First order of business:
COVER ART BY JASON PEDERSEN (CLICK COVER FOR AMAZON SITE)
BEGINNING OF A HERO IS STILL FREE TODAY!
Second order of business:
Art by Jason Pedersen
STILL ACCEPTING VOLUNTEERS FOR THE LEGENDS OF WINDEMERE: CURSE OF THE DARK WIND RELEASE BLOG BLAST!
Never too late to volunteer! Just remember that the information will not be sent out until FRIDAY because that’s when I’ll have the Amazon sale page.
Legends of Windemere 
Reblogged this on Princess of the Light: Shining the Light For All and commented:
Get this amazing first book in the series for FREE today! Go now! Once you start reading it, you’ll want to help Charles with his latest release in the Legends of Windemere series! 🙂
Support Indie Authors!
🙂 MRS N
LikeLike
Thanks. 🙂
LikeLike
Will be glad to help. I had this Friday reserved for you anyway. 😉
LikeLike
Thanks. 🙂
LikeLike
Can’t remember if I already signed up, but count me in.
LikeLike
Thanks. 🙂
LikeLike
Reblogged this on labyless and commented:
A free book AND helping to support a fellow Author? YOU CAN’T GO WRONG!
LikeLike
I’m in!
LikeLike
Thanks. 🙂
LikeLike
Hello! I’m from Desirable Purity blog and we’re holding an ebook giveaway this new year. A competition amongst the willing, and the winners get their chosen ebook. Would you, by any chance, be interested in sponsoring us, along with a few other willing authors who would like to give us a copy of their desired ebook, helping everyone in promoting each other!
If, by any chance, you’re interested in this contest and the giveaway, and if you’d like to sponsor us, kindly, let me know. I shall be thankful.
If you need information about us, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Thank you for your time!
Desirable Purity
LikeLike
Interesting. What would you need from a sponsor?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Their desired book for the giveaway, and word out to their readers.
LikeLike
Sure. I’ve got my book debut coming up, but I can make a post about the contest next week or Sunday. Do you have a post that I can copy or reblog?
I can sponsor with a copy of the Vol 1-3 of my fantasy series.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That would be amazing. Right now I’m getting the authors to sponsor the idea. The official post will be posted in a few days.
LikeLike
Got it. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh, they’re only in Kindle eBook form.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s okay. You can link them to the winner, right? I will mention specifically that the chosen book is in kindle book form only.
LikeLike
I can. As long as I have their email address, I can gift the books.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Perfect. Thank you so much. I’ll let you know when the post is ready. Please write me down the full name of your novel.
LikeLike
Legends of Windmere is the overall series. The first 3 books are:
Beginning of a Hero
Prodigy of Rainbow Tower
Allure of the Gypsies
LikeLiked by 1 person
Are you willing to sponsor us with all the three books?
LikeLike
Sure. That’s half of the published series.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Alright then. I’m glad 🙂
LikeLike
I’ve been a volunteer before, so does that mean I am no longer a debut volunteer and cannot lend a hand? 🙂
LikeLike
You’re fine. In fact, I think you already volunteered for this. 😉
LikeLike
I most certainly did. I will always be there to lend a hand. I was just interpreting debut volunteers as first time volunteers not volunteers for helping with your debut, just for my own amusement.
LikeLike
Ah, I missed that translation. To be fair, I was typing it up while getting a kid ready for the bus. The original version had a few copies of the alphabet thanks to me turning my back on the little guy.
LikeLike
I totally understand. It isabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzalways difficult multitasking. I hope you are all set for Friday. All bar the final flourishes.
LikeLike
Actually, not in order. He likes hitting every key on the keyboard from Q to /. Thinks he’s funny.
LikeLike
qwertyuiopasdfghjkl;””#\zxcvbnm,./ I like it. It is fun.:-)
and backwards /.,mnbvcxz\#’;lkjhgfdsa][poiuytrewq and lets not forget the numerals 1234567890-==-0987654321
Sorry. I will stop now, Charles.
LikeLike
Looks like you spilled water on your computer.
LikeLike
Coffee, Charles. Water is for washing only.
LikeLike
I didn’t say you were drinking it. 😉 where do we stand on seltzer water?
LikeLike
I am a big fan. For drinking, mind you. For bathing it is an odd sensation.
LikeLike
Depends on the flavor. Vanilla pear is great for the skin.
