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Save a Turkey: Gobble a Book Blog Hop Tour (Nov 14-21)

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This entry was posted on 11/13/2011 9:25 AM and is filed under In Books.


1) HAVE FUN!!!

2) INVITE ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

3) THIS TOUR STARTS: Monday, November 14, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
THIS TOUR ENDS: Monday, November 21, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
Winners will be drawn and posted November 22nd! ***


4) MEET AND MINGLE WITH ALL THE AUTHORS & BOOK PAGES! EXPERIENCE A NEW DESTINATION AT EVERY STOP! PARTICIPATE IN EVERY BLOG CONTEST AND BE ENTERED FOR CHANCES TO WIN MULTIPLE PRIZES! EVERY BLOG VISITED IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN!!

5) PARTICIPATION AT ALL BLOGS IS RECOMMENDED, BUT NOT REQUIRED. REMEMBER, THE MORE BLOGS YOU HOP, THE BETTER YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING PRIZES. EVERY AUTHOR & BOOK PAGE IS WAITING TO MEET AND INTERACT WITH YOU, SO PLEASE BE SURE TO SHOW THEM SOME LOVE!

6) DID I MENTION TO HAVE FUN? WHOO! HOO!! HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOO!***Authors & Book Pages have full discretion to choose an alternate winner in the event any winner fails to claim their prize(s) within 72 hours of their name being posted or after notification of win, whichever comes first. Anyone who participates in this blog hop tour is subject to these rules***

I have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving! About this time last year, I was writing a steampunk urban fantasy novel with a friend. As is common in this industry, we started submitting the book to agents and publishers all that time ago. A year later, it is still in submissions and we can't share our story with anyone. Frustrating! I write to share stories with people, not file drawers.
 
After three releases with small presses earlier in 2011, I had an idea for a steampunk Christmas story over the summer. But I knew by the time I had it done, it would be much too late to be released for the 2011 holidays, though I had excellent feedback from people who read it for me. I thought it was ready to be published for Christmas 2011, but how? Then I remembered how much success my friend Delle Jacobs and others have found with independent publishing. So...I had my novella edited by a professional copy editor, had a cover designed and figured out how to load my story myself!
 
I'm quite proud of the results and am now working on a sequel novella. Six five-star reviews at Amazon (so far) tell me that I made the right decision to indie publish "Captain Andrew's Flying Christmas" and I hope my story puts readers in the holiday mood.

 

I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Here's the blurb:

Housemaid Linet Fenna would rather be an air pirate than a servant. When she finds the ladder to an airship dangling outside her garret window on Christmas Eve, 1892, she ascends to the skies above London on her late father’s flagship dirigible, the Christmas. The new captain is someone she never expected to see again, a dangerous, sexy foe. Is the Fenna family nemesis offering Linet her heart’s desire or a dastardly trap?

Captain Andrew’s motivations are as foggy as the coal-soaked sky. Prime Minister Gladstone’s Blockaders, a horde of automen and a teenage girl named Hatchet want Linet to fail in her quest to discover what happened to her missing family, but she is determined to have a happy Christmas.

This steampunk romance novella is currently available for the Amazon Kindle, on Smashwords, on Barnes and Noble, and at other outlets.

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Captain Andrew's Flying Christmas Gobble Gobble Contest:
Each of the following will count as a contest entry.

1) Please click "Subscribe" on the left side of this blog!

2) Leave me a question or a comment here at my blog below. Please also leave your email address so I can notify you in case you are a winner!

3)  Go to my fan page at:  Facebook and leave me a brief comment. If you like what you see, feel free to become a fan by "Liking" my page.

4) Click on my Twitter link and follow me at: http://twitter.com/hahiestand.

5) If you have a Goodreads account, review any of my books that you've read. Amazon reviews are also appreciated very much and either of these will be a double entry into the contest! http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12891580-captain-andrew-s-flying-christmas

6) Subscribe to my newsletter: http://www.coffeeonsundays.info/_sgg/m3_1.htm

PRIZE FOR THIS CONTEST:

1) A .e-book copy of Captain Andrew's Flying Christmas. If the winner has purchased this title previously, they can choose a different e-book prize from my backlist.

Thank you for coming to my blog! I hope you had a fabulous time!

Link back to the tour: http://enchantedmusebloghoptours.blogspot.com/


 

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