Happy holidays! Silver Publishing wants to give our fans more than 60 chances to win either a free Holiday Story from our 25 Days of Christmas Releases or for a lucky random five 20% off codes! And if you are really dedicated there is a Word Scramble included that will provide a discount for titles purchased during the last week of December!To make it even more exciting, the authors participating may offer new and interesting content or contests of their own to help distract from the frantic pace of the holidays.So, how does it work?In a nutshell: Find all the snowflakes every day, email us atpromotions@spsilverpublishing.com with the author name/date for each snowflake you find, check our blog daily to see if you won and then use the pertinent snowflakes to spell out an additional discount code to use at the end of the month.Not in a nutshell: Participants go to the following blogs every day in December and find the hidden snowflakes. There will be at least two, sometimes three snowflakes to be found among the list of facebook/blogs/websites below for our authors. The snowflake will look like a variation of this:

Find them all for the maximum amount of chances to win.

Once you find the snowflake, note the letter, number or character as well as the numerical indicator (if present) on the snowflake for the scramble. The numbered snowflakes will line up to spell out your discount code.

Email us at promotions@silverpublishing.com with the name of the blog/website where the snowflakes were hidden on that date.

Important email format: Please put only the name of one author and the date in your subject line – for maximum chances to win, each snowflake/author found should be its own email for an increased daily chance to win.

If your email subject line includes the correct answer you will be entered into a random drawing to win the Christmas Release for the day you found the snowflake. There will be at least 2 winners per day; five days there will be 3 winners.

Winners will be notified in our new BLOG here: http://bit.ly/Wi7uyq = (bookmark this link so that you can check back each day.) If you are the winner for that day, email us with your email address and format desired to promotions@silverpublishing.com so that we can get your prize to you quickly.

Helpful hints: Some authors will have more than one snowflake during the event. But authors will only post one snowflake per day so search them all every day. Don’t leave any out for maximum chances to win.

Once you have found all the snowflakes, line up the letters, characters and numbers based on the numerical indicator (when present) to spell out our Holiday message and receive a discount code that will be active from Dec 25 – 31st.

Not every participating author has a Holiday release but you’ll want to collect the snowflake on their site for another chance to win the story being released that day. And…they might have one of the five valuable discount snowflakes we’ve hidden with your chance to win that day.

If the authors are running additional contests, take advantage for additional ways to win throughout the month.

Here is your list and GOOD LUCK!

Azura Ice – author of Wrapped Around Your Handlebars
Link: http://bit.ly/TQx5tz

Ashlynn Monroe – author of A Most Unexpected Gift
Link: http://bit.ly/Tktv9O

SJD Peterson
Link: http://bit.ly/TKh8mv

EM Lynley
Link: http://bit.ly/QlFDMi

Gregg A. Endless
Link: http://bit.ly/SUVXPH

Elinor Gray
Link: http://bit.ly/Xmt06v

Emma Paul
Link: http://bit.ly/105QUBM

Caitlin Ricci
Link: http://bit.ly/T8FWt6

Vona Logan
Link: http://bit.ly/U737nB

M.A. Stacie
Link: http://bit.ly/S25gA1

Dawn H. Hawkes
Link: http://bit.ly/SUWfpG

Meredith Russell
Link: http://bit.ly/QPvCae

R.J. Scott
Link: http://bit.ly/UMshK8

Lisa Worrall
Link: http://bit.ly/RKzzKe

Trillium
Link: http://bit.ly/Uyvhnv

Jessica E. Subject
Link: http://bit.ly/XQIgaW

RC Bonitz
Link: http://bit.ly/T3dRjD

Lexi Ander
Link: http://bit.ly/TQylNf

Sarah Bella
Link: http://bit.ly/Q2OBwD

William Cooper
Link: http://bit.ly/Q1QWb8

D. McEntire
Link: http://bit.ly/U0T8Ow

T. C. Archer
Link: http://bit.ly/ZPeanw

Tarah Scott
Link: http://bit.ly/S5NQ3S

The Mischief Corner
Link: http://bit.ly/WjBZnv

Lily Harlem
Link: http://bit.ly/T8sdSe

Maria MoonStar
Link: http://bit.ly/U0QJDC

S.A. Garcia
Link: http://bit.ly/Q1RgXj

Marie Ashley
Link: http://bit.ly/QlHvVl

Eve Tesoro
Link: http://bit.ly/RKyiCQ

Silver Blog
Link: http://bit.ly/Wi7uyq

Azura and I have decided to launch a contest for our Sky Streamers Series published by Decadent publishing.

