Hello there my inky friends,
I'm just dropping you a quick note to let you know that I'm hosting another giveaway, this time on NoQu. You can see more information about it on the "Giveaways" page here, or you can click here and be brought directly to NoQu's giveaway page.
Thanks!
- Edna Pellen
Hey there, you mystical book-loving creature.
I've got news regarding the current giveaway that Bleeding Ink is running. Let's get right into it.
Now Open To Canadians
Is your wonderful self dwelling in the syrup-laden land of Canada, and were you thus upset when you saw that you couldn't enter the giveaway?
If so, I have excellent news for you, my frosty leaf friends.
Through a dear Canadian of mine (you know who you are), I have discovered that you can get on the Canadian Amazon site and gift the books to the Canadian you desire to receive them, much like I can when I am gifting within my own country.
Because of this, you Canadians can join the giveaway! When you email me to confirm your entry, say something to identify yourself as Canadian (without saying you're from Canada; make it interesting) so I will know (not because I will need to know until I know if you've won or not, but because I find it amusing).
The only thing is that I'm not sure if I can get you a digital copy, so this may be limited to physical for you. Hopefully I will have an update for you on that soon.
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In hopes of getting more attention, I've put together a few things to share around. If you have social media, please do share these as much as you can!
Here is one on Pinterest: Dragons' Bane Giveaway Promotional Pin
And here is a still that has all the information on it for you to post and share:
Photos
Here are some photos which you can save on Pinterest and share on social media, just be sure to include the link to the giveaway (the page or the post, it doesn't matter).
The first image features the bookmarks, cards, and the Dragons' Bane trilogy, all of which can be won in the giveaway. Note, not these exact copies. These are signed and thus to get them from me you'd have to kill me first, then fight my zombie, and then fight my ghost, because there is no way I'm parting with these.
(Was this just an excuse for me to take pretty pictures of some of my all-time favorite books? But of course.)
Alright, that's it. If anything else changes (and when I figure out whether or not I can get digital copies to our dear Canadians) I will be sure to let you know by editing this post when I find out. That is, I will update the end of this post, so be sure to check back here throughout the month.
- EP
P.S. Are you excited for the giveaway? If so, be sure to send a link of it to your favorite Canadian so they can join in on the excitement!
UPDATE 2: The giveaway is now open to Canada!
UPDATE 1: I am currently looking at opening the giveaway up to Canada, as well. More information to come.
Hello there!
If you know me to pretty much any decent degree, you know that the Dragons' Bane trilogy is one of my favorite YA fantasies ever. And so today, on July 1st 2021, to celebrate the series' five year anniversary, (sorry I don't think I said that part loud enough let me just - FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY) as well as to thank the author, Melody Jackson, for writing this fabulous trilogy and to support her, we're doing our second giveaway!!
(Can you tell I'm really excited? because I'm REALLY excited.)
I shan't doddle. Let's get right into the give away.
-Giveaway Information-
The prizes:
There will be three winners and thus three prizes, just like last time.
3rd place: A kindle copy of Dragons' Bane
2nd place: A kindle copy of Dragons' Bane as well as Dragons' Might
1st place: The completed Dragons' Bane trilogy! Dragons' Bane, Dragons' Might, and Dragons' Hope, with your choice of paperbacks or kindle copies! (I personally recommend physical because the covers are GORGEOUS and make a wonderful addition to any shelf + seeing the thickness of the books progress from teeny to medium to CHONK is a wonderful thing that sparks the happy juices in my brain and it probably will yours too.)
Bonus: I have six Dragons' Hope bookmarks and six "Honorary Dragon" cards that I will give away to randomly selected people who did not win one of the three prizes. These will be mailed to you.
(I'm afraid this giveaway will also be limited to the USA. Sorry, international friends. Perhaps we can work on getting you involved another time.)
How to enter:
All I need you to do to enter this giveaway is....
-Share this post so we can reach more people and provide some sort of proof that you have shared it (a link to a social media post that it's in, a screenshot of a text with the link in view, a link to a Pinterest board with it pinned there, that sort of thing) in an email addressed to me (you can find my contact form to the right of this page)
-If you would like to have the chance of winning a bookmark+honorary dragon card, please include "bookmark eligible" in your email to me. If you do not include this in your email, you will not be added to the bookmark+card giveaway.
-Comment on this post (about anything, but nothing profane or inappropriate)
How winners will be chosen:
Once you've entered (again, by commenting and by emailing me) and the entry date has expired, I'll draw names at random and we'll see who wins! I will then use the email address they had sent their entrance email to me through and let them know of their victory.
From there, I'll ask for your place of residence so that I can have the physical copies sent to you (if you're the grand-prize winner and want physical copies; if not I will just let you know when to expect the kindle copy/copies).
