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Michael Hockenson, Jr. has won the 4th “Reader’s Choice Raffle” at Noble­Dead­.org and has chosen a signed, hardbound, first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark as the prize.

For the rest of you, a special raffle is upcoming later in January after we have some time for recovery because…

Michael Hockenson, Jr. has won the 4th “Reader’s Choice Raffle” at Noble­Dead­.org and has chosen a signed, hardbound, first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark as the prize.

For the rest of you, a special raffle is upcoming later in January after we have some time for recovery because…

The current raffle for a signed, hard­bound, first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark ended as of midnight last night. Hopefully all of you got your entry in before the deadline.

The winner selected via use of Random­.org will be notified shortly by email and has 48 hours to respond with verification of shipping address. If no response is received within the time limit, a new winner will be selected and verification repeats.

Come this Monday, we will announce…

• the winner or notification of a redraw process, and…
• the opening of Noble Dead Raffle #4 along with the prize to be given.

Stay with us and do not miss out on the next opportunity for a signed, hardbound, first edition of a book from the Noble Dead Saga shipped straight to your door!

This third in a new series of raffles for a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark ends tonight at Midnight, PST. You still have 15 hours, so if you have not entered yet…

Please see the “original post” and follow the instructions so your entry is confirmed in your first submission.

This raffle is open to participants in the USA… and CANADA and MEXICO.

This raffle is open to readers in the USA, and Mexico and Canada! That is correct, we have gone “continental” (for the most part) as a test for this raffle.

Time for the third in our current raffle series for a novel from the Noble Dead Saga. The up is a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark…

Please follow the instructions below so your entry is confirmed on the first submission. And read these again, for there additions and changes…

First, the winner for Noble Dead Raffle #1 is…

Whitney Seger has won the signed, hardbound, first editions of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark. By this coming Monday at the latest, the prize will be on its way to her doorstep. Congratulations Whitney!

Next, there are less than 15 hours left in Noble Dead Raffle #2 for a signed, hardbound, first edition of the upcoming S3B3: A Wind in the Night.

The deadline is still tomorrow, Friday, at Midnight, PST. If you have not yet submitted your entry according to the rules and guidelines, then you had better get to it. Entries received with timestamps past the deadline with not be entered into the raffle.

Something Special

Last but not least… the upcoming Noble Dead Raffles #3 and #4 will be open to entries from Canada and Mexico as well as the USA.

This will be part of a test to see how well shipping and handling can be done on a continently basis. International S&H is still too complicated at present, but investigation into making it workable is still ongoing.

So bear with us, and this is certainly not the last series of raffles to come from NobleDead.org.

The current raffle for a signed, hard­bound, first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark ended as of midnight last night. Hopefully all of you got your entry in before the deadline.

The winner selected via use of Random­.org has been notified by email and has 48 hours to respond with verification of shipping address. If no response is received within the time limit, a new winner will be selected and verification repeats.

Come this Monday, we will announce…

• the winner or notification of a redraw process, and…
• the opening of Noble Dead Raffle #2 along with the prize to be given.

Stay with us and do not miss out on the next opportunity for a signed, hardbound, first edition of a book from the Noble Dead Saga shipped straight to your door!

A quick second notice as of Midnight on Wednesday. This first a new series of raffles for a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark ends this coming Friday at Midnight, PST. You still have 48 hours, so if you have not entered yet…

Please see the “original post” and follow the instructions so your entry is confirmed in your first submission.

This raffle is open to only participants in the USA.

We have yet to receive the two promotional copies of S3B3: A Wind in the Night, but considering this is Dec. 1st, we think it is time to get started.

Here we are again for the first in four new raffles for a novel from the Noble Dead Saga shipped to your door. Our first prize up is a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark…

Please follow the instructions below so your entry is confirmed on the first submission. This raffle is open to only readers in the USA…

Time for a general update on things present and future at NobleDead.org. We will save the best for last… you know which one that is.

Victimized by Spam… and Google

The Google Blogger system on which we currently run NobleDead.org has one of the worst, non-customizable anti-spam systems ever seen. Even now, we process up to a dozen spam comments per day on the site, though most of our real followers now use our social satellite pages to comment.

Turning on required logins for comments is also not an option. Google only recognizes its own system logins and those of blog systems it has absorbed. We will not do that to those who drop by. And so…

The final detail—the title—of the next volume in the Noble Dead Saga has been settled after consulting with our editor. Series 3, Book 3 is officially titled…

A Wind in the Night

We will add it to the books listing at NobleDead.org, though further details are still pending. This next volume will again contain three stories intertwined.

