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Giftmas Blog Tour

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Last year I invited my friends to share guest blogs with me about their winter holiday traditions. It went pretty well, but was quite rushed because I left it until the last minute (or very near) before putting things together. I don’t want to repeat that this year and there are like ten weeks to Christmas. (I KNOW! How did that happen? Holy whack this year has gone by quickly. Anyway…)

Would you like to participate in a blog tour this December?

I’m calling it the ‘Giftmas Blog Tour’ because at my home we celebrate a secular version of Christmas that I like to call Giftmas but you’re welcome to join in no matter what December holiday you celebrate.

Participants will be asked to write two separate blog posts about whatever they want as long as it touches on a winter celebration. Those posts will be shared here on my blog and also on other participant’s blogs. You are not required to host a guest post but if want to, you are welcome to do so.

Participants are also welcome, but not required, to donate something for our big Giftmas Giveaway. All donated prizes will be pooled together and given away at the end of the tour.

If you’d like to join in please email me at rhonda.l.parrish@gmail.com with the subject ‘Giftmas Blog Tour’. Include in that email:

  • Your blog URL (if you have one)
  • If you’d like to donate a prize (or prizes) to the giveaway
  • If you’d like to host a guest post (or two) and, if so, any days in December you cannot host on

I will accept sign-ups until November 15th 

If you have any questions shoot me an email and I will get back to you as quickly as possible.

*Awesomesauce graphics courtesy of Amanda C. Davis.

Corvidae, Fae, Giveaway, Interview, Scarecrow

Menagerie-related News

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I nicked this from Kate Wolford at http://www.fairytalemagazine.com/

It’s Friday, and around here that usually means it’s Fractured Friday but we’re going to skip that this week because I have several bits of interesting Magical Menagerie-related news to share.

We’re going to have a Facebook party on Tuesday to celebrate CORVIDAE and SCARECROW. You can join myself, my publisher and several of our contributors while we hang out, talk about the anthologies and also all things corvid and scarecrow. It will be super fun and casual… oh, and there will be giveaways as well 🙂 The party is scheduled for 5 – 8pm Mountain Time and Facebook will happily convert that to your own time zone. I hope to ‘see’ you there!

Also, Kate Wolford from Enchanted Conversation is giving away three e-books. You may have heard of them, their titles are FAE, CORVIDAE and SCARECROW. It’s super easy to enter (you just have to guess a number) but entries close on September 26th so be sure and get yours in before it’s too late — Three E-Book Giveaway.

Oh, and the image at the top of this blog post? I nicked it from Kate, so thank you Kate!

Finally, Edmonton writer and blogger Hal J. Friesen is interviewing some of the contributors to Corvidae and Scarecrow. He interviewed Laura VanArendonk Baugh at the beginning of the month about her stories and animal training and then just today he shared his interview with Kat Otis about her story (which re-imagines WWII with magical creatures like corvids, frost giants and sea serpents added into the mix) and also about flying.

Check out the interviews and the giveaway and I hope to see you at our Facebook party on Tuesday! 🙂

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#ScarecrowSelfies Winner

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I’m pleased to announce that the random number generator on Random.org has spoken and the winner of the #ScarecrowSelfies draw and a box of ten copies of SCARECROW is…

Drum roll please…

Actually, let’s pause a moment to look at some of these amazing photographic entries:

Awesome, right?

Anywho… the winner is…

Debbie H!

Debbie, please email me your snail mail address and we’ll get this box of books shipped out to you once I get back in town from WWC. I can’t wait to see how you spread the love.

Thank you to everyone who participated. I really enjoyed seeing your scarecrow selfie photographs and reading your cool ideas for how you were going to give the extra copies away. I will definitely do this again some day.

Cover Reveal, Giveaway, Pictures, Scarecrow

Scarecrow Cover Reveal

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Scarecrow edited by Rhonda Parrish

Oh.

My.

Gawd.

I love this cover. Don’t you just love this cover? I feel like this anthology series has been blessed with great covers (thank you Eileen!) but this one is my favourite. Love, love, love, love, love it.

Oh. But wait. There’s more! In addition revealing the cover of Scarecrow I have copies to give away! There are two ways to win (I suggest entering both draws LOL). The first is a Goodreads giveaway. We’re giving a copy of Scarecrow to two lucky winners (US and Canada only, sorry :-/ ). It’s super easy to enter, you can just click here to go to the page on Goodreads or use this:

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Scarecrow by Rhonda Parrish

Scarecrow

by Rhonda Parrish

Giveaway ends August 03, 2015.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

That draw is only open for like 5 days (it closes on August 3rd). Can we get 500 entries in 5 days? I don’t know, but let’s try! 🙂

The other way to enter to win a copy (well, actually ten copies) of Scarecrow is via #ScarecrowSelfies. This one is open to people anywhere in the world. You can check out all the details by clicking here, and in the meantime take a look at the entries that have come in so far:

Awesome. Like that cover. Amirite?

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#ScarecrowSelfies

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Scarecrow -- Dragon Age: Origins
My character & Alistair with a scarecrow in Dragon Age: Origins

I want to give you TEN (10) copies of Scarecrow.

Yep. You read that right.

I’m going to give one person ten copies of Scarecrow. That lucky winner can keep one and give the other nine away however they want to–to their book club, friends, relatives, libraries or random people on the internet–whatever they want. Why? Well, mostly because giving away books is fun and I want to spread the joy around 🙂

How do you enter?

Take photos of or with scarecrows and share them on social media (Twitter, Facebook) using the hashtag #ScarecrowSelfies (If you don’t do social media I will post and share on your behalf — email your pictures to me at fae [at] worldweaverpress.com)

I will compile and share/link to the photos on my blog, because c’mon, of course I will!

