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And the winner is!

October 1, 2013 Melanie 5 Comments

Congratulations to the winner of my

2014 A Shadow in the Past wall calendar!

Isn’t it beautiful? Every month has a different full colour photograph (taken by moi) of something “A Shadow in the Past“.

How well do you think you did at guessing the various locations where Sarah Shand turned up each day?

Day 1

Seeking Sarah Shand — At The Caledonian Hotel

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 8 (we didn’t play on Day 7 as it was my launch at the Rannes Hall in Kennethmont)

Day 9

Day 10

Day 11

I thought having the map beside the book was a dead giveaway in this one but apparently that wasn’t always the case.

Day 12

Day 13

Day 14

So how did you do? Get all of them right? Some of them right? None of them right?

It’s been a close race – neck and neck right down to the wire between two participants. It was really difficult to say who would finish with the most correct answers. But in the end, one emerged victorious.

And now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for… the winner is… Grace!

Congratulations Grace. Please contact me via email at melanie@melanierobertson-king.com to arrange having your prize delivered.

Aberdeenshire, Authors, Book Tour, calendar, game, giveaway, Photographs, Publicity, Publishing, Scotland

The Giveaway ends at Midnight!

September 30, 2013 Melanie 1 Comment

The Seeking Sarah Shand Giveaway

Today is the last day you can enter to win 2014 A Shadow in the Past calendar. Don’t be disappointed. Enter today. You don’t have to know much – or even anything – about Scotland. The clues are in the text portion of each day’s blog post. Using that information, you guess where the photos were taken.

You’ve seen the cover many times – a stone circle, which I think is an excellent wa to convey a time-travel set in Scotland.

But now you get to see the pictures that will grace each and every month…

January

Tap O’Noth from the Gordonsfield Farm road

February

March

April

May

June

The ghostly trees lining the road to Weetshill mansion

July

August

Ruins in the field behind Gordonsfield farmhouse

September

October

November

December

The Salvation Army Citadel in the Castlegate in Aberdeen

These photos were all taken by me on my trips to Scotland in 1993 and 1997, long before A Shadow in the Past came to be, even in its earlier novella form of Sarah’s Gift.

Now that you’ve seen all the months’ photos, don’t you want to win one? You can. It’s easy. Visit the daily posts of my trip to Scotland (the clues are in the text) then leave your guesses where the Seeking Sarah Shand photos were taken in the comments.

You can also play along over at my A Shadow in the Past 2013 Book Tour blog as I check the comments there, too.

Good luck!

I can’t wait to read your guesses.

Aberdeenshire, Authors, Book Tour, calendar, game, giveaway, Photographs, Publicity, Publishing, Scotland

The Giveaway!

September 23, 2013 Melanie 1 Comment

The Seeking Sarah Shand Giveaway

Okay, I’ve banged on about it being a 2014 A Shadow in the Past calendar (created at Vistaprint) but have only ever revealed the cover image. And what better to convey a time-travel set in Scotland than a stone circle on the front cover?

And now for the inside leaves…

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

These photos were all taken by me on my trips to Scotland in 1993 and 1997, long before A Shadow in the Past came to be, even in its earlier novella form of Sarah’s Gift.

You can also play along over at my A Shadow in the Past 2013 Book Tour blog as I check the comments there, too.

Good luck!

I can’t wait to read your guesses.

Authors, Books, Novels, Publicity, Writing

Writers’ Corner at the Turkey Fair

September 22, 2013 Melanie 1 Comment

Writers’ Corner

It’s a shame it rained on the Turkey Fair but that might have been a bonus for the authors gathered at the Writers’ Corner in the community room of the local library. We had a steady flow of people coming through most of the day, partly because of the rain, and partly to get their ‘passport’ initialed. By the end of the day, we were working with some pretty soggy paper.

Every author sold at least one physical copy of their book(s) and many of the customers passing through were thrilled to hear that some of us had e-book versions, too, with kobo being the e-reader of choice it seemed.

Other Eastern Ontario authors participating yesterday were:

Vicki Delany, who, in my opinion had the prime location for her table as she could see people as they entered the library. And can she work a room! Wow!

Gary Spicer

I first met Violette by attending one of her writing workshops and Vicki through attending the Scene of the Crime Mystery Festival on Wolfe Island. She, too, gives workshops and I’ve been to them when she’s come to the Thousand Islands Writers Festival.

I enjoyed myself immensely and I’ll be back next year (that is if they’ll have me). I’ve already marked the date in my calendar.

Since kobo seemed to be the e-reader of choice, does anyone know if there’s a way of tracking your sales through them similar to how novel rank works for amazon?