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Drollerie Press giveaway, and also, a bit of sales data!

So over at Drollerie Press we’re in the middle of a 12 Days of Christmas giveaway, featuring several free downloads by a lot of us DP authors–and which will culminate in the giveaway of a free ebook reader a bunch of us are chipping in for! It’s a jetBook Lite, and you can find out more about it and the giveaway in general here. Skim all the site’s recent entries for the downloads available so far!

Meanwhile, I’ve finally gotten a bit of sales data from my editor , who informs me that during 3rd Quarter 2009, I sold 148 copies at Fictionwise! This means I now have 165 confirmed sales so far–and this isn’t counting anything from Mobipocket or Amazon or other sites, not to mention Drollerie’s own store during that period. So when the royalty statement finally shows up, I’m hopeful it’ll have some interesting numbers indeed.

For the home audience–this means that by very rough estimation, I’d be getting somewhere in the vicinity of $375 for these confirmed sales. And if I can confirm another 335 or so, this gets me into the territory of Anna Can Buy a New Guitar. Y’all want me to have one of these lovely things, don’t you? 😉

Well, if you’ve bought Faerie Blood, this is exactly what you’ll be contributing to, and I have not forgotten my pledge in the earliest days of this blog of mine that if I do get that guitar, I will totally post video of myself playing it. And I’ll very likely also do another poll and giveaway, because let’s face it, folks, this will be a guitar you all helped me buy. Which means you totally should have a shot at helping me name it.

Ultimately, though, the really important thing to note here is that holy crap 165 of you out there have bought my book. I really hope you’re all enjoying it! And I thank you for your support.

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Faerie Blood once again super-cheap on Fictionwise

I’d be remiss if I didn’t invite you folks to pop over to Fictionwise and partake of their shiny Black Friday sale, going on all week, in which all MultiFormat books are 45% off and all Secure format books get you a 45% Micropay rebate. This means, ladies and gentlemen, that until Friday you can score a copy of Faerie Blood for $3.82 if you’re not a member of the BuyWise club, and $3.25 if you are!

And of course all other Drollerie works in the Fictionwise database are included in this same sale, so this would be a lovely time to get not only my book but choice selections by my fellow Drollerie authors as well. Our latest releases, including the Defiance anthology, aren’t up there yet–but you can score a bunch of our earlier stuff. Go check it out, folks!

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Faerie Blood is super-cheap on Fictionwise today

It seems that Fictionwise is having themselves an Indie publisher sale this week. All MultiFormat (read: DRM-free and downloadable in any format you want) books are 30 percent off!

And since Drollerie is a MultiFormat publisher on Fictionwise, that means, ladies and gents, that you could pick up Faerie Blood from that site for a cool $4.14.

If you pick it up TODAY, there’s even a coupon that runs until tomorrow, FANTASYNOW, which will knock 25 percent off any Fantasy novels! So you could get a total of 55 percent off of Faerie Blood that way!

Sharing this because, y’know, I care. 😉

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We have a winner!

Folks, I would now like to take this opportuity to announce the winner of my October Drollerie Review Drawing Contest! I had a total of five participants who checked in, four of whom did reviews in various places, and one of whom rated me on Fictionwise. So without further ado, the random number generator announces that the winner is… Lexie!

Lexie, please send me email with your preferred book vendor so I know where to get you your gift certificate from, and also, give me your email address so I know where to send it! You can find my own email address on my Contact page. You have until Wednesday the 4th to claim your prize, otherwise I will pick another winner!

Meanwhile, everybody else who participated in the drawing, thank you very much! I will definitely do more drawings, timed as my personal budget allows. I may well do another one in December.

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Oh and by the way, y'all, about the Penguin…

I call this out on my Credits page, but I’ll call it out a little louder, because I’ve been asked a couple of times if the Electric Penguin, the geek bar/haven Kendis describes in Faerie Blood, exists. It does not. It is mostly a heavily geeked-up version of Jillian’s in my brain. But if it existed, I would totally frequent the place.

Mama’s Mexican Restaurant on the other hand is entirely real, including the Elvis decorations, and anybody who visits Seattle should totally go there and have a margarita. And think of Elessir when you do.

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Reminder: the Review Contest is still on!

I’ve had a bit of response come in on this (thanks much to Nancy, , Marian, and Lexie, who will all be in the drawing!), but wanted to issue a general reminder to everybody else:

My Drollerie Review contest is still on until October 31st! You still have time to get in on the $20 gift certificate goodness. So if you’ve read a Drollerie book this month–maybe you got in on our sale?–and you’d like to participate, just drop a comment on this post with a pointer to where you’ve publically reviewed or rated what you’ve read. I’ll do the drawing for who gets the gift certificate on November 1st!