Happy Birthday Snowy Wings Publishing (#GIVEAWAY!!)

Happy mid-October, everyone! You may not realize it, but this month (October 3, technically) marks Snowy Wings Publishing's one-year anniversary! It's incredible to think how far we've come in just one year. We are so pleased to have brought you so many great books this year, and we're looking forward to continuing the tradition for many years to come! We have some exciting announcements in the coming weeks about new authors joining the ranks and new books from our current authors; but in the meantime, we want to celebrate our first year by bringing you an awesome giveaway!

Happy Birthday: Enter to Win 12 Paperbacks & More

To celebrate SWP's one-year anniversary, we are giving away one giant prize pack including paperback books, swag, and more! You can find the full prize list below; here's the entry form:

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A Free Gift For Everyone

But we wanted to do more than just a typical raffle, to thank you all for your support this year. So we're giving everyone who enters a free digital swag pack! This download includes short stories, deleted scenes, a special printable journal designed for any book blogger or book lover, and a printable character guide to help aspiring writers!

Because this download includes ebooks and we know not everyone has the same kind of e-reader, there are two separate download links. Both have the exact same content; the only difference is the file extension on the ebooks.

If you have a Kindle (Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, any kind of Kindle), download your prize pack here!

If you have any other kind of tablet or e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook, etc.), download your prize pack here!

What Are the Prizes?

PAPERBACK GIVEAWAY PRIZES:

One lucky winner will receive paperback or hardcover copies of:

• Fourth World
  by Lyssa Chiavari
• The Falling
  by T. Damon
• Phoenix Descending
  by Dorothy Dreyer
• Starswept
  by Mary Fan
• Sere from the Green
  by Lauren Jankowski
• Deception So Deadly
  by Clara Kensie
• A Love for the Pages
  by Joy Penny
• Touch of Fondness
  by Joy Penny
• Golden
  by K.M. Robinson
• The Taming of the Dudebro, Vol. I
  by Jane Watson
• Crown of Ice
  by Vicki L. Weavil
• Scepter of Fire
  by Vicki L. Weavil

Additionally, the winner will receive a phoenix necklace, a butterfly necklace, a space journal, and bookmarks galore!

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Just some of the great swag the winner will receive!

See the bottom of this post for rules and restrictions.

DIGITAL PRIZE PACK:

Every person who enters automatically receives the digital prize pack. Here's what's inside your download!

• A special printable reader's journal from author Clara Kensie
• "Building a Character Profile" - tips and tricks from author K.M. Robinson, plus bonus sample character profiles featuring behind-the-scenes info from Golden
  and Jaded
• "Gale" - a short story from Perchance to Dream
  , by Lyssa Chiavari
• "The Desperate Warrior and the Beast Who Walks Without Sound" - a short story from Perchance to Dream
  , by T. Damon
• "Ball Gowns and Blood Stains" - a short story by Dorothy Dreyer
• "The Adventure of the Silicon Beeches" - a short story by Mary Fan
• "A Love for the Mistletoe" - a short story from the A Love for the Pages
  universe, by Joy Penny
• "A Turn on the Ice" - a short story/"lost" chapter from Crown of Ice
  , by Vicki L. Weavil

Missed the links above? Here they are again! Download the prize pack for Kindle

, or for all other e-readers

!

RULES AND RESTRICTIONS FOR PAPERBACK GIVEAWAY:

No purchase necessary. Open to residents of the countries on this list

. Winner must have a valid mailing address in one of the listed countries in order to receive the prizes. Prizes will be shipped individually, so please allow up to 2-3 months for all prizes to be delivered. The winner will be randomly selected and we will contact the winner via email to obtain winner's mailing address. We will not use any entrant's information for any purpose other than contacting the winner.

Summoner Rising Release Day!

I am so excited that my new release SUMMONER RISING is out today and that I get to share the news!

If you haven’t yet heard about my Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy, be sure to check out all the details below.

This blitz also includes a giveaway for a DVD of THE CRAFT, US Only courtesy of Month9Books. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.

Title: SUMMONER RISING

Author: Melanie McFarlane

Pub. Date: March 28, 2017

Publisher: Month9Books

Format: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 300

Find it: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | TBD | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play Books | Indiebound

Excerpt from, The Book of Summoning:

Law One: A summoner is responsible for all creatures it lets through from the netherworld.

Dacie Cantar wishes someone had explained the Laws of Summoning to her before she watched a shadowy creature crawl out of a painting at the local arcade. At least it explains the strange things she's witnessed since moving in with her great-aunt, after her mother’s untimely death. But who wants to be followed by shadows the rest of their life? Add that to being stalked by a strange boy at school, who just might be her Tovaros (aka soulmate), it’s about all Dacie can handle in her new life.

As she nears her seventeenth birthday, will she be ready for her new responsibilities, or will the shadows that stalked her mother until her death, finally consume Dacie, too? And then there’s Law Two…

Excerpt:

When we pull up at the front of the house, everything is dark. Katya must be out. I stay quiet as I close the door and walk onto the front porch.

“Don’t be mad,” Tryan says grabbing my hand and pulling me back against his chest. He looks down into my face. “Demons aren’t trustworthy,” he says. “Just remember that.”

I relax my body against his and Tryan leans down and kisses me. His lips are soft and gentle, and I melt against him. The stress of this last month melts away.

A shiver runs through my body and Tryan mistakes it for a chill. “Let’s go inside,” he says, pulling my hand toward the door.

As Tryan grabs the handle, the door creaks open. It’s not locked? He looks back at me with a frown creased across his brow. I push past him into the house.

“Katya?” I call out into the darkness. Nothing. Lights flicker into the kitchen through the open patio doors on the other side of the house.

“Come on,” Tryan says pulling me outside with a finger to his lips. “This way.”

We slowly creep around the side of the house, following the flickering lights to the back yard. Between the tall fence and the wooden siding of the house, we’re sitting ducks. We slow down as we reach the back corner and Tryan grabs my hand.

“Let me go first,” he says. “Please. Trust me.”

I nod and hold back as Tryan passes in front of me. He peers around the corner, then holds up a hand for me to stop as he disappears into the backyard.

I shuffle around the corner, but Tryan is nowhere to be seen. Lights are hanging along the fence to the back of the property, flickering on and off.

“Tryan?” I whisper. No answer. I look back. Where is he?

 “Tryan?” I call out a little louder this time.

Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a DVD of THE CRAFT, US Only.

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For the Love of Books Giveaway Hop

Welcome to the

Love of Books Giveaway Hop

February 4th-14th

A Big THANK YOU to all of the bloggers that participate in these hops!   There are many blogs participating in this hop, so be sure to stop by each and enter to win!  Each has their own entry rules and geographic limits, so be sure to read the rules for each one.

This hop is hosted by STUCK IN BOOKS!

HERE IS WHAT I HAVE FOR ONE LUCKY WINNER:

(1) Paperback Copy of ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS by Stephanie Perkins  from The Book Depository 

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Best of 2016 Giveaway Hop

Welcome to the
Best of 2016 Giveaway Hop
January 19th to 31st

This giveaway is a thank you to all the amazing people who participate in these blog hops!! Without you, we couldn't do what we do. Thank you!!

A Big THANK YOU to all of the bloggers that participate in these hops!   There are many blogs participating in this hop, so be sure to stop by each and enter to win!  Each has their own entry rules and geographic limits, so be sure to read the rules for each one.

This hop is hosted by BOOKHOUNDS!

HERE IS WHAT I HAVE FOR ONE LUCKY WINNER:

(1) Paperback Copy of WE WERE LIARS by e. lockhart  from The Book Depository 

• Ends  01/31/2017
• US & Canada only
• Open only to those who can legally enter
• Winning Entry will be verified prior to prize being awarded. No purchase necessary.
• You must be 13 or older to enter .
• The winner will be chosen by rafflecopter and announced here as well as emailed and will have 24 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
• YOU MUST CHECK BACK TO SEE IF YOU HAVE WON.
• You can email me at mmcfarlane[at]sasktel[dot]net for questions or to confirm your prize. I do send out emails so check your spam file! The direct link to the email may not work for every browser, so cut and paste to your email interface.
• This giveaway is in no way associated with Facebook, Twitter, Rafflecopter or any other entity unless otherwise specified.
• Giveaway was organized by BookHounds and sponsored by me.

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YA Books in a Box Giveaway

YA Books in a Box Giveaway

January 4 - January 25

You could win one of these 3 AMAZING books sets, plus the cool necklace that coordinates with one of the books in the set!! 

Each Week, we'll showcase the "Books In a Box".

Giveaway runs between January 4 through January 25th.

Drawing for all three boxes will be on January 26th.

The "Books in a Box Giveway" is sponsored by these FAB authors: 

Kristin D. Van Risseghem, Rhonda Sermon, CK Dawn, D. L. Armillei, Joanne Macgregor, GK DeRosa, C.E. Wilson, Felisha Antonette, Melanie McFarlane, Lydia Sherrer, Katherine Bogle and Nicole Zoltack

​To enter, click on the Gleam giveaway below!!

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CONTEST (“CONTEST”) ADMINISTERED BY Kristin D. Van Risseghem. (“ADMINISTRATOR”). CONTEST BEGINS ON January 4, 2017 AT 12:00AM AND ENDS ON January 25, 2017 AT 11:59:59PM. (“CONTEST PERIOD”). **CENTRAL TIME US ** NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. ONLY AN EMAIL ADDRESS [Blog comment/Twitter follow/Facebook Visit] is required. This email address will be distributed to the following authors: Kristin D. Van Risseghem, Rhonda Sermon, CK Dawn, D. L. Armillei, Joanne Macgregor, GK DeRosa, C.E. Wilson, Felisha Antonette, Melanie McFarlane, Lydia Sherrer, Katherine Bogle and Nicole Zoltack. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Administrator. Void where prohibited by law. Contest is open to legal residents of the UNITED STATES.

