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December 19, 2014
Jingle Bell Book Hop!
You just gotta love a blog hop where EVERY commenter wins on EVERY blog!
Welcome to the Jingle Bell Book Hop.
Visit and comment (with your name and email address) on each blog listed below to win a free ebook from each participating author. AND enter the rafflecopter giveaway at the bottom of this page for a chance to win one of two KINDLE FIRE HD’s!
WHAT BOOK DO YOU WIN HERE? Since The Gatekeeper’s Sons is already free, I’m giving away The Purgatorium.
These happen to be two radically different books. The Gatekeeper’s Sons is about a teen who becomes entangled with the gods of Mount Olympus when one of them falls in love with her. Some gods give her magical gifts. Others try to kill her. This is the first in a six-book saga that reviewers are calling “addicting.” (All six books are out!)
The Purgatorium is about an experimental psychologist, an island, and a teen who wants to die. If you enjoy suspense and emotional rollercoasters, you won’t want to put this one down. Reviewers write that this “unpredictable” and “spine-chilling suspense” grips you “from the first page.” (The first two books are out, and the third and final book releases February 25th.)
So after you comment below with your name and email address, be sure to enter the rafflecopter and then hop on over to these other amazing blogs to claim MORE FREE BOOKS!
December 16, 2014
Goodreads Giveaway of Vampire Addiction and a New Look
First of all, if you haven’t already entered to win one of three signed Advanced Reader’s Copies of the paperback edition of Vampire Addiction, enter below. Three winners will be chosen on December 22nd.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Vampire Addiction
by Eva Pohler
Giveaway ends December 22, 2014.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Second of all, what do you think of my new look? I’m still experimenting with my website design and would love feedback–not just regarding its appearance, but also its functionality. Would you like to see other changes? Please comment below with your suggestions. Thanks!
December 12, 2014
Congrats to the Winners!
Thanks to all of you who participated in my Rafflecopter Giveaway ($50 Amazon Gift Card) and Facebook Cover Reveal Party for Vampire Addiction: The Vampires of Athens, Book One.
Nina Arnold won the $50 Amazon Gift Card. Yay, Nina!
Tori Gould won the $25 Victoria Secret Gift Card. This was from Hypnos!
Samantha Lundergn won the signed paperback edition of The 
Gatekeeper’s Saga Boxed Set. Congrats, Samantha!
Kate Cecce won the digital edition of The Gatekeeper’s Saga Boxed Set. Way to go, Kate!
Sabrina Joy won the I’m A Book G[R]EEK and Get Your Greek On T-shirt. Hope you love it, Sabrina!
Heidi Johnson won the Athena Locket. Congrats, Heidi!
Please don’t be sad if you didn’t win, because you have another chance to win something! You can enter below to win one of three signed paperback Advanced Reader’s Copies of Vampire Addiction! Winners will be announced on December 23rd! Good luck!
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Vampire Addiction
by Eva Pohler
Giveaway ends December 22, 2014.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
December 7, 2014
Vampire Addiction: The Vampires of Athens, Book One Cover Revealed with $50 Rafflecopter Giveaway!
When seventeen-year-old Gertrude Morgan from New York City is sent to study abroad in Athens, she unearths unfathomable secrets and unwittingly becomes a catalyst to a vampire uprising led by Dionysus, against the gods of Mount Olympus.
Vampire Addiction is the first book of The Vampires of Athens series, now available for pre-order!
BUT WAIT!
If you subscribe to The Pohler Express: The Official Newsletter for Eva Pohler Books, you will receive a coupon code for a FREE copy. The newsletter will go out on Christmas Eve, so be sure to get your coupon code and order your free book between then and New Year’s Day, the day the book releases. The link to subscribe is in the rafflecopter giveaway below and is worth five entries into the $50 Amazon gift card giveaway! The winner of the $50 Amazon gift card will be announced at the Facebook Cover Reveal Party on Thursday, December 11th. Join the party here!
Please show some love to the other blogs participating in this reveal:
Marilyn’s Booty Poppin Book Pimp
Pure Jonel
Inside BJ’s Head
Escaping Life’s Craziness with Books
D Book Heaven
Dowie’s Place
The Paranormal Book Worm
The Book Stalker
The Caffeinated Christian
Charles Book Nook
Elizabeth Kirke Writes
Word Wenches Guilty Pleasure
Book Crazy Gals
Reading For Fun
A Book Vacation
Tanyas Book Nook
The Paisley Reader
Deborah’s Blog of Book Reviews,Spotlights and More
Girls *Heart* Books
Mom in Love with Fiction
December 4, 2014
Deep in the Heart Author Event
Where:
the madison
307 w. 5th St. Austin, TX 78701
Get your Admission Tickets now
11:00 – 4:00 p.m Signing (Tickets are $12 if pre-ordered and $15 at the door.)
