Free this weekend!

Kids are getting out of school. Weather is warming up. And people are hitting the beach.

So, I’m giving you something to read!  This weekend, from June 7-June 9, I’m offering one of my latest releases, Not My Daughter for FREE on Amazon. Click the picture below between June 7 – June 9. All I ask for in return? A review. That’s it. Go back to Amazon once you’re finished and leave an honest review. I do mean honest. I’d never ask for a BS 5-Star review on a book you didn’t like.

And if you like it, you can pick up I’m Okay, You’re Not for only $2.99.

Giving up the Farm!

Not My Daughter is finally released!

 If you go to my webpage http://kimmullican.com/Books.html you can find the format you’re looking for.  It’s available in print, Kindle and Nook.

I have experimented with Amazon’s KDP Select Program. What this means for me, as an author, is that I grant Amazon exclusivity to the book in the program.  It cannot be available in any other format.  What this also means is that I can do free promotions.

I can only do them with Amazon.   I haven’t seen any benefit to being in the Select program… but you can benefit.

From April 30 – May 4, I’m giving away Yoder’s Farm for free.  So go here:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008Y0MMC2 and download it for free if you don’t have it already.  The only thing I ask for is an honest review.  Of course, this is the honor system.  I’m not going to track you down and gouge out your eyes for not posting a review…but it would be appreciated.  

Spread the word to your friends that like free books!

Thank you to everyone who has supported me through the years.  Your continued support keeps me writing!

Hearts on Fire Giveaway Hop

Free Stuff!

The  last blog hop was so much fun, I’ve decided to do another.  The Hearts on Fire Giveaway Hop has some really neat prizes.  1.) Two Kindle Paperwhites,  2.) Three sets of Black Swan: Books 1-3 paperbacks signed by Victoria Danann (1 and 2 being US only) 3.) twenty sets of Black Swan: Books 1-3 e-books.  Click HERE to learn how to enter.

Since I love giveaways, here’s what I’m offering to four lucky winners!  Any one of my eBooks free.  You choose.

     

Just click here: a Rafflecopter giveaway  When the contest is over, I will contact you if you’ve won to find out which book you would like.  Don’t forget to click to click the blog hop link to find all the participants.  There are many many prizes!

AUTHOR:                  by Victoria Danann

PUBLISHER:             7th House

ISBN:                          978-1-933320-67-0 ebook      Words: 107,000

978-1-933320-80-9 print         Pages: 350

GENRE:                     vampire romance, paranormal romance, urban fantasy,  paranormal fantasy

 

RELEASE DATE:   February 14, 2013

BOOK TRAILER:     http://victoriadanann.me/the-summoners-tale/

BUY AT AMAZON:             http://www.amazon.com/Summoners-Tale-Vampires-Confessor-ebook/dp/B00BC1SYKE/

 

This is the third installment in a serial saga intended to be read in order.
DESCRIPTION: A secret society, a witch, a psychic, vampires, modern day knights, heroes, elves, fae, assassins from another dimension, and fairytales come together where emotions intersect. Two souls, joined by a mystical bond, separated by distance, must simultaneously struggle through pain and darkness in an ultimate confrontation with character and an ultimate struggle for life proving that true love waits patiently through lifetimes and finds courage to survive. Even in the strangest places. Even when you’re least expecting it. Even when you’re far, far from home.

Erotic quotient: A little steam. No menage. No BDSM.

 IMPORTANT: Black Swan Books 2 and 3 are available on Amazon.com exclusively as single titles. However, a The Order of the Black Swan COLLECTED TALES, Books 1-3 will also be released on or around Feb. 14th in e-book everywhere.  This is the story as it was intended to be read – without interruption.

ISBN: 978-1-933320-70-0      313,000 words            All three books for $6.99.

INCLUDES:

Book One – My Familiar Stranger: Romancing the Vampire Hunters (nominated for Reviewers Choice Best Paranormal Romance of 2012)

Book Two – The Witch’s Dream: A Love Letter to Paranormal Romance

Book Three – A Summoner’s Tale: The Vampire’s Confessor

Book Four – Moonlight: Big Bad Wolf  To release late Spring.

