Thank you for helping put Ice Forged at #1 in the US and Canada in three categories for books and ebooks on Amazon and into the top 70 books on Kindle in both countries!
Some of the contests in the list below are still running for a limited time, so there’s still a chance to win free books!
The blog posts and videos will be up long-term, so here’s the full list. A couple will be posting later in November. And like any good Halloween party, there are extra treats—downloadable excerpts and audios of my work and several of my author friends. Enjoy!
- Orbit Books (www.OrbitBooks.net)—A guest blog post on Stalking the Shadow Side and a chapter excerpt from Ice Forged https://www.orbitbooks.net/2013/11/01/stalking-shadow-side/
- AND a post on my vote for who is the Ultimate Urban Fantasy Fighter https://www.orbitbooks.net/2013/10/31/ultimate-urban-fantasy-fighter-vampires-vs-werewolves/
- New Video for Ice Forged and Reign of Ash: https://youtu.be/TZmpDbDWuWI
- I Smell Sheep https://www.ismellsheep.com/2013/10/guest-post-my-brain-is-dangerous-place.html on why my brain is a dangerous place for characters.
- Solaris Books —A blog post about the new Deadly Curiosities novel plus a never-before seen excerpt https://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.com/2013/10/solaris-author-gail-z-martin-talks.html
- Magical Words—A guest blog from me on “Looking Over the Brink” plus a different excerpt from Ice Forged https://www.magicalwords.net/specialgueststars/looking-over-the-brink/
- SFSignal.com—a drawing to win a copy of Ice Forged (through 11/4) plus a blog post on “Epic to Urban and Back Again” https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/10/guest-post-gail-z-martin-on-switching-gears-between-epic-and-urban-fantasy
- SciFiChick.com—another chance to win a copy of Ice Forged and a blog post about Genre and Gender at scifichick.com/?p=21753
- Out of the Box Media https://www.ootb-media.co.uk/guest-blog-series-characters-and-sanity-gail-z-martin/ A drawing for a copy of Ice Forged and a blog post on the Brave New World of Publishing
- BullSpec.com – a blog post on The Hardest Part of writing urban fantasy https://bullspec.com/2013/10/30/the-hardest-part-gail-z-martin-on-deadly-curiosities/
- AudioBookaneers is offering a drawing for an audio copy of The Sworn https://audiobookaneers.com/ Coming soon!
- RisingShadow https://www.risingshadow.net/articles/279-an-interview-with-gail-z-martin Asks me all the questions no one else dared to ask!
- Beauty In Ruins https://beauty-in-ruins.blogspot.com/2013/10/gail-z-martin-talks-deadly-curiosities.html has a brand new interview where I spill all my secrets!
- Fantastical Imaginations https://fantasticalimaginations.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/terview-with-gail-z-martin/ has an all-new interview
- Civilian Reader https://civilian-reader.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-post-its-end-of-world-bring.html has my take on It’s the End of the World—Bring Charmin
- Fantasy Book Critic https://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-post-when-grid-goes-down-by-gail.html?m=0 on When the Grid Goes Down
- Paranormal Authors on Digging up Bones: Through a Glass Darkly https://paranormalauthors.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-blog-through-glass-darkly.html
- Janine Spendlove’s blog https://www.ailionora.com/2013/10/26/guest-post-misbehaving-women-gail-z-martin/ on my upcoming story in the Athena’s Daughter’s anthology
- Toni Sweeney’s blog https://www.tonivsweeney.com/tvsweeney tonivsweeney.com/Blog/Entries/2013/10/24_Living_in_Interesting_Times.html on Living in Interesting Times
- Tera Fulbright’s blog https://terafulbright.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-post-gail-z-martin.html?spref=fb and a post on The Con-Going Writer
- A Marvelous New World https://writermaggie.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-blog-series-characters-and-sanity_25.html on Series, Characters and Sanity
- Joshua Palmatier’s blog https://jpsorrow.livejournal.com/414590.html on my upcoming story in Steampunk Vs. Aliens
- Kelly Hashway’s blog https://kellyhashway.blogspot.com/2013/11/writer-wednesday-line-between-horror.html Where’s the Line Between Horror and Epic Fantasy on 11/13
