Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Seasons’ Category

The contest is over and the winners are Pat and Melody May! I’ll be contacting you to get you your prizes! 

**************************************************************************

Things at the Barrett house have been crazy, what with work, writing, kids, school projects, my own projects, birthdays, anniversaries, and oh, yes, the release of Blaze of Winter (yay!). It is not a coincidence that today I’m at Romance @ Random with a post entitled De-Stressing in Autumn. In it, I lay out five steps I’m going to take to help me relax. They are:

(1) Set aside some serious reading time.

(2) Take a walk outside in the crisp, fall air.

(3) Bake something autumnal.

(4) Listen to my favorite fall music.

(5) Try not to get wrapped up in the little things.

I think these are good first steps, and I want to start on them immediately because goodness knows things aren’t going to get less stressful as we head into holiday season. In fact, I already began by baking pumpkin bread and banana raisin muffins (which admittedly aren’t the most autumnal, but certainly do smell good). I’d love it if you stopped by here or at R@R to give me your best tips on how to relax!

On the writing front, things are going well, but never as quickly as I would like. I’m about halfway through Slow Summer Burn (Star Harbor #4), and I just got edits back for Long Simmering Spring (Star Harbor #3). I’d like to have everything done by the end of 2012, which is extremely ambitious with my work/family schedule. We shall see how things play out.To make everyone (including myself) a little less stressed out, I’m doing another giveaway! Hooray, a giveaway! (See, I’m less stressed already!) I have tons more book goodies from RWA and one copy of Robyn Carr’s Sunrise Point that went unclaimed during my last giveaway. I’ll give two winners a couple of books each from my awesome romance stash.

Rules:

(1) Winner must be a member of my mailing list. Please sign up for my mailing list here.

(2) In the comments section below, tell me what you do to relax.

(3) TWO random commenters will be selected.

(4) U.S. only, please! (I’ll be shipping paperbacks).

(5) Contest ends 10/21 at 9pm, PDT.

Good luck! I can’t wait to hear from you!

Read Full Post »

The Random House blog hop is over, and so is my contest. I have chosen three winners for the Blaze Of Winter ARCs (randomly, using one of those random picker things), and they are: Gale D. Sroelov, Karen Phillips and Donna Sing. Thank you to everyone who left a comment, and please stay tuned for more contests!

********************************************************************

Oh, Labor Day! When I was really young, the first day of school was always the Wednesday after Labor Day.  As I got a bit older, the district moved up the start date to just before Labor Day weekend…this made no sense to me but I guess it let the kids get acclimated to school before taking a breather. I always marched proudly in our town’s Labor Day parade wearing my Girl Scout uniform (is anyone surprised that I was a Girl Scout? No?). Regardless, Labor Day was always bittersweet for me, and not just because it was the last day (until May of the following year) that I was allowed to wear white. Or seersucker. All kidding aside, I always thought of Labor Day as summer’s last hurrah—the last barbeque, last long walk on the beach, and the last lazy day to lie in the grass before fall would sweep me up in school, events, and crisp, brisk weather.

To commemorate the holiday (which honors the economic contributions of workers in our country), I’m very happy to be participating in this blog hop, which also commemorates the release of my second novel, Blaze of Winter. This book was one of my favorites to write because it features a sexy-as-hell author of swashbuckling adventure novels named Theo Grayson. When he takes a room at the Star Harbor Inn, Theo thinks he’s going to get some peace and quiet. He finds something else entirely—a gorgeous, guarded social worker who seems to be hiding out. Slowly, Theo breaks down Avery’s defenses until she has no choice but to fall in love with him.

*Sigh*

If you’re interested in reading an excerpt of Blaze of Winter, click here. You can also buy it: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBookstore (Apple)

So, back to the goodies! Random House is giving away some great prizes, including:

  • 10 Free romance books
  • 1 Grand Prize $25 Book eGift Certificate
  • 5 President Winner Prizes – Author Elisabeth Barrett will create a personalized promo prize pack

Sixteen prizes in total, and yes, you read that right! I’m preparing a personalized promo prize pack for five of the lucky winners! The contest ends on 9/15, so get hopping!

How do you enter?

Since I can’t, for the life of me, get the Rafflecopter entry form to appear on this site, please use this link to get to the Rafflecopter entry form.