 

WEBSITE: http://www.VictoriaDanann.com

BLOG: http://VictoriaDanann.me

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/vdanann  

TWITTER: @vdanann

 

Author Bio: 

 

For the past fourteen years, Victoria has illustrated and authored Seasons of the Witch calendars and planners and written several non-fiction books on magickal arts. She lives in a town north of Houston known as The Woodlands even though the idea of the witch in the woods may be a cliché.

 

She owns 7th House Publishing and contributes to its enterprises. In addition to art and writing, she plays Classic Rock music (keys, rhythm guitar, vocals) and manages one of Houston’s premier party bands. Married. Four children.

 

 

 

Links for Free eReaders and Books!

I promised via Facebook page, that I would be posting links to all the free stuff I could get my hands on.  Here is where you can enter to win your free Nook Glow or Kindle 3G Click to win: a Rafflecopter giveaway

My Rafflecopter Giveaway went a little haywire, so go ahead and enter to win.  It says any eBook, but I’m giving away one signed copy of each paperback and 5 eBooks.  So ignore what it says you’ll win and go ahead and enter! a Rafflecopter giveaway Paperbacks limited to Continental US only.

Okay, there are a lot of bloggers who are also running giveaways.  So I’m going to streamline it for you.  Here are your links:

Jorja Lovett Giving away an Anthology.

Sandra Bunino “One lucky hopper will be randomly chosen to win a Bunino Sexy Reading Moment, including a $5 Starbucks gift certificate, series bookmark and an eBook from my backlist!”

Mortality Bites $10 Amazon Gift Card

Lindsay Downs – free eBook

Patricia Green – $10 Gift Certificate

Gabrielle Bisset Giving Away “One winner receive an ebook copy of my historical novella, Love’s Master, another winner will receive an ebook copy of my historical novella Masquerade, and a third winner will receive an ebook copy of Vampire Dreams Revamped and a Sons of Navarus swag pack of romance trading cards, bookmarks, cover flats, and magnets. ”

Dominique Eastwick: Free eBook

The Wiccan Haus – Don’t be afraid, these are lovely ladies.  They’ll GIVE you one free book just for following them and then you can enter to win another Free Book!!  How awesome is that?

Finally Ever After: Free eBook

Natasha Blackthrone: Free eBook

A Little Bit of Naughty: $20 gift certificate for either Barnes & Noble or Amazon!  Books of your choice on the reader of your choice! Awesome!

Sara Daniel: Free eBook

Amy Gregory: Free eBook

Tara Lain: $10 Amazon Gift card and Free eBook

Lynda Frazier:  $10 Amazon Gift Card

Ann Montclair:  $5 Gift card to Barnes & Noble plus eBook

C.R. Moss:  PDF of one of her books, a handmade gift, one paperback

Ednah Walters: Free eBook

Malia Mallory: $5 Amazon Gift Card & free eBook

Krista Ames: One of her backlist books

Natalie G. Owens: $5 Amazon Gift Card and a free eBook

Cassandra Dean: “win a signed ROUGH DIAMOND postcard, and a ROUGH DIAMOND magnet.International entries are welcome – if Australia Post can reach your country, you can enter!

Mary Abshire: “The winner of this blog hop will receive EITHER 2 ebooks from my Soul Catcher series, OR 1 book from each series (Project Eve & Soul Catcher). Winner can decide the option and which books. So if you have not read a book from either series, here is your chance to get one from each.”

Candace Blevins: eBook

Tara Scott: eBook

Lisa Beth Darling: eBook

Buffy Kennedy $5 Amazon Gift Card

Taryn Kincaid: $5 Gift card of your choice and eBook

Alexa Bourne: Office Supply gift card, amount undisclosed

Crymsyn Hart: eBook bundle in PDF

Cassandra Carr: Free eBook

Kerry Adrienne: $20 Amazon Gift Card

Meg Mims: “Christmas swag package, including a free e-copy of Santa Paws, chocolate and other goodies! I’ll contact the winner by Dec. 15th!

