GIVEAWAY CLOSED. WINNER: LUCKY #15! LEE ANN FROM TEXAS! WHOOT!
I want to do some fun giveaways to help celebrate the pending release of Dowser 5. So this is the first of two.
Who from the USA would like to win a Kindle and an eARC of Dowser 5?
Sorry international readers, due to shipping/ordering this giveaway is open to the USA only BUT next week’s (July 20 – 23) giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY.
You would?
Okay then!
To enter:
- Comment below with your favourite quote from any of the Dowser books, making sure to note which book the quote comes from and why you’ve picked it.
Notes/Rules: GIVEAWAY OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES ONLY. Each comment will be assigned an entry number. The winning entry will then be selected via random number generator. One entry per person. Please make sure to fill out a valid email address in the comment form. Email addresses are not collected for any purpose other than notifying the contest winner. If you haven’t commented on the blog before, or if you comment from a different IP address, the comments are moderated. So don’t worry if you don’t see your entry right away. I will approve it, then assign it an entry number. Contest closes SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2015 at 9 p.m. PDT. NEW TO THE DOWSER SERIES BUT YOU STILL WANT TO PLAY ALONG? Dowser 1 is currently perma-free on all retailers.
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Even chocolate can’t save the day every time
Entry #1. Thanks for playing. 🙂
I love all the chocolate references. One of my favorites if from the most recent book, Shadows, Maps and Other Ancient Magic. “but as long as I had my chocolate stash and a good friend to back me up, I was willing to give it a try.”
Entry #2 – Whoot!
“Jade is the new black, baby,” I said. “You should see my toes.”
Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic
Entry #3 – one of my favs!
Totally lol. I love green. Doing my nails green tomorrow, sparkly beetle shells & mermaid scales (jamberry)
“The healer wants to bed you,” Drake said. His tone suggested he was mystified by this discovery.
‘Drake!” “What did I use the expression incorrectly? The healer wants to take you to bed? To his bed?” the fourteen-year-old continued. To have sex, you know.”. Makes me laugh to know boys are the same in any world!
Entry #4 – yes, LOL!
“The evidence obviously points to you, but you don’t seem right … you are very … blond.”
Entry # 5 – I love that entire conversation. I just recorded it for the audiobook. 🙂
Oh jeez 😛 forgot about that one lol
We were crafted by our choices,after all. Even the ones everyone knew were wrong. Dowser #2
Love that it is good to be in control , even if you know you are wrong .
Entry #6 – Oooh! Good one. I haven’t read Dowser 2 in awhile, so I didn’t immediately recognize it.
“I think I was in your coat earlier,” I said. “Just in case an alarm got set off or something. That was me.” from Shadows, Maps and Other Ancient Magic.
Lol, I’m sorry you were what?
Entry #7 – hee hee. I love writing Jade.
Lol oh yea that was awkward
“They tasted like dark, fruity chocolate — more berry than citrus, with earthy undertones like red wine or truffles. ” I have always loved this quote from Cupcakes, Trinkets, and other Deadly Magic. It’s one of the first sexy chocolate moments for me lol.
Entry #8 – ‘sexy chocolate moments’ – hmmmm….
“Unity in a Cup” Molten dark chocolate cupcake covered in garnache with a dollop of mint ice cream. “I’m thinking of calling it Unity in a Cup.” “Screw that,” Kandy said, her mouth full. “It’s a freaking orgasm in a freaking cup.” Dowser 3
Entry #9 – I want that cupcake so bad. LOL
From Treasures and other black magic….
I’d always made terrible pie. I brushed off inadequacy by claiming that there just wasn’t enough chocolate in pie to hold my attention.
Entry #10 – There isn’t enough chocolate in pie!!!! LOL
What about chocolate silk pie. Mmmmmmmm. My favorite
“I’ve got you covered, Jade. Ask away. I studied magic and dead things my entire childhood. When, you know, the parents thought I might come into some actual talent. That included a lot about vampires.” Rusty, Dowser 1
I’m reading Dowser 1 again and that literally made me lol. My degree is in forensic biology, when people ask me what that means, I always say I work with dead people. I’m a but morbid like that!
