My birthday is February 22nd. I am turning, as the title and the cupcake say, 40. In honor of this, I am throwing a birthday bash here on the blog throughout the month of February.
This party is for my readers, for readers of other authors, for friends of readers, for anyone we can bring in. At the end of the party, which will be February 28th, any leftover stragglers will have until March 5th at midnight to be entered to win presents. Not prizes, but PRESENTS! Afterall, this is a birthday celebration and what do you get on your birthday but presents. However, I turn the tables here on my blog and instead of getting, I’m giving them…
Are you wondering what some of the presents are? I kinda thought so, so here’s a little list:
Starbuck’s gift card
Amazon gift card
Some miscellaneous things that I’ve been collecting for a few months just for this party…cupcake things, wine things, coffee things…
Some ebooks will be given (mine as well as from some of the authors that will be participating)… I think even a print book or two might be offered up, including autographed copies…
And last but definitely not least, an Amazon Kindle.
I have invited authors and book bloggers to join in this celebration with me. I am so thrilled and so humbled by the wonderful people that agreed and shared a piece of themselves for this. You see, I asked them to share a birthday memory, or present, or cake with us, something that is a part of them. They will also be highlighting one of their own book or one of their favorite books by another author…
During the month, you’ll be seeing:
Cara McKenna
Eve Cassidy
Cari Quinn
NJ Walters
Madison Chase
Kiss and Tell Girls
Vivian Arend
The Blackraven
Selena Illyria
Dee Carney/Morgan Sierra
Shelley Munro
The Smutketeers
Shayla Kersten
Mari Carr
Selena Blake
Diana from The Forbidden Bookshelf
Ava March
Cecile from All I Want and More…
Leila Brown
Christa Paige
Cat Grant
Fallon Blake
Melissa Schroeder
The Gutter Gals
and…ME
See, we are just going to have ourselves a FANTABULOUS (and yes it is a word…a word I made up, but a word nonetheless) month!
The way this is going to work is as easy as 1…2…
1. You must follow this blog and state it in the comments, once will do…
2. You must comment on ALL the posts.
Officially, the party ends on February 28th, but I know there will be some stragglers that were busy doing other things, so I’m giving an extra few days for people come on by and comment. On March 6th, I will post a blog here stating who has won what, including the Kindle winner. I will even announce it on Twitter and Facebook. Please, when you comment on the posts through February, leave an email address because you will also be contacted by email. If I have no address, I cannot give you a present! And you do want a present, right?
Okay, so, tell your friends, Tweet it, Facebook it, whatever, but spread the word cause we’ll be here all month, gabbing about birthdays!
Any questions? Leave them here in the comments or email me lissa AT lissamatthews DOT com (lissa@lissamatthews.com)
Remember, comment on all the posts, leave your email if you want to have a chance to receive presents, AND follow the blog.
I appreciate each and every one of you and this is my birthday gift to you…
~lissa
Party Time! Thanks for sharing your birthday with us, Lissa, sounds like it will be a blast.
I love when I get the presents for someone else’s birthday! Let’s get this party started!
Ok, so I don’t totally follow instructions! You clearly state that I must leave my email address but I didn’t so here it is
jepeb@verizon.net
And you said I had to state that I follow the blog. Well, I do. I just joined today.
Awesome! The big 4-0! This is gonna be an amazing month. I’m a GFC follower.
Thanks for sharing your birthday with us. It’s going to be a fun month!
Thanks for sharing your birthday!
Sounds like a great time will be had.
GFC follower
kissinoak at frontier dot com
Thanks for such an amazing celebration and Happy (Early) Birthday!
lilazncutie1215[at]yahoo[dot]com
I am so glad y’all are gonna join and party with myself and the awesome people that are coming to visit!
Party starts tomorrow with erotic romance author Cara McKenna…
Looks like a lot of fun. Can’t wait for it to begin. Happy early bday.
Thanks for inviting all of us to your party, sounds like a lot of fun! I’m a follower of the lissamatthews.com blog (hope that’s the one you meant).
itmfiddler (at) gmail (dot) com
Looks like I have some partying to do this coming month. That is cool, since it is my birthday in February, too. So let’s party on.
Just became a follower, nancyg5997@gmail.com
Last week I celebrated my 40th birthda, so it will be nice to have someone else join the club. And thanks for the ginormous party! I look forward to all the fun.
Hey birthday Girl! All month long! This is going to be a great month. Can’t wait to see what everyone posts.
~Janeen
janeencerrito@yahoo.com
YAY!!! A party..I’m always up for those 😉
I have a feeling we’re gonna have ourselves a fun time…
Sounds like February will be an absolute blast! Happy Birthday in advance, and I’ll be back to participate in the festivities!
Happy early birthday. The bash sounds like a month full of fun.
lisagk@yahoo.com
Forgot to add-GFC follower!
What a great contest, I am a follower. Can’t wait to see what each day brings 🙂
Love when I get presents for someone else’s birthday!
Happy Birthday! It’s a wonderful milestone. 🙂
GFC & Blogger follower!
jenma76 at hotmail dot com
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Well not yet but soon.
