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Winner of Michele Hauf’s Winter Kissed Contest

The lucky commenter who won a free copy of Winter Kissed from author Michele Hauf is….

Stacie Mc, who said “I love cuddling up under a big fluffy blanket with a good book and a mug of cocoa. That’s my favorite part of winter.”

Congratulations Stacie! Please email Michele at toastfaery [at] gmail [dot] com with your snail mail address so she can send you your prize.

Thanks to everyone who entered and shared their favorite things about winter!

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Crystal Green’s Contest Winner Announced!

Congratulations to Margie for winning copies of The Huntress and The Ultimate Bite, courtesy of Crystal Green!

Margie, please email Crystal at cgreenwrite [at] aol [dot] com with your mailing address to get your books.

Follow eHarlequin on Twitter!

by Amy Wilkins, Digital Production Coordinator

eHarlequin has launched its own Twitter account!

Twitter is a micro-blogging site — think of a blog consisting of short, text-message length (only 140 characters per post). Updates are quick and spontaneous, so you’ll get all the up-to-date scoop about what’s new on the eHarlequin homepage, Community, and the Harlequin blogs.

Here’s some of what you can expect from the eHarlequin Twitter:

• sales on books at eHarlequin.com and the eBookstore
• special events and posts at the eHarlequin Community
• new post alerts for I Heart Presents and Harlequin’s Paranormal Romance Blog
• links to fun sites and articles we come across
• other breaking news from Harlequin

Just click the icon below to see the eHarlequin Twitter 🙂

Book Blogger Appreciation Week

Blog My Friend Amy has named September 15-19 Book Blogger Appreciation week, a time to celebrate the reviewers, readers, publishers, writers, and other industry folks who love to read and blog about books!

To show our blog appreciation, Harlequin’s Paranormal Romance Blog is giving a shout-out to some of our favorite book blogs:

Dear Author – Famous for their tough-but-fair reviews and regular columns like “If You Like…” and “First Page Saturday“, Dear Author has become one of the most respected romance sites in the blogosphere.

The Good, the Bad, the Unread – Tons of reviews and romance news.

Teach Me Tonight – Romance from an academic perspective. Next time someone you know bashes romance, send them here!

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books – This site isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but if you like your romance and reviews with a side of snark, this blog’s for you.

Romancing the Blog – Authors and other industry folk blog about various topics. There’s something for everyone on this site.

I Heart Presents – Of course we have to give a shout-out to our other blog, this one for the Harlequin Presents imprint.

BookSquare – Industry news and analysis by expert Kassia Krozser.

What are your favorite book blogs?

Comic-Con Charity from Author Nancy Holder

Author Nancy Holder fills us in on what she’ll be doing over the weekend at the San Diego Comic-Con. Stop on by to support a great cause and a score free copy of Nancy’s August Silhouette Nocturne, Son of the Shadows!

by Nancy Holder, author of Son of the Shadows

I’m so excited to announce my affiliation with Kids Need to Read, a charity I will be supporting at San Diego Comic-Con.

I don’t know if you have heard about Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It’s a three-part net-musical Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) created during the Hollywood writers’ strike and it’s been making the rounds all over the net. It’s now available for download for a small fee. Dr. Horrible stars Nathan Fillion, Neil Patrick Harris, and Felicia Day. A mad scientist, a love triangle, and lots of singing–what’s not to love?

Each year at Comic-Con, the California Browncoats, fans of the Joss Whedon TV show Firefly and its spin-off movie, Serenity, support the chosen charity of a Firefly cast member. They have raised over $25,000 for charity since June 2007.

This year, they are supporting Kids Need to Read, on behalf of Nathan Fillion, who starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds. Dark Horse Comics has created a special limited edition 5000-copy Serenity comic for the Browncoats to sell at Comic-Con; and all proceeds will go to Kids Need to Read, to purchase library books for schools across the country.

The Browncoats will also hold raffles for scripts, photos, T-shirts, and other items, many of them signed. And I’ll be signing in the California Browncoats Booth on Thursday, July 24, from noon to 1 PM to show my support (Tables A7 & A8; just look for all the Chinese lanterns!) I will offer a free copy of Son of the Shadows to anyone who purchases a raffle ticket.

Nancy Holder Book Signing at Comic-Con!

Author Nancy Holder will be signing copies of her August book SON OF THE SHADOWS (Silhouette Nocturne) at the San Diego Comic-Con next week! She will appear on Thursday, July 24 from 2 to 3 PM in the Harlequin/Silhouette booth.

Anyone out there planning on attending Comic-Con this year?

Author Susan Grant’s Otherworldly Sci-Fi Romances

How does a pilot become a paranormal – slash – romance – slash – sci fi author? Author Susan Grant (Moonstruck) shares her inspiration for her out-of-this-world novels…

By Susan Grant, author of Moonstruck (HQN)

I’m often asked how a commercial airline pilot ended up writing romance. “Easy,” I say. “Too little time on the ground coupled with way too much time to think!” Trust me, nothing aids plot-hatching and character-developing like fifteen straight hours stuck in the cockpit of a 747 with lukewarm coffee and a sky so black you can see every star in the Milky Way.

The sights, smells, and tastes of the exotic locales I visit, and the conversations I have with people I’d never normally meet, provide the most amazing material to weave into my stories. With a little imagination, a dark alleyway in Shanghai ripe with the stench of sewage, garlic, and moped exhaust becomes a lawless, backwater planet in the Borderlands, a region in the stars where my newest series takes place. A Chinese restaurant where I nibbled on pickled jelly fish, stir-fried fungus, and sautéed morning glory transforms into dinner-for-two with a warlord on a distant planet. Sometimes I think I have the perfect “day” job for a paranormal author.

When I’m not a jet-lagged daydreamer wandering around Sydney, Shanghai or Saigon soaking in ideas for new stories, I’m a suburban mom raising two teens. When they were much younger I used to bring them, and usually the neighbor boy, too, to the local park to play . One day the boys ran off, each clutching a laundered-too-many-times Beanie Baby (the only two toys in the car), leaving my daughter empty-handed. “But, Mom,” she said, grief-stricken. “Now I have no one to be!”

To be…

Whoa. Simple words, but what a concept! My daughter, with the boundless, easily accessed imagination of a child, intended to be a Beanie Baby, slipping into the fluffy body of a kitten, or duck, or crocodile to live through its eyes. And, boy, did I understand her disappointment. That’s exactly how I feel when I open a book and can’t lose myself in it, when I’m unable, for some reason, to form that seamless emotional connection with the characters that allows me to live the story right along with them.

Think of the books on your keeper shelf. What made them so special the first time you read them? Did they engross you to the point where when you turned the last page you looked up blinking because you forgot who and where you were? Did they sweep you away to another time, another place, another body? Then those authors succeeded in giving you someone to be.

If you’d like to come along on some of my flying adventures, visit my blog and check out the archives. No luggage required! Oh, and for a peek at the stories these adventures have spawned over the years, stop by my website, www.susangrant.com, where I maintain a printable list of all my books and what series they belong to.

~Susan

Blog for a cause: online auction for diabetes research

By Jenny B, Digital Content Manager

Want to win some great prizes from some of your favorite authors and the chance to have your name in a book? Visit Brenda Novak’s 4th Annual On-line Auction for Diabetes Research.

I copied this from Brenda’s website: “Welcome to my 4th Annual On-line Auction for Diabetes Research. Thank you for supporting my efforts to make a difference to my son and all those battling diabetes. In the first three events, we raised over $250,000. Our goal for this 4th auction is $300,000!

“Once again I’ll be offering a fabulous prize package to the person who places the highest number of bids over all (even if that person doesn’t win a single item). This year it will be a brand new Camcorder (retail value of at least $1,000), Your Name In My Next Book, an autographed copy of TRUST ME (on sale 5/27/08), and chocolate (lots of chocolate)!”

It’s a great cause and there are lots of good prizes including a weekend getaway at Susan Wigg’s guesthouse, mentoring and more! Visit: http://brendanovak.auctionanything.com/