Comic-con & The Sweet Sixteen!

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet could keep me away from speaking at my first Comic-con this weekend. I braved the St. Louis Snowpocalypse on Sunday and dragged myself onto the Metro for the first time to head to the America Center for our Wizard World Panel.

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Swords, Steam & Sorcery: Authors Tell All with (from left to right) Cole Gibsen, Shawntelle Madison and Angie Fox + myself (Jeannie)

We had a great turnout, despite the ice and snow, and it was fun to answer questions and interact with the audience. My Comic-con themed giveaway of my co-panelists’ books is still open until this Saturday, March 30. You can enter here.

After the talk, we headed over to the exhibit hall where I shook hands with Dean Cain (who is even more handsome in person *swoons*) and got to meet James Hong of Big Trouble in Little China fame (and of course, Balls of Fury)!

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DABWAHA Sweet Sixteen!

Author-GameOn-Nominee2013Of course, this entire time, I was checking Twitter and dabwaha.com since My Fair Concubine was going up against Sarah Morgan’s Once a Ferrara Wife. The two books were neck and neck from the very beginning, so I was campaigning hard at Comic-con to get celebrity endorsements (see gallery below!). Meanwhile, there was a groundswell of support from the Twitterverse, which continued once I got home straight through midnight when voting ended. Crazy as it seems, ONE VOTE edged me into the DABWAHA Sweet Sixteen! Thank you so much everyone who campaigned and voted for My Fair Concubine. *mwah* *mwah*

dabwaha_round2 So now it’s Round 3 against the formidable Ruthie Knox and her RITA nominated novel, About Last Night. Voting for this match-up will be this Friday, March 29 from midnight until noon. Ruthie has been a fierce competitor, so I’ll need everyone’s help to get through this one. Here’s the video where I take on Ruthie head on.

Enjoy!

Round 2 Video – Harlem Shake

St. Louis Comic-con Photo Gallery

DABWAHA is here + Giveaways

Author-GameOn-Nominee2013Yes, My Fair Concubine is up for its first head to head in the book tournament with a funny name. Vote between 12:00pm CST (high noon!) and ends at 11:59pm CST on Friday, March 22.

There’s no need to register to vote and you can vote multiple times from different devices and IP addresses. So you can present a triple threat voting from your PC, your phone, and your tablet. It’s not cheating, it’s encouraged. Trust me–I encourage it! 🙂

Vote here: DABWAHA voting site

Thank you for the support!

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Author Sarah M Anderson, who writes fabulous contemporary Westerns, made a pretty fantastic Hero vs. Hero video featuring Fei Long and his first adversary in the tournament. Perhaps it was unfair to drop my medieval warrior into the midst of a these sheikhs and CEOs?

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And of course, there’s my bribe! If My Fair Concubine makes it to round 2, I’m off to the HotDamn Design studios to shoot a Harlem Shake video with the cover models. Take a look at their portfolio if you’re interested in cover art.

Giveaways

These giveaways are independent of the DABWAHA tournament. You do not need to vote to be entered.

You can sign up at Goodreads for The Sword Dancer ARC. Also in honor of our appearance Wizard World Comic-con in St. Louis in the panel titled “Swords, Steam and Sorcery: Authors Tell All” on Sunday, May 24 1:30pm-2:15pm, I’m giving away books from my co-conspirators.

Sign up on the Rafflecopter widget for a chance to win books from:

  • Angie Fox
  • Shawntelle Madison
  • Cole Gibsen

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Sword Dancer by Jeannie Lin

The Sword Dancer

by Jeannie Lin

Giveaway ends April 26, 2013.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

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