Now, I'm always happy to donate, and as it happened I totally had something appropriate to the theme - a story set around Halloween releasing in October. But a personal story? Those I don't share so much, especially those involving tragedy.
And yet the time seems right. Since I adore the two asking, I will be sharing as part of Scream! For the Cure. So what is it?
"How it works:
Beginning October 5th readers will have an opportunity to bid for baskets. The categories are Erotic Romance, Urban Fantasy, YA & Adult paranormal romance, and Horror/Suspense. We’ll be showcasing the baskets the week they go up for auction, with the auctions taking place on that Friday. In-between, we’ll also have guest posts from different authors and bloggers talking about their personal struggles with cancer, some who’ve battled the disease themselves, and some who have witnessed the ongoing struggle through someone else. It’ll also be a forum for people to talk about their experiences, maybe share some uplifting stories as well."
You can check out more on their website HERE. In the meantime, Cate Peace and Landra Graf (two of the sweetest, most generous people you could meet) are still looking for more book donations, participants, and of course help in spreading the word. Even if you could just mention the event or maybe put the banner on your blog, it would really help. Thanks in advance for anything you can do.
Happenings
Gosh, it's all taking off at Spacefreighters Lounge! With Laurie's big announcement Monday (check it out HERE) on the launch of her SciFi romance series, and with Donna's debut coming, and yet more from Sharon and myself, our side bar is going to be full of pretties! Congrats to my co-bloggers, especially as this is the first for both Donna and Laurie.
Restless In Peaceville is still on tour for just over a week (schedule HERE), but the giveaway included will run until the first of October...when my next release will have its cover AND title reveal! I've waited a year to share this Halloween-themed paranormal romance short. I got the draft cover art Monday, and it's so pretty! If you'd like to get a sneak early peek at it, you can sign up to my newsletter HERE.
Rachel Leigh Smith launched her debut release this week - meet her and My Name Is A'yen over on the Brigade blog HERE
Need marketing help? Check out the first of a series of posts by Cary Caffrey HERE. The second goes up tomorrow.
If you've been hiding under a rock lately, you might have missed all the furore over Ellora's Cave. Might be worth checking out the latest HERE. Wowzers.
On Friday, I'm blogging at Romancing the Genre about Romantic Cliches and showing my ignorance. Hey, I'm still learning!
I still have three releases, a SFF convention and NaNoWriMo to go before the end of the year. Still editing No Angel and the Halloween shorts as of writing this post. Much as this year has been a blast, I'm kind of looking forward to a bit of a break come Christmas. And I'm going to be talking about my plans for NaNoWriMo next week. Pippa Jay, signing off!
Love that Scream for the Cure benefit. I'll definitely support it. And--of course--my mind is going a 100 miles an hour on how the SFR Brigade could do something similar with SFR. Hmmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the congrats, Pippa. 2015 is indeed looking to be a HUGE month here on Spacefreighters Lounge!
And you continue to fly at warp 10. Don't know how you do it all. Lithium crystals?
Thanks Laurie. Well, I had put a note on my schedule for suggesting some kind of pre-Christmas event, like a SFR advent calendar with covers counting down to Christmas (and there could be a giveaway and/or the author whose cover we use makes a donation or something). But sadly I'm going to be waaaay too tied up to do anything this year. After the Brenda Novak auction, it would be cool to do some kind of SFR version.
ReplyDeleteHa, more like delirium crystals than dilithium ones. Running on fumes right now (and there's something funny in those fumes). :P
Oh, I do love the idea of the cover advent calendar, though!
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