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March 11, 2014
Do you want an ARC of RUSH TOO FAR ? Yeah… thought so.
It’s time to get creative!
I have two ARCs of Rush Too Far to giveaway. I wanted to do something fun so I decided that it will all come down to who is the most creative. Below I have three quotes from Rush Too Far. Pick a quote and make a teaser photo with it. Then tweet the photo or share on Instagram or Facebook. Do all three and you get three entries. Requirements: *teaser must have the book title, author, and release date (May 6) on it. *you must tag me on Twitter, Instagram and/or Facebook so I will see it. *You must add the preorder link in your tweet, or share on Instagram and Facebook.
Here is an example ( This is my teaser. You have to make your own. The book cover doesn’t have to be included.) :
Rush Finlay returns May 6 http://goo.gl/bo1dEG @abbiglines
QUOTES to choose from:
#1 . “I wanted her to know that she could climb into my arms, and I’d hold her tight whenever she needed me.” – Rush
#2. ”I just need you to love me enough. Please, Blaire. Love me enough,” – Rush
#3. “Keeping her away from me would save us both in the end.” – Rush
There you go! Choose a quote and make a teaser photo then share it online. On March 31- I will pick the two best teasers (with help from a panel of judges) and mail out the Rush Too Far ARC copies the next day.
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February 27, 2014
You got questions – I got answers
Your Rosemary Beach questions answered
Since the release of TAKE A CHANCE on Tuesday I have been getting asked many of the same questions. I realized these were popular questions and decided to do a post concerning them.
Is this a series?
Yes. Take A Chance is book #6 in a series. It is the FIRST book for this couple. So it can stand alone. However, if you want to read about all the characters in Rosemary Beach you need to read them in this order:
Will Mase Manning get a book?
Yes. I loved him when I wrote him into Take A Chance. He will be getting two books in 2015. The first one will release in early 2015.
Is there another book for Grant and Harlow?
YES! One More Chance is their second book. It releases September 2. No I can’t release it early because I have no control over that. I wish I could. The publisher determines this date. Me writing faster is not the issue.
Are we getting more Rush?
Yes. Rush Too Far will be released May 6 and it is Rush’s point of view from Fallen Too Far. There is so much you didn’t know in Fallen Too Far because you only got Blaire’s side of the story. What was happening with Rush and in his head you had no idea. Soon you will.
Is Bethy getting a book?
Tripp is getting a book this December 
Does that answer your question?
Will Woods get another book?
No. His story is complete. You will however see him and Della in other books and see how they are doing.
What about Thad? Do we ever really get to know him? Will he get a book?
This is a good question. I don’t know. I’m thinking about it.
What about Captain? Will you put him with Nan?
Hell no. I like Captain. He’s Blaire’s brother. I would never do that to him! LOL. As for giving him a story… maybe. Not sure.
I want to see more of Rush and Blaire! Will we?
Rush, Blaire and Nate show up a lot in Take A Chance. They do in One More Chance too. You will always see them in other couples books… and just maybe this Christmas they will have a free novella -just for them.
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February 25, 2014
TAKE A CHANCE release day GIVEAWAY
It’s now available! I have been waiting to share Grant’s story with readers for five whole books and finally it is time. I may be more excited than anyone else.
In celebration I am giving away five Grant t-shirts, five #NanHater t-shirts and a Kindle Fire. Oh… and five RUSH TOO FAR signed posters. To enter to win one of the 16 prizes check out the rafflecopter below. IT IS INTERNATIONAL 
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TAKE A CHANCE excerpt:
“Harlow?” he said, his voice thick from sleep. He’d been up most of the night. He must’ve been exhausted.
I didn’t respond. I couldn’t think of anything to say. I hadn’t expected him to even be in Rosemary Beach. But he was here . . . and he was sleeping in Nan’s bed.
I was an idiot.
Three months ago . . .
A knock on my bedroom door interrupted my favorite scene in a book I had read at least ten times. Annoyed, I laid down my Kindle. “Yes?”
The door opened slowly and Grant Carter stuck his ridiculously beautiful head into my room. His long hair, which curled at the ends and tucked neatly behind his ears, made a girl want to sit and just play with it for hours. I often wondered if it was as soft as it looked. His eyes twinkled as if he knew exactly what I was thinking, so I forced a scowl on my face. I never scowled so it was a new thing that I reserved just for him.
