Isis Sousa's Blog: Tragic Books' news - Posts Tagged "giveaway"

Greetings, GR fellows! :)

The Blog Tour for The Night of Elisa has started before this weekend, but there is still time for you to come, join the tour, read interviews and participate on giveaways :)



The tour ends this Friday, the 13th! ^.^

Would you like to win this unique and Artsy giveaway?



Then, check out the super cool interview/book spotlight for The Night of Elisa @ Fang-tastic Books Blog!

http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.no/2...

But hurry, the giveaway ends in 7 days!

Halloween is coming, and with it, mood and inspiration related to the occult and supernatural. Most people choose to talk about spooky stories and stuff…

But if you’d like to read about something spooky, powerful and beautiful such as Eternal Love, don’t miss this exclusive guest post by Isis Sousa @ Nyx Book Reviews. Ah, It has also a giveaway ;)

http://www.nyxbookreviews.com/posts/o...

Indulge also in the other special posts Celine Nyx prepared for this Halloween Season. Loads of cool stuff!

I was surfing on Twitter enjoying the page of Zombie Sam, who makes soundtracks for films and the like, when I discovered the cool giveaways he posts exclusively for his fans and followers. (hint!)

They were cool handmade drawings, done by Zombie Sam himself, picturing Tim Burton's universe. The giveaways are engaging and personalized, making them one of a kind.

It was then I got very inspired by his ideas and realized... I had never done such intimate giveaways JUST and DIRECTLY to my followers & friends.

An artist/author like ME can only thrive with the support of cheerful, positive, fun people like YOU and I am very blessed to have you around...

So, here's to YOU, my GoodReads follower:

*..:1 Hardcover copy of The Night of Elisa - SIGNED and with DEDICATORY.:..*
Will be shipped if you live in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, CA and the US.

Do you live outside those regions? You can still participate - but you will win an Ebook on your fav format, Kindle or Epub! :D

All you have to do is to leave a reply or "hello" on this blogpost ^.^ The winner will be announced on 3rd April, 2016.

Don't be shy :D

Good Luck and have a nice day!

Hey guys, how are you doing? Hope you're enjoying the weekend! I'd like to invite you to listen/watch my first podcast! It's here, on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0EJq...

Probably sounds like crap, but I had to try - this is an experiment which I hope to make better, after failing on making regular videos!

The other thing is... I'd like to do one more Follower's Giveaway! :D

I had ordered some proof copies @ Blurb and I'd like to give them to you rather than having them lingering on my shelves.

**...::: A Cold-Hearted Phoenix - books 1 & 2 ::...**
1 HARDCOVER of each, SIGNED, and with dedicatory!

Will be shipped if you live in the UK, Scandinavia & Europe.

Do you live outside those regions? You can still participate - but you will win an Ebook on your fav format, Kindle or Epub! :D

All you have to do is to leave a reply or "hello" on this blogpost ^.^ The winner will be announced on 31th May, 2016.

Good luck! ;)

**...::: A Cold-Hearted Phoenix - books 1 & 2 ::...**
1 HARDCOVER of each, SIGNED, and with dedicatory!

Okay, I should have posted the result yesterday - but I have been in a huge workload this month and am behind everything. :P So, drum rolls... Tahdah!!!!
And the winner is Jason! Congratulations! You have won the prize! I am sending you a PM to get your shipping address!

And stay tuned, because there may be new Followers' ExclusiveGiveaway coming soon! ;)

Thank you for the support and friendship to all of those who are following my work!

I am finishing The Vampire and the Necromancer: An out of Sequence Love Story - and it's absolutely fun! Love the intelligent humour!

A little protest: I have always thought about it, since I made my author profile… However, I always forget to write about the matter!

The thing is, authors have Blogs here at GoodReads, while non-authors simply don’t have the feature. I wonder why – and I want to tell GoodReads I am disappointed about it.

Not that everybody will be blogging loads – but hey, there are lots of people who have things to share and many non-authors who are also bloggers, so why not give this space to them?

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Spotlight with Elizabeth Morgan: So I had the pleasure of doing an interview with indie author Elizabeth Morgan.

She writes in a variety of genres and is just re-releasing On The Rocks – a short story I have reviewed (you can read it here: )

And I invite you to read a cool interview on Elizabeth’s work and life as a writer on my Creative Blog: https://illustratingwords.blogspot.no/

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Follower’s Giveaway: While I am cooking my upcoming novel, As Cold As Thorns – coming closer to writing the end – started the illustration process and am doing beta reading with an amazing group organized by RBTL Blog Tours, I don’t want to say goodbye to Elisa! Not just yet!

So, if you’d like an e-book copy of The Night of Elisa - An Illustrated Gothic Novel (though not as nice as the print editions!) – you can participate following these rules: 1) You need to follow my work here at GoodReads and 2) leave a hello or a comment on this blog post :)

I am giving away 5 e-books (you can choose the format Kindle or Epub). The winners will be announced in two weeks: 29th August!

