A fundraiser, contests, and freebies, updated

Sadly, we have lost another of the folks who was an ardent supporter of reading and authors, Babs Hightower. There is a GoFundMe page. Please give what you can to help the family.



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Sorry for the quiet blog, I'm dealing with some personal challenges and a bit stretched out right now, but here are a few contests and blogs that have regular contests:


Night Owl Romance Hallowpalooza 2019

Author Karen Doctor's blog

Author Caris Roane's blog

Author Addison Albright's blog






The links below will give me extra entries if you use them, so...thank you!



Michelle A. Bailey's Romance Book Fair



OTOH Unearthly Ever Afters October Book Fair


The Kindle Book Review $400 Fantastic Fall Giveaway
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Free books!

Julia Kent's Fall Into Romance has 9 free books plus a chance for an AMZ GC

Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay

Contests and giveaways (updated 11/20/18)

This photo is from Pixabay. Isn't it striking?

Night Owl Reviews is having its Winter Wonderland Giveaway!
Note: Using this link will give me extra entries!

Don't forget to visit the contest page for other giveaways!




The Romance Reviews is having its Year-end Splash Party. New entry opportunities every day!


Caris Roane has the most interesting articles accompanied by beautiful pictures and a chance for one of her beautiful charm bracelets at this link


Romance Books "4" Us has a November Scavenger Hunt taking place at this link

Author Karen Docter frequently has guest authors who offer giveaways at this link

Boy Meets Boy Reviews has an anniversary celebration going on at this link

 Book Sweeps has a Military and Hero Romance giveaway at this link

Bookwrapt has a couple of contests at this link and this link


 Good luck!




Feel free to mention others in the comments section!

Announcements, contests, and miscellaneous comments

One of the authors I follow (M. Crane Hana) put the following plea out for assistance in helping her transport a disabled veteran to dialysis appointments. The link for information is here. The link for the GoFundMe account is here. If you are so moved, please help spread the word on your social media. Thank you!


While I am discussing non-book subjects, one of the reasons my life has been more chaotic than usual is that I have been dealing with multiple deaths over the past 6 months...not the best way to spend Christmas and subsequent months. The ONLY reason I mention this is that THREE of those deaths were due to cancer. PLEASE make sure you are getting regular exams, as two victims were older women who had breast cancer.


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Ok, on to more fun topics...CONTESTS and GIVEAWAYS!


Night Owl Romance's Summer Fun Scavenger Hunt is going on NOW
and there are other contests here


The Romance Reviews' Sizzling Summer Party has lots of great books and other prizes

Visit author Madison Michael's blog regularly, as she tends to have contest throughout the week

Ditto for Reviews by Crystal

and finally,

Sierra Cartwright (who writes ADULT erotic romance) has a free novella to introduce her Titans. Please check the price before ordering, as I think this is available for a limited time



and...the sequel will be published next week, so feel free to pre-order





As always, I thank you for reading the blog and I apologize for not answering your comments in a timely fashion. I DO appreciate you stopping by!

Contests and giveaways and a request

Waving!  As you can probably tell, I have been juggling a fair bit over the past week (no, I was not having an extended birthday celebration, although, oddly enough my hubby, my MIL and I have birthdays within this week!) so I haven't been posting like I should.  Nor have I had time to visit some of my favorite haunts as much as I'd like, but there are some intriguing contests going on right now.

Please visit author Stanalei Fletcher's blog at this link and learn about the St. Paddy's Day Celebration (and get the first two romantic suspense books in her fantastic 'Northstar Security' series for a wonderfully low price!).  I have had such a great time editing this series and I can't wait to help share the next exciting title in the series later this year!
    

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The irrepressible Sabrina York has some fantastic stories releasing and is celebrating with multiple contests at this link
I just finished enjoying her historical romance novella Lucious which is part of the boxed set, Seven Nights of Sin which is available for $.99 at the time of this post.


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The prolific Lisa Renee Jones has several contests on her blog at this link (make sure you educate yourself about whether your cat is trying to kill you, lol).

