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*700 FB LIKES* Giveaway

                                                                                          
                                    

700 Facebook Likes Giveaway

As promised here is the giveaway for 700 likes on Facebook :]

I will have another giveaway once I reach 100 Networked Blog followers :] Thanks guys and Good Luck!

 

UPDATE for Running in the Dark

Running in the Dark (RITD) UPDATE

Okay, here is a bit of news about Running in the Dark.

 

Running in the Dark is the second part to Goodnight Sam, a short story about vampires Sam and Hope. Running in the Dark will have about 30,000 words and stories with word counts that high are called novellas! I have been calling it a short story all this time, silly me :-}

 

An Evening with Kale William Grey

My Evening with Kale William Grey

 

Kale was contacted by Lydia Deana Schoffi, editor in chief of Vamps Weekly and was asked to sit down with Cate Duric, one of Vamps Weekly's top journalist.

This interview will be featured in Vamps Daily.

Where we only deal under the dark and sexy veil of night.

Cate Duric: First, let me say thank you for joining us tonight Kale. I understand that you and Jace are busy in search for Ella, so I won’t take up too much of your time.

Kale: You are most welcome, Cate.

CD: Let’s get started. Tell us a bit about yourself.

Kale: Hmm… Ask and I will tell you whatever you want to know.

*Kale’s voice sounds sinfully delicious*

CD: Okay, I was told that your father was a farmer; will you tell us a bit about your life as a farmer’s son in France in the 1800’s?

Kale: It was your typical farmer’s life. Up at four am to milk the cows, clean the stalls and check on the animals. It was a boring life you could say. We had a very small farm, enough to feed the family and a few others. Nothing too exciting.

CD: Well, what is one exciting event in your life that you would like to share with us other than meeting Ella?

Kale: Other than meeting Ella I would have to say meeting French engineer Gustave Eiffel, the man behind the Eiffel tower two years before the tower was shipped to the USA.

CD: Wow that sounds exciting.

Kale: It was.

CD: Kale, if I may ask why are you named after a leaf?

Kale: That is a question many have asked. My full name is William Kale Grey. My father named me William, and at the request of my mother he added Kale, because it is a bitter sweet tasting cabbage that my mother had once tasted and fell in love with it. My birth to her was a bitter sweet moment in her life, as her father had passed earlier that night and then I was born.

CD: I’m so sorry to hear that Kale.

Kale: Don’t be Cate, death is a gift given to some after living a long and fulfilling life. He passed peacefully in the night and then I was born as few hours later.

CD: Kale, how do you feel about your immorality? The fact that you will never die while others around you will.

*Kale shifted in his seat and lowered his head a bit. I saw the sadness in his eyes.*

Kale: This is a difficult question. My immortality is not what most troubles me. What troubles me is the fact that in order to live forever, I must take my Master’s blood. Living forever is a prison sentence that I gladly accept— a punishment for not being able to save Hélène.

CD: Kale, I don’t understand that. You have to take your Master’s blood, why?

Kale: Cate, I am Chorý. I am a half-breed. I am infected.

*Kale looked at me as if his answer should have been enough*

CD: Ok—ay, explain further, please.

Kale: Chorý is want every vampire once was. The word Chorý means infected, sick or diseased. Once bitten a man is changed. As soon as the toxin hits the blood stream the change begins. Though death is not instant, the infected falls into a vampiric coma where his breathing shallows and his heart slows. This process is very quick leaving the infected unconscious for no longer than ten minutes. In that time it is best to kill the infected because the life the infected will be sentenced to is a life that will be pure hell. If you allow the infected to awake from the coma he will no longer need food or water to survive, solely blood.

CD: Human blood only?

*Kale smiled. Fear is not something I have ever felt during one of my interviews, I felt it then*

*Kale’s smile is beautiful with a hint of danger*

Kale: Yes, human blood; though I can survive for a time on animal blood, I cannot survive on it forever.

CD: Right then, you said that you needed the blood of your master. How does that play in with being a Chorý?

Kale: A Chorý as I said it not a full vampire—a half breed. There is not one Chorý that wants to succumb to La Luxure.

CD: La Luxure?

Kale: Yes, La Luxure du Sang or in English Blood Lust. It is when a Chorý can no longer control his lust for blood and he changes overtime into a ravenous creature of the night.

CD: Are you saying that all Chorý walk around lusting after the necks of the innocent?

*Kale snickers*

Kale: No, I don’t mean it that way. You see a cupcake a bakery and you know that it will taste delicious, but you don’t just eat it do you?

CD: Well, no.

Kale: Well, neither do I jump on a human and suck his or her blood. There is a cure for La Luxure. All it takes is a drop of blood from the Chorý’s sire and La Luxure can be held at bay.

CD: For how long?

Kale: There is no definite—

CD: So not forever?

Kale: No. I don’t believe so.

*I decided to change the subject. The interview had changed to a grim grilling of this Chorý and that was not my goal.*

CD: Kale, do you believe in love at first sight?

