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Blog Tour and Rafflecopter Giveaway for Gray’s Domain and Active Minds

Twenty-four amazing authors have joined forces with Eva Pohler Books and over a dozen outstanding bloggers to raise money for Active Minds, a non-profit organization devoted to mental health awareness and suicide prevention in young adults. In addition to donating their books, swag, and gift cards, many of these participants have also given cash donations directly to the organization. This coalition of authors and bloggers wants to help eradicate the stigma associated with mental illness and let young adults know there are people who care and to never give up.

You can help, too! One of the entry options on the rafflecopter giveaway is to donate $1 or more to Active Minds. The link will take you directly to the foundation’s website, and it’s so easy to do!

Here is the list of prizes you can enter to win!

Mercy Amare and K.T. Smith’s Legacies

Casey Bond’s Reap

Jacinda Buchmann’s Indigo Incite

Nely Cab’s Creatura Series, Books 0.5-2

Amy Evan’s Clicks plus jelly bean kisses

C.R. Everett’s I Loved That About Her

A.M. Hargrove’s Tragically Flawed

Susan Holmes’s Deadly Ties: A Waterside Kennel’s Mystery

Laura Howard’s The Forgotten Ones

Amy Jones’s A Zebra Like Me

Allana Kephart and Melissa Simmons’s Uprising

Carlyle Labuschagne: Winner’s Choice of any of her books

Quinn Loftis’s Grey Wolves Series

Quinn Loftis’s Elfin Series

Quinn Loftis’s Call Me Crazy

Kelly Martin’s Big Is Beautiful

Jo Michaels’s Lily (Mystic Vol. 2)

Jennifer Miller’s Pretty Little Lies

J.D. Nelson’s Night Aberrations

Alison Pensy’s Custodian Novels Boxed Set

Eva Pohler’s The Gatekeeper’s Saga

C.W. Stokes’s Second Chances

Felicia Tatum’s Intoxicating Passion Boxed Set

Becca Vincenza’s Damaged

K.A. Young’s The Nephilum Warrior Boxed Set

K.A. Young’s The Elise Michaels Series

Deausha Kitty’s YA Book Blog: $5 Amazon GC

Lisa’s Book Lair: Swag

The Bookworm Blog: $1.99 ebook

Supagurl Books: Swag

Wicked Women Book Blog $3 Amazon GC

Kat’s Indie Book Blog: Rachel M Raithby’s Lexia The Deadwood Hunter Series, Book 1

Along with the rafflecopter for the prizes above is a tour celebrating the release of Gray’s Domain, the second book in The Purgatorium Series. If you are need in therapy, this is the series to read! It tells of an island off the coast of California where Dr. Gray and her staff use experimental methods on clinically depressed and suicidal patients sent their by family members who have no other hope. Seventeen-year-old Daphne is their newest patient.

 

TOUR SCHEDULE:

Kristi’s Book Readery                                Blitz                June 8th

A Book So Fathomless                              Interview         June 8th

The Power of Three Readers                    Blitz                  June 9th

Escaping Life’s Craziness with Books     Review            June 10th

Literary Redemption                                  Blitz                 June 10th

Open                                                                                 June 11th

Purple Shadow Hunter                               Blitz                June 12th

Lisa’s Book Lair                                         Review           June 13th

Inside Bj’s Head                                         Blitz                June 13th

Open                                                                                 June 14th

Book Skater                                               Blitz                June 15th

The Book Worm Blog                                Review           June 15th

Deausha Kitty’s YA Book Blog                  Review           June 16th

Supagurl Books                                         Review           June 17th

Open                                                                                 June 18th

Open                                                                                 June 19th

Open                                                                                 June 20th

Pure Jonel                                                 Review            June 21st

Kat’s Indie Book Blog                                Review            June 21st

Wicked Women Book Blog                      Review            June 22nd

Winners will be announced on June 23rd!

Please enter the rafflecopter below:

 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day Campaign

In honor of National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day (May 8th), Eva Pohler Books will begin soliciting bloggers and authors to help fundraise for Active Minds, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to changing the conversation about mental health and providing young adults with the resources they need in order to overcome their struggles with mental health.

