{"id":2569,"date":"2015-04-15T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittegenpress.com\/wp_main\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2015-04-15T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:59:39","slug":"atozchallenge-2015-m-is-for-mailing-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittegenpress.com\/wp_main\/atozchallenge-2015-m-is-for-mailing-list.html","title":{"rendered":"AtoZChallenge 2015: M is for Mailing List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AtoZ<\/a>AtoZChallenge 2015: M is for\u00a0Mailing List<\/h1>\n

Congrats to everyone making it to day 13 of the AtoZ and welcome to Wittegen Press. We’re talking about why some of our books were created. Today Natasha Duncan-Drake <\/a>is talking about her book Assassin’s Blood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, ‘mailing list’ – we’ve had a mailing list at Wittegen Press for a while and we wanted to:<\/p>\n

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  1. say thank you to our current subscribers for sticking with us<\/li>\n
  2. provide an incentive for people to join<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We decided pretty early on that we would both write them a short story (although Soph’s turned into a novella, but there you go ;)). However, we weren’t sure what genre to go with, so we polled the mailing list and asked them. The top two genre’s chosen were paranormal and contemporary fantasy.<\/p>\n

    Since I love all things paranormal I took that genre\u00a0and Assassin’s Blood<\/a>\u00a0was born. \u00a0I went in knowing that I wanted my protagonist to be female, that she is bisexual, but the most important relationship shown in the book is lesbian. Then I couldn’t decide between vampires or werewolves, so I thought it would be fun to go with both.<\/p>\n

    Do you remember the internet before Tumblr and Facebook, before Livejournal even, back in the depths of time when most communication was via mailing lists or bulletin boards?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    FREE Book Offer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    \"Assassins<\/a>Assassin’s Blood<\/a>\u00a0by Natasha Duncan-Drake<\/p>\n

    Meet Kira Roltof, or rather Jasmin Welby at the moment because she\u2019s undercover. Kira\u2019s an assassin with\u00a0a sense of humour that\u2019s almost as dangerous as she is. When hunting down her targets it helps that\u00a0she\u2019s a vampire\/werewolf hybrid and has been at the killing game for over seventy years. Practice makes perfect and all that jazz.<\/p>\n

    Of course her combined species status\u00a0could just as easily get her killed as help her out. If either the vampires or the werewolves figure out she\u2019s both, she\u2019ll never be safe again.<\/p>\n

    Her latest target is a Mafia big shot. Nothing she can\u2019t handle easily, except she runs into a little snag of the vampire persuasion at the end of the job.<\/p>\n

    Assassin\u2019s Blood<\/strong><\/em> is a short story full of paranormal intrigue and action with a little bit of romance to round it off.<\/p>\n

    *We’ve cheated a little today, the title is totally free, but you have to join our mailing list to get it. We never spam and we never give away your details. Just scroll down to the form at the bottom and you’ll get both books shown for free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    We apologise for the clunky looking sign up form below – it appears on the one day we wish to talk about the mailing list Mailchimp has decided to fail, so we can’t use the widget and have to use embedded code \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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    \u00a0Our other AtoZ blogs:<\/strong>\u00a0Tasha’s Thinkings<\/a> | Sophie’s Thoughts and Fumbles<\/a>| FB3X (AC)<\/a><\/p>\n

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    AtoZChallenge List 2015\u00a0click to see other participants.<\/a><\/div>\n
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    If you enjoy our daily free books you’ll really love our permanently free books<\/a>, including the two FREE <\/strong>ebooks we’ll give you just for joining our mailing list.<\/p>\n