And the Winner is…
on December 18, 2011
Welcome to the 2011 Eight-Author Blog Hop with Prizes!
on December 12, 2011
Update: Michelle at True Books won the print copy of a book. The overall blog winner will be announced in a new post late tonight! 🙂
Two days. Eight Authors. Big prizes
We’re having some fun during this crazy holiday time talking music, movies, and more. Best of all, we’re giving away over $80.00 worth of prizes!
Two days. Tuesday December 13 and Wednesday December 14, 2011. Four blogs each day. All you have to do is show up and comment on each blog to be entered for the grand prize drawing of eight e-books and a $40 Amazon Gift Card! Just in time for the holiday season!
SO, I thought it would be fun to list ten cool quotes from Christmas movies. Go ahead and see how many you know — I’ll post the answers later this week. At the end of the list there will be links to the other blogs involved on this hop, as well as a way for you to get more chances to win in the hop as well as a chance to win a SIGNED copy of either FATED or CLAIMED…your choice. (The answers are now posted below the quotes).
10 COOL MOVIE QUOTES:
1) “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
2) “You are not exactly Superman, but you are awfully available.”
3) “I believe… I believe… Even though it’s silly, I believe. ”
4) “Aunt Clara had for years labored under the delusion that I was not only perpetually 4 years old, but also a girl.”
5) “Great. I just beat up Santa Claus.”
6) “Even if we’re horribly mangled, there’ll be no sad faces at Christmas.”
7) “Sometimes seeing is believing. And sometimes the most real things in the world are those things we cannot see.”
8) “Surprised, Eddie? If I woke up tomorrow morning with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now.”
9) “You’re the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn i
t into a problem. Maybe Lucy’s right. Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you’re the Charlie Browniest. ”
10) “Christmas snow can never disappear completely. It sometimes goes away for almost a year at a time and takes the form of spring and summer rain. But you can bet your boots that when a good, jolly December wind kisses it, it will turn into Christmas snow all over again.”
Here are the answers:
- 1) It’s A Wonderful LIfe
- 2) White Christmas
- 3) Miracle on 34th Street
- 4) A Christmas Story
- 5) The Ref
- 6)The Grinch
- 7. The Polar Express
8. Christmas Vacation - 9) Charlie Brown Christmas
- 10) Frosty the Snow Man
SO, here are the blog hoppers:
Day One December 13th: Lynn Rush, Kendall Grey, Caridad Piñeiro, & Rebecca Zanetti
Day Two December 14th: Rachel Firasek, Ciara Knight, Lisa Kessler, & Jean Murray
Leave a comment on EACH blog during the next two days, and you’ll be entered (25 times) in the drawing for the e-books and Amazon gift card. In addition, either click on and “like” my facebook page, or follow me on twitter for 10 more chances to win. (The links are up and over to the right). Finally…guess where a couple of the movie quotes come from, and I’ll enter you in the drawing to win a print copy of one of my books. 🙂
Guidelines:
- Open internationally
- Contest runs from 2am (Eastern Standard Time) Tuesday December 13th, 2011 to Midnight (Eastern Standard Time) Wednesday December 14th, 2011. Winner announced Monday December 19th, 2011 on all of the blogs in the hop.
- Winner: You will have ten days (10) to contact us to claim your prize: (ly******@*ox.net) Failure to contact us within allotted time will forfeit your prize. We can then choose either to re-award the prize to another entrant or not.
- To earn the twenty-five (25) entries toward the grand prize you must comment on each of the eight blogs participating in the Holiday Blog Hop.
- Please remember it is illegal to sell, forward, give away or copy electronic books in anyway. Doing so violates copyright.
- If you are unable to leave comments on the blogs due to lack of internet connectivity/availability, you may enter via email to Ly******@*ox.net.
- Have fun!
Five Presents for a Vampire Mate
on December 1, 2011
Happy December! Yes, I write dark paranormals about vampires, shifters, and witches. But hey, just because they live in a dark and sexy world doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy the holiday season. The heroine of Claimed, Emma Paulsen, is a geneticist who finds herself mated to the king of the vampires. Although she’s rather busy, the woman loves Christmas. Here are the top five presents for Emma Paulsen:
1) A bat. Yeah, a Louisville slugger. The king is domineering and stubborn…his mate might need to clock him one once in a while.