- Skiffy and Fanty https://skiffyandfanty.com/2013/10/29/my-superpower-gail-z-martin/ on My Superpower
- Chaos & Insanity https://www.chaosandinsanity.com/7299/guest-post-by-gail-z-martin/ talked to me about Creating Fictional Holidays
- Vonnie Winslow Crist’s blog https://vonniewinslowcrist.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/suspense-horror-and-romance-in-epic-fantasy-by-gail-z-martin/ on Suspense, Horror and Romance in Epic Fantasy
- RachaelAcks.com https://katsudon.net/?p=2379 on Urban/Epic Whiplash
- KristiPetersenSchoonover.comhttps://kristipetersenschoonover.com/2013/10/29/writers-what-terrifies-you/
- on The Long and Short of It about the new short story series on
- FanGirlBlog.com https://fangirlblog.com/?p=14979 on Epic Fantasy is No Place for Wimps https://fangirlblog.com/2013/10/epic-fantasy-is-no-place-for-wimps/
- Indian SF https://indiansf.in/ on Myth, Magic, Folklore—and Fantasy Coming soon!
- The BroadPod https://broaduniverse.org/podcast/october-2013-broadpod/ includes an audio reading of Vanities
- GhostInTheMachinePodcast.com—Readings from all of my new short stories—including some that haven’t been released yet!
- ChroniclesOfTheNecromancer.com—A special post from me about how the short stories fit into the world of the novels, and a different chapter excerpt from Ice Forged, and sample chapters from books by several of my author friends!
- TheWinterKingdoms on Facebook (please “like” my page!) “like” my page before 11/30 and enter for a chance to win a signed copy of The Dread!
- DisquietingVisions.com—a blog post on what new surprises lie in store—and where I’ll be in 2014, plus more excerpts!
- On Goodreads Talking about Your Favorite Monsters—join in here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/117069-ghoulies-and-ghosties–favorite-monsters
- New radio interview on Beware the Spaceman https://www.bewarethespaceman.com/test/6938-spacecast-40-aka-all-new-spacecast-episode-4
- Twitter.com @GailZMartin—Links to some of my excerpts and audios, plus links to downloads from some more of my awesome author friends!
- Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/gzmartin/boards/—See some of my photos from the conventions I attend, cities I visit and more—plus my favorite board, “Abandoned Places”
- I’m now on Reddit and I’ll be the Fantasy Author of the Day on April 2 for Reign of Ash and on July 9 for Deadly Curiosities and an AMA-Ask Me Anything in April!
- Watch for excerpts and new short fiction from me on Wattpad—Come hang out and connect! Excerpts from Buttons, Reign of Ash, The Low Road, Among the Shoals Forever and Raider’s Curse. https://wattpad.com/GailZMartin
- Reign of Ash excerpt here: https://www.orbitbooks.net/excerpt/reign-of-ash/
- Speculative Scotsman excerpt and Q&A here:
https://scotspec.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-post-gail-z-martin-explains-days.html and here: https://scotspec.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/excerpt-emporium-reign-of-ash-by-gail-z.html
- On Falcata Times, I talk about rebuilding after the apocalypse https://falcatatimes.blogspot.com/2013/10/days-of-dead-blog-tour-out-of-ashes.html
- For Fantasy Faction, I riff about why anarchy is overrated. https://fantasy-faction.com/2013/why-government-is-better-for-society-than-anarchy
- On Dave Brendon’s blog, https://davebrendon.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/gail-z-martins-days-of-the-dead-blog-tour-guest-post/ I muse about “found families” in fantasy
- With SFBokhandelin, www.SFBok.se we discuss my own version of “chaos theory.” https://www.sfbok.se/extra/onchaos.asp
- No Cloaks Allowed NoCloaksAllowed.com explores When Magic Is The Problem. https://nocloaksallowed.com/2013/11/01/article-when-magic-is-the-problem-by-gail-z-martin/
- J For Jetpack JForJetpack.com Let’s Hear it For Reluctant Heroes https://jforjetpack.com/guest-post-lets-hear-reluctant-heroes-gail-z-martin/
- Meetup.com https://www.meetup.com/Thrifty-Author-Publishing-Success-Network/events/147930392/ Discusses “Writing the Holiday Tie-in” on Nov. 13
- The Squealing Nerd, Review of The Dread https://squealingnerd.blogspot.com/2013/10/kinda-makes-you-want-to-spawn-on-gail-z.html
Trick or Treat wouldn’t be complete without Treats! In this case, book excerpts—some mine, and many from my author friends. Enjoy!
