Indie Ink Award Voting now open!!

Voting open for two weeks only from December 15th, 2023.

Books by marginalized authors, self-published books, and books by small presses often get overlooked. The Indie Ink Awards is a unique event that brings together the writing community to celebrate books that have made an impact on us. This is our way of highlighting the future we want to see in books–by uplifting those that shine.

We have two categories: the “Best In” awards and the “Writing The Future We Need” awards. The “Best In” awards should exemplify the chosen category. We are looking for exceptional inclusion and diversity in works nominated for “Writing the Future We Need” awards.

You can vote for one of my books in the following categories which readers nominated my books for. You have one vote per category:

Sentinals Across Time	Best book cover and cover artist, Best friendship, Best mentor character, Best setting, This Book Made Me Hungry/Thirsty
Sentinals Awaken	Best book cover and cover artist, Best friendship, Best mentor character, Best setting, This Book Made Me Hungry/Thirsty
Sentinals Banished	Best book cover and cover artist, Best friendship, Best mentor character, Best setting, This Book Made Me Hungry/Thirsty
Sentinals Justice	Best audio narration, Best book cover and cover artist, Best friendship, Best setting, Side Character MVP
Sentinals Recovery	Best book cover and cover artist, Best friendship, Best mentor character, Best setting, Side Character MVP

I hope you vote today! You need an Indie Story Geek account to vote.

Find out how to create an account and vote here.

Once you have an account you may click on the book image to go to the book page to vote.

The ten books from each award with the most votes at the end of the year will move on to the finalist stage, where our reader judges will read and score them from February until August.

You can find the complete Sentinal Series in ebook or on Kindle Unlimited or purchase the print copies from a vendor of choice:

Book One: Sentinals Awaken

Book Two: Sentinals Rising

Book Three: Sentinals Justice

Book 3.5: Sentinals Recovery

Boook Four: Sentinals Across Time

Book Five: Sentinals Banished

Book Six: Sentinals Destiny

If you would like to read an ARC for my future novels, then sign up to my ARC team via the link in my linktr.ee. All I ask is that you leave an honest review on the week of the launch to as many platforms as you can!! (Amazon/Goodreads/Bookbub)

If you enjoy fantasy books then you will love my epic fantasy Sentinal series or the Romantic Fantasy SoulMist series. As a new threat against Remargaren is discovered, only one man can wake the ancient guards who can protect them, only he doesn’t know how. Start the adventure and stay for the journey. Sign up to my newsletter and download a free novella called Sentinals Stirring and get notified when my next books are published.

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Cover Reveal – SoulBreather

Book one of the Soul Mist Series

Pre-order Realm of Darkness boxset now

Release Day: October 4th, 2022

So excited to reveal the cover of SoulBreather, Book One of the SoulMist series, my contribution to the paranormal fantasy boxset, Realm of Darkness.

Book Description

If you fall in love with the shadows, does that mean you are fallen too?
A dying angel. A fractured realm. The SoulBreather who might be able to save them both.

Solanji has a secret. One that is becoming increasingly difficult to keep. She can touch souls and see into a person’s inner thoughts.

Soulbreathing is exhilarating and addictive, until the day Solanji caresses the wrong person’s soulmist. Dragged into a long forgotten angelic mystery, she is forced to venture into Eidolon, the godforsaken last resort for those without souls. She rescues a broken and tortured man named Mav, but he is not what he seems.

Can Solanji save Mav from the shadows? Does he even want to be saved? And can she find a way to return to the light before the darkness engulfs them both?

Realm of Darkness Boxset

When darkness falls, beware of the creatures that come out to play…
Fall under their spell over and over again in this ultimate paranormal and fantasy romance boxset! Over 40 full-length novels with heart melting heroes and devastating anti-heroes, full of romance, magic, mystery, and adventure can be yours for an insanely low price.

Ready to be swept away? Your book boyfriends are waiting… Enemies-to-lovers, alphas, fae, werewolves, dragons, shapeshifters, vampires, gods, angels, demons, and more: with novels ranging from sweet to spicy, there’s a flavor to sate your every craving.

You won’t find these exclusive novels anywhere else, so don’t miss your chance. Over ten thousand pages by New York Times, USA Today, and International bestselling authors and at less than three cents per book, this collection is a steal, but only for a limited time. Grab it today before it’s gone forever…

The REALM OF DARKNESS authors are running a year-long Rafflecopter with new entry options added every week as each RoD author hosts their own Cover Reveal takeover! http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/637f852e2/? All you have to do is follow the link to the Rafflecopter page. Once there, select “Leave a Comment on a Blog Post” and it’ll show you that week’s question. Click the link in the question and Rafflecopter will send you back to the facebook post to post your answer. Then return to the Rafflecopter page, click “I Commented!” and you’ll be entered to win. Come back every week to answer another question about the featured takeover book and get another entry. That’s up to 40 chances to win!

Goodreads Giveaway – Sentinals Recovery

Book 3.5 of the Sentinal Series

Pre-order eBook / Paperback now!

Release Day: December 2nd, 2021

Love Fantasy? Enter this giveaway for the latest book from my award winning Sentinal Series: Sentinals Recovery

Join the adventure and shelve the book!

Giveaway open Nov 16-Dec 1st 2021. Giveaway only open to readers in the US. Sorry – that is a Goodreads restriction!

Goodreads Giveaway

Sentinals Recovery by Helen Garraway

Being released December 02 2021

Giveaway ends on December 01, 2021

Availability: 100 copies available

Giveaway dates: Nov 16 – Dec 01, 2021

Countries available: U.S.

Enter Giveaway

Blurb

Sentinals Recovery is a novella set in the world of Remargaren. It occurs immediately after the battle at Oprimere. Although this is a complete story, the reader would benefit from reading the first three books in the series.

Birlerion is recovering from the near fatal injuries he received in his second, epic battle with the Ascendants. He returns home to Greenswatch to recuperate and finally meet his Darian stallion, Kin’arol, who has been waiting, somewhat impatiently, to bond with him.

Only Kin’arol is not there. Someone has stolen him. For such a distinctive horse, he has vanished into thin air.

Though not fully recovered, and still hampered by his injuries, Birlerion sets off, accompanied by his brother Versillion, to recover his horse. Not even Assassins, belligerent Terolians or the harsh Terolian desert will stop him from bonding with Kin’arol, though his failing body might

Get ready for Book 3.5 – Purchase the first book Sentinals Awaken now:

Book One: Sentinals Awaken

Book Two: Sentinals Rising

Book Three: Sentinals Justice

Book 3.5: Sentinals Recovery (Preorder)

Cover Reveal – Sentinals Recovery

Book 3.5 of the Sentinal Series

Pre-order eBook now!

Release Day: December 2nd, 2021

Sentinals Recovery is a novella set in the world of Remargaren, though at 55k words it is technically a book! I hadn’t intended writing this book, but I couldn’t physically fit this piece of the story into the third book, and if you’ve read the second book Sentinals Rising, you’ll know how important it is that Birlerion meets his Darian.

Sentinals Recovery releases on December 2nd just in time for Christmas!

If you would like to read an ARC for my latest novel, then sign up to my ARC team via the link in my linktr.ee. All I ask is that you leave an honest review on the week of the launch, December 2nd.