It wasn’t really fair. I disliked him on principle. He had been nothing but nice to me, but the fact he was in a relationship with Nan was enough for me to not like him. If a guy could like Nan then something was wrong with him.
“I ordered Chinese. Want to help me eat it? I got way too much.” His blue eyes were so hard to look away from. They had been my downfall since the first time I laid eyes on him. That had been before I knew he was Nan’s Grant.
“I’m not hungry,” I replied, hoping my stomach didn’t growl and give me away. I had been meaning to fix myself something to eat, but the book had sucked me in. Seeing Grant always made me want to escape into one of my stories where guys who looked like him fell in love with girls like me. Not girls like Nan.
“I don’t believe you,” he said, pushing my door open and walking into the room with a tray covered in boxes from the little Chinatown place my dad loved so much. “Help me eat. Just because I dated Nan doesn’t make me tainted. You act like I’ve got a damn disease—and I’ll be honest, it hurts my feelings.”
Really? Was I hurting his feelings? I hadn’t meant to. I didn’t think he would really care. Besides, he was the one who ran off cursing when he found out who I was the night we met after he had made a move on me.
“Dated?” I asked, surprised with myself. “You’re here waiting on her to show up. I don’t think that’s past tense.” I sounded like a schoolteacher.
Grant chuckled and sat down beside me on the bed and set the tray down on the bedside table. “She’s my friend. I’m checking in on her. Not dating her. Besides, I just got word that she’s back in Rosemary.”
See, that. Just that. He was her friend. What normal person was Nan’s friend? None I knew of. “She’s sleeping with the members of Naked Marathon. Surely you’ve seen her on the gossip magazines on Sellers’s arm. Last week she made the news with Moon, and there was all kinds of talk about her breaking up the band. Which isn’t going to happen.”
Grant opened a carton of sweet and sour chicken and stuck a pair of chopsticks in it, then handed it to me. “Sweet and sour or honey chicken? You pick.”
I took the sweet and sour. “This is fine. Thank you,” I replied.
His smile grew. He hadn’t expected me to take it.
“Good, I wanted the honey,” he replied with a wink. I hated that my stomach fluttered. I didn’t need that to start happening. Grant was on the other side of a line that I wasn’t going to cross.
“It isn’t my business who Nan is screwing. That’s over between us. I’m just checking in on her. Making sure she’s not about to go off the grid again. She’s home now, so it’s all good.”
Why would he do that? What had she done to earn that kind of protectiveness from someone like Grant? “That’s nice of you,” I said because I didn’t know what else to say. I took a bite of my chicken.
“You’re gonna hold that against me, aren’t you?” he asked, studying me in a way that only made me want to squirm.
“You can protect who you want, Grant. We’re just sharing some Chinese food. Doesn’t matter what I think.” I replied before putting more chicken in my mouth.
Grant frowned and then a small smile touched his lips. “I feel like we’re doing this crazy-ass dance around each other every time I get around you. I don’t play games. It ain’t my thing, sugar. So let me be blunt,” he said, setting his food back down on the table and turning his body so that he faced me completely. I tried to calm my racing heart. What was he doing? What was I going to do if he got any closer? Guys didn’t flirt with me. They didn’t come into my room. I was Kiro’s weird, awkward daughter. Didn’t Grant get that?
“I don’t want you to hate me,” he said, simply.
I didn’t hate him. I shook my head. “I don’t.”
“Yeah, you do. I’m not used to people hating me. Especially beautiful girls,” he said and flashed me a wicked grin.
He had called me beautiful. Did he really think that? Or was he feeling sorry for me because I was so socially inept?
“Harlow, do you realize that you’re breathtaking? Just looking at you can become addictive.”
Wow.
“That confused, flustered look on your face is all the answer I need. You don’t have a clue how amazing you are. That’s a shame,” he said, reaching over and taking a strand of my hair and wrapping it around his finger. “It’s a real shame.”
I wasn’t sure that I was breathing. My entire body had shut down. I couldn’t move. Grant was touching me. And even though it was my hair, it felt so nice. I dropped my gaze to his hand and watched as his thumb gently ran over the hair he was holding.
