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Only 3 months until CIRCLE OF SHADOWS! Win an autographed ARC & a leather poisons satchel!

@EvelynSkyeYA

@EpicReads

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The Crown's Fate Giveaway

2 months until THE CROWN'S FATE: Win Nikolai's Faberge-style egg & #TheCrownsFate ARC! @EvelynSkyeYA @EpicReads

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Pre-order #TheCrownsFate by @EvelynSkyeYA & you can get stickers, a bookmark, & an Alternate Ending! Details: evelynskye.com/pre-order

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Join the Blizzard: SPRING

WINTERIANS!

Spring has sprung.

Yeah basically.

But! This also means! A contest!

And what better counter to Spring’s heinousness than a GIVEAWAY for an ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT!

The FIRST ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT, no less!

I KNOW RIGHT

This one is simple: to enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below. Contest runs March 21-April 4, with the winner announced April 5. Open internationally. 

Good luck, ya’ll.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Join the Blizzard: SPRING

WINTERIANS!

Spring has sprung.

Yeah basically.

But! This also means! A contest!

And what better counter to Spring’s heinousness than a GIVEAWAY for an ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT!

The FIRST ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT, no less!

I KNOW RIGHT

This one is simple: to enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below. Contest runs March 21-April 4, with the winner announced April 5. Open internationally. 

Good luck, ya’ll.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Join the Blizzard: SPRING

WINTERIANS!

Spring has sprung.

Yeah basically.

But! This also means! A contest!

And what better counter to Spring’s heinousness than a GIVEAWAY for an ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT!

The FIRST ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT, no less!

I KNOW RIGHT

This one is simple: to enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below. Contest runs March 21-April 4, with the winner announced April 5. Open internationally. 

Good luck, ya’ll.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Join the Blizzard: SPRING

WINTERIANS!

Spring has sprung.

Yeah basically.

But! This also means! A contest!

And what better counter to Spring’s heinousness than a GIVEAWAY for an ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT!

The FIRST ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT, no less!

I KNOW RIGHT

This one is simple: to enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below. Contest runs March 21-April 4, with the winner announced April 5. Open internationally. 

Good luck, ya’ll.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Join the Blizzard: SPRING

WINTERIANS!

Spring has sprung.

Yeah basically.

But! This also means! A contest!

And what better counter to Spring’s heinousness than a GIVEAWAY for an ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT!

The FIRST ARC of FROST LIKE NIGHT, no less!

I KNOW RIGHT

This one is simple: to enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below. Contest runs March 21-April 4, with the winner announced April 5. Open internationally. 

Good luck, ya’ll.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Eeeeeeep!!!!

Join the Blizzard: WINTER

WINTERIANS!

The first day of winter fast approaches – which means it’s time for another Join the Blizzard contest! And being as this is the WINTER contest, this one is EPIC, guys. 

If you’re just tuning in, the Join the Blizzard contests are seasonal ways for SLA fans to win fun goodies and help build the big crazy blizzard that is the SLA fandom! For this contest, it’s simple – fill out the Rafflecopter form below. 

Due to the impending Christmas holiday, this contest is short and sweet: contest runs Dec 15-21, with the winner announced Dec 22. Open Internationally.

But who cares about any of this when you DON’T KNOW WHAT THE PRIZES ARE:

Win this contest, and you, dear Winterian, shall learn the title of the final book in the SLA trilogy BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. That’s right – we’re spilling some Top Sekrit Information here. You’ll also win a signed paperback of SLA and a signed hardcover of ILF.

WINTER MAGIC YA’LL

Go forth and enter! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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I feel like I'm nothing. Like my life is nothing.

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ICE LIKE FIRE Excerpt!

Ready for another opportunity to win an ARC of ICE LIKE FIRE?

How about an EXCERPT to go along with that?

Thought so.

Below you will find an excerpt from the very beginning of ICE LIKE FIRE. Reblog this post and at 9PM EST TODAY I will randomly choose one winner to receive a signed ARC of ICE LIKE FIRE! Entries count as Tumblr reblogs AND Twitter RTs! Open internationally.

And now, THE EXCERPT:

Five enemies. 

Five dented helmets sit lopsided over five equally dented breastplates; five black suns shine, scratched yet distinct, on the silver metal. Far more soldiers than I could ever take on my own, but as I stand in the center of their ring, boots planted in the snow, I cock an eyebrow at the closest one, the calm that precedes a fight descending over me.

My chakram already rests in my hand, but part of me doesn’t want to throw it just yet, reveling in the feel of its smooth handle against my palm. Dendera thought she was so clever, hiding it where she did—but really, giving it to the Cordellan soldiers was almost too easy. Where else would I go for a weapon if not the weapons tent?

