Ahora en español!

Mi libro Human ya está disponible en español!

Ariel es una joven de diecisiete años cuya vida toma un giro completamente diferente el día que llega tarde a clase. En su clase hay un chico nuevo, Devin, muy guapo y de pelo oscuro, pero para sorpresa de Ariel, todo el mundo parece conocerlo y su mejor amiga afirma que lleva yendo a la escuela con ellas durante años, aunque Ariel está segura de no haberlo visto antes.

Convencida de que sus amigos le están gastando una broma, Ariel pretende que no pasa nada raro. Incluso considera la posibilidad de tener una enfermedad en el cerebro… hasta que empieza a tener visiones sobre gente desconocida con alas y ojos extraños. Y lo que es peor, sus visiones indican que Devin podría ser un demonio que ha venido al mundo humano para llevarse un ángel al Infierno. A medida que aprende más sobre la existencia de ángeles y demonios, Ariel descubre que su hermana es el ángel que quieren llevarse los demonios.

Decidida a no permitir que nadie le haga daño a su hermana, hará lo que haga falta, incluso matar ella misma al demonio. ¿Pero podrá matar a Devin cuando parece tan humano? ¿Y qué hará cuando descubra los secretos que rodean su verdadera naturaleza? Porque, seamos sinceros, una chica que puede ver demonios y ángeles en sus visiones no puede ser humana.
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Invisible Release Party Giveaway

I'm having a giveaway to celebrate the release of Invisible (Tainted Elements, #2)! Five lucky winners will win an ecopy of one of my books! If you win, you can choose which book you want. It can be one of the books in the Element Preservers series, the Tainted Elements series, or Human. The giveaway ends on November 30, so if you wish to participate, just follow the instructions below. Thank you for participating and good luck!


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The Element Preservers Fan Contest!

Hi, everyone! I realized I didn't have a giveaway for a long time, so I decided to have another one. But this time I want to make it more fun, so instead of a typical, boring Rafflecopter giveaway, I decided to do a fan contest! The contest is international and will be open until April 3.

Prizes: Prizes are the most important part of everything, right? The winner will receive a paperback edition of one of my books in the Element Preservers series (the winner chooses which one).The second and third place will win an ecopy of one of my books (either one of the books from the Element Preservers or Human).

How to enter: All you have to do to enter is create some sort of fan art related to the Element Preservers series. It can be a drawing, photo, video, playlist, poem... anything really. As long as it is creative and related to the EP series. When your fan creation is done, upload it somewhere (an image hosting site, Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr or wherever suits you best) and enter the link to your creation along with your contact info into the form below. Please make sure to put the tag #ElementPreserversContest or #EPcontest either directly on your fan creation or on the post which contains your creation. I don't want anyone to give me the link to someone else's art or video, so please add the tag somewhere. If you have any doubts or questions, you can always ask me. :) Also, you can enter multiple times (create more than one fan creation), but each entry has to be original.

Ready to enter? Great! Fill in this form:

Big thanks to everyone for participating! I'll post the winning entries on my blog on April 4. Have fun!

Christmas Giveaway!

Hi, everyone. It's almost Christmas time and since I know how much you love books, reading and gifts, I decided to have another giveaway! 5 lucky winners will get one of my ebooks (Runaway, Divided, Restless, No One or Human)! All you have to do to participate is check out the Rafflecopter widget and fill in the required fields. Please do not cheat, write random things in the mandatory fields and log in with multiple identities because you could be disqualified. Thank you and good luck! :)


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Giveaway Time!

I promised to have another giveaway, so here it is! 5 lucky winners will get an ecopy of one of my books! You get to choose which book you want to win. All you have to do to enter is check out the Rafflecopter widget below and follow the instructions. If you have any questions, I'm here to answer them. Good luck and thank you for participating! :)

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Summer Giveaway!

Hi, everyone! Summer is an awesome time for reading, is it not? :D I know there are some of you who'd love to get their hands on one of my books, so I decided to do a summer giveaway! Yep, that's right. You can win free books! 5 lucky winners will get an ecopy of one of my books. Which book you choose is totally up to you. Since Dangerous is already free to read anywhere online and on your ereaders, you can choose between Runaway, Divided, No One, Restless and Human!

