IDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal – The Final Piece
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"...with the memory of this word came another recollection: to speak was to create."
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JANE SAYS
IDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal and Giveaway - Day 11
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“'Snow.' The stuff began to fall faster as the word left her mouth, as if her voice made the world more tangible, and with the memory of this word came another recollection..."
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal and Giveaway - Day 10
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Just two puzzle pieces to go! I've added some updated photos of the prizes after revamping the chain on the Looking Glass pendant.
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal Puzzle and Giveaway - Day 9
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"She knew without a doubt this unseemly act of cowardice had been her own. But she must have left herself something."
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal Puzzle and Giveaway - Day 8
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"A tremor ran through her as this sparked some memory, but it was clear from the ensuing pain in her head as she grasped at the fleeting thought that whatever memories remained were not meant to be disturbed."
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal Puzzle and Giveaway - Day 7
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"The chill settled in her bones, a dense precipitation scattering over her skin and catching in the silk of her hair like tiny blossoms floating on the surface of a dark river."
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal Puzzle and Giveaway - Day 6
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"For the moment, this was her most pressing concern. The sea of whiteness that predominated in every direction, from the heavy clouds above her head to the damp ground beneath her huddled form, was as cold as ice."
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal Puzzle and Giveaway - Day 5
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"But there was one thing she was certain of: the world had not been this white or this cold when she died."
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal Puzzle and Giveaway - Day 4
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Four pieces of Idol of Bone. (I feel like Count Von Count.) ;) Be sure to scroll down to see the next snippet of the excerpt and to enter the giveaway.
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal Puzzle and Giveaway - Day 3
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"It was a deliberate act of mental vandalism. Like a round moonnut shell with the meat hollowed out and its sweet milk drained, her head was empty."
Read MoreIDOL OF BONE Cover Reveal Puzzle and Giveaway - Day 1
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The first book in the Looking Glass Gods series won't be available until February 2015, but I'm way too excited about this cover to wait to show it to you. (And apparently, so is the rest of the Internet. While I was busy hand-making the giveaway prizes for the cover reveal, the full cover popped up in several places. Just ignore it.) ;)
Read MoreJumping bonfires - An Ivan Kupala giveaway
/Today is Russian Midsummer, or Ivan Kupala. On this pagan holiday sublimated by the Orthodox Church into the feast of John the Baptist, young people jump over bonfires, play tricks with water, and float candles in flower garlands with their wishes for the coming year. And if they're lucky, they may find the elusive flower of the fern. (Belphagor would tell you it's a euphemism for getting laid, but he's jaded. Don't listen to him.)
In honor of Ivan Kupala, I'm giving away a $10 gift certificate to B&N or Amazon, along with the flower of the fern itself. That's right, at midnight last night, Tvorila Night, I was traipsing through the woods and I found the flower of the fern, which I'm offering to you.
Fern Flower Pendant
Okay, so I may have slightly exaggerated the part about the woods. It's actually an original art necklace from Gray's Crafts Etsy store, made of polymer clay, aventurine, jasper, premium Japanese seed beads, and copper wire. According to the Etsy store:
In Slavic mythology, fern flower is a magic flower which only blooms for a very short time on the eve of the Summer Solstice. To the one who finds it, fern flower gives the gift of clairvoyance, ability to understand animal speech, and to see all hidden treasures, no matter how deep they were hidden. The flower is believed to be guarded by the hordes of evil spirits, and those seeking it can pay with their lives for the attempt to take the flower.
And all you have to do to win it is enter via the Rafflecopter below and tweet about the giveaway once per day until the giveaway ends on July 11, 2012. The winner of the FOTF (flower of the fern) will be announced next Wednesday on my cover reveal for The Midnight Court, where you'll have another chance to win (not the FOTF; there can be only one). No nechysta syla (evil spirits) to worry about. Plus, this piece should help protect against any nechysta syla or rogue Seraphim who might be skulking about.
And now an Ivan Kupala treat for you:
