Mystery Boxes: final round: Archivist Series

I’ve made ten Archivist Series Mystery Boxes available in my store. $60 CDN with CDN and USA shipping included. Click the previous link for more info and/or to purchase.

Each box includes 2 autographed Archivist paperbacks, Awakening Infinity, plus either Invoking Infinity or Compelling Infinity, and 3 MCD bookplates.

Note: Sorry!! I’m all out of extra swag!

I’ve included Canadian and USA tracked shipping in the price, approx. $26. I’m NOT offering other international shipping because it costs too much, $65-$125. If you live closer to me the shipping might be less, so I’ll try to compensate by adding swag (if I have enough!)(I’ll email and let you know if that is the case).

If you get a paperback you already own, maybe pop over to the reader-run fan group on Facebook and see if you can negotiate a swap?

Warning: I have now pretty much cleared out my cupboard. These are the last of the autographed paperbacks I will offer for the near future (likely for the rest of 2022). I won’t be giving away paperback bundles for the next few book releases either. Just FYI. The shipping is too outrageous internationally these days, and I don’t like limiting giveaways to USA/CANADA only.

Note: same caveats as always: please remember I’m not a store. I’ve simplified the shipping, etc, as much as possible. For example: set shipping rates, no extra sets, no special orders. Please remember I’m trying to write as much as possible and these are just meant to be fun extras. The prices are set in Canadian currency (which means some of you are getting a great deal!) so a different charge might show up on your credit card statement. Also, I believe there is a 2.9-5.5%+ $0.30 charge for certain payment methods.

Fun! Fun!

Amplifier 5: with or without blades

I’m working through a smoothing pass on the fourth draft of Instincts and Imposters (Amplifier 5) over the next few days, then the book goes off for line and content editing. I came upon this little snippet in a brand new section that I wrote based on the story editor’s notes. It made me smile, so I thought I should share.

It’s just so … Emma.

“Dream walker,” she said in that clipped accent. “The Dunkirk coven is well known for its dream walkers. Yet you choose the Godfreys for your foundling.”

I considered decapitating her.

I didn’t even need my blades, I could —

Aiden squeezed my hand, amusement rolling off him.

Right. Witch games.

– Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5), fourth draft

No release date yet! But I’ll have the preorder up sooner than later … just as soon as I get all the scheduling lined up.

Amplifier Series: wallpapers: Emma & Paisley

Memo, the illustrator who has been drawing all the character sketches for the Adept Universe bible (find the others at the bottom on the Extras page), made some wallpapers of Emma and Paisley from the Amplifier Series! The Amplifier Series officially starts with Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1), but there is also a prequel novel and novelette, both are found in The Amplifier Protocol. Memo formatted both wallpapers for Android, iPhone X, older Phone, and tablet/desktop. Clicking on the corresponding link below each sketch should take you to the full-sized image, and there you can download it to your computer/phone/tablet.

Michael already has Paisley on his phone (he demanded that I airdrop it to him immediately upon seeing it). It looks seriously cool.

*Emma, always primed to kick some ass! Illustration by* Memo.

Click on the link to download Emma for Android, iPhone X, older iPhone, Tablet/Desktop (landscape).

*Paisley, in full demon dog mode! Illustration by* Memo

Click on the link to download Paisley for Android, iPhone X, older iPhone, Tablet/Desktop (landscape).

I pulled some ‘How To’s’ off the web as well, but please do a little Googling if you need more help (I’m not a tech guru by any means):

How to download an image onto my Android device.

How to download an image onto my iPhone. < this is a really old article but I believe it still works.

How to download an image onto my desktop.

Feel free to share these images on your social media pages as well. You can use the tags: #AdeptUniverse or #AmplifierSeries or #MeghanCianaDoidge, etc, etc. And tag me! I’m @MeghanCianaDoidge on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. @mcdoidge on Twitter.

Oh! Watch this space for the preorder notice for the next book in the Amplifier Series, Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5) coming VERY SOON!!

