Book winner!
Cynthia Gander, you won a signed copy of Cavelli's Lost Heir last week! Please email me at lynn AT lynnrayeharris DOT com, or use the contact page, so I can send your book. 🙂
Countdown
You have until November 2nd to enter the latest Harlequin Presents competition! Here is a current post from the new Harlequin Blog about it, and you can also, of course, find much info over at the I Heart Presents site.
Best of luck to all entering! And remember, you don't have to win to see your dream of selling to HP come true.
But if you DO win, oh my. Enjoy that ride. It's great. 🙂
Saturday contest – winners!
I have author copies of Cavelli's Lost Heir! Tell me why you want one, and I'll pick a winner from the comments. This book isn't out until January so don't miss your chance for an advance copy!
UPDATE:
I simply couldn't pick just one winner, so I decided to giveaway 3 books! I trotted over to the random number generator, and this is what it told me:
First winner: Pearl!
Second winner: Lynne!
Third winner: Lois!
Send me your contact info at contact AT lynnrayeharris DOT com and I'll get your books on the way to you!
And if you didn't win this time, keep checking back because I simply can't resist holding contests. And if you click over to my Contest page, you'll notice I've put up the next contest for a book and goodies!
Thank you all so much for the wonderful comments. I enjoyed reading them all! You quite made my day!
Winner!
I bet you've been wondering where I went to! Well, I'm in the home stretch of Book #4, and I hope to finish it sometime today if I'm lucky. So the last few days have been spent hunched over the computer, my fingers trying to keep up with what was happening in my head. Thank you so much for all the comments and congrats on my one year anniversary of The Call! And it's been great seeing what kinds of events you're celebrating.
We've had, I believe, two new home purchases, a couple of anniversaries, and some celebrations over finishing a manuscript and getting a full request! Everyone has a lot to celebrate it looks like!
And now, the winner of a copy of Cavelli's Lost Heir is Fatima! Fatima, send me your contact info and as soon as I get my author copies, I'll pop one in the mail to you. 🙂 You can use the contact page, or email me at contact AT lynnrayeharris DOT com.
Everyone else, there will be more chances to win, so keep checking back! And keep an eye on that contest page of mine. I'll be launching a new contest soon — but because they're so fun for me to do, I'll still have impromptu blog contests as well. Another way to win is by following me on Twitter where I'll tweet chances to enter for books and other goodies as the mood strikes!
Thanks for reading this blog, and thanks again for being readers of my books. 🙂
One year anniversary
I realized this morning when I woke up that today is the one year anniversary of The Call. One year ago today, at 7:27 AM, my lovely editor called to buy Spanish Magnate, Red-Hot Revenge and one other book from me. In February, my second book was accepted, and then my editor called to buy three more books. She also recently called to buy a novella.
It's been quite a road since that day one year ago! I can remember the excitement, the heart-pounding inability to concentrate on anything other than the fact I'd just sold a book. It was an amazing day! Best of all, my poor patient long-suffering husband was at home when I got the call. Five more minutes, and he'd have been out the door on the way to work. But he was here, and I didn't have to scramble around trying to find him so I could tell him. You know how you always read call stories where someone was at home alone, and then she couldn't get her husband or any of her family on the phone?
Thankfully, that wasn't me. 🙂 I can't remember the order in which I called people after. I may have called my mom, and then my dad at work. And my in-laws. After that, it's a blur. My hubby had to trot off to work, and later that day, he had to leave town on a business trip. I remember that my celebratory dinner that evening was a Lean Cuisine pizza and a glass of wine. But when my hubby returned at the end of the week, we went out for a proper celebration! And of course he brought me flowers and a card before he left for that trip.
It was a great day.
One year later, I'm hard at work on Book #4, which is due in a little over a week, and thinking about the novella I have to write next. It's been fun, busy, stressful at times, but I wouldn't trade this job for anything.
Most of all, I want to thank my readers for all the wonderful comments and emails you've sent to me over the last year. Your support when my book came out meant so much to me. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you'll enjoy the next one. You landed me on the Waldenbooks/Borders Bestseller list and on the Bookscan Top 100 Bestselling Romances list. I thank you all very much. I write because I love it, but I also write because I hope you will love it.
Now, because I feel so celebratory today, I'm going to give away a copy of Cavelli's Lost Heir to one lucky commenter! You'll have to be a little patient, however, because I don't have my copies just yet. I expect them soon, and when I get them, I'll pop it in the mail.
So tell me what you've celebrated recently, or what you will celebrate soon! Any milestone or event counts.
PS You will have noticed I have a new Contest page on this site. Stay tuned for a new contest soon….
A book giveaway
Today I'm giving away a signed book by my friend, chapter mate, and line buddy Kimberly Lang! It's amazing how much fun it is to live right down the road, in the same town, as another person who writes for the glamorous and gorgeous Harlequin Presents line. This means lots of lunches and plot talk. 🙂
Kimberly's books are called Modern Heat in the UK (mine are Modern), so we definitely aren't writing the same thing. When I want fun, sexy, and glamorous all at once, I pick up one of Kimberly's books. And this book definitely lives up to that promise! (In fact, I emailed Kimberly from under a dryer at the salon because I was cracking up over a line she'd written. Too funny.)
Tell me why you want to read Kimberly's book! On Sunday, I'll pick a winner from the comments. 🙂 Go!