2015 Realms Faire: Riddle Me This #5 | 99c Ebook Sale

It’s the last day of the 2015 Realms Faire. There is still time to play the games and have a chance to win some great prizes.

My event is called Riddle Me This.

What the event is about: I am a book so popular they made a movie of me. Within the what if realms I lie. Horror? Fantasy? Or am I Sci-Fi? A riddle every day during the Realms Faire for you to take your best guess and have a chance to win a prize most splendid.

How you play: You play by commenting your guess of the book and author I'm talking about in the riddle. I'll take guesses for a riddle until 8 AM EST the next day. All who have guessed correctly are entered in for a chance to win a prize. Riddle answers and winners will be revealed on Monday, November 16.

Riddle #5

Mermaids, dragons, and a sphinx, oh my!

What have these magic folk gotten into?

So many riddles and mysteries swirl in his mind as

a dark lord sets to rise.

All should fear.

What book/movie am I?

Don't forget to be specific! Choosing the series won't count as a correct answer.

You have until Saturday, November 14 at 8 AM EST to answer.

The winner will get his/her selection of books by me, Cherie Reich.

Will you choose a signed print version of Once upon a Nightmare, Reborn, or People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors (US only)?

OR

Signed ebook versions of Once upon a Nightmare, Reborn, AND People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors (US/International)?

Good luck!

Please visit the other Realms Faire events.

Riddle Me This ~ Dueling Bards ~ Phasers ~ Unicorn Hunt ~ Who Roams Here? ~ Beware the Vortex ~ VelociRaffle ~ The Hero’s Dilemma ~ Stockade Brigade ~ Hall of Doors ~ The Joust ~ Drench-a-Wench/Soak-a-Bloke

Just a few days left to purchase Once upon a Nightmare: A Collection, Reborn, and People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors for just 99c a piece! Click here for purchase links.

The authors of Mayhem in the Air are on tour this week. Read excerpts from our stories, and there is a giveaway for a $40 Amazon gift card! Click here for a list of participating blogs.

2015 Realms Faire: Riddle Me This #4 | 99c Ebook Sale

The 2015 Realms Faire is under way from now through November 13 (tomorrow!). Get ready for games and loads of chances to win some great prizes.

My event is called Riddle Me This.

What the event is about: I am a book so popular they made a movie of me. Within the what if realms I lie. Horror? Fantasy? Or am I Sci-Fi? A riddle every day during the Realms Faire for you to take your best guess and have a chance to win a prize most splendid.

How you play: You play by commenting your guess of the book and author I'm talking about in the riddle. I'll take guesses for a riddle until 8 AM EST the next day. All who have guessed correctly are entered in for a chance to win a prize. Riddle answers and winners will be revealed on Monday, November 16.

Riddle #4

Pirates, royalty, and peasants gather around.

A possible marriage is doomed from the conception.

Sword fights and a man with six fingers.

Don’t fret because I will do as you wish.

What book/movie am I?

You have until Friday, November 13 at 8 AM EST to answer.

The winner will get his/her selection of one ebook by River Fairchild.

Will you choose her NA urban fantasy book Guardians of Telesma?

OR

Her horror short story collection Demon in the Basement?

Good luck!

 Please visit the other Realms Faire events.

Riddle Me This ~ Dueling Bards ~ Phasers ~ Unicorn Hunt ~ Who Roams Here? ~ Beware the Vortex ~ VelociRaffle ~ The Hero’s Dilemma ~ Stockade Brigade ~ Hall of Doors ~ The Joust ~ Drench-a-Wench/Soak-a-Bloke

Just a few days left to purchase Once upon a Nightmare: A Collection, Reborn, and People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors for just 99c a piece! Click here for purchase links.

The authors of Mayhem in the Air are on tour this week. Read excerpts from our stories, and there is a giveaway for a $40 Amazon gift card! Click here for a list of participating blogs.

2015 Realms Faire: Riddle Me This #3 | 99c Ebook Sale

It's Veterans Day in the US. Thank you to all veterans for your service.

The 2015 Realms Faire is under way from now through November 13. Get ready for games and loads of chances to win some great prizes.

My event is called Riddle Me This.

What the event is about: I am a book so popular they made a movie of me. Within the what if realms I lie. Horror? Fantasy? Or am I Sci-Fi? A riddle every day during the Realms Faire for you to take your best guess and have a chance to win a prize most splendid.

How you play: You play by commenting your guess of the book and author I'm talking about in the riddle. I'll take guesses for a riddle until 8 AM EST the next day. All who have guessed correctly are entered in for a chance to win a prize. Riddle answers and winners will be revealed on Monday, November 16.

Riddle #3

The monsters are out there,

although by the time you see them it’s too late.

The grocery store is a great place to hide.

Driving, driving, and driving.

Be sure to stop the movie before they stop the car.

What book/movie am I?

You have until Thursday, November 12 at 8 AM EST to answer.

The winner will get his/her selection of one ebook by Julie Flanders.

Will you choose her paranormal suspense/vampire book Polar Night?

 

OR

 

Her paranormal mystery/ghosts book The Ghosts of Aquinnah?

Good luck!

Please visit the other Realms Faire events.

Riddle Me This ~ Dueling Bards ~ Phasers ~ Unicorn Hunt ~ Who Roams Here? ~ Beware the Vortex ~ VelociRaffle ~ The Hero’s Dilemma ~ Stockade Brigade ~ Hall of Doors ~ The Joust ~ Drench-a-Wench/Soak-a-Bloke

  

Less than a week left to purchase Once upon a Nightmare: A Collection, Reborn, and People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors for just 99c a piece! Click here for purchase links.

The authors of Mayhem in the Air are on tour this week. Read excerpts from our stories, and there is a giveaway for a $40 Amazon gift card. Click here for a list of participating blogs.

2015 Realms Faire: Riddle Me This #2 | 99c Ebook Sale

The 2015 Realms Faire is under way from now through November 13. Get ready for games and loads of chances to win some great prizes.

My event is called Riddle Me This.

What the event is about: I am a book so popular they made a movie of me. Within the what if realms I lie. Horror? Fantasy? Or am I Sci-Fi? A riddle every day during the Realms Faire for you to take your best guess and have a chance to win a prize most splendid.

How you play: You play by commenting your guess of the book and author I'm talking about in the riddle. I'll take guesses for a riddle until 8 AM EST the next day. All who have guessed correctly are entered in for a chance to win a prize. Riddle answers and winners will be revealed on Monday, November 16.

Riddle #2

A creature that strikes fear into mortal’s hearts,

at least before the sparkly variety.

Sleeping in a coffin might be weird,

but the ladies can’t get away from his hypnotic charms.

Beware, though. He vants to suck your blood!

What book/movie am I?

You have until Wednesday, November 11 at 8 AM EST to answer.

The winner will get his/her selection of one ebook by Christine Rains.

Will you choose her paranormal romance collection The 13th Floor?

 

OR

 

Her paranormal romance/urban fantasy novel Of Blood and Sorrow?

Good luck!

Please visit the other Realms Faire events.

Riddle Me This ~ Dueling Bards ~ Phasers ~ Unicorn Hunt ~ Who Roams Here? ~ Beware the Vortex ~ VelociRaffle ~ The Hero’s Dilemma ~ Stockade Brigade ~ Hall of Doors ~ The Joust ~ Drench-a-Wench/Soak-a-Bloke

  

Just one week left to purchase Once upon a Nightmare: A Collection, Reborn, and People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors for just 99c a piece! Click here for purchase links.

The authors of Mayhem in the Air are on tour this week. Read excerpts from our stories, and there is a giveaway for a $40 Amazon gift card! Click here for a list of participating blogs.

Falling for #SpecFic: 2015 Realms Faire | Wattpad Wednesdays: Reborn Chapter 31 | Writing Update | Awesome Giveaway

The fourth annual Realms Faire is coming up November 9-13, and we have loads of events and prizes for you to participate in. Here are a few of the events coming up during the Faire.

House MPax - The Joust

So what does becoming a knight and jousting entail?

1. Spots are limited reserve your slot today! Click HERE and check off 'joining 4th annual joust as a knight. Huzzah!' or email Mary at mpaxuathor@gmail.com.
2. When you get an email from Mary, send her the name you'll joust under and 3-5 book covers. She'll send you the nifty badge and 3 magic words. The magic words are how you'll score points during the joust.
3. Send her 2 excerpts, or 2 stories of your knightly feats, or one excerpt and one story of your feats.
4. Send your friends and followers to this blog Nov. 9-13th and tell them to leave comments using your magic words. You're allowed to post exactly what they copy and paste. You're allowed to bribe. Prizes will be awarded to commenters daily on the site.

House Immortal - Beware the Vortex

Evil is afoot. Chronos has accidentally created a vortex while cleaning his hourglass, plunging a few unfortunate souls into Lucien’s Bar, gateway to the Underworld. Now they are trapped. Lucien wants to keep them but will give each hapless victim one chance to earn their freedom. His condition? Enter a contest of skills with an Immortal opponent of his/her choosing.

Do you think you can survive a swordfight with War? How about wend your way through a carnivorous garden to get to Gaia’s treehouse? Or weave a portion of the Great Tapestry of Life while avoiding Atropos’ giant pair of life-ending scissors? Perhaps you’re brave enough to challenge Death to a peanut-eating contest? Or whip up a batch of punch with Jezebel, the Master Poisoner? Do you have what it takes to win your way out of Lucien’s grasp?

Your mission: on the day you appear in the contest you will post on your own blog or gather together your Facebook and/or Twitter friends and provide a link to this blog, pleading with your loyal supporters to come to your aid at http://riverfairchild.blogspot.com/ and cheer you on to victory. Their comments will decide your fate. River will provide you with a few magic words to bolster the power of your minions. Plead well, for you will need their strength to endure. Others might seek to cast their votes with the Immortals.

Rewards? Yes! Besides winning your freedom (hopefully), each volunteer (that would be you) who is locked in the struggle will receive an Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. In addition, a few lucky commenters will be picked at random to receive a gift card at the end of the Faire.

Interested? Sign up at http://mpaxauthor.com/realmsfaire/ or email River at RiverFairchildAuthor@gmail.com.

House Geek - Drench-a-Wench

Here at House Geek, Christine is happy to be hosting a marvelous event called Drench-a-wench or Soak-a-bloke, depending on whether our dunkee is a lovely lady or handsome lord.

The rules of this event are simple.
1. Dunkees are chosen by the Untethered Realms council. None of the dunkees know they have been picked. The fun is in the surprise, after all!
2. Christine will announce a new dunkee each day of the Faire and include a link to their blog.
3. Participants will go to the dunkee's blog and soak them with blog love in the comments of their most recent post. Anyone can participate.
4. Everyone who participates is included in the daily giveaway. Oh yes, my fine friends! There will be a new giveaway every day.
5. Visit the other esteemed hosts of Realms Faire and have fun with their games. Enter to win even more prizes.

House Waibel - Stockade Brigade

House Waibel is hosting the Stockade Brigade. Warrants of arrest have been issued for select authors accusing them of witchery and wizardry. The pillory has been erected and the trial dates set.

Good people of Realmsdom, Mary calls upon you to bear witness to these trials and offer your testimony for or against the author's crimes.

Points will be awarded for wordsmithing a comment in your best Olde English afore 8 of the clock in the Eastern time on the following scale:

5-Ye speak as one from the days of Queen Bess.
4-Ye could pass muster as a Ren Faire cast member
3-Ye could pass as a Ren Faire attendee
2-Ye wouldn't be foolin' yer mother
1-Ye stand out like the sun in a cloudless sky

An e-book will be given every day to the witness who scores the most points. Fear not, your daily score will be accumulated and the person with the highest score shall receive a special prize at the end of the week. So, brush off your Olde English and prepare to testify.

