It’s been a long time coming and you’ve all — mostly 😉 — been very patient, but now, finally, we’ve reached Release Day.

My friends, Daughter Of Blood is now out there in the wild and available to read.

So let the celebrations begin!

First Up — The Giveaway (Fully International):

To properly launch and celebrate DAUGHTER I shall be giving away two x complete sets of my novels — signed and with personal dedications, of course:

Thornspell (standalone; Kids/YA)

The Wall OF Night series:

Book One: The Heir of Night

Book Two: The Gathering Of The Lost

Book Three: Daughter Of Blood
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And Then There’s The “Tuckerization”

Tuckerization is when a real-life person gives their name to a character in a work of fiction. This has become a “tradition” for The Wall of Night series, i.e. with every book launch I’ve given away one Tuckerization opportunity for a character in the next book in the series.

Jan Butterworth (NZ) won the first Tuckerization draw and gave her name to a character in The Gathering of the Lost.

Cheryl Graham (UK) won the second draw and her character in Daughter Of Blood will be unveiled here on Thursday 28 (NZ time) — although some of you early birds may already have met the character by then. 😉

So here’s how this gig will work, to find my Tuckerization character for The Chaos Gate, (The Wall Of Night Book Four.)

AKA, Here Are The Rules:

Owing to the blog outage on Daughter Of Blood release day —

see the extended competition details here

Everyone who comments on both/either Tuesday 26  (USA/Canada and UK Release) or Wednesday 27 (Australia/New Zealand Release) January, will go in the Tuckerization draw.

Provisos include:

• Only 1 comment per every distinct blog post I publish here on Tuesday 26 (from midnight, NZ time) and/or Wednesday 27 January (through to midnight, US Eastern Standard Time) will count as an eligible entry. This means you get 1 x additional chance to enter with each new post over those days. (There should be at least three posts.)
• The successful name must be the real name of the commenter, not a pseudonym;
• The person whose name is drawn will also be recognised in the Acknowledgments to The Chaos Gate and receive a signed, complimentary copy of that book;
• I reserve the right to adapt the winning name to best fit a fantasy character, e.g. “John the Miller” as opposed to “John Miller.” (On Thursday you will see how I did this with “Cheryl Graham.”)
• I cannot predetermine how the “Your Name” character will appear in the story and whether he/she will play a positive or negative role;
• Anyone may enter, regardless of whether I know them or not, but to ensure everything is completely fair, transparent, and above board:
  • Each eligible entry will be allocated a number and the draw made via Random.Org; and
  • I’ll get someone else to actually make the draw.
• If the winner does not contact me by Sunday 31 January (midnight, US Eastern Standard Time), I will re-draw — so don’t forget to check back to see if you’ve won!
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Now If You’re New To The Wall Of Night Series:

Don’t forget that you can read the first three chapters of Daughter Of Blood via the following links, to decide whether it might be your ‘thing’ or not:

Prologue

Chapter 1: Lady Mouse

Chapter 2: The Serpent Prince

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Also Happening Today:

Other events include:

–an interview with the wonderful Sharon Stogner on genre site ismellsheep, where she will also be giving away a copy of The Heir of Night (to US readers only, though, I’m sorry.)

a guest post on SF Signal, on Writing Heroines in Daughter Of Blood and The Wall of Night series

— an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit Fantasy

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But in the meantime, let’s party here! 😉