Of­fi­cial site for the high/dark fan­tasy books of au­thors Barb Hendee and J. C. Hendee, in­clud­ing the Noble Dead Saga (a.k.a. The Noble Dead se­ries), the Mist-Torn Witches se­ries, the Vam­pire Mem­o­ries se­ries, and TNDS: Tales from the world of the Noble Dead Saga.

Noble Dead Raffle—NOW OPEN!

raffle_S2Time for the fourth of six bi-weekly raf­fles for au­thor signed copies of books from the Noble Dead Saga. This time out, some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent: a com­plete pa­per­back set of Se­ries/Phase 2:

S2B1: In Shade and Shadow
S2B2: Through Stone and Sea
S2B3: Of Truth and Beasts

So, get your entry in now (one per per­son) by fol­low­ing the in­struc­tions below so your entry is con­firmed on the first sub­mis­sion.

The raf­fle is open to only read­ers in the USA. Dead­line for re­ceipt of all en­tries is Fri­day, April 13th, Mid­night PST (via the time­stamp on the email you send for your entry). Go to our Con­tact page and sub­mit the fol­low­ing in­for­ma­tion:

Name: [First and Last in full]
Email: [where win­ners will be no­ti­fied]
Sub­ject: Noble Dead Raf­fle
Mes­sage:
Street Ad­dress, City, State, Zip Code

ABOUT EMAIL:

  1. Use an ac­count that you check at least once every­day.
  2. If you are screen­ing for spam by re­ject­ing HTML con­tent, white-list the “no­bledead.org” do­main in your mail pro­gram and/or server to be cer­tain you re­ceive no­ti­fi­ca­tion if you win a raf­fle. [We do not send di­rect email spam—ever!]
  3. Barb and J.C. have full con­trol of all par­tic­i­pant in­for­ma­tion; you will not be added to any form of mail­ing list. All en­tries are dis­carded/deleted once a raf­fle is com­plete.

Winner Selection Process

The fol­low­ing is the process for the raf­fle and award­ing of the prize.

  1. Each entry is checked upon arrival for complete contact and delivery information as required.
  2. Correct and complete entries are confirmed by email within 72 hours of being received. Incomplete entries are discarded and, if possible, the entrant is notified.
  3. After the raffle's closing date, all entries are checked for duplicates based on Name, Email, and Delivery Address. Clear duplicates are discarded. Indeterminate ones may receive an email query at our discretion.
  4. Verified entries are assigned a number by ordered of date/time received. The total number of entries is entered into a pure random number generator to select the winning entry. [See Random.org]
  5. The winner is notified and reconfirmation of delivery information is requested. The winner has 48 hours to respond. If no response is received, that entry is discarded and a new winner is selected according to Step 4.
  6. Upon confirmation of delivery information, the winner is announcement via NobleDead.org and its news distribution systems, including linked social systems.
  7. Delivery information is passed on to the publicity department of our publisher, and the winner will receive the indicated prize, usually within 10 business days.