Enter the giveaway here: a Rafflecopter giveaway Good luck and happy reading!

Springtime Indie Book Giveaway!

Hi, everyone! Author Elle Casey is hosting a big giveaway on her website, so you can enter to win many various books, but that's not all. I'm also participating in the giveaway, so 5 lucky winners will get an e-copy of my book Runaway (Element Preservers, #2) and 5 winners will get an e-copy of Human! The formats I'm offering are mobi, epub or pdf. If you haven't had a chance to read the second book in Element Preservers series or you want to read my other book, Human, enter the giveaway! Of course, don't forget to check out other authors and their books because there are some really awesome books you can win. Good luck and thanks to everyone for participating! :D


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The giveaway starts today (May 10) and will end on May 15, so hurry up! :D

Christmas Giveaway!

Hey guys, Christmas time is coming, so I figured I should give away some books! :D I think I managed to set up the Rafflecopter widget right, but please tell me if something doesn't work. It's my first time using the app. Now let's talk about the prizes! Five lucky winners will get an e-copy of one of my books! Since you're probably visiting my blog because you've read one of my books, I decided to let the winners choose which book they want. So, you can win a copy of Human or Runaway (the second book in Element Preservers series). The first book in Element Preservers, Dangerous, is free on most of the sites, so I don't see the point of including it in this giveaway. As I said, you can choose which book you want. If you read Human, maybe you'd like to try Element Preservers series or if you haven't had a chance to read Runaway after reading Dangerous, now you can get the second book! For those who have read all of my books already (wow, thank you! You guys are the best!) I will have another giveaway in January when I publish Divided. :) The giveaway will end on December 26th. You can get extra entries if you follow me on various sites or post about the giveaway. :D Good luck and thanks for participating!


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If anyone is wondering about the results of the Element Preservers novella poll, I can tell you that the majority of votes were for Adrian, so yeah, I'll be writing the novella which will probably follow Adrian's life before Ria met him. If you have any ideas or suggestions for the novella, like what would you like to see/know about Adrian, leave me a comment here or on Facebook. I'm still not sure whether I'll be writing it in the first person or third, but I'll know more when I actually start writing and see how it goes. :D

New Cover for Human!!!

Hello everyone, I just came to tell you that Human has a new cover!! I know it looks almost the same, but now it's much bigger to fit with the rest of the covers. You know, every time I tried to make a signature or a banner with my books, Human would never fit with Dangerous and Runaway because of the size. Besides, some people thought the old cover was sort of creepy because it reminded them of a doll. Oh well, I hope you like this one better. :D

 

As for the possible sequel, I still don't have any awesome news. I haven't decided that there won't be a sequel, but I'll leave that decision for 2013. Right now I'm totally busy with the third book in Element Preservers and my new series/trilogy/not sure. But don't worry. If I decide something, you'll be the first to know. :D 

For anyone waiting for Runaway to appear on Kobo/Diesel/Sony, I hope it won't take much longer, but I honestly have no clue what's taking them so long to put it up. Sorry about that. Oh, and hugs to Australians for getting Runaway on the best-selling list on iTunes! You guys are the best! :D And of course, hugs to everyone reading my books!

Human 50% off on Smashwords and a Small Update

Why is it that I always post on the first of the month? Maybe because of this:

Anyway, the first thing I want to say is that I enrolled Human in Smashword's Summer/Winter site-wide promotion, so if you enter the code SSW50 at checkout, you'll get 50% off! Here is the link to the book: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/120164 The promotion lasts until July 31 and it's only for Smashwords, so if you haven't gotten your copy yet, this is your chance!

