Romancing the Hop ~ Day 4

In Pursuit of Happiness

Welcome to Day 4 of the Romancing The Blog hop. I swear it will take me days to catch up on all the comments...LOL...but I plan to do it today. Thanks for those who dropped by my Six Sentence Sunday...that was awesome. I’ll be announcing that winner on my next Six Sentence Sunday.

Again, the first thing I need to do is to award the $20 gift certificate to Amazon...the winner for September 2nd is...Jessica! Come on down and claim your prize. I will email you at the address you provided. Congrats! Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow for the final winner even though today is the last day of the blog hop.

I want to thank each of you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts about romance. Thanks for letting me know about your favorite authors...it’s amazing just how much we all read and how many of the same authors we all love.

There seems to be one theme that has gone through these last few days and it’s what I call the pursuit of happiness. We read books, specifically romance, because it makes us happy. Sure, we use it as a form of escapism, to take us away of the dreariness of everyday living. Sure, we love those happy endings and can’t wait ot see even more of them.

Some days it is hard to find one good moment. We all have them and romance reminds us that somewhere, some place there are people living out their dreams. Romance takes us to faraway places where life is different and always tensions free, or so it seems. LOL! Romance also takes us to different times where life was vastly unlike what we experience today. We all have to admit, modern conveniences like running water and toilets are wonderful. Still, it’s interesting to think of life without things we take for granted.

Ever see the movies American Dreamer and She-Devil from the ‘80s? If not, you should as they are very interesting takes on romance. In American Dreamer, a normal American housewife lives out her dreams through the romance she reads because her life is so very boring. When she gets amnesia and truly believes she is the character in the books she loves so much, life gets really exciting. She-Devil takes on the other side of romance, where a romance author takes herself way too seriously and has many affairs, eventually decided on another woman’s husband. The wife is bent on revenge and while she finds it to be sweet, it is unfulfilling in the end.

While romance does many things for us, each of us need to remember that life is what we make it. Happiness propagates happiness. Read more romance, be happy and enjoy life...a life full of books, romance and lots more.

What, besides romance, makes you happy? How do you pursue happiness? Can’t wait to hear your answers...see you all tomorrow!

Remember, there will be another give away of a $20 Amazon gift certificate to one lucky person who comments today. Don’t forget to leave your email!

Again, here are the details for the blog hop. Hope you all enjoy!

What is your favorite thing about Romance? Well, we authors are ready to share our romantic tips and favorite romance reads! Starting on Friday, August 31st  and ending on September 3rd, over 200 Authors and Bloggers will share their favorite things about romance, reading romance, and dating.

And while we do that, we are EACH doing a giveaway. Yep. There will be over 200 giveaways,  one from each blog hosted by that Author or Blogger.

But that’s not all...

We have THREE grand prizes. You as a reader can go to EACH blog and comment with your email address and be entered to win. Yep, you can enter over 200 times!

Now what are those prizes?

1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

2nd Grand Prize: A $130 Amazon or B&N Gift Card

3rd Grand Prize: The following Swag Pack!

Yep. ALL of that! Whoot! Be sure to come back here on Friday and over the weekend to enjoy some stories and facts about our favorite Romance events and reads and enter to win!

Now, there’s only one way to enter...and that’s to leave a comment...don’t forget your EMAIL address because we need to get hold of you should you win.

Here’s the list of who is participating in this blog hop. For every comment you make, you will get an entry for the fabulous grand prize. Can’t wait to see you answers...so...don’t forget to answer the question, what is your favorite thing about Romance?

See you all tomorrow!

Lynn

Christmas Extravaganza

We had a wonderful time at XtraOrdinary Romance on Thursday. Wow! What a fantastic day! Lots of fun things happened there and I hope you can join in the fun sometime today as it's the last day.

We had tons of messages, great talk and fabulous giveaways. Drop by during the fun we're having today!

Here's the schedule for Friday, December 17, 2010:

10:00 am Free eBook - Violet Visions
11:00 am Free eBook - Atlantis Allure
12:00 pm Free eBook - Sanguinary Seductions

End of the day drawings start at 1:00 pm with names for all drawings picked at 11:59 pm
     Gift Certificate from Borders books
     Free goodie bag stuffed full of goodies
     5 extra entries into the Cruz eReader drawing on Christmas day
     Surprise gift

All the giveaways are being done closely together and they, as well as the rest of the drawings, will be very easy today. I'll be doing Christmas things at home here, which is why I'm making it easy for everyone!

