Why August is Gonna Rock!

It looks like August is going to be the month of contests, and everyone is giving away great prizes!

From Ellora's Cave:

Over the years, many of our EC authors have told us that readers have thanked them for spicing up their sex lives—with themselves and their partners. So, to celebrate our 10^th anniversary, we asked readers to tell us how our books have improved their sex lives, and we offered prizes for the best answers. Boy, did we get some interesting answers! Several months ago, we gave netbook computers to winners of the video portion of the contest. Today we kick off the written portion of the contest by announcing the winner of Judges' Choice Award.

The Readers' Choice portion of the write-in contest begins next week. Every week for seven weeks, we will run a batch of entries for readers to vote on. The winner of each week's batch will win a free ebook of his or her choice and will become a semifinalist. Entries of the semifinalists will go into a final round of voting just before our 10^th anniversary celebration at our convention RomantiCon ( https://www.jasminejade.com/romanticon/index.html ) So be sure to check our Sex Talk for Wicked Women blog every week to read and vote on the entries, http://sextalkforwickedwomen.blogspot.com

From The Long and Short of it Reviews:

The Long and the Short of It is celebrating their third anniversary! A scavenger hunt starts on Monday, August 2^nd and runs through Friday, August 27^th on various author websites.  We’re finishing up the party with a crazy, wild, and busy two day chat on LASR and WC Yahoo groups and a chat on Sunday with Aurora. http://www.longandshortreviews.com/promo.htm

I'm participating in the scavenger hunt as well: Missy Jane's site

And last, but not least, Romance Junkies is also hosting a summer contest:  Contest
Answer the trivia question by reading the excerpt from my erotica, Resignation, and be entered to win a Missy Jane t-shirt.

Good Luck!
-Missy Jane
*Make reading a guilty pleasure...*
www.msmissyjane.com

Registration is closing!!

Authors After Dark closes its registration on August 1st 2010! If you have not gotten your registration in you are missing out on all the amazing goodies, gifts and free books this year! DONT MISS OUT! With over 2400 books being given away, TONS of swag and premium items, Parties, a Masquerade ball with a Costume contest (and a 100$ Spa Finders GC for the winner!) and TONS of amazing goodies in the charity raffle- Including a NOOK, IPAD and ITOUCH , you do not wanna miss this years event! Are you an author looking to get infront of some NY publishers? we have SEVERAL NY editors coming to AAD this year to take appointments! Kensington, Ballantine, TOR and many more will be in attendance... but you can ONLY get an appointment if you register! Registration is $140 and includes 5 meals and alcohol all weekend! Rooms are 109$ a night, and are double occupancy! Are you a Blogger? AAD has a special Blogger program set up where we treat bloggers as they amazing royalty they are! Register as a blogger and be treated to a special blogger party thursday night, get a special blogger book bag and the opportunity to make contacts for interviews and guest blogs with the authors and industry! Is that not enough reasons for you to attend? then hows this... AAD is the ONLY romance con that is showcasing GLBT books and publishers! LOVE M/M and F/F Books? Wanna meet some of your favorite authors? Want a TON of goodies and free books? REGISTER NOW!!!!

A new sale!

I'm happy (shooshes party horns) to announce my full length paranormal shifter romance has been picked up by Purple Sword Publications!


WOLF BROTHER'S LEGACY:RESURRECTION

Hunting for the obscurest of talismans will bring one woman to the gates of her own salvation.

Angie Merrick is dying. Agony unlike any she's known fills her body and steals a little more of her life every day. Not one doctor can help her, but when modern science has failed, a light of an extinct Native American people lures her back to her first love: research of the Jahehn. An ancient talisman was once one of her greatest searches, and becomes the perfect distraction when there is nothing left but waiting to die. With her life being ripped to shreds in more than one way, Angie seeks one last connection with a people she helped to reveal to the scientific world.

Except death is not stalking Angie. A timeless pact created through the spirit world is demanding her compliance and unknowingly fighting it is causing her seizures. The search for the talisman takes her to the one place where she could find answers and possibly not die from powers she doesn't understand.

She could survive if those who fear exposure hadn't decreed Angie must die by the very spirit their pact was sworn to protect.

Diana Castilleja

Diana Castilleja || Diana DeRicci

Stop Copyright Infringement!
Do not download illegal copies of books.
This is theft right out of the pockets of authors.

Unbound Trust || Coming Soon!
Crowning A Warrior King || Print
Aiza Clan Shifter Combo 1&2 || Print
The Eternal Kiss || Print

New Review for Caged!

4/5 for CAGED!

"...thrilling, uniquely intense..."

Check the whole review here! http://www.veiledsecretsreviews.com/Caged.html

Purchase here:
Purple Sword
All Romance Ebooks

Diana Castilleja

Diana Castilleja || Diana DeRicci

Stop Copyright Infringement!
Do not download illegal copies of books.
This is theft right out of the pockets of authors.

Unbound Trust || Coming Soon!
Crowning A Warrior King || Print
Aiza Clan Shifter Combo 1&2 || Print
The Eternal Kiss || Print

I'll Be at APOLLOCON This Weekend!

I'll be signing copies of my newest release this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 25-27, at APOLLOCON 2010.  It'll be at the DoubleTree Hotel Houston Intercontinental Airport in Houston, TX.

For more information about guests and programs, go here.

Want reasons to go to Authors After Dark? Then read on....

