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08 Jan 2013

Coffee Time Romance Seeks Volunteer Editors

If anyone’s interested in being an editor Coffee Time Romance needs three people. It’s a volunteer position but they’re a fun bunch of people.

Here are the details if you’re interested-

Coffee Time Romance & More is looking to bring in 3 editors to join our staff.

An editor position is for editing the reviews before they go live on Coffee Time and More.  In exchange for editing which should (after you finish the training) should only take about an hour a month, I was offering free advertising (on 2 pages of the site). 

If this sounds like something you might want to do or if you have questions, please contact KarenneLyn at karennelyn@coffeetimeromance.com

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22 Dec 2012

Winners of the Eight Author Christmas Giveaway

Thank you to everyone who visited all the sites in the eight author Christmas Giveaway and for leaving comments-

Here are the winner’s names and congratulations. I hope you enjoy the books and gift cards-

Erin

Carin

Gwen

Kathy

Kimberly

Holly

Gemma

We’ll be having another giveaway to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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11 Dec 2012

Eight Author Christmas Giveaway

Welcome to the Christmas Giveaway, eight blogs/sites in eight days and best of all, eight goodies to be won.
Visit the blog on the date listed and win a prize. Rules are simple, just leave a comment about why you’d like to win the giveaway. Each contest ends at Midnight, Eastern time on the day of the giveaway and winner will be announced the following day.
All winner’s names will be listed on this site on Saturday December 22nd.

Good luck everyone and Happy Holidays-

Wednesday December 12th
Olivia Starke (win an e-book of your choice, selected from Olivia’s books at Decadent Publishing)
http://www.authoroliviastarke.com/blog.php

Thursday December 13th
Susan Jaymes (win an e-book of her latest release from Desert Breeze, Winter Harvest)
http://susanjaymes.wordpress.com/

 
Friday December 14th
Vanessa Devereaux (win an e-book of Vanilla-Free Christmas, the bestselling nine author anthology from Evernight Publishing)
www.vanessadevereaux.com

Monday December 17th
Coffeetime Romance (win 2 $10.00 GC to spend in the Coffeetime Romance eBook Store)
www.coffetimeromance.com/BookStore/

Tuesday December 18th
Gemma K Murray (win an e-book of Keeper Of The Dragon’s Heart published by Leap of Faith Publishing)
http://gemmakmurray.com

Wednesday December 19th
Alexa Bourne (win an e-book of your choice, selected from Alexa’s books at Decadent Publishing)
http://alexabourne.blogspot.com

Thursday December 20th
Dominique Eastwick (Win an e-book of their choice from her bookshelf (INT) and if the winner resides in the US, she’ll also give away a Wiccan Haus pendant.
http://dominiqueeastwick.blogspot.com/

Friday December 21st
Kate Richards (win an e-book of Two Men and a Virgin published by Decadent Publishing)
http://katerichards.wordpress.com

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10 Dec 2012

Lots Happening At Evernight

 

Naughty Nibbles

If anyone’s interested in a free cookbook, Evernight Publishing has just released Naughty Nibbles, a collection of recipes from their authors, including yours truly. Here’s the link if you want a copy-

http://www.evernightpublishing.com/evernights-naughty-nibbles/

 

And don’t miss their Blog Hop that starts today-

BlogHop1S

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17 Nov 2012

And The Winner Is….

It’s always tough to pick a winner of a giveway but the winner of How To Write A Romance Novel (electronic edition) goes to Jericca. Hope you find the book lots of use.

Stop by closer to the holidays because I hope to have more giveaways to share with you.

 

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12 Nov 2012
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A Book Giveaway

Good Monday morning to you and let’s start the week off with a book giveaway. It’s the e-version of my own How To Write A Romance Novel…getting it written and getting it published. It’s loosely based on some of the writing workshops I teach and has chapters on writing a synopsis and cover letter and other topics like emotion and creating great characters.

And entering is easy. Just leave a comment and tell me why you’d like to win this book. I’ll pick the best response. Giveway ends at midnight Eastern time on Friday November 16th, 2012 and the winner will be notified either on Saturday or Sunday. Good luck everyone

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05 Oct 2012

Friday Ramblings From An Author

After a frustating week trying to get images to load onto WordPress, just now I’ve managed to load one of my newest release. I did see it was one of the featured books on All Romance E Books earlier today. And Evernight Publishing has a book sale going on there in celebration of their second birthday.

I’ve discovered one thing this week and that’s the slow cooker is the writer’s best friend. It’s been another hectic week and I’m glad it’s Friday.

The two workshops I’m teaching are underway and yes, if you’re thinking about joining one of them, there’s still time. The more the better.

