame the only field on the property that invited unruly growth—to force the trees to stay within their bounds.      And Travis, standing by the plow here on the edge of the field, should have felt relieved with the shadows so far away But the air surrounding him was still. Crickets didn’t chirp—mosquitoes didn’t buzz. And the wind never seemed to stir the leaves on this part of the farm—it was as if even the elements and creatures felt there was something to be feared here.      Travis shok himself. He’d never finish his chores if he couldn’t hold his thought together. And if Pa caught him dawdling, he’d whoop him for sure.      To bad the old man was still so much bigger than Travis, who was nearly 18. Travis hadn’t caught up with the rest of the family yet—including cousins and some of the girls.      He hopped onto the tractor seat and admired his arms, pretending they had another ten pounds on them each, like his cousin Justins. But Cassidy obviously didn’t care about that sort of thing. Her beautiful blues eyes were just for him.      Throwing the stick into gear, Travis pulled onto the field. Once he settled into the familiar pattern, he was able to daydream, and thoughts of the forest fled his mind.       Though he was nervous to introduce Cassidy to the family—scared, even—he also couldn’t wait. They’d be so surprised that he—scrawny, tiny Travis—could get a girl like her.      Well, he could. And he had.      A sudden bump jolted Travis from his daydreams, and the grinding that followed was rough enough to make his teeth ache. The tractor stopped moving and the engine whined as it attempted keep going.      “Oh, no, oh, no, Travis said, popping the thing out of gear. A cold sweat rushed from his scalp and down his back. Only one thing would stop the plow.      The stone.      Pa was going to kill him.      He jumped from the tractor and rushed around to the side of the plow where the sound had come from.      “Doggonit”, he said, pulling off his hat.      He’d run over that rock, and the blades on this side of the plow were ruined, all tangled up around the stone.      Why Pa insisted on keeping it there, in the middle of the field, was beyond Travis. And the stupid part of the situation—Padidn’t even know where it had come from, yet he still insisted it stay and that no one touch it.      Well, Travis had had i. It was time to get the thing taken care of. And tadoy was the best time to do it, seeing as how pa and ma were out on a date. They always got back late on date night, so Travis would have several hours to dig, if he harried.      He scratched his head. Now to figure out how to get the plow unstuck. He bent and grabbed the twisted metal, prepared to tug a hard as he could. But the moment his hand brushed the rock, all thought fled his mind. His joints froze and his heart stopped beating. A dull ache spread through his body, starting in his chest.      He gasped for breathe, struggling to regain control, but a sudden terror sized him. He felt someone—or something—approach. He looked around, barely able to move his head, but didnt see anyone. The pressure became unbearable and tears sprang to his eyes.      What the heck was going on?      Moments later, the pressure released, but the feeling that someone was watching remained. The sensation came from all directions, as if the person—or being—surrounded him.      “God?” he said, looking up at the sky. But the feeling in his heart was far from the warmth Ma always said came from god.      Something else was out there.      Travis’s breath caught. His hands slipped off the metal of the plow, his palms clammy. His heart pounded, making his ribs ache.      No, nothing was watching him. That was stupid. Only the plow was there, and plows don’t watch humans. They don’t watch animals or trees or objects, neither.      “’Cause they don’t watch nothin’,” he whispered to himself, wishing his courage would return.      He was definitely going to dig up the rock.      His phone rang just then, making him jump. He pulled it out of his pocket, nearly dropping it as he fumbled to see who was calling.      “Oh, Cass. Man, you scared the bejeebies outta me!”      “Why? What’s going on”      “I feel horrible, and it’s freaking me out. It’s all on accounta this stone here.” He dropped his voice, shielding the phone with his hand, hoping that whoever was listening wouldn’t hear what he would say next. “And I gotta do something about it. Gotta get rid of it. I’ll start as soon as possible ’cause it’s gonna take all night.”      Cassidy made a little pouty sound. “What about our date?’      Travis slapped his forehead. “Oh, Cass, I’m sorry. I totally forgot. But there’s no way I can go bowlin’ when I know this evil is around. Ma and Pa are gone until ten, so I only have now to do it. Pa’ll get so mad if he comes home and sees his field dug up. Nope, gotta get rid of the stone now, then make the field right as soon as I can.”      Cassidy sighed. “Oh, well, okay.” She paused. “Could I come help?”      Something in the forest caught Trevor’s attention, and he glanced that way. A sigh echoed across the field toward the stone.      “Shhh,” Travis hissed. He crouched down, looking at the trees, trying to see what had made the noise. Nothing happened, but he continued waiting, glaring in the sunlight, trying to ignore the prickly sensation on his skin.      Realizing that Cass might think he was a coward if he didn’t do something soon, he jumped to his feet and shouted, “Whoever you are, you ain’t scaring me!”      They were, but maybe they wouldn’t know he was bluffing.      “Trav, you’re freaking me out.”      Travis waited, and when nothing more happened, he passed a hand across his eyes. “It’s freakin’ me out,” he muttered. “What did you ask?”      “If I could come over.”      Travis thought it over for a bit. He didn’t want to put her in danger, but he could really use her help. “I guess so,” he said. “But we have to be careful and we have to go fast.”      “Okay! I’m good at digging. Between the two of us, we’ll get it taken care of.”      He couldn’t help but smile at her enthusiasm. He was so lucky she’d decided to date him. “Bring a shovel. And thanks Cass. I appreciate it.”      He ended the call, tucking his phone back into his pocket. Talking to Cassidy always lifted his spirits, but it didn’t take long for the pressing sensation of being watched to put him out of sorts again. He glanced at the forest as he got back to work. He’d never once set foot in it, on account of the stories. Stories he was sure weren’t true, but regardless, he had never wanted to know for sure.      It took him almost two hours to unstick the plow and get the tractor back to the barn. The job would have been much easier if he’d asked Pa for help, but there was no way he’d do that. Not when it for sure meant Pa would learn what happened.      ’Course, he’d learn about it eventually. Travis couldn’t hide something like that forever. But at least when he did learn, that stone would be long gone, and Pa would be too grateful to finally have a clear field to be mad.
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First Ever Katon University Print Book Sale!!!

For the first time ever, the Katon University series books are available in print!And to celebrate, we're holding aBIGprint-book sale!Until Saturday, April 23, 2016, you can buy one book for $11.99 (regularly $16.99) or
ALL FIVE BOOKS for $49.99!!

(Plus sales tax and shipping)
Hurry and buy yours before the sale ends on Saturday! (April 23, 2016)


Yay for getting my series in print!!! :-) :-)
All Five Katon University Books for $49.99!
(Expires Saturday, April 23, 2016)

Be sure to indicate in the "special instructions" spot to whom I should sign the books. Otherwise, I'll just sign my name and ship as is.

US shipping: $15.00International shipping: email me and we'll figure it out!

You can also purchase the books one at a time. To do that, enter the title of the book you want in the field below and click "Buy Now." Then, when you get to the part where you sign in with PayPal (or confirm with PayPal, if you don't have a PayPal account), make sure you add a note for the seller and tell me who to sign the books to. Here's a quick list of the books so you don't need to look them up:

Discern (book 1)
Praxis (book 2)
Perceive (book 3)
Observe (book 4)
Reclaim (book 5)


Which book do you want?

Expect it to take about a month for the books to arrive, and ENJOY! :-) :-)