Showing posts with label *Books: Competitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label *Books: Competitions. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Word Search Fun to Win! Competition 1 #WPComp1Chip

Word Search in the back ground with the titles Competition #1 & Word Search over the top.

Word Search Fun to Win! 

Competition 1

Welcome to my blog for my first word search competition. Now, don't worry, it's not a difficult one, I want everyone to be able to play. It's even heart shaped. I thought it might be fun to create some word searches based on my books and then give some away as competition prizes.

Heart shaped word search with 10 words in the word list and the word "Preview" over the top.

Depending on how many people enter there will be more winners up to a max of four, so convince your friends to enter to be in with a greater chance of winning. Each winner will receive 1 eBook of mine, of their choice, via a Smashwords coupon or a direct one-time email.

How to Enter

  1. Tweet about the competition. If you don't have a twitter account see below*.


  2. a) For those who like to complete their word searches virtually, fill in and submit your entry with the link below. PASSWORD = chip

    b) For those who prefer old school pen and paper, download the PDF here and follow the instructions inside.
Winners will be drawn after the competition closes on May 13th 2021.

* For those who do not have a twitter account, please share this blog post on another form of social media or your blog and drop a comment below with a link to where. Something like this:
Word Search Fun to Win! https://bit.ly/3uPrB9Q Solve online or offline and enter to win ebooks.

Book of the Day

Chip Off the Old Block?

Dawn of the Antichrist ... maybe.


Paranormal Romance, Humour
Short Story

The Anti-Christ is coming!

His name is Owen.

Well technically it's Beherit, but that's so last millennium. Aspiring to world domination is just around the corner and his simple life of school is coming to an end ... which is kind of the problem. His best friend David, the local vicar's son, will no longer be there and that makes Owen feel things he doesn't understand. What else is a boy to do, but ask his dad what it all means, even if that dad has horns and his eye on the corruption of humankind?

Will Owen figure out what he's feeling for David, or will his dad throw a sacrificial dagger in the works? Find out in this short erotic, comedy horror.

Amazon Kindle   Smashwords Apple Books Kobo Nook Google Play
This is one of my FREE titles.

Rules

  1. No entries will be accepted after May 13th 2021.
  2. Winner(s) will be drawn at random from correct entries.
  3. Participants may enter as many times as they wish, but only one correct entry will be entered into  the draw per person - e.g. if you submitted accidentally online without completing the whole word search, submitting a second time with the whole thing completed is fine. Likewise, for the PDF version. But all entry steps must be completed for each submission as shown above.

Thursday, 19 November 2015

A Competition for A Writer's Dream

Derek Murphy is a book designer and author who has decided to hire a European castle for November 2016 for a writer's retreat (or stay in a lovely castle hotel) and is running a competition for one writer to win a room at this retreat. The competition is for:
  • authors or want to be authors
  • people who participate in nanowrimo (but it’s OK if you haven’t)
  • primarily fiction authors (but it’s OK if you want to write non-fiction)
  • people who can take a month off and get to Europe next year (travel isn’t included in the prize).

Sunday, 17 May 2015

Why Ignorance Is Not Bliss and Representation is Important (Hop Against Homo-, Bi- and Transphobia)

Hop Against Homophobia, Bi- and Transphobia
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and I am very proud to be a part of this blog hop. Check out below to see all the other wonderful blogs involved and hop around - there are lots of competitions to win free stuff :).

Why Ignorance Is Not Bliss and Representation is Important

So, I am a genre writer and in many of my books some of my characters are gay, bi, asexual or otherwise not what would once have been called "normal". Science is finally proving that "normal" is a myth and so many things are a spectrum, but that is a whole other post. What I would like to talk about today is IGNORANCE and REPRESENTATION.

Today I firmly believe in equality for all in all things and that homophobia, biphobia and transphobia should be something we eradicate from our societies. However, I have to admit, I was not always so open minded. As a teenager I was not on the equality train. And do you know why?

I was ignorant.

I grew up mostly in a time before the internet in small villages. There were no gay characters in the books I read or the TV I watched, unless they were the comic relief. I didn't even know bisexuals or transsexuals existed. I was not one of those people who thought gays should be hurt or killed, but I did think they were not like me, they were other and they should not be allowed to do things like adopt children. Yes, I am ashamed to admit, I was one of the "well it's okay if they keep it behind closed doors brigade".

