Kingdom of Yakim

Long time no talk! Sorry I have been gone for a while but I’m back and I need your help!

A while ago I made a Snow Like Ashes project for Sara Raasch’s birthday! So many of you participated and it was so amazing! I am greatful to all those who participated! I am now working on a new project and I am hoping you all will help me once again.

ANYONE who has read Snow Like Ashes or any book in the series that wants to be apart of this project/wants more info, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MESSAGE ME!! You can send me a message on here or Twitter @KingdomofYakim

I promise I will do all the work, I just need y’all to reach out to me! The more Winterians the better! Please help spread the word. Tell anyone you know that has read the series!!

Thank you so much!! -Melany xoxoxo

Long time no talk! Sorry I have been gone for a while but I’m back and I need your help!

A while ago I made a Snow Like Ashes project for Sara Raasch’s birthday! So many of you participated and it was so amazing! I am greatful to all those who participated! I am now working on a new project and I am hoping you all will help me once again.

ANYONE who has read Snow Like Ashes or any book in the series that wants to be apart of this project/wants more info, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MESSAGE ME!! You can send me a message on here or Twitter @KingdomofYakim

I promise I will do all the work, I just need y’all to reach out to me! The more Winterians the better! Please help spread the word. Tell anyone you know that has read the series!!

Thank you so much!! -Melany xoxoxo

ONE! WEEK! FROM! TODAY!

I couldn’t very well let FROST LIKE NIGHT’s ONE WEEK BIRTHDAY EVE pass without celebration, now could I? So for those of you who have read books 1 & 2 (because, I’m warning you now, SPOILERS), I have a never-before-seen chapter from ICE LIKE FIRE! 

Yes, a WHOLE CHAPTER!

But WAIT, THERE’S MORE! 

Since Ceridwen’s POV is in FROST LIKE NIGHT, it seemed appropriate that this deleted scene should be too! Some of you might remember that the Wattpad story, FLAMES LIKE VINES, came about because Ceridwen’s POV was originally in ILF. Well, the chapter I present to you today comes after FLAMES LIKE VINES, and would’ve fit into ILF between Chapters 27 and 28, when Meira and her whole group are in Ventralli. Ceridwen has just left the big official monarch-meeting with the Ventrallan king, Jesse, and she’s a bit … shaken up about things. 

(Seriously, spoilers for ICE LIKE FIRE)

Chapter under the cut! 

And don’t forget to vote in the Autumn Join the Blizzard contest!

The Top Four have been chosen – voting begins NOW! Vote for your favorite Join the Blizzard entry! The Ultimate Winner, as chosen by YOU, will be announced on FLN’s release day, September 20!

And let me just take a moment to say: HOLY WOW. Each Join the Blizzard contest has just gotten better and better over the years (OMG how is it that I can actually say “over the years” now, wow guys we’ve been together a long time). And yet, you all still BLOW ME AWAY with your talent, your creativity, your passion for SLA, and your overall sense of community and support and delicious, delightful fangirling over each other. 

So even if your entry wasn’t chosen as a finalist, PLEASE know that even picking these Top Four was one of the hardest choices I’ve had to make in these contests so far. I even enlisted the help of Husband, and we spent a good long while staring at every entry, making lists, remaking lists, discussing certain entries over others, and just generally being wowed by the level of GLORY each of you shows. 

The paintings, the drawings, the quote graphics, the SONGS (OMG Husband and I just stared slack-jawed at that one, I will never not be impressed by people who can SINGGGGG), the poems!, the CUPCAKES, the hours and hours of work each of you put into these creations – there are no words to tell you how amazed I am, how grateful, and how much I adore you.

BRING ON THE QUESTIONS, ALL THE QUESTIONS

Mather: Is wrestling an Olympic sport? (I didn’t really watch it…so, I might make some of this up, heh) If it is, he’d be all over it.

Theron: Swimming. He’s sleek.

I KNOW RIGHT. They so prettyyyyyyy.

Have you entered yet? The top four entries will be chosen in ONE WEEK!

Also, remember to submit your #FrostLikeNight Predictions!

WINTERIANS!

Okay so I know it isn’t autumn yet, but due to FROST LIKE NIGHT’s earlier release date (which is actually TWO DAYS before the first day of Autumn, FATE), we’re doing the Autumn Join the Blizzard contest a wee bit differently this year. 

We’re also doing it a wee bit differently because…brace yourselves…this will be the LAST regular Join the Blizzard contest!

No need to cry! This doesn’t mean there won’t be future SLA-themed contests – this merely means that those contests will be more sporadic, and might not always be on every season. 

But now, since this is such an epic, unusual Join the Blizzard contest…what is going down??

The Summer Join the Blizzard contest served to get all ya’ll rallying behind your designated kingdoms. But with war LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY, it’s important to remember what we’re fighting for. 

So for this contest, you will need to create something to honor your favorite aspect of the SLA trilogy: a graphic of your favorite quote, a song for your OTP, a video of your preferred city, a drawing of your favorite character, anything! Plaster your love online and put a link to it in the Rafflecopter form below. You have until September 12, when the top four will be chosen by me, announced by the War Council, and put to a public vote from September 13-19. The winner, as selected by the WHOLE WIDE WORLD, will be announced on FROST LIKE NIGHT’s release day, September 20.

And that winner will receive a complete hardcover set of the trilogy, not only signed, but ANNOTATED! That’s right – SNOW LIKE ASHES, ICE LIKE FIRE, AND FROST LIKE NIGHT, all with my mindless scribblings and mental notes and behind-the-scenes details in the margins. 

Onward, Winterians! (And Cordellans, Spring, Autumnians, Yakimians…eh, you’re all honorary Winterians, right?)

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TOMORROW. Tune in for one epic, intense, whirlwind of a contest!

But whatever will this contest be about? The War Council has been doling out teasers for the past few days, highlighting their favorite aspects of their kingdoms. 

Hmmmm…

TOMORROW. Tune in for one epic, intense, whirlwind of a contest!

But whatever will this contest be about? The War Council has been doling out teasers for the past few days, highlighting their favorite aspects of their kingdoms. 

Hmmmm…