Giveaway of Exiled by Bethany Adams

Hi! Gaynor here. It's time for giveaway. I did the formatting for Exiled (A Return of the Elves Novella) by Bethany Adams. It's a Fantasy with a little romance in the mix!  A little about the book before I share the Rafflecopter. 

Title: Exiled - A return of the Elves Novella
Author: Bethany Adams
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Length: 113 pages
Buy Link (paperback): Amazon $7.00

Synopsis:

A willing exile

For a hundred years, Delbin has lived on Earth, voluntarily cut off from his birth land, Moranaia. He's learned to hide his elven nature and use his mind magic without getting noticed.  Until he accidentally wields it on the Moranaian scout sent to check on him.

A hesitant ally

Though Inona has good reason to mistrust exiles, part of her job is to make sure they aren't causing trouble. She sets out for Earth with one goal - get this annoying mission over with. But from the moment Delbin tries to use his power on her, she can tell he is different. As more of his story unfolds, she learns that some exiles might not be what they seem.

An unexpected enemy

When a rogue Moranaian price tries to recruit Delbin, Inona's mission becomes anything but standard.  Now Delbin and Inona must work together to hunt down the prince and uncover his latest plot.

Delbin might not be able to return to Moranaia, but he'll do anything to save it.

Bonus - Includes the free, stand-alone short story "The Grove Between," previously published in the Against All Odds anthology.

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A Carolina Christmas Paperback Giveaway

Hey there! Jo again. This time, I'm bringing you a paperback full of those warm, Christmas fuzzies. A Carolina Christmas is a collection of stories and poems by the Pamlico Writers Group. I designed the cover for this cute book, and I can't wait to get it into your hands. You'll love it!

Ready? Here we go!

Title: A Carolina Christmas
Author: The Pamlico Writers Group
Genre: Anthology
Length (print): 246 pages
Buy Link (paperback): Amazon $12.00

Blurb:

A Carolina Christmas isn’t your traditional holiday feast of tinsel and sugar plums. While there is still a smattering of stars sprinkled through the pages and a little glitter and artificial snow lighting up a few plastic Santas, these stories are filled with more than ornaments and figgy pudding. From broken hearts to hopeful reunions, holiday anxiety to joyful tidings, the truest gift of Christmas is still found to be family, faith and friendship. But these stories are not fairy tales and every holiday is not Peace on Earth.






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Jo

Myths of Immortality Paperback Giveaway

Howdy! Jo again with another awesome paperback giveaway for you all. Myths of Immortality by Raye Wager was proofread by Krystal Wade and formatted for print and digital by me. You're gonna love the look of this third novel in the Sphinx series as much as you love the story on the pages.

Ready to find out more?

Let's goooooo!

Author: Raye Wagner
Title: Myths of Immortality (The Sphinx - Volume Three)
Genre: YA Mythology
Length (print): 388 pages
Buy Link (paperback): Amazon $14.95

Blurb:

Grown up fans of Percy Jackson and Twilight will love this blend of mythology and romance set in the modern world.

No one is allowed to love her, except the god who cursed her...

In the realm of the dead, there are no lies.

Hope Nicholas is desperate to believe that the truth will set her free from the bindings of Apollo's curse and allow her the freedom to choose who to love. But to get the truth, she must travel to the Underworld, a feat near impossible for the living. The gods there have their own agendas and, forced to forge alliances with the most unlikely allies, Hope will find that death is not the worst torment of the Underworld.

Athan Michael spent months chasing Hope, only to have her disappear once again. And when he discovers her destination, he knows the treacherous journey to the Underworld is one he cannot take alone. Forced to put aside his past with Xan and Dahlia, the three demigods embark on their own quest. But the past will not stay buried, and Athan must decide how much he's willing to sacrifice to help Hope break the curse.

Told in dual points of view, Myths of Immortality is a tense, action-packed story that will leave you begging for the next installment of The Sphinx series.

