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Mother’s Day Giveaway!

  By Arial Burnz | May 11, 2013 - 1:40 pm | , ,
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FREE Book for Mother’s Day

If Mom likes historical romance with a paranormal twist – or you think she’d like to give it a try – she just might love my Bonded By Blood Vampire Chronicles. Maybe YOU’RE a mom and would like to sample hot men in kilts with fangs!

The ebook version of Midnight Captive - Book 2 – is FREE all Mother’s Day weekend. What’s that you say? Neither she or you has read Midnight Conquest - Book 1? Perfect! The ebook version of Book 1 is only 99 cents.

Here’s how to can get both ebooks:

Share to Win!

We indie authors are nothing without our readers! If you help me spread the word, you could win a signed, trade paperback copy of both Midnight Conquest AND Midnight Captive. You will be entered into the drawing for each of the following. The more you do, the more chances you have to win.

  • If you’re not already on my mailing list, fill out the form in the sidebar – 1 entry.
  • LIKE my Facebook Page - 1 entry. Everyone who LIKES my Facebook Page this weekend will be entered into the drawing.
  • Share my Facebook page with friends and family – 1 entry for each share (please make sure the SHARE privacy settings are set for PUBLIC or I won’t see who shared)
  • Follow me on Twitter: @arialburnz - 1 entry
  • Retweet any of my tweets for my Mother’s Day Promo. Look for the hashtag #BBBMom - 1 entry for each RT.

I’m giving away TWO SETS of my novels. The two winners will be drawn on Monday, May 13th. Depending on how you participated, I will contact you through e-mail, Facebook or Twitter to obtain your shipping address and for your personalized inscription in the books.

Thank you for helping me spread the word and supporting indie authors!!

Updates & New Release!

  By Arial Burnz | January 30, 2013 - 10:32 am |
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Midnight Captive - Book 2Sorry for the blog silence. Been REALLY busy lately and working on many things in the background, but being very productive. Here’s the skinny on what’s happenin’ and if you leave a comment below, I’ll enter you in a drawing to win a free, pre-released copy of Midnight Captive.

New Release – Midnight Captive – Book 2

I know…it’s been a long time coming, but Midnight Captive is finally coming out in mid-February! This is book 2 in the Bonded By Blood Vampire Chronicles and I’ve received many e-mails from my faithful readers over the holidays, asking when Cailin will have her story told. The other updates below will let you know why the writing and editing of this has been delayed, so I’ll let the events speak for themselves.

Book 2 is going to reveal (more…)

Yes, Vampires REALLY Exist!!

  By Arial Burnz | July 12, 2011 - 10:23 am | ,
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I Met A Real Vampire

Because I’ve become an amateur expert on the subject of vampires, people have asked over the years one profound question: Do you believe vampires really exist? The short answer is…YES!

Anne Rice‘s books inspired me to delve deeper into vampire fiction. I’ve written vampire poetry, studied the subject rather extensively, read countless books on the subject–fiction and non-fiction–and have finally released my debut novel…a vampire romance set in the early 1500s of Scotland: MIDNIGHT CONQUEST. So, I definitely wanted to believe in vampires, but never knew one…until this incident.

I was in the military at the time and in my twenties, going to technical school to learn a new skill, so I was in a strange and unfamiliar environment. While sitting in the day room reading, an attractive man came in. Even now, I cannot recall his face. I just remember thinking he was a handsome man and was flattered he sat at the table with me, starting up a conversation.

Forced to put my book down and interact, I became engaged in an interesting chat…but I noticed it was all about me. Normally, I don’t mind talking about myself, but he kept asking questions about who I was, where I came from, where I’d been, etc., so I became suspicious and limited my answers, not wishing to divulge overly-personal tidbits.

I noticed my energy waning. I crossed my legs.

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May Give-Away!

  By Arial Burnz | April 30, 2011 - 8:51 am | ,
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EDIT: I’ve added something new to the contest – for everyone person who enters the contest, I’ll donate 50 cents* to the needy pet organization Petsmart uses for charity. Money will be donated at my next trip to Petsmart.

This is my first month of give-aways and I thought it might be neat to pick from the List of Commemorative Months I found on Wikipedia and use that as the themes for my monthly give-aways. The list is HUGE, so I have a lot to choose from. However, I also need to match this list with the goodies I received from the Romantic Times Book Lover’s Convention. As a side note, some of the commemorative themes were really off the wall or things I just could not support. Such as…
–National Egg Month. :
–National Salad Month
–National Do Not Eat Cheese Before Noon Month…I kid you not and there is NOOOO way I could support that!

