Shawn Lane's Blog, page 18

Santa Shawn Giveaway

I've decided to do a contest this last week before Christmas. I am giving away to 5 lucky commenters a free copy of any of my books on my backlist. Yes, that's right, any book of their choice available from my backlist.You can check out my list here: Backlist .  

Please either leave a comment here with your choice of book (format too) and your email address or email the same information to me at authorshawnlane@gmail.com.

The contest is from now until this friday, December 21, at 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. I'll notify the five winners then. Please note, I cannot notify you if I do not have your email.  

Merry Christmas!

Winner of Loving the Partner

The Evernight Christmas Blog Hop is now over and I have submitted all your comments and names to the coordinators.

The winner of Loving the Partner is Laurie (commentor #2) and I will contact her off line for her prize.

Thanks again for the terrific response.

Evernight Publishing's Holiday Blog Hop

Welcome to the Evernight Holiday Blog Hop!

We love the holidays, we love making our readers happy and we love giving away swag. What better way to do that than to hold a blog hop?

Here's how it works... the more blogs you hop to (shown below) the more chance you have of winning prizes. Each site on the hop is offering a prize and Evernight is offering an iPad 2 as the grand prize! To be in with a chance of winning the site 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 that iPad 2! 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.

Happy hopping!
 I, Shawn Lane, am giving away a copy of my upcoming Evernight Publishing release of Loving the Partner, the third (standalone) story in my Loving series  
Gay but in the closet, Jacob Butler has made a big mistake. He's fallen in love with his friend, Walt Donnelly, who is not only Jacob's business partner, but also straight. After a drunken kiss that turns to more, he realizes his business partner is bisexual. Walt, however, makes it clear he isn't interested in anything serious with Jacob or any man. Broken hearted and afraid he'll always be alone, Jacob tries to forget his attraction to his friend.

Walt's always assumed he knew what he future would contain. But his night with Jacob makes him question exactly who he wants forever with...

There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays Release

There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays has been released a day early it seems on MLR Press. Get yours now for the price of $1.99

Fashion designer, Mackenzie Grayson, has no intention of going home for Christmas...until his sister calls and uses guilt to talk him into spending two weeks over the holidays at his family's home in California. With his best friend, Connor, in tow, Mac returns to California, a place he has mostly avoided after a bad breakup. Mac no longer does serious relationships, but maybe some time spent with Connor under the mistletoe will make this a more magical Christmas than either of them would have dreamed of.

The winner of the story is Emily. I will be emailing her with her prize.

There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays - a contest

In just about a week, December 06, 2012, to be exact, my Christmas short, There's  No Place Like Home for the Holidays , comes out from MLR Press. 

Here is the blurb for the story:

Fashion designer, Mackenzie Grayson, has no intention of going home for Christmas…until his sister calls and uses guilt to talk him into spending two weeks over the holidays at his family’s home in California.

With his best friend, Connor, in tow, Mac returns to California, a place he has mostly avoided after a bad breakup. Mac no longer does serious relationships, but maybe some time spent with Connor under the mistletoe will make this a more magical Christmas than either of them would have dreamed of.


I'm giving away a pdf copy of the story to one lucky winner. If you would like to be included in the drawing please email authorshawnlane@gmail.com.   Thanks!

New Release Waking the Prince

Waking the Prince is out!

Waking the Prince Contest Winner

The winner of Waking the Prince is Marissa.
Marissa, I will contact you via email with a copy of your book when I have received my author copies.

Thanks everyone!

Waking the Prince Contest

You know I generally have a giveaway for a release and this is no different.

Waking the Prince releases on November 18th from Amber Allure and I am super excited about it. This is my gay take on Sleeping Beauty and I started this story more than a couple of years ago and so I was thrilled to take part in the Fairytale pax which encouraged me to finish it. My sleeping beauty, Prince Roland, is a very active participant in rescuing the kingdom from an evil sorcerer.

So, as I think you may have noticed, I am handling contests a bit differently now. In the past, I would have people comment, which sometimes when they would be chosen, would never give me their email address, but I think probably some people are uncomfortable supplying their email addresses on a blog. This way by having entrants email me, I already have that information and it remains private.

Anyway, so send me an email at authorshawnlane@gmail.com if you'd like to enter (include format choice or I will assume pdf is all right). Contest ends November 16, 2012.

Release Updates

I'm very happy Obama was re-elected. Now onto some writing related news and updates.

2012 Releases

Coming up on November 18, 2012 from Amber Quill Press is my fairytale inspired romance, Waking the Prince . It was inspired by Sleeping Beauty, my favorite fairytale.

I believe my Christmas story,  There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays , will be released from MLR Press on December 06, 2012.

Loving the Partner , my third and final Romance on the Go story from the Loving series with Evernight Publishing  is due to be released sometime in December 2012. I'll let you know when I have a firm date.

2013 Releases

I finished the next installment of the His series, Gratefully His , and it is due out January 06, 2013 from Amber Quill Press. I am not sure when the "H" in the series will get written. Gratefully His is a standalone and can be read without reading any of the rest of the series. 

Also coming from Amber Quill Press I believe on February 10, 2013, is my Valentine's Day romance, Admiring Jessse . I'm working on it now and it's going really well.

Loving the Assistant is Now Available

Looks like Evernight Publishing has released Loving the Assistant and it has been named an Editor's Pick. Pretty Cool.

You can get it now direct from Evernight Publishing

Loving the Assistant



The winner of the contest is: Sarah Vasco. I will be emailing her the story. Thanks everyone!