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New Valor of the Healer giveaway starting RIGHT NOW!

The fine folks at Carina Press are promoting me today, with some tweets and Facebook posts going up! The first of the promo tweets just went up a little while ago, and it should surprise exactly NONE OF YOU that this is what it says:

Raise Your Hand if You're Surprised

Raise Your Hand if You’re Surprised

Now, this is all very well and lovely (and in fact you should also soon be seeing a tweet go up about how I once stood three feet from Russell Crowe and my brain fell RIGHT OUT OF MY HEAD), but it occurs to me: why should Carina get to have all the fun here? I am a complex, living organism! And just like Scully once said unto Mulder, I just keep unfolding like a flower. I have LAYERS!

So starting RIGHT NOW, O Internets, I’m throwing open a brand new giveaway: spread your own promo tweets, Facebook posts, etc. about me and Valor of the Healer! The rules are as follows:

  • You have to link to my official site, http://www.angelahighland.com/, or use this for a short URL: http://bit.ly/Zgk7am
  • Or you can link to Valor of the Healer’s official page, or use this for a short URL: http://bit.ly/YQTYDm
  • Or, if you want to encourage your friends to jump in too, link directly to this post! Or use this as a short URL: http://bit.ly/17EIOUw
  • You have to share one fun fact about me! Note: this fact does not actually have to be TRUE. Tall tales are highly encouraged, in the vein of the “Chuck Norris” meme, or if you happen to be a Doctor Who fan, the “Rory Williams” one. ;D
  • You have to post on a social network or on your own blog or journal.
  • You have to send me a screenshot or a link, or tag me on your post so I can see it.
  • Each place you post a “fact” about me will get you one entry in the random pool of entries!

This giveaway runs from NOW until midnight Pacific time, Friday April 19th! I will choose a winner on Saturday the 20th!

Ready? Set? GO!

April 16, 2013 by
Carina Press, Valor of the Healer

Last two Flash Giveaways for Valor of the Healer!

I didn’t get a chance to do yesterday’s Flash Giveaway, so you get a doubleheader this morning, folks!

The last two random copies of Valor of the Healer are going out to userinfoalinsa and to Helen on Facebook!

Winners, you’ve been contacted. If you have already bought the book I thank you profoundly for your support, and you may either accept a second copy to pass on to a friend or loved one, or decline your random selection! If you choose to decline, please let me know so I can re-roll to get another winner!

Thank you all for playing, and keep an eye out for further chances to win! I will be handing out TWO copies tomorrow after the Name My Mammoth poll closes!

AND! Tomorrow evening I’ll have a post going live on the Carina Press blog, where I’ll be taking comments on the theme of heroines being strong in unexpected ways, in Faanshi’s honor! I’ll be selecting a random winner out of comments on that post until Saturday! So keep an eye out for when it’ll go up!

April 15, 2013 by
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
Valor of the Healer

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
Valor of the Healer

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
Valor of the Healer

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