Fallenmore Blog tour day #7

Today is a special day. It is the first double feature day in the tour! You know what this means? More awesomeness and even more chances to enter the grand giveaway!

The wonderful ladies hosting me today are:

The totally rockin' Cindy at Cindy's Love of Books and the wonderful author, Elizabeth Isaacs. Both ladies have Guest Post and Cindy has another review for us!

Click here to check out Cindy's blog here!

Click here to check out Elizabeth Isaacs blog here!

Fallenmore blog tour day #6

*rolls out of bed, checks the time and rolls her eyes* *glares at Monday* You've come back...

Happy Monday everyone! Today we are coming to my home state to visit the ever so amazing Jennifer at  Dream Reads. She has a kick ass author interview on her blog, as well as another chance to win more prizes!

Click here to check it out!

Fallenmore Blog tour day #5

Today, we rest. NOT! Haven't you heard? There ain't no rest for the wicked!

Today we are moving all the way to South Africa. Oh, how I wish we were really visiting Angie today. However, she does have a great author interview on her blog Books for tomorrow and another chance to enter the giveaway!



Click here to check it out!

Fallenmore Blog Tour day #4

Happy Saturday!

*does happy dance* It's the weekend! Are you doing anything exciting? No? Then come on over to Kristin's Book Sniffers Anonymous to check out her review for Fallenmore AND a guest post. How awesome is this? Don't forget to enter the giveaways!

Click here to check it out!

Fallenmore blog tour day #3

Hi Guys!

And welcome to the third day in the Blog tour! Today we are jetting over to North Carolina to hang out with the wonderful Brandi at Blkosiner's Book Blog. There you will find a wonderful author interview and another chance to enter her personal giveaway and the grand giveaway!

Click here to check it out!

Fallenmore Blog Tour Day #2

Howdy, folks!

Today is the second day of the Fallenmore Blog Tour and we are headed over to Texas to hang out with Cami. In My Reading Addiction Cami has graciosuly reviewed Fallenmore (don't forget to check out her review of Feathermore, too) and has set up a fun author interview for all to enjoy.

Click here to check it out! 

Fallenmore blog tour kick off!

Today is the start of an amazing blog tour. And I say amazing because of the people hosting me.

Today's blog tour takes us to sunny Brazil where author Kira Saito resides. Come on by and check out my guest post "It's all about the music, man." Yes, you can totally say that with a stoned/hippie voice.

Click here to check it out!

I will also be at Serenity's Lovely reads doing an interview!

Click here to check it out!

Also, here is another chance to enter the GrandGiveaway! You could be the lucky winner of 1 Feathermore and 1 Fallenmore Paperbacks!!!

Fallenmore blog tour sign-up

Hi Guys!

It is almost that time again! I am sooooo excited for Fallenmore to be finally published and out in the virtual world where it belongs. I am finishing edits and suchs in the next couple of days and then sending it off to anyone who would like to participate in the 15 day long blog tour and/or would like to simply review it.

Blog tour will kick off on August 1st. I know, it's a little last minute. I have been so vested in finishing it that I almost forgot about everything else. So, if you would like to host me with a review, a guest post, a giveaway, or whatever else fancies your boat, please look at the dates below and sign up.

You can email me at authorlucyswing@gmail.com or leave a comment below with your desired date and type of post.

Thank you to all in advance!

Hugs and kisses for everyone!

TOUR SCHEDULE:

August 1st- Kira Saito
                    Serenity Shields - Lovely Reads
August 2nd- Cami Hensley- My Reading Addiction
August 3rd- Brandi Kosiner - Blkosiner Book Blog
August 4th- Kristin Bingham - Book Sniffers Anonymous
August 5th- Angie Edwards- Books 4 Tomorrow
August 6th- Jennifer Vargas - Dreamreads
August 7th- Cindy Smith - Cindy's love of books
                    Elizabeth Isaacs http://elizabethisaacs.com/blog/
August 8th- Chirenjenzie - Chirenjenzie Book Reviews and More
                    Brianne Smith - Memories Overtaking Me
August 9th- Nikki Jefford
August 10th- Maggie Katz - Reading Diva
August 11th- Nicole Allen - VampsandStuff
                      Bev Sharp - The Wormhole
August 12th- Tana Rae - Book Reviews/Favorive books I've read
                      Shane Morgan - Itching for books
August 13th- Brittany - The Cover (and everything in between)
                      Marylin Almodovar - Writing on the sunny side of the street
                      Damaris and Wanda - Good Choice Reading
August 14th- Carly Chambers - Fiction Fascination
                      LA Kuehlke http://www.lakuehlke.com/www.lakuehlke.com/Blog/Blog.html
August 15th- Jo Catell - Dreams are what makes Writing happen
                      Faye - Ramblings of a Teenage bookworm


