Posts from Category: Contest Stuff

And the Prize Goes to…

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Joy Isley! Joy, please email me your address, and I’ll get the books in the mail to you this week. Thanks to EVERYONE who entered. The next prize package, Spring in the South, will be given on May 15. Click here for more details, including links to the books. More to come.

Contest Drawing Tomorrow!

Filed in: Contest Stuff    Tags: A Murder Among Friends | contests | Field of Danger | New Hampshire | The Face of Deceit | The Taking of Carly Bradford
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The drawing for my Winter in New Hampshire prizes will be tomorrow (2/15) at 5pm. Prizes include: * A Murder Among Friends, The Face of Deceit, and The Taking of Carly Bradford, autographed * Field of Danger, autographed * New Hampshire: A Living Landscape, Peter E. Randall * Assorted teas in a gift basket * [...]

Blogs Away!

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I started off January blogging like crazy, then just stopped. This time, however, I had a reason. Liz Bemis, writer and webmistress extraordinaire, asked me to take a short break while she made some much needed changes to my website, including the blog. A lot of it had to do with stuff you’ll never see [...]

“Cast a Hero” Winners . . . and a bit more

Filed in: Contest Stuff | Writing    Tags: Burn Notice | Field of Danger | Jeffrey Donovan | Love Inspired Authors
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Thanks to everyone who offered up suggestions for casting my next hero. I REALLY appreciate the help. Later this week, we’ll be casting the heroine, June, so stay tuned. I have to admit I was a little blown away by how many people (here and via email) pitched Jeffrey Donovan. I had no idea Burn [...]

Cast a Hero; Win a Book

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Ray Taylor, former Marine and Memphis PD detective, is the sheriff of Tennessee’s rural (and fictional) Bell County. He’s a secondary character in my December book, Field of Danger—one who tried desperately to take over the tale. Obviously, he needed his own story. Which he gets in a proposal I’m sending to Steeple Hill, working [...]

Many Thanks…and on to the next show…

Filed in: Contest Stuff | Life | news    Tags: Field of Danger
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The last few days have been mentally rough – lots of soul searching, praying, and decisions to make. My ego also got a bit out of control and had to be yanked back into line. The backstory would be boring, mostly, but I can’t say thanks enough to the folks who’ve sent good thoughts and [...]

Time flies, promo UP, deadline looming

Filed in: Contest Stuff | Writing    Tags: Cafe Nostimo | Field of Danger | The Taking of Carly Bradford | Written in the Stars
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OK…I’m pushing on to the end of FIELD OF DANGER. Too much to do to think about much else. Plus I still need to finish my Rita and Golden Heart entries. Everything always seems to come due at once, but that’s life. And it’s a GOOD thing, I remind myself, because it means the writing [...]

Gearing Up, Influencers Need

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Cristine Bolley once told a class I attended that successful authors spends at least 40 percent of their time marketing. Before publication, you spend it networking, shopping proposals, making queries, researching publishers. After publication, you spend it networking, speaking, signing books, emailing fans and review sites, maintaining a blog. I certainly believe it. In less [...]

And the winner is . . .

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At long last, we’ve put all the names of everyone who entered last quarter’s contest (and a few from this quarter added for good measure) and drawn the first winner. Just as a reminder, the details of every quarter’s contest will be on the website’s contest page. The prize basket will include gourmet chocolate, a [...]

It’s a go . . . and more thanks . . . and a new crush, uh, hero in the works

Filed in: Contest Stuff | Family | Life | Musings on Craft    Tags: Contest | Rachel Richards | Trevor Eve
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OK, from all the comments I got, the contest is a go. I’ll send Liz my updates later, and the drawing for the basket will be in December.  Don’t forget to write or comment! Thanks, again, for everyone who’s asked, sent wishes, or good prayers for Rachel. She’s improving, bit by bit. I’ll post some [...]