Holiday Giveaway and Book News

Events, gifts, congrats, and opportunities

Hi folks, Christmas is nigh and I want to share some updates with you, invite you to a live event, and offer you a holiday giveaway, as well as highlight a few special opportunities for my fellow writers.

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First off, thank you for sharing your reactions to my new novel Acid Christmas with me! I’ve loved your reviews, feedback, photos, reels, DMs, emails, and support. Thank you SO much.

A few images sent to me by Vipers and Reading Raccoon friends!

Also, if you are a Reading Raccoon or a paid VIPer member of this Lagoon and you signed up to receive the Acid Christmas goodies in the snail mail, you should have already received your special package from me. They even arrived on time to Canada, though USPS said they probably wouldn’t. A real Christmas miracle!

If you signed up, but haven’t yet received your package, please email me. I think they’ve all been delivered, but I could be wrong.

Me signing all the paperbacks that went out.

Holiday Giveaway

And in the spirit of giving, I’m doing a giveaway open to ALL my subscribers. The winner will receive the Acid Christmas ebook + the secret prologue chapter/deleted scene to Acid Christmas + a free VIPer membership to this Lagoon that will be good for life.

The Lagoon Viper membership includes access to the complete Lagoon archives, free entry to any workshop or event I host, replays to past workshops, and a signed copy of any new book I publish.

To enter this giveaway, share this post or any Lagoon post in my archives, and leave a comment or email me letting me know that you shared it. Sharing can be in the form of sending it as an email to a friend, texting it, tweeting it, sharing it to Substack Notes, FB, etc.

I’ll pick a random winner this Saturday the 23rd of December and send your gifts right away using the email you’ve subscribed to this email/Substack list with.

An Event: Cultural Futurist Event and Acid Christmas Reading

In other news, tomorrow at 4 pm EST I’ll be giving an Acid Christmas reading at a virtual salon discussion called Total Renaissance hosted by the Cultural Futurist. The Cultural Futurist is a great space, and I also attended their last salon on AI and Music, which was an awesome experience!

The host,

Rachel Haywire

, whom I’ve gotten to know a bit online and in real life, is a super creative individual, an excellent writer, and a stellar event moderator.

Details on how to attend are here:

Official! Event Program, Lineup, and Schedule for Total Renaissance Salon

Congrats and Opportunities for Writers

Also, congrats to Jennifer Marra who won the Acid Christmas giveaway hosted by Lainey Cameron, my Writers’ Support Group co-host.

Lainey is also currently running enrollments for an amazing book launch course called 12 Weeks to Book Launch Success for traditionally published and self-published authors, as well as a scholarship for the program. Apply by December 31st.

Before becoming a bestselling fiction author, Lainey did marketing for a big tech company. She 100% knows her stuff. I audited and reviewed her course and it’s fantastic and incredibly detailed. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to publish a finished book.

Likewise, author

D.S. Davis

, whose novels I love and who helped me edit Acid Christmas is offering a holiday sale on novel edits. If you need your manuscript edited, he is doing a flat-rate editing deal that is WAY below market value, but only for people who book before the end of this year.

D.S. Davis, author and editor.

And Speaking of the End of the Year

Folks, as Christmas draws near, I shall soon end my Acid Christmas-related transmissions to you. I’ve talked a lot about this new book, so thank you for listening and for reading! But, I swear, after Christmas, I’m done talking about it! Haha. At least until next Christmas, when I may reactivate like a vampire version of Mariah Carey and bring back Acid Christmas, along with the audiobook version, which wasn’t able to be finished this year due to the narrator getting too sick to complete the project on time.

In the new year, we will be moving onto more cool things in this Lagoon space, including a new psychedelic book ranking system I’ve developed with a talented Toronto artist using the proceeds from your paid membership! Thank you!

Plus, I’ll be finishing writing my next book, tentatively titled Under the Maloca, which will conclude my Psychedelic Love Series trilogy, and I’ll bring you along with me on that journey, too.

Thank you again for reading!

Happy Holidays!

XXXXOOO

Charlotte Dune

P.S. I have cross-sent this email to my Writers’ Support Group list, so if you get this message twice, I apologize. Still figuring out how to have multiple email lists successfully. The Writers’ Support Group weekly zoom meetings are currently on holiday break and will resume January 18th.