Kale: No, it is a delusion and anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool.

CD: Okay, well that was an unexpected answer.

Kale: Why?

CD: Well, you and Ella fell in love fairly fast. What did you feel when you first saw her.

Kale: Anger.

CD: Anger?

Kale: Yes, anger. It was one in the morning, freezing outside and she was there in the snow with a red nose and no hat or gloves, I was angry.

CD: *giggles* Okay, but back to love at first sight?

Kale: Love: An intense feeling of deep affection; Love at first sight: Lust.

CD: I see your point.

Kale: I have loved Ella throughout time. I followed her soul and when I get her from Laurent I will tell her how I feel. I will protect her until the day she dies.

CD: How do you feel about that? Ella’s mortality?

Kale: I love her too much to want anything other than the normal life she has fought so hard for. A normal life includes death.

CD: Sounds beautifully tragic. Still, you couldn't you just change her?

Kale: I could but I won’t. That would go against the normal life I know she wants.

CD: True. I haven’t asked many questions, but I feel that our readers and I have a better understanding of you and your love for Ella. Is there anything you would like to say before you go? Anything you want to tell us about what you think the future holds for you and Ella?

Kale: Honestly Cate, read Awakened. I believe you will find out all you need to know about what the future holds for Ella and me. You will learn about the past and how it has help mold the present and the future.

CD: Kale I assure you I look forward to it. Thank you for taking the time out of your search to talk to us and hopefully I can have you here again, but next time with Ella.

Kale: I am sure that she would love that Cate.

 

Requesting Free Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

  An ancient war pitting immortal against immortal.

 

 

Requesting Free Books

Lately I have been getting emails requesting free books. While I understand that in a lot of cases money is tight for people and things like eating out, vacations, and even purchasing books has been seriously cut back, you also have to understand what goes into self-publishing and why requesting a free book is hard on an Indie.

 

My Few Are Angels :)

 

My Few Are Angels

First let me say that I am a copycat! I actually got this idea from the lovely Jessie Harrell you can click here name to go to her site. I must admit it is a great idea and I couldn’t wait to try it.

So, here is the deal:

I want everyone who has a physical/Nook/Kindle/Kobo copy of Few Are Angels to take a picture of yourself holding Few Are Angels book with the cover facing the camera and send it to me here: ingeriversen@live.com After I get a few I am going to make a page on my site where readers can see all of your wonderful faces!!

Here is an example my boyfriend Joshua. He thinks he looks like a serial killer LOL

Please pretend you don't see the Christmas tree in the back lol We are having a hard time taking that sucker apart, so we gave up and placed it on the treadmill we never use!!

 

The person with the most creative photo will win a $20 gift card to Amazon or Barnes and Noble

The winners will be chosen by you guys from your comments!

Each comment will be worth one point!

Engraved Filigree Keepsake Box Giveaway!!

~Few Are Angels~

Engraved Filigree Keepsake Box Giveaway!!

STARTS SOON!

After a fatal hit and run accident, Ella Monroe fears that she’s lost more than her beloved parents. Horrifying visions of a past life and a disturbing voice in her head have psychiatric professionals convinced that she’s lost her sanity as well. But when Kale--a dark and handsome stranger with a mysterious past--reveals the true meaning of her visions and the tremendous power she wields through them, Ella must come to terms with the devastating truths of her own past, while eluding an ancient Dark Prince who seeks to control not only her future, but all of mankind’s, by means of abilities that Ella is only beginning to understand. Enter the shrouded world of an age old battle between an ancient race known as the Immortals and their bitter enemy Laurent, the so-called Dark Prince, who commands an army of half-breed vampires known as Chorý. Both sides have been desperately searching for the prophesied emergence of the Arc, a clairvoyant with unparalleled power to recall the past and a soothsayer with clear vision into the future. The Council of Immortals has sworn to protect the Arc, whom they have identified as young Ella Monroe, a college freshman from Virginia living quietly and unaware of her powers or her past. But a renegade Chorý has other plans for the protection of a girl he has loved through the ages. Can Kale convince Ella of who she is, what she is destined to become, and what he once meant to her? Is he truly the best protector to shield the world from the devastating misuse of her powers that Laurent is bent on controlling? Or will the forbidden love they share and Kale’s cursed condition as a retched and hated Chorý be used against them both?   

This is probably going to be my favorite giveaway and it should be because it's my birthday gift to you! My birthday is August 22 and I want to celebrate with all of my readers! For my birthday I have asked my family for a couple books like: The Syndicate by Shelena Shorts and Criminal by Karin Slaughter!! Since I am getting what I want you should get something too!! The Engraved Filigree Keepsake Box is an AWESOME gift and I wish I could have it, but I only ordered one!! The engraving says, FEW ARE ANGELS. So, it is a one of a kind for the lucky winner! I made it easy to win and added a lot of options to enter the contest. This contest will run until my birthday and the winner will be announced that morning.

