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Nathan Barham talks about the locations for his Fantasy series "Alora's Tear" on my NEW BLOG

Fantasy author Nathan Barham tells about his inspiration for the locations of his series "Alora's Tear Vol. III - The Voice Like Water" - is coming for sale this 9th August! The paperback and e-book versions will be available on popular book retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and so on. Check www.barhamink.com for more info.
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* * * Locations - A Guest Post by Nathan Barham * * *
Click on the links to see pictures and more info about the real life places.

I’ve always hoped the places my characters visit feel real and lived-in. Often, I tell my students that their characters shouldn’t simply be disembodied heads floating around empty rooms. But more so than having the places feel inhabited, I want Vladvir, Tolarenz, Grafmark, and the rest to be characters that readers know and understand in the way they understand John or Brâghda, Thomas or Askon.

If Tolarenz is empty, we should feel not just Askon’s loneliness, but the loneliness of the valley itself. Grafmark should threaten and glower, irritated that our heroes dare set foot within its bounds. King’s City should go on without taking notice, bustling and busying itself with the mundane, the everyday, even as fleeting moments of the fantastic pass through its streets. --

>>>>>>> Continue reading on Illustrating Words and discover which real locations inspired the beautiful places of Fragments!



I painted this cover and the previous two of the series as well as the map :D Isn't that cool? :)

Interview with Fantasy Romance writing duo Tiffany Roberts

It’s been a while since I have posted any interviews on this blog. The last one was with indie author Anthony Avina , which you can read here: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Today I am sharing with you guys a very special interview, done with a writing duo, Tiffany AND Robert, a married couple who write under the pen name Tiffany Roberts.

I have made the covers for 3 of their books so far, and am currently making the third of Isle of The Forgotten, a Fantasy Romance trilogy. I share them here as well with you.


Make Me Burn

Let’s begin with the beginning. Who is Tiffany Roberts and how did the writing of Make Me Burn (Isle of The Forgotten 1) take place?

Tiffany: Well, I’m Tiffany.

Robert: And I’m Robert.

Tiffany: We didn’t want a pseudonym, but we knew in the romance community, female authors are more likely to be read as the majority of readers are female. We also wanted a way to incorporate both of us as authors because we are a team. So we decided to take both of our first names and put them together.

Robert: This really is a team effort, and it falls apart if either of us is absent. Using our first names to create the pseudonym gave it more meaning to us. We can look at one of our books and know that we are both represented in the name on the cover. We complement each other and balance out our individual weaknesses rather well in our mutual writing, and the end product is always something unique that couldn’t have been produced by either of us alone.

For Make Me Burn, we had actually roleplayed out the whole thing in text back in 2012, which left us with a very rough rough draft.

Tiffany: It wasn’t until 2015, after we wrote Ice Bound, that we decided to take on a larger project. As we went through our various logs, we settled on Morthanion and Aria.

Robert: We printed the logs, wrote up an outline, and started writing. It took about two months to write the first draft, and we went through about three rounds of revisions as we waited to get it off to our editor, Lora Gasway. A lot of the process, actually, was waiting. We don’t have that luxury anymore, now that we’re creating stricter deadlines for ourselves…

What’s your writing process like? Do you write every day?

Tiffany: We have kids, so there is no way writing is getting done during the daylight hours, when everything is loud and chaotic. Far too many disturbances. However, as soon as their little heads hit their pillows, I start cracking the whip. Rob would call me a slave driver, and it’s true. Without my drive, nothing would get done. I make sure we write every night when possible.

Robert: Tiffany really is the driving force behind anything getting done. One of my weaknesses as a writer is lack of motivation, so she props that up rather well. Once we get going, however, it’s a full-blown team effort. We keep two keyboards hooked up to one computer so we can directly work together (our floor didn’t like chairs rolling back and forth constantly), and even though it’s usually just one of us as the main writer of any given scene, the other is always heavily involved with suggestions, comments, and help when things get difficult. We can flow rather seamlessly, jumping in when necessary and adding things the other wouldn’t necessarily think about.


Make Me Hunger - coming this Autumn/Winter

What inspired you for the characters and environment of this series?

