We have WINNERS!

It's official, the competition for the Kindle Fire and Amazon Gift Card to celebrate the release of DOGNAPPED? A Dog Show Detective Mystery, is over! We had almost 100 entries, and Rafflecopter has generated our first place and second place winner. And now, for the....

The prize is the current model.
I have no idea if this photo is the same one or an older one, but you get the idea.

And the winner is...

And there was a runner up prize of:

And the winner for the gift card is...

How exciting! Stephanie, I'll send you an email today to get a postal address for your awesome prize (if you don't have a US postal address, the prize is a Kindle Paperwhite because Amazon will not post Fires outside the US - as per my earlier post 

http://clancytales.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/competition-to-win-kindle-fire-still.html)

And Sally, I'll email you your Amazon credit very very soon!

*I'm in the library today, and sometimes my email use is dodgy, so I might end up sending them tomorrow from home.

CONGRATULATIONS!

AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DOWNLOADED DOGNAPPED?!

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Competition to win a Kindle Fire still running, plus Dognapped? is FREE today!

Dognapped? is free on Amazon today (free promo finishes 25th July)

I received an email from a reader who had trouble accessing the entry form below. If you have ANY problems entering, please feel free to email me with your name, postal address (in case you win) and your order number from Amazon. I'm happy to add you to the entry list myself.

As I write this post, Dognapped? is currently #1 in both its categories and #495 in the Free Kindle Store. This is a great response, a big thanks to everyone who posted, tweeted and blogged about this competition!

If you've only just found out about the competition, here's the info:

I'll be giving away a Kindle Fire! (Kindle Paperwhite if winner resides outside the US - Amazon won't ship the Fire to non-US countries). That's not all, one lucky runner-up will receive a $25 Amazon gift voucher! (Competition closes 7th July), there are two ways to enter:

1. Purchase your copy of Dognapped?, then fill in the entry form below. You'll be asked for your receipt number from Amazon (it will be on the receipt Amazon email you - keep a copy of your receipt as proof of purchase if you win). Dognapped? will be FREE June 23rd to 25th, and yes you can still enter if you downloaded your copy FREE! 

or

2. Blog about this competition or about Dognapped? (you can review, talk about or interview) then fill in the entry form below. You will be asked for your blog post link in the entry form. 

*If you'd like to review the book, but miss the free Kindle promotion, I'll be happy to send you a free review copy in mobi or epub file, simply email: charmaineclancy@gmail.com. 

If you blog and purchase the book, then yes, you get two entries.

Too easy! This competition runs from now until 7 July 2013.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

A lost dog

A stolen dog

A mysterious will

It all equals murder!

Meet twelve-year-old Kitty, friendless bookworm and amateur sleuth. All Kitty wants is to gain her mother’s attention, spend time with her miniature schnauzer Spade, and avoid Miss Perfect, Jessica Jones. 

Kitty’s world turns upside down when she finds a lost dog, and she needs Jessica’s help to find the owner, hunt down a dognapper, and solve a murder.

Introducing Kitty Walker and her mischievous dog Spade in the first Dog Show Detective Mystery.

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FREE book! Plus, WIN a Kindle Fire!

Celebrate the release of my new book and win prizes!

Dognapped? A dog show detective mystery, featuring Kitty and her mischievous miniature schnauzer, Spade. In this adventure, they unravel the mystery of the missing dog -- simply lost, or something more sinister?

A lost dog

A stolen dog

A mysterious will

It all equals murder!

Meet twelve-year-old Kitty, friendless bookworm and amateur sleuth. All Kitty wants is to gain her mother’s attention, spend time with her miniature schnauzer Spade, and avoid Miss Perfect, Jessica Jones. 

Kitty’s world turns upside down when she finds a lost dog, and she needs Jessica’s help to find the owner, hunt down a dognapper, and solve a murder.

Introducing Kitty Walker and her mischievous dog Spade in the first Dog Show Detective Mystery.

Dognapped? is a mystery novel perfect for curious girls aged 10-12yrs. There are funny and cute canine characters, but also an element of danger! 

To celebrate the release of Dognapped?, I'm hosting a competition! I'll be giving away a Kindle Fire! (Kindle Paperwhite if winner resides outside the US - Amazon won't ship the Fire to non-US countries). That's not all, one lucky runner-up will receive a $25 Amazon gift voucher!

There are two ways to enter:

1. Purchase your copy of Dognapped?, then fill in the entry form below. You'll be asked for your receipt number from Amazon (it will be on the receipt Amazon email you - keep a copy of your receipt as proof of purchase if you win). Dognapped? will be FREE May 22nd and 23rd, and yes you can still enter if you downloaded your copy FREE! 

or

2. Blog about this competition or about Dognapped? (you can review, talk about or interview) then fill in the entry form below. You will be asked for your blog post link in the entry form. If you'd like to review the book, I'll be happy to send you a free review copy, simply email: charmaineclancy@gmail.com. 

If you blog and purchase the book, then yes, you get two entries.

Too easy! This competition runs from now until 7 July 2013.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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A - Z BLOG CHALLENGE

A is for A- Z blogging, but A is also for ANNOUNCEMENT!

And I have a big announcement. All through March, if you purchased MY ZOMBIE DOG from Amazon,  or if you blogged about the book, you could enter my competition to WIN a KINDLE!!! Yep, and if you're lucky enough to be in the US, that's a KINDLE FIRE. For the rest of the world it's a KINDLE 3G. So now all I have to do is generate a random number from random.org:

And that lines up in my spreadsheet with...

