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HUGE Sizzling Summer Giveway & Special Excerpt from ETHAN!

SIZZLING SUMMER GIVEAWAY!

Today you can check out a special excerpt from ETHAN. Click the cover below to read the excerpt!

And don’t forget to enter the HUGE contest below for lost of fabulous prizes! Rafflecopter form is at the bottom. Have fun!

YA Bound Book Tours is organizing the Sizzling Summer Giveaway event featuring 50 authors!  This giveaway event will take place July 22nd to July 27th.  The giveaway is 2 Kindle Fire HD’s with e-book prize packs! (shown below)

Participating Authors:

Rachel Harris
Trisha Wolfe
Alyssa Rose Ivy
C.C. Hunter
Bethany Lopez
Cindi Madsen
Tiffany King
Raine Thomas
Laura Howard
Patrice Michelle
Jennifer Snyder
Carrie Butler
Andrea Heltsley
Jennifer Lane
Shannon Duffy
Devyn Dawson
Nazarea Andrews
Cherie Colyer
T.M. Franklin
Dawn Pendleton
Lisa Sanchez
Morgan Wylie
Eliza Tilton
Liz Long
Meradeth Houston
Dawna Raver
Erin Danzer
Lisa Collicutt
E.J. Wesley
A.K. Morgen
Elle Chardou
Lara Schiffbauer
Jaycee DeLorenzo
JD Nelson
Sharon Bayliss
C.R. Everett
Thea Gregory
Brandice Snowden (not shown)
Nicki Elson
Diana Castilleja
A. W. Exley
Krystal Wade
Elizabeth Sharp
Krissi Dallas
Tia Bach
Jamie Ayres
Michelle Muto

 

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***GIVEAWAY***
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1 – Kindle Fire HD with YA e-book prize pack (shown)

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Enter for a $25 Amazon GC Giveaway and more on my Facebook page!

An update on DESTINY, an EXCERPT, and a chance to win PRIZES

(including a $25 Gift Card to Amazon)!

First, an update on DESTINY. It’s coming, but its release will be delayed a bit due to my move across the pond. If you want to know more, I’ve posted an update with PICTURES on my blog here. And I’ll be posting updates on my Facebook page, so you can keep up with my progress on DESTINY and learn a little French right along with me.

As a follow up to readers asking for one, I posted a sexy teaser EXCERPT on my Facebook page from DESTINY (It’s the post on July 10th. As you can tell from the excerpt, DESTINY will be steamier. ).

While you’re there reading the excerpt, I hope you’ll enter the giveaway I’m running on my FB page.

Here’s the info on the giveaway…

To enter for the giveaway you 1) must LIKE my P.T. Michelle Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/PTMichelleAu... ) . If you don’t already LIKE my page, click the LIKE button in the bottom right corner of the header to enter. 2) Then SHARE the link to my FB page ( https://www.facebook.com/PTMichelleAu... ) with others on FB. That’s it!

As soon as I reach 1600 LIKES, I’ll pick a winner. Right now the only place to get BKoD swag is via winning it from moi in a contest!

Here are the prizes being offered.

Prize # 1

A $25 Gift Card to Amazon.

Prize # 2 (choose between 2 options)

Option 1: 1 women’s medium fitted BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS t-shirt

(Fits like a woman’s small. I’m wearing a medium in this picture.)

OR

Option 2: 1 BKoD mouse pad

(The prize doesn’t include the mouse. )

I hope you’ll LIKE my FB page and follow along to keep up with all the juicy DESTINY tidbits!

Good luck!

P.T.

Teaser EXCERPT for DESTINY!

I posted a teaser excerpt for DESTINY on my Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/PTMichelleAu...

Check it out and LIKE me while you’re there, so you don’t miss out on future posts!

Where is P.T. and an update on Destiny…

Bonjour everyone!

