The Book Boyfriends of BEYOND FATE

In Fate of the Gods, there’s no shortage of book boyfriends for your reading pleasure – and BEYOND FATE, the third book in the trilogy, isn’t slacking when it comes to romantic male leads:

Looking for the tortured, soulful, loyal and trusting to a fault type? Thor is for you!

Prefer the bad boy who needs to be taught how to love? You’re definitely an Adam girl.

Want the boy next door, the best friend who won’t settle down seriously for anyone but his favorite anti-social girl? Marcus might be your true book-boyfriend love.

And poor Eve has her hands full avoiding their advances. Yes, I’ll admit it – there’s a love triangle (maybe even a square), but Fate of the Gods isn’t really about who Eve will choose for eternity. Eve doesn’t live her life with eternity in mind, for starters – she lives it like we do, one lifetime at a time. And that’s what makes her romances all the more difficult. Because no matter who she loves, they’re bound to die and so is she, to be reborn as a child somewhere new, somewhere different, and leave her children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren behind. And starting all over again, lifetime after lifetime, century after century, each one filled with more heartbreak than the last, it’s starting to take its toll.

The question then, in BEYOND FATE, isn’t who Eve will choose to love, to marry, to ride off with, into the sunset. The question is: After all these millennia and so much pain, can Eve find the strength to love at all?

And let me tell you, there are plenty of people depending on the answer to that question, starting with Eve’s daughter Elah, the new Goddess, and ending with the entirety of the world.

But don’t worry! Even if Eve can’t get a handle on her love life, it doesn’t have to stop you from enjoying all her book boyfriends to the fullest!

So who would you choose:

 

Thor, the God of Thunder?

Adam, the redeemable bad boy?

Or Marcus, the boy next door?

Amalia Dillin

Amalia Dillin began as a Biology major before taking Latin and falling in love with old heroes and older gods. After that, she couldn’t stop writing about them, with the occasional break for more contemporary subjects. Her short stories have been published by Daily Science Fiction and Birdville magazine, and she’s also the author of the FATE OF THE GODS series and HONOR AMONG ORCS, the first book in the Orc Saga. Amalia lives in upstate New York with her husband, and dreams of the day when she will own goats — to pull her chariot through the sky, of course.

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In honor of Book Boyfriends, here are a few of Dylan’s Favorites!!!

Daemon Black from Lux…YUM.

Ull Mhyr and Gunnar from ST. Bende’s Elsker

The boys of Reese Monroe’s Bound by Hades

And of course…Bran from Lia Riley’s Off the Map

I was lucky enough to work with the amazing Addison Kline for our first Facebook Takeover the other night and I have to say that I learned a ton! I never knew that there were so many things to keep in mind as bloggers and authors when it comes to something as simple as Facebook!

These are my notes to an author interested in doing a Facebook Takeover:

~It lasts an hour (This will keep things manageable for both authors and bloggers without interfering with other posts during the day.)

~The author will have to be made an Editor of the Facebook Page. Simply “liking” or “following” the page will not allow the access needed to schedule posts, images and videos. Also, with the new FB pages, posts by others don’t always show up on the main feed which would cut back on the amount of people that see the posts. (Not an admin-admin gives more rights than an author needs, the last thing anyone wants is someone getting blamed for something going wrong on someone else’s blog/fb page.) BLOGGERS, DON’T FORGET TO DELETE THE AUTHOR’S EDITOR STATUS AFTER THE TAKEOVER!

~Make sure there is a banner or some image that can be shared on the blog and social media (The author will want to share with their readers as well so that they can stop in.) This will help spread the word about the takeover, both FB pages involved in the takeover (the authors and the blogs), as well as get some recognition for the book cover and the author’s name, always put those on the banner if possible. Both the author and the blog should share the banner image to their social media a few times before the start of the takeover.

~Giveaways(typically these are provided by the author): Plan to have one or two giveaways during the hour. Offering up a $5 GiftCard or an e-book/ARC can really have an impact on the amount of interaction during the takeover. The author could even do something small, cheap and silly that relates to your book: Do the characters have a certain tattoo? Send out temporary tattoos to a few people. Did a character leave cute love notes using post-its? Send a lucky person a stack of post-its and one or two with notes from you or the character. You get my drift, I’m sure. (If I am doing a comment giveaway, I typically choose a winner using random.org to avoid any issues.)

~Trailers: If there is a book trailer it should be shared during the takeover. People really love these videos and it seems to help the sale of books from what I can see. (I am actually working on a book trailer for a friend now! If you need help with this just let me know and I will see what I can do.)

~Teasers: The author needs a large variety (I would say at least 4 or 5) of teaser images with quotes to share during the takeover. Make sure that each teaser post encourages people to like/comment/share the image, this can even be one of the giveaways, it’s easy to see in the settings who shares the images. As often as possible, put a link to the Amazon/B&N page for the book as part of the post, hopefully this will lead to a few purchases for the author!

~If the author has books coming out soon, it is important to share the cover, an excerpt (anything really) to help get word out about them.

~If the author is up to it and enjoys that sort of thing, meme challenges (have ppl create or find memes that fit your book) or games like best quote etc. (If you know you are going to have some of your current readers involved in it this is always fun.) are a lot of fun.

~The biggest thing to remember is this: Facebook takeovers are mainly handled by the author, however, it is important that the bloggers show up and participate as much as possible. The more comments and shares the better! While an author may be popular, it is still the bloggers page and it is imperative that they are seen monitoring things as well as helping out in any way possible to keep things moving.

~After our takeover I found that it may have been easier and “neater” for our FB page had I created a folder for the author to upload their images to. However, it’s not a big deal to go in and move them later on.

~It may be a good idea for the author to share any discussions, images, links, etc. that are going to be posted to the blogs FB page through email BEFORE the takeover. This way the bloggers have a good idea what to expect and know that nothing that isn’t appropriate for the blog is shared.

Okay..so I know that ended up being a TON of info…sowwie…I hope I didn’t overwhelm you! If this doesn’t help please let me know and I will see if I can come up with something a little less…long lol

Did I forget anything? If you have any thoughts or tips on how to make a Facebook takeover successful please comment and let us know!

I hope this doesn’t bother anyone…I know that it has nothing to do with reading or books…but maybe in a way it does. It seems like everything that we are shown, everything we read, everything we watch is filled with PERFECTION!

But wait…what does perfection even mean? Why can’t we realize that we ARE ALL PERFECT?!?

In the Wedding Dare series (Hey look, I need to make this book related some how right?) poor Sophie compares herself to the other drop dead gorgeous bridesmaids and is even terrified to be a bridesmaid for this exact reason! Maybe if we could all hear and see things like Sophie coming to terms with herself and her beauty as well as Colbie Caillat’s Try we would realize that no matter what we are or how we look…we are PERFECT!

This video literally had me in tears!

Don’t get me wrong, I totally encourage everyone to make healthy choices and to live in a way that makes you happy. What I am trying to say is that it is okay to not try so dang hard all the time!

Speaking of Sophie…why don’t you enter to win the Wedding Dare series!