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Jo

DNA Strand Series Paperback Givewaway

Hello, all! Jo here with another fabulous giveaway for you all. This time, you can win THREE paperbacks. That's right, the entire DNA Strand Series by Jordana Wells is up for grabs. I formatted all three of these beauties, Karen Robinson edited them, and Jennifer Oberth proofread them.

Ready to find out more about the books? Let's get going!

Author: Jordana Wells
Title: Prophase: DNA Strand 1
Genre: New Adult Science Fiction
Length (print): 350 pages
Buy Link (paperback): Amazon $12.97

Blurb:
An unwilling participant in a cryopreservation experiment, engineering student Miranda Donovan wakes after a century to find that basic rights in the post-American society must be earned. Genetic testing reveals her best chance of success lies in a brutal military flight academy, but time is short. She can only hide cryo's crippling effects on her body for so long. Feeling a stalker closing in, she becomes desperate to get the protection of the most powerful of the dystopian clans before it's too late. One misstep, one miscalculation, and she'll have a lot more to fear than death.







Title: Metaphase: DNA Strand 2
Genre: New Adult Science Fiction
Length (print): 322 pages
Buy Link (paperback): Amazon $12.97

Blurb:
Brought back from the dead, combat pilot Miranda Donovan finds the price for her resurrection is a steep one. The biomedical laboratory has creatively interpreted the law so the experiments on her can continue. Her determination to escape only intensifies after a horrific, blood-soaked night reveals how much their work has made her a target. The uneasy truce with the biotech lab hinges on her ability to track down the murderous security agent, but her only path to freedom may lie in trusting a man whose secrets are even darker than her own.








Title: Anaphase: DNA Strand 3
Genre: New Adult Science Fiction
Length (print): 354 pages
Buy Link (paperback): Amazon $12.97

Blurb:
Aging pilot Book struggles to pass the medical clearance necessary to continue flying her fighter jet for the Republic of Texas next to her best friend, Hemi. But her world starts crumbling down when evidence mounts that there's another combat pilot with her face, her name, and her DNA. As proof mounts that the other woman's claim is legitimate, Book fights to regain her missing memories and recover the secret to who—or what—she truly is.






Sound pretty good, don't they?

Well, you can enter here to WIN ALL THREE!


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Jo

THREE Giveaways for you! Greeth, Sexiest Couple Alive, and Blessed Knights!

Hi there! It's Jessica here with three-part giveaway from INDIE Books Gone Wild. I did the editing for these books, and Tia Silverthorne Bach did the proofreading for all of them.

Title: Greeth

Author: Charles LaFave

Genre: Fantasy

Length: 384 pages

Buy Link:  Amazon $2.99

Synopsis:

Peter Buraku was a wizard until he was tried, convicted, and sentenced for a terrible crime. He could never cast another spell and for eight long years, he begged for the worst jobs, lived in the slums, and worked for humans.

Then a wealthy stranger came into his life with an impossible promise: You can be a wizard again. Too late, Peter discovers an ancient god from another dimension is using human agents to open a portal so it can move into this world, and wizardry soldier Julie Alvarez, the lost love he hasn’t seen in years, is in danger.

Three children are dead. Many more are missing. Something dark and terrible is rising. A breach has opened between worlds and an ancient god will be reborn on fertile Earth. The flesh of humanity will feed its many children.

Peter embarks on a quest for redemption to stop the ancient god from destroying the world.

Will his unique ability to create life be enough to change what he’s done?

Or will guilt from his role in helping to destroy so much life be his undoing?

Title: Sexiest Couple Alive

Author: M. Clarke

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Length: 240

Buy Link:  Amazon $3.99

Synopsis: 

Nathan Cross is living his dream. Not only is he modeling for Knight Fashion Magazine, recently voted “sexiest man alive,” but he is dating a beautiful photographer who could be his new future. When he unexpectedly reunites with his past love, his world crashes around him. Two loves. The past or the future: which one will he choose?