Now let's get to more interesting things. It is very likely that the books in Element Preservers series will get new covers. Yes, I know, that's very exciting. I love my cover for Runaway a lot, but I think the new one will be a lot more awesome. At least I hope it will be. :D What else I wanted to say? Ah, yes. I'm trying to decide when exactly I will publish Runaway, the second book in Element Preservers series, and right now I think it will be somewhere between August 23 and August 29. I'm really sorry that you have to wait a bit longer. I was hoping I'd be able to publish it at the beginning of August, but I've been really busy and I'm still editing. I really hope I'll manage to get everything ready, the new book and new covers, by August 23. If I finish earlier, you'll be notified, don't worry.

Does anyone know for how long I've been saying I'm going to improve my webpage and blog? XD Well, maybe I'll finally do it this summer. Maybe. Ok, I think I said everything I wanted to. Now I must go back to editing.

A Little Bit of Everything

I've been planning to make this post for ages, but I was always too tired or too busy to do it. Well, I'm still tired and still busy, but I figured I could survive making a small post. :)

First of all, I want to thank everyone who is downloading and reading Human! I didn't expect there would be so much interest, so yeah, I'm extremely happy. A huge thanks to everyone who has contacted me, asked for Kindlegraph and left a rating/review. It really means a lot to me. For everyone wondering whether there will be a sequel after Human, I have to say that I'm not sure yet. I might write a short story or a novella. Or maybe another novel set in the same world, but it probably wouldn't focus on Ariel, but on her sister, Christina. Ariel and Devin would probably be in it too, but they would be more in the background. I told everything I wanted to with Ariel and Devin, so I don't see myself writing another full novel exclusively about them. Of course, I can't tell anything for sure right now because I'm in the middle of editing Runaway (Element Preservers, #2) and I'm planning/plotting two different novels. It all depends on what happens in the next few months. I hope I'll manage to publish Runaway in August.

Ok, enough about my books. I was so happy when I heard Brodi Ashton will publish a novella set in the Everneath universe. And do you know why? Because it will be told from Cole's point of view!!! If you don't know already, Cole is my favorite character from Everneath, so you see why this makes me incredibly happy. :D Oh, and I think I like this new trend that we get a novella told from the point of view of the most interesting male character in the series. XD Tahereh Mafi is also going to publish a novella in Shatter Me series, titled Destroy Me, which will be told from Warner's point of view!! I can't wait to read it because I love Warner! Oh, and before you start screaming at me and saying he's a psycho, well yes, I know! That's why he intrigues me so much! :D

I also bought tons of books and I have no idea when I'm going to read them all. Besides, I have to finish those nine books I started reading and can't find time to finish. :/ Of course, I'm still looking for new books to read, so if anyone knows some book I might like.... :D

I hope it won't take me another month for a new post. XD Have fun, everyone, and read ALL the books! :P

Get Human for FREE! Limited time only!

I just want to inform you guys that my book, Human, is currently free to download on Smashwords in various formats! So if you are interested in reading it, please check it out. Here is the link to the page: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/120164 And remember, this offer is a limited time only, so you might only have a week or so to get your copy. :D If you do download a copy, thank you and I hope you'll enjoy it! 

Giveaway: Win a Copy of Human and Dangerous!

Just wanted to inform you that there are two giveaways going on where you can win a copy of my books, Human and Dangerous (Element Preservers, #1).

  If you would like to win an e-copy of Dangerous, visit the Facebook page of Paranormal Book Club here: http://www.facebook.com/ParanormalBookClub?sk=app_204684816209053 and enter the Rafflecopter giveaway where you can also win books from other authors.

 For an e-copy of Human, go to the blog Black Words-White Pages http://blackwords-whitepages.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/rafflecopter-giveaway.html

Good luck to everyone who entered! And thanks for your interest!

Read an Ebook Week! Human 50% off!

So, I'm here to tell you some happy news. Smashwords is having Read an Ebook Week from March 4th to March 10th, and I have decided to include Human in this promotion by offering it for only 1.50$! There will be a coupon when the promotion starts which you will be able to use to get this nice discount. XD I'm sure other authors will include their books as well, so you might find something you like if you visit Smashword's page during Read an Ebook Week. Click HERE to get to the page for Human on Smashwords, see the trailer, read the overview or sample. :D

New blog!

