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December 10, 2018
BOOK BLITZ – Only Love by Garrett Leigh – #Giveaway
The diagnosis of a chronic stomach condition leaves thirty-two-year-old Sergeant Jed Cooper with little choice but to call time on his Army career. Then on the dusty streets of Kirkuk, an ambush gone tragically wrong decimates his team, and he returns to the US with a shattered leg and the memory of his best friend dying in his arms. Life in his sleepy hometown proves intolerable until he finds solace in a lakeside cabin with vivacious young carpenter, Max O’Dair. In the shadow of the epileps...
RELEASE BLITZ – Trusting Jack (MC Securities 1) by Ruby Moone – #Giveaway
With only a few days to go until Christmas, Michael Cross has to admit there is something amiss about his latest employee, Jack Whelan. Quiet, jumpy, thin… he never seems to eat. He is also incredibly gorgeous with dark spiky hair that Michael aches to touch. But as his boss, Jack is off limits. And when it comes to relationships, he…well, he sucks. Jack Whelan is at the end of his tether. He’s living rough in the middle of winter, and paying off a massive debt, so getting a job with MC Secur...
RELEASE BLITZ – Love Blooms by Stephanie Hoyt – #Excerpt #Giveaway
Nico Hamurişi is the one and only son of Santa Claus. All his life, Nico has known he’s expected to fall in love and find lifelong commitment by the Christmas of his thirtieth year—like every other heir before him. But knowing and accepting are vastly different things, and as the final countdown begins, Nico has yet to embrace his fate. His once great enthusiasm for eventually becoming Santa has been dimmed by uncertainty over how the Santa Line will be affected when he marries a man. With on...
RELEASE BLITZ – LV48 (The Cassie Tam Files 3) by Matt Doyle – #Excerpt #Giveaway
New Hopeland City may be the birthplace of Tech Shifter gear, but it isn’t the only place that likes to blend technology with folklore. Now, a new nightmare is stalking the streets… When PI Cassie Tam is attacked on the way home one night, she expects the police to get involved. What she doesn’t expect is to be forced into acting as bait to lure out a lunatic in a tech-suit that’s literally out for blood. But past actions have consequences, and doing so may be the only way she can get a clean...
RELEASE BLITZ – The Island Angel by Alex Slorra – #Excerpt #Giveaway
Alex is a lesbian fiction novelist based in the UK. She grew up in Canada and completed a BSc degree in Nova Scotia, before moving back to work in central London. Alex has also lived in the United States and France. Since a young age, she has consumed a mixture of historical fiction, fantasy, and romance. Alex enjoys music creation, photography, painting, and the guitar, but most of all, things she doesn’t understand. For her, writing is a way to inspire virtues that should happen more often....
December 9, 2018
RELEASE BLITZ – Designer Holiday by Ari McKay – #Giveaway
Purchase Available on Kindle Unlimited! Amazon US | Amazon UK Designer Holiday by Ari McKay Length: 40,000 words approx. Blurb It’s never too late for a second chance at love… or is it? Rayne Sadler left the tiny town of Holiday Pines and his childhood sweetheart, Emilio Rives, to make a name for himself in the world of interior design. For twelve years, he never looked back. Now he has …
BOOK BLAST – Blessed by Maggie Blackbird – #Excerpt #Giveaway
Purchase eXasty Books | Amazon US | Amazon Canada | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | Kobo | Nook | Google | Smashwords Blessed by Maggie Blackbird Series: The Matawapit Family – Book 1Publisher: eXasty BooksCover Artist: Martine JardinGenre/s: M/M, Contemporary, Spiritual, Religious, Multi-Cultural, RomanceHeat Rating: 4 flamesLength: Novel/92,784 words/330 pages Add on Goodreads A mixed-blood Catholic seminarian struggles to discern his true calling: the priesthood or his ex-lover, a …
December 8, 2018
OPEN GIVEAWAYS – December 9, 2018
Here’s a rundown of all the giveaways on Stories That Make You Smile that are still open as of this posting. Act quickly, some are ending soon!NOTE: If one of the open giveaways lists a requirement for you to comment on the blog post, please click through to the original blog post (book titles are links) to comment rather than leave it on this post. Under the Felt Mistletoe by Nell Iris …
Treadmill Week 106 & What I #amreading – Everything Is Better with a Cape by C.H. Clepitt
Treadmill Goals/Tracking Get on the treadmill (or equivalent exercise) daily Pace is fine at 30 min/mile, although I may up it on occasion Time range between 30 minutes and 1 hour per day Distance 1-2 miles per day Read the chosen book, which I won’t allow myself to read outside of my treadmill time, hopefully motivating me to reach or exceed the above goals (exception…at the end of the week …
