Happy holidays! Less Than Three Press is having a lovely Advent Sale over on their site.
Head on over and save 25% on all my titles! Including print, if you want to snatch up a paperback or two. 😉 It’s a good time to pick up some stories to tide you over for the holidays.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy!
The winner for the signed Appetite paperback is Macie Rae. Thanks, everyone, for participating!
Tonight I’m doing two things: making braised beef short ribs, and the lingering aroma permeating our house is utterly divine; and bringing you an exclusive giveaway of the gorgeous, weighty paperback version of Appetite, the compilation volume of A Cut Above the Rest, The Competitive Edge, and Surfeit for the Senses.
Summary from the first novel:
Alex always had it easy growing up, indulged by loving, but busy parents as he flitted from one interest to another without settling. Then he discovered the world of fine dining and became determined to be a chef capable of producing such magnificent meals. Despite the doubts of a father who limited his funds, and the difficulties of leaving Germany to live in the United States, Alex stuck to his new goal and graduated the Culinary Institute of America.
Fresh out of school, he is eager to begin work at the restaurant owned by a good friend of his father’s, a restaurant well known for the beautiful, innovative meals its chefs create. He is primed to join the ranks of those masterful chefs—until the day he starts, and learns that he is nothing more than kitchen lackey, lower in rank than even the dishwashers.
Worse, his boss is none other than Nik, the beautiful, infuriating, highly talented classmate that Alex could never best—or resist.
You can find summaries and excerpts from all three books from the series page here. It’s also got a nice spread of Goodreads reviews here.
The Appetite series is near and dear to my heart, not only for all the amazing food but because presiding over the journey that Chef Alex and Chef Nik take over the course of the story is tremendously frustrating, certainly difficult, but ultimately satisfying.
The trade paperback is quite thick! And worth its weight.
The Giveaway:
I am offering this trade paperback to ONE lucky winner, chosen by a random number selected by random.org from the comments of this entry. I’ll autograph it however you like, and I will ship Appetite anywhere that accepts U.S. mail from me to you.
To enter, drop a comment (you MUST include an email or means of contact or I CANNOT count your entry). Comment between now and next Sunday, October 6th. Winners will be chosen Monday morning.
Tell me in your comment about your favorite dish, savory or sweet! I love to hear about what foods everyone regards as their favorite. That’s it–comment (and include your email or a way to contact you) and you are entered!
If you would like additional chances to enter, you may also do the following:
– Promote/share my Facebook post promoting Appetite’s print release.
– Post a comment on my/your Facebook about the novel.
– Reblog my Tumblr post promoting Appetite.
– Retweet my author tweet on Twitter regarding Appetite’s paperback.
– Become a fan on Goodreads.
– Make a comment or make a post promoting the novel on your own social venue (any and all – WordPress, LJ, DW, blogspot, just link me so I can verify)
Basically, spread the word in any possible fashion and you can get an additional chance (for each extra action) to win your own signed trade paperback copy of Appetite!
Thanks for your support! Good luck, bon Appetite, and have a great week!
Are you looking for some great books to read? Would you like to score some sweet deals? Then Less Than Three Press has got a Labor Day weekend treat for you!
I have to get in a plug for my babies. Use code “foodie” to save 40% on my Appetite series, including the ebook bundle, and the print compilation. http://tinyurl.com/lt3Appetite
But that’s not all!
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It’s a great weekend for sales, apparently. I myself went to the car dealership yesterday, and ended up driving home a beautiful cobalt blue Prius C.
She doesn’t have a name yet, but I love her!
Have a great weekend, everyone. We’re being supremely lazy today, making flatbread pizza and playing video games, but I hope to get in a few good hours of editing as well. The Fall Guide proceeds apace!
Giveaways! Blog tour! Sales! Upcoming print release! Everything is coming up Appetite!
First and foremost, do not miss this week’s blog tour for Surfeit for the Senses. Every day, you can read more about the story, the characters, what went into the world building or research, and enter a new chance to win an ebook copy of Surfeit at each stop on the blog tour.
The final Tour de Foodie is the biggest and best yet!
This week’s tour:
Themes of Progression at Cole Riann’s Armchair Reader
Author interview at Romance Lives Forever
What’s in a Name? The Restaurants of Appetite at It’s Raining Men
Five Tricks to Fine Dining’s (Sinfully) Delicious Food at Sean Norris’s World of Diversity Fiction
The Hero’s Journey: Appetite from Beginning to End at Megan Derr’s blog
If you’ve been waiting to sate your Appetite, wait no longer!
This week is a fantastic deal, with all three volumes at 20% off to celebrate the final course’s release! (I’m also pretending it’s for my birthday. :D) All three books are currently marked at 20% off through Less Than Three Press, so take advantage of the deal that goes through July 28th and make your collection complete. Please note, Surfeit for the Senses will not be available for download until the evening of Tuesday July 23rd.
Have you been waiting for the print compilation of Appetite? Have I got a teaser for you!
Isn’t it glorious?? Here’s your sneak peek. This is both cover and spine. It’s off to the printer’s soon, and the next you’ll hear of it, you’ll be able to get your hot little hands on a trade paperback copy.
Check back with my blog this evening for giveaways! In honor of Surfeit‘s release, I will be offering chances at each of the ebook copies of Appetite to complete your collection, or get it started.
