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June 21, 2013
Join the BLIZZARD: Summer Giveaway!
Today is the first day of summer for 2013. While to most of America that means bathing suits, suntan lotion, and ice cream, in my little world it means it’s time for you to:
For those of you going “Blizzard? It’s 90 degrees outside!” let me recap:
In SNOW LIKE ASHES, there are four “normal” kingdoms and four season kingdoms: Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring. Thus on the first day of each season both this year and next year, I will be giving away increasingly-awesome SLA swag packs. They’ll start out with season-themed goodies and will grow to eventually include ARCs and signed copies! Aside from giving you guys fun treats, these giveaways also serve to create the Blizzard.
What is the Blizzard? In nature, blizzards would be ineffective without the individual snowflakes that make them so very powerful. The same with books — books are volatile, intense things, but would ultimately be nothing without each individual reader who makes them so very powerful. By spreading news of these contests via Twitter, adding SNOW LIKE ASHES on Goodreads, reblogging this post, and more, you contribute to the storm that in Fall 2014 will result in SNOW LIKE ASHES!
To make yourself the envy of the world and proclaim your status as a part of the Blizzard, every seasonal prize pack winner will also get a super-special, handmade-by-yours-truly snowflake charm. Observe:
For this most glamorous of second seasonal SLA giveaways, the prize pack comes stuffed with all sorts of SUMMER goodies! In SNOW LIKE ASHES, the Summer Kingdom is known for — what else? — pleasure. Relaxing and enjoying life and all in all having a good time of things. There are both benefits and very unfortunate political ramifications to being the kingdom known for pleasure, but in Summer, the bad stuff doesn’t seem quite as bad. Thus it is only appropriate that the prize pack for the SLA Blizzard Giveaway: Summer Edition comes complete with all manner of things to help you sit back, relax, and enjoy the summer of 2013.
Sweet and spicy chocolate that embodies the heat of Summer, a Sun & Sand candle to put you in a beachy mood, a $10 Barnes & Noble Gift Card so you can buy that perfect Summer read, and of course, your piece of the SNOW LIKE ASHES Blizzard!
How do you get this prize pack? Simple! Obey the Rafflecopter gods. Join the Blizzard, win free stuff!
The SNOW LIKE ASHES Blizzard Giveaway: Summer Edition runs June 21-July 4 and is open internationally. The winner will be announced Friday, July 5!
June 20, 2013
kalany:
arguing-about-abortions:
Rebloggable by Request.The...
Rebloggable by Request.
The bodily autonomy argument was what convinced me to go from extremely pro-life to pro-choice in a matter of days. You’d have to find a way to convince me that it’s OK to use someone’s body parts without their consent to convince me to be pro-life again.
I can’t find it right now, but there’s a court case establishing that a father does not have an obligation to donate—I think it was bone marrow—to save his child’s life.
And yet we’re supposed to put up with what amounts to forcible donation of our uteruses? Something’s not right there.
Tumblr, sometimes I love you.
kathrynroseksk:
peoplewhocaneatpeople:
The entire education...
The entire education system summed up in a three panel comic strip.
Calvin don’t got time for your shit.
kathrynroseksk:
werenotshortwerefunsized:
themasterslover:
ser...
Government, Monty Python Style
Still brilliantly funny all these years later.
BEST INSULTS
whenever i find monty python casually just on my dashboard i just blinka few times and then get super fucking excited because i don’t see them as much as i’d like to on tumblr
i’ve been waiting for this gifset my whole life
Later, guys. I have to go home and rewrite my whole book now.
awkwardsituationist:
cambridge university students were asked...
cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over 600 more.
amandaonwriting:
Have you ever felt as if you just can’t...
Have you ever felt as if you just can’t write?
Have a look at this infographic filled with helpful tips to get you back on track.
Source for Image
Join the Blizzard: Summer Edition starts TOMORROW!!
Prizes! SNOW LIKE ASHES-themed goodies! Summery fantasticness!
