by J S Hazzard
Despite this common-sense logic, I sprinted as fast as I could until I was once again hidden beneath the foliage of my tree. Wheezing for breath, I scrambled back up and yanked the letters out, tearing Keanu’s in half while simultaneously realizing I had no pen. For a brief moment I considered pounding my head into the tree trunk until I knocked myself unconscious, but then I laughed as an idea came to me.
I had no pen, but I’d make it work. It was time to embrace my new normal.
Wincing, I ruthlessly raked the nails of my right hand over the clotted paper cut on my left, squeezing the wound to encourage the blood flow. Admiring my innovative—and strangely appropriate—solution, I dabbed a finger into the welling blood and kept my message brief.
‘YES.’
The Bloodstone Chronicles continue in
BLOOD LOYALTY
Autumn 2014
Turn the page for my exciting Bloodstone Bling Giveaway!
Did you enjoy BLOOD LEVERAGE? Do you love jewelry? Don’t miss your chance to win one of thirty pieces of genuine garnet and sterling silver jewelry in my BLOODSTONE BLING GIVEAWAY by reviewing BLOOD LEVERAGE on www.amazon.com!
Selected in every shade of garnet, trust me when I say these pieces are magnificent. Individual photos posted at:
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ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS & RULES
I'm keeping this simple, with only two rules:
First, post your review of Blood Leverage on www.Amazon.com. Afterward, immediately copy and paste your review and your email address into the contact page of my website at http://www.jshazzard.com/#!contact/c207d
The first two hundred reviewers who submit their review to both Amazon.com AND TO ME will be entered. (If you don’t submit your review and email address on my site, you won’t be entered, because I won't know who you are and I’ll have no way to contact you if you win!)
Second, any review that mentions the jewelry or giveaway will be ineligible. The Bloodstone Bling Giveaway will be over soon, but Amazon reviews are forever, and I don’t want to spend the next year getting angry emails from people hoping to win jewelry that’s already been won! (These pages and the photo will be removed from the e-book once the giveaway is over to avoid confusion.)
Winners will be drawn at random—one a day for thirty days—beginning immediately after I receive the 200th review. I will email each winner as they are drawn, who will have fourteen (14) days to provide me with their mailing address in order to receive their prize. If a winner fails to contact me within the two week time frame, I will select a new winner for that prize.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Though I am tremendously proud of the world I’ve created for Rory and her friends, I could never have done it alone. Therefore, I’d like to thank my mother, my father, and (most importantly) my husband for their encouragement and support throughout the insanity that was Blood Leverage. More than anything, I hope I’ve made you proud. I love you more than words can say.
I would also like to thank my guinea pigs who read various drafts of Blood Leverage, some of which were truly quite terrible! My most sincere gratitude to Sheri, Kate, Sarah, Amanda, Lorraine, Annette, Rachael, Moriah, my father, my grandmother, my brother, and most especially my long-suffering mother—who has read Blood Leverage ten times and still professes to love it.
And of course I need to thank my writer friends for all of their incredible advice, assistance and support: Kalinda Knight, thank you for your editorial suggestions and your generosity in sharing your wealth of publishing knowledge with me. Your diligence has spared me many hours of work, and no doubt many potential blunders as well. Revo Boulanger, thank you for your endless patience in continually re-converting the BL files so that my readers and I could have updated copies, and for your assistance with the photographs for my book promotions—all thirty days’ worth! Most of all, I would like to thank Annette Tremblay of Midnight Whimsy Designs, not only for creating my indescribably gorgeous cover, but for formatting the interior of my book, for designing my beautiful website, and for each and every graphic that has made such an impact on the presentation of Blood Leverage as a novel and me as an author. Finally, I’d like to thank all three of you for being such wonderful friends, and for the hours upon hours of strategizing, plotting, and good old fashioned mental therapy.
Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to read my work, particularly those willing to spare a couple minutes and leave their honest review of Blood Leverage on Amazon. Thank you!