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Amazon top 20 and day 2 of our contest for get healthy October

Morning everyone!

Just want to start with a thank you for the love and support of so many spreading the word about THE VAMPIRE WARDENS! It's looking good in rankings today!

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,308 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

#14 in Books > Romance > Vampires

#30 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Erotica

#31 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Erotica

YAY!

Finally, I see THE END for this book. It's not done but I love this part of the book where I know exactly what I am putting on the page when I sit down to write. For day two of our Healthy October, I am featuring one of my favorite snacks. This is yummy PIRATE BOOTY and it is like eating chips — Cheetos for sure. Low fat and an entire bag is like 500 calories. It's a big big bag and it makes you feel like you are really cheating. It also comes in all kinds of flavors and each really tasted different.

So in this weeks prize box there will be Godiva coffee and Pirate Booty. come on! Chocolate and Pirate Booty? You gotta love that combination!

So how do you win?

Each is one entry:

Comment here

Go tag Sterling somewhere, anywhere — somehow tell someone THE STORM THAT IS STERLING IS COMING. You can add tags on Amazon, LIKE it on Amazon or BN. Add it to a bookshelf or a list on Goodreads. Blog it, tweet it, facebook it. You choose.

OR — you can just leave a comment. Any and all things that you tell me about in comments counts as an entry.

Happy HUMP DAY!

Day 1 of HEALTHY/and SINFUL BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS

Hi everyone!

Thanks to everyone who played with me yesterday! I am late on a deadline so I was up until 3am and up again at 7:30 this morning so anything I type today needs to come with a typo warning — there may be many!

The holidays are coming and often those extra pounds are on top of extra pounds. I've been a faithful gym person all my life and I hate January because of the New Years people. I think New Years resolutions don't work in the gym. Lifestyle changes you can live with do. I also think a drastic diet change on top of a gym routine suddenly added, is too much to take on when its not your norm. Start with healthy eating. Then move to the gym. 80% of what you get in results in the gym comes from what you eat. WHAT not how much. How much matters, but you would be shocked to see how your body changes by feeding it different things, especially more protein..

I've spend my entire life having to workout and be cautious about what I eat because of genetics, and now hormones. Add to that a sedentary job and I spend double the time in the gym for less results. I use to run through the airport in the morning. Run to client meetings. Run back to the airport. Dart to the gym and a baseball or football game, and then do it all over at 5:00 the next morning. It makes sense that I need more gym time but it sucks. The one thing I can say I am thankful for is that I had to work out all my life, thus its a habit. Many people don't have to until they are older and then its not a way of life. That curse of needing to has become a bit of a blessing as I get older.

BUT since I've done this all my life, staying focused and having a cheat plan keeps me solidly on track. 6 days a week I spend way too much time to admit in the gym and I control calories and eat very controlled. On Fridays I pig out and I do mean PIG out and I skip the gym. When I say I work out 6 days a week I mean at conventions, over the holidays, you name it. I am as dedicated as they come.

So during my six days I have some things I really really love that help me feel that I am not overly cheated of good food. Each day I will feature one of those items and on Mondays I will draw a winner to receive a goodie bag with some or all of those items, depending on how well they travel.

So today I am featuring my favorite morning treat. Caffiene and chocolate in one place. Godiva coffee is rich and yummy.

I am also really fond of the Southern Pecan Creamer. I use the regular because its only 5 calories more and a small amount of fat when I don't take in much fat at all during my 6 days. It starts my morning out without feeling deprived.

So to enter to win your goodie bag with Godiva all you have to do is comment here today. And FYI normally I would reply to comments but I am very behind on this book so next week I promise to be very interactive!

For an extra entry you can pass the word on either HOT VAMPIRE KISS or THE STORM THAT IS STERLING by:

Tagging the book with keywords on Amazon

Liking the book on Amazon

writing a review and posting at Amazon, BN, goodreads

Add to your goodreads bookshelf

Tweet it!

Facebook it.

Just post here and tell me what you did. But remember you get one entry JUST for posting a comment. The rest are extra entries.

Yesterday's winner about to be posted at the top of that blog!:)

Two huge contest announcements and so much more!

Happy October everyone!