Some I could get behind 100% and there are a little too many to mention (and most of them are great causes), but here are some I thought deserved honorable mentions…

–National Chocolate Custard Month
–National Clean Energy Month
–Uranus Awareness Month (I had some erotic romances I could have used for this…but I’ll save that one. Seriously, it might be a good idea to bring awareness to this planet as it may end up in the realm of Pluto if we’re not careful…but I didn’t have any books of space adventures to give away.)
–National Zombie Awareness Month – No, darn it, I didn’t have any zombie books to give away!

The one I chose for this month is NATIONAL PET MONTH! I had two books I thought fitting for this month that I wasn’t sure I’d be able to use for any other month… (more…)

So Busy!!!!

  By Arial Burnz | December 12, 2008 - 8:31 pm |
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Wow! Been a little too busy for words…but aren’t we all these days? We either overload our days with too much stuff to do OR we’re TERRIBLE at time management! I think it’s a little of both. PLUS with the upcoming holiday season, we have presents to make, buy or order; parties to plan for; parties to go to; and gifts to wrap! Oh my! I hope you’re all having a wonderful season and your shopping horrors are kept to a minimum.

Aside from working full-time contract work at Sony Pictures Entertainment (conducting training and cleaning up training materials), here’s what I have going on that’s keeping me from my blog…

  1. Working on revising MIDNIGHT CONQUEST- My first book in a series of 6 books that I’ve come up with. I’ve had to rework the plot a bit at the encouragement of the editor at The Wild Rose Press. Check out my author site to see the updates on the story summary.
  2. Drafted up MIDNIGHT AFFAIR - This is the 2nd book in the BONDED BY BLOOD vampire romance series. I took the challenge for NaNoWriMo. Though I was only able to come up with about 30,000 words and did not “win” the competition/challege, the goal for me in taking the challenge was to come up with the storyline for MIDNIGHT AFFAIR. Mission accomplished! And I’m really happy with it. Check out my web site for updates on the story summary.
  3. Drafted Storyline for CAPTIVE HEART - OMG!!! This is a great distraction, but this storyline is quickly turning into my favorite! I have to fight everything to keep from working on it. Must finish MIDNIGHT CONQUEST! Anyway, I ended up in a situation with my laptop – but WITHOUT my thumbdrive holding my current writing projects. Since I wanted to be productive, I thought, “I”ll just draw up the storyline for that dream I had the other night about wizards and dragons.” Holy bat doo doo, Batman! CAPTIVE HEART is a fantasy adventure romance that takes place at a time when nature is segregating magickal beings and they are dying away, struggling to preserve themselves. Check out my site for the story summary!
  4. Updated EnchantedWoodz.com – I finally had the energy to put up some new pictures on the site. I need to take more pictures of the wands that we’ve done, so I only have two of them up there right now. Once I find the wands we’ve finished (had to put them away to make room for the family gathering we had on Thanksgiving), I’ll photograph them and get them up. Check out the Tooth Faery boxes, the Dragon’s Lair Brooms and the wands we have. Also, I’ve included a couple of pieces of our featured artist – Molly Harrison. We have a license agreement with her to use her artwork on our wooden items. You’ll love her stuff! Check out the web site to see the new pictures!
  5. I Saw TWILIGHT – Well, I read the book and I saw the movie. I was impressed with the screenplay – it did a very good job at capsulizing  the essence of the book without leaving much out at all. Great job! Don’t know how many of you fans know about it…but Stephanie Meyer did a cameo in the movie. Comment in my blog if you recall seeing her. My boyfriend did not read the book and he is now looking forward to reading them. As a fan of vampire romance, I find the books well-written and I enjoy the saga of them…the continuing story. I’ve been a little to tied up with my own books to be reading hers. I’ve started on book 2, so I can’t effectively comment on them as a whole, but I’m enjoying them so far. :D

I have other things I’ve been working on, but this is quite enough in this blog. What about you? What has you busy this holiday season? Working on that book? Taking the time to relax? Expressing yourself creatively? Do tell!!! Comment on my blog and let me know what’s having you run around this holiday.

I wish you all a very happy holiday season and my love goes out to you all!!!

That’s my two pence…

Arial ;)