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Yes, your read that title right. This raffle is for a complete set of audiobooks for the first series: Dhampir, Thief of Lives, Sister of the Dead, Traitor to the Blood, Rebel Fay, Child of a Dead God. The winner will receive promo codes for a free edition of each through Audible­.com....

The Audiobook raffle for The Mist-Torn Witches, book 1 (set in the world of the Noble Dead Saga)  ended as of last night at Midnight PST. We will now proceed to selecting and notifying winner. [See the original raffle notice and read the rules to learn how.] By Monday, we hope to announce the winner.
NEXT UP: We will wait one week to begin Audiobook Raffle #2 for the audiobook edition of S1B1: Dhampir in the Noble Dead Saga. Please note that any entries submitted before the raffle officially opens will be discarded.

This might appeal to even our loyal readers over the last decade plus. You, too, could win three copies of S1B1: Dhampir.

If you already own a copy, well, that is three copies to share. Drop over to the following URL and enter to win:

https://admin.woobox.com/5hu4um

NOTE: If your browser’s security keeps you from seeing the top logo on this page, the raffle is being run directly by our parent publisher, Penguin. Other identifying information does not appear in the page content, but that is the source.

Everyone who falls in love with a book or series has favorite characters. Some also have their favorite moments in the story, for they know the characters, like real people, only come alive when the story is in motion. The best characters are never stuck in time, always the same everywhere and everywhen.

It’s no different for the caring authors, though sometimes we have different reasons as “story-makers/tellers” for what sticks with us. But it’s often based in the dynamic rather than static, in the telling of what we want to share with the careful readers.

These days, tales of the undead (mostly vampires) are all the rage and have been for a decade plus. Much as we do use the undead (not just vampires) as prominent fixtures and even main characters, that isn’t what we really write. We’ve always considered ourselves “fantasy” writers first where the Noble Dead Saga is concerned.

Regardless, we couldn’t escape that alternative classification of our work. When S1B1: Dhampir first came out, it wasn’t even placed in the Fantasy section of book stores. If a Dark/Urban Fantasy category existed in a particular store, that’s where Dhampir ended up. Fortunately it didn’t matter, as fantasy readers found it just the same. But regardless, we always get questions related to being “vampire” writers, and so...

One of several things we get asked about again and again is collaboration. The other part is just how do we do it. And then comes the further detail of how it has (or hasn’t) changed over time.

To many people, there’s something rare — or just odd — about spouses who collaborate. Possibly more so than with other collaborative teams who don’t live on top of each. All writers differ a little or a lot in their processes and ways of looking at story-making and story-telling. Since that difference is hard to show with one voice…

Now that the draft for S3B2: The Dog in the Dark is off to our editor, and the raffles have been finished off (for now), it’s time to get back to some Q&As.

Over the months since we moved our two web sites to the Blogger.com system (NobleDead.com became NobleDead.org, BarbHendee.com became BarbHendee.org), a number of readers asked what happened to the “Glossary” from the old site. This usually came up in conjunction with “How do I pronounce such’n’such’s name?”

The old NobleDead.com site had server-side ASP/database services; the new site at NobleDead.org doesn’t have such. We’re investigating ways to emulate database operations through AJAX, JQuery, and XML data, but as yet we haven’t found a solution. We’re determined to succeed, so please be patient. As to pronunciation of names…

They don’t all follow the simplified, four-diacritical shared system we use for languages. You can still find the Pronunciation Guide at NobleDead.org under “Books.” But perhaps we can help out a little with names, though it might not be as simple as you’d assume. We wonder (with a wink) how many of you are would-be “sages” who’ve caught little details along the way and actually pieced them together, because a few of those have to do with names…