I have been quite for some time, that’s because for the past months I have used all of my free time to work/edit and finish my upcoming novel As Cold As Thorns, to be release 28th November now :)

It was a time of marathon, and now, apart from the rush with client work and teaching arts, I am back as a reader :D I am resuming my reading of Make Me BurnMake Me Burn, by Tiffany Roberts and The Rebel's Sketchbook by Rupert Dreyfus. So I will post these reviews along this month.

I have missed reading other author’s books and I am having a great time with both of my current reads. They are highly entertaining and very recommended!

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Exclusive giveaway for newsletter subscribers:


Some of you know, some don’t, that I brand my books under the label of “Tragic Books” - http://tragicbooks.com and I have a special giveaway now open to all my newsletter subscribers – those who are already subscribed and those who do so until 6th December. The winner will get all these cool prizes :)

Cheers and enjoy your time! I am enjoying mine here in mid-Norway at -9 C :)

So, I am slowly coming back as a reader, as mentioned on my previous blogpost. I have been very busy for the past months with work stuff and using all free time to work on As Cold As Thorns. Things are a little less stressful now, though I’m still on a rush with work.

I missed posting something more personal as means to connect with you, dear follower/friend/reader. So here goes some random (negative?) bookish thoughts and I don’t mind if you will hate me for that after reading :P :

I do judge books by covers and titles: in general I am a bit weird person and can be a bit *OCD about certain things. Cover and titles are some of them. If I don’t like the cover, I will most likely never read that book. UNLESS the author is a friend, then I will pass that. And the title, if it has words I don’t like, or sounds too trendy or vulgar, it will certainly be in the way for me reading that book as well. Unless, again, the author is a friend of mine, I will swallow the ugly/unpleasant/unoriginal title.
* as some use the expression – though it is poorly used in many cases, including this one – LOL

I hate these words in a book title: girl – rockstar* - crown – king – game – throne – city – raven – ice + fire – light – alpha – and some more I don’t remember at the moment… Added: millionaire and billionaire (Suggestion from Monique!)
*A rockstar is an artist that works in the rock music scene - now they use this term, wrongly, to describe all sorts show-off people!

Character names: If I don’t like the character name, it takes more effort for me to like the character. Or skip it all together.

I don’t like series!: Mostly because… I don’t have patience for them. If it is an extraordinary series, then I can like to read 2 or 3 books. Otherwise, I keep my distance. Exception: some comic book series. :)

First person: I am not fond of first-person POVs in general, but some authors manage to do a good job on that, I have read some great books in first-person POV.

Muscular naked/semi-naked blokes on the cover:Ahhhsh! I steer away from them! It’s like seeing an ugly, ravenous monster! (or like a Brazilian quote for something extremely ugly – "like the devil sucking a mango!") :S I think they are horrible and remind me of Neanderthals or gorillas! There are very few exceptions for that rule, and only like the characters that I paint for my clients ^.^ Ha!

Print or digital?: I like digital books for Non-Fiction that mostly text – and print for Fiction and Art / Comic Books.

GoodReads Choice Awards: Does not represent me. Never have.

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Now that you know some of my ***dark side*** as a reader ^.^ I’d like to talk of something else.

I’d like to giveaway free e-book copies As Cold As Thorns for any GoodReads follower that would like to read it :) There’s no limit of copies – but there is a limit of time.

You can send me a PM and request it until 24th November – Thursday.
And that’s all, folks! Have a great Sunday!

I have one brand new hardcover with dustjacket PROOF COPY of As Cold As Thorns in spare to giveaway, SIGNED and with dedicatory, together with a Norwegian chocolate to a follower.

Will you be the lucky one???

Before you think about entering the giveaway, I need to stress that this is a PROOF COPY - it means it is a version with a few glitches and not the final version out for sale, however, it is very close to the published editions, apart from the few glitches.

Here are the rules to participate:

1. Must be a follower on GoodReads OR on Twitter OR Pinterest (if you are a follower on the 3 channels... Wow! You rock!)

2. Leave a comment/reply on the giveaway thread on my GoodReads author blog - if you are participating via GoodReads

3. If you participate via Twitter or Pinterest: must retweet/repin the giveaway post/pic
Tweet: https://twitter.com/tragicbooks/statu...
Pin: https://no.pinterest.com/pin/39814642...

4. Must be from one of these locations: Scandinavia, Europe, UK

The winner will be announced on 20th December!



A lucky and awesome follower will be picked at random, I will contact the person to get his/her shipping address and send the package. :D

Thank you for the amazing support! ;)

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And here is the view from the window I took the book snapshots today! A beautiful winter day in Vuttudal, Norway. - See a bigger size on my blog: https://illustratingwords.blogspot.no/