Tiffany: I honestly can’t remember what my inspiration was for Aria, only that she needed to be the opposite of Morthanion. Someone to gentle him and give him the love he never had, but also outsmart him. Ithoriel was only supposed to be a side-kick. It wasn’t until we were over halfway through our roleplay that we decided he would be the true surprise villain. I liked Baltherus too much by then, despite what he’d done, and wanted him to have his own story.

Robert: Tiffany had to remind me of this, but Morthanion was inspired heavily by a character from the Twilight series, of all things. Before anyone flips out, I’ll get a little more specific: Michael Sheen’s depiction of Aro, the leader of the Volturi, stuck with me. The crazed gleam in his eyes, his delightfully insane laughter; I enjoyed his performance quite a bit. Certainly some of that carried over into Morthanion, who is on the edge of insanity himself and reveling in every moment of it. We already had something of a history fleshed out for demons in our world, so it was only natural to take advantage of some of it.

Tiffany: Rob and I used to be big time text-based role players (it was how we met). We played in a few games on mIRC, until we finally decided to create our own. Talikar was a very small setting I used for my writing when I was younger, but we both expanded upon it and came up with what we have today. The Isle of the Forgotten (originally Isle of the Lost) was added in 2012 when we came up the idea and the characters to go along with it.

Robert: What we certainly weren’t inspired by was the television show Lost. Neither of us have seen even a single episode, but the similarities — at least in the higher levels of our concept — were pointed out to us during our early blurb-writing struggles. The Island of the Lost was just a location Tiffany had in her early map of Talikar, and when we really started to build the setting in a more serious fashion, it naturally evolved into the mage-prison it is in Make Me Burn, the Isle of the Forgotten.

What genres and authors you like to read? Print or E-book?

Tiffany: I might get long-winded with this one. I’ll start with how I hated reading in school. The books we were forced to read in English class never held my interest. Of course I enjoyed To Kill a Mocking Bird and Lord of the Flies, but nothing else really clicked with me. My mother ended up taking me to our small town library. The first book that caught my interest was IT by Stephen King. I’m a huge horror movie fanatic, so of course it would be my first choice. With Stephen, I found my love for reading.

We were finally given a choice in one of my English classes in high school — 1984 by George Orwell or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Of course I chose Frankenstein. While dark, the elements of romance immediately snagged my attention. During a trip to the store, I stood in the book aisle staring at the romance and selected my first romance book — Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey. My love for romance was born. I literally gobbled that up and couldn’t wait to check out more from the library. I read anything and everything if it had a romantic element to it, learning which subgenres were my favorite and which I didn’t care for. But the one genre I loved the most was Fantasy Romance. Back then, it was so hard to find, and some of what I found was short on the romantic element and left me disappointed. Thankfully, the genre is growing and it’s so much easier to find!

So to finally answer your question: Romance. I enjoyed Horror, but Romance is where it’s at for me. With Amazon and Indie publishing, it’s allowed me to easily discover new authors. I’ve joined the ebook/kindle club despite my love for paperbacks, but I still continue to purchase paperbacks for the books/authors I love. There are two authors who are auto-buys for me — Fantasy Romance writer Grace Draven and Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Romance Writer R. Lee Smith. I also love everything from Kresley Cole and Karen Marie Moning, and recently discovered Sarah J. Maas.

Robert: I really got into reading around seventh or eighth grade. My memory isn’t great, so I can’t recall the particulars, but it was around that point I was introduced to Lord of the Rings. It ate it up, read it and reread it, even devoured the entirety of The Silmarillion. I realize now that I’m older that I probably didn’t understand much of the latter, but it led to my love of fantasy literature. Over the years, I’ve branched out a little more and delved into science fiction and — with Tiffany’s influence — romance, and on the cusp of twenty years old finally discovered the joys of Stephen King. I’ll have to echo Tiffany a little here though, and second R. Lee Smith. She has an undeniable talent for storytelling and once I start reading one of her books, no matter how dark and depressing it gets, I can’t put it down.

Why did you take the indie path and what are the biggest challenges on self-publishing?

Tiffany: Freedom. By publishing as an independent author, we’re allowed to go at our own pace and write what we want. The biggest challenge is getting our name out there. We’re still new and not many people know who we are, but I believe we’re off to a good start.

