Giveaway Winners!

Hello Everyone!

First let me apologize one more time for how all-over-the-place I've been lately. I was transitioning between homes and jobs at the same time, which is code for, "my life has been chaos!" Not even organized chaos, just chaos. That's right. Absolutely no method in the madness. Just madness.

But, I'm better now. We're all moved in and my job has fallen into some semblance of normalcy. I don't promise everything is unpacked and organized, but the essentials are in place, which means I can get back to my priorities. Like writing, blogging, and chit chatting with my online pals.

First things first. My Epic Celebratory Giveaway has officially ended. Thank you so much to everyone who entered, promoted, and otherwise participated. I ended up with 1432 entries. Such a great turnout! So, without further ado, here are the winners:

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It's Monday! How's Your Week Looking?

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Happy Monday! 

I hope everyone had a great weekend. I'm still not caught up on everything, but my weekend was great just the same!

I attended the League of Utah Writers' annual conference. I love going to it every year. There's just something so great about being in a room with hundreds of other struggling writers who totally get what you're going through and have many of the same goals. There's so much positivity and building up. So great!

It feels something like a think tank of masterminds, even if most of the writers attending are still amateurs. 

This year, I got to be instructed by industry greats Maxwell Alexander Drake and the amazing Gerald N. Lund. I learned so much and had such a good time!

Okay, onto other things.

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The Dark Remnants Giveaway has ended. The winners are thus:

3 E-copies of Dark Remnants: 

1) Lexxie Lin
2) Robyn Jones
3) Roxxie

Autographed Print Copy: Cristina Arpin

$25 Amazon Giftcard: Amanda Ludwig

Congrats to the winners! And thanks so much to everyone who entered my giveaway!

Finally, if you haven't yet, check out the final review on the blog tour over at Girl in the Woods Reviews. I'm also guest posting on My Book Musings, and I'm being interviewed over at Reese's Reviews. 

Also, over at my other blog, Musings on Fantasia, my tour for Quantum Entanglement, Book 2 is starting. Head over there to follow that one for my newest dystopian fantasy novel!

Have a great week, everyone!

What's your Monday look like?

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Persistence of Vision Art Competition + Giveaway Winner

Good Morning and I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! Mine was full of family, food (WAY too much!) and shopping. I got lots of fun new toys and a surprising amount of Christmas shopping done. Yea me! How was yours?

So I know this blog isn't generally for my fantasy but is dedicated to historical fiction and crime drama, but my debut novel, Persistence of Vision, will be out nation-wide on January 29th, so I'm doing a competition to promote it and would appreciate all the help I can get!

Announcing the Persistence of Vision Art Competition!!!

To promote my debut novel, I'm having an art competition. I don't have many images for my book. Really just the cover image--which is awesome, but you can only look at it so much. So, I've decided to get artists and art students involved.

Here's how it works:

1) You decide you want to participate, so you email me. In your email, you include the following info:

• Your name and information, including social networking links
• How many entries you want to do (entry fees are $5 for one entry, $10 for two or more--up to as many as you'd like!)
• How you want to pay (cash, check, money order and paypal all accepted)

2) Either I send you paypal invoice or you send me some other type of payment

3) Once I have your entry fees, I send you a free e-copy of the book. It's downloaded from the publisher's website in whatever format you prefer.

4) You read the book and create images from the story

5) You send them to me and I post them online. Readers will vote on the best ones and there will be prizes, including a grand, cash prize!!!

Other details: 

• You can create the images using any medium you want--paint, sketch, digital, photography, etc. Feel free to think outside the box. If you have any questions, just email me. My response time is generally less than 24 hours.
• You can create any image you want from the story--characters, bad guys, scenes you liked, landscapes, etc. I'd love to see a few people produce images of what they think the time travel in the novel looks like! :D
• I will start accepting entries January 1st, so get your book now to get started! I will allow 60 days for entries, so the last day to submit will likely be the final day in February. I'll post and email participants with any changes. After that, I will allow 90 days of voting.

**PRIZES:

The number of prizes depend on the number of entries submitted. If I only get 10 entries, I'll probably just do one grand prize. However if I get dozens or hundreds, I'll probably break the entries into categories and do a prize for each one. So, the more entrants, the greater the chances of winning prizes.

I CAN promise two things:

1) There will be a cash prize. For each book I sell, I'll put a small percentage of the profits into an account and that will be the amount of the cash prize. The more books I sell, the larger the prize. The cash will be split between winners (again depending on if there are one or several) and a portion of it will become a prize for one lucky voter.

2) There will also be other prizes for voters including swag, gift cards, and autographed copies!

Below is a widget that shows where the cash prize is at in dollar amounts. Right now, it's at $25.00, but I hope to soon see an increase. I will probably only be able to update it weekly, but visit the tab at the top of the blog to see it grow!!!

Giveaway Winner!

Congrats to Kathy S., winner of Nefertiti and The Heretic Queen by Michelle Morgan. She's been notified and the books are on their way to her! Congrats Kathy! I hope you enjoy them!

Happy Monday, Everyone! 

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