Edita A. Petrick's Blog

I have run giveaway campaigns for Ribbons of Death and The Harmony Scroll, and as a result, gathered quite a few reviews. However, every day I get a review Amazon removes one - to date they've removed legitimate and totally legal (80% of them fully verified purchases) 30+ reviews for Ribbons of Death and close to 2o reviews for The Harmony Scroll.

I'd just like to take this opportunity and reach out to all those readers who reviewed one or both books, to thank them for their effort and to let them know that I greatly appreciate their reviews and, of course, the fact they read my books. At this point, Amazon's deeply flawed algorithms are rabidly moving across the site, removing totally legitimate reviews for many, many authors and since this is totally automated action - without a single living entity behind it - there is nothing that can be done. I can't keep up with cross-referencing reviews on Amazon, Barnes&Noble and Goodreads to see which ones they removed - all I see is one day review numbers go up and the next more are removed. It's become so frustrating that I had to speak out about it. Thank you and please, regardless of the rabid entity that Amazon has morphed into, if you feel you want to leave a review, please do so. I'll copy it quickly (hopefully) and soon I will have my new website so that's where I'll keep them safely out of harm's way :) Thanks again, Edita

I've read over my reviews for "The Cracked Shadow" and couldn't stop smiling. Most of the readers who won the book in the "Giveaway contest" enjoyed it but commented that it was a simple story - simple premise. And that's exactly what it is - first novel that for most authors must be simple or the execution of something more complex will get horribly botched. Many years ago, one author friend of mine told me to pick a simple premise that would hold my attention for the duration of 300 pages and write a simple but well-done story. That, according to her, was the training novel that every author must produce and only then he or she can move on to more complex plots and more complicated characters. My friend helped me with editing of that novel and I learned a lot from writing "Shadow." In fact, without having written it, I would not have been able to move on to the increasingly more complex stories that are out there and those that are in the process of being published.

All the books have been sent to the winners.

Those winners who live outside of North American continent, should be patient as it takes upward of three to four weeks for the parcel-mail to reach them.

Thank you to all who entered my Goodreads Book Give-away event.

"Burning Spiral" book will be sent this week to the eight winners.

My latest romantic thriller, The Heirloom, will be coming out from Vinspire Publishing this spring - that is if spring ever comes and snow stops falling. Watch for another contest to get a copy of this paranormal romantic suspense.

Mistress of Deceit is my latest romantic suspense novel that is coming out in May from Ellora's Cave.

Watch for my contest announcement of this newest release. Here is a brief plot premise of the novel:

Those you never knew shared the world with you, cannot become extinct.
That’s the paradox that brings together Niven and Ambrosia. She’s combing the beach for treasure when he walks out buff-naked from the surf. She’s an orthopedic surgeon and sees a collection of best limbs and musculature she’s ever come across. He’s a descendant of Avendar explorers stranded on Earth eight thousand years ago. He’s suddenly not sure he wants to keep walking towards a woman he’d secretly monitored for fifteen years. But he must…because if he doesn’t she’d not live through the night.

Ambrosia Severn is a talented young orthopedic surgeon, about to branch off in an exciting new direction in the field of limb replacement. That’s precisely why a predatory Siren wants her dead. And the man sent to keep Amy alive is the Siren’s betrothed.

I'm running a new contest for my two romantic suspense novels with Cerridwen Press/Ellora's Cave - Burning Spiral and Cold Scheme.

There are 8 trade paperbacks of each novel that will be sent to the winners of this contest.

I just wanted to say that I don't limit my audience to North America. In my last contest, I sent books to India, New Zealand, Poland, Bulgaria, Mexico, Australia - just to mention few.

All the winners - a totalof 20 - should have received their paperback copy of my novel, The Cracked Shadow. I'd like to thank all of you who have entered the contest. I'm running another one...hope you'll like these two books as well.