Winner! and More Giveaways

I'm pleased to announce that Hope W. won the bundle of three books by me, Virginia, and Alyssa. Congratulations, Hope! Awesome.

If you did not win, no worries, I have a couple more giveaways to do. I will start another one here on MONDAY, May 23, to count down the days until Shadow Walker. I'll give away more books by me, Virginia, and Alyssa.

THIS WEEK, I am running an additional giveaway on my Jennifer Ashley blog. I have ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies) of the Many Sins of Lord Cameron, from my historical romance series. To win: Hop over to Jennifer Ashley's blog and follow the instructions to enter. I will take names until Friday!

http://www.jennifersromances.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to check back here Monday (I'll post as many reminders in as many places as I can).

Take care,

Allyson James
http://www.allysonjames.com/

On Giveaways

Because I had to cancel a giveaway on a social networking site, due to changes in their policies, I will be giving away the bundle of three books pictured here (Forgotten Sea, by Virginia Kantra; Vampire in Atlantis, by Alyssa Day; and Shadow Walker by Allyson James) to one winner who entered our contest over on that social networking site.

Didn't enter? Didn't win? Don't worry! I'm taking my contests to this blog, to Twitter, and to Goodreads. I will give you all great opportunities to win great prizes. Watch this space. :-)

Allyson James
aka Jennifer Ashley

FIREWALKER Countdown Giveaway--JANET BEGAY (Stormwalker)

The FIREWALKER Giveaway continues! Comment to win a signed copy of Stormwalker (or backlist book) and qualify for the grand prize!

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DAY NINE--JANET BEGAY

And finally, Janet Begay, the star of the show.

Janet's had a rough start to life, being motherless, a bad thing to be in a matriarchical society. Because no one knows who Janet's mother's people or clans were, they don't trust her much. Of course, Janet's mother is a goddess from Beneath, and the evil she's invested in Janet is pretty powerful.

Janet's dad, on the other hand, is a sweet guy who was seduced by the goddess. He raised Janet on his own, with the help of Janet's formidable grandmother (who can become a Crow).

Janet is a Stormwalker, which means she can draw power from nearby storms and use it to work amazing magic. When it's storming, nothing can stop her. When it's not storming--good thing she has Mick. Her power manifested when she was a kid, and it terrified her. With the help of Jamison Kee and Mick, Janet has been able to hone her power to a controlled weapon.

But now, another power is rising within her, and she's not sure that she'll ever get that one under control. (More about this in FIREWALKER and SHADOW WALKER.)

Question of the day: What do you think of the urban fantasy genre overall? Is there too much of it? Or can't you get enough? Do you think it mixes well with romance? Or not at all?

FIREWALKER Countdown Giveaway--CASSANDRA

Day Six Winner--Mel (meljprincess)

The FIREWALKER Giveaway continues!

DAY SEVEN--Cassandra

Now that I've introduced the guys, I need to introduce the ladies. (I like the guys, so I tend to lavish attention on them.)

Cassandra leapt to her feet and kicked the inert Changer in the buttocks with her Blahnik heel. “That’s for calling me a b*tch.”

Cassandra Bryson is a super-powerful witch who becomes Janet's hotel manager. Cassandra is blonde, lovely, businesslike, good at her job, and way-wicked with magic. She used to work for a top luxury hotel chain in California, but for reasons she's not telling, she's decided to bury herself in a backwater desert town.

Janet isn't sure why Cassandra's interested in working in the middle of nowhere, but she welcomes Cassandra's no-strings-attached help. But Cassandra has some dark secrets that Janet suspects will someday come back to bite them.

Cassandra becomes part of the team in FIREWALKER and SHADOW WALKER, and you learn more about her in the HEXED anthology.

From FIREWALKER:
“Sheriff Jones grilled me about what kind of witchcraft I did,” Cassandra muttered. “I should do a spell to make his balls fall off.”

The question of the day: Heroes or heroines? Do hero-driven stories float your boat, or are you more interested in the heroine and her story?

FIREWALKER Countdown Giveaway--COLBY (A Dragon)

I have a winner for Day Five--Judy (magnolias_1)

The FIREWALKER Giveaway continues!

DAY SIX--(a new character) COLBY

Colby to Janet: “You’re bubbling with power, and sooner or later, you’re going to blow. I was willing to give Micky the benefit of the doubt for not offing you, and then I met you.” His smile was gone, his eyes darkening like Mick’s did. “Now I think it wasn’t his fault he couldn’t kill you. I’m betting you wouldn’t let him.”

Meet Colby, another inked biker who can turn into a fire-breathing dragon. He and Mick tangled years and years ago, and parted enemies. Now Colby might be Mick's only chance to survive his coming tests. Janet doesn't trust him, but she has no choice but to work with him.

Colby is dark-haired, blue-eyed, full of muscle and inked all over. He's snarky, smart, and up to something. I introduce him for the first time in FIREWALKER, and you'll see him again in SHADOW WALKER (coming in June).

As I sat down, Mick flashed me a warning look and said, “The magic mirror showed him everything.”
“Everything.” Colby’s grin became a leer. “It was stimulating, even if I had to watch through a lot of cracks.”
My face heated. “I swear I’m melting that thing.”
“Don’t be embarrassed," Colby said. "It was beautiful. Way better than anything I can find on that motel TV.”

I love writing new characters and lots of them. Do you prefer books that focus solely on the H/H with a few characters for spice, or do you like a lot of characters, with depth, running around?

Comment to win!

FIREWALKER Countdown Giveaway--JAMISON

Winner DAY 4--donnas!

The FIREWALKER Giveaway continues!

DAY FIVE--JAMISON KEE

Jamison to Janet: “I’m remembering a fifteen-year-old girl, one eaten up with storm magic. So scared she was afraid to go to school, and she’d run away from home so her grandmother wouldn’t make her go. She was sitting on a ledge overlooking Spider Rock and crying because she couldn’t make the lightning stop.”

Jamison Kee is a handsome Navajo shaman and a Changer (shifter) who takes the form of a mountain lion. He loves Naomi, the lady with the blue-green eyes who makes him a whole person.

Jamison is Janet’s oldest friend, the one who helped the teenaged Janet make sense of the storm power that rocked her. Without Jamison’s instruction, she’d never have survived.

Jamison and Naomi’s love story is told in “A Little Night Magic,” in the Hot for the Holidays anthology available from Berkley Publishing.

FROM Firewalker:
“My shaman advice to you is to go to bed. Before you do, will you call Naomi and tell her I need a ride home? If I walk home as a mountain lion in this town, I’ll probably get shot. If I do it as a naked man, I’ll never live it down.”

I think shape shifters are my favorite paranormal creatures (see PRIDE MATES, by Jennifer Ashley, followed by PRIMAL BONDS in March, if you don't believe me). There’s something about a guy with an animal lurking beneath that’s just...mmmm.

Do shape shifters rock your world? Or do you prefer a different paranormal creature? (and what?) Comment to win!

FIREWALKER ARC Winners!

Now that the winners have responded, I can announce the FIREWALKER ARC winners. Thanks to all who participated--I had to collate hundreds of posts, tweets, emails, blogger posts, Goodreads posts etc. and then my dh drew names from all those. Without further ado, the winners are:

Twimom227
Meg Varhalmi
Michelle Bledsoe

Watch this space for more contests starting OCTOBER 15 when I begin the final countdown to Firewalker's release (Nov 2).

Thank you all!

Win a FIREWALKER ARC

I'm taking comments, FB posts, tweets, and emails until Sat. Oct. 9 in a FIREWALKER ARC giveaway. Win it before you can buy it! I will be drawing the winners on Oct. 10, after I do the Race for the Cure (and sit down and recover). Post if you wanna win! FIREWALKER (Book 2 of the Stormwalker series) is out November 2!!