I was wrong because I had no idea what I was talking about.

I shudder to think of some of the the things I once believed were true. I did not know any better because I had no reference except what I was being told. Do you know what changed that? The internet and fandom. When I went to Uni I began to see things were not as I had always been led to believe, but what really opened my eyes was the internet. I started using the internet properly while I was doing my PhD and I found my way into fandom.

Now this was a time when most fandoms ran via mailing lists and where slash (m/m) fiction often had to have its own list because it might upset people. Some people even argued that it all had to have an adult rating because m/m was an inherently adult concept. However, it was still far more open than I had ever experienced before.

I began reading fiction where my favourite characters were gay. Which led me to accept that being gay was simply an aspect of someone's being. It was not something other, something weird, something a bit wrong, it simply was.

I still didn't fully comprehend many things, but representation in fiction changed my views.

Then came Livejournal and so many wonderful people willing to educate those of us who did not know the realities that gay, lesbian, bi, trans, asexual and queer people face. And do you know what this has allowed me to do? It has allowed me to spread this knowledge, to change the views of people in my family from distant tolerance to acceptance and recognition.

I am a boringly white, straight cis female, I will never be able to completely understand what it is to be in the shoes of a gay person or a trans person or any such minority, but I can empathise and understand that all these phobic attitudes must stop. This came through representation.

Representation in fiction changed my mindset.

Never let is be said that representation is not important. It is important for so many reasons and this is mine.

Thank you very much for reading, please check out the competition below.

Were you born into an environment where you grew up understanding the issues LGBTAQ people face, or did you come to it later? Who is your favourite LGBTAQ character?


Win My Entire Back Catalogue* ** ***

The books highlighted with rainbow are permanently free titles. All of them are free on all sites except Chip, which is not free on Amazon because they have never price matched it, but is free elsewhere.

Find all my books online: 

Wittegen Press | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Smashwords

I was going to select books with only non-straight characters, but then I realised there are gay characters in nearly every book even if they are background characters in some titles, so I figured I'd just go for all of them :).

Leave a comment and then put your details into the Rafflecopter below to enter.

*Sorry you must be over 18 to win the full package because most of the books have adult content, if you are under 18 I can only send you those without explicit content (ringed in green and Myriad Imaginings will be replaced by Bright Young Things).
** the books missing from the list are either giveaways or contain the same content as those above in a different format.
***eBooks

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Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Merry Christmas - Win all 24 eBooks from the Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway 2013

Merry Christmas From Wittegen Press
A Very Merry Christmas to You All 
from
Wittegen Press

This is our final post of our Advent Giveaway, and, as part of the magic of  Christmas, we're giving everyone one last chance to win all 24 eBooks that we gave away throughout Advent in one big bundle (see below for the list of books)! Just check back through all the Advent Giveaway posts in the list below (one per day) and collect the letters at the end of each post. Tell us what they spell in the Rafflecopter competition below and you'll be entered into the draw to win these fabulous books.

The competition runs from 25th Dec 2013 to 1st Jan 2014.


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The Wittegen Press Christmas Giveaway eBook Bundle

Out of The Frying Pan by Tasha D-Drake When Darkness Beckons by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake Face of the Dead by Tasha D-Drake Forbidden Soul by Tasha  D-Drake In The Event of Death by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake Christmas Poems by Sophie Duncan The Trade by Tasha D-Drake The End of the Journey by Sophie Duncan An Amusement by Sophie Duncan The Need in Me by Sophie Duncan Book of Darkness by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake Beyond Our Horizon by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake Romantics by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake Supernature by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake Bright Young Things by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake Cat's Confidence by Natasha Duncan-Drake Half of Everything by Natasha Duncan-Drake Cat's Call by Natasha Duncan-Drake The Other Half of Everything by Sophie Duncan Myriad Imaginings by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake Cat's Creation by Natasha Duncan-Drake Death in the Family by Sophie Duncan Advent by Natasha Duncan-Drake Sacrifice of an Angel by Sophie Duncan and Natasha Duncan-Drake



Friday, 20 December 2013

Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway 2013 - Day #20 - Myriad Imaginings by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake

Welcome to the Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway Day #20
To celebrate this festive season we at Wittegen Press are giving away an eBook a day up until
Christmas!



