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Want to win some e-books from me?? Eager to get your hands on Her Fallen Angel? Well, I’m having an amazing Grand September Newsletter Giveaway!

Anyone who signs up to my newsletter in the month of September 2010 will be entered into a grand prize draw. Prizes are:

First Prize: One copy of Her Fallen Angel plus 2 x e-books of their choice from my collection

Second Prize: One copy of Her Fallen Angel plus one e-book of their choice from my collection

Third Prize: One e-book of their choice from my collection

All prizes exclude Her Dark Angel as it’s a new release.

First and Second Prize winners will receive Her Fallen Angel when it is released on October 16th

Winners will be announced on my blog on October 1st.

To enter into the prize draw, sign up to the newsletter before October 1st!

ENTER HERE: http://www.felicityheaton.com/newsletter.php

Spread the words to your reader friends if you think they’d be interested in my stories too…

Well, it’s practically September, so it’s time to announce the winner of my previous competition.

The winner chosen at random was.

Ilona!

Ilona, email me at my usual address author@felicityheaton.com and tell me whether you would prefer your copy of Her Dark Angel in HTML or PDF.

September’s competition is the start of a new theme for my competitions. At the moment, I’m getting together a new fun area of my site where you can learn more about my characters. I’m going to post all of my previous character interviews there, as well as any drabbles and scenes I write for them. This is where the competition comes in.

Each month, I’ll be asking you to vote for the character I will interview next. You get a bonus entry if you suggest a question.

To enter this month’s competition to win the ebook of your choice from my site (excluding Her Dark Angel), leave a comment with your name and your vote! Remember, bonus points if you suggest a question!

Competition Poll – who should I interview next?
– Valentine (Prophecy Trilogy/Spellbound)
– Apollyon (Her Dark Angel)
– Winter (Winter’s Kiss)
– Kassian (A Promise of Passion)
– Balt (Sons of Lyra: Slave Princess)

Enter away!

I’ll announce the winner at the end of September, and tally the votes to see who won and will be interviewed!

I’ve finally launched my new website. It’s been a long hard slog these past two months trying to get everything done on it and tested. I’ve learned my lesson though—never do a complete website overhaul to coincide with a new release. It’s just too stressful. It’s difficult enough to do one or the other but doing both at once was crazy. But the website is finally done, and I think it looks pretty nifty. There’s plenty of new stuff there and improved stuff too…

I am now selling my books direct through my website. You can sign up for an account and purchase books, which will appear on your permanent bookshelf. I only offer PDF and HTML e-books on my website, as you can purchase my books in different formats at other distributors. If you have been purchasing my books through Alinar Publishing, I’m taking a copy of the sales data for my stories and I’m adding it to my site, so any sale prior to right now will be on your bookshelf if you sign up using the same email address as you used at Alinar Publishing. If you find some of your books are missing when you do this, let me know and I’ll look into it.

Another area I’ve improved is the book pages. I’ve added some social media stuff so you can share the book with friends if you enjoyed it, or think they would enjoy it, and also added Facebook Like functionality, so you can like the book, and even leave a comment!

I have also added the ability to sign up for my newsletter. Signing up just means that you’ll receive an email when I have a new release, or do anything major to my website (such as adding fun things to the new section I have planned). You can either sign up to the newsletter when you sign up to the site, or you can use the link on the left hand navigation of the website or click on this link: http://bit.ly/cpWecC

Now, take a look at my new website: http://bit.ly/bSU2O1

Let me know what you think. All comments are welcome. You can either leave me a comment at my blog, on my Facebook post, or via email at author@felicityheaton.com or on my Twitter. I would love to hear what you think of the new website and I’m always open to suggestions for other stuff you would like to see on my website.

As mentioned, I do have a new section in progress. It’s going to be full of character interviews (including those we’ve done in the past), drabbles (short 100 fiction based on my stories), competitions, and other stuff. If you have a suggestion for something to go in there, let me know and I’ll see if I can add it in.

