Demon Moon ARC — Contest
It’s that time again!
I have an ARC of my upcoming release, DEMON MOON (June 5) to give away. There is a catch, however: because this is an advance reading copy, I want to use it in the way it’s intended to be used: if you win, please post a review on a) Amazon, BN.com, Powell’s and/or any online bookstore of your choice, or b) write up a review on your blog, or c) if you don’t have a blog, I can arrange for you to have it posted either here (even if you hate it) or at another blog in the romance circuit.
Please don’t feel obligated to post a good review if you don’t like the book.
Here’s the back cover copy:
Return to the sensual netherworld of Demon Angel for a startling romance of eternal love threatened by the consuming darkness of a Demon Moon…
No one would call vampire Colin Ames-Beaumont kind, but they would call him unnaturally beautiful. For two centuries his tainted blood has kept him isolated from other vampires, sustained only by his beauty and vanity—bitter** comforts, since a curse has erased his mirror reflection, replacing it with a terrifying glimpse of Chaos.
Savi Murray’s insatiable curiosity had gotten her into trouble before, but she’d always escaped unscathed. Then came Colin. In the midst of Heaven, he gave her a taste of ecstasy—and of Chaos. Deadly creatures from that realm herald the return of an imprisoned nosferatu horde, and Colin and Savi’s bond is their only protection—and their only passion…
**He’s not really that bitter; he’s just kind of an ass.
To help you decide whether you’d actually like to read this book, here’s a short excerpt from Chapter Four (because it shows their interaction better than Chapter One), and a long excerpt in PDF format that you can right-click and download, or open in your browser (if you’ve already taken a look at the sneak peek, this is the same one — the first four chapters of the book).
A few caveats: this ARC has a consistent problem with punctuation, because I totally effed up and made all of the semi-colons that I intended to turn into periods into colons (I sent over 250 pages back when I fixed the galleys — not all that colon problem, but a lot of them). That will be corrected by June, but it’s not fixed in the ARC, so if typos drive you insane … well, there it is.
This is the second (fourth if you count the novellas) book in the series. I’ve had feedback from a reader who hadn’t yet read DEMON ANGEL or HOT SPELL and she enjoyed it — so I think it stands alone okay. It does mean, however, that you’ll get spoilers for the earlier stories.
I clarified a few plot points (okay, holes) and world-building issues in the galley stage that won’t show up in the ARC — mostly just a few insertions of sentences, and a couple of paragraphs. I will be happy to insert printed pages at the appropriate spots so that the most significant changes are included, but I can’t include all of the changes I made from ARC to final form (see above, 250 pages). But if it’ll be too weird/distracting to read it like that, I can send it as is. There might be a few things that make you go, “WTF? How the hell…?” but if you e-mail me after you go, “WTF?” hopefully I’ll be able to say, “Oh, I changed that!” and it’ll all be good.
So, if you’re still here, that means you’re probably going to enter. And like all of my contests, this is super-easy: just leave a comment telling me the funniest/worst typo you’ve ever made OR the funniest/worst one that you’ve seen*, and I’ll choose a winner by random drawing (from random.org) And if you don’t want to leave a comment, you can always use the contact form and send it to me privately.
*Or just leave any old comment — or lie about the typo. I’m easily pleased.
I will keep comments open until April 25th, at midnight.
Meljean, I know I have seen tons of typos but I can’t recall any of them right now. I did a google search and found this page full of funnies http://tnsf.ca/bloopers/files/ad_typos.shtml Here are a couple of ads from that page. For Sale: Eight puppies from a German Shepperd and an Alaskan Hussy and Tired of cleaning yourself? Let me do it.
Here is a link to a funny typo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25679727@N00/341953218/
“I was very good about it and didn’t go through and re-analize once I typed it out…”
A classmate of mine posted this for her fiction 300 series course without proof-reading. One of the guys caught the spelling error and was sure to point it out for the rest of the class.
Funny typos….funny typos -ponders this concept- I know oodles and yet at this moment they’re all escaping through the holes in my head I tell you what…. -skips off to search for an amusing typo-
A few humorous typos on signs -
http://www.totse.com/en/ego/no_laughing_matter/signs.html
One of the best of them has to be:
On a display of “I Love You Only” Valentine cards:
“Now available in multi-packs.”
Hehe ^^
Take Care
**He’s not really that bitter; he’s just kind of an ass.
Ahaha.
I knew there was a reason I was looking forward to his story.
um…i do not really play around with liknks….um…oi.
It’s in June??? Ohmigosh, I had it in my mind that it was in November. That’s perfect timing! I fully intend to take at least a few days, sit in the sun, and just read.
Typsies? Gosh, I shore wish I could thunk off one.
In the State of Vagina it’s always snowing.
Once, in an IM chat, I put an “n” in cut. I said, “I cunt myself.”
Me! Oh Me! Me! Me! Me!