**Update** Although all dates have been filled, you are more than welcome to continue to sign up!

Writers Make the Best Friends -Guest Post by Author Nikki Jefford

Today I am happy to bring to you our host for the day, Author Nikki Jefford. Nikki is currently in the midst of her amazing Spellbound Trilogy blog tour for  her novels, Entangled and Duplicity. Without further ado, Nikki, the floor is all yours.

Writer Friends Make the Best Friends

One of the most rewarding things about writing is meeting other writers.

What I love about author friendships is there isn’t another person on the planet who can understand the agony, distress, joys and triumphs of producing a creative work close to your heart.

Authors have a pay it forward mentality, at least the ones I roll with, and look out for their own. No one else is going to be able to sympathize as much when sales suck, you lose part of your document or entire novel (Lucy!), your book gets bashed, and pirated by harpies too cheap to spend 99 cents on an ebook.

And sorry to break it to you, but as soon as you join the Author Club at least three of these things will happen. Slow sales. Check. Book bashed. Check. Pirated. Check, check.

Then there’s the other deflator… no one in your life gives a @#$% that you wrote a book.

Okay, I’m being dramatic. I’m a writer. So sue me. Actually, don’t sue me. I’m broke. I said writer!

But you will find that people you’ve known forever, and therefor know that publishing a book has been your lifelong dream, will barely acknowledge this achievement. And if you go indie, heaven help you because that just doesn’t count.

I don’t want to sound unappreciative because I have family and friends whose support goes above and beyond anything I could’ve asked.

But it is interesting to see what kind of turnout you receive when push comes to shove. I know exactly who bought my book when it was first released. I kept a list. I’m neurotic. So sue me, but don’t. (See above.)

Writer friends were the first people to purchase my novel, including Lucy, even though I sent her a coupon code for a free copy. (Touched!) Since I was new to the YA genre, I came onto the scene with no connections, contacts, or YA writing friends. I wasn’t even familiar with twitter until six months ago. I began wiggling my way in by visiting YA author blogs, which led to a group project and meeting five fab authors including Lucy Swing and Kira Saito (who I’m pretty sure was The First Person to buy Entangled. I stop at her blog today, too.)

What disappointed me most was that a couple of my oldest and closest friends were less than enthused and they more than anyone know my purpose in life is to write.

What surprised (and delighted) me the most was that after my Facebook announcement, that Entangled was on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, several popular girls from my high school (Dimond High class of ’96) left messages on my wall that they’d purchased the book.

I was floored!

The popular girls at my high school (in Anchorage, Alaska) were actually super nice. (It was the nerds who were snots!) One of the girls who bought my book also stopped by a “party” I threw senior year and was nice enough to say, “It’s still really early, people don’t come till later” before heading out for another commitment. No one else ever showed, but I’ll never forget how cool she was about it.

Maybe the real title of this post is Kindhearted People Make the Best Friends because their generosity sticks with us through the decades.

Thank you to author friend Lucy Swing for hosting me today, making the beautiful Spellbound blog tour banner, and rounding up new followers and sales via twitter when Entangled entered The Dead Zone at the beginning of last month.

Enter to win the SPELLBOUND SWAG PACK (International)

· Evil Eye Amulet and Bracelet: In Duplicity, Gray wears an evil eye pendant, also known as a nazar, to protect herself from a spell that’s causing havoc over the witches and warlocks in her coven. The evil eye (a Turkish amulet) is used for both luck and protection against envy.

· Two Headed Quarter: Two Grays are better than none and two heads are better than one, especially when flipping over who gets to choose which movie to watch with a trick coin. Adrian returns in Duplicity and opens a magic shop.

· Entangled bookmark

 Ends June 8, 2012.

