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August 23, 2011
Let the countdown begin!
Okay gang, it's officially two weeks until release day!
To celebrate, I've just posted the final excerpt…the first part of Chapter Two. So hie over to the site if you wish to read. To make it easier, you can jump to Chapter Two if you've read Chapter One already and you can download Chapter Two separately if you've already downloaded Chapter One or you can download a combined Chapter One and Two if you haven't read them before.
Later this week, I'll be doing a newsletter (hint…there may be an extra giveaway for newsletter subscribers). If you want to sign up, the form is at the bottom of the sidebar or on the home page of the website. And there'll be a launch contest announcement.
Until then, Keri is still giving away an ARC over at her blog.
I'll be popping up on various blogs and sites over the next three weeks, so I'll post those dates here as they happen.
Till then, I promise I'll be back with something less book related to blog about soon!
August 19, 2011
Look…over there
If you're interested in another small taste of my heroine before Shadow Kin comes out…I'm over at Dark Faerie Tales today, taking part in their Fantastic Fables event. Come check out a different kind of fairy godmother! Two copies of Shadow Kin are up for grabs!
August 14, 2011
Once in a lifetime
I was all set to do a post about the fabulous Romance Writers of Australia conference but then there was a knock on my door and a lovely delivery man handed me a package. A package I wasn't expecting thanks to my awesome editor wanting to surprise me.
I've heard stories in my head all my life. I started writing seriously around this time ten years ago. And today, I got to hold this for the very first time…
Hold onto those dreams, folks. Go after them. Sometimes they do come true!
August 12, 2011
Third chance
Yikes, it is early in the morning and I will confess to conference brain…but just a fly by post to let you know that, if you're on Facebook and happen to mosey on over to either the Ace and Roc books page or the Penguin USA page, there's a Shadow Kin ARC giveaway there as well. (It may be US only….)
And now, must get ready (aka consume more caffeine!)
August 10, 2011
Conferencing again!
Right all, I'm off to the Romance Writers of Australia conference, here in lovely um, not so sunny right now, Melbourne.
Four days of fun, friends and hanging out with people who understand having stories in your head.
Not sure how much I'll be around online other than twitter and FB, so have a good weekend everyone!
August 8, 2011
Second chance
If you were all sad that you didn't win the Shadow Kin ARC I had up for grabs, then turn that frown upside down.
The lovely Keri Arthur is giving away another ARC over on her blog. So take a peek over there and enter!
PS Exactly four weeks until SK is out!
Book launch!
So, for those of you living in the fair city of Melbourne, or who can be bothered getting thyself to the fair city of Melbourne, here's a date to mark on the calendar.
Thursday September 22nd.
For on that date I shall being all official author-like and having a book launch for Shadow Kin! Excitement! Adventure! Really wild things! Or at least, book talk, hobnobbing and little nibbly things.
Where, you may ask? That would be Dymocks, 234 Collins Street.
When? 6pm for a 6.30 kick off to the official part of the evening.
There shall be more details forthcoming over the next few weeks, including how to officially RSVP etc but for now, mark it in the calendar!
August 2, 2011
ARC Winner!
Well, the Torti has supervised the drawing of the winner of signed ARC and chocolate and it's…
Congrats Kristen! Contact me here and the ARC will be yours, all yours.
For the rest of you, don't despair…a little bird has told me that another ARC giveaway will occur next week on a blog not too far away….so stay tuned!
I'll be announcing my August contest later this month (three guesses as to what the prize for that might be : ) ).
P.S. As Vicky Lee didn't claim last month's prize, I've redrawn When Beauty Tamed The Beast and the new winner is Mary! Mary, email me as well.
July 24, 2011
Washington Part 3 – Natural History Museum
The second of the Smithsonian museums we went to in Washington was the Natural History museum which is stuffed full of very cool stuff. But I promise I will not inflict all of the pictures of said stuff on you, so here's just a few.
Easter Island statue
Hope Diamond (which is bluer in real life)
Concretized sandstone
Interstellar diamond dust (very cool!)
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Fluorite (pretty!)
Elephant butt
Giant squid
Teeny angry fish
Iron skull
Angry bunny
Interior of the museum
July 22, 2011
New excerpt and winner of July mystery giveaway!
Sorry for the prolonged suspense but the winner of my July mystery contest is Vicky Lee.
And the book she wins is a signed copy of When Beauty Tamed The Beast by Eloisa James, which is a great book by one of my favourite historical authors.
Vicky has a week to contact me or I will redraw.
In other news, the full chapter one is now up as the Shadow Kin excerpt on my website. If you'd downloaded the first excerpt, you need to jump ahead to about page 9 to get to where the first one left off.
And don't forget, I'm giving away a signed ARC of Shadow Kin this month…only 46 days until it's out!
