Revived Name Game

Update: The naming contest has closed so comments on this post have been turned off. Thanks to everyone who participated! The winners will be announced in a separate post.

It’s the last week in the Summer Reading event, and while we still have an awesome giveaway going this week from the incredible author Honor Raconteur, I’m running a slightly different contest as well.

The Revived, the third book in my A. M. Sohma series “Second Age of Retha” is on track to launch in mid September, but I wanted you guys to be part of it, so I thought it would be awesome if I gave you all a chance to submit character name! That’s right, a handful of minor characters in The Revived are waiting to be named.

The contest starts today and lasts through Friday, August 31. Each reader can only submit once, and each submission can contain a maximum of two names total. If you submit more than two names, you’ll be automatically disqualified. (This is to give everyone a fair and equal chance, and to ensure that the winners have read the rules!) Submission is easy–just leave your suggestions in the comments section. (Some necessary legal stuff is down below, too.)

Here’s a few details about some of the names I’m looking for:

1. female mystic

2. male spellbinder

3. a REALLY fantasy-ish name of either gender (We’re talking hardcore fantasy here)

4. female scout

5. male swordsman

6. female bard

7. male rogue

8. a gender neutral name for a hunter

Once the Summer Reading Event ends, I’ll post the winning names! Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy this last week of giveaways, recommendations, and book fun. Thanks for reading, Champions! _________________________________________________

If one of your suggested names is chosen, you are not entitled to rewards, royalties, or wages, monetary or otherwise. By offering suggestions for names, you’re agreeing to contribute the name for the book, movie, audiobook, and any other version or form of the book without any sort of reward, wage, or royalty. While there are eight characters that need names, K. M. Shea reserves the right to adjust the number of chosen names to her discretion.

Summer Reading Event!

Champions! Thank you for joining me today as I announce what I (and my editors, cover artist, and Rock-Star-Assistant-Meg) have been working on for weeks! This summer, starting July 1st and ending August 31st, I’m holding a Summer Reading Event!

Each week I’ll recommend three or four new books for you to check out. Lots of them are in KU, some of them are free, and all of them are good! Tons of authors have agreed to be a part of this program, and I can’t wait to introduce you to their books. But that’s not all! There will also be weekly giveaways, free short stories, youtube videos, facebook live events, and more! (Some of the giveaway prizes are: paperback copies of my books, a few audio book copies of Red Rope of Fate, and ebooks for some of the featured stories from other authors!)

The biggest gift I’m giving to you as part of this event, however, is *drum roll please* a Free Prequel novella for the Timeless Fairy Tale series: The Princess and The Pea. (Available in July!)

Fun fact: the character on this cover actually isn’t the main character (Lis) but her friend, Vorah!

While the fun doesn’t start until Sunday/Monday, you can get a glimpse of what’s going on the event page. Once the event starts, you can go directly to its page under the “For Champions” section of the website. (As you can tell by the images, Rock Star Meg and Coverartist Myrrhlynn got together and popped a few of my already available short stories into a Kindle format so through out the summer you’ll be able to download them to your kindle/reading device in a proper and pretty format now instead of having to read them on my website!)

I’m so excited about this event–I wanted to do something fun for us all and to have it serve as a thank you to all of you, Champions. 🙂 I’m so blessed to have you in this with me, and I really hope you enjoy this. (Myrrhlynn and I have been working on this for months!) Feel free to share the page and spread the news around once the event starts. We should have something for everyone! (As a side note: The recommended books are clean, but some contain swear words and others are a little heavier on the violence, so you’ll still want to check the reviews to make certain it’s something you’re comfortable with.)

I’m also excited because this event makes my inner librarian gleeful. (I’ve worked in libraries for a number of years through volunteering, serving as a library page, and working as a circulation staff member.) Every year libraries make big pushes for children’s’ summer reading programs, and while sometime libraries have adult programs they usually aren’t nearly as cool, so here’s to us adults! 😉

So until Sunday/Monday, hold on to your hats, folks! We’re about to have a fun-filled, book-stuffed summer!

2018 Hero Interview

Greetings, Champions! I’m going to keep this short and sweet and cut to what you most want to hear, the interview with Merlin, Emerys, Friedrich, and Farrin is finished!

You can read the PDF of the Hero Poll Interview here!

I hope it makes you laugh! I had a lot of fun going through your questions and sorting out what the boys would say. It was a lot of fun, and hopefully we can do it again in the future!

Also, a big thank you to everyone who submitted questions and/or voted in the polls! It’s a lot of fun to do this, and it’s really interesting to see slight changes as time passes. (I wasn’t sure anyone would ever rip Rumpelstiltskin from his top place!)

I’ll cut it off here so you can go read. But thanks for reading, Champions. I hope you enjoy the interview, and have a lovely week!