Showing posts with label Launch party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Launch party. Show all posts

Friday, 26 October 2012

Spellbinding Fun Today!


Today I’m celebrating the launch of my romantic and humorous Halloween flavoured novella How Do You Voodoo? and I’m delighted to have so many fabulous party peeps taking part in what I’m sure will be a spellbindingly fun event both here and on Twitter! #voodoo

 



Blurb: How Do You Voodoo? Loveless fashion model Nola Nichols thinks being beautiful is a curse; that is until she is cursed and her looks begin to fade just a week before the most important photo shoot of her career.

Nola rejects all rational explanation on what might be causing her lost looks and decides she has to find a way to get uncursed. This imaginative quest takes her from the Caribbean to Glasgow’s own City of the Dead. Along the way, she finds herself taking part in a rather unconventional funeral, involved in a voodoo ritual, reveals one or two unrests in her own past and falls madly in love with a doctor. Erm, that would be a witch doctor, right…?

How Do You Voodoo? has already been attracting some fabulous reviews on Amazon UK and Amazon US and has been described by top book bloggers as “a really fun and heart-warming read to curl up with over Halloween” (Love Reading Love Books) and for its novella length “perfect for commuting” (Jera’s Jamboree).


How Do You Voodoo? is available FREE OF CHARGE TODAY


It’s my party gift to YOU. So please click on the links and download it to your Kindle today and be sure to tweet and share and tell all your friends to do the same. It will be back at 77p / 99c tomorrow.



FREE TODAY

Other Amazon sites are also included!
 
No Kindle? No problem. Simply download the Kindle app from Amazon first – it’s free too. Click Here to go to Amazon to get a free app for your iPhone, your tablet, iPad, Laptop, Mac or other electronic mobile device.




I’ve invited you all here today to cast a magic spell – it can be anything you wish – and I can’t wait to see what you’ve all been cookin’ up!


This is my spell: It’s a Spell of Scottish Sunshine! It’s been a very wet and dreary summer here in Scotland or as we like to complain “a dreich and dour” one. So I’m going to rub some suntan lotion into my hands and chant this spell while I evaporate a drop of toads sweat from a silver spoon over a candle flame – and hope it works!
 

 

So now it’s almost time to visit all The Spellbindingly Fun Party Peeps! Each has a magical spell cast on their blogs today, so do pop over and leave a comment, share their links and click on their Twitter button.

On Twitter do remember to include the #voodoo in all tweets and please RT those you see in your Twitter stream today – as there is a prize draw for two of these voodoo love dolls just for #voodoo RT’s and MT’s!
 
Love is bewitching! Sometimes love needs a wee nudge.
Set your sights on your goal.
This voodoo doll gives you a way to spear him like a cupids arrow!
 
There is also a fabulous grand prize draw for all those party peeps who are casting spells and listed below. The prize is a beautiful Scottish Candle from The Highland Collection that reflects the contemporary essence of Scotland. It is a scented candle mixing delicate white heather with sweet Highland honey to produce a sensuous scent evoking the feeling of romance. It is a scent capable of transporting you to the beauty of the heather-covered hills of the Highlands. This candle is beautifully packaged in tartan and in a shade to exactly match the colours and the tartan cover of How Do You Voodoo?
This scented candle, beautifully packaged in tartan and and in the exact shade of the cover of How Do You Voodoo? is capable of transporting you to the heather covered hills of the Highlands!
 

Do click on each of the Party Peeps names below to see what spells they’ve been cooking up. I too will be visiting each and every one of them during the day to read the spellbindingly fun post and to leave a comment.
I’ll also be popping onto Twitter using the hashtag #voodoo to keep up with the voodoo chatter until I need to pop back and refill my chalice with a Voodoo Cocktail (see the fun recipes below for ‘The Voodoo’, The High Priestess’ and ‘The Witch Doctor’!) but take it easy – they are all incredibly potent!