Ooops. You want us to COMPETE?
ehhhhh. Worst typo. How about the time I was trying to defend a political colleague of mine on a message board. He was getting mercilously attacked and I jumped in to defend his honor. His name is Dirk.
I spelled it “Dick” twice in the same post.
It’s a stupid fucking name anyway. What person goes into public life with a first name of Dirk anyway?
I’m such an idiot sometimes… (And I over use elipses….)
Oh, god no! I hope I didn’t give that impression. The winner will be chosen randomly, by getting a number from random.org.
Well in that case would love a copy of Demon Moon. Received a copy of Demon Lover from you many months ago! I’m looking forward to the next book.
The best typo I’ve ever encountered was not the typo itself, but the reaction to said typo in a Missed Connections posting on Craigslist. Here’s the person’s response:
Missed Connection with an Apostrophe
It won best of Craigslist honors.
Not a typo, but I did once say orgasm in a conversation instead of organism.:oops:
While passing a movie theatre several years ago, I saw that they were playing Mr Hollands Opis.. of course it said Mr Holland OPIUM.
But maybe they didnt do that as a typo?!
Oh, here, wait a minute.:shock:
I didn’t actually think that you wanted us to compete. Sorry about that.
What I was (clumsily) trying to say was that you should just go ahead and send me anythng you’ve got. No contest necessary.
Ohhhh. But you want us to participate in the CONtest. Ohhh. Now I gotcha.
(Sorry. It wasn’t a very well thought out joke.):brickwall:
My two favorite typos ever:
From a Press Release:
Teaching Children How To Except Others Begins At Home
&
From an article that showed how to increase your earning potential as a freelance writer:
He sees a regimen of self-improvement as the toad to fiscal and personal security in today’s quickly changing world.
*giggles*
s.
Public without the “l” and count without the “o” are always good for a laugh. Unless it’s erotica, in which case it’s perfect. Tee hee.
(Don’t enter me in the contest, since I’ve read it. Woo hoo! I just wanted to share.)
The other day at work, someone left a note on the copier:
“THE COPIER IS BORKEN!”
We made swedish chef noises at each other for the rest of the day.
Bork bork bork!
i didn’t know what you meant when you said mail whether you meant email or what. but my most embarrassing moment was in my 9th grade science class and my teacher called me up to the board. we were studying organisms and different plant life that day. once up there and standing me next to the different pictures drawn on the board, he asked me if i thought i was a type of orgasm instead of organism. my whole class started to laugh at me and he just stared around dumbly for a moment until it dawned on him exactly what he said and then he started to stammer. i was beet red and quickly went back to my desk to proceed to bang my head on my arms on my desk. so yea, i hope i’ll get picked to win. thanks!!
The funniest typo I have seen is at work my manager made a sigh that was suppose to say “UofL Shirts Available Inside” and put it in the wqindow, about a week later it was pointed out to us that is really said “UofL Shits Available Inside”
“UofL Shits Available Insideâ€
LOL!
my worst typo is when i mispell my own first name and don’t catch it.
Loved the excerpt. I enjoy finding typos in books – so am I weird lol.
The worst typo I ever encountered, wasn’t really a typo, but a really bad translation in subtitle. A 2 minute speech is given a one word subtitle. “No”. However, from what the other person says in response, we know that the answer to the question was actually Yes! Good old Hong Kong fansubs.
Not really a typo – but a case of poor use of spell check. Once I set a department wide email on a really difficult customer. I spell checked my email and sent it off, only to realize afterwards that spell check had changed the customers name from Saban to Satan.
I’ve read too many typo’s to count! Of course, I can’t think of one now that I want one!!?? I guess all I can say is this series sounds so fascinating, I can’t wait to start it!!
In a chat with an author who tends to type very fast who was replying in the chatroom to someone that she had received the email that was being sent to her:
Go tit!!!!
All right, worst typo right? Well, it was in vietnamese… See, contrary to what most believe, vietnamese is written with alphabet letters just like in English and French. (If you’re wondering why, it’s because the French colonized Vietnam)… anyway, so we have more or less the same alphabet; however, we have tons of accents to make difference in sound… and one of my friend wrote bo/ instead of bô/ so this might seem like a little mistake, but in viet, once you change the accent, you get a different word… so instead of writing father, he wrote cow ^^;
In a college paper I once wrote “He displayed a wide gamete of emotions.” The professor chose to use it as a “teaching” point for the evils of spell check.
There’s a town in New Zealand called Whaka but it’s pronounced “Faka”.
heard it on Rove. he’s funny:smile:
I was writing an email to one of my teacher about a poem i wanted him to publish in the department newsletter and I wanted to say ‘except’ and I actually said ‘escape’… maybe I wanted to say that there is no way to escape from my awful writing… dunno.
it’s not the best I know but I forgot the others… ^^ sorry.