And that’s the extent of my French..well, unless you count: Je ne parle pas français (I don’t speak French). Parlez-vous anglais? (Do you speak English?), Je ne comprends pas (I don’t understand.), Je suis désolé (I’m sorry), S’il vous plaît (please), merci (thank you); oui (yes), and au revoir (good-bye).

I know I’ve been quiet, but it’s been quite the adjustment trying to figure out how to buy groceries, work with delivery people, and just run daily errands without speaking the language. Turns out that very few people speak English in the area I live in. :/

Imagine, wherever you go, everyone around you sounds like Charlie Brown’s teacher (well, except the language sounds beautiful). It makes even the simplest errand a trial in charades, finger pointing, and the hope that Google Translate is accurate so you don’t come back from the dry cleaners with your husband’s dress pants as a pair of Bermuda shorts. And, of course, your brain implodes when you finally get out the one phrase you’ve practiced saying and then you try to understand what’s being said back to you in rapid French. If I were six, I’d pick this new language up in no time, but I’m waaaaaay past six. LOL!

France is absolutely lovely with scenery like:

(click the images to see bigger versions)

   

But I’ve definitely had moments while trying to understand what’s being said to me that make me feel like this:

and this

and even a few times like this…

Sometimes life throws you a major curve and you just have to roll with it. Intensive French lessons are a priority now, just so I can live my daily life. DESTINY is being worked on everyday, but going slower than I want. Not finding any summer camps here to keep my kids occupied hasn’t helped either.

For obvious reasons, DESTINY’s release date is getting pushed back. This book will release in 2013, but I’m not giving a new date until I know I can meet it. As time gets closer, a date will be given.

In the meantime, I’ll provide updates on my progress on DESTINY every so often. All of the updates will be on my Facebook page, and I’ll also throw in a french phrase or word of the day too, so you can learn a little bit (un petite peu) of French right along with me.

For those who don’t want to follow me on PT Michelle Facebook page , or if you don’t want to have to keep checking back on my website, I also offer a newsletter that I only send out to announce when new books are released or if I have a big contest you might want to know about so you can enter. My newsletter email will come straight to your inbox. You can sign up for my newsletter here or here: http://bit.ly/11tqAQN

Thank you for your support and understanding. I really appreciate you loving Ethan and Nara’s story!

Best,

P.T.

HUGE Brightest Kind of Darkness Giveaway WINNERS Announced!

Hi everyone…here’s the news you’ve been waiting for!

The HUGE BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS Giveaway WINNERS Announced!

Rhianna Walker (Grand Prize Pack)

Magen Corrie Lirette-Chambers (1st Prize Pack)

Jennifer Thomas (2nd Prize Pack)

Kelly Ford Powell (3rd Prize Pack)

Runners up Prize Packs…

Caitlyn Renee Minor

JenniferGW (Jennifer Wheeler)

Diana Terrado

To see what each prize pack contains, you can view the prizes here on my blog: http://www.ptmichelle.com/2013/05/14/huge-brightest-kind-of-darkness-giveaway-ends-527/

Congrats to the winners and a big thanks to everyone who participated so enthusiastically! Thank you for your awesome support. Be sure to stick around because I’m always coming up with something fun.

I’ll be emailing each of the winners tonight as well, but I wanted to get this posted.

Hugs,

P.T.

 

Huge BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS Giveaway! (Ends 5/27)

Thank you all for being so supportive of the BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS series! DESTINY is coming, but in the meantime, here’s an awesome swag giveaway! You can pick and choose the things you’d like to do to enter. Have fun and good luck!

NOTE: This contest ends on 5/27 and the winners will be announced on 5/29. Once the winners are announced on the Rafflecopter form (I’ll also email them), they’ll have 36 hours to provide their mailing information to me via email or a new winner will be picked.

See below for a list of seven total prizes prizes being offered (with pictures because we all like visuals) with this giveaway! The Rafflecopter entry form is at the bottom of this post.

