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Leave a comment…help saves the lives of kids, and you can win

My friend Limecello is doing another socialgood project.  She's helping raise funds and awareness for the famine in the Horn of Africa, and if you can help simply by visiting her blog and leaving a comment.  While you're welcome to donate (and I'd give you big slobbery cyber kisses for doing so), all you have to do to help is just check out her blog and comment.

The comment drive is all about raising awareness-not just funds.  Right now, she's aiming for 550.  There are numerous 'matching' donations, like if she hits 525, author Farrah Rochon and her mom will both bump up their donation. (Farrah, you and your mom are awesome.)

If you help her get to her next level of 500, I'm going to donate a prize-my Grimm books, including the one not due out until September, Locked in Silence.

Other prizes you can win…

Christine Bell – Two e-book bundles, where each winner can choose 5 of Christine's books!


Susanna Fraser – One of her books in the format of the winner's choice


Inez Kelly – Sweet as Sin, Turn It Up, Jinxed plus Lip Butters in Sweet as Sin & Chocolate Orgasm


Nadia Lee – A set of her books (in e-format), including an author e-copy of her upcoming December Carina release


Dee Tenorio – A backlist e-bundle of your choice of her series books


Anne Holly – A PDF copy of one of her books


Courtney Milan – A prize I can't even explain. (But Courtney obviously does.)


Jill Sorenson – A print copy of Stranded With Her Ex (international)


Toni Anderson – 2 winners, who each get to pick one of her books in an e-format


Sarah Morgan – a signed print copy of any of her Harlequin Presents, including her upcoming release, if we hit 500 comments


Jeanette Murray – a PDF copy of her August 29th release, The Game of Love – and a video excerpt if we hit 450 comments!


Olivia Gates-  Twenty  winners will receive the backlist book of his or her choice from Olivia when we hit 525 comments


A lovely gift basket from some of your favorite St. Martin's Press romance authors, stuffed with goodies if we hit 525 comments.


Nikki Duncan – one winner will receive one of the Sensory Ops books, and another winner will receive an ARC ofTangled in Tulle


Shiloh Walker – if we hit 500 comments, one person will receive all of Shiloh's Grimm books in e-format, including her upcoming release. That's Candy Houses, No Prince Charming, I Thought It Was You, Crazed Hearts, andLocked in Silence


Samhain Publishing is offering to one person a box of 15 signed print books from our RWA signing, which includes books by Maya Banks and Lauren Dane, as well as several print ARCs, and to five additional winners, the ebook of his or her choice if we hit 550 comments.

And all you have to do is head over here  and leave a comment. (all comments must be left at Lime's blog!)

Do you do fairy tales?

I'm thinking about doing a thing in September for my Grimm story that's releasing on 9/20.  If you're a pubbed author with a fairy tale book out-doesn't have to be romance- and you wanna participate, email me… shilohwalker(at)gmail.com

Basically, all I'll require is a giveaway (you'll be responsible for mailing it to the winner) and something about your fairy tale book…it can be an excerpt, it can be the inspiration behind it, it an be a funny thing related to the book, that sort of thing, but it has to tie in to the book.

Whether or not I do it depends on whether or not I can get enough names interested.  The fairy tale books do need to be actual fairy tale sort of things… retellings and stuff, ya know, but I'm not just looking for paranormal.

Kindlegraphs…?

I added a few books.  Not all-that will take a while. O.o

http://kindlegraph.com/authors/shilohwalker

I'm not entirely sure how it works, although I've signed a few. Just not sure, so I'm kinda clueless. I don't think you have to have a kindle, though.

Whatcha Reading?

The summer has been so crazy, between vacation and trying to catch up with deadlines and stuff, I haven't been able to pay attention the books that are coming out.

I've done some reading, although most of it is stuff that's been on my TBR or faves shelves.

I've read…

Yeah, yeah, the Ilona Andrews books are re-reads, but I'm trying to tide myself over until another one comes out, what can I say? Dead in the Delta was okay. Chasing Fire was pretty good. Not my fave Nora, but I've got so many faves by here, it's getting hard to knock those faves down. But it was good.

So what are you reading?

Friday 56

Yep, another Friday…yay! So, that means it's time for another round of Friday 56.  Grab the closest (doesn't have to be what you're reading, just what you happen to have nearby).  Turn to page 56, and give us the 5th sentence…or more if you'd like.  Mine this week:

"And the slight imperfection of his nose–which looked like it had once been broken–gave him just enough character to save him from being pretty."

–Sirensong by Jenna Black  

And I'm done…

Edits on book 3 are done.  I need to mail them off.  Will do that tomorrow.