Robert: Definitely the freedom. We met as teenagers, and back then we both wrote all the time and talked about writing constantly. It was our dream. Real life has a way of holding dreams down and trying to suffocate them, but we clung to it through all the difficulties and discouragement, always telling ourselves that we’d get to it when the kids were a little older, when we had a little more time to ourselves. In 2014, we took part in a small independent anthology, authoring a romance story together, Ice Bound. The experience opened our eyes. It was around that same time that Tiffany began to discover many amazing indie authors, and we knew then that we needed to take the plunge and follow our dream without any more hesitation.

It’s a lot of work, and we’ve invested time and money into it, but we’ve met a lot of amazing people (Tiffany: Looking at you, Isis!) in the process and it has proven to be more rewarding than we could have imagined.


Dustwalker - coming 2017

What are your plans for the future?

Tiffany: Our goal is for both of us to be full-time writers. I’m lucky to be able to be a stay at home mom, but would love for Rob to be able to quit his day job to stay at home and do what he loves.

Robert: That really is the main goal. In the short-term, we plan to have new books finished and released in fall of this year, and then in spring and summer of next year. We hope that our writing will speak for itself and that eventually this will become a career. Either way, we’re sticking to it.

What do you think about social media and platforms like GoodReads? (And which one is your favorite and why?)

Tiffany: I’m still very new to Goodreads, but I love how it works in creating your own virtual library. It’s allowed me to discover new books and authors, to see who is reading what, and what people think. As an indie author, social media is incredibly important and plays a big role when interacting with friends and readers. I would have to say Facebook is my favorite.

Robert: I have to admit that I don’t do much with social media. I scroll through Facebook occasionally, but it’s mostly to check on family and friends. It’s handy for that sort of thing. I’m only a little familiar with Goodreads, but I think it is a valuable tool for readers, especially for finding new authors. The vast majority of Tiffany Roberts’s online interactions are all Tiffany and no Robert.

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Connect with Tiffany Roberts on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Visit their website: https://authortiffanyroberts.wordpres...
Visit their Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/Tiffany-Roberts...
Add them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTiffan...

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And here are other interviews I have shared in this blog, including the one with my lovely (and much recommended) copyeditor, Clare Diston: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Ben Starling: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

K. J. Nessly: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

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And there is more on the way, so stay tuned :)
That’s all folks!

Cover Revealed: As Cold As Thorns – Upcoming Gothic Novel – See the cover this 6th July

(Now the cover is revealed!)
Click on the blogs bellow to see a bigger size!

So, I have been writing a new illustrated Gothic Novel as I mentioned on the previous blogpost. I plan to publish it this late Autumn as Paperback, Hardcover with dust jacket and special art book edition with hardcover and heavy, glossy art stock.

If this is something you like to read, feel free to add As Cold As Thorns to your reading list :) You can read the synopsis on the book’s page as well. And you can check the official page at Tragic Books website. http://tragicbooks.com/as.html

If you have some time, let me know what you think about the cover, once it is revealed ^.^ I have painted about one year before I wrote the first word for the book!



I am doing a Cover Reveal Blitz with RBTL Book Tours http://www.rbtlbooktours.com/ and Anna Marie, whom have been very supportive to my work since the very beginning.

Here is the awesome list of blogs participating :D

http://www.rbtlreviews.com/
http://www.booknerdramblings.com/
http://www.dowiesplace.com/
http://lynnromanceenthusiast.blogspot...
http://alphabookclub.org/
http://btpreviews.blogspot.no/
http://chronicles75.blogspot.no/
http://xxxxmyworldxxxx.blogspot.no/
http://thebookquarry.blogspot.no/
http://literarymusing.weebly.com/
http://bookschatter.blogspot.com/

And, that's all folks! Thanks for reading :)

New illustrated books, Cover reveal Blitz and Followers Giveaway

image: My dear GoodReads chaps, it’s been a while since I wrote anything, so I am wrapping up news and stuff in this post. I have been working!