Music: Join me in a wee dance about toThe How Do You Voodoo Playlist’ which contains such classics as ‘Black Magic Woman’, ‘I Put A Spell On You’, ‘Devil Woman’, ‘I’m Your Witch Doctor’, ‘Evil Ways’ and ‘That Old Devil Called Love’. Well, a party’s not complete without some magical music, is it?
 
 
 
Drinks: Grab a drink from the Voodoo Cocktail Bar:
The Voodoo: Dark Rum (to ward off dark spirits), Apricot liqueur, Blue Curacao, Tropical Fruit Juice, Grenadine. Serve tall over ice.

The High Priestess: New Orleans Vodka, Mango Juice, Anisette Liqueur. Serve with ice and mint leaves (to ward off evil spirits).
 
The Witch Doctor: (Recipe courtesy of the Voodoo Lounge in Las Vegas) Light Rum, Dark Rum, Peach Schnapps, Cruzan Raspberry Rum. Pineapple Juice. Grenadine. Sour Mix. Stir and serve over ice.
 
 
The Spellbinding Party Peeps
 



Lizzie Lamb (RNA Page)
 

 
 

So please do have a voodoo drink, have a wee voodoo dance, visit as many blogs as you can over the day and make your presence known to all the spellbindingly fun party peeps. Pop onto Twitter and use the hastag #voodoo to get together with other voodoo tweeps. Do send and RT tweets in your timeline with the hashtag  #voodoo to be entered into the draw for the Voodoo Bewitching Dolls.
If you are curious about the research I did for this novella at Glasgow’s ‘City of the Dead’, I’m talking about it over at The Romantic Novelist’s Blog today while over at the wonderful magazine style blog Loveahappyending.com there is a special promotional voodoo post that you might want to tweet and share.
Lastly, don’t forget to download your FREE copy of How Do You Voodoo? today and spread the word to your friends and followers.
It’s FREE for TODAY ONLY!
Get How Do You Voodoo?
Other Amazon sites are included!
Oh - and please leave a comment here on my blog – I’d love to know if you’ve enjoyed the whole voodoo party thing and, if you do read and enjoy ‘How Do You Voodoo?’ I’d also love you to consider leaving a favourable review on Amazon.
Thank you for all your support.
Love, Janice xx
 
 

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Less than a week to go!

Next Wednesday, the 14th December, is a big day for celebration here at Horton HQ. It’s the day a project very close to my heart, my new ebook ‘Reaching for the Stars’ gets its official send off into the digital stratosphere. How far it shoots - to the stars, to the moon, or just as far as a quick pop and fizz is as yet unknown - but I do know that I am very excited and extremely proud that Reaching for the Stars is finally out there. So on Wednesday there will be a 'Wish I Was Here...' photo of the place I'd like to escape to, there will be both real and virtual champagne, there will be lots of blogging and tweeting and social commenting - and mostly (did I mention the champagne...?) - there will be plenty of fun fun fun!

If you do decide to buy Reaching for the Stars (from Amazon now at the very special launch price of just 95p or $1.48) not only will I love you for it but I will hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Currently, Reaching for the Stars is with its advance readers and selected book bloggers. I’m keeping everything crossed that they will like it and will give it some ‘stars’ of their own. Well, we can only wait and see about that....

What’s it all about...?

Reaching for the Stars is about a Scottish celebrity chef called Finn McDuff who is media stalked and disillusioned after winning his third star and losing his third wife. He decides he’s had enough of all the food campaigns, the TV cookery shows, the constant frenzy surrounding his private life and, after giving up all his accolades and closing down his restaurant, he disappears. With the enfant terrible of the kitchen missing, two rival newspapers, having lost their media meal ticket, compete against each other to whip up further public curiosity in the missing chef. Love him or hate him, everyone is out looking for Chef McDuff. Who will find him first and whose side will you be on...?