STERLING IS COMING!!!!! YAYYYYY! Okay. I just had to get that shout out of my system. Onward…:)

Every year during the holidays I not only run a number of contests, I have some fun guests and exciting things here on my blog. So its that time again. I have so much news I hardly know where to start. But you want to know about the contests right?

Contest 1 – Look to your right on my side bar and find out how to win a NOOK from myself, Jaci Burton, and Shiloh Walker!

Contest 2 - All month long here on my blog I will be blogging about my favorite heather (UN) things. Weekly I will draw from commenters and send them a box of some of the best of those things. Right here.Starts tomorrow!

Contest 3- In November Donna Grant and I will be giving away Godiva and a Honey Baked ham and more! Details Soon. We have super great December contest planned to.

Contest 4 As always I will be doing my annual CD giveaway but I am going to spice it up by adding some very special, very exclusive things you will really want! Promise. Teasing is so much fun!

I also have new covers for

PROTECTOR AND HEALER!!

What do you think?

So lets get this party started!

I'll giveaway Starbucks goodies, a copy of Santa Baby to celebrate the holidays and the Wrapped in Seduction anthology to one commenter today.

How to win?

<strong>Each is an entry. Just come back here and tell me you did it.

1)Tag STORM THAT IS STERLING, Protector or Healer- links above — on Amazon or BN or both

2)Add STORM THAT IS STERLING, Healer, and Protector to your bookshelf at Goodreads

3)Tweet or retweet about this contest!

4)Just simply post a comment here! That's the easy one entry!

I will announce winners tomorrow when we start our new contest!

Lisa

Contest winners form the Lisa Renee Jones sand Donna Grant contest !

Here is how I picked. I looked at the number of comments and told DH to pick a number.

Gabi Wurst – $10 Smashwords coupon

Leagh Hotzone trilogy and Smashwords coupon – need address

Valerie Long Bath and Body and Vampire Seduction

Need address

Crystal Trent Amazon gift card

Need address

Na S e-Arc of either Zodius 1 or 2 and Bath and body –Need arc preference and your address

Need address and arc preference

Starbucks goodies and bath and body goodies — Shell Bryce

Need address

Brenda Hyde Arc of either Zodius and Bath and Body

Need arc preference and address

Lori Wolfenbarger Sterling in mass market when it arrives — any day now:) – and Bath and body

Need address

There you have it! Congrats and thanks for playing

Email lisareneejones@att.net to collect your prizes — please included needed info:)

Thank you!

Contest winners will be posted Monday

Quick note to let everyone know all contest winners will be posted in one blog post Monday morning. Thanks for playing with us and looking forward to getting everyone their goodies!

Lisa Renee Jones and Donna Grant contest entries extended!

You have until Midnight tonight to do any of the contest entry items! Good luck!

Final contest–win Bath and Body shop and Starbucks goodies

How to win?

Do anything from any contest you have not already done and tell me about it! THAT is what you call an OPEN BOOK:)

Good luck!

Contest 7 of my 8- win a Bath and body shop goodies package and your choice of either an e-arc of LEGEND OF MICHAEL or STORM THAT IS STERLING or you can wait and get an ARC from DANGER THAT IS DAMION

How to win

Buy Donna's new release

Buy any Donna book during this contest

Add a Donna book to a list at Goodreads or Amazon

Every one of these things gets you an extra entry.

What is a list? At GOOD READS people have lists like THIS. You can create your own or add Donna's books to one already there.

On Amazon the lists look like this and you will need to create your own.

Post your links in comments. Good luck!

Next contest- Win a goodie bag from Bath and Body works and a copy of Sterling in mass market when my author copies arrive –very soon!

How to win?

Go to Good Reads and add Donna Grant's books to your shelf – you can do one or more.

If you add all of her books you get two entries.

If you add her new release you get one.

Post your Good reads shelf link here in comments to enter

Next contest – several ways to win THE HOTZONE TRILOGY AND a SMASHWORDS COUPON

Number one way to win – BLOG about DONNA GRANT'S new release

REVIEW Donna Grants new release and send us a link. This can be on Amazon, Goodreads, or Barnes and Noble.

If you do more than one thing, each thing is an entry so post a link in the comments for each.

Good luck!