2013 Bookie Award Nominees and A Sale

I have never had a book nominated for an award before. This is exciting for me. This is awesome for me. I was completely shocked and surprised and in awe. You know when people say they were honored just to be nominated? Yeah, it’s a real feeling. I’m my first, last, hardest, and worst critic. I always see where I could have done better, where I could have written something smoother, hotter, sexier, deeper. I always see the imperfection of what I’ve created. But that there were people who thought the two stories nominated were worth it… Yeah, for me, it is a definite honor and very humbling.

Here’s the link to the full list of nominees in all categories: Authors After Dark: 2013 Bookie Award Nominees. The actual voting for the winners opens on November 1.

Committed: An Erotic Valentine’s Tale was nominated for Erotic Short Story of the Year

Melting Jane was nominated for Ebook Only Short Story of the Year

I am still like WOW!

Committed: An Erotic Valentine’s Tale is available for free all the time HERE on my website in PDF form, as well as on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and All Romance eBooks. Please download a copy…

Melting Jane is going to be on sale both in honor of the Bookie Award Nomination and as part of a fun two week sale organized by my friend Skye Warren.There are several wonderful authors participating and I’ve read most of them, love them, too. You can click on the graphic and it’ll take you directly to the sale page…

The normal price for Melting Jane is $2.99 but it’ll be on sale for $0.99 from now until November 14th on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and All Romance eBooks. If you haven’t read this book, now is your chance…

Graham Hall is a twenty-six year old Texan with the job of his dreams: being a freelance travel writer for a national publication. He’s just finished his latest article about small winter resort destinations in Colorado and has earned some personal down time. With the six month lease not yet up on the small cabin he rented, Graham decides to stick around the area for a while and in the process, finds himself agreeing to a blind date with a feisty, down on her luck in the love department, candy maker named Jane.

After all, what could it hurt?

Jane, completely oblivious to the set up, arrives at Graham’s isolated little valley cabin to deliver a box of her handmade Chocolate Kick truffles. From the moment Graham opens the door, Jane is tongue tied and ticked off. Edward, her business partner and most certainly former best friend, set her up. When she regains her ability to put two coherent words together, plus size, mid-thirties Jane apologizes for intruding and assures Graham that she will take care of the mistake.

What ensues is a series of encounters and confrontations between Jane and Edward, Jane and Graham, and Edward and Graham. At the heart of it all, is Jane’s happiness. Edward wants this for her more than anything. Graham finds himself caught up in her tart tongue and curvy body and isn’t about to call his all too real pursuit a failure, no matter how many times she says no.

With her inability to continue denying herself the man she affectionately refers to as Cowboy Surfer in her head, she gives in and is rewarded with scorching hot sex and a lot of follow-up phone calls after she learns the truth of Graham’s attraction. His persistence leads Jane to believe that life doesn’t have to revolve around chocolate truffles, but rather should revolve around a delicious, well traveled and well built younger man.

**This book was previously published and titled as Sugar Rush. It has been revised and re-edited for re-release.**

I have some awesome readers and I am more grateful to you than I can say for allowing me into your lives through my books. You give me the opportunity to earn a living doing something I love. Thank you…

~lissa

Happy Valentine’s Day!

How do you celebrate? Do you celebrate? I’ve been participating in a Valentine’s Blog Hop for the last few days and it’s been interesting to read the different responses.

We don’t generally celebrate in our house. It’s just another day to us. As with most holidays though, we don’t go out to dinner. I’ll be making a special dinner tomorrow night: Lobster Mac and Cheese. I have some sweet lobster meat that I’ve been saving for a special occasion and this is it. I will get my husband some sugar-free Oreos (diabetic) and Oreos are his all time favorite and for the kids and I… I’ll be making some fudge cupcakes with homemade buttercream frosting (pink of course with sprinkles). We’ll stay at home, maybe watch a movie or something, all of us, together.

What do you do? Do you cook a nice dinner or go out? Do you plan a fancy dessert? Or what about *whispers* sex? Lots of that going on in your house? C’mon, we’re all friends here… You can tell us.

In case you are new here and didn’t know or in case you aren’t new here but forgot, I have a Valentine’s free read called Committed: An Erotic Valentine’s Tale. Click here and it’ll take you to the page where you can find all the information about it…

Today is the final day to enter the With Love Valentine’s Day Blog Hop! Click the graphic on the sidebar and it’ll take you to the blog post for it which will give you the details of what I’m giving away!

Also, I along with my friend Selena Robins have something new for you that we’ve started. We’re sharing links to one another’s Valentine’s Day posts. If you don’t know her, click on the link below and visit her site and read her post titled ‘Let’s Hear It For The Boys’.

Selena Robins Musings

She’s also having a contest drawing… And I know how y’all LOVE contests!

I hope you all have a very wonderful Valentine’s Day, however you celebrate it!

And if you’ve signed up for my newsletter, you should have received the first one by now… 😉

~lissa

 

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