Gracen Miller: Pendant

Vicki Batman: $10 Amazon Gift Card and eBook

Kristine Cheney: PDF copy of a book (all the way at the bottom of the post)

Patricia Kiyono: Free eBooks

Kelly Gendron: $10 Amazon Gift Card

Anita Cox: Free eBook and ARC of her Dirty White Candy sequel, Ultimate Vacation

Click here for more.  There are over 170 bloggers involved in this giveaway.  Don’t miss out on this fantastic hop!

 

Free eReaders AND books?

I am happy to bring you some really cool opportunities.  You can see from the image above, we have three lovely hosts to this opportunity: Book & Trailer Showcase, Coffee Beans and Love Scenes and Full Moon Bites.  Want to win a Nook Glow or Kindle 3G?  Click to win: a Rafflecopter giveaway

I’ve been really blessed to have some great readers, fantastic and supportive fans and above all else, some really great writer friends I’ve met since I started back in 2006.  I want to reward these folks by offering something special.

From December 7th until December 13th, enter to win the following:

A signed copy my best seller, Yoder’s Farm. (Continental US only) a Rafflecopter giveaway
A signed copy of Taking Control (Book 1 in the Control Series)(Continental US only) a Rafflecopter giveaway

A signed copy of Losing Control (Book 2 in the Control Series)(Continental US only) a Rafflecopter giveaway
A signed copy of Immortal Decision (Continental US only) a Rafflecopter giveaway

An eBook copy of any of the above in a reader of your choice. (No restrictions, limited to English only) a Rafflecopter giveaway

That’s a lot of giveaways.  It’s Christmas time and I’m in the giving spirit.

What’s that?  You love books and want a chance to win more prizes?  Okay, because I love you all, I’m giving you the link to three other pages who are also running giveaways for the Christmas Wishes Blog Hop.  Ready?

Angela Quarles

Lea Nolan

GRINELDA MARKOWITZ

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays or whatever your preferred phrase.  I wish everyone a safe, merry and happy holiday.

When a good plan goes wrong

 

This week I started with a plan.  I started with determination.

We are getting ready to list our house so I’ve been packing all non-essential items.  I cleaned and cleaned and… my son told his friend our house smelled “like a flower’s ass,” which is about the best compliment you can get out of an 18 year old boy.

Then, I sat down to take a break and check my email.  All of the sudden it started to smell funny, like bad perm solution.  I started walking around the house sniffing to see what had happened and then… I heard it… the waterfall.

I ran down the stairs of the basement to see a geyser of poop water coming out of the pipe in the ceiling.  HOLY HELL NOOOOO!

Our city has a combined sewer system.  When we finally got some much needed rain, 3 inches fell within an hour overwhelming the storm drains and it backed up into the basement… where my children’s rooms are.  I wanted to scream… instead I found my husband’s rubber boots and waded through turds and dirty water to unplug everything.

It took 2 1/2 days to clean and sanitize everything.  We lost a couch, a laptop and a monitor.  I did more laundry in 2.5 days than I do in 2 weeks.  Because I spent about 18 hours a day in the basement, all the cleaning upstairs went to … well undone is what I’ll say.

I’ve kept a sense of humor about the whole thing, but it’s time to get back to work.

Have you ever had a plan fall to crap?  How did you overcome the challenge.

Ye have little faith!

When the spouse and I made the decision for me to quit my 60 hour a week, thankless job and write full time, it wasn’t a decision we took lightly.  Not at all.  Since November, I’ve published one book and just finished the first draft of another.  That’s not the speed I wanted, but that’s where I am.

My dirty little secret is that I started cleaning houses to give me a little cash.  It’s slow going but a few more houses and I’ll be making a living.  But again, I don’t really see why this affects anyone else.

I’ve reached a point of frustration recently that I never saw coming.  What I do for a living now takes thick skin.  I have to keep faith in myself, my writing and my ability to market etc.  So when family calls to tell me that Home Depot is hiring cashiers, I want to scream.  First, I have a college education and a decent IQ.  I will not be a cashier, thank you very much.

There are support groups for insecure writers.  There are countless blogs about writers in disbelief that they’re actually getting somewhere.  It isn’t easy keeping yourself motivated on an average day.  But I find the strength to dig down deep and hold my head up high. I do believe in myself.  My wonderful husband believes in me and has taken all of the financial stress on himself so that I can do this.