(It may take me 1-3 days to inform you of your victory.)
If you win,
Please consider posting it on social media and tagging the author! And if you read the books and you like them, you should reach out to Melody Jackson to let her know! Indie authors love getting comments and encouragement in regards to their books. Also come back here and let me know, so we can talk about it and geek out together.
Also please consider reviewing the books and sharing that review on as many platforms as you can to boost traffic to the series.
The deadline
The deadline for entering this giveaway will be July 30th. Last giveaway, we only had a few people participating. I'm hoping that this time around we will have much more, so I'm letting this one run on for a longer period.
During that time, please share this post and other content regarding the giveaway that I put out (it will be able to be found on this blog and on my Pinterest).
-Information about the Books-
Okay, so now you've read the exciting part, here's the part about the actual books (which is honestly way more exciting).
Book Description:
I'm only giving the first book's description, because the descriptions for the other two sort of give away the ones before them. Not fully to spoiler point, but it's better safe than sorry.
Dragons' Bane:
What would you do if someone offered you unlimited power?
Would you take it?
And more importantly, what price would you pay to keep it?
The Bane's power is little more than a legend in the land of Calest, one known to many but believed by few. But with a rival country now threatening to invade and once-peaceful dragons attacking their cities, a fairytale may be their only option.
Lena Made wants no part in finding the Bane. She's seen firsthand how power corrupted her own country, and only want to be reunited with her father. But in order to find them, she must join forces with the distrusting and arrogant Blaze Montego... who needs her help to find the Bane.
With tensions rising on all sides and secrets slipping that could change everything they know about the world, can they find a way to work together and save Calest without being corrupted by the very force they're fighting against?
My reviews:
Here are my reviews of all of the books:
Dragons' Bane Goodreads review
Dragons' Might Goodreads review
Dragons' Hope Goodreads review
About the Author:
Melody Jackson is a young "crazy dragon lady" and a lover of all things geek. She resides in the rainy state of Oregon with too many books and not enough time to write (or read) them all. When she's not spinning the tales in her head into stories, she can be found working undercover at a grocery store or gathering intel for her next stories, and food for the dragons.
Dragons need pizza too, you know?
Author's Socials:
Other:
If you need more motivation for joining this giveaway, or if you're in the fandom and want more fandom-y content, here's my Pinterest board for the Dragons' Bane trilogy fandom:
Keep an eye on that board for story pins relating to the giveaway, reviews, and general Dragon Bane related content.
((By the way if you happen to make fanart for this series and make it public, please shoot me an email or a DM on Pinterest - I would love to save it to my board/share links to it/support it in general.))
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Okay, there you have it, our second giveaway! This one I am especially excited for because this series has been with me for so long. I read Dragons' Bane and Dragons' Might quite some years ago, and then bought the full series in paperback and reread them, then read Dragons' Hope for the first time. And I am so, so glad I did that, because on the reread (or actually, it might have been a re-reread, as I think I read DB and maybe DM twice) I noticed so many things I didn't pick up on the first go, so when I went into Dragons' Hope I was practically enthralled with all of the details, foreshadowing, character growth, and such things that I probably wouldn't have picked up on if I hadn't reread the books recently.
Not saying you have to do it that way, just that I did, and it made these books even more precious to me.
So, being able to give back to Melody Jackson even just a little bit, and giving the opportunity for more people to read it, and possibly getting more people into my very small fandom, makes me so so happy.
(I might actually do a post declaring my adoration for this trilogy and showing an absurd amount of photos of my copies and talking about all my fangirl-ness which has been contained for far too long. I also might do a "book discussion" post, discussing these books individually and maybe as a whole. Maybe in separate posts? I don't know. If you have thoughts, please do share them.)
One last thing before we close off: You may notice that this is both a post and a page on my blog (the "Giveaways" page). This is because I want to continue to post on this blog without this page getting lost. You do not need to comment on both the post and the page, and you do not need to share both of them. You can comment on either the page or the post, and you can share either of them (though only the post is able to be pinned on Pinterest).
Alright, so that's that. Are you going to join the giveaway? Have you read the books before? Do you like dragons that eat cake? Because if so you will love this book. Do you prefer teacups or mugs, or does it vary given the context? How has your day been?
I'd love to hear your answers to all of these things in the comments below.
Most excitedly,
- EP
Greetings!
This past April I announced I was hosting a giveaway for The Fire Rain Chronicles. *Today, I officially conclude that giveaway and congratulate Sophia and Libby on winning their prizes! There was a bit of confusion when purchasing the copies, so they may arrive to your mailbox/inbox a bit later than expected, but they are coming! I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, and I hope you two enjoy the books when they find their way to you.
*I wrote this on the twelfth but didn't finish it so I didn't post it. So technically, it was already concluded, but I am officially concluding it now.