“It’s like silk,” he said in a hushed voice. Like he didn’t want anyone to hear him.
I just watched him. What was I supposed to say to him?
“Harlow,” he said, leaning closer to me. I could feel his warm breath on my skin.
“Yes,” I choked out, watching him closely as he moved toward me.
“I think about you. I dream about you,” he said in a husky whisper against my ear. I shivered and felt my grip on my chicken loosen. God, please don’t let me dump my food on myself.
“You’re too sweet for me, but damned if I care,” he said, then pressed a kiss to the skin under my ear. “I don’t want you to hate me. I want you to forgive me for being with Nan. It’s over.”
The reminder of Nan was enough to snap me out of my trance, and I jumped up from the bed and walked across the room to stand far enough away that I felt safe.
I didn’t look back at Grant. I kept my back to him and stared out the window. Maybe he would just leave. I felt my face grow hot. I had let him get so close. I had let him kiss my neck. What was I thinking?
“I shouldn’t have said her name,” he said in a defeated tone. He was perceptive. “Will you tell me what I can do to prove to you that I don’t want Nan? That she was a moment of insanity and weakness? I was being a guy and she was there. I made a mistake.”
He wanted me to forgive him about as much as I wanted to be able to forget Nan. I liked Grant. No . .. I fantasized about Grant. Since he’d cornered me at Rush and Blaire’s wedding reception he had made it into my nightly fantasies. Even if he was someone I was afraid to trust. I liked looking at him. I liked hearing his voice. I liked the way he smelled and the sound of his laugh. The way his mouth curled up on one side when he was amused. I also liked the tattoos I saw peeking out of the collar of his shirt. I wanted to know what they looked like.
“Can I have a chance? One to prove I’m not like Nan. I’m a pretty damn good friend. I just need you to give me a break.”
I was typically a forgiving person. My grandmother had taught me to forgive. She had raised me to be a kind person and reminded me that everyone deserved a second chance. One day I might need a second chance myself.
I turned around and looked at Grant. He was still sitting on my bed. The dark blue T-shirt he was wearing fit his arms tightly and outlined the ripples on his chest. It also highlighted the color of his eyes. How was someone supposed to not trust him? “I’d like to be your friend,” I said. I wasn’t sure what else to say.
That crooked grin appeared. “You would? You’re going to forgive me?”
YOU CAN GET YOUR COPY TODAY:
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For you paperback readers you can find Take A Chance at Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million and Target.
For those of you who prefer an audio book you can listen to an excerpt here https://soundcloud.com/simonschuster/take-a-chance-audiobook
and buy it on iTunes here https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/take-chance-rosemary-beach/id825650884
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February 24, 2014
TAKE A CHANCE- Grant gets his story at MIDNIGHT
It’s almost time! I have been wanting to share Grant’s story with readers since Blaire pulled her gun on him in the first page of FALLEN TOO FAR. But it took five Rosemary Beach books before that could happen. While readers always swooned over Rush they have been curious about his former step-brother and now best friend- Grant Carter. He had a sexy playboy thing going. He was always so sweet to Blaire and seemed like the good guy.
But… then we find out he has a relationship with Nan?!?! The horror! LOL.
A few things to keep in mind you Nan Haters out there: Nan is gorgeous. Nan is manipulative. And Grant is a man. Also, Grant has his faults you just never got a chance to see them. The story has never been his. Until now…
The biggest thing I think readers will see is that Grant needed to be needed.
Does this book end with a cliffhanger? Well, there is ANOTHER book to their story. So what do you think
Will it make it better for you if I tell you Rush is there in the last few pages. LOL! Bribery at its finest.
You can preorder TAKE A CHANCE now and have it delivered to your reading device at midnight:
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February 16, 2014
Are you a #NanHater? Get the shirt.
Readers asked… and we delivered. You can preorder your #NanHater shirt now. They will start shipping out before or on March 10.
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February 9, 2014
GET A VALENTINE FROM RUSH OR GRANT
It’s the week of love!
And I have Valentine cards from Rush and Grant to send your way. Who doesn’t want a Valentine from their book boyfriend
Monday- Friday of this week I will be choosing 25 people a day to send a Valentine Card to and it will be signed by me. Sorry, Rush and Grant are busy in Rosemary Beach and I couldn’t get them here to sign any. Ha… yes I make myself laugh.