You will briefly step back to the end of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark and catch up from there with Wynn Hygeorht, Chane Andraso, and Chap’s daughter, the black majay-hi called called Shade… as well as one other character we will not mention for fear of spoilers linked to the current book.

Nested within the first tale is a second one out of the past providing missing pieces and possible implications of how that fourth character was transformed. All four of these protagonists stumble upon a new adversary, perhaps linked to an old enemy they have faced more than once. And in their search for clues to another orb, they must protect a young sage from his own past.

And of course, the third tale intertwined with these two moves forward with Magiere, Leesil, and Chap, as they head onward in their own search for another orb, one of the lost Anchors of Creation. Along the way, something else begins to change with one of their other two companions that presents them with a puzzle. And there are more threats to their endeavors than they may be aware of.

As soon as cover art, content description, or other details come available for S3B3: A Wind in the Night, you will hear of it first if you stay tuned to various Noble Dead news and social outlets. In the meantime, do not forget that a whole separate series of adventures in the world of the Noble Dead begins in less than six weeks.

Excerpts for the first volume in the new Mist-Torn Witches series by Barb are now available in the “Books” page at both NobleDead.org and BarbHendee.org.

Cheryl Minekime wins the surprise fourth signed hardbound first editions of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark.

Even now, Cheryl’s prize is in the mail and on its way to her doorstep. This concludes the sixth and final round of this current series of six raffles for signed volumes from the Noble Dead Saga.

Once again, we wish to thank all of you who got involved in this raffle series. If you were not one of the lucky winners, do not be too sad. More raffles will come in the future, one of them tentatively scheduled for late May.

And now it is time for Barb and J.C. to get to work on more offerings to come. Stayed tuned for some more breaking news to come later today, now that J.C. has finished a tiny bit more code work on our sites.

The current raffle for a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark ended as of midnight last night. Hopefully all of you got your entry in before the deadline.

The winner selected via use of Random.org has been notified via email and has 48 hours to respond with verification of shipping address. If no response is received, a new winner is selected and verification repeats. Come Monday we should have either a winner to announce or notification of a redraw process. And now…

There is about 17 hours left in the Sixth and final raffle for a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark. It all ends tonight, Friday, at Midnight PST. So if you have not entered yet…

Please see the “original post” and follow the instructions so your entry is confirmed in your first submission.

This raffle is only open to participants in the USA.

We have not done a general update since before the first of the year for “Tales from the world of the Noble Dead Saga.” There are a few changes to come, though they will not affect our current readers.

One thing noticed is that though these privately published short stories and novellas are doing fairly well, their readership is pretty limited to fans of the Noble Dead Saga. We would like to see Tales reach a slightly broader audience. We do our best to make them accessible to anyone, including those who have never read any volume of the saga. And so, some changes will be made to Tales “packaging” where coming works are concerned…

It is time for the sixth and final raffle in this series for books from the Noble Dead Saga. And since we know some people still want it…

For the fourth time, the prize is a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark. Please follow the instructions below so your entry is confirmed on the first submission.

This raffle is open to only readers in the USA.

Jessica DiPilato wins the third of three signed hardbound first editions of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark.

Jessica’s prize will be in the mail by tomorrow and on its way to her doorstep. This concludes the fifth of the current series of six raffles for signed volumes from the Noble Dead Saga.

And now, since we know that you want to know what is next for the final raffle…

The current raffle for a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark ended as of midnight last night. Hopefully all of you got your entry in before the deadline.

The winner selected via use of Random.org has been notified via email and has 48 hours to respond with verification of shipping address. If no response is received, a new winner is selected and verification repeats. Come Monday we should have either a winner to announce or notification of a redraw process.

After that, we will let all of you know when the next and final sixth raffle will begin and what the prize will be. And yes, you may enter each raffle regardless of winning a previous prize.

Just a heads up. The fifth raffle for a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark ends this coming Friday at Midnight, PST. So if you have not entered yet…

Please see the “original post” and follow the instructions so your entry is confirmed in your first submission.

This raffle is only open to participants in the USA.

Here we are again for the fitfth in six raffles for books from the Noble Dead Saga. We are a little late in this announcement, as Barb and J.C. are already addressing rewrites for the saga’s next volume for next December.

And once again, the prize for the raffle is a signed hardbound first edition of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark. Please follow the instructions below so your entry is confirmed on the first submission.

This raffle is open to only readers in the USA.