Authors After Dark Savannah 2013

Yes, this is how this business works. It’s still the last quarter of 2012 but I’m already paid and registered with a room booked and promo purchased for a convention next August. The registration for Authors After Dark 2013, to be held on the riverfront in lovely Savannah, GA, is selling out quickly and I think they hope to be completely filled by December this year, so here I am, posting about it now because they are holding a fabulous promotion. Check out the official post for details HERE but in a nutshell, there are free registrations and lots of prizes up for grabs during their registration drive, now through December 24th. Also happening now for next August’s convention is voting for the Bookie Awards. I’ve been honored to be nominated by the convention attendees for 3 years running now. I’ve won for my books in my Contemporary Western series Studs in Spurs two years in a row, and I’m nominated again this year in the Western Romance category for 2 books in that series, and also in the Best Anthology category for Cowboy Lust (out through Cleis Press, edited by Delilah Devlin with a forward by Lorelei James). The […]

ARe’s Hottest Hero Contest Round 3!

Incredibly, my cowboy hero Luke from HOOKED (Studs in Spurs, Book 4) has made it to Round 3 in All Romance eBooks’ Summer’s Hottest Hero Contest. What you might not know is that each round has different content. Round 1 we introduced our heroes. Round 2 we provided an excerpt for their first kiss with their heroine. In Round 3 the remaining 8 heroes left after the eliminations of rounds 1 and 2 compete by inviting their lady to a special dinner date, including a menu. Go to www.allromanceebooks.com/contest.html . Log into your ARe account and you’ll see the match-ups. Click on the hero’s name and you’ll be taken to his dinner date page. You can vote for one hero once in each of the 4 head-to-head match-ups. AND don’t forget that by voting you are automatically entered into a drawing to win a $25 GC to ARe, so go over and vote for your favorites!

Carrie Ann’s Blog Hop Contest!

>>>MY WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN<<< UPDATE APRIL 7th, 8:38am THE WINNER OF MY PORTION OF THE CARRIE ANN BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP IS reneebennett35(at)yahoo(dot)com. ——————————————————————— I'm helping my fellow author to celebrate her birthday with a blog hop and the theme is, of course, birthdays! Favorite memories, traditions, etc… so here is mine… The year my friends and I all turned 30 we began what has turned into a lifelong tradition–our annual girls' spa trip. We started at Gurney's Inn, in Montauk, NY on the tip of Long Island. We've been to the Sagamore at Bolton's Landing, the Inn & Spa at Norwich in Connecticut (just a stone's throw from where the PBR rides at Mohegan Sun) and also the Spa at the Hotel Hershey (see the hotel's signature Chocolate Martini recipe on the detail page for The EX-Files). Some years there have been 7 of us, all friends since we met in 5th grade, other years, there has been only 3, but every year we celebrate all of our collective annual birthdays on that one trip. No men. No kids. No stress! What we do have are a few martinis, a couple of bottles of red wine, and some male […]