If you are writing, publishing and selling books, you’re an AUTHOR.  It’s a thankless job.  It’s not a get-rich-quick lifestyle.  Even if you go the traditional route, your advance is between $5k-$15k especially as an unknown author.  But like any business, you must make an investment to reap the reward.

Home Depot can keep their cashier position.  I’m building a legacy here!

Tell me, Authors… how do you keep your head up?  What line did you draw in the sand to say, “Hey, I’ve made it!”?

Not 21 Anymore! My Boob Hurts.

With the spouse working an ungodly amount of hours, summer break here and our half of the summer with our children, it’s been all responsibility and no adult time for weeks.  So my parents took my kids for the weekend, his daughter stayed with friends and his adult son watched the dogs for us.

What did we do?  Oh, we forgot that we’re not 21 anymore.  We partied with friends Saturday night, then slept for a few hours before taking the three hour long drive to Michigan International Speedway.  Tired and a little hungover I figured I could sleep in the car.  Wrong.  I just couldn’t get there with my head bouncing off the doorjamb and Pantera blaring at 20 billion jigawats!

Driving through three hours of rain, it wasn’t looking good for the race.  I had checked the weather the day before and it called for rain in the morning, but it looked like there would be a race.  Now, I wasn’t so sure and in the state I was in, my judgement definitely needed questioning

We huddled under a large umbrella and commenced taking in a little Hair of the Dog.  Thanks to the rain gear and alcohol, we really didn’t care much that it was raining.  We made friends with our neighbors, as we most often do tailgating at any NASCAR track.

The rain finally cleared and we made the nearly two mile walk to our spot in turn 4 of the infield.  Sitting in the sun, I finally was able to doze of for awhile, despite the roar of the race cars.

Poor Joey hit the wall

My girlfriend, her husband and I took the nearly mile walk to the restrooms halfway through the race.  On the way back, my attention span was that of a peanut.  So much to look at, trying to see the cars, fatigue and a little intoxication I wouldn’t have noticed a freight train coming at me.  So when I heard, “Look Out!” it was too late.  I caught a football in my right breast.

My friends were worried.  The football hit me hard.  I kept walking and told the guy as he tried to apologize that I was fine.  I grew up on a farm surrounded by boys and it wasn’t the first ball that hit me.  It’s actually not the first ball to hit the chesticle either.  By the time we got back to our seats, it really hurt.  I took a water bottle from the cooler and tucked it inside my bathing suit.  Truth was, dad may have taught me to be tough, but I was crying inside.  My BOOB?  REALLY?  Not the ta taas!

I’m trying to smile… really I am.

I finally got some sleep, re-hydrated and I’m off and running today.  I have to drop my dog off for x-rays, drive half an hour to get my kids then go clean a house.  The chesticle still hurts a bit today but thankfully, I think the girls will be just fine.

But, I’m too damned old to party like it’s 1999 any more.  My boobs just can’t take the heat!

Take a bite

We love samples.  That’s why there are ladies standing with little folding tables in the grocery store to give you a taste of the product.  More often than not, people will accept the bite, the taste.  Some like the product and buy some for home, some move along, because hey, you can’t please 100% of the people 100% of the time.

I’m not offering you just a bite, but the whole plate totally free.

Now through June 19th, you can download Immortal Decision totally free.  I published the book awhile ago, and I could use a few more fans.  This is my one and only vampire novel so far.  It has one review on Kindle.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Vampires with a twist January 10, 2012

By JC

Format:Kindle Edition

Kim Mullican tells a unique vampire story that will stick with you long after you finish her book. The characters are fun and believable and her writing flows well. Angels, priests, humans and vampires intertwine to create a well crafted story and an intriguing back story as well. You’ll definitely be hooked after this one and anxious to see more.

 

I would love a few more fans of Immortal Decision.  So, for a limited time, I’m offering it free to all Kindle Owners.  Don’t own a kindle?  No problem.  You can download Kindle for PC, iPad and just about any other device.  Visit Amazon for details.

 

So come, take a bite out of me.  Let me know how I taste 😉