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Secret Service Summer – 2023

It’s Secret Service Summer for the month of August!

July was all about the Dive Team Investigations series, and I loved revisiting my Carrington friends. But in August, we’re focusing on the Defend and Protect series which is now 100% complete!

I don’t know about you, but as a reader, I have mixed feelings about series. On the one hand, I pretty much never want them to end. I always want more. On the other hand, I love finding a series that is complete so I know I don’t have to wait for the next installment.

As an author, there’s something bittersweet about a completed series. I will miss my Secret Service friends. But I’m already fully immersed in a new place with new characters that I hope my readers will love just as much as they love the Carrington and Raleigh teams.

Before we turn our sights to Gossamer Falls (the new book releases in March!), I’m excited to get to spend the next month just chilling with the Raleigh Secret Service agents – and a few FBI agents, and a few DC Secret Service agents thrown in for good measure!

To celebrate Secret Service Summer, there’s a giveaway headed your way.

There will be one grand prize winner and twenty – that’s right – I said twenty winners who will receive a signed bookplate, some of my brand new completed series stickers, and bookmarks and stickers for some of the Defend and Protect stories. (I’m ridiculously excited about the stickers!)

There are a variety of ways to enter, and if you’ve already followed me everywhere, don’t worry! You can enter every day by saying Hi! 

Visit the Rafflecopter link today to get started. And be sure to check my social media for all things Defend and Protect during our #SecretServiceSummer!

 

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Grace and peace,

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Basking in the Backlist – Summer 2023

Happy July friends!

This month, we’re basking in the backlist!

If you aren’t familiar with the term, an author’s backlist is made up of the books they have published previously – usually at least a year earlier – that are still in print.

Backlist books don’t receive all the marketing and publicity that is showered on current releases. You probably won’t see them as much on social media. And if you’re new to an author, you may not have heard much, if anything, about these books.

Of course, if the author enjoys dropping her previous characters into her new books, it’s possible the reader has met some, maybe even all, of the backlist characters without realizing it.

As that very kind of author, I can assure you that if you’ve read the Defend and Protect series, you’ve met the Dive Team Investigations characters. They just insisted on showing up!

And then they clamored for their fair share of the spotlight.

“It’s been all about Raleigh, the Secret Service, the FBI. Special agents everywhere. How about showing us some love? Let’s talk about diving, serial killers, human trafficking, cold cases, and everyone’s favorite cyber security/computer forensics expert.”

I’ll let you guess which character was most insistent. Honestly, it wasn’t a hard sell. I’ve missed them. And I want you to love them as much as I do.

Which is why we’re #baskinginthebacklist this July!

And to make it extra fun, I’m giving away exclusive #DiveTeamInvestigations goodies. I have a bunch of random bookish delights, and really…what good are they sitting in a basket in my office? I want to share them with you.

Here’s how it will work:

My Twitter/Facebook/Instagram posts will focus on the Dive Team series. There will be two giveaways.

Drawings will take place on July 8 and July 31.

How do you enter? First…click here. The first giveaway is already open!

You can enter once a day just by saying Hi. You can grab more entries by following me on all the social media spots and by subscribing to my newsletter.

A new giveaway link will be sent out on July 10 and that giveaway will run until the end of July.

Any questions? Holler!

Otherwise, let’s enjoy hanging out with the Dive Team in July.

Grace and peace,

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Never Fall Again, Creepin it Real, #BaskingintheBacklist, and more…

Hey y’all!

[image error]How’s your summer going? I’m hanging out at baseball fields with my boys and working on the revisions to Never Fall Again, the first book in my new Gossamer Falls series (coming March 2024).

But I hear you! March is so far away!

That’s why I have some fun stuff coming up this summer, and I don’t want anyone to miss out!

 

First up – if you haven’t entered the Creepin it Real Summer giveaway, there’s still time! The winner will receive ALL of these books! Enter here!

Second – my social media in July will be all about #BaskingintheBacklist with the focus on the Dive Team Investigations books! Ryan, Leigh, Adam, Sabrina, Gabe, and Anissa are all excited for their time in the spotlight!

To celebrate, there will be some awesome giveaways of #DiveTeamInvestigations exclusive goodies. These are things like tote bags, bookmarks, keychains, and other bookish delights! I hope you’ll participate!!!

Last but not least – if you’re anywhere in the Columbus, OH area I would love to meet you at the Columbus Book Festival on Saturday, July 15th! I’ll be on a panel Saturday morning and doing a book signing immediate following. Come say hi!!

That’s it for now!

Grace and peace,

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Under Fire is available everywhere!

 

Under Fire is available everywhere! You can purchase it at your favorite local retailer, online, in e-book formats, and audio formats – wherever you buy your books, you can find it!

If you are one of the many readers who pre-ordered Under Fire, THANK YOU!!!!

If you’ve been waiting for release day, it’s here!

This is Book #3 in the Defend and Protect series, and it is a bittersweet day because I hate to say goodbye to the Raleigh team.

Here are the details about this final installment:

USSS Special Agent Zane Thacker has landed his dream assignment protecting the president of the United States. When the president plans a fundraiser at the exclusive estate of a political supporter in Raleigh, Zane is thrilled to be working again with Special Agent Tessa Reed, his best friend–and the woman he desperately wishes could be more.

Though Tessa almost lost everything, she battled her demons and came out on the other side healthy and healed. But when her role as the liaison between the Raleigh office and the president’s protective detail wrenches her past back into the present, her greatest failure threatens to come to light.

Zane refuses to let Tessa go through this alone. But can he stand by the woman he loves and protect the president from a mounting threat at the same time?

Sparks fly as award-winning romantic suspense writer Lynn H. Blackburn closes out her Defend and Protect series with this explosive tale of secrets kept, lies exposed, and relationships restored.

I hope you fall as much in love with Zane and Tessa (#Zessa!) as I am!

Grace and peace,

 

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State of the Deadline

If you follow me on social media at all, you already know that Under Fire, Book 3 in the Defend and Protect series, releases March 7! Just 3 weeks, y’all!! I love this story so much, and I’m busy doing lots of launchy (I just made that word up) things for that. But I’m also... [ read more ]

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Under Fire Launch Team Info

It's hard to believe, but it is time to choose the launch team for Under Fire!

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Christmas Giveaway!

Christmas comes early with this amazing giveaway from Christian romantic suspense authors Mary Alford, Lynn H. Blackburn, Patricia Bradley, Lynette Eason, Elizabeth Goddard, Melissa Koslin, Nancy Mehl, and Natalie Walters. The prizes include: A copy of Among the Innocent and an ornament from Mary Alford. A copy of Malicious Intent and Targeted from Lynn H.... [ read more ]

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Targeted is Available Now!

  Targeted is here! This novella collection has been in the works for a long time, and today is the day! It is LIVE and available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats!  Get ready for triple the excitement, intrigue, and romance with three heart-stopping stories from your favorite romantic suspense authors! In On the... [ read more ]

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National Book Lovers Day

August 9th is a big day in the Blackburn household. It’s our wedding anniversary. 🥰😍😘 It’s also National Book Lovers Day. 📚🥰📚 The best way to celebrate National Book Lovers Day is by sharing some book love! As a reader, you already know you can do this by supporting your favorite authors. But today I’m going... [ read more ]

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Exclusive Content for Newsletter Subscribers Coming in July

Hey y’all! Happy July! It’s hot here in the South and we’re spending a lot of time inside just waiting for Fall when we can bear to be outside again! Sorry that it’s been a while since I shared anything here. I have a dream of posting on the blog more regularly, but until that... [ read more ]

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