Today we are giving away 

Myriad Imaginings by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake Front Cover
Myriad Imaginings

by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake

2 writers, 31 days of writing madness, the result: 28 fabulously diverse stories for your reading pleasure, including horror, fantasy and science fiction, paranormal adventure, young adult and erotica.

In July 2012, Wittegen Press gave away a short story, or story part every day to their readers. Each story was only available for one day, but now all 28 stories have been gathered here into 1 volume where you can meet: a spy who becomes a vampire; a young professor with a mental gift beyond his intellect; a zombie cat and many more enthralling characters.

Queen of Heaven by Natasha Duncan-Drake (Sci-Fi)
Incubus Shadows by Sophie Duncan (M/M/M Erotic Fantasy)
Sleep of The Damned by Natasha Duncan-Drake (Horror)
Samling-Born by Sophie Duncan (YA Contemporary Fantasy)
To Life Reborn by Natasha Duncan-Drake (Fantasy)
The Name Is The Game by Sophie Duncan (Paranormal Contemporary Fantasy)
Cleave To Until Forever by Natasha Duncan-Drake (M/M Paranormal Romance)
The Gift by Sophie Duncan (Fantasy)
Lost Kitty by Natasha Duncan-Drake (YA SciFi)
Undercover by Sophie Duncan (M/M Erotic Crime Drama)
The Machine by Natasha Duncan-Drake (Contemporary Fantasy, M/M Romance)
BFF by Sophie Duncan (Horror)
The Vampire Who Loved Me by Natasha Duncan-Drake (Paranormal Espionage, M/M/F menage)
The End of The Journey by Sophie Duncan (Contemporary Fantasy, M/M Romance)
God of Love by Natasha Duncan-Drake (M/M Erotic Fantasy)
Just One Day by Sophie Duncan (Horror)
All The Glitters by Natasha Duncan-Drake (M/M Romance)
Girl In The Mirror by Sophie Duncan (Paranormal Fantasy)
Connections by Natasha Duncan-Drake (M/M/F Erotic SciFi)
A Special Catch by Sophie Duncan (M/F Erotic SciFi)
The Crosses We Bear by Natasha Duncan-Drake (Horror)
Song For A Sovereign by Sophie Duncan (Fantasy)
Timothy by Natasha Duncan-Drake (M/F Paranormal Romance)
Queen of My World by Sophie Duncan (Horror)
Dead Not Dying by Natasha Duncan-Drake (Horror)
All In The Mind by Sophie Duncan (SciFi)
The Beginning by Natasha Duncan-Drake (YA Urban Horror, Paranormal Fantasy)
A New Path by Sophie Duncan (YA Contemporary Fantasy, M/M Romance)


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Every day during this giveaway, we are also posting a letter, collect the letters and at the end of Advent, you'll have a message 24 letters long. Tell us what that message in from Christmas Day to New Year and you are in for the chance of winning all 24 eBooks from the giveaway!


Today's letter is S.

Thursday, 19 December 2013

Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway 2013 - Day #19 - The Other Half Of Everything by Sophie Duncan

Welcome to the Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway Day #19
To celebrate this festive season we at Wittegen Press are giving away an eBook a day up until
Christmas!



Today we are giving away 

The Other Half Of Everything by Sophie Duncan Front Cover
The Other Half Of Everything

by Sophie Duncan

Many genres, 14 exciting stories in this anthology of shorts and novellettes by Sophie Duncan. Whether you're looking for horror, Sci-Fi or something else, you'll find what you're looking for in this collection.
In July 2012, Wittegen Press gave away a short story, or story part every day to their readers. Each story was only available for one day, but now the 14 stories by Sophie Duncan from The Wittegen Press Giveaway Games have been gathered here into 1 volume.

Incubus Shadows (Erotic Fantasy M/M/M)
Samling-Born (YA Contemporary Fantasy)
The Name Is The Game (Paranormal Contemporary Fantasy)
The Gift (Fantasy)
Undercover (M/M Erotic Crime)
BFF (Horror)
The End Of The Journey (The Hidden War #1) (YA Contemporary Fantasy, M/M Romance)
Just One Day (Horror)
Girl In The Mirror (Paranormal Fantasy)
A Special Catch (M/F Erotic Sci-Fi)
Song For A Sovereign (Fantasy)
Queen of My World (Horror)
All In The Mind (Sci-Fi)
A New Path (The Hidden War #2) (YA Contemporary Fantasy, M/M Romance)


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Every day during this giveaway, we are also posting a letter, collect the letters and at the end of Advent, you'll have a message 24 letters long. Tell us what that message in from Christmas Day to New Year and you are in for the chance of winning all 24 eBooks from the giveaway!


