Winners and Thanks!

Hi everyone!

I want to say a big thank you to all who have stopped by this past week, internet woes and all. It was a fantastic blog hop but now I think I’ll sleep for a week.

Here’s the winners from the past week. Please note that a winner was chosen at random for each day and a $25 grand prize winner. I have extended the deadline for notifying me in case I haven’t contacted you to February 26 at midnight. But I’m easy and if you’re a little late, I won’t mind.

2-15 BJ
2-16 Anne
2-17 Cayce
2-18 Cayce & Cathy M.
2-19 Marybelle
2-20 Fedora
2-21 Nikki
2-22 Menina.iscrazy

Grand Prize Winner: Gwen TLP

I’m hoping that you all got to visit other blogs while this blog hop was going on. There were some great ones out there this week. Hope you got lots of prizes on the way!

Again, I’d also like to thank these two ladies for sponsoring another great blog hop! Please stop by and show them some love!

Thanks to the lovely Nikki http://closeencounterswiththenightkind.blogspot.com/ and Natasha Blackthorne http://natashablackthorneblog.blogspot.com/ for putting this event together. It’s been a lot of fun!

And to all of you, thanks for stopping by! I am truly blessed to have such wonderful readers like you!

I do have one more blog hop this month...I’m doing a one-day leap year hop...on February 29 of course. I will be giving away a $25 gift certificate to one lucky commenter on March 1.

Thanks everyone and see you on leap day at the latest!

Lynn

A Bad Internet Day

Thanks for dropping by this Tuesday. I am sorry that this is so late but I woke up today to no internet. And it’s not like I can call someone to complain...no can do...see, being in a country where you can’t speak the language fluently can be an issue. So for four solid hours, I without my window to the outside world. This is tough, really tough.

But there’s a flip side to this. I wrote a lot. First, I wrote this blog then I did some editing then I wrote another blog then some more editing. By this time, I’m about to tear my hair out as I hate editing. LOL! The point is that I got a lot done.

Didn’t have a lot of visitors today but I do appreciate those I had. Again, I’m very thankful that you had time to fit me into your busy schedule. I know that life can throw you curve balls that don’t have much give. Writing can be like that too sometimes. Today’s winner is the lovely Fedora. I’ll be contacting you with information within the next couple of days as I can’t promise with the internet issue. You’ll be getting a $10 gift certificate and a copy of my short, A Lover for Rachel. Congratulations!

Today is all about you, the reader. Writing is a lonely profession and many times writers only get to interface with those he or she is writing for is during conferences. Sure, some of us put ourselves out there doing things like this and sometimes more. I mean I tweet...a lot...a I yap, a lot. But there are a lot of times I don’t ask about you, the reader. I want to know about you. What you like, what you don’t like, what you’d see in my books. Then there’s family: do you have any kids? Just getting married or have been married a long time? Just anything you want to share.

Am I demanding this? No, I just want to share with you and hope you want to share with me. Most of you know I have a husband, two sons, two grandsons, one daughter-in-law, two dogs and three cats. Some of you might remember when I had three snakes. Well, I had to get rid of the snakes when we moved to Vienna as those aren’t allowed to travel internationally. LOL! But did you all know I was born in Ohio? Or that my grandmother traveled from Kentucky to her new home with her new husband in a covered wagon? Yeah, interesting stuff isn’t it.

I’d love you all to share with me what you can or will. The idea is to find some common ground so we can forge a reader/writer relationship. Those are the really things that count in life. I want to thank you for participating in the Naughty After Dark Blog hop. Tomorrow is the last day and I do hope you’ll stop by to see me one last time.

If you haven’t visited anyone else yet, you need to visit some of the other kick-ass blogs on the list of the Naughty After Dark Blog Hop. Like I said yesterday, I’ll tell you all my favorites in a special blog after the event is over. Prizes tomorrow are an ebook from my backlist as well as a $10 gift certificate to one commenter on today’s blog. Unless you’re a multiple winner or course...then I’ll be doing something totally different for you! At the end of the Blog Hop, I will be giving one lucky person a $25 gift certificate to Amazon or ARe.

Again, I’d also like to thank these two ladies for sponsoring another great blog hop! Please stop by and show them some love!

Thanks to the lovely Nikki http://closeencounterswiththenightkind.blogspot.com/ and

Natasha Blackthorne http://natashablackthorneblog.blogspot.com/ for putting this shindig together. It’s been a lot of fun!

And to all of you, thanks for stopping by! I am truly blessed to have such wonderful readers like you!

Lynn

Visiting Others & Sharing

Happy Monday everyone. It’s been a very busy day for me today and the blog ended up on the back burner as other things, like editing and new cover art, took precedence today. Being an author is darn hard and most of us work our patooties off just to produce a great produce. Then there’s the promotion and more writing, more editing...it just never ends...LOL! I was very surprised when at dinner last night, an older woman who I had given my business card to came up to me and told me in great detail just how she’d shared her knowledge of me. Truthfully, I am very simple. I have pretty simple tastes although there are days I wonder why I wasn’t born independently wealthy. Or like another author friend of mine has in his signature line: Lord, let me prove to you that winning the lottery won’t change me.

