Sunday 13 November 2016

Today is Dreamless Roads book video trailer day!

PLEASE NOTE!

Dreamless Roads is NOT in the RRBC catalog as Jan is the only author writing in this anthology who is a member.
YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE RRBC CREDIT
for reading this book!
THANK YOU. 


Today's the day that #RRBC’S HOLIDAY TRAIN “BOOK TRAILER” BLOCK PARTY rolls onto the Dreamless Roads' YouTube video page. 


Today I'm giving away the following FAB PRIZES in the daily visitor draw

$20£ AMAZON GIFT CARD


ZAZZLE ERGONOMIC OR REGULAR DREAMLESS ROADS MOUSEMAT




VISTAPRINT DREAMLESS ROADS DESK CALENDAR


If you'd like to win one of these prizes please


CLICK HERE

and leave a comment on the page to be entered into the prize draw!

 While you’re there, take a moment and actually view the trailers, leave comments, hit the “THUMBS UP” button and then share the trailer all over social media!  If the trailer entices you to do so, then hey, run over to Amazon and buy the book or gift it!!!  After all, it is the season for giving, you know! Each stop that you leave a comment on, you will be entered into the random drawing for that author’s DAILY GIVEAWAYS!  At the end of the 30 day tour, if you have left a comment anywhere along the way, your name will be entered into a drawing for our grand prizes below:
-1st/Grand Prize:  $50.00 Amazon Gift Card
-2nd/Grand Prize:  “SPOTLIGHT AUTHOR” slot along with 1 FREE 60-second commercial ad on one of our RAVE WAVES BlogTalkRadio Shows;
-3rd/Grand Prize:  #PUSHTUESDAY win & 2 Books of your choice from the Kathryn C. Treat Book Giveaway Treasure Chest;
-4th/Grand Prize:  A *LIVE* interview on an upcoming segment of a RAVE WAVES BlogTalk Radio Show promoting your book of choice.
Now, let me explain this very important part of the tour once more:
*How do YouTube visitors enter to win prizes?
*Each time a Block Party Participant or visitor leaves a comment on a YouTube trailer stop, his/her name will be entered into the drawing for our Grand Prizes at the end of the tour; 
*Each time a visitor or Participant leaves a comment on a YouTube trailer stop, his/her name will beentered into the drawings for DAILY PRIZES at each stop
Comments will be collected at each trailer stop by 12 midnight, CST, (at the close of each day) and winners will be announced the very next day!  Winners of the GRAND PRIZES will be announced at on December 15, 2016.   (Daily Giveaways are open to the general public).

Monday 15 August 2016

RRBC 'Back-to-School' Blog & Book Block Party 2016

Today the DREAMLESS ROADS BLOG (and head elf Jan Hawke aka Siân Glírdan) is delighted to be the sole hosting venue for

RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB'S

Back-to-School Book and Blog Block Party!


RRBC is offering great grand prizes to visitors on all of the participating blogs. Each time you leave a comment on a blog stop, your name is entered into the Grand Prize drawing at the end of the tour. Winners will be announced by RRBC at the close of the tour.

For the complete tour lineup and prize details

 You are currently somewhere near 

 LAUNCESTON in North Cornwall, UK 


BUT FIRST here are our...

GRENDEL-ICIOUS GIVEAWAYS!

(we're happy to arrange shipping outside the UK!)

For AUGUST 15TH only we have some 

BRILLIANT PRIZES FOR 3 LUCKY VISITORS WHO LEAVE A COMMENT HERE...

(CLICK BELOW for some PURE AND IMAGINATIVE music while you're browsing!)



 1ST PRIZE ~ S.J. Francis! 

A $10/£10 AMAZON eGIFT VOUCHER



 2ND PRIZE ~ John Howell! 

A basic white or black Dreamless Roads T-shirt from ZAZZLE!
(email us back with your size: small - 4XL and your snail mail address & phone details)


Dreamless Roads background design & main titles


 3RD PRIZE ~ Shirley Harris-Slaughter 


Your choice of a regular or ergonomic Dreamless Roads mouse mat (similar design to the Tee)


  
 


 SPECIAL BONUS GIVEAWAY
 TODAY ONLY! 


Kindle edition of DREAMLESS ROADS ~ a fantasy anthology


 FREE ON AMAZON KINDLE 


all day 15th August!


 IMPORTANT! 

I've got 3 short stories in Dreamless Roads, including the main title BUT it is NOT listed for review on RRBC, because there are non-member authors involved ~ please do leave a review anyway if you're so moved...




And now a bit more about these DREAMLESS ROADS...


Paperback also available at all good online stores, or by ISBN in your local high street


Join us on the Dreamless Roads where we step across the threshold into the unknown to discover words that have turned into worlds of imagination, legend and, of course, fantasy. Commune with your inner elf, or dwarf, quest with heroes and warriors, and cross the borders into the land of gods and dragons ~ and the past and future realms of possibility and adventure.