Entry #11 – LOL!
From Shadows, Maps and Other Ancient Magic –
“I’ve got this thing for kissing inappropriate men in inappropriate situations…and places. You game?”
Entry #12 – ah, Jade 😀
Yes. That was the one I was trying to think of. Love it
“But then, all the chocolate the pantry held usually distracted me as well.” Dowser 4 Shadows, Maps and other Ancient Magic.
Chocolate distracts me too. 🙂
Entry #13 – Me too! But only if I don’t have enough. HA.
Drake didn’t mind being in the open air, though I had to pull over and berate him for jumping in and out of the truck while we were moving. This maneuver had startled Amber so badly that she actually shrieked, then wept a little when the adrenaline surge wore off.
from Dowser 3 Treasures, Demons and Other Black Magic.
Entry #14 – Drake rocks in Dowser 3. I was so glad he was there otherwise there wouldn’t have been any fun bits in the first half.
“A dragon was cooking pancakes in my apartment kitchen.” From Shadows, Maps and Other Ancient Magic
Its one of my favorites because I really liked Warren and I want Jade to finally have someone
Entry #15 – <3 Warner <3 sigh. 😀
Yes. 🙂
“Never is a boring word” from Dowser 3
I chose this quote because if urges you to try new things and really live life!!!
Entry #16 – I said this yesterday to Michael – ha!
I wasn’t sure I could handle the responsibility, but as long as I had my chocolate stash and a good friend to back me up, I was willing to give it a try.
Entry #17 – 🙂
“A dragon was cooking pancakes in my apartment kitchen. Badly.” – Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic
I know it’s been posted before, but I love the idea of a dragon in a kitchen trying to cook. And not doing it well. 🙂
Entry #18 – 😀 ha!
“Take me home, little witch. I like the way you dance.”
Oh Hudson….what a damn shame. Dowser 1 – Cupcakes, Trinkets and Other Deadly Magic.
Entry #19 – HUDSON!!! 🙁
Damn shame 🙁
“The vampire stood at the door to my bakery.”
I’m horrible at choosing quotes from books, but I have to say the first line from the first book is my favorite, because it started it all. 🙂
Entry #20 – 🙂 I loved coming up with this opening line. It launched a series!!
Kandy looked up at me with a genuine grin — not her predator smile. “Life is short. You should enjoy it more.”
Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic
Entry #21 – Kandy does rock 🙂
“Life is short. You should enjoy it more” Dowser 2 Trinkets, Treasures and Other Bloody Magic. I love this quote because it is just so true. We all get so caught up in the things we can’t change or that we need in the future that we forget to enjoy what we have now.
Entry #22 – This is something I always need to remember!!
“A vampire stood at the door to my bakery.” Because it’s the start of a grand adventure.
Great, now I have to come up with a different one.
“Ah, damn. Dragons only got all preachy right before they kicked my ass.”
Entry #23 – two quotes work 😉 I especially like the second one. Hee hee. Jade figuring things out.
“I was pretty sure he was going to eat me, but only after he played with me for a while. And not in a satiating, mutual bliss sort of way. This one liked to hunt, and he kept what he killed.” Sexy Hudson!!! Cupcakes, Trinkets, and other Deadly Majic.
Entry #24 – yes, indeed. 🙂
“The vampire,” I sighed.
“And you were… what? Giving him a blow job in the bathroom stall?”
“Yes, sienna. I was giving a vampire a blow job, because that’s all vamps really want from a girl.”
Dowser 1, I just think it’s funny!
Entry #25 – I love that scene 🙂
“Yes, Sienna. I was giving a vampire a blow job, because that’s all vamps really want from a girl.”