You may have noticed that we had only two winners when I said there would be three prizes. This is because only two people entered this giveaway. I'm learning it is a difficult thing to promote giveaways, and so for the giveaways to come (after the July 1st one) I'm going to change my method of promoting them. In addition to that, though, I ask that you readers help spread the word when giveaways are being hosted here, as that will bring in more attention, and more attention is more support towards the indie author we're hosting.
But in the mean time I have one extra prize, the copy of Azalei's Riders. With this one, I intend to reach out to a reviewer with an established audience and offer them it for free in exchange for a review.
The coming giveaway in July will be of a very similar nature to this one as it's too late for me to make any big promotional plans this time around, but hopefully it will get more attention anyways. Please remember to spread the word about it and the indie authors page to writers and readers alike.
Thank you for much for reading this. I hope you'll come back on July 1st for the Dragons' Bane trilogy five year anniversary giveaway.
Wishing you a good day,
- EP
Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hiiiii!
Remember how I said something big was going to happen one July 1st in my anniversary post? Well that's still going to happen (see the end of the post for details) but it turns out another big thing is going to happen today! And that is because TODAY, this most fabulous *April 24th, 2021, marks The Fire Rain Chronicles' (Azalei's Riders, Azalei's Strategy, and Azalei's Fall in that order), FIVE year anniversary!
I am a big fan of Miranda Marie (the author of TFRC as well as the books Echoes and Mirage). And so to thank that wonderful woman for writing these wonderful books, here's Bleeding Ink's very first giveaway!
I have decided to be a nice host and not make you read through this whole post before entering (because I know some people see "giveaway" and enter without really caring if they actually want the product or not), so first off here's the giveaway:
-Giveaway Information-
The prizes:
There will be three winners, and thus three prizes!
3rd place: A kindle copy of Azalei's Riders
2nd place: A kindle copy of Azalei's Riders as well as Azalei's Strategy
1st place: The completed TFRC trilogy! Azalei's Riders, Azalei's Strategy, and Azalei's Fall with your choice of paperback or kindle copies!
(The giveaway will be limited to the USA, I'm afraid. Hopefully in the future I will be able to offer giveaways that extent to all countries, as non-Americans should get to read these books, too!)
How to enter:
All I need you to do to enter this giveaway isssss....
-Share this post (save it to a Pinterest board, send the link to a friend, post it on social media, post of of the graphics (at the end of the post) on social media, etc.)
-Email me (at edna.pellen@gmail.com) to confirm your entry by providing visual evidence that you shared the post (screenshots, links to your posts, those such things) as well as telling me your first name.
-Comment on this post (about anything! Seriously you can even just say "boop beep". No profane or inappropriate comments, though, that's the exception.)
How winners will be chosen:
Once you've entered (again, by commenting and by emailing me), I'll draw names at random and we'll see who wins! I will then personally email the three winners and provide them with their digital copies, and/or ask for their place of residence if the first place winner chooses paperback copies.
The Deadline:
The deadline for this giveaway will be May 11th (chosen because May 11th is the date that the books were republished on), so if you want to participate, make sure you enter by then!
By May 12th, I will email the winners to let them know that they won.
If you win:
I don't require anything, but it would really help the authors out if you left a review on as many review sites as possible (just one is okay too ;D) and told some friends about it.
Also, if it turns out that you really like the books once you've read them, you should come back here and tell me about it! It would also be really sweet if you reached out to Miranda Marie and told her that you liked them, because it's always wonderful to be told that someone enjoyed something you made and indie authors don't get a lot of that.
-Information about the Books-
Alright, you've read the giveaway part, now here's the information on the actual books.
Overview:
The Fire Rain Chronicles is a YA sci-fi dystopian trilogy that is independently published. Taking place in the early 3000s, it explores many interesting and sometimes difficult topics in a new light.
These books are filled to the rim with great and convicting characters, intense sequences, good worldbilding, good prose, and engaging narration, all while remaining clean content-wise (though there is violence) without breaking the realism.
Book Description:
I am listing all three books' descriptions, but I personally would skip reading the last two if you've not already read the book that comes before them, because the descriptions kind of give a few things away. Not fully to spoiler point, but it's better safe than sorry.
Azalei's Riders:
It's the early 3000s and for the Southern Countries, there has never been a better time to live in. Technological advances have made the need for roads obsolete and drastically reduced the amount of earth needed to grow crops. As a result, much of the planet has been plunged back into the breathtaking, unknown wilderness it once was; a fact that has, for centuries, been celebrated.
Until now.
With the disappearances - thousands vanishing out of the sky every time a transport leaves on of the cities - it is soon becoming clear that the jungle that now separates the islands of civilization is harboring an enemy. Someone is here, I their forests, on their land, hiding somewhere in the vast, impenetrable space. Someone they can't see or detect. Someone who is making the cities go dark, on by one.