I celebrated by making a series page.

I mentioned on twitter and google+ that I finished the book and decided, It doesn't completely suck.  That might not sound like a ringing endorsement, but I tend to think most of my books do suck.  I'm spastic that way.  This one seems pretty decent-the whole trilogy does.  It's probably one of the best things I've written.

And I'm very, very glad the mad editing frenzy is almost done.

Ahhhhh!!!!!

That's the sound of me screaming.  My brain imploding.  All of it.

On Friday, I had not one but two sets of edits hit my desk.  First round of edits on THE DEPARTED and edits on IF YOU KNOW HER.

I've got a book due 9/1.  Another one due 11/1.  Trying to put together a new project that will go I dunno where if I can sell it.

Brain is on meltdown.

Things may be scarce here until the brain recovers from the ahhhhhh moments.

Best. Spam. Ever.

I kid you not.  I'm not altering this in any way, shape or form.  I just didn't add the email, although why I'm being courteous to a spammer, I dunno…

I am Mrs Gloria Jones.My husband and my son was poisoned by my brother

inlaw because of property been shared by my father inlaw before he died.He

killed my husband and my son so that he can have my husband property to is

own in the act of jealousy due to my husband was given the highest shares

by is father.He sent assasins to wipe me and my only daughter away which

they missed a bullet towards us,so quickly travelled to italy to stay with

my aunt in verona.I was told by my husband bank manager that my brother

inlaw is trying to pull the sum of $500,000,000 dollars to his

account,which i was adviced by him to quickly move the funds before it get

too late.I was told to find someone who will help me pull the money to

your account so that he can not detect trace of the funds to me.Which you

can have 30% of the total funds then you can transfer to me the rest of

the funds to my account.If you are interested help me please do contact my

email below

Now, I ask you, have you ever seen a spam mail so full of awesome and crap at the same time?

Excerpt from THE DEPARTED

 

due out in January…

For so many years, cold had been a part of Dez's life. The departed felt cold. The long empty nights she spent following leads were often cold. She went home to a cold, empty bed and she awoke to a cold, empty house.

She was more used to cold than warmth.

So it was something of a shock when she drifted awake and found herself surrounded by warmth. She stiffened, the breath locking in her throat as she stared at the wall straight in front of her, unable to move, hardly able to think.

A hand rested on her hip and in that moment, as her mind tried to figure out just what in the hell was going on, it started to move, stroking upward. She shivered, feeling an odd, tickling sensation in the wake of his hand.

"It was a mistake insisting on the three months," Taylor said quietly, his voice muffled against her neck.

She lay still, not moving, hardly daring to breathe. Even when his hand rested on the curve of her nape, she didn't move. "I knew it then, even if I couldn't have made myself say it. I can say it now. It was a mistake . . . and I'm sorry."

Dez closed her eyes. Swallowing, she asked, "Why are you in my bed, Jones?"

For the longest time, he was quiet. Then, he finally, he pressed a kiss to her nape and replied, "Because I seemed to have a lot of trouble walking away from you last night. I needed to tell you that, needed to tell you I was sorry."

"Okay. You told me. You're still in my bed."

He let go and she felt something fall across her neck. Reflexively, she caught it, but she didn't look down because he'd caught her hip and started to tug, slowly. A gentle, unyielding pressure.

She could have resisted it, but that would have felt more than a little childish. She settled for keeping her eyes closed—that was only a little childish, right? Even as she lay there clutching whatever it was in her hand, she kept her eyes closed. Even as Taylor guided her to her back and pressed a hand to her belly and even as her heart skittered and danced in her chest.

She couldn't look at him. She didn't dare.

"I have the hardest damn time putting you out of my head." Taylor brushed his lips over her cheek.

She had to bite her tongue to keep from hissing out a surprised gasp. Don't listen to him. Whatever new game this was—

Then his lips covered hers. Thought stopped. As his tongue stroked along the seam of her lips, Dez opened for him with a startled moan. What in the . . .

Read another excerpt

Winner

I keep forgetting to post this…

Winner of the Nalini Singh/Archangel book…connery, who commented:

Her face lit up the moment she saw him.

Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon

and you know there is a special place in hell for teasers, right next to people who talk in the theater *winks*

I need you to email me!  email is shilohwalker(at)gmail.com~just a reminder, as stated in my disclaimer, all contest winners are posted to the blog-that's how they are notified and you have two weeks to claim the prize.  If it isn't claimed within the two weeks, I don't redraw names-I just hold the book for a contest later down the road.

Thank you!