Dowser 1
Entry #26 – 😀
“Life is a lesson.” Brandon says this in book 4 when he and Jade are fighting / training. I think it sums up Jade`s life very well, and shows you a lot about the dragons. And it’s definitely deep. Something you can think about when things aren’t always going your way. What are you going to learn? Great books. Can’t wait for the next one.
Entry #27 – poor Jade, all she does is ‘learn’ but that’s the way of it for all of us, isn’t it?
Book 4: “Beware the sleeping dragon in the bakery kitchen” . I loved all the books but this one was my favorite and “beware the sleeping dragon” was so foretelling. I can’t wait to read #5.
Entry #28 – very foreshadowy! 😀
“Are you wearing one of the three ways to kill a guardian – an ancient relic of grave importance – as a bracelet? A now soaking wet bracelet?”
So typical of Jade! Shadows, Maps and Other Ancient Magic
Entry #29 – love, love that line. It came to me in the first draft and stayed all the way into the final proof.
I struggled with the well of emotion a bit longer, then finally gave into the tears, allowing them to stream silently down my cheeks. I banged my head lightly back against the tree trunk and gritted my teeth. “I hardly knew him,” I finally cried. My voice was far too loud in the stillness of the trees. “He had that effect on people,” Desmond murmured, but he still didn’t look at me. He didn’t seem uncomfortable; more respectful than judgmental.
Sorry to get heavy but this paragraph breaks my heart every time I read Dowser 1. It’s always the what could have beens. Oh, Hudson.
Entry #30 – Hudson, sigh. That would have been a very different series …
“…I smiled, as I always did as I crossed through the heart of my bakery.” from Jade on page 13 of Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic. Why? Because we all need a happy place and the bakery is Jade’s.
Entry #31 – Indeed! I had to give her something!!
“Then chew it, swallow it and move on” Audrey, Book 4.
One of my best friends is a huge fan of the saying, “put your big girl panties on,” to people who (frankly) need to be told that. This reminds me of her and yet puts it in far more contemporary terms. I may adopt it as my counterpart to hers panties phrase.:)…
Entry #32 – I loved this scene with Audrey … it revealed so much growth on both her and Jade’s parts.
“Tell me what it is. What its function is, dowser,” Blackwell said. “And I will set you on your sister’s trail … if you’re up for it.”
Dowser 3 – Treasure, Demons and other Black Magic
Entry #33 – this is an interesting choice 😀 I wonder if you are a Blackwell fan? Or?
My favorite quote is from Dowser #2. Jade sees Desmond in his cat form and his nakedness for the first time and she thinks to herself, “the hair on his head was darker than his tawny cat fur, but a similarly colored dusting of hair covered his chest, down his insane abs, and through to his… Well. I seriously hoped he was a shower, not a grower, because… err…. for his girlfriend’s sake of course… not me-“. To my surprise, this lead to the steamiest make out session of any book I have read. Which was one of my favorite moments from the series, but I also chose this quote because it shows Jade’s bold personality. She is my favorite fictional character. Jade is such a badass female lead, and a feminist. She is even a bit perverted (which I love). Her sexual comments out of the blue make her so much more charming, real, and relatable. I want to be Jade’s best friend which is not something I normally feel towards book characters. Thanks for creating such an amazing and dynamic character, Meghan. Also, thank you for these steamy scenes. I would love a full on sex scene in the next book… A girl can hope. 😉 Regardless, I can’t wait to get my hands on Dowser 5.
Entry #34 – 😀 I have so much to say … but I can’t do anything more than simply grin at you for this quote 😀 hee hee. I hope you like Dowser 5 😀
Oh man, there are so many good quotes because these are such fantabulous books!!! Since Shadows, Maps, and other Ancient Magic (Dowser #4) is the most recent book I have read I am going to have to quote from that.
Between Desmond and Jade:
“I absolve you,” he said.
That stopped me in my tracks. “Excuse me?”
“You heard me.”
