Winners & More

Hi everyone!

I swear, it’s going to take me forever to get through all the comments but I am committed to do it! Yeah!

Here’s a recap of the past winners...and if I haven’t contacted you yet...don’t worry, that’s coming today. Part of being a writer is editing and I’ve been in the editing cave for the past few while other parts get shoved aside for a period of time.

My gift to everyone was a $20 Amazon Gift Certificate. Here are the winners:

Day 1 ~  Liese2 

Day 2 ~ throuthehaze  

Day 3 ~ Jessica 

Our 4th and final winner is Daniel M...come on down! I’ll be sending the emails today for days 2-4. If you don’t get a note from me today, please email me at oddlynn3@gmail.com with a good email address. 

Now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for...the announcement of the Grand Prize winners:

After over 9,000 comments our Romance Hop has some grand prize winners!!

Congrats!

Grand Prize Winners:

Kindle Fire Winner:

Laurie Goudge

(from It's the Journey that Counts's Blog)

$130 Amazon Gift Card:

Ellie

(from Carrie Ann Ryan's Blog)

Swag Pack:

Cassandra

 (from Dana Delamar's Blog)

Bummer that no one from my blog made it this time but I’m seriously thinking about giving out a grand prize for my next blog hop with Carrie. Just an FYI, I will do a couple of hops a year and plan to make them kick-ass...so stop by occasionally to see what I have going...you never know when I might get crazy and give a great prize away.

Speaking of prizes, don’t forget to come back Sunday for my Six Sentence Sunday when I announce the winner of the $10 Amazon gift certificate and a copy of my book, The Harvester.

Hope to see you then!

Lynn

Haven't Forgotten The Winners OR More Computer Woes

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know that I haven't forgotten you at all. I will try to get all the gift certificates sent today. Remember the internet issues I've been having? Well, it's apparently a combination of things...like...my computer is probably dying.

Yup, just what I really, really need. So...I'm hastily backing up, which I do nightly anyway...and making sure I have all I need to transfer to a laptop in the interim. I just put in a call for my computer guru from the States to see if we can save the old girl...not sure we can...but I'm hopeful it might happen.

Last time these type of things happened with a machine I owned, I fried it. Yes siree...I killed that pup...so badly that the power unit exploded on me and I couldn't hear right for a week. LOL! Never had that happen for a while. I really hate to think about how our service men and women feel after being around the big guns for an hour. That one incident had my ears ringing for a couple of hours and telling everyone to speak up. Sure, it was an unexpected event and most of them will have ear plugs but I can sympathize. :-)

Have a little patience with me. I'm going to go and try it again here in about an hour. Amazon didn't like me when I tried it an hour ago. Even had to call my credit union AGAIN to make sure it was nothing I had done wrong. Nope, it's not me but rather something in how Amazon is processing the order that's making it crash. Personally, I think it's the damn computer. While I was on the phone there, Amazon got back to me and told me to try again in an hour.

I'll be keeping you all posted! I just know it's all got to be resolved today or tomorrow at the latest as we have one more blog hop this month. Ever hear of a Leap Year Hop? Yeah, we're doing it right here.

Later...

Lynn

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

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

Me and Sci-Fi

Recently I was chastised by a friend from Twitter who told me I wasn’t utilizing my talents to the best of my ability. She had noted over the time we had known each other that I spoke often about sci-fi erotic romance, I wrote sci-fi erotic romance and totally knew the language. Matter of fact, the point that brought it to a head was the fact I’m going to a sci-fi type convention over the Labor Day weekend called Copper Con.

She basically came back at me and said I should change my bio in Twitter to reflect my sci-fi writing. I immediately went in and changed what I said about myself on Twitter for a couple of reasons. The biggest one is she is correct. Sci-fi and fantasy are my first loves. Writers should stick with what they love.

I know this for a fact as there are many times when I’m writing a contemporary where I get bogged down and never want to finish it. I think the reason is I like to totally use my imagination, add a little science then see what shakes out. Most of the time, it is more interesting than anything I can come up with in the real world.

I just love to tweak science to make it do my bidding. Most of the lively conversations around my house are science based. These discussions can become quite heated because we are a group of scientists by trade and nature. My youngest wants to be a phyisist, my older on is a total whiz at math. My husband is a geophysist with a second degree in history and I’m a geologist with a computer science minor top by an ongoing Ph.D. study of natural medicine. Most of our heated discussions revolve around space and getting off this rock. I have my opinion and they all have theirs.

My house is never dull and we either have one of the History Channels on, the Science Channel or Syfy. My youngest watches G4, which I’ve found to actually have some things of value when I’m writing my sci-fi. Many times that station has thrown me off into a tangent where I get a wild hair and a new idea. How boring is that? LOL! It’s not really.

So, what does all this discussion have to do with us? Well, I have about 10 contemporaries I’m committed to completing, maybe a few more, once those are totally done, I may permanently switch to writing sci-fi or fantasy erotic romance. This is my first passion and I love the freedom it gives me.

Let me give you an example. As you all know, I write about 5K a day. What you probably don’t know is I work on multiple stories at one time. I make sure the story due is the one that gets the most time but I include things like this blog, my other blogs and any other writing project I might need to do. Some is for my writing organizations, some are just ramblings about this and that. Some of the time is spent on perfecting a story, doing that final edit before submission or sending it out to an agent. But I write consistently every day and a lot.

This month, the main thrust of my daily work is a little story called The Taking of An Apprentice. Now this story is finished at about 22K and it took me less than a month of daily writing to get it done. Some people thing that’s flying whereas I think it is incredably slow. The point is that I had the story plotted and knew exactly where it was going from Chapter 3 on. This is incredible for a pantser. But note, this story is a fantasy and hence I’ve seen I can plot the thing out with little problem very quickly.

Now for a contemporary, I have to mull it around, think about just the right words and inflect and god knows what. I have to get it perfect. Sci-fi plotting for me is about the same. I might actually be a non-pantser in that area but everything comes together very quickly. I’m like a demon to get it done so I don’t forget and because of this, there are days I can do an incredible 10K. I kid you not.

So see, my Twitter friend is correct. I am not using my talents to the best of my ability. I need to do better. And I will.

How about you? Do you have any hidden talents you aren’t using as well as you should? Tell me about it and you’ll get five extra spots in this month’s drawing.

Now, what you’ve all been waiting for...the winner of this month’s contest...the winner of the $20 ARe gift certificate and a book of their choice is Rhobin! Come on down and claim your prize! This month I have two winners for the most comments portion: Carol L and Diane Deeds come on down and claim your prize. Hope you all had some fun this month...and be prepared for more...we’re building up to a blowout at Christmas. This year is my last elf book and I will be giving away a special prize for that one...keep posted...and thanks again!

See you all tomorrow!

Lynn