I’m so happy to have 12 prizes to award…11 regular prizes (egalleys of books 2 & 3) and a grand prize of the egalleys as well as a $30 gift card to the bookstore of the winners choice!

Without further ado, here are the 11 regular prizes:

1. Shahenda

2. Kayla G.

3. Erin W.

4. Beth M.

5. Lisa C.

6. Cory

7. Yolande M.

8. Julie

9. Kerry D.

10. Cyndi W.

11. Charity T.

And the grand prize winner is:

Kate Gladding!

I will be in touch with all of you shortly; or you may contact me by email at joss at josswarebooks.com to give me your mailing address for the egalleys!

Remember: the egalleys expire on 2/23 for EMBRACE THE NIGHT ETERNAL, and 3/2 for ABANDON THE NIGHT…so don’t delay!

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED

As mentioned on Facebook, here’s the place to enter my Beyond the Night sighting contest.

Here’s how to enter:

1. Take a picture of Beyond the Night in its natural habitat (ie, a store)

2. Post the picture on your Facebook page (if you have one), your blog (if you have one), or via Twitter (and say something nice about it, maybe?).

3. Using the comments section below this blog post, post the link where you uploaded the picture (FB, blog, Twitter, etc.) AND please tell me the store, city and state you found it.

4. You get an entry for each place you post the link (ie, if you do FB and Twitter, you get two entries).

5. I have prizes for 12 winners.

The prizes are:

A. Electronic Galleys* of the 2nd and 3rd Envy Chronicles/Awakening Heroes books–Embrace the Night Eternal and Abandon the Night.

B. Grand prize of a $30 gift card to the bookstore of your choice (Borders, BN, Amazon, Powell’s–wherever I can get to it electronically), along with an egalley.

CONTEST ENDS: January 31, midnight, EST.

**PLEASE NOTE: the egalleys will expire on 2/23 for Embrace the Night Eternal and on 3/2 for Abandon the Night, so if you win you’ll only have until then to read them.

So go ye forth and post!

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* an electronic galley allows you to download a copy of the book (in this case TWO books) to your computer or ebook reader. The technology allows you to read on eInk pages, which means you don’t have the glare of a computer screen to deal with. EBook readers compatible with these egalleys are anything that reads a PDF file, which includes the Sony, iPhone/Kindle, Kindle, nook, and others.

Stop by and say hi. I’m chatting about Rhett and Scarlett.

And here is what she says. *squeee!*

“Beyond the Night is breath-taking action, spine-tingling suspense and heart-breaking emotion wrapped up in a world so believable you’ll find yourself questioning reality. Joss Ware makes the end of the world sexy!”

It is so cool for a colleague to not only take the time to read a book, but also to give such a great endorsement. Thanks, Kate. From the bottom of my heart.

But look at this. Can you feel it? It’s going to be brilliant, isn’t it?

Will you go see it? I’m so there.

If I had enough ARCs, I’d give one to each of you, but since I don’t…I had to randomly select the three winners of advanced copies of Beyond the Night.

So the winners are:

Nicole (GothamGal)

Aymless

Paula R.

Please email me at joss at josswarebooks dot com so I can get your ARCs out to you asap.

For the rest of you….stick around, ’cause I’ll have more contests and giveaways coming soon.

And, for those of you who’ve asked, yes I’m on Twitter (@joss_ware) and on Facebook (here), so find me there. I’ll have different things going on in the future for my followers and FB friends.

ALSO: if you know of any authors who’d like to guest blog here on the Almost-Blog, have them contact me. I’m looking for ones who’re interested in popping by.

I came home this morning from a bit o’ breakfast with my hubby (aka Music Man) and found a completely unexpected surprise on my doorstep: a box of ARCs of my first book, Beyond the Night.

So, of course, I have to give some away. But since this website is so new, no one knows about it.

Any ideas about how to spread the word? I’ll pick three people from commenters below who give me some good ideas on how to get the word out.

It’s an almost-blog because I don’t know how regular I’ll be with posting here, but I will use it to share updates, offer contests and give sneak peeks as well as news.

So do check in when you have a chance. And who knows…maybe it will grow into a fun Monday-morning-water-cooler discussion place.