Olivia’s past choices come back to haunt her and could ruin everything she has worked so hard to build. Troy has the power to destroy any hope of happiness. She will do everything to keep that from happening, even if it means giving up her second chance with Nathan. Lies. Revenge. Scandal. Olivia could lose it all.

Title: Blessed Knights

Author: Mary Ting

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Length: 144

Buy Link:  Amazon $3.99

Synopsis:

Above a small hill lay a home.

And green men peer out under the dome.

Thirteen crisscrossing arches behold, 

with angels singing must be told. 

Cubes like teeth thus showed, 

pierce one and the door shall glow. 

Part the sea like Moses, 

to see the bundle of red roses. 

Only then you shall see, 

what is destined to be free.

Eli, Lucia’s half-demon love interest, has been stabbed with a true-cross dagger and captured by Cyrus, master of the possessor demons. The Chosen Knights must work together once again not only to save Eli, but also to decipher a clue to find the second missing page of Jacques de Molay’s journal. Meanwhile, Uncle Davin informs Crossroads’ Divine Elders of the danger ahead and learns there is much to fear. Countless children are being taken from all over the world to be turned into demons. Michael, one of the Divine Elders, has no choice but to intervene. The Chosen Knights track down Mortem, the demon who is the key to finding Cyrus, and learn they must travel deep into the pit of a Hawaiian volcano. When they astral travel to the past in search of a clue and follow Jacques de Molay to Rosselyn Chapel in medieval Scotland, what they find will rewrite history.

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Giveaway for Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things by Martina McAtee

Happy Sundayyyyy, everyone! Jo here with an awesome giveaway for you all. IBGW didn't edit this book, but I typeset the hell out of it with some custom illustrations and all manner of fun stuff. I can't wait for you to see the inside! First, I'll do the detail stuff, then we'll move on to the paperback giveaway. Ready? Let's get going.

Title: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (Dead Things Book One)
Author: Martina McAtee
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal
Length (print): 510 pages
Buy Links: Amazon Kindle $2.99  ~  Paperback $18.99

Blurb:
17 year old Ember Denning has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie. Standing in the cemetery that’s been her sanctuary, she’s threatened by the most beautiful boy she’s ever seen and rescued by two people who claim to be her family. They say she’s special, that she has a supernatural gift like them…they just don’t know exactly what it is.

They take her to a small Florida town, where Ember’s life takes a turn for the weird. She’s living with her reaper cousins, an orphaned werewolf pack, a faery and a human genius. Ember’s powers are growing stronger, morphing into something bigger than anything anybody anticipated. Ember has questions but nobody has answers. Nobody knows what she is. They only know her mysterious magical gift is trying to kill them and that beautiful dangerous boy from the cemetery may be the only thing standing between her and death.

As Ember’s talents are revealed so are the secrets her father hid and those in power who would seek to destroy her. What’s worse, saving Ember has put her cousins in danger and turned her friend’s lives upside down. Ember must learn to embrace her magic or risk losing the family she’s pieced together.

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Jo

New Release and Giveaway - The Billionaire's Deal

Happy Saturday! Jo here! Today, I'm bringing you info on a brand new release IBGW proofread. Plus, there's a giveaway at the bottom of the page you don't wanna miss!

Get your clicking fingers ready, and let's get going!

Title: The Billionaire's Deal
Author: Crystal Kaswell
Genre: Erotic Romance
Length (print): 254 pages
Buy Link: Amazon Kindle $3.99

Blurb:
A scorching hot new adult romance

Kat Wilder is totally screwed. At only twenty-one, she's resigned to one seriously bleak future. Waiting tables barely supports her only family, her sister, and she's got no luck finding a better job. With no money or time for school, she has no chance at a better life.