 AND HERE'S OUR  BOOK TRAILER! 





CLICK HERE for fuller story blurbs


CLICK HERE for more about the Authors



BOOK LINKS



 EXPLORING THE DREAMWORLDS 

 with the DREAMWORLDS WRITERS & PUBLISHING COLLECTIVE 


An Anthology is by its nature a collaborative, even an emotional exercise, so, besides having a look at our authors, here's an illustrated guide to the inspiration of classic and original fantasy backgrounds  that got our DreamWorlds Writers Collective off the ground...

A lot of us started our love affair with fantasy at an early age, reading C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. Here's that one-armed lamp-post where Lucy met Tumnus at the height of White Witch Jadis' demonic 100 year winter


And of course it's only a hop, skip and a jump from Narnia to Lewis' fellow 'Inkling', J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. This is the first of many vistas that have inspired our artistic types from his creation of Arda.
With a basis in Nordic legends the people of Middle Earth also fuelled creativity in fan art, as we see here in a depiction of Dwarvish seeker-sense for identifying precious ores and gems!

But fantasy is within us as well and colours our imaginations in the waking world, as well as our dreamscapes, where leafy paths might lead to romance and magical encounters
Then there's the hoopier realms of fantasy, like Discworld, that dare to pose questions like... Does the Chaos Butterfly do its best work in a fragrant meadow, or some exotic ornamental garden?


For this forest in miniature the Lands of the Fae prompted a nursery rhyme spoof...

Fairy, Fairy, so contrary, 
how does your forest glow? 
With leafy dells or dusky spells 
and tiny barbs shot from a bow?

Or at the other end of the scale, a great honking mountain in British Columbia, Canada suddenly becomes a dead ringer for a peak in the Misty Mountains (but with the sun out!)

We even ask ourselves what the Elven Havens in the Gulf of Lune have in common with villas on the French Riviera and Norwegian Fjords...

Folklore and ancient cultures also beg the question of what delights a Druid with a silver sickle might discover around a creeper-covered oak tree...

The familiar can also take on an otherworldly cast so you find yourself wondering whether grass can grow beyond the final frontier? Would it still be green or greener yet?

Or pondering on the ambient life-forces of plants and stones being revealed to the Witch Peoples by light of Moon or Sun.

A quiet early morning stroll, where a tangle of Travellers Joy, lit by glinting hoar-frost in a wintry sunrise, can beguile your eyes into an enchanted wonderland.

In fact fantasy's whatever you fancy and doesn't have to have wall to wall Witches, Alien abductions, Vampires, Barbarians, Pixies, Ghosts or Dragons - it's just there in the corner of your eye, or a blink away from a daydream. We all know that truth is stranger than fiction, and so it is with our inner world, where what's on the surface may have nothing much to do with what's lurking deep down below it...

The DreamWorlds Writers and Publishing Colective is open to writers of all genres, fiction or non-fiction who are interested in sharing their views - whatever planet that happens to be on!

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS



LinkedIn  

Website    



For more info on our next anthology project (scheduled for end 2016)

THE QWORKS ~ CLICK HERE 




 HAD FUN HERE? 


This party is also being going on in two other blogs today, so boogie on over to

Creativity and Inspiration with a Smile/Lizzie Chantree


and


CLICK HERE
for links


 TO OUR OTHER PARTY VENUES 

 THIS AUGUST 



AND FINALLY
as the Sun descends into the Far We
st...

 SUIL VAIN! 


Sindarin ~ Fair Winds






(and we'll play you out with a celebration of Dreams and The Cranberries!)

Monday 28 September 2015

The RRBC BACK-TO-SCHOOL BOOK & BLOG BLOCK PARTY POST

Today the DREAMLESS ROADS BLOG (and head elf Jan Hawke aka Sian Glirdan) is delighted to be the sole hosting venue for

RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB'S
Back-to-School Book and Blog Block Party!

RRBC is offering great grand prizes to visitors on all of the participating blogs. Each time you leave a comment on a blog stop, your name is entered into the Grand Prize drawing at the end of the tour. Winners will be announced by RRBC at the close of the tour.
For the complete tour lineup and prize details

 You are currently somewhere near 

 LAUNCESTON in North Cornwall, UK 


BUT FIRST here are our...

GRENDEL-ICIOUS GIVEAWAYS!

(we're happy to arrange shipping outside the UK!)

For SEPTEMBER 29th only we have some 

BRILLIANT PRIZES FOR 6 LUCKY VISITORS WHO LEAVE A COMMENT HERE...

(CLICK BELOW for some WILD & 'GLORIOUSLY' FANTASTIC music while you're browsing!)


