Well, I’ll tell you. Better yet, I’ll show you. Check out my new Creatures page. You can find it under the Compendium tab. Or you can click here.

There you’ll find all the creatures encountered in the Araneae world. If I’ve missed any, just let me know. I’m happy to update. 🙂

Have a book to promote?  Know someone who does?

Try blogging for Savvy Authors and take advantage of the over 8000 unique visitors per month (25% of them new visitors) with an average time on site is 8 min per visitor, and over 175,000 pageviews per month.   Our blog postings are persistent and continue to receive views after the date of posting.  The average blog post receives 200-250 unique reads per week.

We’re looking for published authors willing to write a substantive blog on any aspect of the craft of writing, publishing and promotion.  At this time we are not booking blogs related to self-publishing.  I have openings beginning the mid March and forward.  We are able to accommodate requests for multiple dates.

Our blogs, when posted, are able to accommodate a book blurb and graphic as well as a link to purchase.

We ask that blogs be between 1000 and 1500 words.

If you’re interested in scheduling a date during 2013 please contact me directly at:  [email protected]  Dates are assigned on a first come, first serve basis.  If you have a particular date in mind please specify it.

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Sharon Pickrel

It’s a game of Marco Polo! Jan 9, we’re playing Marco Polo on Twitter. simple rules: At some point during the day of January 9 (, you yell MARCO on Twitter. The first person to @ you with POLO wins a book from you. DM them for an address and send the book right away. It can be digital or print, author’s choice. The winner must follow you on Twitter so you can DM them.

If you want to give away books on Marco Polo day, please sign up on the official list at
http://voireylinger.com/2012/12/marco-polo-day/
Any blog entries or posted information to the event should link back to the official list. The list will be expanded and updated as more authors join.

This is meant to be a fun and informal way to interact with readers. Any author with a book to give away is welcome to join, no restrictions on genre or indie authors.Your help promoting the event is appreciated.

I’m starting the process of sending out review ARCs for A Cast of Shadows this week. If you have a review blog, and/or you’re a reader who posts reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, or Barnes and Noble, etc, and are interested in being added to the list for A Cast of Shadows, then use my review request form here.

Here is the blurb:

The strongest net is no match for destiny.

 
An Araneae Nation story.

Daraja has grown up watching her brothers journey down the river on the traditional Deinopidae rite of passage. Each returned with riches from their travels, and lovers with whom to share their lives.

Now she has reached the age where she would strike out on her own to seek her fortune—if she were male. Instead, she is expected to sit patiently, weave her nets and wait for the river to bring a husband to her.

Patience, however, has never been her strong suit.

Brynmor haunts the forest surrounding the city of Cathis, his disembodied spirit inextricably bound to the wild canis roaming his lands. Until the day he stumbles across a brazen trespasser in his woods.

Compelled to step in when the canis suspect her of poaching one of their own, Brynmor fears he has lost a piece of his ragged soul to the feisty, adventure-seeking female. And when the canis confront the real poachers, he is forced to choose which life to sacrifice. Hers…or his own.

And you can find an excerpt on my website here:https://399.621.myftpupload.com/bookshelf-2/by-series/araneae-nation/a-cast-of-shadows/