Working a lot on my day job, doing new book covers for Tiffany Roberts, Grace Draven, K.J. Nessly, Nathan Barham, Josefine Gottwald and some more – and I am going to show them in a Cover Artwork post very soon, so stay tuned. ^.^

New releases
On personal projects, I have been busy as well. I have !!!FINALLY – MY DREAM JUST CAME TRUE!!! *_* the art book/ultimate version of The Night of Elisa - An Illustrated Gothic Novel.



This is in fact how I planned to make the book since the beginning, but didn’t have the resources or platform to publish so. It’s coming this 11th July in full color paperback (trade, matte stock) and an amazing Hardcover version with heavy, glossy art/photo paper stock. <3 Thanks to http://www.peecho.com now I am able to make art books with top notch quality for collectors! :D



Valencia Noir - The Beautiful, the Fantastic and the Grotesque of Valencia, Spain is now printed in the finest quality. Both the paperback (semi-glossy) and hardcover have photopaper quality, and the hardcover is like The Night of Elisa, heavy, glossy art stock.

Cover Reveal Blitz – 6th July
And I am writing! As Cold As Thorns is planned to come this late Autumn. My new Gothic Novel will of course, be illustrated, and also have an art book edition as well as trade edition.

The Blitz, organized by RBTL Book Tours http://www.rbtlbooktours.com/ (which I have been working with since the very beginning!) will take place on these lovely Blogs:
http://www.rbtlreviews.com/
http://www.booknerdramblings.com/
http://www.dowiesplace.com/
http://lynnromanceenthusiast.blogspot...
http://alphabookclub.org/
http://btpreviews.blogspot.no/
http://chronicles75.blogspot.no/
http://xxxxmyworldxxxx.blogspot.no/
http://thebookquarry.blogspot.no/
http://literarymusing.weebly.com/
http://bookschatter.blogspot.com/

---~~~Follower’s Giveaway~~~---
To celebrate the release of The Night of Elisa - An Illustrated Gothic Novel – the ultimate/art book edition, I’d like to give away 3 e-book copies. They are PDF, can be read on any device. But due to the graphic content of the book, it works best for bigger tablets, laptops and PCs. The file is big, 230 mb.

Would you like to win a copy? Anyone from any country can participate. The rule is simple, leave a reply with a hello or talk about anything you’d like :D

Winners will be announced 11th July!

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Last but not least, my reading life has been slow, but never stopped! I am finishing The Vampire and the Necromancer: An out of Sequence Love Story by Gisele Walko, then I will continue with the other books on my list :) So, reviews coming soon!
That’s all folks! Enjoy the summer! I will (still) catch up with the GR messages anytime soon!

And the winner of the Followers' Exclusive Giveaway is...

**...::: A Cold-Hearted Phoenix - books 1 & 2 ::...**
1 HARDCOVER of each, SIGNED, and with dedicatory!

Okay, I should have posted the result yesterday - but I have been in a huge workload this month and am behind everything. :P So, drum rolls... Tahdah!!!!
And the winner is Jason! Congratulations! You have won the prize! I am sending you a PM to get your shipping address!

And stay tuned, because there may be new Followers' ExclusiveGiveaway coming soon! ;)

Thank you for the support and friendship to all of those who are following my work!

I am finishing The Vampire and the Necromancer: An out of Sequence Love Story - and it's absolutely fun! Love the intelligent humour!

I talked to BLURB.COM about "The Night of Elisa" & book promotion - Here you can check out the result: a cool interview! :)

Hey everybody! I am completely broken with pain all over my body because I was gardening this afternoon (yes! o.O). But I gathered my last bit of energy to share something nice and special with you - readers and fellow indie authors: an interview Kent Hall from BLURB.COM did to me.

There we talked about The Night of Elisa and how to promote books when you are an indie author. I share what has worked for me so far.

You can read it here: http://www.blurb.com/blog/how-to-prom...
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Back to gardening: I have been planting seeds on some plastic, mini green-houses, which I have/had on my windows.

I planted the first plants in my garden a week ago - only to be disappointed by the snow, frost and hale which killed them a day later and remained for the past week :P I thought the cold was gone then...

