biancadarc.com Blog » Contests http://biancadarc.com/blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 March Excitement at ARe http://biancadarc.com/blog/2010/03/01/march-excitement-at-are/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2010/03/01/march-excitement-at-are/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:34:17 +0000 Bianca D'Arc http://biancadarc.com/blog/?p=717 The Hunt is On

Check out AllRomanceEbooks.com every day in March for great deals and awesome freebies – including one from me! Here’s the official announcement:

FANTASTIC rebates this month!
- Phaze titles will be rebated 25% for the first 2 weeks
- Samhain, Loose Id, Kensington, Penguin, and Harlequin (all imprints) will be rebated 25% for the entire month
- All Ravenous Romance titles will be $2.99 for the last 2 weeks of the month.

Prizes
Daily – A free download (by the featured author) and a $10.00 OmniBucks certificate
Grand Prize – An iPod Touch, pre-loaded with 31 Books (one from each featured author) and a $100.00 OmniBucks certificate

The official line-up:
Our March 1 Featured Author is Cat Johnson
Our March 2 Featured Author is Brenna Lyons
Our March 3 Featured Author is Claire Thompson
Our March 4 Featured Author is Mari Carr
Our March 5 Featured Author is Selena Kitt
Our March 6 Featured Author is Bianca D’Arc
Our March 7 Featured Author is G.A. Hauser
Our March 8 Featured Author is Stormy Glenn
Our March 9 Featured Author is Dee Dawning
Our March 10 Featured Author is Tilly Greene
Our March 11 Featured Author is Charlene Teglia
Our March 12 Featured Author is Cat Grant
Our March 13 Featured Author is Eden Bradley
Our March 14 Featured Author is Cherise Sinclair
Our March 15 Featured Author is Shara Azod
Our March 16 Featured Author is Samantha Sommersby
Our March 17 Featured Author is Beverly Rae
Our March 18 Featured Author is Marie Harte
Our March 19 Featured Author is Zena Wynn
Our March 20 Featured Author is Marie Rochelle
Our March 21 Featured Author is Jamieson Wolf
Our March 22 Featured Author is K.F. Zuzulo
Our March 23 Featured Author is J.M. Snyder
Our March 24 Featured Author is Moira Rogers
Our March 25 Featured Author is Annmarie McKenna
Our March 26 Featured Author is Lorelei James
Our March 27 Featured Author is Eliza Gayle
Our March 28 Featured Author is Maya Banks
Our March 29 Featured Author is Jamie Craig
Our March 30 Featured Author is Vivian Arend
Our March 31 Featured Author is Lissa Matthews

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Sexy Saturday http://biancadarc.com/blog/2010/01/16/sexy-saturday/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2010/01/16/sexy-saturday/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:00:52 +0000 Bianca D'Arc http://biancadarc.com/blog/?p=584 Sexy Saturday

Trying something new on The D’Arc Side… Stella Price had this cool idea to post a little contest each Saturday. I loved the idea and decided to play along.

The contest goes like this: I post part of a love scene from one of my books and you tell me what sort of music or a particular song that you think would best fit the scene. I’ll pick the answer I think is closest and post the winner on Monday. The winner gets a free PDF download of the book. Sound good? All right, let the reading and music musing commence!

Here’s a little snippet from my latest release – CAT’S CRADLE – which just came out in ebook formats from Samhain last Tuesday. Enjoy!

Gina awoke to kisses. A hot mouth trailed wet, licking kisses down her arm and while the tongue was a little rough, it was way too big to be her cat’s.

“Cade?” Her sleepy voice was rough to her own ears.

“You’re safe, Ellie,” he whispered into her ear, his mouth trailing over her neck and onto her other arm.

Safe? She wasn’t so sure. “Uh… did Gina and your friend get out of town okay?” Elaine rose up on one elbow blinking awake, then pushed herself up to a sitting position.

Cade gave her only a little room as he sat on the edge of the bed, looking at her with those almost reflective silvery blue eyes. They disconcerted her. They distracted her. They turned her on.

“The Escort met them just outside of town. They should be okay.” Cade trailed the fingers of one hand down her arm, raising goose flesh.

“Stop that.” Elaine moved away, but he stalked her, not letting her put space between them.

“Stop what?” He moved closer.

“You know what you’re doing. Knock it off.” Her voice was a breathless whisper as he closed in on her.

She scooted backward against the headboard, unable to move farther away. Cade prowled forward, hovering over her, his breath warming her cheek as he lowered his head.

“Just give me one kiss, sweetheart. I want to taste you.”