Authors After Dark is the premier FOR READERS BY AUTHORS event. Why? Why does it differ from other cons out there? Well heres a helpful list of WHY:

~AAD is the cheapest con out there that FEEDS YOU 5 MEALS. For the $140 registration, you get 5 meals(2 lunch, 2 dinner and 1 breakfast). NO other con is doing it for that price

~ AAD is the only con that offers a full vegetarian option for all meals. not just a veggie plate, you will have choices like veggie wraps, salads, pasta dishes...

~ AAD is the ONLY romance con that is doing a GLBT track and have GLBT publishers sponsoring and supporting. Readers will be treated to some of the best GLBT authors out there on panels, and doing parties, and over 200 GLBT books are being given away from MLR press! Other publishers involved include Dreamspinner Press, Phaze and Loose id.

~AAD is giving away over 2400 free books to attendees! Books from such amazing publishers as Kensington Books, Ballantine, Dorchester, Phaze, Tease Publishing, Changeling Press, Ink Spotters and MLR Press!

~AAD has some special book giveaways as well, opportunities you wont find anywhere else! Authors like Joey W Hill, Rosemary Laurey, Jacquelyn Frank, Susan Sizemore and tons of others! Attendees can expect Special signed books, tshirt's and ARC's galore!

~AAD is doing a fantastic charity basket raffle with over 50 baskets! Attendees can win such amazing baskets as Kate Douglas' back list, a fabulous book basket from Gena Showalter or Maggie Shayne, ARC's and special goodies from Cynthia Eden, a much coveted goodie basket from Joey W. Hill and many more! And this year you can enter to win a NOOK, itouch and maybe even an IPAD!!!!

~AAD is the ONLY romance con that treats Bloggers like royalty! Bloggers (like the booksellers at RT) will have their own welcome event Thursday night, including each receiving a special bag of books (ARC's, single signed books and special premium promo items) and some amazing opportunities to interview authors! The Blogger party will be populated by Authors, industry and staff, so you will be guests of honor!

~AAD is the only con that offers FREE ALCOHOL (Wine and mixed drinks) for the entire weekend! Also, AAD is the only Romance con that has a Con suite where attendees can visit all weekend, get snacks, goodies and enjoy author sponsored events!

~AAD's night parties are second to NONE! Our friday event has games and speed authoring, sure to give you the face time you want with the authors you love, special door prizes and a room full of fortune tellers, our fantastic Mystical Maven's event! And Saturday? A Masquerade party with a costume theme of Literary characters! And you could with an amazingly fab prize for winning the costume contest, so stay tuned for that.

That not enough reasons? Well how about out attending authors! they include: Jacquelyn Frank, Silvia Day, Susan Sizemore, Joey W Hill, Jennifer Armintrout, Judi Fennell, Rosemary Laurey, Bianca D'Arc, Leanna Renee Hieber, Caridad Pineiro, and some of the stars of the GLBT world Carol Lynne, Laura Baumbach, Kris Norris, Leigh Ellwood and many others!

Check out out website: http://aadromanceunlimited.com and get registered today! You know you do not wanna miss this amazing con! We will see you there!

You could win a copy of FROM OUT OF THE SHADOWS!

Hello, Everyone!

Well, if you don't know by now, my next book is due to be released June 15th. FROM OUT OF THE SHADOWS is an erotic paranormal/fantasy romance novel coming from Whiskey Creek Press Torrid. It is my only wolf/shifter romance.

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Croat was a Lupan, one of the half-man, half-beast creatures long thought to be extinct or fabricated from fairy tales. Lupan were folklore, nothing more than a myth.


Tora was a Sensitive. Her kind really existed, and normal people feared Sensitives because it was common knowledge that all Sensitives were evil and practiced the dark magicks.

Captured and thrown together inside Baron Agrino’s dungeon, they discovered a connection between them that defied all reason, and a love that transcended all boundaries.

But is their love strong enough to stop the baron from what he’ll do with every Lupan he plans to capture? Or, worse, what he’ll do with Tora once he learns what she is?

Warning! Contains torture, imprisonment, severe beatings, nasty bad guys, public nudity, molten wax, old wives' tales, forest folk, bad horsemanship, and lots of pissed off townspeople.

To read an excerpt, go to http://www.lindamooney.com/excerptFOOTS.htm

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I will be giving away FOUR copies! Here's how you might win one!

1. Monday night, June 14th, from 11-11:30 pm est (10 pm cst), I will be reading an excerpt from my book at Blog Talk Radio on Other Worlds of Romance. Afterwards, I will choose someone from the chat room to win a copy. You can get there at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/other_worlds_of_romance

2. On Tuesday the 15th, someone from my personal eloop list will win a copy. If you want you name to go in the hat, all you have to do is join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LMOWR/ , then email me back and say so!

3. On Tuesday the 15th, I will be having a chat on the LoveRomancesCafe eloop from 6-10 pm est. During that time I'll be giving away a copy.

and finally

4. I'll be on Tilly Greene's Big Huge Reader Contest Blog on Wednesday the 16th. You can reach it here http://tillygreene.blogspot.com/ All you have to do is comment that day, and I'll pick one of the comments as the winner!

Thank you, and good luck!
Linda

2009 Whiskey Creek Press Torrid Author of the Year
Author of 10 Consecutive #1 Best Sellers
Sensuous Romance with a Sci-Fi or Fantasy Flair
http://www.lindamooney.com/