Are you new to the Adept Universe? Book one Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1) is currently FREE on all retailers. Click here for the full reading order.

Mystery Boxes: round three: random Adept Universe

I have successfully gotten all of the last round of Mystery Boxes packaged and labeled. They just need to be dropped at the post office. Yay!

I then PREPACKED (look at me being all efficient!) ten more Mystery Boxes! And made those ten random Adept Universe Mystery Boxes available in my store. $45 CDN+ CDN and USA shipping included. Click the previous link for more info and/or to purchase.

Each box includes 1 autographed Dowser or Oracle or Misfits paperback, 1 sheet of Cake in a Cup stickers, 1 MCD bookplate, and 6 butterfly Oracle series temporary tattoos.

Note: I’ve thrown extra stickers into the box with Dowser 8.5 because it is slightly skinnier than the other novels.

I’ve included Canadian and USA tracked shipping in the price, $24. I’m NOT offering other international shipping because it costs too much, $65-$125. If you live closer to me the shipping will be less, so I’ll try to compensate by adding more swag (I’ll email and let you know if that is the case).

If you get a paperback you already own, maybe pop over to the reader-run fan group on Facebook and see if you can negotiate a swap?

Next up: Archivist series paperbacks. Warning: And then I will have cleared out my cupboard!!

Fun! Fun!

Mystery Boxes: round two, Amplifier Series

The boxes showed up!! YAY!

I’ve made ten Amplifier Series Mystery Boxes available in my store. $45 CDN+ CDN and USA shipping included. Click the previous link for more info and/or to purchase.

Each box includes one autographed Amplifier Series paperback, three oracle card stickers (I’ve randomized it so you get a fun mini reading with your package), one MCD bookplate, and a random postcard.

I’ve included Canadian and USA tracked shipping in the price, $24 (and ironically removing one paperback only reduced the average shipping rate by $2)! I’m NOT offering other international shipping because it costs too much, $65-$125.

If you get a book you already own, maybe pop over to the reader-run fan group on Facebook and see if you can negotiate a swap?

Next up: random Dowser, Oracle, and Reconstructionist paperbacks. Warning: I don’t have very many!!

Fun! Fun!

Dowser 1: annotated paperback giveaway

GIVEAWAY CLOSED. LUCKY #30 had been emailed.

So … I shot a bunch of videos on Sunday that pretty much just consisted of me annotating a copy of Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1) and … well, filming it. I plan to cut up the video and make a bunch of promotional reels, etc, with it (with quotes, music, etc) to post to various social media sites. But now I am left with an annotated copy of Dowser 1.

So … I was wondering if any of you would like it for your shelves?

Yes?

Okay!

To make sure that this goes to a true Dowser series fan, otherwise, I put a lot of time into it and shipping is expensive … comment below with your favorite Jade quote or moment or scene from the Dowser Series and WHY it’s your favourite.

Any entries NOT following the entry requirement will not be counted. I might actually delete them just to keep my numbers accurate for the random number generator. I’m sure you understand why it would be better for the annotated copy to find a home with someone who actually wants it. For anyone new to the series, and/or the Adept Universe as a whole, the first book is currently free to download on all retailers. YAY!

Comments on other social media sites will not be counted. Just comment on this blog post to enter, thank you very much!

And I’m keeping the giveaway open for a week to give everyone time to enter. That means that even if you haven’t read a single Dowser book yet, you have a chance to download Dowser 1 for free – or get any Dowser book from your library – read and enter! Whoot!

I WILL NOT be doing a lot of physical giveaways this year, just FYI. Shipping from Canada (and even through Canada) has become crazy expensive.

Notes/Rules: OPEN INTERNATIONALLY. One entry per person. One winner will be selected by random number generator. Only entries that follow the stated requirements will be valid. Email addresses are not collected for any purpose other than to contact the winner. No purchase necessary – all my books are available for free via your local library. The comments are moderated. I will approve your entry just as soon as I have a moment to do so.

Giveaway closes MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2022 at 8pm PDT.

Are you new to the Adept Universe? Book one is Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1). Click here for the full reading order.

Mystery Boxes – round one, Amplifier Series

NOTE: 2:41pm PDT, Sat, June 11: Sorry! These sold out in less than 15 minutes. As soon as I get more boxes, I’ll put up another set. But I WON’T continually offer autographed paperbacks, the shipping is just too expensive. If there is interest, I’ll do swag boxes for the release of Amplifier 6 (late-2022). And I have a Kickstarter coming up for a 10th Anniversary edition of Dowser 1 in 2023 (hardcover and eBook). And international readers (who like paperbacks) remember that I occasionally offer bookplates!!

I’ve made five Amplifier Series Mystery Boxes available in my store. $58 CDN+ CDN and USA shipping included. Click the previous link for more info and/or to purchase. [I’m seriously hoping I figured out how to post a product without adding shipping – fingers crossed].

Each box includes one autographed The Amplifier Protocol paperback and one other autographed Amplifier Series paperback, three oracle card stickers (I’ve randomized it so you get a fun mini-reading with your package), three MCD bookplates, and a random oracle card postcard.

I’ve included Canadian and USA TRACKED shipping in the price, and I am so sorry that the price is so high ($25.13 – 27.23 CND and 24.00 – 27.68 USA of the $58 is just to cover the shipping costs). I’m NOT offering other international shipping because it costs too much, $75-$150.

Once I get my hands on more boxes, I will do a few more ‘Mystery Box’ offerings until I run out of my available stock. Also, I’ll offer single paperback boxes next to help lower the price. I’m clearing out my shelves. Yes, I’m in a bit of a mood. You should see how clean and tidy the tea drawer is, the spice cupboard is next! LOL

If you end up getting a book you already own, maybe pop over to the reader-run fan group on Facebook and see if you can negotiate a swap?

Fun! Fun!

The great mystery of the missing rollerball insert.

A pile of notebooks (for MCD’s Echo Saga space opera side project) along with a rollerball pen.

Me: *after returning home from picking up a prescription and some sugar so I can bake cookies later**so now totally exhausted, of course*: I can’t find my rollerball pen insert. It was right here, right beside my notebooks. I brought it inside along with the pen because I was fairly certain the ink was running thin in the pen. I left it on the kitchen table, made a bunch of notes, ate lunch, ran out to the pharmacy/store, and now I’m sitting back down to research transmutation and thusly noticing that the pen is indeed running a little thin on ink. And I’ve looked for the insert. I swear I’ve looked everywhere. And now I’m getting a trifle concerned that the puppy might have eaten it. Like it rolled off the table at some point, and I didn’t notice because I was playing with my notebooks and building a lexicon, and Molly Millions gobbled it up. Oh God, should I mention it to Michael? No, keep looking. *Gets attacked multiple times by said puppy while crawling around on the floor under the table and while attempting to look under the couch.* Shake out the notebooks. Again. No insert. Okay. Pile the notebooks neatly just in case the insert is hiding – stop, that’s the fourth time you’ve done that Meghan! There is no pen insert anywhere on the table or the floor! It’s in the puppy’s belly! You’ve poisoned Molly! Okay, Okay. Just breathe. If Molly ate the insert, then what? Can she actually pass it? Or if punctured, and you know she punctures everything, is it enough ink to poison her? Should I call the vet? Okay, calm down. Don’t mention it to Michael. Yet. Google it. Okay, Google. Right. That’s easier done on my laptop.

*puts Molly on a leash. Heads outside to my office shed. Momentarily held up by puppy, who suddenly wants to play, then finally manages to hook her on her outdoor run leash thingy and make it into the office*

*Walks up to desk*

“Looks down*

A ballpoint pen, a mechanical pencil, an eraser, and … wait for it … a rollerball pen insert.

Also me: Right. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Apparently, I DIDN’T bring the insert inside with me.

Not as much of a mystery, or possible deadly poisoning as I thought. But, hey? Solved it.

😂

In other news, Recon Misson: Bee (Amplifier 5.5) is off to SFG (aka the editor) for story edit (along with the notes from the sensitivity reader, Natasha Lane), and auditions are slowly coming in for the audiobook. I ran a poll in the reader-run fan Facebook group and discovered that a few lovely readers would still like to purchase Adept Universe sticker sets, as well as six-packs (without foil) of the character cards I’m slowly designing with Memo’s sketches, so I’ll try to have some of each in my store by the end of the month. And it is possible I’ll do a foil card option as well, just because I want it. Ha.

Until the editor drops Instincts and Imposters (Amplifier 5) back in my inbox, I’ll probably work on my space opera side project, the Echo Saga, for the next couple of days. I already have the first two episodes (a novella and a novelette) written.

It’s not even noon and I’m exhausted.

It’s been taxes, taxes, taxes around here – Michael is in the process of adding his receipts to the excel document we forward to the accountant so I’m off the hook for a few hours, hence the list of other things I’m working on today (see below). Why is it that jumping focus between projects is so draining? You’d think it would be the opposite, be invigorating.

[Deleted: a minor freak out about taxes, needing to spend less and release more books – MCD].

It’s Tuesday, May 31, 2022 … seriously? Crazy.

Here is a list of all the things I’m working on but can’t show you yet. And yes, I’m suffering. You know how I hate holding anything back. 😂

Gene Mollica Design has finished the cover art for Amplifier 5 and it is freaking gorgeous. Might be my fav of the series yet. Though I’m seriously partial to the cover for Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2). They are starting on the art for book six now. Yep, I’m getting everything lined up!

The audition call is about to go out for a narrator for Zans’ novella: Recon Mission: Bee (Amplifier 5.5). Tia will be voicing Amplifier 5, of course, but Zans needs her own voice. I’m working with Tia’s engineer, Julie, at Whole Story Studios instead of doing the casting/producing/etc myself. So I can keep focused on the writing!

Memo is working on some illustrations for the Amplifier series. She’s done Paisley (including wallpapers for you to download – squee!) as well as Emma. And she is working on Aiden, Christopher, and Opal. I’ll get to share those soon.

The editor (aka SFG) is doing his story edit pass on Amplifier 5, and will also story edit Amplifier 5.5 once we get notes from the sensitivity reader, Natasha Lane. As soon as we get through this stage, I’ll be able to firm up release dates.

Note: I’m going to release Amplifier 5.5 separately in eBook and audiobook (because of the different narrator) but combine them in paperback (since the printing costs are already so expensive!).

A glimpse into the editing process: a page from MCD’s Amplifier 5 notebook. Aka working out the blood tattoo sequence for the rest of the Five and hoping I’m not screwing up the canon at the same time. Note the liberal use of white-out. LOL

Amplifier 5.5: got something better to do?

Wow! Two updates from me in two days! I’m feeling rather productive!

I just sent Recon Mission: Bee (Amplifier 5.5) aka Zans’ novella off to the sensitivity reader, Natasha Lane. And I’ll forward her notes along with the manuscript to SFG (the editor) once she turns around on her read. Yay!

I’ve also started a search for a Black female narrator for the audiobook. Tia Rider will continue to narrate the main Amplifier series books – double yay!

And! Gene Mollica Studios has all the particulars for the book cover, so hopefully, I’ll start to see art soon as well. I’m excited!!

This is all a long-winded way of saying, I’m most definitely avoiding doing my taxes. Ugh. And now, I really don’t have any excuses. Sigh. Though I am going to play around with one of my Space Opera ideas, and brainstorm/outline Amplifier 6 over the next couple of weeks as well.

Oh! [I announced this on social media already] The sticker sets have all been mailed (as of late last night). Still waiting for the next round to be delivered to me, then I’ll relist.

How about a Zans snippet to celebrate? [I absolutely adore all the Fish/Zans interaction in the novella!]