TAMMY MARTIN is the lucky winner! And Tammy is a US resident so she gets the KINDLE FIRE!

I'm actually jealous because Amazon doesn't send the Kindle Fire to Australia.

I'm not sure if Tammy reads this blog, so I'll email her about the good news.

A-Z Blogging

Tips for posting everyday (with one day's rest a week) in April:

• Short and Sweet - save the long detailed posts for later. Bloggers have a LOAD of posts to read through. 1 simple message for each day.
• Turn off Word Verification - seriously, you don't need it and it takes more time for people to comment. With so many blogs to visit, I won't have time to persevere with word verifications.
• Visit lots of new blogs - No one expects you to get to all the blogs every day, so mix it up a bit, try some new blogs you've never visited before.
• Be Positive - Leave encouraging remarks, don't nitpick because someone posted their letters out of order or missed three days. Support each other and enjoy the support you get in return!

There were 'rules' floating about that you need to post to a specific schedule and everyone must take the same days off. Not gonna happen here folks. I will post 26 times this months, every letter of the alphabet in order, but I'll take off a day when I need it and post on a Sunday if I feel like it - schedules just make things too complicated to be fun. And it should be fun, so if you get behind and just post 3 letters at once - I'll cheer you on!

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KINDLES FOR KIDS

Most writers that frequent the blogworld would be familiar with Danyelle Leafty, YA author. You might have seen her awesome new series on fairytales, beginning with the gorgeous CATSPELL.

But, did you know about her very generous ambition to donate Kindles to Kids? I love any cause that combines children and literacy so please go check it out at her site. You could even win some good prizes for yourself. You'll find details at this link:

DANYELLE LEAFTY

I'm probably not going to get any more posts in before the big A-Z Blog Challenge, where I will be crazy enough to blog every day, but on my first post for April I'll announce the winner of the KINDLE FIRE or KINDLE 3G. This was part of the MY ZOMBIE DOG Kindle release promotion. You just buy a copy of MY ZOMBIE DOG or blog about the book or the competition and you get an entry. If you want to try a last minute entry then see the details here:

WIN A KINDLE FIRE

My girls at PAPER DOLLS will be attempting the A-Z Challenge for the first time. They are going to try and do a book review for EVERY letter of the alphabet. You can check them out and cheer them on at:

PAPER DOLLS

Good luck with all the competitions and challenges!

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Book Launch - WIN A KINDLE

MY ZOMBIE DOG has officially launched for the Kindle version and as this is the first book I've launched, I'm taking notes of my progress and promotions for this release. As you may know there is a giveaway with this launch, for every person who purchases the book, or simply blogs about the book or the contest, they go into the draw to win a KINDLE! This is open international, so get your entry in!

If you would like to enter, simply go to the last post to find the entry form HERE.

I've posted about creating a professional book cover, and when the competition is over I'll share all the data on how I formatted my ebook.

In the meantime, I've signed up for the following reading challenge - how could I resist? 

And I'll leave you with the book trailer for MY ZOMBIE DOG (I'll tell you how to make those soon too - promise):

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WIN A KINDLE FIRE

March 1st is the big release date for MY ZOMBIE DOG and I'm promoting the book by giving away a free Kindle! (If the winner is a lucky US resident, they will win the Kindle Fire, for everywhere else the prize changes to a Kindle Keyboard 3G - due to Amazon shipping rules).

There's two ways to enter:

Buy MY ZOMBIE BOOK by clicking here and then fill in the entry form below. You will be asked for your receipt number from Amazon (it will be on the receipt Amazon email you - keep a copy of your receipt as proof of purchase if you win). Also, Tweet this competition with a link to this page and you get a second entry! You'll be asked for your tweet link, but if you're not sure how to do that, just use the hashtag #zombiedog in your tweet so it's easy to find.

or

Blog about this competition or about MY ZOMBIE DOG (you can review, talk about or interview) and then fill in the entry form below. You will be asked for your blog post link in the entry form. If you'd like an interview for your post, you can email me at charmaineclancy@gmail.com. Also, Tweet this competition with a link to this page and you get a second entry! You'll be asked for your tweet link, but if you're not sure how to do that, just use the hashtag #zombiedog in your tweet so it's easy to find.

Too easy! This competition runs from now until 31st March 2012.

You can only have one entry for blogging but if you blog and buy the book, you'll get two entries (plus another if you tweet about it!). Each entrant has the possibility of earning up to 3 entries.

Already own the Kindle Fire (I'm jealous!), it'd make a fantastic present to someone you love!

Why I'm doing this:

I love you guys and it's the blogasphere that has helped me to get serious about writing and learning the importance of a professional approach.

Also because of this book:

MY ZOMBIE DOG

On Zane’s 14th birthday he had to bury a dog. The next morning it’s in his room, tail wagging.

This is not the dog he wanted. No, Zane longed for a cool Collie or Shepard. Now he’s stuck with this scraggy, smelly undersized mutt. As if the dog wasn’t embarrassing enough, his mum wants to name it ‘Fluffy’. No way. Zane figures it dug itself out of the ground, so its name is Fossil. 

Fossil's a mean dog and will snap and bite at people... but why are those people bitten turning sluggish and craving strange food items like brains? Can Zane rid himself of this mutt and save his town from a zombie outbreak?

Now... Enter, and GOOD LUCK!

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