Since Weebly's blog was a bit hard to use and didn't look like I wanted it to look, I got myself a new one. You can even follow this one, and even though I haven't figured it out completely yet, I hope it will be better and I will post more. My old posts have all been copied here, so there's no worry that anything got lost in the process. I plan to make it even better, add some pictures, change background, add info, but I don't have time to do that at the moment, so I'll take care of it in the next few weeks. I also plan to change the look of my web page since it looks a bit messy. I'm still learning how to use blogger, so if something appears to be weird, I'll try to fix it. XD As long as the blog is not in Chinese or some unknown language, we're good. (Yeah, I actually managed to switch the language into something weird and had to try really hard to get it back to English.)

Oh, and for a limited time, Dangerous is free to download at Smashwords, Sony and Apple, and hopefully others will realize it too and change it before I decide to switch it back. Anyway, since readers have reported some mistakes in Dangerous, I'm going to reedit it and publish the corrected version as soon as possible. I'm really not happy that some of these problems escaped me and I hope I'll manage to see them now. Big thanks to everyone who has reviewed Dangerous!

Human is still not available everywhere like I had hoped it would be by now, but there's nothing I can do about that. Smashwords has shipped it already and now I only have to wait for Apple, Diesel and Sony to make it available in their stores.

Have a nice day everyone :)

HUMAN IS NOW AVAILABLE!!!

So I have finally pressed that publish button, and after a few issues, I managed to publish Human on Smashwords!! It will take some time before it appears on other sites, but I'm so damn happy right now!! You can now also read the first three chapters here on the page if you click the Human tab. And now I'm going to publish on Amazon and see how that works out. :))
Link on Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/120164

Happy New Year!!! Human Update.

First of all, I'd like to wish everyone a happy new year. I hope that you all had a nice time celebrating, and that this year will be thousand times better than any previous. :)

And since it's January, I have to say that Human is coming out this month!! *jumps up and down in excitement*. I know you're probably expecting a date when exactly I will publish it. Well, I've been thinking and I realized I want to publish it as soon as all edits are done and I'm sure everything's perfect. Which all leads us to conclusion that I don't know when will that be. I know. I'm horrible with dates, deadlines and things like that. But if I say some random date and finish earlier, then I'll just be nervous about it all the time ahaha. Yes, I really can't wait to share this book with you. All I can say for now is that it will definitely be published by January 23rd. Actually, that was the date I originally had in mind, but if I finish everything before, there's really no need to wait, so I'll simply publish it before then. It all depends on how much time I'll lose with making last changes and formatting. I don't want to rush and publish a book with which I won't be happy.

So, I challenged myself to read 100 books this year. Let's see how that will work out. I only hope I'll have more time to write and finish Runaway sooner. Then I'd be able to jump on my next project(s) which can't stay out of my head. XD

Book Trailer for Human!!!

I finally had some time to make a book trailer for my young adult paranormal romance/urban fantasy that is coming out in January 2012. I still don't know the exact date (yeah, I know, kill me), but I'm doing the last edits, so you'll probably know when exactly it's coming out in a week or two. I'm really excited about it! Now please check out the trailer!

Oh, and I almost forgot. I now have an author page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alycia-Linwood/290655180970202 so if you have Facebook, please "like" my page. Thank you! :D

Dangerous is now only 99 cents! Small Update and Book Rec!

