Tour Managers Selected for Sinner’s Gin

On 29 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Free Stuff, Good News40 Comments

Well, this was honestly the most difficult contest I’ve ever run because there was such a huge response and GOD I wanted to give you all a city. I really did.

I have chosen EIGHTEEN tour managers for Sinner Gin’s World Tour. They will get to decide 18 of the stops the band makes. I already have a few on hold so we’ll hopefully hit every continent.

The list is as follows. If you see your name, please list your city here then email me at rhysford (at) vitaenoir (dot) com about your ARC. If you’ve preordered Whiskey and Wry, I can substitute out something else. If you are a First or Second Beta, I…um…shit, I’ve got nothing. Um…email me anyway and we DEFINITELY will work something out. *grins*

Thank you all for entering. Really, I was so surprised to see the responses. Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy the book!

Here are the winners!

1 Danielle

4 nordicgirl_2013

7 jackiemckenzie

15 Deb Pridgeon

17 beverley jansen

20 diannakay

21 emd

32 lucy

33 Treasure

38 Renee

40 Dianne

45 Ka

51 Amanda Seal

56 Ely Ve

58 Jacquie

65 Dominique

68 Jules Lovestoread (Bowersox)

75 Shelley

CONTEST IS NOW OVER!

On 29 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Uncategorized3 Comments

The last hour has drawn and passed. I shall be rolling the random number machine and posting the winners! AND ARCs of Whiskey and Wry will be sent out. WOOOOOT!

A shot of Whiskey, a hint of Wry (excerpt from W&W)

On 28 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Excerpt16 Comments

Wow, we are SO close to release date!

Don’t forget….ONE DAY LEFT for the name a City Tour Contest! Three winners! You only have to comment to enter and you’ll get to name a city for the back of a Sinner’s Gin Tour Shirt!

Link to Contest!

Now to celebrate… I’m including an excerpt of Whiskey and Wry…which I am hiding under a cut for people who don’t want spoilers.

In other news, the steampunk short story? Yeah, that’s been optioned for a novella so I’m working on filling in the spots I hated leaving limp. *does happy dance* I have no idea what I’m doing with it. Really. So wish me luck. *grins* It at least has an ending.

And a hairless cat. *laughs*

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Noms

On 27 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Uncategorized

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On 27 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Uncategorized2 Comments

Opens Pretty Asian Boy Folder

On 26 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Nom2 Comments

Let’s see what I can find in there. I need to empty some of it out. Might as well do it here, ne? *grins* Zoom where applicable.

Rhys Ford’s Dirt and Sin Shop

On 26 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Good News20 Comments

Dirt and Sin Shop Link!

The shop is now open, live and kicking!

Get your Dirty Kiss and Sinner’s Gin merchandise. T-Shirts, mugs, coasters, eBook cases, mousepads and other sundries!

Sundries. Always a good word.

The Tour with Cities shirts will be added later. I’m going to only offer a few selections on that one. Not all of the shirts can be produced with a back printing.

For the phone cases, coasters, magnets and other stuff, I tried to choose an orientation that used the best space for the graphic. Not all can go horizontal. That was a hiss-boo on my part too. Sad panda face. The Sinners’ Skulls are kinda squarish so it doesn’t matter how they were turned.

What you see in the shop is what you get. That’s what they tell me. I’m gonna be ordering a few things myself. ‘Cause you know… stuff! I’m not doing a huge markup on the items. Hell, I think the most I’ve tagged is fifty cents and that’s just to pay for image costs. If you see something that you desperately want on a piece that I don’t have in the shop, drop me a line. 😀

I’ll be adding more designs as the series’ go on. Looking at a McGinnis Investigations and a Finnegan’s Pub shirt. Among other things….*grins*

Once again the link is: http://www.cafepress.com/rhysforddirtysin

And yes, the Korean on the Dirty Kiss shirt is kinda Konglish phonetic spelling of Dirty Kiss. *grins*

Merchandise Designs and Contests

On 25 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Good News, Heh8 Comments

Ah, T-Shirts. The BANE of my existence. Had to change up the old Dirty Kiss design because well… dudes, the main element was too expensive to purchase for en masse production but I also kinda wanted to switch up the feel of it. So I found another “girl” base and went to work on her so she fit the original colours and well, the look I wanted to achieve.

So… Here are the designs for the Dirty Kiss Gentlemens’ Club and the Sinner’s Gin World Tour Shirts. The SG shirts will vary a little bit between the dark and light shirts but not much. Black lettering on black does not show up well. *grins*

So once again, final designs. These will be on shirts and mugs. And a couple of them are on messenger bags. If there’s a desire to add a product, let me know. I’ll be posting the shop’s link in a bit.

As for the contest! Wow, nice response from all of you. If you win and have already preordered W&W, I’m sure we can come to an understanding or something. Perhaps a read of Fish and Ghosts? *grins*

There will be some major cities on the Tour but I’m going to wait until after the contest is over before I select the rest in case of a double up. So please, no worries. We’ll hit all the large land masses 😀

Rhys Ford’s Whiskey and Wry up for Pre-Order!

On 24 Jul 1324 Jul 13 By Rhys FordIn Good News9 Comments

Yes all, less than a month to go and Whiskey and Wry has hit the pre-order page.

Even better, it’ll be on sale until July 26th, 2013 in Dreamspinner’s celebration of Marriage Equality in the UK!

Grab an ebook or a paperback.

Link to pre-order: Whiskey and Wry

Whiskey and Wry
Sequel to Sinner’s Gin • Sinners Series: Book Two

He was dead. And it was murder most foul. If erasing a man’s existence could even be called murder.

When Damien Mitchell wakes, he finds himself without a life or a name. The Montana asylum’s doctors tell him he’s delusional and his memories are all lies: he’s really Stephen Thompson, and he’d gone over the edge, obsessing about a rock star who died in a fiery crash. His chance to escape back to his own life comes when his prison burns, but a gunman is waiting for him, determined that neither Stephen Thompson nor Damien Mitchell will escape.

With the assassin on his tail, Damien flees to the City by the Bay, but keeping a low profile is the only way he’ll survive as he searches San Francisco for his best friend, Miki St. John. Falling back on what kept him fed before he made it big, Damien sings for his supper outside Finnegan’s, an Irish pub on the pier, and he soon falls in with the owner, Sionn Murphy. Damien doesn’t need a complication like Sionn, and to make matters worse, the gunman—who doesn’t mind going through Sionn or anyone else if that’s what it takes kill Damien—shows up to finish what he started.