Today's letter is I.

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway 2013 - Day #18 - Cat's Call by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Welcome to the Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway Day #18
To celebrate this festive season we at Wittegen Press are giving away an eBook a day up until
Christmas!



Today we are giving away 

Cat's Call by Natasha Duncan-Drake Front Cover
Cat's Call

by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Existence is a Balance. Multiple universes and myriads of worlds exist in their own time and space and through each of them threads magic. Seven great Spirits guard the Balance against the forces of evil and chaos. It is time for them to choose new Questors to wield their power and be their mortal advocates.

Charlie Waterman is eighteen and until he is assaulted by a cat figurine and wakes up with a tail, he is boringly normal. Apparently he is supposed to be the Questor of the Cat Spirit, but no one bothered to ask him if he wanted to be. It's not the kind of thing that comes up when you're taking your A Levels at a grammar school in Kent. When destiny catches up with him he's two years late and past some mysterious threshold. Eighteen isn't really old, unless you're dealing with magic for the first time.

On meeting Akari, the man who claims to be his mentor, he is introduced to Between, a magical realm that exists outside normal time and space. Here he is supposed to learn how to fulfill his destiny. Accompanying Akari to Between to explore his new powers, he meets his fellow Questors: dragon; wolf; horse; spider; hawk; dolphin. They all seem to know what they're doing, but, fighting to maintain control, Charlie's causing earthquakes and accidentally turning into a cat while asleep, which is plain embarrassing.

Five sixteen year olds, a young, antisocial vampire and Charlie stand between the Balance and chaos. Nothing on Earth could have prepared Charlie for his destiny and in choosing him, he is sure the Spirits have to be insane.


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Every day during this giveaway, we are also posting a letter, collect the letters and at the end of Advent, you'll have a message 24 letters long. Tell us what that message in from Christmas Day to New Year and you are in for the chance of winning all 24 eBooks from the giveaway!


Today's letter is R.

Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway 2013 - Day #17 - Half of Everything by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Welcome to the Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway Day #17
To celebrate this festive season we at Wittegen Press are giving away an eBook a day up until
Christmas!



Today we are giving away 

Half of Everything by Natasha Duncan-Drake Front Cover
Half of Everything

by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Many genres, 14 exciting stories in this anthology of shorts and novellettes by Natasha Duncan-Drake. Whether you're looking for horror, Sci-Fi or something else, you'll find what you're looking for in this collection.
In July 2012, Wittegen Press gave away a short story, or story part every day to their readers. Each story was only available for one day, but now the 14 stories by Natasha Duncan-Drake from The Wittegen Press Giveaway Games have been gathered here into 1 volume.

Queen of Heaven (Sci-Fi)
Sleep Of The Damned (Horror)
To Life Reborn (Fantasy)
Cleave To Until Forever (M/M Paranormal Romance)
Lost Kitty (YA Sci-Fi)
The Machine (Contemporary Fantasy with M/M Romance)
The Vampire Who Loved Me (Paranormal Espionage, M/M/F) 
God of Love (M/M Erotica Fantasy)
All That Glitters (M/M Romance)
Connections (M/M/F Erotic Sci-Fi)
The Crosses We Bear (Horror)
Timothy (M/F Paranormal Romance)
Dead Not Dying (Horror)
The Beginning (YA Urban Horror)


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Every day during this giveaway, we are also posting a letter, collect the letters and at the end of Advent, you'll have a message 24 letters long. Tell us what that message in from Christmas Day to New Year and you are in for the chance of winning all 24 eBooks from the giveaway!


Today's letter is H.

Monday, 16 December 2013

Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway 2013 - Day #16 - Cat's Confidence by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Welcome to the Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway Day #16
To celebrate this festive season we at Wittegen Press are giving away an eBook a day up until
Christmas!



Today we are giving away 

Cat's Confidence by Natasha Duncan-Drake Front Cover
Cat's Confidence

by Natasha Duncan-Drake

The Seer says that a Questor is always prepared for the Task for which they are chosen and Charlie has been a Questor long enough to know the Seer is always right. Still, it never occurred to him that being ready would mean specific training for a specific Task. Charlie, Kaelyn and Alexander are given six weeks to become a Dragon Warrior team: all they need to do is master magical telepathy, archery, flying and, the trickiest of all, how to put on a dragon-harness in under five minutes!