If you are a blogger, you can help by signing up to participate with a blitz, interview, and/or review of The Purgatorium (#1) and Gray’s Domain (#2), the first two books in a young adult trilogy dealing with teen suicide. For every blogger that signs up, I (Eva Pohler) will donate $1 to Active Minds. Bloggers will also have the option to match or exceed that donation and to have a Facebook page or Twitter handle added to the Rafflecopter. The blog tour will run from June 8th to June 22nd. To sign up for the tour, please fill out this form: Blogger Sign Up for Mental Health Awareness Campaign.

If you are an author, you can help by donating an ebook for the Rafflecopter. For every author who signs up, I (Eva Pohler) will donate $1 to Active Minds. Authors will also have the option to match or exceed that donation. You can also choose to have participants like your Facebook author page or follow you on Twitter. To donate an ebook, please fill out this form: Author Ebook Donation Form for Mental Health Awareness Campaign.

If you are a reader, you will have the option of donating $1 or more to Active Minds as an entry in the Rafflecopter giveaway. You can help a good cause and enter for a chance to win a good book at the same time.

I hope to raise awareness of mental health and suicide issues among young adults with The Purgatorium Series and this campaign. The blog tour will begin on June 8th and end on June 22nd. On June 23rd, I will announce the amount we raised and the names of the winners.

Our goal is to raise $500 to support the programming of Active Minds, which provides invaluable resources and education to thousands of students on more than 400 campuses across the country. Active Minds creates an environment where open dialogue about mental health is encouraged and stigma does not exist. It creates a space where students can come together to prioritize their mental health and find the help they need.

During the campaign, The Purgatorium (#1) can be downloaded for free where all ebooks are sold.

We at Eva Pohler Books won’t be able to reach our goal without your help. We would greatly appreciate it if you would contribute to this cause and share our efforts with your friends and family. Each and every donation will bring new hope to thousands of students by allowing Active Minds to continue to advance their supportive programs, awareness campaigns, student-led chapters, and policy initiatives.

We hope that you will support us in our efforts and join us for an event that will save the lives of thousands of students across the country!

 

Many thanks,

Eva Pohler

Five-Dollar Signed Paperbacks for RT, UtopYa, and Penned Con Attendees

You may recall my post about the promotion I’m running during my national book tour: the first five fans to come up to my table and say hello to me will receive a free “I’m a BOOK G[R]EEK” tote, t-shirt, button, pen, notepad, bookmarks, and signed copy of The Gatekeeper’s Sons.

And the VERY FIRST person to ask if I still have the Athena Locket gets the locket!

Well, I have more good news. As part of this promotion, I will be offering all my signed paperbacks for $5 each at the first three stops: New Orleans (RT Con), Nashville (UtopYA Con), and St. Louis (Penned Con). If you would like to reserve your book(s), please fill out one of the forms below. You don’t pay until you get your books!

Pre-Order Form for RT Booklovers Convention (New Orleans):

Pre-Order Form for UtopYA Convention (Nashville):

Pre-Order Form for Penned Con (St. Louis):

Gray’s Domain Goodreads Giveaway

On an uninhabited island off the coast of California, psychologist Dr. Hortense Gray and her staff employ experimental methods to treat clinically depressed and suicidal patients by terrifying them into fighting for their lives. Seventeen-year-old Daphne Janus is their newest patient. Watch the trailer here: The Purgatorium Book Trailer

Enter to win one of five Advance Reader’s Copies (signed paperback editions) of Gray’s Domain, the second book of three in The Purgatorium Series.

Goodreads Book Giveaway


Gray’s Domain
by Eva Pohler

Giveaway ends May 11, 2014.

See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.

Enter to win

 

More good news!

For a limited time, The Purgatorium can be downloaded for FREE beginning on the last day of this giveaway (Mother’s Day). So be sure to snag your copy! This promotion will end on June 30th, one month from the release day of Gray’s Domain.

Stay tuned for more news about the release party for Gray’s Domain!

 

Summer Readapalooza Scavenger Hunt and Giveaway!

Author E.L.R. Jones is having an amazing event on Facebook on May 30-31, but it’s never to soon to join! Go here to join the fun!

My page (this one right here) is part of the scavenger hunt.

What you need to know is the title of my favorite book and the title of my favorite movie.

Here are my answers: Favorite Book: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

Favorite Movie: The Edge, starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.

Good luck!

The First Five to Come to My Table Get this Awesome Tote Filled with Goodies!

