AND THE WINNERS ARE….

Feb 19 2012, 2:07 am

Here are the winners by date, sign-on name, and time. CONGRATS!!!! 

And thank you EVERYONE for the amazingly kind words! I’m so blessed, it’s unreal. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 

(In the order they were chosen..)

Feb 14th: Toni, 4:26

10th: Sara, 5:29

10th: Mary Goossen, 5:42

10th: Patricia Reed, 6:20

10th: Zanna Dobbs, 7:51

11th: Elaine Willis, 10:02

13th: Nicole C, 8:31

13th: Traci Coker, 10:20

16th: Desiree, 1:59

17th: Elizabeth, 1:49

(These names were chosen using Random.org) 

THANKS AGAIN, ALL!!! I’ll be contacting the winners for addresses and such. If you see this before I contact you, go ahead and send your info to darynda@zoho.com. ~D~

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CELEBRATIONS GALORE!

Feb 10 2012, 5:22 pm

So, yeah, THIRD GRAVE DEAD AHEAD shot out of the starting gate with a bang, and I have you guys to thank for it! And if you haven’t heard yet, it will hit the New York Times Best Seller’s List on Feb 19th at #26! YES! YES! YES! 

So, as a special thank you, I am giving away 10 TGDA journals! (Because you know how I love to give stuff away.) 

Comment below for a chance to win. I’ll use Randon.org to draw the winners a week from today, on February 17th. 

GOOD LUCK, ALL!!!! 

~D~

(International entries are VERY welcome, but I’ll only send once. If it gets lost in the mail, I’ll apologize profusely but will not resend. They just get lost too often! So sorry, but try anyway!!!) 

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HAPPY PUB DAY!!!

Feb 1 2012, 12:55 am

What happens when a woman sees no way out of a suffocating and dangerous marriage? Or when a nun hears the warnings of angels? Or when a dark and sensuous man is willing to risk everything, including the woman he loves, to prove his own innocence?

Find out in THIRD GRAVE DEAD AHEAD.

OUT TODAY!!!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• 02/03/12

Clovis, NM

Hastings, 5 to 7 pm 

RELEASE PARTY!!  YAY!!  

Celebrate the release of Third Grave Dead Ahead

• 02/04/12

Lubbock, TX

Barnes & Noble, 2 to 4 pm

Signing

• 02/10/12

Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque Science Fiction Society, 6:30 to 10 pm

https://www.facebook.com/AlbuquerqueScienceFictionSociety

Speaker

• 02/11/12

Albuquerque, NM

Page 1 Bookstore, 4 to 7 pm 

Signing

• 02/18/12

Amarillo, TX

Barnes & Noble, 2 to 4 pm 

Signing

• 02/19/12

Roswell, NM

Hastings, 2 to 4 pm

Signing

• 02/24/12

Albuquerque, NM

Alamosa Books, TBA

Signing

• 03/17/12

Plano, TX

Barnes & Noble, 5 to 7 pm

@ Creekwalk Village

Signing

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SNEAK PEEK!

Jan 8 2012, 5:35 pm

Here is a still from the new book and music video featuring an original song by my DH and his music and production partners, the Rotten Apple Project. They have put in hundreds of hours readying for the upcoming release of THIRD GRAVE DEAD AHEAD. Let me just say, this thing is smoking’! I am thrilled to have been a part of the film crew for the Charley and Reyes segments. 

Finding my Charley was a breeze. I worked with her when I was interpreting and I knew the moment I saw her she’d make a fantastic Charley. Those eyes are to die for. But finding a Reyes? Oyeee! I cannot tell you how long it took me to find one and how many candidates I went through. Well, I could, but I won’t bore you with the details. Let me just say, finding what I considered an exceptional Reyes was NOT an easy task. Honestly, the search could be made into a made-for-TV movie. *snerk* But what I found? Well, here’s a sneak peek to judge for yourself.  

I did good, yes? 

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Jan 1 2012, 4:39 pm

Here’s hoping the Mayans simply ran out of room! 

So, any New Year’s resolutions? 

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Dec 25 2011, 6:51 am

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A CHRISTMAS STORY: Flash Fiction Style

Nov 30 2011, 6:45 pm

Six-year-old Callie Dunn heard a sound. Not that sounds were unusual on Christmas Eve, but this particular sound had purpose. Meaning. As she fancied herself an investigator of all things unusual, a girl of sound mind and a practical manner who gave up childish thoughts of faeries and dragons way back when she was five—including those that involved a large man in a red suit who delivered Christmas gifts to children out of the kindness of his heart—she decided to investigate.

She hopped from her bed and climbed onto her window seat to search the thick, dark night. Or it would have been thick and dark had her house not been lit up like a beacon for weary travelers. And, no, she did not live in an inn. As her bedroom was at an angle to the main house of her semi-affluent parents, the same parents whose lax attitude toward Internet shopping made them prime targets for identity theft, she could just make out the chimney and part of the rooftop. If she strained hard enough, that is. 

And there he was. The man in the red suit. The one they called Santa Claus, a name she was in the middle of researching due to its inherent religious symbolism and the fact that she found the possible pagan connotations fascinating. She rolled her eyes as she watched him fumble around on the roof. The lengths her father went to. Hopefully, he wouldn’t fall off. Their medical coverage was seriously deficient when compensating for income loss due to a serious medical condition or injury. 

When she turned to go back to bed, she stopped short and looked up. Her father was leaning against her dresser—the one that had been clearly influenced by postmodernism and yet bore the intricate symbolism of Mayan culture in the etchings along the frame—his arms crossed over his chest, a mischievous smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.

“Anything interesting out there?” he asked.

Callie’s jaw dropped to the floor. She picked it up and ran back to the window, her eyes wide as she studied the man in the red suit. He threw a huge bag over his shoulder and strolled along the rooftop until he was out of sight. She looked toward the ceiling and listened as a booming voice ordered his reindeer into action, calling them each by name. Hoof beats sounded across the roof, the scraping of a sleigh taking off, and then silence settled around them.

Her father knelt beside her, a huge grin brightening his face.

Callie blinked and gazed at him, her expression the epitome of astonishment. She glanced back out the window then back to her father. “I think we were just robbed.” 

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Nov 22 2011, 3:42 pm

So, so much to be thankful for, namely READERS!!!!! 

Thank you guys so much and have a safe and happy holiday! ~D~

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Scrabble Scramble!

Nov 15 2011, 12:38 am

LITERAL ADDICTION and BOOK MONSTER REVIEWS is sponsoring a fun contest called SCRABBLE SCRAMBLE. 

Here is today’s entry: 

Good luck, everyone! 

~D~

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THE NEW DIGS!

Nov 1 2011, 4:02 am

So, my fabulous web designer and I thought it would be super fun and just really cool to let Charley and Reyes have their own websites. Yep! I know, right?

We had so much fun with this and I think they turned out really well.

Charley’s is a semi-official business site that outlines her PI skills and the fact that she is pretty much a freakazoid.

www.davidsoninvestigations.com

And Reyes’s is actually the website from Second Grave on the Left, the one that loony stalker Elaine Oake set up to, well, stalk him.

www.reyesfarrowuncensored.com 

AND COMING SOON!!!

Soon (as in really soon, like tomorrow some time), we will unveil the new Young Adult website featuring, you guessed it, the YA series, the first of which comes out in April. WOOT!

www.daryndajones.net

So, enjoy!!! And def let me know what you think!

~D~ 

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