Also, if you want a real laugh to brighten your weekend… there’s a picture of me on the bio page now: http://bit.ly/aslZj9

If you’re on Facebook, I now have a Facebook profile there which you’re welcome to friend and I’ll friend you back, or I have a Facebook Fan Page for my books.

Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/feheaton
Facebook Fan Page: http://bit.ly/cOM0Vq

Being away in June really messed up my schedule, so I’m late in posting the winner of the May competition. To make it up to you all, I’ll make this one an easy competition to enter.

The winner of the previous competition was:

Tamsyn

Tamsyn, email me at my usual address author@felicityheaton.com and tell me which one of my ebooks you would like and which format: HTML or PDF.

Since the competition will end on September 1st, when I have a new paranormal romance ebook out, and I’ve been sooooo slack with announcing the winner of the last competition, I’ll make that the grand prize for this competition!

So, to get your hands on a copy of Her Dark Angel, all you have to do is answer the following question:

Which of my characters would you like me to interview?

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment, with your name on it, answering the question.

Yep. That’s it. I’ve interviewed characters in the past and readers have really enjoyed it, so I thought I would make it a feature on my new site (which launches around the same time as my new release at the end of August).

You get a bonus entry for requesting a question too!

A winner will be chosen on September 1st, and announced promptly this time.

Yes, I’ve been terribly slack at updating my blog, even when I kept promising to do so! I just haven’t had the time since coming back from my slightly long haul trip across the world to Australia.

My holiday was wonderful and very much needed. It was a great opportunity to recharge my batteries, live a little, and spend some time with my husband. We went to Australia via Shanghai, which is a strange mixture of modern/rich and old/poor. It’s very odd to see people living in run-down conditions just a few blocks from some of the worlds most advanced architecture and expensive shopping streets. The taxi drivers are insane. Actually, everyone on the road is insane, and there isn’t a point at which horns stop blaring as drivers go through red lights and come close to hitting each other as they race towards God only knows where.

Australia was a very welcome break after the insanity and heat of Shanghai. Having picked up what I affectionately called a Chinese burn in Shanghai, I was eager to enjoy the lower temperatures that southern Australia had to offer.

Sydney was a sunny (and a bit rainy the second day) 20c which was much more my sort of temperature (UK is currently enjoying a mini-heat wave of temps around 28c and it’s too much for me!) and it was such a contrast to the fast-pace of Shanghai. Once I was settled into Australia, I didn’t want to leave! We went to the Botanical Gardens the moment we were there, and saw the Opera House and Harbour Bridge together, and I also got to see the fruit bats (yes, they’re a pest, but they’re so cute and I really wanted to see them) that live in the city.

Second day we went to Bondi Beach, which was a bit rainy, but very cool when the sun came out.

Then it was off to Uluru to see the rock and Kata Tjuta. First night there we did a sunset at Uluru with the Sounds of Silence dinner, which was absolutely amazing. I’m something of an amateur astronomer (I own an 8-inch reflector telescope) and when they blew out all the candles the view of the heavens was just breathtaking. Husband referred to it as “like staring God in the face”.

Next day we went to Uluru for sunrise, and walked around the base, learning some of the Anangu stories about the rock, and then in the afternoon we went to Kata Tjuta and the Valley of the Winds (which always makes me think Nausicaa) and saw the most incredible sunset there!

Flew to Cairns the next day and went to the Rainforest, where husband wanted to hug a koala, so we did that and it was sooo soft and sweet (and later in the Blue Mountains / Featherdale Wildlife Park near Sydney, we saw a koala swipe and bit a poor Japanese girl!) and then spent a day on the Frankland Islands snorkelling (earplug in!) which was a bit scary as the water was full of bits of coral from the fish eating it. Husband remarked that I giggled the whole time and he could hear it through the snorkel… meh. He was braver than me, going out further towards open water, and his reward was seeing a turtle. He got pictures for me. I did attempt to go out a few times, but the word “shark” kept popping into my head when I couldn’t see further than a couple of metres clearly. We had a beautiful hotel in Cairns, the Rydges Tradewinds on the Esplanade. Close to everything AND we had a balcony. It was 27c and beautiful up there and we didn’t want to leave.