Less Than Three Press has chosen Signal to Noise for the book of the week!
It’s been three years since the Incursion; three long years since Bastian and his twin brother Theo became the sole survivors on the planet Noise. Their distress calls have gone unanswered, and they are running out of supplies. They have no one but each other. And when the long-awaited rescue finally arrives, it brings with it complications that make being alone and forgotten look easy.
See what others thought of this story on Goodreads.
Stop on by and pick up your ebook or print copy. Use code: MAYBOW3 to get 25% off this title!
Code is only valid Friday, May 17 – Saturday, May 18, 2013.
And please, spread the word. 🙂
Even before it’s out the gate, Appetite: A Cut Above the Rest has been nominated for a Rainbow Award!
I am so incredibly intimidated, and excited. Don’t forget, there’s still time to pre-order at a discount. My editor loved the story so much she nominated it for the Rainbow Award, and we’re having fun working on volume two.
In the meantime, there’s more immediate gratification in terms of From the Inside Out – hit up the post for a chance to win a free signed copy of my novel.
Sasha Miller’s review of From the Inside Out, shared with her permission:
I loved this story, NEGL. I started reading it one night figuring I could read it over the course of a week or two, and ended up staying up until the wee hours of the morning when I couldn’t make my eyes focus anymore. ;3
Soren is a sweetheart, and I related to him a lot. He doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life, and he’s sort of coasting along, flying under the radar with his family, his (non-existent) love life, and his future. Then Tru, his online chat partner, suggests they meet up (as the summary says), and Soren’s very careful balance starts to crumble … and he starts to want it to.
I think my very, very favorite thing about this book is that it’s not rushed in the least. With a lot of the M/M romance books that I read (which, uh, isn’t as many as I’d like), the romance is rushed for the sake of the sex, the character development is nonexistent or again, rushed for the sake of the relationship/sex. From the Inside Out is a slow build, and my very favorite kind, that of a first-time relationship.
Soren and Tru build their relationship slowly, in the midst of a dozen plus side characters that have their own lives and personalities. They also fight and miscommunicate and nearly break up and read too much into stuff and not enough into other stuff and just in general are young, inexperienced, and sorting through their relationship and what they want to do with their lives.
Do read this book if you want a nice, long slow build, a character-driven romance that is all about falling in love and making it work.
Don’t read this book if you want a quick read, full of conflict and tension (go check out Andor’s Signal to Noise for that :3).
In other exciting news, I’ve submitted The Fall Guide for publication. Fingers crossed!
Greetings and happy Friday Eve! Tonight, I’m opening up a giveaway for an advance print copy of my novel, From the Inside Out.
I am giving away a print copy of From the Inside Out, signed and personalized with a greeting of your choice. I will ship anywhere that accepts delivery of U.S. mail.
Rules for the Giveaway:
1. Sign up for the giveaway between now and Friday, March 1st.
2. Comment here to sign up and include your name and email so that I can contact you! If you do not include your email or a means to contact you, your entry is disqualified. Optionally, tell me why you’d like a copy, I’m eager to know what brings people here.
3. You can sign up for additional chances to win by:
– Following my blog via WordPress or email. (Let me know what your username is if it’s not obvious.)
– Following my Twitter, @TalyaAndor (again, let me know your username).
– Following my Tumblr, http://talya-andor.tumblr.com/ (just for good measure – yep, you guessed it, tell me your username).
– Follow Talya Andor as a fan on Goodreads!
– Follow Talya Andor on Facebook.
Your name gets counted once for a comment here, and an additional time for each follow. If you’re already following me on all those social media, it counts!
On Saturday after the sign-up closes, I’ll put names in a spreadsheet and give the number range to Random.org which will choose the winner’s number.
Thanks for reading! Check back this weekend for more fun stuff, I’ve got a guest blog and a new author spotlight coming up, and I’m ramping up toward Appetite’s release week.
It’s great to close out the year on a note like this.
Click the badge to take you to the poll, if you are so inclined (in case you forget, it’s under ‘Best Debut’)! I’m happy simply to be nominated; I didn’t expect it and it’s a really awesome thing for my first book, especially considering the company I’m keeping.
Next up: the long-promised giveaway.
I will send a signed copy of Signal to Noise anywhere, with a personalized greeting of your choice.
Rules for the giveaway:
1. The giveaway is open to sign up through Tuesday, January 15th at midnight Pacific time.
2. Sign up by commenting here on my blog entry. Include your name or a pseudonym, and your email so that I can contact you if you win. Your email needs to be accurate so that I can get in contact with you for a shipping address for the book!
3. You can get an extra “entry” by:
– Following my blog. (Let me know what your username is if it’s not obvious.)
– Following my Twitter, @TalyaAndor (again, let me know your username).
– Following my Tumblr, http://talya-andor.tumblr.com/ (just for good measure – yep, you guessed it, tell me your username).
– Edited to add another category: Goodreads! If you are following me as a fan on Goodreads, you get another entry. Annnnd you’d need to tell me your name on there too.
I will count your name once for a comment here, and an additional time for each follow.
On Wednesday after the sign-up closes, I’ll put names in a spreadsheet and give the number range to a Random Number generator which will choose the winner.
Thanks for reading, and happy New Year! Stay tuned for word on upcoming stories, and I’ve got stories to rec.
Talya Andor 