My idiocy is your gain! I bought Trish's The Ruthless Greek's Virgin Princess on my Kindle and devoured it — without realizing I'd also bought it in print. I don't need the print book, do I? So I'm giving it away to one lucky commenter!
Tell me what you love about ruthless Greeks, virgin princesses, or Harlequin Presents in general!
Pamela Varnado is the Aug – Sep contest winner! Congratulations, Pamela!
The winner is Pamela Varnado! Congratulations, Pamela! I'll be sending your prize in the next few days. Thanks all who entered, and look for my next contest which I hope to post soon!
School has started again, the Halloween decorations are in the shops, and I've even seen Christmas decorations! This is the time of year when it's still summer, but it seems as if Fall is coming really, really fast. If you have kids, they have homework & school activities where just a few short weeks ago they were free for the summer. You might also think it's time to start considering where you'll spend the holidays and, if you stay home, who you're inviting over for dinner. I've already started thinking about Thanksgiving, about the yummy turkey, the pies, the stuffing — and wondering if I'm cooking, if my mom is cooking, or if we'll all go to my in-laws house.
It's a little stressful, isn't it, to be thinking of all these things when the pool is still open and the heat index is in the 90s? To help you out, I've decided to give away a nice stress-relieving prize pack!
One lucky winner will receive a satin tote, a microfiber hair wrap, an Alluvia Berry Blast travel set (body wash, soap, and moisturizing lotion), an exfoliating body scrubber, a velvet makeup bag, a set of Vitabath Spa Therapy candles, and a copy of the UK version of Spanish Magnate, Red-Hot Revenge to enjoy while you pamper yourself!
The Rules:
1. By entering, you acknowledge that you will be automatically subscribed to my spam-free newsletter. I don't send it often, no more than once a month typically, and unsubscribing is very easy.
2. The winner will be drawn at random. All decisions are final. The winner will be announced on this blog and will also be notified via email.
3. If you are related to me, don't enter. Nice try, but it won't work. 🙂
4. There is no purchase necessary.
5. If you win, I have the right to post your first name and location on my website as my lucky winner!
6. International entries are welcome! I reserve the right to substitute items of equal value due to postal considerations, should it prove necessary. If you win, and you reside in a location other than the United States or Canada, I will give you options before substituting items, should it prove necessary.
7. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received.
How to enter:
Email me at contest@lynnrayeharris.com with your name, address, email, and the answer to this question: what is Alejandro doing when Rebecca confronts him about his plans for her company (the answer is a breeze to find on this website – try here)? Please include all information or your entry will be considered incomplete and, therefore, ineligible.
The contest ends at midnight, US Central Daylight Time, on September 9th!
Hey, where are my winners? Click on the contact button to send me your info so I can get these books in the mail to you! 🙂
What kind of summer fun have you been up to lately? I've been swimming a gazillion times — which, really, is a lie. Because I can't swim very well, so to call what I do swimming is inaccurate. Fortunately, I've finally decided that I can take instruction from the hubby. He used to be a competition swimmer, so he looks beautiful in the water. I want to learn to do that too.
We've also been to picnics, barbeques, and out to dinner and movies with friends and family several times. It always seems as if the summer social calendar is much fuller than the fall and winter. I do love summer, but man is it hot in Alabama. Most activities need to take place indoors unless it involves the pool. And even the pool has felt like bathwater lately.
Now, who can tell me how many novels I wrote before I sold one? (Hint: the answer is on the Media page.) One lucky winner gets a book! And tell me what you love about summer where you live!
Clearly, I need to give away more books! I have an entire box of my August release just begging to be read. If you want a copy, tell me in the comment trail the name of the hotel that Rebecca Layton wants to buy from Alejandro de Ramirez. You can find the answer on this website, so do poke around! And stay tuned for more giveaways. I'm making plans for a great contest in the near future!
(A comment is an entry; by entering, you will also be signed up for my spam-free newsletter. Unsubscribing is very straightforward.)
— I am not giving away the entire box today, btw! Thanks, Hannah, for pointing that out. 🙂
Keep it coming y'all! Winners tomorrow. Yes, I will choose more than one.
This weekend, I took a mini-break from the deadline and went to a movie with my hubby. We both wanted to see Star Trek. I remember the original series, in reruns of course, when I was a kid. It came on late at night, and I just loved it. Then came TNG. That was also a great series, and I'll just bet the producers thought that Will Ryker was going to be their Kirk equivalent (handsome, tall, alpha) instead of Picard. And yet it was Picard that often got the sexy storyline and the girl.
Fast forward (or backward, LOL, if you're serious about your canon) to the new Star Trek movie. Without giving away spoilers, I just have to say that while Kirk is indeed the womanizing sexy guy he always was, the show-stopping majorly sexy guy upon whom I now have a major crush: Spock. OMG, Spock. Who the heck knew?
It's not because the actor, Zachary Quinto, is all that. (He is good looking, yes, but it's not that.) It's the emotion he puts into Spock. And the fight with that emotion. Spock is not the unfeeling intellect we've known and loved. He's still the supreme logical guy — and yet he's fighting with himself, warring with his emotions, and it's the most incredibly sexy thing imaginable.
There is so much more, and I just don't want to say because if you haven't seen it then I don't want to ruin it. But oh my. Kirk is over the top alpha, as always, but it's Spock's tormented alpha that strikes a chord for me and reminds me so much of why I love Harlequin Presents.
Presents heroes are always Captain Kirk in many ways. They are large and in charge. They take a backseat to no one. But they are also at war with themselves once they've met the heroine (if not before). They are brave, strong men trying really damn hard not to show or feel emotion. They battle like hell to keep a lid on it. But when they lose? When they cave in to the heroine and admit they're in love? I am so weak at the knees by then.
I'm writing a hero now who is battling emotion. He's battling some dark stuff, and yet he won't be able to keep it in ultimately. The heroine will know that while he's strong and capable of battling the world, he can't battle her. She is the one who gets inside, who is able to help him accept that emotion is fine and good and not at all contrary to strength and power. Ooooh, shiver, I love this kind of stuff.
And I totally love Spock. Can't wait for the sequel!
Have you seen Star Trek? What did you think? Are you crazy for Spock? Or does Kirk's swaggering alpha do it for you? (Don't get me wrong, I love a swaggering alpha too! And Kirk is also tortured, but his torment isn't as bad as Spock's.)
I'm so sure that Spock is a tortured Harlequin Presents type hero that I'm giving away a copy of my book today to one lucky commenter. See if Alejandro de Ramirez isn't holding something in and fighting it with all his might! (Be aware you will have to wait about a month or so before I get copies, but soon as I do, I'll send it over!)