House of the Hero's Dilemma

Hero's beware! Here at the House of Hero's Dilemma, a new cliff-hanging adventure will dangle new heroes above the depths of destiny or despair. In 100 words or less, a hero will face a danger in story form.

Each day, the people of Realmsdom will decide the fate of these heroes in three sentences or less. If fateful endings are giving answer in poetic form, an extra entry for prizes will be awarded.

Daily e-book prizes will be awarded via random name-pulling from the entries. Everyone is invited to participate.

People of Realmsdom, you have the power of storytelling might to decide the fate of the would-be heroes. Will they die in glory or shame, live in victory or defeat? It is up to you.

And, after you have decided the fate of the Hero's Dilemma, try your hand at the other Realms Faire Events for more fun and prizes!

House Bookworm - Riddle Me This

I am a book so popular they made a movie of me. Within the what if realms I lie. Horror? Fantasy? Or am I Sci-Fi? A riddle every day during the Realms Faire for you to take your best guess and have a chance to win a prize most splendid.

For your guessing pleasure, visit Cherie Reich's blog (here!) every day November 9-13 to make a guess and be entered for a daily prize.

Twitter Hashtag - #RealmsFaire

http://mpaxauthor.com/realmsfaire/

Read Reborn from the beginning or Chapter Thirty-One.

Happy Wednesday! Since I'm taking a few days off next week (August 26-28), I've decided to go ahead and post my writing update and September's goals. My next post after this one will be the #IWSG post on September 2.

Writing is going well. I'm keeping to my primary and secondary goals, even if most days I only get a chance to write the bare minimum (15-20 minutes in Marked and 7-10 minutes in The Mission). I'm over 20,000 words in Marked (The Fate Challenges #1.5) and over 10,000 words in The Mission (The Gaia Project #1.1).

As for editing, I hope to start the final proofread of UR's anthology Mayhem in the Air this week.

Here are my September goals:

Primary Goal = write 20-25 minutes a day. Once I finish Marked, Forged (The Fate Challenges #2) will move into the primary spot.

Secondary Goal = write 10-12 minutes a day. The Mission is currently in this spot. Once I finish the first draft of The Mission, "On Day 168" will become my secondary goal.

Finish final proofread and formatting for Mayhem in the Air.

Edit a novel for a friend.

What are your September goals?

2015 Stats (1/1/15-8/18/15): 47,192 words written and 1,176 pages edited

 

Each month, T.B. Markinson plans to give away awesome books by wonderful authors and a $5 Amazon Gift Card. It’s her way of saying thank you to all her followers and fans. Some may wonder why she is giving books away that aren’t hers. The answer is simple: She loves to read and she loves to help fellow authors promote their books. The giveaway is easy to enter via Rafflecopter. At the end of the month, one winner will be selected randomly and will receive an e-book copy of all the books below plus a $5 Amazon Gift Card. Good luck! Here are the incredible books for August’s Giveaway. My novel Reborn is one of the awesome books in this month's giveaway!

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Realms Faire: Riddle Me This (Riddle #5)

It's the last day of the Realms Faire, an annual event originally created by M. Pax. This year I'm hosting Riddle Me This. Read the riddle. In the comments, make your guess. All correct responses will be entered in to win the last daily prize. I will accept entries for this last riddle until Monday, November 17 at 8 AM EST. I will announce the winners on Wednesday, November 19.

The answer for Riddle #4:

Dryad

Riddle me this:

I am a hybrid creature,

half-deer, half bird.

My shadow displays who I used to be,

depending on what source you read.

What am I?

The correct responses will be entered in a drawing to win the ebook

More Games! More Prizes! Visit other Realms Faire events for more fun and chances to win more prizes: Joust ~ Soak-a-Bloke/Drench-a-Wench ~ Riddle Me This ~ Dueling Bards ~ Stockade Brigade ~ Phasers ~Dragon Hunt ~ Wisdom of the Creative Realms ~VelociRaffle ~ Live Performance / Cody Sill: Into Oblivion

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Amazon / Google Play / iTunes / Kobo / Nook / OmniLit / Smashwords