From my friends at Dark Oak Press—a sampler platter of delights!
- http://www.darkoakpress.com/afterlife.html
- https://www.darkoakpress.com/miami.html
- https://www.darkoakpress.com/goth.html
- https://www.darkoakpress.com/allanstory.html
- https://www.darkoakpress.com/galenrev.html
- https://www.darkoakpress.com/darkchances.html
- https://www.darkoakpress.com/decembrists.html
From my Broad Universe friends, the Wicked, Wild and Whimsical Words Tour: https://ow.ly/qbWhv
From E Rose Sabin
- https://www.erosesabin.com/Page4-5a.html or https://www.erosesabin.com/Page4-4a.html or https://www.erosesabin.com/Page4-3a.html
- https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/124619
- https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/122483
From Linda Nightingale
- Cardinal Desires: https://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-77115-132-3
- Sinners’ Opera: https://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-77115-112-9
- We Shadows: https://xenex.org/writing/weshadows.php
- Danse Macabre: https://xenex.org/writing/dansemacabre.php
- Artificial Gods: https://xenex.org/writing/artificialgods.php
From John Hartless
- https://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/eAuthor.php?Name=Jon%20Hartless
- https://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/eAuthor.php?Name=Barnabas%20Corbin
From Charlene Roberts
- https://charlenelroberts.wordpress.com/books-3/books-2/
- https://double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-77115-064-5
From Ben Manning
- https://vrilcodex.blogspot.com/
And some of mine:
- An excerpt from Buttons, the Deadly Curiosities Adventure that inspired the upcoming novel: https://www.wattpad.com/28207044-buttons
- An excerpt from Among the Shoals Forever, from the Deadly Curiosities Adventures—one of my scariest yet! https://www.wattpad.com/28329866-among-the-shoals-forever
- An excerpt from Reign of Ash (1 of 4) https://www.wattpad.com/28212257-reign-of-ash-excerpt-1
- An excerpt from Raider’s Curse, in the Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures– https://www.wattpad.com/28575506-raider%27s-curse
- An excerpt from The Low Road, from the Deadly Curiosities Adventureshttps://www.wattpad.com/28657396-the-low-road?d=ud
- An excerpt from Ice Forged, Book 1 in the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga: https://www.orbitbooks.net/excerpt/reign-of-ash/
- An audio excerpt from Stormgard from the Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures– https://ghostinthemachinepodcast.com/?p=448
- An audio excerpt from Wild Hunt in the Deadly Curiosities Adventures: https://ghostinthemachinepodcast.com/?p=444
- An audio excerpt from Storm Surge from the Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures: https://ghostinthemachinepodcast.com/?p=446
- https://scifichick.com/2013/10/26/guest-post-gail-martin-on-gender-and-genre/
- https://www.sfbok.se/
- Fantasy Faction (Marc Aplin: Marc@Fantasy-faction.com)
- Falcata Times (Gareth Wilson: drosdelnoch@hotmail.com)
- J For Jetpack (Paul Wiseall: paul.wiseall@gmail.com)
- No Cloaks Allowed / Gav Reads (Gavin Pugh: gavreads@me.com)
- Speculative Scotsman (Niall Alexander: thespeculativescotsman@gmail.com)—all-new interview plus an excerpt from Reign of Ash