Musings & more….
I’m going to ask Elizabeth Mackey to design a couple of Kandy’s new T-shirt designs from Misfits, Gemstones, and Other Shattered Magic (Dowser 8). Personally I’m pretty set on NEEDING Mory’s for myself. 😂 But I’m thinking of only doing two for now, and was wondering if you all had a preference?
You can find the currently available designs here: Adept Universe T-shirts. Plus copious information about shipping/sizing.
[June 12, 2018: Updated with actual photos of prizes!!]
The preorder giveaway for Misfits, Gemstones, and Other Shattered Magic (Dowser 8) is a BIG box of swag!!
In the big box:
Some close-ups:
To enter: email proof of preorder or library request/reservation and your preferred email address to preorder@madebymeghan.ca
Proof of preorder: email a screenshot and/or your actual electronic receipt (with any personal information struck out, if you wish). Please include your preferred email address. The preorder inbox WILL NOT be closely monitored. If the random number generator selects your entry and you’ve forgotten to attach or forward your preorder receipt then your entry will be skipped over. Email is the only way that preorder giveaway entries will be accepted.
ETA: LINKS ARE NOT AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF ENTRY. Only an account holder can see the receipt on their own account (links go nowhere for anyone else). Only screenshots and forwarded receipts will qualify. PLEASE GOOGLE HOW TO TAKE A SCREENSHOT.
Library reservation/request option: it may take a few weeks for your local library to get access to the preorder of Misfits, Gemstones, and Other Shattered Magic (Dowser 8) via Overdrive (or wherever else they get their ebooks). If that is the case, please feel free to email proof of reserving/requesting the any of the Dowser Series novels. All my ebooks are available to libraries for free via Library Direct, Baker & Taylor Axis 360, and Odilo. As well as Overdrive (though they charge libraries a minimum price).
Notes/Rules: OPEN INTERNATIONALLY. Every entry that follows the above guidelines will be entered to win the swag box. One entry per person. One winner will be selected by random number generator. Email addresses are not collected for any purpose other than to contact the winner. No purchase necessary (see library reservation option).
Giveaway closes THURSDAY JUNE 28, 2018 at midnight PDT.
AMAZON – iBOOKS – KOBO – BARNES & NOBLE – SMASHWORDS
Are you new to the Adept Universe? Book one is Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1).
Click here for the reading order of the Adept Universe.
I thought it might be fun to tie a giveaway to the preorder period of the release of I See Us (Oracle 3). So from now until October 6, 2016 anyone who preorders or reserves/requests the book from their library will be eligible to win a set of autographed Oracle Series paperbacks (ebooks pictured above) and/or an autographed Oracle meme postcard and a butterfly temporary tattoo (samples in picture below).
AMAZON – iBOOKS – KOBO – SMASHWORDS – B&N (coming soon)
To enter to win a set of Oracle Series paperbacks and/or an Oracle meme postcard, email proof of preorder or library request/reservation and your mailing address to preorder@madebymeghan.ca
Proof of preorder: feel free to email a screenshot and/or your actual electronic receipt (with any personal information struck out, if you wish). Make sure to include your mailing address, please.
Library reservation/request option: it may take a couple of weeks for your local library to get access to the preorder of I See Us (Oracle 3) via Overdrive (or wherever else they get their ebooks). If that is the case, please feel free to email proof of reserving/requesting any of the books in the Oracle Series. All my ebooks are available to libraries for free via Overdrive, Library Direct, Baker & Taylor Axis 360, and Odilo.
Notes/Rules: OPEN INTERNATIONALLY. Each email will be assigned an entry number in the order they are received. One winning entry will then be selected via random number generator to win the paperback giveaway. Thirty (30+) entries will be selected by random number generator to win a postcard and a tattoo. One entry per person. Email and mailing addresses are not collected for any purpose other than notifying the contest winner. No purchase necessary (see library reservation option).
Each email will be acknowledged within 72 hours. If you do not receive an acknowledgement please feel free to resend.