“Do it!” comes a high-pitched squeal.

“Shh, she’ll hear you!”

A deluge of shushing follows when I snap my head toward the row of boulders outside my ring of mock enemies. A cluster of small heads ducks behind the largest rock.

“She saw us!” 

“You’re standing on my foot!”

“Be quiet!”

When I face the closest of the soldiers again, the pile of snow within the dented helmet and breastplate sags a little, knocked askew by the same gust of icy wind that beats at my skirt. The illusion wavers.

I’m not in battle gear—I’m in a sleeveless gown of pleated ivory fabric, my hair done up in elaborate braids. My “enemies” are stacks of snow that I hastily kicked together and dressed in the discarded Spring armor that litters my kingdom. My audience isn’t an army, but a group of curious Winterian children who followed me out of the city. The chakram is real, though, and the way my body reacts to it makes this almost believable. 

I’m a soldier. Angra’s men surround me. And I will kill every one of them.

My knees bend, hips pivoting, shoulders twisting and muscles knotting up. Inhale, exhale, spin, release—the moves rise from my memory, as ingrained into my body as the act of walking, despite the fact that it’s been three months since I last threw my chakram. 

The blade breaks out of my palm with a hiss that punctures the cold air. It whirls into the closest enemy, rebounds off a rock, knocks into the next soldier, and sings back to my hand. 

Every taut nerve relaxes and I exhale, long, deep, pure. Snow above, that feels good.

I let the chakram fly again, and again, finishing off the remaining soldiers. Cheers erupt from behind me, tiny voices laughing as snowflakes settle over the fallen bodies of my victims. I stay in the position of my last catch, hips bent and chakram firm in my hand, but the illusion is thoroughly broken now—in the best way.

I smile. I can’t remember the last time someone laughed in Winter. The past three months should have been filled with such joy, but the only sounds I’ve heard have been thuds of construction, murmurs of planning for crops and mines, and soft applause at public events. 

“Can I throw it?” one of the girls calls, and her plea encourages the rest of them to demand the same thing.

“Better start with something less sharp.” I bend to scoop snow into a loose ball that I let slide from my fingers. “And less deadly.”

The girl who first asked to throw my chakram understands before the rest of them. She drops to her knees, smashes snow into a ball, and hurls it at a boy behind her.

“Got you!” she squeals and takes off, tearing over the field in search of a hiding place. 

The rest of them lash into a frenzy, packing snow into projectiles and launching them at each other as they sprint over the fields beyond. 

“You’re dead! I hit you!” one little boy cries.

My smile slips. 

We don’t have to fight anymore. They’ll never have to throw more than snowballs, I tell myself.

“Isn’t this a little…morbid?”

I whirl, fingers spasming around the chakram. But I don’t even get the blade up before I see who’s entering the little clearing created by the foothills of the Klaryns on one side and rippling fields of snow on the other.

Theron.

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560 days...

560 days since I took my last anti depressant. 560 days of struggling day in and day out. 560 days and maybe I can't do it anymore.

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My life is falling apart around me. :(

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Pick Your Edition Giveaway! Foreign edition? Original ARC? Collector’s edition? You get to pick THREE & we’ll ship them in one of the gorgeous wooden Grisha boxes that went out to bloggers last year. 🌙👑💖

Ways to win: Instagram - like & leave a comment Twitter - RT & tag w #gimmeGrisha Tumblr - like & reblog Or improve your odds and do all three!

Open til midnight on Monday April 6th (muh birthday). International. Followers only. Man that sounds like I run a cult. #shadowandbone #grishatrilogy #GrishaArmy

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Yes!!!!!

WINTERIANS!

We have done it. We have survived 2014. We have moved into 2015 with patience and grace and dignity and—

Yeah, that’s a lie. 

WE ALL JUST WANT ICE LIKE FIRE TO BE OUT AND WE WANT IT NOW OKAY.

Thus I have for you impatient, beautiful souls the FIRST EVER opportunity to win an ARC of the sequel to SNOW LIKE ASHES. I haven’t even gotten my ARCs of ICE LIKE FIRE yet — that is how awesome this prize will be. The moment I get them, one of the ARCs will be shipped to you instantly. Fresh out of the box. Hot off the UPS truck. 

You will also win the usual gamut of goodies: swag (an ICE LIKE FIRE trading card + Collector’s Sleeve, to be exact) and your piece of the SNOW LIKE ASHES Blizzard.

I am lazy, so the entries are easy: obey Rafflecopter below. Contest runs March 20-April 2, with the winner announced on April 3. Open internationally.

Get those fabulous fingers of yours in gear and enter, enter, enter! 

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Yeah, so....surgery tomorrow morning. Kinda a little scared. :-/

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I wish he'd prove it