Grand prize pack: 1 women’s large fitted BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS t-shirt (fits like a woman’s medium), 1 mouse pad, a signed set of BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS and LUCID, and a set of BKoD buttons for you and three extras sets of BKoD buttons to giveaway.

1st prize pack: 1 women’s large fitted BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS t-shirt (fits like a woman’s medium), a signed set of BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS and LUCID, and a set of BKoD buttons.

2nd prize pack: 1 BKoD mouse pad, a set of BKoD buttons, and reader’s choice of a signed copy of either BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS or LUCID.

   OR

3rd prize pack: 1 BKoD mouse pad, a set of buttons for you and one set to giveaway, and signed bookplates.

3 Runner’s Up prize packs: 1 set of BKoD buttons and signed bookplates.

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UPDATE on DESTINY and a HUGE BKoD Giveway!

If anyone ever tells you that getting ready to move internationally is a piece of cake, don’t believe them. Just don’t. It’s a whole other complex ball of wax. I’ve moved several times within the US, but I had no idea just what I was getting myself into move-wise with this new venture heading across the pond. There is SO much behind the scenes stuff to get done. Oy! Unfortunately this means DESTINY’s release is getting pushed back a couple of months. I’m sorry to disappoint, but I’d rather push the date back, then hurry to meet a date and release a subpar book. DESTINY is coming along nicely, but you all deserve the very best story I can write and I refuse to compromise on that. My sincerest apologies to you that you’ll have to wait a little longer for the next installment in Ethan and Nara’s journey. Thank you so much for your patience. **The new release date for DESTINY is 7/31**.

There is some GOOD news in this post though. While I’m running around like a crazy woman packing/shipping/storing stuff and filling out a gazillion more pieces of paperwork than I already have (Seriously? You need MORE paperwork? ARGH!), you all get to have fun entering to win some fabulous prizes in a HUGE BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS giveaway!

See below for the awesome prizes that will be offered in this HUGE giveaway including the following: signed print books, BKoD tshirts, mousepads, buttons and bookplates! The Rafflecopter entry form will be posted very soon!

Hugs and thank you for all your wonderful support!

P.S. If you want to see some of my answers on my upcoming move, you can check out my discussion with readers on my FB page here:

P.T.

Destiny sneak peak, RT promo items & raven symbol on Ethan’s sword

Lots of fun stuff to share!

I’ll be attending the RT Booklovers Convention in Kansas City from May 1-5, so please make sure to say hello if you’re attending.  Here are some of the things I’ll have at the conference!

And for fans of the BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS series, here’s what the raven symbol on Ethan’s sword looks like!

Teaser quote from DESTINY, teaser artwork, Ethan Spotlight & BKoD’s latest review!

I shared a teaser quote from DESTINY (BKoD, Book 3) and a teaser piece of artwork for a special project on my PTMichelleAuthor Facebook page here. I hope you’ll LIKE my page while you’re there so you don’t miss out on fun stuff I share on there as it happens. Have you signed up for my newsletter? You can sign up here so you don’t miss out when DESTINY releases!

ETHAN got to step into the Kindleboards’ Spotlight today here!

And BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS recently received an awesome review from My Keeper Shelf  Here’s a brief quote from Rebecca’s 5 Star review!

“…I don’t really do rave reviews but this one just has to be one. If I could give it more than 5 stars, I definitely would. I even raved about it a few times on Twitter!…”  Click here to read the entire review at My Keeper Shelf

Ethan is featured on Kindle Books and Tips!

Ethan is featured today on Kindle Books and Tips! If you enjoyed ETHAN, please share this blog post with others! Since ETHAN’s a prequel to BKoD, I think some peeps don’t even know this story exists. I really appreciate you spreading the word so everyone can get a deeper glimpse inside Ethan’s thoughts about Nara.

While you’re there, be sure to enter Michael’s giveaway opportunity for a Kindle Fire (to those who’ve signed up by April 13th!).