Don’t miss the Cover Reveal of book three, Enchantment, at designer Najla Qamber’s review site: Unputdownable Books on June 7^th.

http://unputdownablebookies.blogspot.com/

Extras:

Entangled book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnDgYFCVVw

Duplicity book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCwY_Mj_Syk

Buy links:

Entangled amazon buy link: http://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Spellbound-1-ebook/dp/B007BCORJK/ref=zg_bs_3017_15

(Entangled is available for ebook at amazon. It will return to Barnes & Noble and Smashwords once KDP select ends July 15, 2012.)

Duplicity amazon buy link: http://www.amazon.com/Duplicity-Spellbound-2-ebook/dp/B0084V0L7E/ref=sr_1_12?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1337562757&sr=1-12

Duplicity Barnes and Noble buy link: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/duplicity-nikki-jefford/1110951776?ean=2940014446969

About:

Nikki Jefford is a third generation Alaskan who found paradise in the not-so-tropical San Juan Islands where she is, once more, neighbors with Canada. She has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Alaska Anchorage and was a reporter before returning to her first love: fiction.

After a whirlwind romance in France, Nikki married Sébastien in March 2000. They reside with Cosmo the wonder Westie.

Find her at:

http://nikkijefford.com

http://twitter.com/NikkiJefford

Feathermore's Grand Prize Giveaway WINNER!!

I asked my Twitter friends to pick a number form 1-134. Christy Brown chose number 7 and The winner is:

HOLLY H

@betweenbookends

Congratulations Holly! I will e-mail you shortly. And Thank You Christy for your help!

XOXO

Feathermore's Blog Tour: Final Day!

And as soon as it started, it is already over. No bueno. But I did have so much fun and I want to thank all the bloggers who have made this tour SO amazing. You guys rock! A big Thank you to all the readers and thosticipated in the tour!
Today, on the final day, I will be at:

Fiction Fascination

Good Choice Reading

Guest Post at Shadow Kissed Cassie

As always, don't forget to enter the giveaways!

Feathermore's Blog Tour: Sixth Day

The Tour is almost over.. NOOOOO! So go over these two blogs and check out the review and Q&A. Interviews are always so much fun!

Tana Rae Reads

Q&A at In Between YA Book Reviews

Feathermore's Blog Tour: Fifth Day

Today Marylin and Jo are reviewing Feathermore. Let's check out what they have to say and enter the giveaways!

Writing on the Sunny side of the street

Dreams are what make writing happen

   Q&A at Rachel Book Reviews

Feathermore's Blog Tour: Third Day!

Today, on the third day of the blog tour, I am being hosted by book lovers and reviewers:

Cindy's love of Books

The Wormhole

These wonderful ladies also hosted me while doing the Death by Chocolate Tour. They are amazing!


** Today is the last day to dowload Bloody Valentine FREE, so go get your copy! The first chapter of Feathermore is there, too. **

Feathermore's Blog Tour Second Day

Today we continue the tour with Kristin and Monique, the amazing ladies behind Book Sniffers Anonymous!

And the uber talented Rachel Harris, where I am Guest posting Rachel Harris Writes.

Don't forget to enter the giveaways!


**For the next two days, Bloody Valentine, will be offered FREE, so download your copy! The first chapter of Feathermore is there, too. **

Death by Chocolate

The date is fast approaching and the excitement is building. February 14th is just around the corner!

For those of you that don't know what "Death by Chocolate" is, let me explain. DBC is an anthology I am participating in. It involves six wonderful ladies (yes, myself included) writing six incredibly yummy YA Paranormal/ Romance stories.
I have been lucky enough to have read 3, plus the one I wrote, out of the 6 and let me tell you, they are AMAZING! The best part is, for those of us who don't have enough time in the day, they are short enough to read in one sitting. Well, except mine... maybe... For now mine is the longest one at 18,004 words. I guess I don't know when to stop, huh?

My story is called: BLOODY VALENTINE

"One by one the girls of Hollow High disappear and when Bailey receives a heart-shaped box filled with chocolates she might be next."

We are doing a Blog Tour that kicks off FebruarMy 1st and goes on until, if I am not mistaken, until the 21st. I will be posting all of our stops shortly so you can all go check it out. There will be fun interviews, great giveaways and more! Make sure to stay tuned.