Contest closes AFTER THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 2016.
AMAZON – iBOOKS – KOBO – SMASHWORDS – BARNES & NOBLE
GIVEAWAY CLOSED: WINNERS TBA
I’m giving away three Attempted Murder T-shirts today! This is the third of six giveaways to help celebrate the release of Dowser 6 on May 5, 2016.
Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic (Dowser 6) is currently available for preorder on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.
Unfortunately, this giveaway is only open to shipping addresses within the USA due to Amazon Merch shutting down their international shipping. Hopefully they will resolve this issue sooner than later! Because as of right now, even I can’t get anymore of my own T-shirts!
So … would you like to win a T-shirt?
To enter all you need to do is comment below and let me know:
Notes/Rules: OPEN TO SHIPPING ADDRESSES IN THE UNITED STATES ONLY (Again, my apologies. The T-shirts were supposed to be available internationally). Each comment will be assigned an entry number. THREE winning entries 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 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 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016 at 8 p.m. PDT.
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You can find all three Dowser/Oracle T-shirts here.
PS. They fit small. Seriously small. I know I keep repeating myself, but please, please trust me!
GIVEAWAY CLOSED: THREE WINNERS TBA
I’m giving away three Cake in a Cup T-shirts today! This is the first of six upcoming giveaways to help celebrate the release of Dowser 6 on May 5, 2016.
Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic (Dowser 6) is currently available for preorder on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.
Unfortunately, this giveaway is only open to shipping addresses within the USA due to Amazon Merch shutting down their international shipping. Hopefully they will resolve this issue sooner than later! Because as of right now, even I can’t get anymore of my own T-shirts!
So … would you like to win a T-shirt?
To enter all you need to do is comment below and let me know:
Notes/Rules: OPEN TO SHIPPING ADDRESSES IN THE UNITED STATES ONLY (Again, my apologies. The T-shirts were supposed to be available internationally). Each comment will be assigned an entry number. THREE winning entries 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 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 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016 at 8 p.m. PDT.
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You can find all three Dowser/Oracle T-shirts here.
PS. They fit small. Seriously small. I know I keep repeating myself, but please, please trust me!
It’s completely and utterly insane that it’s December 1st today … that it is late afternoon on December 1st!
I knew it was December 1st this morning because Michael woke me up at 4:30 a.m. singing Christmas carols. There is a ban on carol singing before December 1st in this household, which he finds fairly impossible to adhere to. He then put eggnog in his coffee, took a swig, and declared that he was going to put eggnog in his coffee for every 31 days in December.
Yes, at 4:30 .a.m. Though it might have been 5 a.m. at that point.
Then we drove onto a ferry in the pitch dark to take my dad to the dentist.
After a stop at Starbucks, where Michael drank a second eggnog latte and declared “no more coffee for me today,” we drove dad home. Unfortunately, he didn’t provide us with any drugged up footage liable to viral on YouTube. I gather they didn’t sedate him enough at the dentist. 😛
Then I chatted with Caitlin Davies about narrating the audiobooks for the Dowser Series. She seems lovely, and I think she will do a great job of voicing Jade. She is currently recording Dowser 1, which will be released on January 26, 2016. YAY!
In other news, the black printed, Attempted Murder T-shirt is currently listed as unavailable. Amazon Merch has gotten hit and is limiting orders. As soon as they get things sorted on their end it will be available again. All the other designs are currently available.
I See You (Oracle 2) is inches away from being uploaded, all ready to be released on December 17, 2015. It’s currently available for preorder, and if you’re on my new release mailing list, I will drop a reminder in your inbox on the day.
To celebrate December 1st, Michael strung coloured lights around the chicken coop run and lit our first fire in our little cabin. I’ll snap a picture of the coop when we head out to put the chickies to bed, then publish this post.
Time to start baking for Christmas! What are your go-to recipes this time of year?
Bonus shot:
ETA. I just caught Michael pouring himself more coffee and eggnog, so I guess his ‘no more coffee today’ edict didn’t hold. LOL
There were treats waiting for me in the mailbox today. T-shirts! Two for Michael and three for me.