This is the list so far of participating ‘Wish I Was Here..’ bloggers and tweeters on Wednesday 14th December (links are now live - just click on participant)

There will be fun prize draw on the day:
Prizes are - a Celebrity Chef Apron and several Chef’s Hats!


Please note: Prizes will be awarded at random in a fair draw system to include all participants who blog a ‘Wish I Was Here...’ picture, tweet a picture using #starchef, re-tweet any participating tweet using #starchef, or comment in the comment box on this blog on Wednesday 14th December). Simples fun!

It’s not too late to sign up - just use the form at the bottom of this post and join the fun.

@Chanteuse1019
@jolambertwriter
@annormond
@eema2emma
@midnitemurmurer
@KIRKWOODGWEN
@LinnBHalton
@GillStewart2
@lackyjadbury
@smbslt
@stephaniekeyes
@mandybaggot
@henrigyland
@harperjenny


Not sure what to do?

1) Sign up now using the form above. Want a shot at both blogging and tweeting? Why not - double the fun - just fill in both your Twitter name and your Blog Link.

2) On Wednesday 14th December just put up a photo or picture of where you wish you could escape to - for a little while or forever - on YOUR blog or UPLOAD to Twitter! It might be a paradise island, a secluded beach, a woodland hut, a mountain ski lodge? The possibilities are endless - but fun to imagine right in the middle of December

3) On Twitter please use the hashtag #starchef and also put @JaniceHorton somewhere in the tweet. That way I can find you and include you in the prize draw.

On Launch Day I'll be visiting EVERYONE's LINKS to see where you would like to escape to and to leave a comment! So join the fun and sign up now!

I know it’s a busy time of year for everyone but I would so appreciate your support - and I do promise lots of fun and prizes!

Friday, 2 December 2011

Tweethearts...


There was a flutter of fun on Twitter this week when several tweeps tussled over which celebrity chef should win my blog poll!

@daramc76 tweeted - ‘Jamie Forever’
@DorothyHardie insisted -‘I have faith in my Marco’
@BookstoRemember say’s - ‘C'mon, Jamie is a cutie... let him win lol’
@lougrahamii yelled ‘JAMIE, JAMIE, JAMIE...lol!
@Suefortin1 - a staunch Gino fan - shouted FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!
@shazjera kept score and retweeted.
@stephenfry tweeted mid-debate to say he was having dinner with Nigella Lawson - so we all know who he would vote for - don’t we?!

If you haven’t voted in the poll on the side bar yet, what’s stopping you? Pick out the chef who has you salivating on your sofa - but if your favourite chef isn’t listed - please feel free to leave a comment and tell me who you love and why!


Reaching for the Stars - my new romantic novel about a disgruntled celebrity chef who escapes the media frenzy surrounding his private life by going into hiding for a while - launches as an e-book on Wednesday 14th December.

There has been an absolutely fantastic response so far to the ‘Wish I Was here...’ blog launch party but also lots of complaints from those on Twitter who would like to take part but don’t have a blog. Well, let’s rectify that straight away!

If you are on Twitter and would like to join the ‘Wish I Was Here...’ party - sign up now!



What to do?

1) Sign up now using the form below. Want a shot at both blogging and tweeting? Why not - double the fun - just fill in both your Twitter name and your Blog Link.

2) On Wednesday 14th December just put up a photo or picture of where you wish you could escape to - for a little while or forever - on YOUR blog or UPLOAD to Twitter! It might be a paradise island, a secluded beach, a woodland hut, a mountain ski lodge? The possibilities are endless - but fun to imagine right in the middle of December

3) On Twitter please use the hashtag #starchef and also put @JaniceHorton somewhere in the tweet. That way I can find you and include you in the prize draw.

On Launch Day, here on my blog, I will post a full list of all the Bloggers and Tweeps taking part and I'll be visiting EVERYONE to see where you would like to escape to and to leave a comment! So join the fun and sign up now!

I know it’s a busy time of year for everyone but I would so appreciate your support - and I do promise lots of fun and prizes!