Also, visit the other sites to get more chances to win!

1. Romance At Random 2. Ruthie Knox
3. Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 4. Reading Reality
5. Storm Goddess Book Reviews 6. Manga Maniac Cafe
7. Full Moon Bites 8. Reading with Holly
9. Bookie’s Book Reviews 10. All Things Books
11. Good Choice Reading 12. The Write to Make a Living
13. The Book Diva 14. Bea’s Book Nook
15. Shawntelle Madison 16. Elisabeth Barrett
17. Socrates’ Book Review Blog 18. Shelley Munro
19. Insane Hussein Reviews 20. Books R Us
21. Jessica Scott 22. Book Flame
23. Manic Readers Guest Blog 24. My Book Addiction and More
25. SOS Aloha 26. Pump Up Your Book
27. Sharon Cullen 28. Under the Covers Book Blog
29. Musing Of A Bookworm 30. The Book Tart
31. Reviews by Molly 32. Laurie’s Thoughts & Reviews
33. Seductive Musings 34. Romance Junkies
35. Love To Read For Fun 36. Cassandra Carr
37. BookHounds 38. Otterwise
39. From the TBR Pile 40. Love Saves the World (INT)
41. Sharon Cullen 42. So You Think You Can Write
43. Babbles From Scott Eagan 44. Bronwyn’s Writing
45. TE Garden of Book Bloggers 46. Bookshelf Confessions
47. Review From Here 48. Celticlady’s Reviews
49. Labor Day Hop 50. Romantic Reads and Such
51. In Love with Romance 52. The Bookpushers
53. Reviewing Romance 54. Queen of The Night Reviews
55. Queen of All she Reads 56. Romantic Crush Junkie Reviews
57. Saucy & Sinful Reviews 58. Romancing the Book
59. Book Faery 60. Harlies Books
61. Love, Laughter, Friendship 62. Ramblings From This Chick
63. My Secret Romance 64. Rambling Reads
65. Delighted Readers 66. suzy henderson
67. Romancing Rakes For The Love of Romance 68. Blackraven’s Erotic Cafe
69. HEA Romances With a Little Kick 70. AJ’s Reading Nook
71. Blackraven’s Reviews 72. The Readers Roundtable
73. Dark Divas Reviews 74. T B R
75. Romance Book Club 76. Seaside Book Nook
77. Cheeky Reads 78. Mimmi’s Musings
79. Kindle Fever 80. Not Now…Mommy’s Reading
81. herding cats & burning soup 82. Kindles and Wine
83. Harlequin Junkie 84. Caribbean Accent Book Reviews
85. Sara Jane’s Eclectic Reading Blog 86. Sharon Hamilton Author
87. Coffey Brown Books 88. From the Bootheel Cotton Patch
89. Teena in Toronto 90. Me and Reading
91. The Romance Dish 92. All Things Books
93. Amber Kallyn 94. Book Review Diva
95. Leigh Ellwood 96. Me Want Food
97. Captain marketing 98. One Word At A Time, Joan Swan, Author
99. You’ve Been Hooked 100. The Things You Can Read
101. The Autumn Review

But wait, there’s more!

In addition to the prizes Random House is offering through the hop, I’m personally giving away 3 signed ARC copies of Blaze of Winter by Elisabeth Barrett. For your chance to win, in the comments section, please tell me the greatest thing you did this summer.

And because this is official, here are the rules for my giveaway (for Random House’s giveaway rules, go to their official blog hop page):

Rules:

(1) Winner must be a member of my mailing list. Please sign up for my mailing list here.

(2) In the comments section below, tell me the greatest thing you did this summer.

(3) Three random commenters will be selected.

(4) U.S. only, please! (I’ll be shipping paperbacks).

(5) Contest ends 9/15 at midnight, PDT.

Read Full Post »

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, all! Are you wearing green?

I’m featured today on Romance at Random, talking with other Loveswept authors about our thoughts on spring! I looove springtime and have written about what the season means to me, as well as to the characters in Long Simmering Spring, my current WIP and the third book in the Star Harbor Series.

Please stop by to see what everyone has written. Some blurbs are downright hilarious, and others are just beautiful – a real slice of the season.

Read Full Post »

%d bloggers like this: