Not only can you win an ebook copy of Wormwood (yay!) at Christina Condy's fantastic Recent Reads blog, but there are other books up for grabs too (awesome!) You can enter at the click of a button. How easy is that? Plus, it's to celebrate Christina's birthday. Now, you really don't have an excuse to miss it. I hope you'll pop by! :)
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Good luck!!!

The wonderful Laura Thomas of FU Only Knew Book Reviews has kindly nominated me for some cool blogging awards. Thank you, Laura! I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't have the time to act upon it, but I just wanted to post a big thank you here anyway! 
Laura, you rock!  :)

Here is this week's contribution to Six Sentence Sunday, from my post-apocalyptic / paranormal / thriller, WORMWOOD. Enjoy!

Thanks to everyone that entered the Mayan Calendar Contest for a free ebook copy of Wormwood.

The question to be answered was this:
What is the exact date the Mayan Calendar ends?

Anyone that correctly identified ‘the end’ as being on Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012, was entered into today’s draw. The winners were selected using the True Random Number Generator on Random.org.  So without further delay, here they are:

1.      Darla Broadwater (entry #26)
2.      Tiffiny Palmer (entry #4)
3.      David Forsyth (entry #10)
4.      Greg Swanson (entry #19)
5.      Lynda Dickson (entry #22)

Congratulations! You will all be contacted shortly with information on how to download your free ebook.

Just for fun, here are two of my favourite comments: 
"Mayan Calendar ends 21 December 2012. Darn, looks like we're gonna miss Christmas." Exactly, Karleene, exactly.
And Cindy said, “it ended when they ran out of room on the stone :-)” 

Against a devastated landscape, a legion of one hundred fierce half-angels is hell bent on purging the Earth of all humans. But one of them, the tormented Tiamat Wormwood, struggles against his mission, and when he rescues a beautiful woman named Kali, he finds the attraction as troubling as it is miraculous. Can Kali trust the one creature who could be responsible for her ultimate demise? Beautifully written and excitingly told, Wormwood creates a world that is as strange as it is compelling. Filled with brilliantly executed twists and turns on every page that are guaranteed to keep you guessing, Wormwood is one of the most exciting debuts of the year.

Okay, here's my second contribution to Six Sentence Sunday. This is an excerpt from my post-apocalyptic paranormal, Wormwood.

Don't Diagnose Me, "a Site dedicated to those who suffer from invisible conditions such as Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia and Hypothyroidism," is giving away free e-copies of my book, Wormwood.  Head on over, show your support for those suffering from invisible conditions, and maybe even win an ebook in the process. If you know anyone that suffers from an invisible condition, please invite them to check out the site and maybe even join the Facebook group. This is a great place to trade advice and support each other. If you don't mind doing so, it would be so appreciated if you shared this message. These conditions are invisible, so chances are high that you know someone who suffers from at least one of these ailments, and you don't even know it. Please show them your support.

Here are the links:
Don't Diagnose Me (website link to contest. Please visit and comment)
Don't Diagnose Me Facebook Group (great place to go for support - whether you need support or have some to give).
                                                                                 Thanks, everyone!

I just found out about a cool little thing called "Six Sentence Sunday" where authors share six sentences from one of their books. Here's my contribution for the week, from my book, Wormwood.

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Good luck, everyone!

I read A Dance with Dragons, and it was painful.  Once again, I wonder why I continue to read A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin.  It could be that I’m a glutton for punishment.  After all, this isn’t the first time I’ve threatened to stop reading his books.  Or it could be that although his books undoubtedly frustrate me, there’s no denying that his stories continue to draw me in.  That’s why, despite my anger, and despite a number of serious flaws in the series over all, I keep on reading.  It’s also why I’ve never rated his books below 3 stars.

There are a number of reasons for this.  But before I get into them, I feel I have to deal with my anger first.  This bit is tough to do without spoiling anything, but I believe that anyone that’s read the first four books will likely be able to guess what Mr. Martin could have done to make his readers so upset. Again.  Yes, folks, there’s another big upset in A Dance with Dragons, right near the end.  I can’t tell you what it is, but I am still fuming over it.  I feel like I did when I read about ‘The Red Wedding’: betrayed.  Unfortunately, that just doesn’t work for me.

Now on to other things about A Dance with Dragons.  The rich world Mr. Martin has created is also his curse.  There are so many characters and so many plots, following them all turns his books from stories into never ending soap operas.  On one hand, this intricacy is what makes his world so rich and fascinating.  Yet on the other, Mr. Martin is forced to jump from one plot to another, spreading them so thin that a reader is forced to wait through multiple chapters (and sometimes more than one book) to continue on with some of these characters.  That alone is frustrating.  It also changes the book from a story into something else.  A main plot is completely absent from each book in the series.  There is no climax, and there isn’t even a semblance of a conclusion.  Hence the soap opera comparison.  It just goes and on and on and on. 

Still, what makes it bad also makes it good.  The incredible depth within his world and the unbelievably realistic characters that people it have completely sucked me in.  I want to keep reading to see what happens with them.  I want to stick with them so that I can ‘be there’ when they finally prevail.  That is, if Mr. Martin lets them prevail.  It’s why I read his books the way one views a train wreck: with hope and dread at the same time.  However in the case with A Dance with Dragons, I almost wish I didn’t look.