They smell slightly of vinegar from the printing process but a quick wash should take care of that. I <3 them. Thanks to Elizabeth Mackey for her design prowess!!
GIVEAWAY CLOSED. Winner: Lucky #45, Avanti from Indiana!
Last but not least! Cake in a Cup!
This logo makes its appearance in the Dowser series (of course), but the actual T-shirt is due to show up in I See You (Oracle 2). Here’s a sneak peek of the scene:
Chi Wen, the far seer of the guardian dragons and my old-as-ass mentor, had apparently decided that his typical gold-embroidered white robes and sandals would stand out too much in Yachats. So he was now clothed in a baby blue, oversized short-sleeved T-shirt emblazoned with a fuchsia pink Cake in a Cup — Taste the Magic logo. The shirt hung almost to his knees, his cargo pants ended at his lower calves, and he was wearing black combat boots to complete the ensemble. – I See You (Oracle 2)
Three guesses as to who dressed Chi Wen. 😛
The logo also appears in Jade’s bakery in the Dowser Series, as well as on Blossom’s apron in Dowser 5!
Note the chocolate cosmos. 🙂
I made the ‘Cake in a Cup’ T-shirts available in white printing as well as pink printing in the maximum colours I was allowed by the retailer (five). They are printed on fitted American Apparel T-shirts and THEY FIT SMALL!! Elizabeth is wearing an XL in the picture, and she usually wears a medium. I knew this about the American Apparel T-shirts (I also wear an XL) but I really like the fabric and the flattering fit. The site suggests going up a size – based on their sizing chart I’m a large – so please check the sizing.
GIVEAWAY
Would you like to win an ‘Cake in a Cup’ T-shirt?
You would?
Okay then!
To enter the giveaway all you need to do is:
Notes/Rules: OPEN INTERNATIONALLY. Each comment will be assigned an entry number. ONE 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 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 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2015 at 8 p.m. PST.
More giveaways coming through December to celebrate the release of Oracle 2!!
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GIVEAWAY CLOSED. Winner: Lucky #9 Michelle from New Jersey!
So just to add another glitch in this T-shirt launch week, the design I intended to release today has disappeared from Amazon. Yep. It’s been there for over two weeks all ready to go and now it is gone. The helpful people at Amazon Merch are looking into the issue, so hopefully it will be available by Saturday. Or I’ll have to re-upload, not sure yet.
So … we are out of order then. Skipping over to the Oracle Series.
… *SPOILER ALERT* … … *SPOILER ALERT* …… *SPOILER ALERT* …
This is Elizabeth’s and my interpretation of the ‘Chicken Butt’ T-shirt that Kandy wears to visit Rochelle and Beau in I See You (Oracle 2).
Beau stopped a few feet away from Kandy. She eyed him but didn’t change her stance. She turned to look at me, dropped her folded arms, and nodded. “Oracle.”
I swallowed. “Kandy.”
Her goldenrod T-shirt was printed with a picture of a chicken and the question, ‘Guess What?’ in green lettering. A red arrow was pointed to the chicken’s back end. Someone had used a black fabric marker to add a second arrow that pointed to an additional squiggle of black just behind the chicken.
Kandy also wore three-inch-wide gold cuffs on either wrist. These were inscribed with symbols and edged with hundreds of what looked like tiny diamonds. They were like something that belonged in ancient Greece, not on the skinny, muscled arms of a werewolf.
“I don’t get it,” I said, with a nod toward her T-shirt.
Kandy’s grin widened. “The shirt was a gift from the dowser, but it needed a little something.”
“Chicken butt,” Beau said. “Guess what, chicken butt?” His arms were loose at his sides, but he’d widened his stance as if he was expecting to be attacked.
“Guess what, chicken shit?” Kandy added. Her answer was full of laughter that was more threatening than joyful.
– I See You (Oracle 2)
I made the ‘Chicken Butt’ T-shirts available in black printing as well as white printing in the maximum colours I was allowed by the retailer (five). They are printed on fitted American Apparel T-shirts and THEY FIT SMALL!! Elizabeth is wearing an XL in the picture, and she usually wears a medium. I knew this about the American Apparel T-shirts (I also wear an XL) but I really like the fabric and the flattering fit. The site suggests going up a size – based on their sizing chart I’m a large – so please check the sizing
The T-shirts are available at Amazon.com (via Amazon Merch), shipping to over 75 countries with taxes and duties added at check-out but before you purchase. They aren’t currently available at any of the other Amazon stores because they’re printed in the USA.
Also there is one more T-shirt design to come, so you may wish to hold off any purchases until you’ve seen them all. 😀
GIVEAWAY
Would you like to win an ‘Chicken Butt’ T-shirt?
You would?
Okay then!
To enter the giveaway all you need to do is:
Notes/Rules: OPEN INTERNATIONALLY. Each comment will be assigned an entry number. ONE 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 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 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2015 at 8 p.m. PST.
Check back here on Saturday, November 28th for the final T-shirt reveal and giveaway [hopefully].
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GIVEAWAY CLOSED. WINNER: LUCKY #51, CASSIE from TEXAS!
A couple of months ago, I decided I wanted to do an extra fun giveaway for the release of I See You (Oracle 2). This idea involved Elizabeth Mackey designing a T-shirt that appears in the book. Then I decided if I was getting Elizabeth to design a T-shirt I might as well make it available to anyone who wanted to buy it.
And if I was going to take the time to figure out where to get T-shirts printed (etc), then why not get Elizabeth to do up three designs?
Because three is always better than one, right?
Well, yeah!
In this case, at least. 😀
So without further ado, this is Elizabeth’s and my interpretation of the ‘Attempted Murder’ T-shirt that Jade wears to go dancing in Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1).
I pulled a hand-painted silk jacket over my ‘Attempted Murder’ T-shirt — it has two crows on it; think about it — and a pair of Seven jeans. The jacket was the nicest and most expensive thing I owned. Sienna was out in the living room chatting with Rusty, though I couldn’t specifically distinguish his voice. They sounded far, far away, and I thought then I might still be shocky despite the hot shower. I strapped my knife back at my hip and took a deep breath.
It was just dinner and dancing. – Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1)
By the way, the flowers in the design are the chocolate cosmos that Jade grows on her balcony. And, as I reveal the designs for the next two T-shirts, the cosmos will show up again. Yep, branding. 🙂
I made the ‘Attempted Murder’ T-shirts available in black printing as well as white printing in the maximum colours I was allowed by the retailer (five). They are printed on fitted American Apparel T-shirts and THEY FIT SMALL!! Elizabeth is wearing an XL in the picture, and she usually wears a medium. I knew this about the American Apparel T-shirts (I also wear an XL) but I really like the fabric and the flattering fit. The site suggests going up a size – based on their sizing chart I’m a large – so please check the sizing.
The T-shirts are available at Amazon.com (via Amazon Merch), shipping to over 75 countries with taxes and duties added at check-out but before you purchase. They aren’t currently available at any of the other Amazon stores because they’re printed in the USA.
N.B. If you do choose to grab a T-shirt for your very own, please DO NOT buy the T-shirts appearing in the also bought section on the Amazon page. Those T-shirts are not actually supposed to be available for purchase, the logos are too large. There is a currently a glitch in Amazon’s system that they are working to resolve.
Also there are two more T-shirt designs to come, so you may wish to hold off any purchases until you’ve seen them all. 😀
GIVEAWAY
Would you like to win an ‘Attempted Murder’ T-shirt?
You would?
Okay then!
To enter the giveaway all you need to do is:
Notes/Rules: OPEN INTERNATIONALLY. Each comment will be assigned an entry number. ONE 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 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 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2015 at 8 p.m. PST.
Check back here on Thursday, November 26th and Saturday, November 28th for more T-shirts and giveaways. Yay!
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