Valor of the Healer

Valor of the Healer NOW AVAILABLE on an ereader near you!

Ladies and gentlemen, as the time zones of the world start rolling over past midnight, you know what I’m starting to see?

Valor of the Healer is now going on sale. It’s already live on Carina’s official page for it, and I’m seeing it live on B&N, iTunes, and Sony as well. Still on pre-order status at Amazon but we’re in the Pacific time zone.

For those of you who may have pre-ordered the book, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support! If you ordered it from a site that auto-delivers to your ereading device, it should be showing up real soon now! If you pre-ordered directly from Carina, you should be able to scamper up to the site now and download the book!

If you haven’t bought the book yet and you want to, have at! I will get slightly more money if you buy directly from Carina, but as I’ve said before, really, just buy it wherever makes you happy and what’s easiest for you! Just as long as you buy it, I’m good!

All the places you can buy it that I’m currently aware of are listed on Valor’s official page, and I will keep adding more as I find them!

If you can’t buy the book immediately (though I DO recommend jumping on Carina’s super-cheap price of $2.99 while it lasts), then signal boosting would also be amazing! One of my fellow Carina people composes tweets for every author’s new releases, and here are the ones for mine if you’d like to grab ’em and tweet ’em:

The Rook, the Hawk & the Dove – the game is in play VALOR OF THE HEALER
@annathepiper @carinapress http://bit.ly/ZqKIl0

She is a half-elven healer with no control over her magic VALOR OF THE
HEALER @annathepiper @carinapress http://bit.ly/ZqKIl0

Post to Facebook! Post to Google+! Post to Livejournal and Dreamwidth and wherever else you think might be appropriate! Semaphore passing planes! Send out carrier pigeons! Whatever works to spread the word!

SO EXCITED. This book has been a very long time coming, and I am anxious to see how Faanshi, Julian, and Kestar’s story works for you all!

April 14, 2013 by
Valor of the Healer

Blogging today at Here Be Magic

With Valor of the Healer dropping tomorrow (to wit: EEK! *^_^*;;), I have a post up today on the Here Be Magic blog, talking all about how my MUSHing days influenced my writing. With big ol’ shoutouts to my days on PernMUSH (where I got Kestar’s name from) and especially my days on AetherMUSH.

The post is right over here! Clickie! If you’re a writer who’s also a former (or current!) gamer of any kind, come tell me about how your gaming experiences shaped you as a writer! If you’re not a writer yourself, tell me about your favorite games or characters!

April 14, 2013 by
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Valor of the Healer Flash Giveaway #5 winner: Gazerwolf!

No new entries on the Flash Giveaways, y’all, so I pulled a random choice out of the previous entries! So today’s winner is userinfogazerwolf, who commented to me on LJ! Yo, Gazerwolf! I shall be pinging you with a request to tell me your desired format for the book!

Everybody else: all previous entries remain in the poll, and I’ll give away two more copies, one tomorrow and one on Valor’s release day!

ALSO! Don’t forget to check in on the poll to name my mammoth if you haven’t already, for two other chances to win! I will be giving away a copy to a randomly selected commenter on that poll AND one to whoever has the winning choice on the poll, so take that as incentive to campaign for your choice! And if you do it while also tweeting, Facebooking, or posting about the book, that counts for both the poll AND for Flash Giveaway purposes! So signalboost like the wind, you guys!

As before, if you do any of these things, you get one entry in the Flash Giveaway pool:

  • Comment on this post
  • Tweet to me at @annathepiper
  • Comment to me on Facebook
  • Comment to me on Google+

These actions will get you TWO entries in the Flash pool:

  • Post on your own blog or journal about the book release
  • Tweet on your own Twitter accounts about the book (retweets of anything I post count too)
  • Post to your own Facebook walls (sharing links I post count)
  • Post to your own Google+ feeds (sharing links I post count)
  • Add the book to your To Read shelf on Goodreads (or on other similar sites like Shelfari or LibraryThing)

If you REVIEW the book on Amazon, Goodreads, or anywhere else, you get FIVE entries!

April 13, 2013 by
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Don’t forget to name the mammoth!

While all these shenanigans I’m doing with daily giveaways are going on, Internets, don’t forget–the poll to name my mammoth is still open!

27 voters now and we have a pitched battle going on between ‘Woolworth’, ‘Mortimer J. Higganbottom the Third, or Steve for short’, and ‘Jean-Claude Mamut’! Clickie! Make your voice known on this important question! And don’t forget either that if you campaign for your choice in the comments, you will be entered into the final draw for another copy of Valor of the Healer!

Name This Mammoth!

Name This Mammoth!

