Gethyon's Virtual Tour - Last Few Days to Win!

We're coming into the last few days of the virtual tour for Gethyon, and time is running out to enter the giveaway for this green crystal pendant!

 So hop along to the remaining stops on the tour (or even hop back to the older posts and find out more about Gethyon and his universe) and grab your chance for something shiny!

Tour Dates and Stops:

3rd June - Gethyon releases

4th June - interview on the To Be Read blog
7th June - character interview (Jinx) at Karen Y Bynum's blog

9th June - spotlight at Wicked Readings

10th - 14th June - Goddess Fish Promotions tour

10th June -  Brenda Maxfield's Blog
10th June STOP 2 - Straight from the Library
11th June -  Books à la Mode
12th June - Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
12th June STOP 2 - Long and Short Reviews
13th June - Crazy Four Books
14th June - Books in the Hall
15th June - book spotlight at Diane Burton's blog
16th June - guest post on the Siah-dhu at Maria Hammarblad's blog
17th June - interview at Jaleta Clegg's blog
18th June - guest post on Future Identification at Greta van der Rol's blog
19th June - guest post on Crystal Power at Backward
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20th June - guest post on Naming at Sabrina Garie's blog
(21st - 25th SFR Brigade blog hop)
26th June - guest post on Tortured heroes at Cassandra Page's blog

27th June - guest post on Future Fashion at Bella Street's blog
28th June - To Be Read blog Book Spotlight
29th June - spotlight at Jessica E Subject's blog
30th June - guest post on Designing Spaceships at Diane Dooley's blog

#Release Day - Gethyon #YA #scifi #adventure

Woo hoo! Today Gethyon officially hits the virtual retailers, making it my second published novel. Am I excited?! *head explodes* It's already hit the best sellers list on Omnilit!

So, want to know what's happening, aside from being able to purchase a copy? Below is a list of all the tour dates and stops, of what I'll be talking about where. And underneath THAT you can find details of the awesome goodies I'm giving away to celebrate!

Tour Dates and Stops:

3rd June - Gethyon releases

4th June - interview on the To Be Read blog
7th June - character interview (Jinx) at Karen Y Bynum's blog

10th - 14th June - Goddess Fish Promotions tour
15th June - book spotlight at Diane Burton's blog
16th June - guest post on the Siah-dhu at Maria Hammarblad's blog
17th June - interview at Jaleta Clegg's blog
18th June - guest post on FTL travel at Greta van der Rol's blog
19th June - guest post on Crystal Power at Backward
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20th June - guest post on Naming at Sabrina Garie's blog
(21st - 25th SFR Brigade blog hop)
26th June - guest post on Tortured heroes at Cassandra Page's blog

27th June - guest post on Future Fashion at Bella Street's blog
28th June - To Be Read blog Book Spotlight
29th June - spotlight at Jessica E Subject's blog
30th June - guest post on Designing Spaceships at Diane Dooley's blog

Prizes:
At each of the stops on the Goddess Fish tour, there will be a $5 Amazon gift card and swag to be won. For the whole of the tour a rafflecopter will be open and listed at ALL stops on the tour for the green crystal pendant shown above. Other prizes may be offered at some of the venues, but you'll need to follow along to find out about those. ;)  

Winner for Keir's Birthday Bash - Pendant

The winner of the blue crystal star pendant as part of Keir's First Book Birthday Bash is Laura Z Banks. Congrats Laura! But in the meantime you can still visit my fellow party hosts and pick up a cool blue recipe, and the Goodreads giveaway for a print copy of Keir remains open until the end of May. Enjoy!

Gethyon's Book Tour

So, the tour for Gethyon's release is official - it's booked, and the details are up on the Goddess Fish Promotions page here if you're interested (the giveaways are also listed there). The tour is running for a week, but I'll be popping up here, there and everywhere for the whole of June, with a grand prize up for grabs. Want to see the grand prize? Here you go!

Isn't it pretty? You don't know how hard it is to give this away!! In the meantime, here's the current tour schedule, but I would love some more places to visit. If you'd like to host me in June, just comment below. Hugs and virtual cookies in advance. ;) Oh, BTW - Gethyon is a YA scifi novel, and I'm happy to do book spotlights, interviews, guest posts, and of course the giveaway.

3rd June - Gethyon releases

4th June - interview on the To Be Read blog

10th - 14th June - Goddess Fish Promotions tour

28th June - To Be Read blog Book Spotlight

You Choose the Prize

Good morning lovely people! With my next book coming out in June, I've been browsing around looking at pretty things for me to giveaway as a prize to celebrate the release of my YA scifi novel Gethyon. I love shiny things, and while I'd rather keep them for myself (sorry) I also like to give pressies to other people. And I struck lucky. I found what I think is the perfect thing. Unfortunately, I then found two more. So, I decided the best way to choose was to let you all pick what you'd like to win. Below are the three options, and the poll where you can vote, but if you'd like to let me know why you chose a particular one in the hope of swaying me, or if you have other suggestions, please leave me a comment.

Let me explain what all the fuss is about. In Gethyon, my young hero's prized possession is a device called a CHI - Crystalline Holographic Imager. It's a large, hexagonal clear crystal capable of projecting holographic panoramas. In Gethyon's case, it's an astronomical display, which leads him into trouble. But I digress... Here are the pretties, and the reasons I've chosen each.

Option One - Clear

For option one I give you - the CHI! Well, not a real one obviously, but this is exactly how I saw the device in my head, and I couldn't believe my luck when I found these. But maybe a clear one is a bit dull? It's certainly not going to produce all the beautiful and terrible images Gethyon sees in the real thing, but catch the light and it'll sparkle brighter than a Twilight vampire.

Option Two - Green

 Now, as you may have noticed from the cover image for Gethyon at the top of this post, green features quite heavily in the artwork. Isn't that nova background just gorgeous?! My young hero has green eyes too. So maybe the CHI crystal in glorious green? It's not emerald, I'm sorry to say, but it is a pretty colour. Do you sense a certain favoritism here?

Option Three - Black

 Lastly, there's this one. Looks a bit menacing, right? The villain of this piece is a dark, amorphous entity called the Siah-dhu - cue dramatic music along the lines of Darth Vader's Imperial March or something. So a black crystal would symbolize that very nicely. Or maybe not? I just can't decide!

So those are my three choices which I must decide between. Of course, I'd lurve to buy all three and give them away, but alas! I can't afford it. I have to have some pennies left to buy cookies, coffee, and to pay my therapist. However, there will be other goodies to go with the giveaway in June when I begin my tour for Gethyon, so I hope you'll come back then and see which option won. Because I'm going to keep the results a secret until then, shhhhh!