Today I’m a guest over at author’s Lex Valentine’s 25 Days of Christmas Giveaway! To enter and learn more about Lex’s 8th Annual Book Giveaway click here!
Blog tour!
Get ready for another Plummet! the next book in The plummet Series is a romantic suspense featuring Theo Hsu, the sarcastic cop from Plummet to soar.
There’s lots to discover about him. He likes his job, his family, and long walks on the beach. Also, childhood friend and lifelong thirst trap, Koa Palapiti!
Get in on the adventure, starting with the blog tour:
There will be ficlets, exclusive excerpts, fun facts about my heroes, (Who loves a mani-pedi?) and the winner gets a gift basket of Hawai’ian treats (sorry, only for those in the continental US.) Outside the US, we’ll come up with something else!
Comment, read, review! And thanks a bunch!
11/7 – http://mmgoodbookreviews.com/
11/12 – http://happilyeverchapter.blogspot.com/
11/13 – http://www.kimmerseroticbookbanter.com/
11/13 – http://twochicksobsessed.com/
11/14 – http://lovebytesreviews.com/
11/15 – https://scatteredthoughtsandroguewords.com/
11/16 – http://www.longandshortreviews.com/
11/19 – http://blog.dreamspinnerpress.com/
My Mendacious Biography…
My bio is no longer true.
I did NOT give up housekeeping entirely to begin my writing career. It turns out–I only put it off.
My entire plan was: Once I become a bestselling author, I will have someone else clean my house.
And yay, right? I’ve sold some books. But it turns out that kids need dentistry and shoes and eventually college and I still don’t have a housekeeper.
Therefore I have been undertaking The Great Clean since the middle of last year. And no, I am not done. But I will tell you that I have decluttered the garage, the office, the kitchen, the laundry room, and my bedroom. The boys did theirs too, and I’m quite proud of them. They each have a system. We’re still a hot mess, but getting there.
I have been cleaning by location, which–DOESN’T WORK for a lot of reasons. Mostly because I have this terrible tendency to think, well, I’ll put that there, FOR NOW.
Yeah. So, then I got the book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo, and drumroll please…
It changed my life.
Because it’s not about finding places for all the stuff you have; it’s about deciding what sparks joy and letting the rest go. It’s about knowing what’s going to be in a drawer before you open it, knowing the exact whereabouts of the thing you need and finding it and using it and thanking it and putting it back–which is so smugly woo-woo I think I threw up in my mouth a little just saying it, and yet…
Le sigh. Sometimes smugly woo-woo things work, even if you despise their very idea.
My gift to you? I will be giving away 3 copies of this book on the Ides of March. (That’s Thursday, March 15, 2018)
Just fill out the form below, and I will receive an email to let me know you want to enter the contest. You must be able to receive the book electronically from Amazon, I guess, I should mention that. I tested it, and I made it work. No newsletter signups will be involved. I hope this works everywhere you see this blog post, but if not, I won’t be offended if you sign up a couple times to make sure. It will definitely work from my website.
I’m doing this because I want you to feel the way I feel when I see the room I’m sitting in now, clothes neatly hung in the closet, floors clean, everything in it sparking joy like a badass motherf*cking, joy-sparking…joy sparker. I must pause and enjoy…
Be well, and spring forward into the best year possible. I am cheering you on!
Twenty-Five Days of Giveaway – Day #2 – Special Guest Treva Harte
For today’s giveaway we have special guest Treva Harte joining us to tell us something she’s thankful about. She’s also been kind enough to donate a copy of her recent release, Until Further Notice, for the giveaway! In addition to Treva’s wonderful book, you can also win a copy of Drawn Together in audiobook!
Without further ado, let’s hear from Ms. Harte!
The Blessing of Time
I think for a lot of folks this has been a hard year. I did a “week of gratitude” listing things I was thankful for before Thanksgiving and a few times I had to stop myself from saying “I’m glad about x even though…” It actually helped to focus on only the good.
So in keeping with what I am positively thankful for and since I need to promote my story—I’m thankful I managed to write Until Further Notice. It’s not just yay, I finished a book! It’s always good to finish a book and feel good about how it went but I’m particularly glad because I thought this one would never finish. I struggle a bit more to write nowadays and there were times I left this alone for months. But I came back to it each time and kept going again.
I’m also thankful because the start of the book haunted me for years. What was this man going to do once he was back in the dusty Texas town? I didn’t know. But I had written it and spent a long time wondering what happened next. Boom! Then I knew. For a bit. Then I stopped again. And each time I went back, it was as if I’d spent time writing it in my head and the story was there, waiting for me to continue. Of course each character in the ménage wanted to be sure I gave them their proper due and that took thought. And apparently time.
So I’m even grateful for the amount of time it took and that I found the time to give my story.
May you have many things to be thankful for this season, this year and every year!
Treva Harte
Only 6 days left! Rafflecopter giveaway…
STRIKE NOW!
The Crossing Borders Rafflecopter giveaway has ONLY six days left to go. I’m not sure but I think I did a pretty piss poor job of setting it up. Usually, I have my sweetheart William, The Author Conqueror Assistant, set these things up for me because, as we all know, I am a typing monkey. But this time I did it myself. And maybe you can tell…
But NEVER fear!
I’m still giving away one (1) signed copy of Crossing Borders, and three (3) Crossing Borders ebooks away. You go to the Rafflecopter thingie to enter and gives you options. You may do a couple of the things more than once, it’s set up to allow you to go back and earn more entries each day.
And here’s the thing. I have created this awesome new website! If you tool around and click all the linkies, you might see books you haven’t read, discover things you didn’t know about the books you love, and even get a fun surprise!
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