Entangled in Love – Blog Hop

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 How can you not be so full of LOVE this time of year? When I feel love, I want to give away stuff!

For this occasion, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share SUGAR RUSH, the sexy and SWEET e-romance from my fellow Entangled sister, Rachel Astor. You’ll be reaching for that box of chocolates (and your man!) in no time!


Dulcie Carter has been running her family’s homemade sweet shop, Candy Land Confections, on her own since her mom passed away. But business is slow and rent is high, so Dulcie knows if she wants to keep her mom’s dream alive, she’ll need a miracle. The annual Assembly of Chocolatiers competition might be just the thing, if she can bring herself to try creating something new for the first time in a long time.

Then she meets Nick, a molten-hot guy with a sexy smirk and an attraction stronger than any sugar rush, whose family also happens to own the big-box candy shop in town—her strongest competition for first prize. Nick’s got his own reasons for needing the win, but then being around Dulcie is proving addictive.

As their competition heats up, so do the sparks between them. Can they keep their sights on winning, when love might be the sweetest prize of all?

ENTER HERE:

 a Rafflecopter giveaway

 AND….since I’m so full of love, and feel like celebrating Monday’s release of SPEAKING OF LOVE (the second book in my Perfect Kisses blissful e-series), I’m also throwing in an digital copy of book one PLAYING AT LOVE. Yippee!! 

Click HERE to check out what the other authors are giving away during the Entangled In Love blog hop! 

 
We also have a Twitter Party with more fun and prizes!


Date : February 8th, 2013
Time : 9pm EST
Hashtag : #EntangledInLove
What : We’ll be asking Valentine’s day related questions and each question has prizes to be won! Answer right for a chance to win some of the many awesome prizes
Where : Follow the instructions below
1. Go to http://tweetgrid.com/party 
 2. Fill in the hash-tag as #EntangledInLove 
3. Fill in the hosts
@entangledpub 
@totalbookaholic 
 @babsbookbistro
 @anjanavasan 
4. Enter your twitter handle, follow the tweets, answer the questions and you may just get lucky
Don’t forget to mention the #EntangledInLove hashtag in your replies!

Entangled in Love – Blog Hop

10 Comments

 How can you not be so full of LOVE this time of year? When I feel love, I want to give away stuff!

For this occasion, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share SUGAR RUSH, the sexy and SWEET e-romance from my fellow Entangled sister, Rachel Astor. You’ll be reaching for that box of chocolates (and your man!) in no time!


Dulcie Carter has been running her family’s homemade sweet shop, Candy Land Confections, on her own since her mom passed away. But business is slow and rent is high, so Dulcie knows if she wants to keep her mom’s dream alive, she’ll need a miracle. The annual Assembly of Chocolatiers competition might be just the thing, if she can bring herself to try creating something new for the first time in a long time.

Then she meets Nick, a molten-hot guy with a sexy smirk and an attraction stronger than any sugar rush, whose family also happens to own the big-box candy shop in town—her strongest competition for first prize. Nick’s got his own reasons for needing the win, but then being around Dulcie is proving addictive.

As their competition heats up, so do the sparks between them. Can they keep their sights on winning, when love might be the sweetest prize of all?

ENTER HERE:

 a Rafflecopter giveaway

 AND….since I’m so full of love, and feel like celebrating Monday’s release of SPEAKING OF LOVE (the second book in my Perfect Kisses blissful e-series), I’m also throwing in an digital copy of book one PLAYING AT LOVE. Yippee!! 

Click HERE to check out what the other authors are giving away during the Entangled In Love blog hop! 

 
We also have a Twitter Party with more fun and prizes!