How I Found An Agent: LOST GIRLS by Merrie Destefano

Lost Girls by Merrie Destefano

Publication Date: January 3, 2017

Publisher:  Entangled Teen

Fight Club meets Black Swan—Rachel wakes up in a ditch to find she doesn’t remember the last year of her life, and that everything—including herself—is vastly different than she remembers.

Yesterday, Rachel went to sleep listening to Taylor Swift, curled up in her grammy’s quilt, worrying about geometry. Today, she woke up in a ditch, bloodied, bruised, and missing a year of her life.

She doesn’t recognize the person she’s become: she’s popular. She wears nothing but black.

Black to cover the blood.

And she can fight.

Tell no one.

She’s not the only girl to go missing within the last year…but she’s the only girl to come back. She desperately wants to unravel what happened to her, to try and recover the rest of the Lost Girls.

But the more she discovers, the more her memories return. And as much as her new life scares her, it calls to her. Seductively. The good girl gone bad, sex, drugs, and raves, and something darker…something she still craves—the rush of the fight, the thrill of the win—something she can’t resist, that might still get her killed…

The only rule is: There are no rules.

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Finding the Right Cheerleader for Your Book

By Merrie Destefano

Writing a book is hard. It takes a long time and there seems to be a shortage of the right words; meanwhile, characters misbehave and plots meander. By the time the book is done—really done, edited two or three times until it almost sparkles—it needs to find a home somewhere else. It needs to get out of my computer and find a real home. A publishing home. An editor who will fall in love with it, nurture it, help it grow into a Real Book.

But honestly, I've never had much success by contacting an editor on my own. (Okay, there was that ONE time when I did it by myself and got a three-book deal with a big publisher, but those books never made it all the way to publication. Not my fault, but it's a long story and I digress...) Anyway, to me, the best and only way to go the traditional publishing route is to have an agent to represent me.

Alas, there have been times during this publishing journey when I've found myself all alone, without an agent. It can happen when you switch markets or genres. It can happen if your agent decides to quit being an agent. It can just happen. So, there was this time a few years ago when I had a new manuscript written, but no one to submit it to an editor.

I had to do what every new author does and what every experienced, published author does. I had to research agents and agencies, looking for someone that I thought might like my work enough to represent it. I searched Publisher's Marketplace, I followed agents on Twitter, I read agent interviews and I talked to my published friends about their agents.

In the midst of all this, while I was querying and getting rejections, I asked one of my dear friends, K.C. Alexander (author of Necrotech) about the agency that represented her at that time, the Bradford Literary Agency. I loved that agency and they represented the type of work I write. But then, discouragement set in. I confessed to Kace at a Romance Writers conference that I didn't think I was going to sub to them, even though I really wanted to and even though K.C. had already put in a good word for me and even though they were waiting for my submission.

At that point, I'd gotten so discouraged that I didn't want another rejection.

Enter my favorite mantra: Good friends don't let you quit. Even when you want to. Even when you think curling in a ball and eating chocolate is the best idea you've ever had. So Kace refused to let me quit and told me I had to sub to the agency that repped her. Somehow, she convinced me. Despite my fear and worry and inner-doubt, I listened to the confident voice of my friend.

CURRENTLY A FULL-TIME NOVELIST and magazine editor, Merrie Destefano’s next novel, LOST GIRLS, releases on January 3, 2017. Her other novels include AFTERLIFE and FEAST, both published by HarperCollins, and FATHOM, which was self-published. The editor of Victorian Homes magazine, she has also been the editor of American Farmhouse Style, Vintage Gardens, and Zombies magazine, and was the founding editor of Cottages & Bungalows magazine.

With 20 years experience in publishing, she worked for a variety of publishing/broadcasting companies that include Focus on the Family, The Word For Today, and PJS Publications (now Primedia). Besides editing and writing, her background includes print buying, writing/producing radio promos, directing photo shoots, developing new products, writing jacket copy for books, creating sales media packets and organizing direct mail campaigns.

Born in the Midwest, she currently lives in Southern California with her husband, two German shepherds, a Siamese cat and the occasional wandering possum. Her favorite hobbies are reading speculative fiction and watching old Star Trek episodes, and her incurable addiction is writing. She loves to camp in the mountains, walk on the beach, watch old movies, listen to alternative music—although rarely all at the same time.

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Blog Tour: All prizes listed below will be given to one prize winner.

Prizes listed are for a US winner only; if an International winner is chosen, the prize will be a $50 Amazon gift card.

·        1 - Kindle Fire Tablet, black: 7" Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, with the Alexa cloud-based voice service—just press and ask.

·        1 - digital Kindle copy of LOST GIRLS

·        1 - Pack of 14 vintage-style Swan Lake postcards 

·        1 - pr. Black Swan earrings, handmade by author

·        1 - "Always" temporary tattoo

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