1. Contest runs from August 22, 2011 to midnight December 11,2011.

2. Visit the contest page on both Azura’s site and Maria’s site.

3. Answer the question on both author’s sites.

4. Both questions must be answered and included in an email.

5. Send your answers to each question in one email to azura.ice@live.com

6. Put VENUS in the subject of your contest email.

If you haven’t already visited Azura’s site for her question here is the link to her website http://ablueice.wordpress.com

 First prize: one winner will receive a $40 amazon.com gift certificate just in time for Christmas.

 Second prize: author swag and an e-copy of Sacrificed, book two, when it is published.

 Question for Maria’s site:

Where are Venus and Jaxxon when they make love for the first time?

]]> http://mariamoonstar.com/2011/08/sky-streamers-contest/feed/ 0 http://mariamoonstar.com/2011/02/conquering-venus/ http://mariamoonstar.com/2011/02/conquering-venus/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:32:51 +0000 maria http://mariamoonstar.com/?p=52 Conquering Venus Blurb

Strangled by the sun’s heat and ravaged by the human race, Earth is dying. Now, three-hundred years later, with Bone Eaters scavenging Earth’s surface and few true humans left, the Ruling Body of Planets has decided to send male and females to Earth to re-populate it and save extinct plants and animals. Utilizing time travel, these extraterrestrials go back in time to retrieve people and re-introduce them to the world as they re-build and re-populate the planet too.

Venus Dalshvire, the daughter of murdered scientists, is alone with only her dog for company. Barricaded in a bank building, Venus raises a garden on the rooftop and scavenges during the heat of the day to avoid the Bone Eaters. When two beautiful brothers with odd tools and weapons show up to claim her as their mate, she’s secretly pleased but desperate to maintain her independence too. However, Venus has a problem. She hasn’t been with a man for years and their touch prompts desire in her unlike any she’s ever felt before.

Planet Azutu, the first to send males to Earth, gives brothers Volund and Jaxxon the initial mission. Equipped with Earth’s entire history and plenty of tools to help them survive, the brothers arrive in a small, desolate town near a Great Lake. Upon finding a silver-blonde female, each man knows Venus is a lovely mate. The dilemma, however, is that they both want her. Will their passions tear them apart, or can they find a way to share and love as a threesome?

Cowboy Rubies

Co-author: Azura Ice

In a western-style world with steam-powered contraptions and amazing inventions, there’s been tentative peace between the Moon Wolves and the Life Drinkers. Kyle Vanderbelt is the Conclave’s Resolution Agent, who finds himself on an unexpected mission that could spell war between the two clans. The ancient rubies, gemstones that control the balance of both werewolves and vampires, have been stolen. Scott Bashian is one of Kyle’s comrades and the alleged thief. It’s Kyle’s job to track him down and return the gems to the Conclave before war breaks out. Only the magic of the Ruby Moon God can keep peace, but both clans believe the god is nothing more than legend.

While traveling the wastelands, Kyle encounters Jaburn the Drainer, the lowest form of Life Drinker imaginable and the murderer of Kyle’s family. Jaburn’s gang leaves the taint of blood in their wake, and, following the scent, Kyle discovers the Moon Wolf, Sheriff Shades Hollowvale, left for dead in a cave.

Kyle and Shades join forces to solve the ruby theft, but unexpected twists in the case leads Kyle and Shades on a journey that nearly annihilates everyone in the town of Hellbent. Through a fiery encounter in the desert, Kyle and Shades discover there’s more to the ruby theft than they ever suspected. Can Kyle and Shades’ love endure, or will the true power behind the gems and the Ruby Moon God destroy them?

Coming Soon to Decadent Press

Sky Streamers Series

Book One: Conquering Venus

SFR

Time Travel

Steampunk

Cyberpunk

science fiction, paranormal, and erotic

come together.

The night is my friend,

where stars and the moon sing to me.

Maybe put this picture if you can on it?