Date : February 8th, 2013
Time : 9pm EST
Hashtag : #EntangledInLove
What : We’ll be asking Valentine’s day related questions and each question has prizes to be won! Answer right for a chance to win some of the many awesome prizes
Where : Follow the instructions below
1. Go to http://tweetgrid.com/party 
 2. Fill in the hash-tag as #EntangledInLove 
3. Fill in the hosts
@entangledpub 
@totalbookaholic 
 @babsbookbistro
 @anjanavasan 
4. Enter your twitter handle, follow the tweets, answer the questions and you may just get lucky
Don’t forget to mention the #EntangledInLove hashtag in your replies!

Romance is in the Air – blog hop giveaway

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Welcome to this pretty blog hop!
My giveaway is a digital copy of the recently released GREAT AND THE GOBLIN KING by the fantabulous Chloe Jacobs. This gem has been on my to-read list for months, so my winner and I just might be reading it at the same time! 
 
While trying to save her brother from a witch’s fire four years ago, Greta was thrown in herself, falling through a portal to Mylena, a dangerous world where humans are the enemy and every ogre, ghoul, and goblin has a dark side that comes out with the eclipse.

To survive, Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young goblin king, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her will to escape.

But Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. An ancient evil knows she’s the key to opening the portal, and with the next eclipse mere days away, every bloodthirsty creature in the realm is after her—including Isaac. If Greta fails, she and the lost boys of Mylena will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back…

AND….since I feel like celebrating Monday’s release of SPEAKING OF LOVE (the second book in my Perfect Kisses blissful e-series), I’m also throwing in an digital copy of book one PLAYING AT LOVE. Hooray! 
 
This is how you enter to win all the stuff….. a Rafflecopter giveaway


 

Hop away!

Romance is in the Air – blog hop giveaway

17 Comments
Welcome to this pretty blog hop!
My giveaway is a digital copy of the recently released GREAT AND THE GOBLIN KING by the fantabulous Chloe Jacobs. This gem has been on my to-read list for months, so my winner and I just might be reading it at the same time! 
 
While trying to save her brother from a witch’s fire four years ago, Greta was thrown in herself, falling through a portal to Mylena, a dangerous world where humans are the enemy and every ogre, ghoul, and goblin has a dark side that comes out with the eclipse.

To survive, Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young goblin king, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her will to escape.

But Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. An ancient evil knows she’s the key to opening the portal, and with the next eclipse mere days away, every bloodthirsty creature in the realm is after her—including Isaac. If Greta fails, she and the lost boys of Mylena will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back…

AND….since I feel like celebrating Monday’s release of SPEAKING OF LOVE (the second book in my Perfect Kisses blissful e-series), I’m also throwing in an digital copy of book one PLAYING AT LOVE. Hooray! 
 
This is how you enter to win all the stuff….. a Rafflecopter giveaway


 

Hop away!

word of the manuscript

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This is fun. Check it out…
Recently, as I was working on the second pass of edits for the forthcoming SPEAKING OF LOVE (book #2 in the Perfect Kisses series), about halfway through the manuscript, one of my eagle-eyed editors pointed out that I used the word “something” a bit excessively. Well, that wasn’t a huge shock, since every manuscript of mine she’s seen has at least one word or phrase that I overused. 
We’ll call it a crutch.
But….”something?” 
Who knew that could be so abused? (Except HERE, which is 100% acceptable.)
Before going back to make the changes, I did a search, and am utterly embarrassed to share the number of times that word was used.
I’ve just started writing book #3 in the series, and I’m so excited to find out which will be my magic go-to word this time! I seriously hope it’s fahrvergnügen. Or blerg. How completely awesome would that be?

word of the manuscript

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This is fun. Check it out…
Recently, as I was working on the second pass of edits for the forthcoming SPEAKING OF LOVE (book #2 in the Perfect Kisses series), about halfway through the manuscript, one of my eagle-eyed editors pointed out that I used the word “something” a bit excessively. Well, that wasn’t a huge shock, since every manuscript of mine she’s seen has at least one word or phrase that I overused. 
We’ll call it a crutch.
But….”something?” 
Who knew that could be so abused? (Except HERE, which is 100% acceptable.)
Before going back to make the changes, I did a search, and am utterly embarrassed to share the number of times that word was used.
I’ve just started writing book #3 in the series, and I’m so excited to find out which will be my magic go-to word this time! I seriously hope it’s fahrvergnügen. Or blerg. How completely awesome would that be?