LikeLike
I can see that it would be. I will have to check it out. Cleopatra had asps milk, I will have vanilla pear sparkling water. We will see who has the softest skin, Cleo.
LikeLike
Wow. How many asps would have to be milked for that?
LikeLike
A lot, Charles. A lot. Even more asps than the usual asses she used. Therefore she only used it for very special occasions – oh the joy of typos.
LikeLike
Considering her demise, it was an interesting typo.
LikeLike
If she were bitten by an asp, certainly. I didn’t think that they knew exactly how she died, only that she was poisoned, be that by her own hand or by the mouth of an asp was an issue still in question.
LikeLike
I found this, which is what I was going by:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra#Death
LikeLike
How far did you read?
‘The oldest source is Strabo, who was alive at the time of the event, and might even have been in Alexandria. He says that there are two stories: that she applied a toxic ointment, or that she was bitten by an asp on her breast, but he said in his writings that he wasn’t sure if Cleopatra poisoned herself or was murdered.[41] Several Roman poets, writing within ten years of the event, all mention bites by two asps,[42][43][44] as does Florus, a historian, some 150 years later.[45] Velleius, sixty years after the event, also refers to an asp.[46][47] Other authors have questioned these historical accounts, stating that it is possible that Augustus had her killed.[48] In 2010, the German historian Christoph Schaefer challenged all other theories, declaring that the queen had actually been poisoned and died from drinking a mixture of poisons. After studying historical texts and consulting with toxicologists, the historian concluded that the asp could not have caused a slow and pain-free death, since the asp (Egyptian cobra) venom paralyses parts of the body, starting with the eyes, before causing death. Schaefer and his toxicologist Dietrich Mebs decided Cleopatra used a mixture of hemlock, wolfsbane and opium.’
I suspect we shall never know. The asp bite makes for a nice story though. However she died, she is dead, and bathed in asses milk, not asps 🙂
LikeLike
I did read that, but I saw more people going with the asp idea. There are so many factors that could alter each theory, but there seems to be more people siding with the asp story. For example, how do we really know she died slowly and pain free? That sounds oddly romanticized. Also, I think there’s a lot of ‘man died in agony’ and ‘woman died pain free’ in many ancient stories. Kind of strange that it seemed to go that way so often.
LikeLike
Yes. It hardly seems fair, does it? We have to suffer, whilst they gently slip away.
LikeLike
Have to wonder how the human race survived with so much death.
LikeLike
Maybe it didn’t and we are some kind of matrix like computer generation.
LikeLike
In that case I would like to complain to the programmers for occasionally screwing with me.
LikeLike
They have to have their fun too. It has got to be pretty boring for them.
LikeLike
I can direct them to a few people who would be more entertaining. Although I just got the beer for the weekend, so who knows.
LikeLike
Only one day to go, Charles. Excited?
LikeLike
Yup. A little frustrated too since I just spent 30 minutes battling to convert a JPEG to a PDF and NOT get a damn uneven border. Do as much prep work as I can today since tomorrow morning will be rough. I can’t schedule any tweets until the site goes live, which means I wake up and go right for Twitter.
LikeLike
Well good luck, and anything I can do let me know. I personally hate images of any kind. Images and I just do not get on.
LikeLike
And in true tradition, there’s already a mess up. Gmail did something stupid and sent out the ‘BOOK IS LIVE!’ email to everyone as I was writing it in draft mode. This is going to be confusing.
LikeLike
OF course. There always has to be something go wrong. Hopefully this is it and the problems are all out of the way.
LikeLike
Fingers crossed. Though I do hope nobody tries to post anything today. Need to finish errands and get home to make an ‘oopsie’ post.
LikeLike
Hopefully they will understand what happened and there will be no inadvertent posts. Best of luck. Get those chores finished!
LikeLike
All done.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You have me on the list right?
LikeLike
Yup. #1 on the list.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Reblogged this on Jo Robinson.
LikeLike
I’d be glad to help.
LikeLike
Thanks. I’ll put you on the list.
LikeLike
Charles – have you emailed the article yet?
LikeLike
Not yet. An accidental email went out this morning. I was setting up a draft to make tomorrow morning easier. I haven’t hit ‘Publish’ yet, so I don’t have the Amazon page. I was just about to make a blog post about that too.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I saw the ‘accidental’ email and follow up, but was concerned I’d missed the article one 😀
LikeLike
I got a bunch of questions about it. Don’t worry. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person