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Last call for Valor of the Healer giveaway #2!

Hey you guys, the second giveaway for Valor of the Healer is still in progress!

Tomorrow I will hand out two free copies to randomly selected winners. EPUB and PDF are available! All you have to do is comment to me telling me about your favorite musician characters in books, movies, or TV–and all genres are welcome!

Comments are welcome on this post or on the original giveaway post.

You may also comment on the Livejournal mirror of the original post or the Dreamwidth mirror!

You may tweet to @annathepiper, or comment to Angela Korra’ti on Facebook OR Google+!

You have until midnight Pacific time tonight! Looking forward to your replies, and I will do a roundup post of all the musicians who get mentioned to me as well! So give me your best suggestions folks, and good luck to all who reply!

March 8, 2013 by
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Another writer milestone I didn’t really want to hit

So there I am googling ‘valor of the healer angela highland’, just to see if I find any interesting links that might be talking about forthcoming April releases in the SF/F or Carina realms and such–and I did in fact find one, a link with a roundup of titles due to be released in April. I’m on that list, which is of interest since this woman is a bookseller in Canada (in Toronto, even), but is also specifically calling out Carina SF/F titles!

But that’s not what this post is about. This post is about two other, less amusing links that came up in the same search results. They live at a couple of domains that look like they’re pointing at pretty much the exact same kind of page–and in both cases, they are pretending to offer a free download of Valor of the Healer.

“Well, shit,” I said. Had I really been pirated? Over a month before my release?

I dug into the suspicious pages a little further, though, by doing a View Source command on them in my browser. (View Source IS the friend of the QA web tester.) In both cases what I saw in the code were a bunch of links actually going off to amazon.com–but with a lot of extra parameters on the URLs that make me think that they’re trying to mooch off of the Amazon affiliate system.

I’m told that this kind of thing is actually quite common, affiliate sites pretending to be torrent sites. Which strikes me as simultaneously hilarious and kind of sad, really. And for all I know these two sites–or maybe one site, since both of the pages had pretty much the exact same layout and text to them, except for differing domains–may be legitimate Amazon affiliates.

But I kinda doubt it.

Long story short, when in doubt, check my Valor of the Healer page for the roundup of all the official places selling the book. It IS available for preorder on practically all the major ebook vendors’ sites now, though it has yet to show up on the Sony bookstore. And if you have any doubt whatsoever about where’s best to buy the book from, go straight to carinapress.com!

March 4, 2013 by
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And now, Valor of the Healer giveaway #2!

Since I have not even BEGUN to exhaust the number of author copies I’m allowed to hand out for Valor of the Healer, it’s clearly time for another giveaway, Internets! As with the last time, I shall hand out two copies to randomly drawn winners, to whom I can offer a choice of EPUB or PDF!

This time, though, I’m going to do a small theme of ‘characters who are musicians’. One of the many ways you’ll be able to pick out A Thing That Has Been Written by Anna is that one or more characters in the story will have musical ability of some sort. This is way more prevalent over in Faerie Blood and Bone Walker than it is in Valor–but nonetheless, one of Valor‘s three viewpoint characters, Kestar Vaarsen, is a mandolin player. And his musicianship is in fact used for a particular plot point.

So I’d like you all to tell me about your favorite book, TV show, or movie in which a character is a musician. Bonus points if it’s a story where music figures prominently into the plot. All genres are welcome!

Drop a comment on this post (or on the LJ or DW mirrors), or comment to me on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+!

You have until midnight Pacific time, Friday, March 8th! On March 9th, I will draw two winners!

Ready, set, GO!

March 4, 2013 by
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Valor of the Healer page updated!

I’m starting to see the book showing up now on more places where you can pre-order it! Behold, links on Amazon Canada and Google Play and Diesel eBooks!

Most happily, I point you to Carina’s own shiny page for the book, right over here! Isn’t that pre-order button shiny and tempting? And did I mention shiny? ;D

All of these links have now been added to Valor‘s official page. I’ve also added the small excerpt Carina is using on their official page for the book. I will continue to add other links to places you can buy the book as I find them. And once the book shows up on Goodreads and LibraryThing, I’ll add links there too.

As I said on the book’s page, if you’re wondering about where the best place to buy the book is, I’ll actually get the most money if you buy it directly from Carina. However, don’t let that stop you from buying it on Amazon or B&N or Kobo or wherever you please, if you happen to have an ereader or app that’s hooked into a particular store you favor! As long as you buy and enjoy the book, I’m good. And I thank you in advance, no matter where you may choose to click on shiny buttons!

February 27, 2013 by
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The winners of the first Valor of the Healer giveaway!

The random number generator has SPOKEN! The winners of the Valor of the Healer giveaway are:

Lauren
JGS

Please contact me, you two, with which form of digital book you want (EPUB or PDF), and the best way to contact you with how to deliver the book to you! Congratulations and hope you’ll enjoy the book!

Everybody else: there WILL be more giveaways coming, so stand by! You’ll have more shots real soon!

February 23, 2013 by
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Today’s giveaway reminder for blog & LJ & Dreamwidth folks

The first Valor of the Healer giveaway is in progress right over here! All comments received on my main blog, LJ, Dreamwidth, Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ count as getting your name in the hat if you’d like in on the random generator goodness!

Because Faanshi, Julian, and Kestar would very much like to come visit your ereader or computer! And don’t let Faanshi’s sweet exterior deceive you. Girl’s hell on wheels if you turn her loose in Halo.

Also do note that this is the first Valor giveaway. There will be more. But they’re going to start ramping up in creativity. Be prepared! 😉

February 21, 2013 by
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The very first Valor of the Healer giveaway!

Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, I have as of this morning received in my very own inbox the production EPUB copy of Valor of the Healer, to go along with the shiny PDF I have also received! Y’all know what this means?

It means it’s time for me to do my very first Valor of the Healer giveaway! Let’s put the first dent in my authorized number of author copies, shall we?

The rules, such as they are:

If you want in on being considered, all you have to do is drop a comment on this post (or on the LJ or Dreamwidth mirrors, those count too). You may also tweet at me, comment at me on Facebook when this post shows up there, or likewise on Google+. All comments or tweets I receive will count as throwing your name in the hat. But I will only count you once!

These copies are digital, so your options are EPUB or PDF! But since the EPUB IS DRM-free, if you’re Calibre-enabled, you can convert it to whatever format you like.

You must get me your comment on the site of your choice by end of day THIS FRIDAY, February 22nd! And by end of day, I mean, “local to me”, so let’s call that midnight Pacific time.

No other action is required on your part–though if the random number generator is in your favor, I sure would appreciate a preliminary review! 😉

On Saturday morning, I will choose two, count ’em, two people by random number generator. Those selected should let me know what format they’d prefer, and provide me with a means to privately contact them with how to get the file. (Email address or otherwise ability to DM/PM you on a social network.)

Ready? Set? GO!

February 20, 2013 by