A New Contest!
Happy Samhain! This is the Great Pumpkin Holiday! And the Day of the Ancestors.
You might call it Halloween.
In any event this is the beginning to the contest to win a set of my 3 novels collected as The Cup and the Ring: Witches of Fawsetwood, Knights of Lancaster, and Priestess of Heppeshaw.
Here’s the thing. You have friends who have not read these incredible books, but who like big books about what-if history, magic, romance and looking at the world from the a witch’s perspective. It’s called magical realism. What you could do is give those lucky friends a set of my books in paperback for Christmas. You could do that without entering this contest, but if you win this, you might have a set of three for free. And you could be famous! Well, we could choose your picture. It’s almost the same.
So, take a picture of you holding my book(s) so the cover(s) shows up close. You can use an e-book cover or a paperback cover.
Add your name, address to the photo and send it to me. Include your permission to use you picture for promotional purposes, without your name or personal data. If you don’t want to do that last part, put I Do Not Want My Picture Used attached to your message. That will not spoil your chances to win. I promise.
The publishing team will get together after Black Friday November 28, and pick our favorite photo based on clarity of the book title, composition, lighting, color, background of the photo. We will let you know when you win. (I think positively.)
Meanwhile here’s a bit of information about the book titles. Those are real places in Northern England. Fawsetwood is a Fell (big hill), a Mill and a self-catering rental good for corporate retreats at least these days. It’s also a stone cottage. Kentdal is an old name for Kendal, a city where William of Lancaster (both of them) held court and built a second castle. Knights like Callum and Alec were sworn to them. Heppeshaw is one of the old words for Shap, a village, or the old stone circle now derelict known as Kemp Howe. That’s just outside Shap. They are in the county of Cumbria now, but before 1974 it was Cumberland and Westmoreland. Locals often express unhappiness about combining the two. So no. I didn’t make it all up. The place names are much the same. Penrith is still there and is known as Penrith.
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In by Black Friday!