Something rippled to life within her as he came closer. His hair draped forward a tad, framing both their faces in darkness as his lips grazed over hers.

She was a goner at the first brush of his lips. She succumbed with a gasp of pure desire. He took full advantage of the small opening. His talented tongue dipped into her mouth, drawing out her response, making her surrender her pleasure. She’d never felt anything like it. He commanded and coaxed in equal measure and beyond the startling sensations coursing through her body, she couldn’t focus on anything else.

When Cade lowered her to a reclining position beneath him on the soft mattress, she went willingly. His arms boxed her in, but she reveled in his possession. The soft ends of his hair trailed over her cheeks adding their own caress to the harsh male demand of his body over hers.

If you can’t wait and want to read more right now(!), you can purchase the book from Samhain Publishing HERE. :)

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Win a Copy of HALF PAST DEAD http://biancadarc.com/blog/2010/01/10/win-a-copy-of-half-past-dead/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2010/01/10/win-a-copy-of-half-past-dead/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:32:29 +0000 Bianca D'Arc http://biancadarc.com/blog/?p=580

Comment on this post to be entered in a drawing for a free copy of HALF PAST DEAD and as much D’Arc Side SWAG as we can fit in the envelope. :) Winner will be drawn and announced on the blog next week. Good luck!

(To get an extra chance at winning, snag the graphic and spread the word by linking it to this post, then let us know in your comment where you posted it and we’ll give you an extra entry.) ;)

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Enter to Win a Cool*er Ebook Reader! http://biancadarc.com/blog/2009/08/05/482/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2009/08/05/482/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:00:11 +0000 Bianca D'Arc http://biancadarc.com/blog/2009/08/05/482/

Get Cool*er this summer!

We know this summer’s been a scorcher, that’s why a group of us have teamed up to offer you a chance to find some fun new books and win a brand new Cool*er eReader to read them on!

We know this summer’s been a scorcher, that’s why a group of us have teamed up to offer you a chance to find some fun new books and win a brand new Cool*er eReader to read them on!This device weighs about 6 ounces, is the size of a trade paperback, is totally sleek, and sells for $249.99 (cheaper than the Sony or the Kindle). The Cool*er uses  eInk technology and will read PDF, EPUB, FB2, RTF, TXT, HTML, PRC, JPG AND MP3. More importantly, thanks to Leila Brown, Bianca D’Arc, Eliza Gayle, Cat Johnson, and Samantha Sommersby, it could be yours. As a bonus we’ll even pre load it with a book from each sponsoring author!

We know this summer’s been a scorcher, that’s why a group of us have teamed up to offer you a chance to find some fun new books and win a brand new Cool*er eReader to read them on!This device weighs about 6 ounces, is the size of a trade paperback, is totally sleek, and sells for $249.99 (cheaper than the Sony or the Kindle). The Cool*er uses  eInk technology and will read PDF, EPUB, FB2, RTF, TXT, HTML, PRC, JPG AND MP3. More importantly, thanks to Leila Brown, Bianca D’Arc, Eliza Gayle, Cat Johnson, and Samantha Sommersby, it could be yours. As a bonus we’ll even pre load it with a book from each sponsoring author!To enter the contest simply send an email to coolercontest@gmail.com with the word “Contest” in the subject*. You must include your snail mail address.

Would you like a bonus chance entry to win?  All you have to do is share the contest widget by clicking on the graphic above to get to the contest post on Eliza’s blog (she has the Sprout widget posted), click on the “share” button on the widget, copy the code and paste it on your blog, website or MySpace page. Then tell us in the comments section exactly where you’ve posted it.  If you don’t have a blog, you can Tweet the details or post it on a message board.

Every time you share the image it counts as another entry.

*Entrants will be added to authors mailing lists

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Winner! http://biancadarc.com/blog/2009/04/09/winner-3/ http://biancadarc.com/blog/2009/04/09/winner-3/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:00:13 +0000 Bianca D'Arc http://biancadarc.com/blog/2009/04/09/winner-3/

First, I’d like to thank you all for your insightful responses. I learned a lot! And now, without further ado, the Lucky Seven winners are…

  1. Maggie J
  2. Connie Barkowski
  3. Annalisa
  4. Sandie
  5. VenetiaJane
  6. michelle in colorado
  7. Valerie Oakley

Congratulations! Please email me at biancadarc at live.com with your mailing address so I can send you your packages. I’ll do my best to get them out before RT, but if you don’t send me your address in time, it’ll have to be mailed out after RT. Just FYI. ;-)

Thanks for playing! :D  

 

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