Went back to a colder Sydney and to the lovely Blue Mountains, and then crammed in a last-minute whale watching tour the morning of the day we were doing a night-flight to Tokyo. I don’t like boats (hence going to the inner reef, not the outer reef as 2 hours on a boat was not appealing) but this was cool. We went out of the harbour and immediately found a minke whale, and then two humpback whales. We followed the humpback whales around and they were incredible to watch. One even breached, which was amazing, and caused the husband to go “fuck me!” rather loudly as he’d been staring at the water in the exact spot the whale just came out of nowhere in. Missed it on the camera, but saw it in real life and that’s what counts, right?

Tokyo was incredible as always. I bought a couple new Gundam models (yeah, I’m a geek) and lots of stuff from Akiba (new mini figures for my work desk include Tyki Mikk from D-Gray Man, another Allelujah from Gundam 00, and a Sephiroth from Final Fantasy, as well as a VF25F Messiah (alto’s) from Macross Frontier… which join my 00 Gundam model, and another Allelujah… yeah… I love Allelujah.) and we went to some more theme bars / restaurants, including Lock Up (prison theme, very good), Kagaya (slightly crazy and unnerving/uncomfortable), Trick or Treat, Piano Bar (very small, only around 10 seats!) and Hollow Point. Hollow Point was the coolest. First you get a menu of drinks, and then a menu of air pistols to fire on the range. Husband fired a Robocop gun, with frightening accuracy considering it was his first time, but then he broke his wrist and can’t turn it too much so he can’t twist his wrist when firing, which I think helps… I fired a Walther P99… much smaller than my husband’s choice, less rounds, but it was a blast. You can even fire a grenade launcher!

Seeing my Bro-in-law and Sister-in-law was very cool. It’s always great to go out with them as they know all the best spots and my Sister-in-law is Japanese… which helps tremendously!

That’s all for now… what a long post!

The winner chosen at random for the April blog competition was:

Audrey

So congratulations to Audrey for winning the ebook of her choice from my stories…

Audrey, email me at my usual address author@felicityheaton.com and tell me which one of my ebooks you would like and which format: HTML or PDF.

Now onto May’s competition…

It’s another simple one and by answering you’ll be in with a chance to win one of my ebooks! Since it’s summer (almost) and I’m off on holiday next weekend, it’s going to be travel related!

If you could have any of my hero or heroines at the location of your dreams, who would it be and where would you go with them?

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment, with your name on it, answering the question – just tell me where you’d love to go most in the world, which of my hero or heroines you’d take with you, and why!

I’ll pick a random winner a month from now in June when I’m back from holiday!

I’m a bit late in selecting a winner from my last competition and posting the new one.

The winner chosen at random was:

Carla

So congratulations to Carla for winning the ebook of her choice from my stories…

Carla, email me at my usual address author@felicityheaton.com and tell me which one of my ebooks you would like and which format: HTML or PDF.

Now, onto this month’s competition. It’s another simple one and by answering you’ll be in with a chance to win one of my ebooks!

What do you look for in a heroine?

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment, with your name on it, answering the question – just tell me what sort of heroine you like to read about – sassy, cute, silly, fiesty, a bit of a fighter, strong, magical, anything goes really. What gets you ticking when it comes to the heroine? If you’re feeling up to it, let me know what you hate in heroines too! I’ll pick a random winner in the middle of May!
 

Well, I had some wonderful replies to my special Valentine’s Day competition and I had a blast reading through them all. The winner chosen at random was:

Tonia Russo

So congratulations to Tonia for winning 3 ebooks of her choice from my stories…

Tonia, email me at my usual address author@felicityheaton.com and tell me which three of my ebooks you would like and which format: HTML or PDF.