On the weather preview, from today on, it looks like Spring is really here to stay. I took a chance again today, planted new plants and seeds and hope the snow and frost will be gone for good for now! :P
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So I am off to rest (seriously, I feel like I have ran a marathon!!!) and keep reading and hopefully post new reviews soon!

Good weekend!
PS: Do you have plants? Inside or outside? Do you do gardening?



PS2: If you think my Spring sounds like kind of late, it is because IT IS! Spring comes late when you live close to the North Pole ;)

TragicBooks Podcast #1 & Followers Giveaway

Hey guys, how are you doing? Hope you're enjoying the weekend! I'd like to invite you to listen/watch my first podcast! It's here, on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0EJq...

Probably sounds like crap, but I had to try - this is an experiment which I hope to make better, after failing on making regular videos!

The other thing is... I'd like to do one more Follower's Giveaway! :D

I had ordered some proof copies @ Blurb and I'd like to give them to you rather than having them lingering on my shelves.

**...::: A Cold-Hearted Phoenix - books 1 & 2 ::...**
1 HARDCOVER of each, SIGNED, and with dedicatory!

Will be shipped if you live in the UK, Scandinavia & Europe.

Do you live outside those regions? You can still participate - but you will win an Ebook on your fav format, Kindle or Epub! :D

All you have to do is to leave a reply or "hello" on this blogpost ^.^ The winner will be announced on 31th May, 2016.

Good luck! ;)

Spotlight/Interview with indie author Anthony Avina

Hi folks :) Here is a spotlight I am doing with indie author Anthony Avina , who I came across through Booklover Catlady Publicity(make sure you check her out, she is awesome!), when we did a small campaign to find reviewers for The Night of Elisa.

I have been interviewed by Anthony as well, you can read it HERE.

Anthony writes mostly horror/speculative Fiction, and recently he wrote VOID, a drama, which shows the struggles of a group of friends.

I reviewed both VOID and Bedtime, being the latest also my favourite, it gave me chills at a certain point! Click on the respective links to check it out.

And below, you read a cool interview with him. But before you read that, make sure you also peek on his AMAZON PAGE

1 - When did you start writing? What triggered your writing will?
A - I started writing when I was fourteen years old, but didn't start publishing until 2010, when I was 20 years old. It was in my creative writing class that I realized I wanted to be a writer. I was reading Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman, and at the time we were asked to write a short story. The way The Talisman was written, the idea of this epic adventure where the fate of the world hangs in the balance, helped inspire a short story in which a man is given the power to alter reality with his writing, but invites an evil presence into the world in doing so, and must set things right before the world is destroyed. That story eventually became my published story, Death for Sale.

2 - Which are the most important aspects of your work as author?
A - My main goal is to entertain my audience. If I can integrate a message or change the preconceived notions of soceity, then that is an added
bonus. I just want to have my readers get lost in the story, and to feel enthralled with the plot and the characters.

3 - About “Bedtime”, how did you get inspired to write story? Were you afraid of the monster in the closet as well when you were a kid?
A - I actually came up with the idea after I thought about the various different fears and phobias people have, especially the fears we have as children. I wasn't afraid of the monster in the closet necessarily, but I was afraid of shadow people as a child, (another story I plan to write), and when I was thinking about that fear I had, I began to think about the other things children tend to be afraid of, and how there aren't many
stories out in mainstream entertainment right now that explore these fears thoroughly, so I came up with this story of a creature feeding off of the fear and drama in a family's household. That's how Bedtime was born.

4 - Which are your favourite fiction genres, to both write and read?
A - My all time favorite genre to both write and read in is definitely the horror genre. I do enjoy science fiction, fantasy and thrillers as well, but I've always been drawn to the horror genre. I like seeing a person's true, base nature emerge in the face of a truly scary situation.
Whenever you read a book and a group of people are pitted against a killer or monster of some sort, reading how these people react is such a fascinating and thrilling part of the book, and I've enjoyed exploring that as well in my own books. Stephen King's novels have always been the biggest reason I got as heavily into the horror genre as I did.

