Launch Celebration Giveaway Tonight

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Jeannie Lin

Blog Tour: It’s “Love at First Sight: Chinese Style” over at Romconinc. Also “Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Me” at LASR Reviews along with a giveaway.

Warrior Women Month: Check out the interview with Luci Romberg: stuntwoman, freerunner and American Ninja Warrior.

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Come back tonight for the giveaway drawing! Three individual names will be drawn to win one of three lovely prizes.

*Silver Phoenix is the hardcover edition with cover shown, Poisoned Kisses is mass market paperback, The Taming of Mei Lin is an ebook.

You can still enter! Blog, tweet, and/or sign-up for the newsletter to join the celebration! Enter more times for more chances to win and your name stays in all the way until the Grand Prize drawings. Details here.

Additionally there’s a giveaway for print copies of Butterfly on GoodReads. Head on over there if you can’t wait for October.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Butterfly Swords

by Jeannie Lin

Giveaway ends September 27, 2010.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

What are Butterfly Swords?

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Jeannie Lin

Warrior Women Month:

I’m kicking off Warrior Women month with a quick tutorial on butterfly swords. Also tomorrow, I have an interview with Mandy Sayah, Wing Chun instructor.

Blog Tour:

Blogging about how I came to write historical romance at The Minding Spot. The blog is doing their own giveaway of a copy of the Taming of Mei Lin.

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The Taming of Mei Lin and Butterfly Swords both feature sword fights involving butterfly swords. I’ve received many curious inquiries about both the weapons and the fighting style, so I thought I’d showcase them today.

I chose butterfly swords for my heroine because:

1) I had some experience with them

2) They could be hidden easily and carried around with her various outfits

3) The techniques are fast and exciting to describe

4) The swords were distinctive and feminine, in contrast to the swords used by the hero and the villain

In this video, Grandmaster William Cheung demonstrates the butterfly swords form. The narration is Sifu Eric Oram.

This demonstration shows several techniques for butterfly swords against a broadsword. The key techniques are redirecting and controlling the opponent’s blade with the butterfly swords, and counterattacking immediately after a block.

And finally, the swords featured in the grand prize giveaway aren’t technically butterfly swords as they don’t have the handguard. They’re steel and sharpened and STILL pretty cool.

Join the Launch Celebration by tweeting, blogging, and getting the word out and you’ll be eligible to win. Details here.