Revving up for the ‘No Pouting’ Party

The 2012 ‘No Pouting’ Party begins tonight at 12:00 am, Pacific Standard Time in the U.S. Most of the action will be centered around Selena Illyria’s Offerings Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoveRomancesCafe/cal There will be over 100 authors participating, with dozens of amazing prizes and exclusives.

To celebrate with other authors who could not get to GayRomLit in Albuquerque this year, I’m offering some of my own artwork for view in a special folder in Photobucket, editing-floor snippets, rough-draft bits of future Moro stories, a chance to win an e-book copy of Moro’s Price, and a chance to win a beaded necklace inspired by the book.

First, the boring stuff:

The e-book and the necklace will be determined by random selection of lucid and relevant comments on my October 17 – 21 blog posts, beginning 12:00 am PST Thursday, October 18, 2012 through 12:00 am PST Sunday, October 21, 2012. If you want to win one prize or both, simply mention that in your comments.  Because I want to encourage interaction, I will allow multiple comments from the same posters. To be kind to non-prolific posters, please don’t make multiple submissions without adding to discussions. My spambots and I can tell obvious spammers, too. The lucky spams will merely be deleted. The truly hilarious ones will turned into art and sold for profit at a later date.

Winners will be drawn at random, and will be announced during the week of October 22^nd, 2012. Winners will have until 11:59 pm PST on Sunday, October 28^th to check in. Any prize not claimed by then will be withdrawn and assigned to a new lucky stiff by Random.org. In the event that no one enters, the prizes will be donated to a future contest.

This is an international giveaway. As long as you’re on this planet, you can enter and win. I will need a deliverable address: no P.O. Boxes, please. The e-book can be delivered instantly in one of several formats, but shipping the necklace may take 6 – 8 weeks or longer for international mail.

To start things off, here’s a look at the necklace:

Iridescent blue-purple glass seed beads with black cut-glass accent beads and a beaded toggle and loop closure. Made by yours truly, off a looped chain pattern I created and published about a decade ago. 20″ long. Inspired by the austere and elegant Sonta aliens in my book.

When I began writing Moro’s Price in March of 2011, I had only one line: “Throw the fight, songbird.”

I was loosely inspired by Firefly, The Fifth Element, and Babylon 5; by the fiction of Andre Norton, Tanith Lee, Judith Tarr, Lynn Flewelling, and Lois Bujold; and the narrowing gap between mainstream sf&f and erotic romance.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Buy Link: at Loose Id Store http://www.loose-id.com/authors/l-p/mc-hana/moro-s-price.html

At Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Moros-Price-ebook/dp/B008ON1X1K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1350507454&sr=1-1&keywords=moro%27s+price

Cheated out of freedom and destined for lifetime servitude, gladiator and sex slave Moro Dalgleish escapes from a brutal arena. Valier Antonin, a lonely student, is tormented by sadomasochistic urges he’s forbidden to indulge. When the two men meet on the skyscraper roof where Moro plans to commit suicide, Valier offers a bargain. Sex with Valier will infect Moro with the sentient symbiont endemic in Valier’s part-human race, with death the likely result.

As one of the infection’s rare survivors, Moro learns he is now a free Camalian citizen. He’s also effectively married to Valier, crown prince of the Camalian Commonwealth. Expecting a shallow encounter with a doomed slave, Valier learns Moro is his Knife, the mate who can stabilize Valier’s undisciplined mind, slake his darkest lusts, and make him fit to rule.

But human supremacists want Moro as a weapon against an ancient race bent on humanity’s extinction. Moro’s ties to both enemies could destroy his life with Valier before it even begins.