5 - What’s the most challenging part of being an indie author?
A - Finding a way to get your book in front of readers in an age when self-publishing has become such a popular thing for authors. Any time I find a reader has downloaded or purchased my book, it's the greatest feeling in the world to realize someone is reading the book you've poured so much time and effort and love into. Learning how to utilize social media and connect with both readers and authors on a more personal level has been something I've been working on a lot over the past year, and I'm happy to have met so many great people along the way. Finding a way to navigate
the self-publishing market and reach a wider audience is definitely the biggest challenge, especially when you're on your own and have a low budget.

6 - About "Void", where did you get the inspiration for the problems the group of friends go through? What made you decide to write about that?
A - I got the inspiration for the problems the characters of VOID face from the world around me. Living in the US, there are so many politically charged subjects that divide and fuel hatred on many fronts, from both gender and sexual equality to religion and marriage. I've always been a big believer in equality and appreciating the differences between people. A person should be allowed to love whoever they want, and everyone should have an equal chance at enjoying all that life has to offer. I also got inspiration for the character of Javier especially from my own
experiences. Over the last six years or so, I've lost both an uncle and a grandfather to various illnesses, and I understand what it's like to lose someone you love. Not in the same romantic love kind of way that Javier does, but loss is never an easy thing to go through, and I've known people who don't seem to understand what kind of depression can settle over someone after a big loss like that, so I wanted to highlight the
struggle of overcoming loss, and finding a way to enjoy life after loss.

7 - How was the writing experience of putting together a drama, after focusing on horror genre for many works? How did it impact your writing?
A - You know there's a quote by Mark Twain that summons this up for me perfectly. He said, "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." I think this is a perfect summary for my experience writing drama over horror. In the horror genre, there are endless possible paths to choose from because utilizing the supernatural or serial killer elements are often not based in reality, while a drama has to follow the rules of real life. You want there to be perfect, happy endings, but while this can happen for some,
not everyone is going to come out on the other side of the story unscathed. Whether it's physical or emotional pain, life is hard, and I think writing this drama had to be a reflection of life itself. Having to ground yourself in a real-world setting is a lot more difficult for me than
it is to explore the fantastic realms of the horror genre. It was a challenge, but it was a challenge I enjoyed conquering, and I couldn't be more thrilled by the end result.
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And that’s it, hope you have enjoyed it! :)

Book covers I illustrated & Designed PT I

As most of you may know, I work as illustrator and only write/publish books as a hobby thing on my free time. And as artist, I have had the pleasure to work with many amazing GoodReads authors. I have learned a lot on the process of each book cover and have made great friends.

Today, I am sharing with you some of the covers I have done on the past couple of years – hand painted from scratch -, mostly within Epic Fantasy, Fantasy and Fantasy Romance. Lately I have made a Sci-Fi Romance cover – but that will only be revealed next year ^.^

Another thing about the covers you see out there is that they are generally made months before a book is published – so yes, readers, the new releases for you are old news for me and those who worked in the production of a book. :)

Those covers on the top are for Grace Draven’s books of the Wraith Kings Series.

Some covers for Martyn Stanley





Some covers for Nathan Barham





Some for Josefine Gottwald





Here’s for Gaelen Foley





And here’s for Tiffany Roberts






I have some new covers done the past months, but I just can’t yet share them with you, so PT II of this post may come later this year.

As for what goes on the cover - it is ALWAYS what the authors/press require and how they require. It means I don't do what I want, rather I do what the client wants ;)

I have done MANY non-fiction covers, within graphic design technique, but I am not featuring those in these posts. (Maybe on a separate post later on as well?)

And I have some room available on my schedule this summer for a few more covers, in case you’re interested, send me a message. Fees start at 400 USD/370 EUR. (But hurry, because those get filled pretty fast.)

And that's all folks, thanks for reading :D

And the winner of the Exclusive Giveaway is....

I am hours late. 3rd April ended almost 8 hours ago for my time zone. I have been too busy with work ^.^

But I finally have the name of the winner. I wrote the names down on a piece of paper, folded and put them inside a box, shook the box and closed my eyes to pick up one... And it was...

Gisele Walko :D Congratulations! I will sign and ship your book!

For those others who participated, but didn't win, stay tuned because there will be more giveaways like this :)
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On another note, I have been out for a study trip in Paris, and may be catching up with e-mails and messages for the next days.

Have a nice week!