Anyway, you want one? Here’s what you do- Tweet your favorite quote from any Rosemary Beach book and add the hashtag #Glines –DO NOT TAG ME (@abbiglines) ON TWITTER… please. I will be picking winners from the hashtag #Glines. Not those that tag me (it fills up my twitter mentions and I can’t respond to questions because they get lost.)
Don’t do Twitter? Well you can post your favorite quote on Facebook and tag my Author page. I will see that.
Do you have a blog? (not a blog you just made up to get these Valentine’s cards but an actual blog that is used regularly. I will check this.) Then you can do a post about Take A Chance releasing on February 25 (add the summary it can be found on Goodreads and preorder links for Amazon and Barnes & Noble) and email info@abbiglines.com with the link to this post and I will send you BOTH of the Valentine’s cards and a #NanHater button (this is while supplies last)
HAPPY VALENTINE’S WEEK!
XOXO,
Abbi
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February 6, 2014
BECAUSE OF LOW Two Year Anniversary GIVEAWAY!
I can’t believe it’s been TWO years since I released Because of Low. Breathe was never meant to be a series. But the love that readers had for Marcus Hardy convinced me that I could write the 20 year old character a story. Make it more adultish… get away from the young adult vibe of Breathe and add some of that sexy stuff and those adult situations I was scared of writing.
This book started my love for sexy stuff and adult situations. No one had a name for the genre just yet. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire was making major waves and I figured I didn’t need a label for it. I was self publishing I could write what I wanted. So I did…
And the Sea Breeze series slowly unraveled from there.
In celebration of this week I am giving away a signed boxed set of the Sea Breeze series (the books that are currently in print) and a signed ORIGINAL copy of Because Of Low (the self published edition no longer available) and….
a KINDLE FIRE.
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February 2, 2014
WHERE I WILL BE IN 2014
February 25- Chicago- TAKE A CHANCE release party. More info: http://www.bookcellarinc.com/event/book-launch-celebration-abbi-glines-shares-take-chance
February 27- Dallas – TAKE A CHANCE release party. More info coming soon.
March 22 – Gold Coast Australia. More info here http://www.indieauthorsdownunder.com/#!event-details/c4uo
May 3- Washington DC. More info coming soon
May 13-18- New Orleans at the Romantic Times Convention. I’ll be signing at the Giant Book Fair, hosting a New Adult slumber party and talking sex and new adult in a panel. More info here https://www.rtconvention.com
May 24-25- Berlin, Germany at the Love Letter Convention. More info here http://loveletterconvention.com/photo...
June 28 – Orlando, Florida- Book Bash. More info coming soon
July 4-6- Edinburgh, Scotland- Romance Author and Reader Event. More info here http://www.rarevents.org
July 9- Dublin, Ireland- Author signing. More info here https://www.facebook.com/DublinAuthorsSigning
September 12-13- St. Louis, Missouri at the Penned Con 2014. More info here http://pennedcon.wordpress.com
October 24-25- Cincinnati, Ohio at the Queen City Indie Con 2014. More info here http://queencityindiecon.com
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January 26, 2014
NYC – Have dinner with me!
I will be in NYC the weekend of Feb 21 at the SCBWI Winter Conference. I’m on a panel that Saturday and I do a signing that Sunday. However, this is a high end ticketed event. So, I am giving readers who want to see me and get books signed a chance to have dinner with me while I am in the city. I will be taking 8 readers to dinner on February 22. I will even have a little surprise for each of them. The winners can bring the books they want me to sign to the dinner as well.
The raffelcopter is below to enter. There are several ways to get more than one entry. Hopefully I will be having dinner with you soon!
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January 25, 2014
Australia, Germany, Scotland and Ireland!!!
Over the next six months I will be traveling outside the US to events and signings. I will have more info on places in England and hopefully Paris in the month of July but right now these are the scheduled events I will be at.
MARCH 22 I will be in the Gold Coast of Australia. You can find out more about the event and how to get tickets below.
MAY 24-25 I will be in Berlin, Germany at the Love Letter Convention. You can find out more below.
JULY 4-6 I will be in Edinburgh, Scotland. You can find out more below.
July 9 I will be in Dublin, Ireland. You can find out more below.
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