Every photo taken will count as an entry into the draw and you will get an extra entry if your photo contains a copy of either CORVIDAE or FAE

And as I said, the winner will receive a box of copies of SCARECROW to share however you want. Actually, I’ll give you a bonus entry if you post on social media using the #ScarecrowSelfies and tell us how you would give away the books if you won.

That’s three ways to enter the draw. C’mon, it’ll be fun!

I will hold the draw on the morning of August 13th so make sure your entries are in by the 12th.

 

Official-Type Stuff & FAQs

You cannot sell the nine extra copies, you must give them away for free.

The books are shipping from inside the US so if you live outside the US you are still welcome to enter but if you win you will be responsible for any customs, duty or other costs associated with importing the books.

Why not give eight people one copy of SCARECROW instead of giving one person eight copies?

Why not? I want to try something different and we’ll still be running a Goodreads giveaway for SCARECROW the same as we have for FAE and CORVIDAE so this isn’t the only chance people will have to win a copy but it is the only chance they’ll have to win nine of them 🙂

Does the picture have to be with a real scarecrow?

Nope. I’m open to all sorts of creative interpretations on this one. A picture of you with a picture of a scarecrow? Cool. A screenshot from a video game with a scarecrow? Okay. A friend dressed up as a scarecrow posing with you? Awesome. Please feel free to think outside the box on this one.

Have a question? Hit me up, I’m happy to answer 🙂

 

Some of the entries:

Corvidae, Giveaway

Corvidae Pre-Orders & Giveaway

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Well, this is awkward.

It’s not often that you want to combine an ‘Enter to win this thing for free!’ blog post with a ‘Pre-order the exact same thing!’ blog post, and yet a series of unusual circumstances and events have conspired to make it so that is exactly what I’m doing. Weird.

Anywho…

Cover for CORVIDAE. Design by Eileen Wiedbrauk

Corvidae is available for pre-order. Pre-orders are a pretty big deal. If you intend to pick up a copy of Corvidae when it comes out next week, please consider pre-ordering it today. Not only will it make my publisher and me happy, it will mean that you’ll have your copy as soon as it’s available!

Pre-order Corvidae in Kindle, Kobo, (paperback pre-order available only through WWP website).

Amazon Kindle:
(US) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010R2T6TQ
(UK) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B010R2T6TQ
(CA) http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B010R2T6TQ

Kobo:
(US) https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/corvidae-1
(CA) https://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/corvidae-1

Official WWP page / paperback pre-order (US only):
https://www.worldweaverpress.com/corvidae.html

Or if you’re feeling lucky you can enter to win our Goodreads giveaway. Five lucky people will win a paperback copy of Corvidae:

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Corvidae by Rhonda Parrish

Corvidae

by Rhonda Parrish

Giveaway ends July 06, 2015.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

The timeline on this giveaway is pretty constrained–there are only five (5) days to enter, which might turn out to be a good thing for those of you who do–fewer entries mean better odds of your name being picked.

Whatever you do, pre-order, enter the draw or both, thank you. Your support means a lot to me 🙂

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Corvidae ARC Giveaway

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coming-soon-from-wwpIt’s almost time for Corvidae to hit the shelves (July 7th!) and you know what that means, right? It means I get to giveaway an ARC to one lucky person. You could be one of the very first people to get your hot little hands on a copy!

Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long captured mankind’s attention, showing up in mythology as the companions or manifestations of deities, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond.

In Corvidae birds are born of blood and pain, trickster ravens live up to their names, magpies take human form, blue jays battle evil forces, and choughs become prisoners of war. These stories will take you to the Great War, research facilities, frozen mountaintops, steam-powered worlds, remote forest homes, and deep into fairy tales. One thing is for certain, after reading this anthology, you’ll never look the same way at the corvid outside your window.

Featuring works by Jane Yolen, Mike Allen, C.S.E. Cooney, M.L.D. Curelas, Tim Deal, Megan Engelhardt, Megan Fennell, Adria Laycraft, Kat Otis, Michael S. Pack, Sara Puls, Michael M. Rader, Mark Rapacz, Angela Slatter, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and Leslie Van Zwol.

It’s super easy to enter to win, too. The Rafflecopter widget below gives you lots of options (some of which you can do every day to maximize your chances to win:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

But wait! There’s more!

As you may know, Corvidae is book #2 in the series we’re calling “Rhonda Parrish’s Magical Menageries“. That series began with Fae and will continue with Corvidae’s companion anthology, Scarecrow (due out in August).

I’ll be straight with you, Fae could really use some more reviews on Amazon. It’s received great reviews, don’t get me wrong, but they mostly seem to be centered on Goodreads* and whether you love it or hate it, Amazon is the 500lb gorilla in this industry and reviews there have more, well, weight, than reviews on Goodreads.

So, if Fae reaches ten (10) reviews on Amazon** by the time this giveaway ends on June 2nd I will have the Rafflecopter choose a second winner and that winner will receive an ARC of Scarecrow.

If we surpass 10 reviews before June 2nd I will edit this blog post to add some ‘stretch goals’, each of which will look an awful lot like an ARC 😉

*I don’t want to seem ungrateful for the reviews on Goodreads, because I really, truly AM grateful for them. It’s just that now I need to focus on getting some on Amazon as well.
**I only want honest reviews, so if you haven’t read Fae yet, well, now is as good a time as any LOL Or you can just cross your fingers and hope the people who have read it will review it on Amazon 🙂

Helpful links:

Fae on Amazon
Fae on Goodreads
Corvidae on World Weaver Press
Scarecrow on World Weaver Press

If you have any questions just leave a comment or drop me a line at [rhonda] at [jofigure.com]