\(^-^)/ Before we get to the giveaway I want to tell you a bit about why I chose this box as a giveaway prize. In Few Are Angels love transcends time as Kale and Ella meet a century later where he gives her a token of his love. I didn't want to give the token that he gave her as a giveaway because that belongs solely to Kale and Ella, but I did want to give  something that related the token that Kale gave her so I chose this:

 

AN ENGRAVED FEW ARE ANGELS FILIGREE KEEPSAKE BOX

This jewelry box can hold tokens of love given to you or ones you plan to give to that special someone.I WILL POST THE RAFFLECOPTER 7.8.2012

Awakened Book 2 in the Few Are Angels Trilogy

AWAKENED

The second book in the Few Are Angels trilogy.

Release date Febuary 14th 2013

What must he overcome to protect her?

With no clue of what to do next and the responsibility of looking after Alex and Mia as promised, Kale is up to his ears in problems and no solutions. How will Kale save Ella, keep Alex and Mia safe, control Jace as well as control the Bloodlust that creeps beneath the surface waiting to be released? Will Kale be Ella’s savior or will he convict her to a fate worse than the one Laurent has already promised her?

 

What truths will she learn?

Ella knows that the choices she makes affects not only her but everyone else around her, but what about the choices made to find her? Ella learns the truth about the death of her parents, learns that the ones she thought she could trust aren’t so trustworthy after all.

How will Ella handle these betrayals, and will she be able to sacrifice what is necessary to obtain eternal life?

 

I want to introduce you to two new characters in Awakened, book 2 of the Few Are Angels Trilogy in this excerpt below!

 

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day!!

I hope everyone had a great and safe holiday!!

 

 

 

 

 

READ & REVIEW GIVEAWAY

 

Enter to Win 1 of 2 $50 Amazon or Barnes and Noble gift cards or any RETAILER of your choice!!

Here is the contest that I was talking about in a previous blog post. You can read about that HERE. I've been thinking about this for a while and decided it was worth trying :]

 

Here is what is required of the entrant to qualify:

Tweet about the giveaway. You can do this once daily and earn +2 pts.
Follow me on Twitter +2pts.
Follow me on Facebook +2pts.
Purchase Few Are Angels, Read and Leave a honest review. +25pts.

*All entries are mandatory*

 Read more!!!!

Enter to win $75, fair or not?

Hmmm… What do you think?

Lately I have seen quite a few Indie authors having giveaways the require something a bit odd. Now, most giveaways that I see are ones where you get something without having to do anything other than a few simple steps, i.e. like a blog post, tweet about a giveaway or like a Facebook page. Now, I see giveaways that require you to purchase the author’s book, read and review the book. You have to of course prove the purchase and review using your real name. What is the author asking for?

As an author I know what it is like to wonder why sales are up, but there are not reviews being posted. We want honest reviews; at least I know that I want honest reviews. I think some authors fears reviews and sometimes that fear is warranted. Other times two and three star reviews are informative and necessary. Author bashing is wrong, but it is possible to give a two or three star review without breaking the author’s heart. Well, it will always cause a bit of heart ache, but that goes with the job. When I review a book that I didn’t like I don’t automatically give it a one star review. For example, the book by Melissa Marr called Wicked Lovely. I didn’t like the book, but that doesn’t mean that Melissa deserved a one star review and I will tell you why.

My rating and review:

Wicked Lovely by, Meilssa Marr

 Melissa created a lovely world where the fey and humans existed and thought it was beautifully written this book was just not for me. I didn't like the relationship between the two main characters and I couldn't relate to Aislinn, the main character. She often seemed weak and a bit annoying at times. There are a few times where this book was a bit too unrealistic, for example: How quickly Aislinn’s boyfriend believed in the fey once she admitted to him her sight of them, but I guess when you are dealing with an urban fantasy novel that can happen. LOL. I loved the character Donia more than the main character and I felt that the story was more Donia’s and Keenan’s. I found myself caring more about secondary characters than the main characters, but not enough to finish this series.

Three stars and yes I would recommend this novel to others.

What we don’t want.

            In some author forums like here, I have noticed that there are some authors that will post their own reviews or post one star reviews on authors that are receiving a lot of five and four star reviews. I do believe that this happens, but how can you prove it? You really can’t and if that happens as a result of a giveaway then what? You just spent $113 to get bad reviews or fake reviews. I am really interested in trying a giveaway like this, but I am worried about a few things.

Pros and Cons

+ Real reviews                                                                          - Fake reviews

+Book Exposure                                                                       -Jealous ppl creating counter reviews

+Happy readers                                                                        - Readers upset over having to buy a book

+Abundance of reviews

            I am sure that there are more, but I don’t want to fill this blog to the brim with them. Tell me what you think. If I offered a giveaway with the prize of $75 gift card and all you had to do was purchase my book, read and review it would you enter?

The Giveaway

Here is what it would look like:

Note: this is not a real giveaway just a copy of what I have seen on another author’s blog!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

So, what do you think? Is it fair to ask this of the readers and if I did this would you enter to win?