And if you visit my Vanessa Devereaux site, there’s a chance to win a copy of the Just Vamps anthology when it’s released on the 17th. It’s all part of the Birthday Blog Hop that begins on Monday.

And speaking of which, one of my critique partners, Olivia Starke is in the Hot Seat on Monday and will be giving away a copy of her latest book. So stop by for a chance to win.

Next week I’ll be working full time on my two upcoming non-fiction books so hopefully the slow cooker will come to the rescue again. This weekend it’s leaf raking time but I guess life can’t always be about writing!

Happy writing and have a good weekend.

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01 Oct 2012
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Evernight Birthday Blog Hop

Welcome to the Evernight Publishing Birthday Blog. Check my Web site at www.vanessadevereaux.com for my own prize giveaway to help them celebrate.
 
Evernight Publishing opened its doors two years ago. In those two years we’ve signed over one hundred and sixty authors and published over three hundred books. From paranormal to contemporary, we’ve had more best sellers than we can count and made thousands of people smile, sigh and gasp. So, as a thank you to all our readers and everyone who has supported us, we’re holding this blog hop and we have a whole lot of prizes to offer you.
 
Here’s how it works… the more blogs you hop to (shown below) the more chance you have of winning prizes. Each author on the hop is offering a prize and Evernight is offering the following grand prizes, a Kindle, a $100 Amazon gift certificate, two Evernight swag bags (which includes a tote, a tee, vouchers, a mug and other coolness) and a personalized Facebook banner. To be in with a chance of winning the author prize simply follow the blog you’re visiting and leave a comment which includes your email address. Each entry on each blog is then counted towards the grand prize draw. The more entries you have, the better your chance of winning a grand prize! You also get extra points for liking the Evernight Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/#!/evernightpublishing. Just make sure you let us know in the comments that you’ve done so.
 
Good luck and happy hopping!

 

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28 Sep 2012

Friday Ramblings From An Author

Do you ever feel like you’ve written so much during the week that you’ll go crosseyed and won’t be able to spell simple words like ‘the’? It’s been one of those weeks for me.

 I’ve been rewriting a book proposal for a cookbook so yesterday was spent thinking more about recipes than writing. And yes, I did get hungry which is a drawback when you work from home and fridge is so close by.

My POV workshop is winding to a close and another starts on Monday, another on Friday. The last two of the year.

I was hoping to show you the cover for my Thursday release from Evernight called Someone Like You but for some reason I can’t load images onto the site any more, if I type in links, the post disappears, and I can no longer add tags. I’ve contacted WordPress and hopefully they can help this non-techie figure out what’s going on.

Speaking of Evernight. They turn Two next month and have a blog hop. This site will be one of the stops so hopefully the glitch with WordPress will be fixed in time and I hope you’ll stop by.

Anyone planning to write a novel this November? I think I’ll use it as the perfect opportunity to finish my romantic suspense novel.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Enjoy the last weekend in September and happy writing.

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21 Sep 2012

Friday Ramblings From an Author

There’s something about the change of seasons that has me wanting to look through old stories that didn’t sell and redo them. This past week that’s exactly what I did with two short mystery stories. Fingers crossed that this time they find a home.

Something else I got an inclination to do was rearrange my office. I hate to say it but I’m only half way done and right now it looks worse than before. Completing the task is on my to do list for next week.

Lots of people ask me when did I feel like I was a real writer. I think if you write, you’re a writer, but there are times when you feel like it’s a bit more than in your own mind. I was searching online and found a link to the UK bookstore W.H. Smith and my name. The connection being that their online store will be selling my How To Write a Romance Novel. When I was growing up in the UK, if my parents went shopping in a town with a W.H Smith that’s where I’d want to spend hours looking through all the books. Sometimes I had to be dragged away. Visiting those stores is one thing I’ve missed about no longer living in the UK. When I saw that they’d be selling one of my books (okay, it might not make it into one of the brick and mortar stores), I felt like I’d arrived…I am now a writer.

I’m hoping to slowly add more helpful content for writers to this site and I have some interviews with editors and news about a new fiction market that I’ll be posting here soon.

And yes, you know how I love to shamelessly self-promote. This week it’s the two workshops that I’ll be teaching next month. One is the how to write a synopsis class.  And the second one The Seven Deadly Sins of Fiction. Here are the links if anyone’s interested-

http://lrwa.thinkflowdesign.com/all-online-workshops/#OCT1

http://heartofcarolina.org/ai1ec_event/seven-deadly-sins-of-fiction/?instance_id=45&doing_wp_cron=1347828338.510478019714355468750

Have a good weekend and happy writing.

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