“What, are you a priest now?” (-Love this line!!!-)
He glowered at me, clenching and unclenching his hands. “Imaging strangling me isn’t going to help with whatever lame diplomacy you’re going for, Desmond.”
He growled. A low rumble that spread through the entranceway. I swear I could feel the granite tiles vibrating underneath my bare feet.
“You invaded my home – ”
“You thought I invaded your home.”
“Who was that dragon?” He didn’t mean Pulou or Qiuniu. He’d already met or seen both of them in Tofino ten moths ago.
He couldn’t figure out if he wanted to strangle me for almost getting Kandy killed, or whether he wanted to own me. He was still jealous. Jesus, shapeshifters and their freaking territory issues. (-Love this sentence too!!!!-)
Entry #35 – hee, hee I liked both those bits a well.
“Don’t let the blondness fool you, fledgling. The witch stabbed a nine-hundred-pound grizzly in the ass today. She just keeps her claws better hidden and painted pink.” ~said by Kandy about Jade in Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic, Dowser #2.
I love this quote because it describes Jade perfectly. She’s a bad ass in a cute cupcake facade.
Entry #36 – Yes!!
Shadows, Maps and Other Ancient Magic: Dowser 4
Desmond speaking to Jade
“The life you put in jeopardy”
“No.”
I loved that one “No.” it was a line that Jade’s entire character had a shift, a growing and acceptance into her own.
Entry #37 – I thought this was a great moment for Jade … a moment to move through and into the next two books.
I love all the back and forth between Jade, Kandy, Kett and McGrowley so it was hard to choose. But here’s one I really appreciated,
“You have remained silent for three minutes, dowser,” Kett said. “I believe that might be a record of some sort.” Great, the vampire was attempting a joke. I was fairly certain that was one of the signs of the apocalypse.”
Can’t wait til next week for Book #5!
Sherry
I forgot to include the book in my comment — it was from Book 2 “Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic”.
Entry #38 – Kett joking. Hee hee. It always throws Jade.
🙂 totally
It doesn’t help that your idiom is all at once playful, esoteric, and, at times, bemusing.
Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic
I really like the word esoteric….lol
Entry #39 – I like that word too, but I never get to use it.
Trinkets, Treasures and Other Bloody Magic,
I see the bond is misfiring again.”
I love this because, what in the name of God, bad timing clock does Kett have.
I am still holding out for Desmond. LOLOLOL
Entry #40 – Or Kett’s timing is perfect (according to him) 😀
Someone needs to stand guard for them if there is ever a next time. 🙂
I’m seconding “Never is a boring word.” It rings true to my own life philosophy of taking (sane by my own definition) risks and facing fears and seeking adrenalin-charged moments in order to grow. If I could, though, I’d just quote the entire series. Your books are stunning.
Entry #41 – I’m trying to live a bit more like this as well … though not so adrenaline-charged. Chocolate fuelled, for sure! Ha!
Ah. It has been too long since I read Dowser 1, the only one I have had time for so far 🙁
I do remember the very beginning with the vampire thinking about coming inside or not. I need to get back to reading!
Hi Edith 🙁 Sorry. I give away Dowser 1 for free all day/every day (right now) so I can reserve these big giveaways for my lovely readers. But this giveaway is open until Saturday at 9pm PDT. Maybe you will have a bit of time to pick up Dowser 1 and see if anything stood out to you? 🙂
“He just hung on chewing, waiting for me to drop from his damn venom shit. It takes more than that to get me on my back.” from the first Dowser book, Cupcakes, Trinkets and other Deadly Magic, its my favorite because I literally LOL’d. I loved the flirty banter between Jade and “McGrowly”
Entry #42 – hee hee.
I know someone already commented with it but I just love this one from Shadows, Maps, And Other Ancient Magic:
Jade is the new black, baby,” I said.
It just cracks me up that she says it while sparring.
Entry #43 – I have that nail polish!! 🙂
“Baking? Baking?” He echoed, getting angry now. “The warrior’s daughter, the treasure keeper’s hunter, bakes? Bakes what?”
Entry #44 – Oh, God. I loved this. Poor Warner. 450 years out of time and he meets Jade and Kandy first thing. ha!
🙂 yes
“Hello, Game of Thrones,” I muttered. “Someone wants their costume back.”
From Dowser 4…because I love sarcasm.
Entry #45 – I almost took this line out, but I’m glad I left it in!
I love game of thrones:D
“Hey,” Kandy said. “Aren’t I supposed to get chocolate if you’re going to force girly talk on me?”
“I’ll buy,” I answered, crossing my heart with my index finger. “Your choice, ASAP.”
“I’ll use my Google-fu while you compare lists with the vampire and find another sorcerer for us to freak out.”
I laughed. “Good plan.”
Dowser 3.
So much <3 for Kandy
Entry #46 – <3 Kandy <3
“Okay,” Kandy continued. “Well, if he tries to kill me …”
“I’ll skewer him. Dragon or no.”
“Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic.” Everyone needs a friend who would skewer a dragon for her.
Entry # 47 – yes!!
“And you were … what? Giving him a blow job in a bathroom stall?”
“Yes, Sienna. I was giving a vampire a blow job, because that’s all vamps really want from a girl.”
Dowser #1
What can I say? Love a smart mouth!
Entry #48 – one of my fav bits of Dowser 1
My grandmother often dropped in when I was baking as I still did five out of seven days a week. She said watching me bake was like watching an adept witch work a spell. Flattery will get you treats from me every time.
Dowser 1.
Entry #49 – 😀
Hudson was standing next to McGrowly, both of them watching me leave. Hudson looked regretful, but he smiled when I turned back. McGrowly barked something at him that made his grin disappear, and he dropped my gaze. The green-haired girl was perched on their table, but at a nod from McGrowly, she slipped off toward the staff exit. (I love the whole dance scene, but this is where jade first calls Desmond mcgrowly lol) and is it sad I’m more excited for a chance at an eArc then for a kindle? Lol
Entry #50 – ha! You can always regift the kindle 😀
“I was perfectly happy being utterly wrong. Because it was my choice leading me this time.”
From Trinkets, Treasures, and other Bloody Magic #2
I chose this saying because we all must make our own choices in life even if they are the wrongs ones as long as we believe that they are right.
Entry #51 – so true!
“I’m cute and fearless, and you’re obsessive and grumpy … in really tight leather pants.”
Dowser 4.
I love this girl’s attitude, and hoping that after the fails with Hudson and Desmond she finds a man/dragon who can warm her bed.
Entry #52 – love this!
“Yeah, maybe I deserved their nasty shit, but I wasn’t going to take it.” – Dowser 3.
I picked this, because while Jade was feeling horrible about having to hunt her sister, & failing several times in their battles, she fought on. And that fight meant not being the dumping ground for anyone.
Entry #53 – beginning of a turning point for Jade that continues through Dowser 4 – 6!! 😀
“I would never have you do anything you didn’t want to do. One first juice, then. But not our last.” – Hudson
From “Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic.”
This quote hurts my heart and really makes me wish that things had worked out between them (in an alternate universe).
Entry #54 – Gah, I still cry every time I read the scenes with Hudson!
He had time to frown before I plastered my
lips across his. It wasn’t a soft kiss. It was a terrified, lost,
I-just-almost-drowned-and-can’t-find-my-friends kiss. -Dowser #2. Really this whole scene was hott (not enough room, ha) and I can’t wait to read what happens with Warner!! Clearly, I need some chocolate.
Entry #55 – hee hee, chocolate always helps me get through writing ‘these’ scenes. 🙂
I’m sure I left a comment entry, but I don’t see it posted. Did I do something wrong?
Hi Laurah! You commented on Giveaway #2. I’ll run the random number generator for that tomorrow evening. 🙂