Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Readers'
Virtual Scavenger Hunt \\ Welcome Hunters
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Keep scrolling for instructions on how to play. Access your hunter’s kit here to find free reads and fun for all participants.
Prize: a $15 Amazon gift card.
Every participant receives a “hunter’s kit’ which is like a digital swag bag with free e-books, fun printables, and more.
Hunter's Kit
Click the image below to access the prizes (opens into a new window tab) and free gifts for the hunters,
How to Play
1. Tackle the scavenger hunt prompts.
This challenge will require your knowledge of the urban fantasy genre and test your reading speed along with other skills.
Some of these prompts involve posting online. You can post on your own socials or share in a reader group. Use the hashtag #UFquest
- Take a screencap of a book with 40+ year old protagonist
- Read a Book/Short Story Written by a Indie author
- Watch a TV Series or Movie adapted from a book
- Find and share a UF book trailer
- Write a review for a UF book and post on Goodreads or another book platform.
- Share a fact about your favorite obscure mythical creature/cryptid in a reader group & ask for any book recs about it
- Take a picture of the closest UF book to you and post it to a reader group
- Post about your favorite witches, vampires, or werewolves in a reader group
- Read a UF Book set outside the US like in Latin America, Asia, or Africa
- Create Fanart/Fanfic of a Male Protagonist in UF (AI Generated is fine)
- Record a Tiktok/Livestream about your favorite book
- Make an online Shoutout for an author whose books you like and recommend your favorite book by them in a reader group or on your own social media.
Reader Groups to join & post your prompts:
- Sami Valentine Reader Group (Host Group)
- Fans of Indie Urban Fantasy (Host Group)
- All Slaying; No Laying Urban Fantasy (Host Group)
- Fans of Urban Fantasy
- Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Readers
- Janna Ruth’s Story Seeker
- Lynn Morrison’s Not a Book Club
- Rock the Cauldron
- The Raven’s Roost
- P.A.W.S. People
- Urban Fantasy Faction (Cindy Carroll’s Readers)
The prompts are assigned points with some weighted more than others. If you shared a book trailer for the Iron Druid series in the Fans of Urban Fantasy group, then that would earn you 1 point. Making a Tiktok video about the latest Zodiac Academy book would net you 3 points. You could have a strategy to complete a lot of 1-pointer prompts or a few 3-pointers to reach 8 points first.
After the first $15 gift card is claimed, you could still win the second gift game if you complete every prompt.
Some prompts require you to post in a reader group. You could post in my Fang Gang or elsewhere.
More hints/tips:
- Stream Blood Ties for free on the Tubi website. It’s an adaptation of about a 40+ year old detective and her vampire sidekick by Tanya Huff. The Vampire Diaries, Vampire Academy, Harry Potter, and other adaptions would count too.
- Use a phone to take pictures of book covers and more to post on Facebook.
- Search Youtube for the name of your favorite author and the keyword ‘book trailer.’
- There is a direct download .PDF to a short indie UF novel in the digital goodie bag for you to read.
2. Post your proof in a host group
Post screencaps and pictures of your proof in one of the host facebook groups by Dec. 18.
3. Earn 8 points first
The first to earn 8 points wins a $15 Amazon Gift Card. Each host group will have an 8 point winner.
Whoever earns all 24 points will be crowned a super fan and awarded a $25 Amazon Gift Card.
Every participant will receive a digital goodie bag. Access your goodie bag here.
FYI, At the end of the hunt, you’ll receive an offer to continue to receive urban fantasy themed newsletters. or to unsubscribe.
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How to Play:
– Enter your email at the hunt headquarters and then tackle the prompts. Scroll down to find them.
– Post screencaps and pictures of your proof in one of the host facebook groups (Fang Gang Urban Fantasy Readers or All Slaying; No Laying Urban Fantasy Books)
– The first to earn 8 points wins $15 Amazon gift card and the first to earn all 24 points wins the title of superfan and a $25 Amazon gift card! Every participant receives a digital swag bag with free e-books, fun printables, and more.
Join the Hunt here: https://samivalentine.com/elementor-3240
HOW TO EARN POINTS:
Some of these prompts involve posting in reader groups. You can choose the host groups or other reader groups. Use the hashtag #UFquest
1 Points
– Take a screencap of a book with 40+ year old protagonist
– Read a Book/Short Story Written by a Indie author
– Watch a TV Series or Movie adapted from a book
– Find and share a UF book trailer
2 Points
– Write a review for a UF book and post on Goodreads or another book platform.
– Share a fact about your favorite obscure mythical creature/cryptid in a reader group & ask for any book recs about it
– Take a picture of the closest UF book to you and post it to a reader group
– Post about your favorite witches, vampires, or werewolves in a reader group
3 Points
– Read a UF Book set outside the US like in Latin America, Asia, or Africa
– Create Fanart/Fanfic of a Male Protagonist in UF (AI Generated is fine)
– Record a Tiktok/Livestream about your favorite book
– Make an online Shoutout for an author whose books you like and recommend your favorite book by them in a reader group or on your own social media.
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