And I gotta tell ya, Internets–I’m SEVERELY tempted to make genderqueermammoth.tumblr.com. 😀

April 12, 2013 by
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Valor of the Healer winner #4 chosen; giveaway #5 starts now!

Today’s winner of Valor of the Healer is Becky, who both commented to me on my blog AND who added the book to her To Read list on Goodreads! Notification has been sent to her of her win and her prior entries on the list have been removed!

All other entrants, your entries remain on the running list! And new folks, no time like the present if you want in on tomorrow’s giveaway copy of the book!

As before, here’s what you can do to get in!

Any of these actions gets you one entry apiece:

  • Drop a comment to me on this post as seen on angelahighland.com, LJ, or Dreamwidth
  • Comment to me on Facebook when you see the post go up
  • Tweet to me when you see the post tweeted
  • Comment to me on Google+ when you see the post

Any of THESE actions will get you two entries apiece:

  • Blog on your own journal or site about the book’s imminent release
  • Post to your Facebook wall and tag me so I can see it
  • Retweet when you see the post go up, or write a tweet of your own and @mention me so I see it show up
  • Post to your G+ feed and tag me there

If you review the book anywhere, on your own site, on Amazon, on Goodreads, wherever, and send me a link or screenshot, you will receive FIVE entries.

Also, just to make things a little more amusing, if any entrants have friends in turn spread the word from them, that’ll be worth two entries not only for the original entrant but for the next-tier entrant as well. So if you post to your Facebook wall and your friend shares YOUR post, mentioning that “my friend so-and-so gave me a heads up about this book” or something similar, that’ll be worth two entries to both of you! But remember, I need to see evidence of both posts!

Boost the signal, my lovelies! Faanshi, Julian, and Kestar want to come visit you all!

April 12, 2013 by
Books

Multi-national and multi-lingual book roundup!

Picked up in print in Victoria this past weekend, when Dara and I kept having fun ducking into small used bookstores and going “So! Do you have any books in French?”:

  • La communauté de l’Anneau, Les deux tours, and Le retour du roi. J.R.R. Tolkien. These are, of course, the French translations of the three books of The Lord of the Rings.
  • Harry Potter à l’École des Sorciers, Harry Potter et La Chambre des Secrets, and Harry Potter et Le Prisonnier d’Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling. The French translations of the first three Harry Potter books.

Grabbed from Kobo:

  • Bitter Seeds, by Ian Tregillis. Alternate history of the “WWII but with magic” school. Noticed this a while back as potentially interesting, grabbed now because Kobo had the price down to 2.99.
  • Wide Open, by Deborah Coates. Contemporary fantasy, by which I mean, fantasy set in the real world, but in a more rural setting rather than an urban one. Sounded interesting, about a woman coming back from a stint in Iraq and having to deal with her sister’s ghost.
  • Cold Magic, by Kate Elliott. Steampunk. Saw this one come out a while back, thought it sounded interesting, finally buying a copy.

And grabbed from Angry Robot directly, because they decided they wanted to celebrate SF written by women after the recent flaps over the Hugos and the Clarkes this year, to wit, go Angry Robot!:

  • vN, by Madeline Ashby. SF. Liked the concept of a heroine who’s an intelligent, self-replicating robot–a synthetic humanoid.
  • The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, by Cassandra Rose Clarke. SF, and again, oddly enough, about intelligent humanoid robots! In this case, a love story involving one.
  • Walking the Tree, by Kaaron Warren. Fantasy. This sounded like it had an interesting worldbuilding concept, about an island civilization dominated by a giant tree and a woman who’s charged to walk the circumference of the island.

75 for the year.

April 11, 2013 by
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Flash Giveaway #4 for Valor of the Healer!

This being your official notice for Flash Giveaway #4 for Valor of the Healer! Restatement of the rules for those who may just be joining in:

All previous entrants who haven’t won yet, your entries are still on my master list so you’re still in the running. If I see you do any new actions, though, those count as new entries!

Previous winners, you may enter again if you want to give extra copies to anyone, but you will need to do new actions in order to get back onto the list.

The actions are, for one entry each:

  • Drop a comment on this post (for usual values of ‘this post’ meaning on WordPress, LJ, or Dreamwidth, all three places count)
  • Comment to me on Facebook
  • Tweet to me
  • Comment to me on Google+

If you do any of THESE, you will get TWO entries!

  • Post about the book coming out on your own blog or journal and send me a link
  • Post to any social network and cc me in a comment or tweet, or otherwise send me a screenshot
  • Add the book to your Goodreads reading list (or equivalent on any other similar site, e.g., LibraryThing)

If you review the book anywhere, on Amazon, B&N, Goodreads, or anywhere else, and provide me evidence of same, you will be given FIVE entries!

Ready? Set? GO!

April 11, 2013 by