{"id":6462,"date":"2010-06-21T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/?p=6462"},"modified":"2010-07-04T23:59:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T03:59:51","slug":"veil-of-shadows-want-an-arc-tell-me-why-you-should-have-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2010\/06\/veil-of-shadows-want-an-arc-tell-me-why-you-should-have-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Veil of Shadows-Want an ARC? Tell me why you should have one"},"content":{"rendered":"

UTA: Contest is now closed.\u00a0 Winners to be posted on 7\/10.\u00a0 Please check back to see if you have won.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look what I have…<\/p>\n

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Excerpt<\/a><\/h2>\n

From an author known for her \u201cromantic spine tinglers\u201d comes the thrilling follow-up to Through the Veil, featuring a beautiful captain who\u2019s lost her magic\u2014and the stranger who will either be her great love, or her greatest enemy\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

With demons running amok throughout the forests and mountains, a rebel army has been established to win back the land\u2014and a new soldier has appeared out of nowhere to join them.<\/p>\n

His name is Xan, and his past is a mystery to everyone, including Laisyn Caar\u2014a beautiful captain in the rebel army\u2014who is shocked by the powerful, all-consuming desire she feels in his presence.<\/p>\n

But now isn\u2019t the time for distraction. The future of her land\u2014and of her people\u2014is in her hands. On top of that, she\u2019s been stripped of her magic\u2014and without it she feels like part of her soul has been stolen away.<\/p>\n

But when she discovers the dark secrets of Xan\u2019s agenda, it will be up to her to determine whether the man she\u2019s starting to love is a friend of her people\u2014or a dreaded enemy\u2026<\/p>\n

due out in September.\u00a0 Read an excerpt from the first book, Through the Veil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Want one?\u00a0 Tell me why you should get one… above anybody else. Please note<\/strong>-this is the second in a series-I do try to write my books to work on their own, but I know some people prefer to read series in order.\u00a0 If you’re not likely to read<\/em> this because you haven’t read the first?\u00a0 Please don’t enter.<\/p>\n

Okay, onto the contest.\u00a0 Now, I suggest you be creative and remember…these ARCs are basically an author’s promo tool…when I have contests like this, I often get a lot of sad little stories or I never win<\/em>… um. Okay, let me be straight.\u00a0 I’m a mom, I’m a pediatric nurse (well not often these days, but still) and before that, I did geriatric nursing.\u00a0 Nobody has heard the kind of sob stories that nurses hear.<\/p>\n

In other words…be creative<\/strong><\/span>…don’t try to tug on my heartstrings. Wow me, dazzle me, blow me away.\u00a0 Everybody can come up with a sad story, but sad stories don’t help me utilize these ARCs to their best potential and that’s what the ARCs are intended to be used for…promotional stuff.<\/p>\n

Leave your entry here at the blog…(although if your entry is in the form of some clever online ploy…just leave a link to it in comments-be creative, REMEMBER!) convince me that you can do mad things for me (ie: help spread the word about the book) if you get one of these ARCs.\u00a0 In lieu of that, amuse me or entertain me.\u00a0 Sometimes that’s even better.\u00a0 But either make me laugh\/smile, or convince me you do awesome promo\/word of mouth, etc, etc.\u00a0 And if you get a jump on that and show me awesome word-of-mouth love, hey…I’ve got no problem with that.\u00a0 Just make sure you link to it so I can find it.<\/p>\n

So why the contest?\u00a0 Well, it’s simple.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I am fickle.\u00a0 Yes, I love contests and praise and flattery.\u00a0\u00a0 But I only get a very limited amount of ARCs.\u00a0 Very. Limited. <\/strong>As in 15.\u00a0 Which is why booksellers ask me to added my list for ARCs, I cringe, because I get those requests too often and I can’t add everybody.\u00a0 It’s easier (and more fair) to do it this.\u00a0 A lotto of sorts.\u00a0 And I feel less guilty when I’m not able to say yes to one person-because I’ve told everybody the same thing.<\/p>\n

(FYI, I do have one ARC I’m setting aside solely for a random giveaway, so if you’re not overly creative or inclined to amuse\/promote, I will have a contest for just that)<\/p>\n

Depending on the amount of clever\/intriguing\/wow me entries, I may be giving away several ARCs-we shall have to see.<\/p>\n

Rules:<\/h2>\n

Please do read the rules…all of them, including the part about my spam filter being very aggressive-it does catch comments with two or more links, but I will fish out all entries, so please do not email, comment, tweet, ask about why comments aren’t showing because that is why<\/strong>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n