Thanks for the wonderful change to win some presents.
I am now a follower!
~~*Drea*~~
dreabecraft@aol.com
What a great idea… I might have to come up with something like this for mine next month….for my kids to do…
Happy Birthday early…Im sure this will be a fun month to follow your blog and then continue..
Heidi
heidijohnjeff@verizon.net
followerGFC &blogger
HAPPY B-DAY! I too am turning forty on Feb. 27 and am having a month long celebration at my blog! Being 40 is fabulous!!
Congrats! -Jen
Happy Birthday1 Look forward to the blogs…
kballhog@stny.rr.com
Sounds like a fun birthday month. And happy early birthday.
Yay! My birthday is on the 18th! We’ll have to have a birthday drink together!
I’m a follower.
cbandy10(at)hotmail(dot)com
A party!!! Happy BIRTHDAY !!!!
bust out the hats Whoo
meandi09@yahoo.com
follower
I guess I was already a GFC follower 🙂
Forty’s already in my rear-view mirror, Lissa! I know you’re going to rock it 😀
Happy early birthday! I’m a new follower. Last month, I had read a few of your books. I started with Ink Spots, had no idea it was sort of a series. So I finished reading the other two also. Now I was wondering when is Jaz’s sister’s story going to be out.
Hi Amy, I’m working on Jackie’s story. It’s going a little slow, but I’m working on it, so, as soon as I’ve made some serious headway, I’ll update y’all…
Happy Birthday I hope you have a wonderful birthday and get everything that you want. Thanks for having such a great celebration.
sstrode@scrtc.com
Great idea for a birthday celebration!!! I’ve been an official follower, but now I’m signed in. 🙂 Love your stories and can’t wait to see all the posts from other authors.
Oops, I meant that I’ve been an unofficail follower. Now I’m an official follower!
I’ll be 33 this coming Monday. “Amethyst Babies” are the best…LOL
Didn’t state it in the other posts, but OF COURSE I follow the blog!
aunt_cori@yahoo(dot)com
Wow, you’re throwing on hell of a bash! Thanks for the great contests and for sharing the joy of your birthday with everyone! Hope it’s a great month for you!!
I’m a new follower, btw!
blacklagoon.wenj(at)gmail.com
This is going to be an awesome party! I’m a new follower and will be dancing right along with you. 😀
mdwartistry at yahoo dot com
I was wondering if you were going to show up! I’m so very glad you’re here!
Happy Happy Birthday 🙂 It’s amazing that your doing all this for us and I’m so excited to hear from all the authors. I’m semi new to erotic romance and can’t wait to discover new books I will need to buy (sneakily since hubby has limited my book buying 🙁 )
Happy B-day. 🙂 I also have my Bday this month! Thanks for sharing these gifts with everyone!
canadianluckgmailcom
Happy Birthday! Hope it’s a great one.
I follow on GFC.
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alterlisa AT yahoo DOT com
http://lisaslovesbooksofcourse.blogspot.com/
Hey, Lissa!
We share a birthday, though there are a bunch of years between us (I could be your… aunt)! I think it’s a great plan to celebrate all month! I think I will join you!
Sue
hehehe… Sue, I have an aunt that is 6 months older than me…
Hope your birthday was great!! Thanks for the contest
forettarose@yahoo.com
follower
WOW what a great way to celebrate your birthday! We are very thankful!!
I am now following thanks
evelynmoly@yahoo.com
Thanks for the contest. Hope you have a great birthday.
donnasing777@yahoo.com
Thanks for the contest hope you have a great birthday
donnasing777@yahoo.com
Happy 40th birthday (a day late).
beckerjo(at)verizon(dot)net
Hi I just seen this awsome party. WOOOHOO I am now a follower. I have tons of makeup post to do. I hope you had a GREAT birthday. Mine is on Halloween so its cool every year!
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Hi I just seen this awsome party. WOOOHOO I am now a follower. I have tons of makeup post to do. I hope you had a GREAT birthday. Mine is on Halloween so its cool every year!
swkimbell@yahoo.com
Hi hope you bday was happy!
I am now following your blog thanks
carol.byles@yahoo.com
My mom told me about this bash but with school I don’t have a ton of time so I want to say sorry ahead of time if my responses are not long but I want to have time to red each authors post. I hope that your birthday was wonderful. I always try to have fun on my birthday. I try to do something I have never done before. One year I even went skydiving. That was a blast
following your blog now
terrilee.byles@yahoo.com
My mom just told me about this bash. I have so little time due to college (so much harder this semester) and I really want to be able to read what the authors write so I am sorry if most of the time my responses are short. I hope your birthday was great. thanks for the chance to win
terrilee.byles@yahoo.com
Hello I am now following the blog. Thank you for having the birthday bash. I really hope that your birthday was all you wanted it to be. I also had a birthday in February.
prettyunicorn78@yahoo.com
Happy birthday. I have been a GFC follower.
Thanks for letting the procrastinators enter as well.
linze_e at hotmail.com