How do you fight an enemy who slips passed your radars, is undetected by your satellites, and concealed from your scouts?
Turn the tables. Develop your own secret weapon. One just as invisible to them as they are to you.
Only this weapon isn't made of gears and wires. It's not moving pieces and a quick plug in to recharge. This one doesn't have a control panel, a comfortable seat, an air conditioned cockpit.
This weapon breathes.
Azlaei's Strategy:
Sometimes lines get blurred.
Sometimes the truth is a lie, and the lies are the truth.
Sometimes what you believed was rain is really fire.
Sometimes your saving grace is the destruction you've been fearing.
Azalei's enemy isn't the kind that subjects his people through fear and threats. He's a more dangerous kind of enemy - the kind that weaves hope and safety into chains. The kind that inspires, enthralls, and enraptures. He has always known that fear loses to hope in the end, and so he became the hope.
That leaves Azalei with the weaker weapon. She has to convince a country of happy, contented people that Carson isn't a hero at all - that he is, in fact, turning their children into weapons, filling their heads with lies of a greater tomorrow, and then robbing that tomorrow from the countries surrounding them.
And she has to do it at her own trial.
Armed with a few young adults that are hardly more than children, a file of information, and a couple dozen dragons, she has as long as it takes a jury to find her guilty of treason to prove that Carson is the opposite of everything he's claimed to stand for. And that's if she can keep herself and the children from being murdered beforehand.
Welcome to the game of strategy.
Azalei's Fall:
A happy ending for all but one.
It's the last stage of Azalei's extensive, daring, world-inclusive plan. One more move and it'll all be over, for good. But with all of the Souther Country's people trapped in an inhospitable wilderness, some of her most prominent allies among them, the last piece of strategy isn't enacted before Carson uses his influence to turn her closest companion to his side.
Losing allies and watching as the world teeters on the edge of giving into Carson's threads, Azalei must return home and confront her people. Yet, even though tensions are rising world-wide, at home she is welcomed as their country's rightful queen. Her people ready to rise to her call, the world waiting for the moment she takes the throne and resolves this war before it begins, the Families prepared to back her in whatever way she asks, she makes a final move that no one could have seen coming.
In twist after twist that rattles everything Azalei's allies thoughts they knew about her, Arae's true intentions finally come to light, and they're nothing anyone could have imagined. With Carson exposing a new side to his own plan that pushes the world into the brink, and their faith in Azalei disintegrating before their eyes, Azalei's friends start to question everything they thought they knew about the game they've been playing these last few months.
In the aftermath, the only questions that will remain are these: Who is friend, who is foe, and who will burn?
Author Info:
Bio:
Miranda Marie is 24 years old and lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She began writing when she was about 10 years old. Because she was dyslexic, reading was very difficult for her. Finding writing easier, she lost herself in worlds of her own making.
She participates in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) every fall, where she wrote and reworked all her books. She enjoys the community there, where she met many of her friends.
She's fascinated by turtles, as she believes they are essentially mini dragons with built-in armor.
Socials:
Her website: Sincerely, Miranda Marie
Other:
Here's my fandom Pinterest board for The Fire Rain Chronicles: TFRC fan board
Keep an eye on that board (and my Pinterest account in general) for review posts and related content.
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Alright, there you have it! That's how you can enter the giveaway, that's what the books are about, and what's who the author is. Now what are you waiting for? Join the giveaway! ;D
Last thing before I go...
July 1st surprise:
Given the nature of this post, I figured I should just go ahead and tell you what the July 1st thing is. It isssss...
ANOTHER GIVEAWAY!
Yep! This giveaway will be for Dragons' Bane by Melody Jackson.
The reason why I promoted that giveaway and not this one is because I actually didn't plan on doing this giveaway this year. But then I found out this was the five year anniversary for The Fire Rain Chronicles, and threw it together sort of last minute.
So. If you're more of a fantasy person, come back on July 1st for that giveaway! ;D
Aaaand that's all folks. Are you going to enter either of these giveaways? Have you read these books before? Do you put milk in your tea (I couldn't think of any other related questions okay)?
I'd love to hear from you below.
- Edna Pellen
*The books, Amazon, and Google will say that Azalei's Riders (the first book in the series) was released on May 11th of 2018. This, however, is not true. If you go far enough back on Miranda Marie's FaceBook page you'll see it was published back in 2016, and if you look on GoodRead's date for when it was published, you'll it was April 24th of 2016.
The reason that those places say otherwise is because Marie re-published the books on that date. The original date, however, is April 24th, 2016, making this the five-year anniversary of The Fire Rain Chronicles.