I sure do hope you all are having fun and enjoying the Christmas Extravaganza. I appreciate all the support you have given me over the years and I hope to make your Christmas a little brighter. Hope you and your family are having a happy holiday season.

If you haven't joined the yahoogroup XtraOrdinary Romance, just email me at lynncrain@cox.net and I will send you a direct invite.

Hope to see you all at XtraOrdinary Romance throughout the day!

Again, may your holiday season be filled with love, laughter and joy.

Lynn

My Christmas Extravaganza

We had a wonderful time at XtraOrdinary Romance on Wednesday. All I can say is wow! What a day! Lots of fun things happened there and I hope you can join in the fun sometime today.

We had almost 300 messages, some great talk and fantastic giveaways. But more than that...we had fun! You should come and join us.

Here's the schedule for Thursday, December 16, 2010:

9:00 am Free eBook - Fluke
11:00 am Free eBook - More Than Robotics
1:00 pm Free eBook - Shopping Spree

End of the day drawings start at 6:00 pm with names for all picked at 11:59 pm
     Gift Certificate from Borders books
     Free goodie bag stuffed full of goodies
     5 extra entries into the Cruz eReader drawing on Christmas day
     Surprise gift

Please note the changes. I'm doing all the eBook giveaways two hours apart and lumping all the drawings at the end of the day. This allows for more people to enter the giveaways and really spreads them out. Plus it seems to be working out for me as well. I get to spend time with you all in the morning then I spend dinner time with the family then it's back to you all. Tomorrow, this is good as I have to take my friend again to the doctors at about 2:30. Changing the schedule is the only way to doing it all. And heaven knows, I need to do it all...LOL!

I sure do hope you all are having fun and enjoying the Christmas Extravaganza. I appreciate all the support you have given me over the years and I hope to make your Christmas a little brighter. Hope you and your family are having a happy holiday season.

If you haven't joined the yahoogroup XtraOrdinary Romance, just email me at lynncrain@cox.net and I will send you a direct invite.

Hope to see you all at XtraOrdinary Romance throughout the day!

Again, may your holiday season be filled with love, laughter and joy.


Lynn

Lynn Crain’s Christmas Extravaganza

We had a wonderful time at my yahoogroup XtraOrdinary Romance on Tuesday. Can you tell I like that name? LOL! Lots of fun things happened there and I hope you can join in the fun sometime today as I have seven giveaways scheduled.

9:00 am         Free eBook - Giselle's Elf
11:00 am       Free eBook - An Elf's Love
3:00 pm        Free eBook - The Haunting of Maggie Grey
4:00 pm        Gift Certificate from Borders books
5:00 pm        Free goodie bag stuffed full of goodies (Drawing)
9:00 pm        5 extra entries into the Cruz eReader drawing on Christmas day
10:00 pm      Surprise gift (Drawing)

If you haven't joined the yahoogroup XtraOrdinary Romance, just email me at lynncrain@cox.net and I will send you a direct invite.

Hope to see you all at XtraOrdinary Romance throughout the day!

May your holiday season be filled with love, laughter and joy.

Lynn

Lynn Crain’s Christmas Extravaganza

We had a great first day at my yahoogroup XtraOrdinary Romance. So far, there have been ten winners. Everyone needs to drop by to get a chance at the rest of today’s loot. Here’s what’s happening there today:

9:00 am       Free eBook - An Elf's Desire
11:00 am     Free eBook - A Love For Eggther
1:00 pm       Free eBook - An Elf's Magic
3:00 pm       Gift Certificate from Borders books
4:00 pm       Free goodie bag stuffed full of goodies (Drawing)
10:00 pm     5 extra entries into the Cruz eReader drawing
11:00 pm      Surprise gift (Drawing)

Obviously, the 9 and 11 am drawing are already complete but there are six, count them, 6, more chances to get in on this fabulous giveaway contest. I promise to get this up earlier in tomorrow. To recap what’s going on:

I didn’t have a Santa’s Elf book this year and it made me very sad. I love Christmas so came up with this fantastic plan for a giveaway. Everyone loves to receive gifts...right? Looks like I wasn’t wrong at all. So far, I almost have 100 entries into to Cruz eReader giveaway. That rocks!