Now, onto this month’s competition. It’s another simple one and by answering you’ll be in with a chance to win one of my ebooks!

Do you prefer stories set in the US or outside of the US (i.e. Europe, Asia, etc)?

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment, with your name on it, answering the question. I’ll pick a random winner in the middle of April!

I would answer the question myself, but since I’m British and live in the UK, it’s pretty obvious what my answer would be (and you can probably tell from my books!)

Get answering!

I wanted to start the new competition on Valentine’s Day, so apologies for the delay in the announcement of the winner.

The winner chosen this time was…

LeslieJane!

LeslieJane, email me at my usual address author@felicityheaton.com and tell me which one of my ebooks you would like and which format: HTML or PDF.

And now for the new competition… it’s going to be a very easy one in honour of Valentine’s Day, and because it’s a special one, you can win 3 of my ebooks of your choice! The question you have to answer is:

What do you look for in a hero?
(if you’re a guy, what do you look for in a heroine?)

All you have to do to enter is comment with what makes you tick when it comes to your hero or heroine desires and remember to leave your name!

I’ll announce the winner of this competition in mid-March!

To get you all thinking, here’s my current hero… he’s tall, has a sculpted toned slim figure, nicely set shoulders and all compact muscle that radiates strength. He has piercing grey stormy eyes with flecks of black in their depths, shortish dark brown hair that is longer on top so I can run my fingers through it, and a sensual smile that makes my heart race. He’s a hottie, very noble and beautiful for a man, very masculine. Radiates power and strength, and is of course of the vampiric persuasion. He has darkness in him, violence and lust for blood which has to be contended with and kept under control, but he’ll never lay a hand on me (not in a bad way, anyway), and I love the dangerous edge he has. (okay, so I’m describing the hero I’m currently writing, but he’s a hottie!)

How about you?

Well, it isn’t really, but I’ve had my eye on getting a netbook for a while now as I’m convinced that it will help me with my romance novel writing. See, I currently have a Samsung Q35 laptop which I love to pieces, but it’s 2.5 years old now, and while the battery will go for 3 hours plus still, it just isn’t enough to cover my writing day. The journey to work, a little time pre-work at the office, lunch and the journey home totals around 3 hours 45 minutes, which my laptop usually doesn’t quite make now, so I’ve been having to take in my charger too.

The trouble is, that makes my bag rather heavy. When I only have to take the laptop, it’s bearable with all the walking I do, but the charger really adds to the weight. I’ll continue to use my laptop when I’m writing at home, but I’ll be taking the netbook to work from now on and basically using it like a word processor.

The thing that swung it for me was the fact I could take it to work every day and use it in place of my paper notebooks when I’m writing up notes and planning my stories. You don’t know how often I find I’ve written down a note on a story in some random notebook and have to trawl through my stack of around thirty notebooks searching for where I wrote it! Or how often I have to re-write out notes onto separate pieces of paper when arranging the story notes into order because I’ve written notes for different scenes on the same sheet of paper.

This nifty little netbook should eliminate all of that. Okay, it’s not totally green as I’ll have to print off the notes for the story I’m writing at the time, as I just can’t do that switching windows thing when I’m writing. It drives me crazy and really drags me out of my writing if I have to hop between windows on screen. I’d much rather just let my eyes shift from screen to paper notes. Plus, I touch type so I can write while looking at my notes. Go me! I can’t do that switching between windows on screen.

The only downside is the netbook came with Windows 7 Starter, which is Windows most disgustingly basic OS and their paltry attempt to make you scream, tear your hair out because you can’t even change the wallpaper, and upgrade to Home Premium. I don’t think so. I searched on google and found a way to get around that. Much better now I have my Allelujah Haptism wallpaper which I drew on there!

Okay… I better get on with some more work. I’ve spent this weekend getting most of my romance ebooks into Smashwords. Now I want to make some of my romance novels into paperbacks with Lulu and get them distributed.

There really is no rest for the wicked!