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Twelve Days of Christmas, Twelve Days of Romance!

 

There’s nothing like a holiday romance to get you in the holiday mood, and this November, twelve romance writers will be bringing you a fun event to celebrate our holiday releases, share holiday favorites, and give away lots of free books and other goodies!

All of the posts will be hosted by Happy Ever After, USA Today’s site devoted to all things romance, where each author will give away a copy or copies of her new release. The posts will also appear on the authors’ own sites, where we’ll give away other holiday goodies — from candy and ornaments to holiday cards and advent calendars. Join us for twelve days of romance and fun!

I’ll update links as the posts go live, so check back often if you’d like direct access to all the posts.

THE TWELVE DAYS

The First Day

Nov. 5 – Molly O’Keefe (All I Want for Christmas Is You, in the anthology Naughty and Nice, out Nov. 5)

The Second Day

Nov. 6 – Robyn Carr (My Kind of Christmas: A Virgin River Novel, out Oct. 23)

The Third Day

Nov. 7 – Leah Braemel (I Need You for Christmas in the Carina Press Red Hot Holiday Anthology, out Dec. 3)

The Fourth Day

Nov. 8 – Cari Quinn

The Fifth Day

Nov. 9 – K A Mitchell (Wish List in the Carina Press Red Hot Holiday Anthology, out Dec. 3)

The Sixth Day

Nov. 12 – Ruthie Knox (Room at the Inn in the anthology Naughty and Nice, out Nov. 5)

The Seventh Day

Nov. 13 – Jaci Burton (The Best Thing in the anthology Romancing the Holiday, out Dec. 3)

The Eighth Day

Nov. 14 –  Anne Calhoun (Breath on Embers in the Carina Press Red Hot Holiday Anthology, out Dec. 3)

The Ninth Day

Nov. 15 – Theresa Romain (Season for Surrender, out Oct. 2)

  The Tenth Day

Nov. 16 – Samantha Hunter (Hers for the Holidays, out Nov. 13)

The Eleventh Day

Nov. 19 – Stefanie Sloane (One Perfect Christmas in the anthology Naughty and Nice)

The Twelfth Day

Nov. 20 – Jill Shalvis (Under the Mistletoe: A Lucky Harbor Novella, out Dec. 3)

Holiday Kisses In Print!

 

I know many of you often ask when some of my digital only books will be going into print.

I’m so excited to tell you that A RARE GIFT will be released in print November 2013 in the HOLIDAY KISSES anthology! The HOLIDAY KISSES anthology also contains awewsome novellas from Shannon Stacey, HelenKay Dimon and Alison Kent.

 

More details to come soon.

One Sweet Ride Cover Art

You know, I keep thinking the Berkley Art Department couldn’t possibly top the last cover for my Play by Play series. And yet, they do. How about the cover for ONE SWEET RIDE?

 

To get what you want you have to move fast.

 

Gray Preston was born into money, but he’s built his racing empire on hard work and muscle. Now, with millions of fans, his senator father sends one of his aides, Evelyn Hill, to elicit Gray’s help in garnering votes for his upcoming national election. Gray wants nothing to do with his estranged father’s campaign, but Evelyn can be pretty persuasive. She’s willing to learn about racing, and maybe even get a little dirty.

Evelyn’s number-one goal is politics, which makes working with Gray difficult, because his only passion is fast cars. As she and Gray spend time together, he teaches her about the sport he loves, and she learns a lot about the man behind the wheel. The more she learns, the more she wants him. But any desire that threatens to derail the carefully laid plans for her future is a dangerous one.

With the passion Gray and Evelyn share running hotter than either imagined, one of them is going to have to compromise, or run the risk of losing more than their hearts.

 

ONE SWEET RIDE is Book 6 of my Play by Play series, and will release June, 2013.

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So…what do you think?

A Great Big Thank You!

Thank you to all the readers, reviewers, bloggers, librarians and authors who read and talked about Playing to Win. It made the USA Today and New York Times bestsellers lists!! This wouldn’t have happened without your support, and for that, I’m extremely grateful. I’m sharing my favorite brownies with all of you right now.

Thank you all so much!! Your love for the Play by Play series rocks my world.

 

Winner of Shannon Stacey’s Kowalski’s

Thanks so much to everyone who entered the contest!

 

The winner of Shannon Stacey’s Exclusively Yours, Yours to Keep and Undeniably Yours is:

 

Anne Loya-Comment #28

 

Congrats, Anne!

Everyone else should read all these books, as well as Shannon’s latest release, ALL HE EVER NEEDED! 

Thanks again, y’all!

I’m Giving Away Kowalskis!

My awesome friend Shannon Stacey is releasing a new Kowalski this week! And I’m giving a few of them away.

All He Ever Needed is the newest installment to New York Times Bestselling Author Shannon Stacey’s wildly successful series.

He won’t stay put for a woman, and she won’t chase after any man…

Mitch Kowalski lives out of a suitcase—and he likes it that way. Traveling for work has the added bonus of scaring off women who would otherwise try to tie him down. But when he’s called home to help with the family lodge, he’s intrigued by the new girl in town and her insistence that she doesn’t need a man. If there’s one thing Mitch can’t resist, it’s a challenge.

After a nomadic childhood, Paige Sullivan is finally putting down roots. Determined to stand on her own two feet, she lives by the motto “Men are a luxury, not a necessity.” But when Mr. Tall, Dark and Hot pulls up a stool in her diner and offers her six weeks of naughty fun with a built-in expiration date, she’s tempted to indulge.

They’re the perfect match for a no-strings fling. Until they realize their sexy affair has become anything but casual…

 

And in case you haven’t read this amazing contemporary series yet, today I’m giving away copies in the winner’s choice of print, Kindle or Nook copies of the first 3 Kowalski books:

 

Exclusively Yours

 

Yours To Keep

 

Undeniably Yours

 

To be entered to win Exclusively Yours, Yours To Keep and Undeniably Yours, tell me the last contemporary romance you read, or your favorite contemporary romance author.

I’ll choose a winner on Wednesday.

Rules:

Must be 18 years of age or older to enter.

Void where prohibited

Open to international entries.

 

Good luck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RT BookReviews Magazine Interview

While at the RWA Conference this year, I sat down with the awesome Morgan Doremus and chatted about my Play by Play series.

You can check out the interview here

 

Thanks, Morgan!

Nauti & Wild Mass Market Paperback Release

Y’all. It’s a very happy and exciting week for me, because in addition to PLAYING TO WIN’S release this week is the mass market paperback release of NAUTI AND WILD. Please note that NAUTI AND WILD was previously released in trade paperback.

Here’s the revised cover for the mass market paperback. Awesome, isn’t it?

 

You’ve seen them. Looking for trouble, and looking irresistible.

 

Boys with an edge so hard it takes a special kind of woman to satisfy them.

 

But some women are made for it…

 

Lora Leigh, the New York Times bestselling author of Nauti Intentions and Nauti Dreams revisits that sultry and “sinfully good”* Southern landscape with a story of a young woman whose desire for a Boston attorney draws them both into a dangerous undercover investigation, and an adversary as lethal as he is relentless.

 

Jaci Burton, the New York Times bestselling author of Riding on Instinct and Riding the Night, lets loose in a story of a hot biker hired to keep an eye on the reckless daughter of a Nevada senator. She’s hooked up with a rival biker gang–a dangerous move that makes the wild beauty more vulnerable than she imagined.

 

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Playing To Win Release Day!

PLAYING TO WIN releases today, in both print and digital, at your local bookstore and online!

Someone’s going to have to let down their guard…

Football star Cole Riley is notorious for doing as he pleases—on the field and off. He parties hard and fights harder, but if he doesn’t clean up his act, his career is over—so Cole reluctantly agrees to work with image makeover consultant Savannah Brooks. He’s not used to being told what to do, especially by some (admittedly hot) southern belle. As for Savannah, she’s not convinced she can transform this cocky (and aggressively sexy) force of nature. But she’s determined to give it her best shot.

When the sparks start to fly, Savannah lays down the ground rules: no personal complications. If she can turn off the tingle she feels every time Cole gives her a hot stare, he can turn off his desire as well. But for two people determined to have it all, a hands-off policy can only last so long before one of them yields.

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I hope you all enjoy PLAYING TO WIN.

Kinda Quiet Around Here Lately…

I realize it’s been quiet around here lately. Since I came home from the RWA conference, I’ve been kind of busy. Okay, crazy busy. Well, first thing I did when I got back from the conference was get really sick. That wasn’t fun. After that I’ve been crazy busy. But a good kind of busy that’ll result in a lot of books for you to read.

I did copyedits RIDING TO SUNSET, my next Wild Riders book for the anthology NAUTIER AND WILDER (yes, that book is actually going to release–yay!). I’m told the book will release in January. I can’t wait!

I wrote THE BEST THING, my Carina Press holiday novella, which will release in December. Then I did edits on it. I had such fun writing Brody and Tori’s book and I can’t wait for you all to read it.

I finished ONE SWEET RIDE, the next Play by Play book, which will release in June next year.

Right now I’m working on HOPE SMOLDERS, the novella which will introduce my new Hope contemporary romance series. This novella will appear in an anthology next July. I’m really looking forward to telling you more about this new series, and introducing you to Will and Jane, my characters in this novella.

So as you can see, I’ve been a little busy the past month. Whew.

Oh, and did you know PLAYING TO WIN, Book 4 in the Play by Play series, releases next week?!!! Have you preordered your copy yet? Excerpt and preorder info here.

Now that I’ve gotten a little more caught up with all these books and can breathe a bit again, I hope to be a round a little bit more. But you can always find me on my Facebook page and on Twitter.

And you can find out about all my upcoming books on my Coming Soon page on my website.