My DABWAHA bribe

ETA: Today is the day! Vote for Up From The Grave here on March 21st between noon and midnight only, Eastern Daylight Time.
For your amusement, I have copied and pasted the Twitter "fight" that Ilona Andrews and I had last night, whereupon we used our rapier wits (heh!) to insult each other's books, all to vie for your votes. For the full reason (with Ian book bribe included!) on why I think I should win instead of Ilona, read below the Tweet fight :).
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Pitted against BFF @ilona_andrews in #DABWAHA. Wish her all the best...wait, she offered a bribe to readers if she wins? DOWN w/her! ;)

— Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

My #DABWAHA bribe is now up. Ian lovers, you WILL want to see this: http://t.co/MC7fCmloDf (take THAT, @ilona_andrews ! ;) — Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

So @Jeaniene_Frost thinks she can sway the votes with an Ian book? Think of how long you'll have to wait. Vote for me and get a Curran POV! — Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

So @ilona_andrews upped ante w/a Curran short story bribe. Pfft! Read the ones already out. My offer is for brand new Ian. Choose wisely ;).

— Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

 

I'm also pretty sure @Jeaniene_Frost will write Ian, win or lose. So you might as well vote for Kate and be rewarded with Curran POV! — Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

All who are torn over me vs @ilona_andrews in #DABWAHA : vote for her OTHER book, Burn For Me. Then you still get Ian if I win our bracket;)

— Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

 

I am out of practice. I haven't twitted from pro account in forever. Ahem. Something something funny. Vote for Magic Breaks and BFM. — Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

 

.@ilona_andrews Yeah? Lie down with shapeshifters, get up with fleas. Who wants to itch in uncomfortable places, I ask?! #Fact. — Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

.@ilona_andrews I have never written such a scene, but I can't remember: do your shifters mark their territory? Or are they potty trained?;)

— Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

.@Jeaniene_Frost hey your vampires think impaling people is good way to boost staff morale. — Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

.@Jeaniene_Frost what is that smell? Oh it's just Bob. Vladimir impaled him last week for forgetting to recycle and we kinda forgot him.

— Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

.@ilona_andrews Hmmph. Your werewolves think that eating their rivals is an eco-friendly way of taking out the competition. — Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

.@Jeaniene_Frost umm, no because eating your rivals leads to loupism. You don't remember my books. #hurt #voteforme

— Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

. @ilona_andrews Better than a werewolf's tendency to greet people with a butt sniff instead of handshake! #YesISaidIt — Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

.@Jeaniene_Frost Jeaniene is being mean to me. ::sniffles::

— Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

Vote for me because @Jeaniene_Frost doesn't need your help. Ha! — Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

Signing off tonight. @ilona_andrews, sleep tight. Don't let the loup-ridden werewolves bite (b/c they DO, people, so vote vamp. :) #DABWAHA

— Jeaniene Frost (@Jeaniene_Frost) March 21, 2015

.@Jeaniene_Frost here are some electric blankets for your ice cold vamps. Sleeping with corpses, :shudder: — Ilona Andrews (@ilona_andrews) March 21, 2015

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In case you haven't heard of it, DABWAHA is a fun book competition run by Dear Author and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books every March to coincide with March Madness. In similar style, books are paired off against each other, with the winner advancing to the next bracket, and so on, until there is only one. I have a special place in my heart for the Smart Bitches blog because many years ago, they gave me the very first book review I ever received on Halfway To The Grave. So, you can imagine how flattered I was to see my final Cat and Bones novel, Up From The Grave, make it into the DABWAHA competition this year. It's like the universe was closing a circle somewhere.

Up From The Grave made it through the first round on DABWAHA. On March 21st from Noon to Midnight (EDT) only, the polls will be open to see if it advances again. However, it's up against a very excellent novel by my longtime friend, author Ilona Andrews. I, of course, upon seeing this, decided that I couldn't possibly ask my readers to help me defeat a novel by one of my BFF's.....wait, what did Ilona post on her blog?

Oh no she didn't! 

Ilona was offering a bribe to her readers to crush my book? All right, then! *takes off gloves* It's ON, bey-otch! :)

So, what bribe shall I offer you to entice you into voting for Up From The Grave at this link TODAY, March 21st, from noon to midnight? Hmmm, what about....if it beats my now-former BFF's book, then...
The next vampire spinoff novel I write will feature Ian as the hero.
That's right, Ian lovers, he can be all yours, if you help me show my vote-hungry friend that she might have started this with the bribes, but I will finish it! *insert "Spartans, prepare for glory!" war cry here*

So, readers, if you're Team Ian, vote for Up From The Grave on March 21st between noon and midnight EDT. Then, spread the word on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Goodreads, whatever. We only have a 12 hour window to make this happen.

Besides, Ilona has another novel in this year's DABWAHA competition anyway ;).

 

 

Disclaimer: This bribe-off and all corresponding smack talk is purely in jest. Ilona is my BFF and always will be :).