*slap*

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A few weeks ago, I got the first pass of edits back for SPEAKING OF LOVE (the soon-to-be-released, second book in my Perfect Kisses series). It’s such a fun story; I’m so totally crazy in love with the characters and I can’t wait to send her out into the world.

Before that, however, I’d sent my rough draft to my critique partner. Who is fab and brill and dons a editing pen of fire and brimstone. She had kiiiiind of an issue with one of my characters, who had tendencies that my crit partner (ha-ha) did not care for. In fact, there were many comment bubbles that said things like: “I want to slap her.”

Fair enough.

As her notes on my manuscript progressed, instead of explaining what she didn’t like, she simply wrote “slap.” (I still crack up at the memory, even as I write this.) After some soul-searching and chocolates, I completely saw her point and set out to de-slap-ify my character, then sent the rewrite to my editor. Shew!

End of the story?
No.
Because it got me to thinking…

You know those annoying characters who keep making the wrong choices and every chapter you read gets more and more frustrating? Unfortunately, many of these characters are YA chicks. (Not her, her, her, or her and many others–I LOVE me some YA!) They whine, they pout, they stomp around and never listen to anybody.

Wouldn’t it be so great if–like with my crit partner–every time one of these annoying characters did something super-annoying, you could write “slap” in the margin, and the author was forced to take out the annoying slap-worthy action?

Let me just throw an example out there: When Bella Swan sneaks out on her new vampire friends because she thinks she has a better idea than the hot vampires who have been living in the vampire world for, like, 500 years…just call out “SLAP” and blammo, Bella is listening to Edward’s advice, ditching Jacob-the-manipulator, and washing her scraggly hair.

 Brilliant, no?

As soon as someone comes up with the software for this little gem, don’t worry, I’ll only claim intellectual property rights. We can split the royalties.

Dude, please close your mouth and run a brush through that hair.

*slap*

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A few weeks ago, I got the first pass of edits back for SPEAKING OF LOVE (the soon-to-be-released, second book in my Perfect Kisses series). It’s such a fun story; I’m so totally crazy in love with the characters and I can’t wait to send her out into the world.

Before that, however, I’d sent my rough draft to my critique partner. Who is fab and brill and dons a editing pen of fire and brimstone. She had kiiiiind of an issue with one of my characters, who had tendencies that my crit partner (ha-ha) did not care for. In fact, there were many comment bubbles that said things like: “I want to slap her.”

Fair enough.

As her notes on my manuscript progressed, instead of explaining what she didn’t like, she simply wrote “slap.” (I still crack up at the memory, even as I write this.) After some soul-searching and chocolates, I completely saw her point and set out to de-slap-ify my character, then sent the rewrite to my editor. Shew!

End of the story?
No.
Because it got me to thinking…

You know those annoying characters who keep making the wrong choices and every chapter you read gets more and more frustrating? Unfortunately, many of these characters are YA chicks. (Not her, her, her, or her and many others–I LOVE me some YA!) They whine, they pout, they stomp around and never listen to anybody.

Wouldn’t it be so great if–like with my crit partner–every time one of these annoying characters did something super-annoying, you could write “slap” in the margin, and the author was forced to take out the annoying slap-worthy action?

Let me just throw an example out there: When Bella Swan sneaks out on her new vampire friends because she thinks she has a better idea than the hot vampires who have been living in the vampire world for, like, 500 years…just call out “SLAP” and blammo, Bella is listening to Edward’s advice, ditching Jacob-the-manipulator, and washing her scraggly hair.

 Brilliant, no?

As soon as someone comes up with the software for this little gem, don’t worry, I’ll only claim intellectual property rights. We can split the royalties.

Dude, please close your mouth and run a brush through that hair.