I am so excited to announce my national book tour, and even more excited to tell you what I’m bringing with me to your city!

This awesome “I’m a BOOK G[R]EEK” tote is filled with goodies, including one signed paperback edition of The Gatekeeper’s Sons and matching “I’m a BOOK G[R]EEK” t-shirt, button, bookmark, notepad, and pen! The first FIVE people to come to my table and say hello to me at each stop on my tour will get this prize-pack.

And the VERY FIRST person to ask me, “Do you still have Athena’s locket?” gets the locket!

Bernard Books is currently scheduling a second stop in each city, and I”ll announce those when I have the deets!

Where can you get one? Well, my first stop is New Orleans! I will be at the RT Booklovers Convention at the Marriott on the French Quarter from May 13th-May 18th. I will be giving away these prize packs at Club RT on Thursday (May 15th) at 11:15 a.m.

My second stop is Nashville! I will be at UtopYA Con at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel. You can grab your prize from me Friday night at the Fan Invasion Public Signing in the lobby of the hotel, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This event is open to the public.

My third stop is St. Louis! Come find me at the Bernard Books Event before Penned Con, time and venue to be announced soon.

My fourth stop is Salt Lake City! Find me at the Bernard Books table at IndieReCon Live on Friday, Oct. 10th and Saturday, Oct. 11th at the Salt Lake Community College, Miller Campus.

My fifth stop is Phoenix! I will be at The Crowne Plaza from Oct. 17th to Oct. 19th at Author Reader Con. Come see me on Saturday in Ballroom B at 2:30 to claim your prize!

My sixth stop is Houston! Come find me at the Bernard Books table at the Houston Book Rave on Saturday, November 15th (time will be announced soon). It will be packed and crazy, so be sure to tell ME hello in order to claim your prize!

That’s it for 2014. I will be visiting more cities in 2015 and will announce those soon. Stay tuned!

The Cover of Gray’s Domain Unveiled!

Are you familiar with Stanley Milgram’s shock experiment? If not, here’s a two-minute video that will tell you the haunting results:

Stanley Milgram Experiment Video

The major antagonist of The Purgatorium Series, Dr. Hortense Gray, was adopted by a psychologist and a contemporary of Stanley Milgram, Philip Zimbardo, and other psychologists in the wake of World War II who wanted to know how good people can commit horrible atrocities against others.

Dr. Hortense Gray, also a psychologist with an impeccable record of curing troubled patients, has a different question: If we force suicidal people to fight for their lives, will the survival instinct overpower the suicidal tendency?

She has created a compound called The Purgatorium on an island off the coast of California where she uses experimental therapy on unknowing patients. Sent to the island by her parents, seventeen-year-old Daphne Janus, who feels responsible for her sister’s death and her brother’s mental illness, is Dr. Gray’s newest patient.

Does Dr. Gray go too far? Or, do the ends justify the means? Read the series, and tell us what you think!

Today (Sunday, April 27th) we are celebrating the cover reveal of the second book in the series, Gray’s Domain, with a huge Facebook event. We would love for you to join us for fun games and prizes.

First a word about the title. If you’ve read The Purgatorium  (and if you haven’t, click on the pic above to see purchase links), you know that Dr. Gray refers to herself as Prospero, a character from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and she refers to the island as her domain. So there you go: the reason for the title. (Btw, the third and final book in the series is called The Calibans.)

Expect fun games and fantastic prizes. One prize will be the silver bracelet seventeen-year-old Daphne is given in the first book to represent both the bonds (of fear and guilt) she must overcome and the new bonds of friendship she fosters with the other characters.

Although this novel is not based on Greek mythology like The Gatekeeper’s Saga, because it’s so popular, Athena will give away one of her lockets. She’s relevant to this series because her words of wisdom in the locket are as important to Daphne as they are to Therese: “The most common way people give up their power is by believing they have none.” Inspired by Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple), this inscription motivates Therese to keep fighting against all odds.

There will be other prizes, too, including a cool beach towel and bright yellow beach tote (the story takes place in the summer on a beautiful island). And, because the book is about therapy (albeit a very frightening experimental sort) you can also win a box of chocolate therapy (Russel Stover’s French Chocolate Mints), and a bottle of aromatherapy (Bath & Body Works Aromatherapy Stress Relief Eucalyptus Spearmint).

To join the party, click here or on the image below:

I hope to see you there!