I had tons of you stop by between yesterday and today. I am really thankful that you’ve fit me into your busy schedule. I know it’s hard when life starts crashing in on you. Today’s winner is the lovely Marybelle. I’ll be contacting you with information within 24 hours. You’ll be getting a $10 gift certificate and a copy of my short, A Lover for Rachel. Congratulations!

Today is all about sharing for me. Over the weekend, I had a class on promotions on one of my author loops. While it didn’t show me many new things, I did come away with the feeling that it’s all about sharing. Authors can be a finicky lot and sharing one’s toys may be hazardous but not for me. A prime example is The Log Line Blog. If you all haven’t stopped by, you should. All it has is the cover, author information, buy links and the 25 -50 word, 1-3 sentence blurb called a log line that sold the book. It should be enough to attract readers and publishers alike. Many readers can tell with just one line if they will like the book or not. Check it out at www.theloglineblog.blogspot.com and see for yourself. There is a monthly give away of a $20 gift certificate and the more you comment there, the more times you’re entered into the drawing. As more and more people drop by, more and more prizes will be awarded.

As far as sharing on the readers part goes, I’d love for you to share with me what you’ve seen, what contests you’ve enter and how many blogs you’ve been hoping to during this Naughty After Dark Blog Hope. Have you only gone to a few? How many of you have gone to all of them? None of them except mine? I’d love to hear your stories regarding the hop. Tell me if you’ve enjoyed it and would love more. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts about the blog hop!

If you haven’t visited anyone else yet, you need to visit some of the other kick-ass blogs on the list of the Naughty After Dark Blog Hop. It was posted on February 15 and is still up on the blog. I’ll tell you all my favorites in a special blog after the event is over. Prizes tomorrow are an ebook from my backlist as well as a $10 gift certificate to one commenter on today’s blog. Unless you’re a multiple winner or course...then I’ll be doing something totally different for you! At the end of the Blog Hop, I will be giving one lucky person a $25 gift certificate to Amazon or ARe.

Again, I’d also like to thank these two ladies for sponsoring another great blog hop! Please stop by and show them some love!

Nikki http://closeencounterswiththenightkind.blogspot.com/ and Natasha Blackthorne http://natashablackthorneblog.blogspot.com/ are the two that have made this all possible.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lynn

Eye Candy

Today is Sunday and it was my lazy day. So, I’m going to make it lazy here as well. We’re going to have some eye candy. One or two will be in the form of my book covers while some will just be sexy pictures. I might even ask a question or two.

While, I didn’t get too many comments today, the two I got were lovely and I decided they both get another prize. Yup, they’ve won on this blog and The Log Line Blog as well. Today, they will be getting a copy of my latest short, A Lover for Rachel. Cayce and Cathy M you’re winners again! Thank you for stopping by!

But first a quick plug for a very good author friend ~ I’ve finished Gini Koch’s book today, Alien Proliferation. It was everything I’d hoped for and more. At the end, it really made me wish I was home as I miss it a lot. Sure, I’m living the fairy tale but living it and just visiting, there’s a world of different. Home is still home, and Gini, thanks for reminding me where mine is. Now, you all need to go out and get a copy of this one as the next in the series will be out in April...and yes...I plan to have to her get that one to me as well! Way to go, Gini, thanks for a great read!

This is one from my backlist. Isn't it great? The book is also on sale for just $0.99 at eXtasy Books. You can get it here: http://www.extasybooks.com/shopping-spree-4/

Or how about this one? It's my latest and I don't know about you, but I can't ever resist a Jimmy Thomas cover. Isn't it cool? It too is just $0.99 and can be purchased from Amazon or Smashwords.

There is just something so sexy about this guy, I've wanted to write a story around this picture for years. What do you think?

I know that this guy's picture has been used many times but every time I look at it, I see how sexy he is. Absolutely predatory...please...let me be your prey. What do you all think? Can you see this guy as a werewolf? Or something else?

Skin to skin and still in their jeans. Sometimes, sexy to me is when my mind is left to imagine how the picture came to be, just how the couple got into the situation. Was it a good way? Or was it something else? What do you think?

She's wearing his shirt. And it's wet. Just how did they get that way again? You tell me.

Can’t wait to hear your impressions on these covers, men and sexy couples! Don’t forget to visit some of the other kick-ass blogs on the list of the Naughty After Dark Blog Hop. Prizes are simple this week as tomorrow, I’ll be giving away an ebook from my backlist as well as a $10 gift certificate to one commenter on today’s blog. Unless you’re a multiple winner or course...then I’ll be doing something totally different for you! At the end of the Blog Hop, I will be giving one lucky person a $25 gift certificate to Amazon or ARe.

Again, I’d also like to thank these two ladies for sponsoring another great blog hop! Please stop by and show them some love!

Nikki http://closeencounterswiththenightkind.blogspot.com/  and Natasha Blackthorne http://natashablackthorneblog.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

Lynn