4:00 – 5:00 pm Cocktail Hour with ticket holders, authors, models.Come meet your favorite authors, or meet new authors.
During the event we will be having an auction for “Appetizers with an Author.” Come and win a chance to have appetizers with one of your favorite authors and maybe a model.
This venue looks amazing! Come join us for some fun times!!!
December 3, 2014
Five Ways I Overcome Writer’s Block
One of the most popular questions I get asked is how I overcome writer’s block. I don’t know why I’m asked it, because I seldom suffer from it. So far in my life, I haven’t been able to write books as fast as I think of them.
So I don’t always suffer from it, but when I do…
1. I take a shower. A hot shower relaxes me, and I suppose this is why so many new 
ideas are born there. I’m not exaggerating. I get tons of ideas for my stories while I’m taking a shower.
2. I lie down and ALMOST fall asleep, but not quite. Being in that twilight zone between wakefulness and sleep seems to 
generate creative thought. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started to go to sleep and then have had to jump out of bed to write down an idea. So, if I get writer’s block during the day, I go lie down, like I’m going to take a nap. Works every time (unless I fall asleep, lol).
3. I go for a walk. Getting the blood flowing back up to my brain might be the reason why 
so many ideas come to me as I’m walking. Maybe it’s the fresh air.
4. I research online. I especially find it helpful when I research the setting I plan to use in the story. So many ideas come from l
earning more about a specific place. Or sometimes I research the ancient myths, and BOOM!
5. I start writing. When I can’t think of what the next scene should be, I just 
dump my character into the middle of some action and go with it and am often taken to some really unexpected and exciting places.
What things do you do to overcome writer’s block?
November 30, 2014
Enter The Purgatorium for 99 Cents
Enter The Purgatorium for 99 cents, for a limited time.
The third and final book in the series is coming February 25th!
An island off the coast of California. A doctor with unusual methods. A teen who wants to die.
They go to the island wanting to die; they leave fighting to live.
November 24, 2014
Tuesday Time Warp: Back to UtopYA Con 2013
After years of rejections from agents, I took the plunge to self publish in August of 2012. I found a professional cover artist and editor and assembled my own team. I hit “publish” on Smashwords and KDP. Then I watched my dashboards. Nothing happened!
Then in June of 2013, I attended UtopYA Con.
I learned so many useful strategies from successful authors who had taken their careers into their own hands and had decided to forge their own destinies. I took careful notes and went home and applied everything I learned. Within a few days, my life changed!
My Amazon author rank increased:
My sales increased:
I now make as much money, if not more, in royalties as I do in my day job as a college instructor. My plan is to become a full-time writer in five years.
Going to UtopYA Con was one of the BEST things that’s ever happened to me. I would rate it up there with some major life-changers. Here are my top five:
1. Finding my awesome hubby
2. Giving birth to my three beautiful children
3. Going to UtopYA Con
4. Having Lasik Surgery
5. Having a hysterectomy and saying goodbye to periods forever
As you can see, UtopYA Con is pretty important to me! In addition to being a total career-changer, I made some dear friends that I can’t imagine not having in my life. I went back last year and made even more!
Karaoke night at UtopYA Con 2014
I will keep going to UtopYA Con for as long as I can. Going back is like visiting the place of my birth. That’s how I feel!
The Difference a Year Makes Panel at UtopYA Con 2014
If you are going to UtopYA Con for the first time next year, you have SO much to look forward to!
November 23, 2014
Winners of the #Charmingpurgatorium #Faceyourfears Photo Contest on Instagram
Announcing the winners of the #charmingpurgatorium #faceyourfears photo contest on Instagram!
Fellow author Krystal Wade and I had a tough time choosing two winners, so we chose three! We wished we could afford to give everyone a t-shirt, because the entries were all so good. If you want to check them out for yourself, just search up #charmingpurgatorium on Instagram!
The three winners we chose?
Renae Poletti’s “Fear of Tornadoes”
Raquel Perryman’s “Fear of the Dark”
And Shawna Stringer’s “Fear of Being Gored”
We hope you enjoyed the contest as much as we did!
If you haven’t already checked out Krystal Wade’s Charming, you can do so here.
And you can find The Purgatorium at your favorite retailer here.
November 21, 2014
Send Me Your Video Clips and Be Featured on YouTube!
If you’re a fan of The Gatekeeper’s Saga, make a video of yourself explaining why, and send it to me! I will pick the best clips from all the submissions to create one video to promote on YouTube.
I am going to pay YouTube to put this video at the top of some major searches, so plan to be viewed! The more you fangirl, the more likely your clip will be included.
So get creative and send in your file to evapohler@sbcglobal.net between now and November 28th. Then watch my website to see if you made the final cut!