Then she meets Blake. The billionaire tech CEO is a lifeline. An arrogant, controlling, impossible to read lifeline. He wants something from Kat and he'll do whatever it takes to get it.

He offers Kat a deal-- a few months of her life for a few hundred thousand dollars. All she has to do is play his girlfriend and convince everyone that she's madly in love with him.

It's Blake's way, Blake's terms, Blake utterly in control.

She tells herself it's only business. But the part between them that matters-- the two of them alone, her giving in to everything he wants-- that part is strictly personal.

The Billionaire's Deal is a four episode new adult romance serial featuring an inexperienced yet feisty heroine and a protective alpha billionaire hero. This is the complete story.

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Jo

New Release and Giveaway Helia's Shadow Part One and Two

Happy Monday, everyone! Jo here. Wow, yeah, so I have another giveaway for you today. I did the interior formatting and full wrap cover design (she already had a front cover) for the Helia's Shadow series parts one and two by K. C. Neal. She was such a joy to work with, and I think you'll love the interior of these books. Since they're young adult sci-fi, I had a little fun with them. **NOTE: These are new to PRINT** See what you think. Ready? Let's go!

First up, information about the books up for grabs:

Title: Helia's Shadow Part One (Starlight Age #1)
Author: K. C. Neal
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Length (print): 336 pages
Buy Link: Amazon Paperback $14.99

Blurb:
Sixteen-year-old Helia wants two things in life: to step out of her over-protective mother's shadow and become an engineer, and to stop hiding her relationship with alien boy Kalo. But the world definitely isn't ready for a human-alien romance. And worse, the human-alien partnership is crumbling. Humans are arrested without explanation. Some of them are never seen again.

When the alien leader imprisons her mother on a false charge, Helia discovers the aliens never intended to help humans at all. Now, she must join forces with alien rebels. If she succeeds, humans have a chance at survival and she has a chance at love. If she fails, the dwindling human race dies out in slavery.

When the aliens arrived, they were hailed as the saviors of a dying Earth and dwindling human race. But the aliens didn't come to help. Now, one human girl's ingenious invention and one alien boy's awakened heart are humanity's last hope...

Title: Helia's Shadow Part Two (Starlight Age #2)
Author: K. C. Neal
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Length (print): 380 pages
Buy Link: Amazon Paperback $14.99

Blurb:
Helia’s Shadow Part Two picks up right where Part One ended, with Helia trapped in a transporter on the way to the lunar prison. When she gets there, she discovers that the rumors Gordon heard were true—there are alien cannibals on the moon. It’s more horrific and dangerous than anything she ever imagined. She must survive long enough to figure out how to escape back to earth, find Kalo and the rebels, and take down Reku before he enslaves the last surviving humans. One human girl’s ingenious invention and one alien boy’s awakened heart are humanity’s last hope...







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Couldn't you just die? You know you wanna own it now.

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Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!

Jo

Congratulations to Our utopYA Con Trip Winner!

Happy Friday, everyone! Jo here. So, over the last year, we had a little contest running for our editors. Tia and I will be attending utopYA Con in June of this year, and we thought it might be awesome to bring one of our own along to join in the fun. We put it out there, and now, we've chosen a winner.

Congratulations to:

Karen Robinson!

She'll get a ticket to the four day conference and a hotel room for the duration.

Here's a little about Karen:

Howdy! I’m Karen Robinson, and I’m excited to be joining the editing team at Indie Books Gone Wild. I’ve been an avid reader since I was in elementary school, reading anything I could get my hands on although my favorite genres are fantasy and dystopian fiction. In college, I majored in English and spent a couple of years as a copy editor for a financial firm and then a medical publisher. An opportunity led me to graduate school where I received a PhD in medieval literature (and graded many many freshman composition papers).