Once through the portal in the land of Snijela, they must pass as veterans, make friends with other dragons and figure out why they've actually been sent on their Task in the first place. Add in a volatile young queen, two feuding nations either on the verge of peace or all out war, as well as spies, sexism and an alarming acceleration in Charlie's premonitions, and nothing is ever going to be straightforward.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Every day during this giveaway, we are also posting a letter, collect the letters and at the end of Advent, you'll have a message 24 letters long. Tell us what that message in from Christmas Day to New Year and you are in for the chance of winning all 24 eBooks from the giveaway!


Today's letter is C.

Sunday, 15 December 2013

Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway 2013 - Day #15 - Bright Young Things by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake

Welcome to the Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway Day #15
To celebrate this festive season we at Wittegen Press are giving away an eBook a day up until
Christmas!



Today we are giving away 

Bright Young Things by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake Front Cover
Bright Young Things

by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake

Meet a university rock band with a lupine secret and an alien with cat ears and a tail, among other young protagonists in this volume of short stories and novelettes.
In July 2012, Wittegen Press gave away a short story, or story part every day to their readers. Each story was only available for one day, but now the 5 young adult stories from The Wittegen Press Giveaway Games have been gathered here into 1 volume.

Samling Born by Sophie Duncan
When his friend is bitten by one of his kind, Luka must reveal his werewolf heritage to his band mates in order to save Ben.

Lost Kitty by Natasha Duncan-Drake
It's not every day a guy in a loin cloth with cat ears and a tail steps out of your swimming pool.

The End Of The Journey (The Hidden War #1) by Sophie Duncan
Damon Wulfres and Zac Kithrall are sworn enemies on opposite sides of The Hidden War between demon raisers and those wishing to stop them, so Zac had no idea why he is in Damon's custody, nor why he instinctively trusts him.

The Beginning by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Discover how Lexie and Nate, witch and vampire hunter, met and halted the vampirism infecting them both.

A New Path (The Hidden War #2) by Sophie Duncan
Damon and Zac are now a team in The Hidden War, joined by magic and affection and wanted by both sides. However when Damon discovers he is a danger to Zac, he must make a choice, leave or risk the only person he cares about.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Every day during this giveaway, we are also posting a letter, collect the letters and at the end of Advent, you'll have a message 24 letters long. Tell us what that message in from Christmas Day to New Year and you are in for the chance of winning all 24 eBooks from the giveaway!


Today's letter is C.

Saturday, 14 December 2013

Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway 2013 - Day #14 - Supernature by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake

Welcome to the Wittegen Press Advent Giveaway Day #14
To celebrate this festive season we at Wittegen Press are giving away an eBook a day up until
Christmas!



Today we are giving away 

Supernature by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake Front Cover
Supernature

by Sophie Duncan & Natasha Duncan-Drake

Discover the touch of the supernatural in this volume of short stories and novelettes.
In July 2012, Wittegen Press gave away a short story, or story part every day to their readers. Each story was only available for one day, but now the 5 paranormal romance and paranormal fantasy stories from The Wittegen Press Giveaway Games have been gathered here into 1 volume.

The Name Is The Game by Sophie Duncan
A new placement, a new start together for orphans Paul and Amanda. However, they soon discover all is not as it seems with the mysterious Miss Torris.

Cleave To Until Forever by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Paralysed by an explosion, Adam must heal more than his legs when he discovers his wereleopard ancestry.

The Vampire Who Loved Me by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Jack Boddington was your every day, jobbing spy until his last assignment goes horribly wrong. Then he wakes up twenty years later with a thirst for blood.

Girl In The Mirror by Sophie Duncan
Penelope Beverly must discover the secret of the ghost girl in her mirror when she takes a position as companion to Miss Verinace.

Timothy by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Darcy is a modern girl, but even she is shocked when her mother gives her the family heirloom as she is about to go off to university and it's a dildo named Timothy.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Every day during this giveaway, we are also posting a letter, collect the letters and at the end of Advent, you'll have a message 24 letters long. Tell us what that message in from Christmas Day to New Year and you are in for the chance of winning all 24 eBooks from the giveaway!


Today's letter is I.