Archive for August, 2009

September Dark Legacy Contests!!!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Dark Legacy is in bookstores, plus you can buy it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or the Dorchester Website (where it’s only $3.50!!!). Yay!!!

To celebrate, I’m continuing my Dark Legacy contests through the month of September. Any comment on an August or September blog post puts you in the running for:

  • 5 signed copies of Dark Legacy
  • Another XOXO Butterfly Purse, since the last one was SO popular ;o)
  • 3 Great XOXO Wallets
  • 3 Dream Flutters Pendants, featuring Dark Legacy Cover images
  • And September’s Grand Prize, a beautiful COACH Butterfly Purse!!!

That’s a total of 12 prizes. Here are some pics ;o)

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Comment on as many blog posts as you like (one comment per post, to keep the spammers away) through midnight , September 30th, to increase your chances to win. I’ll draw winners radomly in early October!

Don’t forget the Dark Legacy Couture Necklace Contest. Read the guidelines and enter for your chance to win this amazing, one of a kind Dream Flutters Necklace:

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And, finally, I’ll be giving away more great prizes on my Dark Legacy Blog Tour, so check out each stop!

Here’s September’s Line up:

8/31   Writers at Play

9/1     Babbling About Books & More

9/3     Romancing the Blog

9/8     Pop Syndicate’s Book Addict Blog

9/10   Romance Novel TV

9/15   Novel Thoughts

9/25   Running With Quills

Dark Legacy Couture Necklace Contest!!!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Win a One Of A Kind Piece
of Dark Legacy!!!

Dream images from Anna DeStefano’s Dark Legacy inspired a jewelry designer to bring pieces of this mesmerizing story to life, using exotic and reclaimed materials from all over the world. The result–the Dream Flutters jewelry collection, as seen in Dark Legacy’s Romantic Times Bookclub feature.

Dream Flutters pieces incorporate vintage treasures combined with a variety of materials ranging from glass to antique Parisian ribbons to Taqua Nuts from the Brazilian rain forest. Each piece is accented with a butterfly, Anna DeStefano’s personal spirit signature, a reminder that you are wearing a very special winged creation.

Contest Details:

Win this fabulous Dream Flutters Couture Necklace.

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Its Tagua Nut medallion is hand-etched with images of the raven and storm-ravaged forest from Dark Legacy’s cover (image: use Dark Legacy’s cover already displayed on site). It’s finished with vintage glass beads, silk ribbon and gold accents. Truly a one-of-a-kind original!

To Enter:

  • Read the Dark Legacy Excerpts available through Anna DeStefano’s blog.
  • Choose your favorite passage/paragraph. The one that sucks you into Dark Legacy’s characters and dream world… Bwahahaha ;o)    

  • By midnight EST, September 30th, 2009, email the first sentence of you favorite passage to anna@annawrites.com.

    Use the Subject Line: Dark Legacy Couture Necklace Contest.    

  • One entry per person/email address.    

  • A winner will be drawn at random on October 1st, 2009.    

  • The Winner will be notified via email. The winner’s name will also be announced on Anna DeStefano’s Blog, Facebook Page and Twitter Feed.
BONUS: Don’t miss your chance to enter Anna’s other Dark Legacy Blog Contests, running throughout the month of September as she celebrates Dark Legacy’s release!!!

Prizes up for grabs include signed copies of Dark Legacy, a great XOXO Butterfly purse and accessories, Dream Flutters pendants that include pieces of Dark Legacy’s cover, and a grand prize COACH Butterfly Purse!

Visit Anna’s September Blog Contest Page for more details!

Dark Legacy Excerpts–Dive In!!!

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

To win Dream Flutters Jewelry and more XOXO and Coach Purses and Excessories in September, you’ll have to keep up with the excerpts I’ve posted so far. So, kind and generous online friend that I am, here they are, all in one place ;o)

More contest news September 1st–including an exclusive offer on Dorechsterpub.com.

Until then, read and enjoy all things Dark Legacy ;o)

Dark Legacy Excerpts

Start with the prologue from the website!!!

Important stuff, because our heroine’s problems started a long, long time ago… Generations ago, you might say.

Meet Maddie Temple next…

Maddie’s breath misted in the frozen morning air. She’d been up for hours. It felt like she’d been standing there forever. Shivering in the hospital parking lot. Still not ready to go inside. Not ready to pretend for another day that her life wasn’t falling apart. (more…)

Dark Legacy’s In Stores!!! Oh, and the XOXO Butterfly Winner ;o)

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Squeee!!! It’s real, it’s real…

Here’s Dark Legacy next to Christine Feehan in Barnes and Noble:

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and on the “buy mass market fiction cause we’re priced right” shelf at Borders:

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Do you think it stands out??? (more…)

Interview Time, B&N NYC Pics, and Tomorrow We Play!!!

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

There’s a great interview up about me and Dark Legacy on Armchair Heroines today.

And tomorrow, I’m taking everyone on a blog tour fieldtrip to the Writing Playground (where I’ll be giving away signed copies of Dark Legacy and a custom-made pendant with Dark Legacy cover images  on it.). Don’t miss either stop!

Oh, and… I’ll be back out here tomorrow with the XOXO Butterfly Purse winner and the next blog prize up for grabs, te-he!!!

In the mean time, here are some pics from last night’s FAB. booksigning/genre night at the totally cool Barnes and Noble next to Lincoln Center in NYC. It was an amazing night. And everyone’s support in the blog comments meant so much to me. You’re the best cure for nerves and worry there ever was… Wish you all could have been there:

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Wanting a Dream Come True…

Monday, August 24th, 2009

If you didn’t know me well, you wouldn’t know how nervous I’m bound to be this week. But I am. It was inevitable, with Dark Legacy’s Release and my Lincoln Center B&N Book Signing in NYC  both happening tomorrow, August 25th.

So why resist? I’m trying very hard to let the stress and anticipation flow through me and work themselves out. Often, it’s the nerves that make the important moments more special. I learned that early. I cut my teeth on competitivesports at age six, and from the very first soccer match realized eating breakfast before a big game was both a waste of time and messy, if you know what I mean, and I think you do ;o) But I also learned that nerves helped me focus. They helped me stay in the moment and grab every last sensation before the excitement slipped away. That was, unless I let fear paralyze me to the point that I couldn’t perform.

Why nervous now? I’ve been a professional writer for fifteen years, if you throw my corporate technical writing into the mix. And Dark Legacy is my thirteenth novel coming to shelves. I blog and teach about writing craft and the industry and am working on having my own column that will discuss both topics at a popular website come October (more on that after I stop sweating my newest release). No newbie nerves for someone like me, right?

Right! (more…)

Guest Blogging at Romance Bandits Today…

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Today, Friday, I’m talking characters and reomance and layering paranormal plots at

Romance Bandits (there’s a great NEW EXCERPT over there–part of a dream sequence between Maddie and Sarah ;o)

Keep leaving comments here through the 25th and into September to win more prizes like (more…)

New Excerpt and Guest Blogging at Night Owl Romance

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

For those who missed my Romance B(u)y the Book Guest Blog and giveaway yesterday, I’m including the new Dark Legacy excerpt below ;o)

Today, I’m guest blogging and giving away 2 Dark Legacy ARCs at Night Owl Romance Reviews–where I’m talking aboout “The Lighter Side of Darkness.” That is, all the relationship and community and emotional journies that keep us reading spine-tingling, shadowy tales like Dark Legacy…

Here’s the rest of my guest blog tour. I’ll be giving away jewelry, XOXO purse accessories, ARCs and much more to those who find me at each stop through September. (more…)

Dark Legacy Blog Tour Launches Today!!!

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Everyone join me at Romance B(u)y the Book today–where you’ll find:

  • a new, exclusive and spoooooky excerpt of Dark Legacy–the rubber’s hiting the road, so to speak, for our Maddie and Jarred;
  • a drawing from all those who comment for an ARC and for the great XOXO Butterfly Wallet below (which matches the XOXO Butterfly Purse I’m giving away on the 25th, to celebrate Dark Legacy’s official drop date);
  • and lots of fun with Michelle Buonfiglio’s Bellas!

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“Win” a Scavenger Hunt Comes Together ;o)

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

We have a winner of the Vintage Harlequin Tote. And we have a new Dark Legacy Scavenger Hunt!

Winner first–drawn randomly from the commenters in the last two Dream Theory posts. Thanks, everyone, for your amazing dream revelations. I’m totally hooked on dream research and hearing the unusual things we all sometimes remember from our sleep worlds. Congratulations:

Lexi C., who commented on the “Dream Themes” blog post, on August 6th, 12:22 pm !

Lexi, I’ll send you an email, too. Let me know your snail mail addie so I can send you the great tote and collection of books from RWA Nationals in DC!

Now, onto our new Scavenger Hunt! This one’s going to be different than the ones we did last month–the theme is my Dark Legacy Blog Tour, celebrating my debut paranormal romant suspense’s August 25th release!!!

Here are the rules: (more…)