The Romance Reviews (TRR) is celebrating their 7th anniversary with games and giveaways in a month-long event!
I’m participating with a giveaway of ABSOLUTE TRUST.
Pop over to TRR and check out the quiz questions and giveaways throughout the celebration. There’s book cover matching, hangman games, and of Q&A to play and win.
Good luck!
Switching gears here from celebrating the release of the first in the Safeguard series to spotlighting the first in the upcoming True Heroes series. Extreme Honor releases on January 26, 2016 from Forever Romance.
This will be my first book in print available in brick and mortar book stores. As much as I love digital books and the convenience of being able to carry a single ereader with me in my travels, loaded with hundreds of books, there’s something very special about holding a print book in your hands.
Today, my publisher and I are doing a blitz to share two treats with you all, a sneak peek excerpt of Extreme Honor, first in the True Heroes series -plus- the cover reveal of Ultimate Courage, second in the series.
Here’s a list of the wonderful bloggers participating in the blitz:
Forever Publishing is generously giving away five (5) advance review copies of Extreme Honor to five winners. Use the Rafflecopter form to enter.
Deadline adventures continue as we head into September and the end of summer. Where the heck did summer go? We’re coming up on Labor Day weekend and it’s my birthday month! (Thus the Passion Planner giveaway to celebrate, but more on that below.)
It’s the start of a new school year for people of all ages, though it’s been a long time since I’ve graduated…various levels of education. But I still love September to start new projects and planning initiatives. It’s like Back to School without the new bus schedule.
I’m planning to finish the year strong with 1 more contracted manuscript to turn in (Deadly Testimony, a Safeguard novel) and 2 short stories before diving into NaNoWriMo to start drafting the final books in each of my romantic suspense series: Safeguard and True Heroes.
I’m still really enjoying using a paper planner to keep my writerly tasks clear in my head. In fact, I’ve been looking at great features of other planner systems (though I’m still using my Erin Condren planner!). For example, I’m loving the concept of inkWELL Press‘ mission boards. There’s also the clean, simplistic look of Passion Planner’s Academic layout with the area for mind-mapping and thoughtful doodling.
These nifty features are helpful to keep monthly or weekly goals in mind as well as encourage brainstorming. Trust me, I’ve been doing a lot of brainstorming recently. September is travel heavy and I want to make the most of my writing time. Optimizing the use of my paper planner is key. Plus, I want to enjoy all of it as I go and playing with washi tape and stickers in my planner makes me happy. 😉
We’re headed into Labor Day Weekend and it’s my birthday month so I’ve decided to give away a Passion Planner Academic Compact planner for August ’15 – August ’16 to one winner (open to US and International entrants).
So what are your goals for September? or the rest of the year?
I’ve got some challenging deadlines writing both the Safeguard series (mercenaries, explosive action, strong heroines) and the True Heroes series (hot military heroes, the women who love them, and the dogs that always have their backs). The time management involved can be intimidating.
So you might have seen me get excited about Erin Condren Life Planners somewhere around social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) or heard me talk about them with Katee Robert and Robin Covington in my most recent #EMEPiper podcast episode. If not, shoo! Go check it out somewhere.
But come back!
Because I decided the Erin Condren Life Planner helped me organize my writerly life so much, I wanted to share the organization fun (really, it can be!). So to celebrate this Independence Day weekend (Happy 4th of July!) I’ve decided to give away an EC Rose Gold LIMITED EDITION 18-month life planner to one winner (open to Residents of the US only this time).
It’ll be enough to get you started in planner fun right away in July 2015 and take you right to the end of 2016.
