Rachel Morgan's Blog, page 27

T minus one week!

Eeeek! In just one week I will be married! So I'm officially checking out of the blogosphere until January (though I've been pretty much absent for the past several weeks, what with finishing up school and all our DIY wedding decor...).

If you've left a comment on my blog in the past few weeks and I haven't responded or visited your blog in return, I am really sorry, and I'd like to say

THANK YOU
to all of you for your support of my writing/publishing journey this year. It has been incredibly ex...

Happy Book Birthday to MAKE BELIEVE!

Today we get to welcome Make Believe into the world of published books! It's an anthology of paranormal romance and fantasy stories inspired by the beautiful image on the cover. One of my favourite stories inside is Birthright, written by one of my blogging buddies, Lynda R. Young. Yay! Exciting! This book will make great holiday reading (my review is here) so be sure to pop it into someone's virtual Christmas stocking ;-)

Birthright by Lynda R. Young  
Christa can mask the pain and hide...

Cover Reveal for RINGS OF TRUST, plus Other Awesome Stuff

Kittie Howard will soon be releasing her second novella, Rings of Trust. Here is the cover!



And some other awesome stuff happened today ...

My amazing school-family threw me a pantry party! So I got stacks of awesome foodie things plus some fantastic gifts for our future kitchen. I feel so blessed and am honestly overwhelmed at the generosity of all the people I work with :-)


And ... husband-to-be-in-16-days handed in his PhD thesis today! Weeheeee! I'm gonna be married to a doctor ;-)

PS - I'm...

A Spelling Tongue Twister of Sorts

While packing up my stuff to move it to our-next-year-house (ohmygosh, wedding is less than three weeks away now!), I came across a newspaper clipping my grandfather gave me. It says "author unknown", but it's possible one could find the author by Googling (or at least follow a trail of references...). There are plenty of similar poems out there. I think they're all quite clever :-)

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Ah, the perils of the English language! Reader Eric Hodgson sends in this piece titled "Spelli...

Promoting Writers and Bloggers: Cally Jackson, Gwen Gardner, Worlds Away Book Blog

Good morning, bloggers :-)
I'm surfacing from exam-marking mode to share some stuff.


Cally Jackson has just wrapped up a super cool blog tour for her debut novel, The Big Smoke . I've read this novel and really enjoyed it. It's of the New Adult variety. A Christmas prezzie idea for someone you know, maybe? ;-)







Gwen Gardner has also recently finished a blog tour for her debut novel, Givin' Up The Ghost . Gwen has always been very supportive of my own writing, so I'm really looking forward to readin...

Spotlight on Ryn and Tora #CreepyHollow

Two spotlights today! You can find out more about Oryn at Worlds Away Book Blog, and Tora at Better Read than Dead.

I found stock images that I thought perfectly suited Violet, Nate and Ryn, but I eventually picked an actress for Tora - Abbie Cornish. She's meant to have green highlights in her blonde hair. Yip, green.




And that brings this short little blog tour to an end :-)

A big THANK YOU to everyone who hosted, everyone who visited and commented, and all the people who have never stopped bei...

Three in a Row, and a FR33BIE for Creepy Hollow Fans!

Three book reviews in a row, today! We've got Cherie Reads , Read Review Smile (including an interview and another giveaway - whoopie!) and Camille Picott. Thank you, lovely ladies!

*FREEBIE TIME*

I know that a lot of you readers have already bought the four ebooks that make up the content of The Faerie Guardian. So if those of you who have (honour system now ;-) ) would like a copy of The Faerie Guardian so you can read the little extra bit at the end (or just because it looks good in your col...

Spotlight on Nate #CreepyHollow (And Wedding Stress!)

Thank you, thank you, yesterday's hosts :-)

And woohoo, today we have another character spotlight! This time it's Nate who's on the spot, over at **Qwerty**.
And if you'd like to "meet" me and see where I spend my days writing and teaching, you can visit erica and christy (who came out of blog hiatus especially to host me! What an honour!) to check out the video fun :-)

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In other news ... I had my first wedding-stress dream! Aaaah! I think I've been pretty chilled so...

Spotlight on Vi #CreepyHollow

Thank you to yesterday's hosts!

Today you can find out more about Violet over at The Book Hookup.
And Sandra of the Simply Sensational Book Fanatics (who is a South African blogger like me - yay!) is posting a review. Awesomesauce! [Edit: seems I'm not the only one using that word today ;-) Hehe! ]

And in case you haven't entered (because it hadn't yet been approved yesterday), here is the Goodreads giveaway :-)




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The Official Launch of THE FAERIE GUARDIAN!

Yaaaay! Launch day!

I know the content of this book has already been published in separate parts, but it's still exciting to have it all together in a novel. And in a print edition! And thank you to anyone who's already purchased a copy -- and those who've sent me messages to tell me they've enjoyed it :-) I won't get tired of hearing that :-)


Ebook:Amazon | Barnes & Noble | SmashwordsPrint:CreateSpace
So there's a little blog tour happening this week. Today you can visit:
Loves 2 Read for a...