I've been planning to update my blog for ages, but I never had time or knew what to write. Actually, I would come up with a topic while I was doing something, and then completely forgot about it when I reached my computer. I guess I'm just not used to having a blog. It seems easier to write a book than come up with a blog post. :P
Anyway, with holidays coming and everything, Dangerous (the first book in Element Preservers series) is now only 0.99$ at Smashwords, Apple, Sony and Diesel. Barnes & Noble should update the price soon and I hope my book will finally appear on Kobo too.  So now might be a great chance to grab your copy. :D
I started writing Runaway (the second book in Element Preservers) and I can't even describe how happy I am about that. I missed Ria and her messed up life. And right now the book is basically writing itself. Of course, I'm full of ideas and plots for the next gazillion of books, but I don't really have much time to write. Maybe I'd have more time if I wasn't also an avid reader who just can't stop herself from picking up a new book. But I'm sure I'll finish Runaway in time, so no worries. :D Maybe I even manage to finish earlier than expected.
I also got most of the feedback from my beta readers for Human, which is coming out in January. We are working now on editing some things and making sure everything is ready for publishing. I still don't know the exact date, but I was thinking it could be around 20th. Honestly, if my friend hadn't asked me for the exact date, I would totally think no one cared when I published it. I mean, I'm not some famous writer or anything, so I figured it just didn't matter. But my friend was all like, "are you crazy? I want a date!" so I'll try to come up with a date, but I can't promise anything. I'm just not sure how long it will take, and I didn't really write down how long it took me publish Dangerous, so I'm a bit lost. We'll see.
Now let's talk a bit about the book, or better said books, that kept me so occupied I didn't want to do anything else. There aren't many books that can grip me so much that I can't stop reading, not even for a second. Yeah, one of those books that make you think "oh, I'll just finish this chapter, then I'll do xy", and then you never get to doing what you wanted because you thought, "oh, only one chapter more. It isn't much."

Iron King by Julie Kagawa!!
Summary from Goodreads:
Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.
Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.
When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.
But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.

Now what I can say about this book except that it's pure awesomeness? I just couldn't stop reading and I immediatelly had to read the entire series, which were all awesome too! I don't really want to spoil the book for you if you haven't read it, but I seriously recommend it. The world Julie created is just awesome and described really good. The pacing is not annoying slow, but not too fast either. The characters are really lovable and will steal your heart in a second. The romance might be a tiny little bit too sudden, but it wasn't exactly 'I see you, I love you' thing, so I'm happy. There were also some tiny issues, which I overlooked because they weren't really important, like Meghan saying Ash called her for the first time by her name, and he had already done that like half a page before. What else can I say? Ash became one of my favorite male characters ever. This book actually made me like faeries because I was never really a fan of them, probably because I kept imagining them like Tinkerbell. :D Anyway, I really liked Meghan because she would do anything to save people she cares about. (I'm trying really hard not to spoil anything.)
For those who read the book, I also loved Grimalkin, because, seriously, who wouldn't love that cat? :P Now to my less popular opinion (please don't throw rocks at me), I didn't really care for Puck. It might have something to do with me being annoyed by him in Midsummer Night's Dream, but even though he was funny at times, I just couldn't bring myself to really like him and sometimes wished he'd just go away. :P
Ok, since I really suck at writing reviews, I suggest you check out this book on Goodreads and see reviews of people who know what they're doing. But if you're looking for a great read, don't hesitate to check this one out. A really great series. I read all four books and those short novellas, and now I'm just sad it's all over. I want more!!!

The Cover and Blurb for Human!!!

So, like I promised, here is the cover and blurb for my new book, Human, which is going to be published in January 2012. I'm not sure about the exact date yet, but you will be informed in time. :)

So this is the cover. I hope you like it. And yes, there's a reason for the whole red/blue thing. You'll just have to read the book to find out.
And here is the blurb:

Ariel is a 17-year-old girl whose life takes a completely different turn on the day she comes late to school. There's a new very handsome dark-haired boy, Devin, in her class, but to Ariel's surprise everyone else seems to know him, and her best friend claims he's been going with them to school for years, except Ariel is sure she has never seen him before. Convinced her friends are playing with her, Ariel pretends nothing weird is going on. She even considers the possibility of having a brain disease... until she starts having visions of unknown people with wings and unusual eyes.

What's worse, her visions hint that Devin might be the demon who came to the human world to take an angel to Hell. As she becomes more aware of existence of angels and demons, Ariel finds out her sister is the angel demons want to take. Determined not to let anyone harm her sister, she will do anything, even try to kill the demon on her own. But can she really kill Devin when he appears so human, and what will she do when she reveals the secrets surrounding her true nature? Because, let's face it, a girl who can see both demons and angels in her visions can't really be human.

Human is a young adult urban fantasy/paranormal romance.

Any thoughts? :D