I decided to leave academia after having a child and to go back to my editing roots. Since then, I’ve been doing a wide variety of editing work from websites for plastic surgeons to eBooks about social media as well as fiction, which is where my editing (and reading) heart lies. I’ve had the pleasure of working with indie author Shane W. Shelton on his Believing Magic series and look forward to developing editing relationships with other authors. When I’m not reading (and even sometimes when I am), I can be found with two sticks and some yarn in my hands—knitting is my other passion.

Using The Chicago Manual of Style - 16th Edition, my goal is not to rewrite your book or create a book that I would have written. Instead, I aim to keep your voice—but just make it a cleaner version of your voice. Ultimately, you are the author and ownership of the book is yours, but working with an editor is a valuable way of strengthening your book and making it the best that it can be so that readers can get great enjoyment out of it.

Her clients love her! Check this out:

“Karen took on my 'MASSIVE' project and did a fantastic job taking my raw manuscript and turning it into a 'book.' She didn't alter the story line, or over edit, which was one of my key concerns. And at the same time she wasn't afraid to do what was just plain 'needed.' One of my problem areas (especially with my earlier writing) was with paragraphing correctly. She addressed that issue wonderfully, which means she not only read it and proofed it but had to 'digest' the material and make decisions as to flow and pace. All changes were made in a way that was 'tracked' and easy to review her edits and tweaks.”
–Shane W. Shelton, author of the Believing Magic series

If you're at the con, stop by the IBGW table and say hello to Tia, Karen, and me! We'd love to see you.

Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!

Jo

Celebrating Two Years - EIC Tia Silverthorne Bach

Happy Friday, IBGW followers! Jo here. Today, I’d like to share something with you all about my fellow IEC, Tia Silverthorne Bach. You see, today is her two year anniversary with INDIE Books Gone Wild, and I’m gonna tell you a little about how that relationship formed. We’re gonna have a little giveaway at the end of this post, so get ready! Anyone who subscribes to our newsletter will also get an e-mail today about the books IBGW has worked on over the last twelve months. So, lots of amazing things happening on the blog today. Ready? Grab that coffee, get your clicking finger ready, and let’s get going!

I met Tia during the Author Blog Challenge in June of 2012. She and I hit it off right away. We have a lot of things in common—yes, other than being complete grammar nerds and lovers of the written word in general. Usually, when I’m thinking a certain way about something, she’s in complete agreement. We fostered a friendship that’s proven to be one of the best I’ve ever made.

Not only is she an amazing person, she’s also one hell of an editor. It’s rare to find someone who cares so much about their client(s), and her values made her an indispensable addition to the IBGW team. Together, we formed the idea to keep all editing in house so a better product emerged on the other side. It was tiresome to hear the complaints about Indie novels being poorly edited, written, and covered. Our mission, from day one, was to change that stigma.

How many people do you meet in your lifetime that hold the same values and have the same ideals as you? Let me tell you, they’re few and far between.

Not only is Tia a stellar editor, she’s also a fantastic author and book reviewer. If you haven’t been to her personal blog, I invite you to poke around here. For her book review blog, go here. But, I digress.

Last year, almost two years to the day from the time I first interacted with Tia, we met for the first time in person. Sure, we’d had Skype conversations, but it’s not the same thing. She’s just as lovely in person as she is via e-mail. I think, if someone needed a pair of shoes, she’d give them the ones she was wearing and never think twice about it. But she demands respect at the same time, and doesn’t let people push her around or take advantage of her kindness.

I’m so grateful to be able to call Tia my friend, and even more grateful she decided to partner with me in this crazy IBGW venture.

So, to celebrate her awesomeness, I’m doing a little giveaway of all the books she’s helped bring to market with IBGW over the last year (or written). Enjoy entering and helping me celebrate the amazing business that’s INDIE Books Gone Wild with Tia by my side at the helm!

List of books included:
I, Zombie
Tbinkerknese 101
Chasing Shadows
Not Born Here: Stories from Marsden, NC
Fractured Glass: A Novel Anthology

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Do you know Tia? Tell me a little story about how you met!

Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!

Jo