2) A fan. The king is also sexier than heck. Dage can heat up a room.
3) Yoga for a Vampire Mate. The woman could use some down time. I mean, she’s been kidnapped by an evil vampire race, rescued by the sexiest vamp alive, and charged with creating a cure for a virus that may destroy her sister. Yoga might be good.
4) Immortality for Dummies. Emma is a scientist and thus feels the need to experiment a bit. In Claimed, she was rather curious about how quickly her thumb would heal if she broke it, not quite understanding that these things take time. One of the brothers…(well, you should read it).
5) A personal shopper. Let’s just say that sometimes the king gets a little impatient when it comes to clothing. I’m not sure how many of Emma’s outfits hit the floor in Claimed, but there were a few!
The Cover for Hunted is Here–want a coverflat?
on November 24, 2011
UPDATE: Congrats to Asa, Bonnie, and Mel for winning coverflats of HUNTED!
First, let me say happy holidays to those of you in the USA celebrating Thanksgiving. While I rarely re-use posts, I wanted to show off the cover on my blog as well as the Darker Temptations blog. If this is a duplicate for you…sorry about that! But…I’m giving away signed coverflats to three commenters on my blog–random.org will choose names next week. So…leave a comment.
If you’ve ever read my blog, you know I’m surrounded by family, which is such a blessing. I’m thankful for my crazy family, my wonderful friends, my terrific readers, my agent and editor, and my writing buddies. I have a few minutes here before I need to go make the appetizers to take to my sister’s house and wanted to post a blog today.
Well, I’ve been so busy with promoting CLAIMED and writing book 4 of the Dark Protectors, I haven’t had a chance to show off the cover for HUNTED, which I received last week. Here it is:
Ready or Not
Moira Dunne is a witch–the quantum physics kind. Time and space are her playthings. Which might explain why her one-night stand from a hundred years ago has turned up to “claim” her–and request her family’s assistance with the war he’s brewing. But the more she learns about Connlan Kayrs, the more she comes to think this is normal behavior for him…
There’s Nowhere to Hide
When Conn and Moira tumbled on the moonlit grass, Conn hadn’t meant to mark her for his mate for all time. She was only twenty! But it wasn’t easy to wait for her. It was even harder to forget her. So when he finally returns for his wicked-hot witch, he’s ready to let the sparks fly. Even if he burns up in flames…
So…when you get the chance, draft a quick comment below for a chance to win a coverflat. Are you celebrating Thanksgiving? If so, what are your plans? If not, what are you up to this week? Everyone stay healthy and safe!
Sometimes it’s the Little Things…
on November 22, 2011
Sometimes it’s the little things that just make your day, you know? I mean, I know there are really big things to be thankful for this season: family, friends, health, etc…and I’m really thankful for those. But today, as I got ready for work, the little things just made my day. Here are five:
1) Clean socks. Yeah, I know. But we’ve been busy lately, and finding a pair, the GOOD pair of comfy socks to wear beneath my boots today was awesome.
2) A bagel. Somehow, even though I haven’t had time to hit the grocery store, there were fresh bagels (pumpkin no less) in the pantry!
3) The coffee pot was scheduled. Yeah, this is a huge one for me. I always forget to hit the on button before I go to bed. It was on today!
4) My phone was charged! Like many people, I truly believe, I drop my phone in odd places all over the house and forget to charge it before heading to work the next day. Today, it was right where it was supposed to be in the charger.
5) My gas tank was full. I vaguely remember making a mental note coming home from work yesterday that I needed to get gas today. But it was FULL!
Now, those of you much quicker than me are figuring out that these small blessings come from a really big one. A six-foot-five, dark, very sexy Italian who I live with. Big Tone hit the grocery store on his way home from work last night, folded the socks I’d left in the den, scheduled the coffee pot, found and charged my phone…and put gas in my car after taking our son to bball practice last night. All without saying a word.
So…in this season of being thankful, I am SO THANKFUL for big Tone. Everyone should have a sexy Italian in their house. 🙂
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