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Other contests:


Night Owl Reviews is having the Spring Fling Scavenger hunt at this link and there are always other contests available at this link

Romance Books 4 Us has the March St. Patrick's Day Bunny contest at this link

The always positive Kim has a contest daily on her blog SOS Aloha at this link

Writerspace has plenty of contests at this link

There are giveaways at Coffee Time Romance at this link, this link gives me an extra entry into one of their contests and there are even more contests farther down the page at this link

There are also a preponderance of contests where I get an extra entry if you click on the link and enter...my thanks if you do!
The Lucky Reader giveaway is at this link
Win a 7" Kindle Fire at this link

Good luck!


and please share the link to help my fellow blogger, reviewer, and friend, Crystal (Reviews by Crystal).  She and her family are facing their biggest challenge yet and need all of the positive thoughts you can send them!

Contests and Giveaways (updated 2/10/15)

Sorry, a little buried with things...feel free to leave contests and giveaways you have found in the comments...


Don't forget the Find Your Next Great Read Scavenger Hunt February 2015 at this link

Night Owl Reviews also has plenty of giveaways at this link
and, if you use this link, http://gvwy.io/67pe11,
to enter the Terry Spear contest, I will get an additional entry!


Romance Books 4 Us has a beautifully revamped website and a cute monthly contest at this link.

TRS has a couple of contests...I think the Valentine's party (link) isn't quite in full swing, so make sure to check back before the 14th! There is also a daily contest at this link.

The effervescent Sabrina York and her friends have a new boxed set, Elite Metal: Eight-Novel Cohesive Military Romance Boxed Set , coming out, and the wonderful Crystal has a giveaway on her blog at this link (and make sure you look around, there are other giveaways on her blog)


Fresh Fiction has plenty of contests at this link





The very busy Lisa Renee Jones not only has released the final title in her yummy 'Inside Out' series, a novella called, All of Me, but there is always a great recipe from the very busy Rae along with a giveaway on the blog, and this week's offering is at this link.

Visit Lisabet Sarai's lovely blog and get started with the Love is Love Valentine's Day blog at this link.

Contests and giveaways and upcoming reviews (updated)

The Romance Reviews is having their Sizzling Summer Reads contest going on at this link.  I always enjoy these because not only is there the 'Matching Game' contest but each question leads you to an excerpt from a different book and there are always very good odds for winning something over the weeks that the contest runs.  Be advised that the time is EST (I always get caught because I start entering the contest at night and everything changes over at midnight EST).




                                         
There are always nice contests going at Tina Donahue's blog, either for some of her backlist titles or for the authors she is spotlighting (there was a tour with a $50 Amazon GC when I looked last).  Go to this link.

Night Owl Romance (yes, there is a little personal bias, lol) always has contests going on at the blog (and of course, browse through the reviews while you are there, I have written more than 660 of them!).  Link.

Romance Books 4 Us has a contest every month (I won a book by Mona Risk last month!) and the hunt is fun (if only for the chance to look at the cover models' pix!).  Link.

Come join us at the Writerspace chat.  The New Releases chat is on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. PST.  Sometimes there are giveaways and there is always good (and sometimes wacky) conversation and plenty of discussion amongst book addicts and authors.  Join us in the Readers' Chatroom at this link.  Fair warning, SOME of the chats (EC or Changeling chats on 6/25/13) are ADULTS only but there are usually several during the week.

The monthly contests at Writerspace can be found at this link.

There are plenty of hops scattered throughout the blogosphere, if you have one to share, feel free to let me know and I will add it to the list but I am a bit too crunched for time to hunt right now.  I am delighted to mention that I will have e-books for giveaways over the next few weeks so keep an eye out!



And don't forget that Dana Marton has her new romantic suspense, Deathtrap available for $.99 (click on cover for link...if you purchase, I will get a small percentage of whatever you purchase during this shopping excursion so thank you!)

I have been a little buried in edits and proofreads so I haven't been keeping up with my reviews as much as I should but my stack of upcoming reviews include:

                                                     
                                                       

Laura Griffin: Exposed, another of her wonderfully fast-paced romantic suspense stories in the 'Tracers' series.  Yum.

                                                       

Elle James:  Voodoo for Two (a cute paranormal set in the bayou country and continuing after the entertaining story from Voodoo on the Bayou)
                                    

                                                 

 
Tara Lain:  Spell Cat and Brush with Catastrophe, both fun m/m paranormal reads.


          

and I am in the middle of reading Lisa Renee Jones:  Being Me, a deliciously erotic romantic suspense that is part of her 'Inside Out' trilogy.

Yes, as usual, I am reading faster than I am writing the reviews but that is partly because I have had so many edits lately that I am reluctant to sit at the keyboard when I can be reading something else!  We won't discuss the pile of library books that I haven't gotten to, lol.