I’m giving various items away everyday this week with the last day being December 17...items like gift certificates, free ebooks, bags full of goodies with ornaments and more. Then on Christmas day...I will announce one lucky winner of that ereader...the Cruz Reader from Borders. You can check it out here:
http://www.borders.com/online/store/MediaView_cruz-reader

And if that isn’t enough, the contest for the Cruz Reader is easy. Every time you comment in one of my groups, you get an entry. Winner of the Cruz Reader will chosen randomly from all entries on Christmas day, exact time to be announced. It’s that easy! Once the giveaway week is over, I’ll be at specific places, like Twitter, Blogspot and more, where you can get even more entries for the Cruz.

Have fun! And don’t forget to invite your buddies!

Here are the places you can join or follow to get entries for the contest:

My yahoogroup XtraOrdinary Romance and you really want to be here for the daily giveaways. You join here by sending an email to this address:

XtraOrdinaryRomance-subscribe@yahoo.com

If that doesn’t work for the yahoogroup, just email me privately at lynncrain@cox.net and I’ll send you a private invite.

I’m on Twitter and I'll be honest, it's here you'll find me all the time as tweet night and day from anywhere:

@oddlynn3 or www.twitter.com/oddlynn3

I have this blog of course:

http://www.lynncrain.blogspot.com/

I’m on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/oddlynn3

I have a YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/lynncrain

And if you need more than that...let me know...I’m sure I can find something else to sign up for so you can join me. LOL!

Here’s hoping that you all have a very happy holiday season filled with all your dreams and wishes. And if you want me to send you a Christmas card this holiday season, don’t forget to privately email me your snail mail address to lynncrain@cox.net.

So join in the festivities for the holiday. Don’t forget, I’ll be at XtraOrdinary Romance yahoogroup every day December 13 through December 17 with daily giveaways. Every time you visit, it will be another entry into the Cruz Reader drawing.

Thanks for giving me a wonderful year! I look forward to the next!

Lynn

Lynn Crain’s Christmas Extravaganza

This year is the first year I didn’t have a Santa’s Elf book. Yes, I have two more books in the series but the series isn’t just about Christmas any more. But I love Christmas and it pained me that I wasn’t having anything special. Then I decided there is nothing wrong with having five days of giveaways. You, as a reader, will definitely get some fine gifts just by joining me at my XtraOrdinary Romance yahoogroup.

I’ll be giving items away everyday December 13 through December 17...items like gift certificates, free ebooks, bags full of goodies with ornaments and more. Then on Christmas day...I will announce one lucky winner of an ereader...and the ereader I’ve chosen is the Cruz Reader from Borders. You can check it out here: http://www.borders.com/online/store/MediaView_cruz-reader

And if that isn’t enough, the contest for the Cruz Reader is easy. Every time you comment in one of my groups, you get an entry. Winner of the Cruz Reader will chosen randomly from all entries on Christmas day, exact time to be announced.

Have fun! And don’t forget to invite your buddies!

Here are the places you can join or follow to get an entry for the contest:

My yahoogroup XtraOrdinary Romance and you really want to be here for the daily giveaways. You can join by sending an email here:

XtraOrdinaryRomance-subscribe@yahoo.com

I’m on Twitter and I'll be honest, it's here you'll find me all the time as tweet night and day from anywhere:

@oddlynn3 or

www.twitter.com/oddlynn3  

Of course on this blog! Comments will be accepted until December 17th 11:59 pm PST.

I’m on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/oddlynn3

I have a YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/lynncrain

And if you need more than that...let me know...I’m sure I can find something else to sign up for so you can join me. LOL!

Here’s hoping that you all have a very happy holiday season filled with all your dreams and wishes. And if you want me to send you a Christmas card this holiday season, don’t forget to privately email me your snail mail address to lynncrain@cox.net.

So join in the festivities for the holiday. Don’t forget, I’ll be at XtraOrdinary Romance yahoogroup every day December 13 through December 17 with daily giveaways. Every time you visit, it will be another entry into the Cruz Reader drawing.

Thanks for giving me a wonderful year! I look forward to the next!

Lynn