 1ST PRIZE goes to D.E. HOWARD 

A basic white or black T-shirt from ZAZZLE!
(email us back with your size: small - 4XL and your snail mail address & phone details)


Dreamless Roads background design & main titles


 2ND PRIZE goes to C.S. BOYACK 

A signed paperback (by author/editor Jan Hawke) of Dreamless Roads
(email us back with your snail mail address and preferred dedication!)



 3RD PRIZES go to 
 LISA KIRAZIAN, JANELLE JALBERT & NATALIE DUCEY 

3 eBook editions of Dreamless Roads ~ a fantasy anthology

(email us back with your eReader preferences we will send you the ePub or PDF version)


 4TH PRIZE goes to TARA FAIRFIELD 

An exclusive printed desk calendar from Vistaprint 
with the same photo stock used on the DreamLandscapes 2011 calendar
(email us back with your snail mail address & phone details)



And now a bit more about these DREAMLESS ROADS...


Paperback also available at all good online stores, or by ISBN in your local high street


Join us on the Dreamless Roads where we step across the threshold into the unknown to discover words that have turned into worlds of imagination, legend and, of course, fantasy. Commune with your inner elf, or dwarf, quest with heroes and warriors, and cross the borders into the land of gods and dragons ~ and the past and future realms of possibility and adventure.

 AND HERE'S OUR BRAND NEW BOOK TRAILER 

 OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED TODAY! 




CLICK HERE for fuller story blurbs


CLICK HERE for more about the Authors



BOOK LINKS




 EXPLORING THE DREAMWORLDS 

 with the DREAMWORLDS WRITERS & PUBLISHING COLLECTIVE 


An Anthology is by its nature a collaborative, even an emotional exercise, so, besides having a look at our authors, here's an illustrated guide to the inspiration and fantasy backgrounds that have got our DreamWorlds Writers Collective off the ground (also it features  the imagery for that 4th prize desk calendar!).

A lot of us started our love affair with fantasy at an early age reading C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. Here's that one-armed lamp-post where Lucy met Tumnus at the height of White Witch Jadis' demonic 100 year winter

And of course it's only a hop, skip and a jump from Narnia to Lewis' fellow 'Inkling', J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, so this is the first of many vistas that have inspired our artistic types from his creation of Arda.
With a basis in Nordic legends the people of Middle Earth also fuelled creativity in fan art, as we see here in a depiction of Dwarvish seeker-sense for identifying precious ores and gems!

But fantasy is within us as well and colours our imaginations in the waking world, as well as our dreamscapes, where leafy paths might lead to romance and magical encounters
Then there's the hoopier realms of fantasy, like Discworld, that dare to pose questions like... Does the Chaos Butterfly do its best work in a fragrant meadow, or some exotic ornamental garden?


For this forest in miniature the Lands of the Fey prompted a nursery rhyme spoof...
Fairy, Fairy, so contrary, 
how does your forest glow? 
With leafy dells or dusky spells 
and tiny barbs shot from a bow?

Or at the other end of the scale, a great honking mountain in British Columbia, Canada suddenly becomes a dead ringer for a peak in the Misty Mountains (but with the sun out!)

We even ask ourselves what the Elven Havens in the Gulf of Lune have in common with villas on the French Riviera and Norwegian Fjords...

Folklore and ancient cultures also beg the question of what delights a Druid with a silver sickle might discover around a creeper-covered oak tree...

The familiar can also take on an otherworldly cast so you find yourself wondering whether grass can grow beyond the final frontier/ Would it still be green or greener yet?

Or pondering on the ambient life-forces of plants and stones being revealed to the Witch Peoples by light of Moon or Sun.

A quiet early morning stroll, where a tangle of Travellers Joy, lit by glinting hoar-frost in a wintry sunrise, can beguile your eyes into an enchanted wonderland.

In fact fantasy's whatever you fancy and doesn't have to have wall to wall Witches, Alien abductions, Vampires, Barbarians, Pixies, Ghosts or Dragons - it's just there in the corner of your eye, or a blink away from a daydream. We all know that truth is stranger than fiction, and so it is with our inner world, where what's on the surface may have nothing much to do with what's lurking deep down below it...


The DreamWorlds Writers and Publishing Collective is open to writers of all genres, fiction or non-fiction who are interested in sharing their world views - whatever planet that happens to be on!



SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS




LinkedIn  

Website    


For more info on our next anthology project (scheduled for end 2016)

THE QWORKS ~ CLICK HERE 




 HAD FUN HERE? 


This party is still going on tomorrow, September 30th, so boogie on over to

As The Spirit Moves Me


and


CLICK HERE
for links


 TO OUR FINAL PARTY VENUES 

 THIS SEPTEMBER 



AND FINALLY
as the Sun descends into the Far We
st...

 SUIL VAIN! 


Sindarin ~ Fair Winds





(once again the superb Earth, Wind and Fire sum up a whole genre!)