Book Giveaway!
Want to win a free early copy of Some Like it Hot? Check out this contest my publisher is running! Super easy to enter, and the contest runs through November 29th, when the book comes out. So get on over there and enter!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Birthday Giveaway
Happy birthday to me! And since it's my special day, I get to make the rules--and I say, you lovely readers out there are the ones who deserve a present. So I'm giving away an advance reading copy of Some Like it Hot (which won't be available on shelves until 11/29) to one lucky reader!
A sizzling blend of food, passion—and searing romance—the Rising Star Chef competition brings together the world’s hottest chefs for an all-star cook-off that’s sure to stir up excitement…and melt some hearts.
HE’S FEELING THE HEAT
Sexy, single, and even sweeter than the treats he bakes, New York pastry chef Danny Lunden is trying to stay focused on food—not females. With the Rising Star Chef competition approaching, he doesn’t have time to get all steamed up over the gorgeous woman he encounters on the plane to Chicago. Even if she is Eva Jansen—the billionaire heiress in charge of the contest…
SHE TAKES THE CAKE
Danny assumes that “Eva the Diva” is a spoiled rich girl who doesn’t share his passion for food. But when the two meet up again in an elevator—alone—they share more than just passion. They share a kiss hot enough to start a kitchen fire—and they’re hungry for more. To indulge their new secret craving, Eva and Danny have to break every rule in the cookbook. But—like chocolate and caramel—some ingredients are are so sinfully good together, one scrumptious bite is never enough...
Sounds pretty tasty, right? So to win it, all you have to do is tell me your favorite kind of cake. Easy peasy lemon squeezie! Oooh, lemon cake...
THE RULES
So here's what's going to happen. Pay attention, this is how you win!
1. Answer the question posted on my Facebook wall. Just put your comment right under my post on my fan page here. OR if you don't have an FB account, answer the question on this blog, in the comments below.
2. If you haven't already, you can feel free to "Like" my Facebook Fan Page, but it's not a requirement to enter the contest! I'd also love it if you followed me on Twitter @LouisaEdwards. Because then we can chat!
3. Check back tomorrow morning on my Facebook Fan Page to see if you’ve won–I’ll post the winner’s name here on the blog, too, so make sure to come back and look for it. You’ve got one week to claim your prize, or I’ll have to give it to someone else. So be sure to check back!
4. Due to contest restrictions between countries, this giveaway is only open to U.S. residents and U.S. military. Sorry!
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Book Recommendation
I've got something spicy and delicious for you, my lovelies! Check out this smokin' hot book trailer for Mina Khan's debut...an action-packed paranormal starring a half-djinn assassin:
Rukh O'Shay, half-djinn and assassin, is used to taking out the bad guys. But his latest assignment, Texas Journalist Sarah White, is nothing like he expected. A glimpse of her bright aura reveals her gentle spirit, while her beauty makes him long for only one thing—to taste her.
Sarah shares the raw desire to connect with Rukh. He can turn her on with a glance, and satisfies needs she didn't even know she had.
But Rukh had been hired to kill her—and the only way to save her is to find out who wants her dead before someone else finishes the job….
Sarah shares the raw desire to connect with Rukh. He can turn her on with a glance, and satisfies needs she didn't even know she had.
But Rukh had been hired to kill her—and the only way to save her is to find out who wants her dead before someone else finishes the job….
Author Bio:Mina Khan is a Texas-based writer and food enthusiast. She daydreams of hunky paranormal heroes, magic, mayhem and mischief and writes them down as stories. Between stories, she teaches culinary classes and writes for her local newspaper. Other than that, she's raising a family of two children, two cats, two dogs and a husband.
She grew up in Bangladesh on stories of djinns, ghosts and monsters. These childhood fancies now color her fiction.
You can find her at :
www.facebook.com/Mina.Khan.
http://minakhan.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/SpiceBites
She grew up in Bangladesh on stories of djinns, ghosts and monsters. These childhood fancies now color her fiction.
You can find her at :
www.facebook.com/Mina.Khan.
http://minakhan.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/SpiceBites
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Starting Over
Now that I've turned in the draft of Hot Under Pressure to my editor, all I technically have to do is sit around and wait for revisions. But instead, I've got this IDEA. A really fun, fresh, sexy idea keeps flashing snippets of dialogue and interactions between some truly fascinating people through my brain. So I'm not sitting around anymore...I'm writing the next trilogy!
Starting a new trilogy is always exhilarating--equal parts exciting and terrifying. But the best part, hands down, is discovering and getting to know a whole new crop of characters. One of the first things I like to do is to find inspiration for the physical features of each characters--and, predictably, I always start with the heroes.
For the new trilogy, the current incarnations of my heroes (which could all change in the writing, as I find out more and more about them, so don't take this as a promise or a spoiler) include:
A wounded FDNY fire fighter, Irish-American, black hair and blue eyes. Rough around the edges, but decent and honorable to his bones. Not a "bad boy" type.
A total bad boy! Basically the Indiana Jones of investigative journalism, with blond hair, green eyes, and a killer smile.
An ex-NYC chef, bitter and sarcastic, with a core of hidden vulnerability and decency. He'll also be my first almost-ginger hero! I'm thinking reddish-brown hair, gray eyes, and enough of a scruff to almost constitute a real beard.
Those are my current visions of the heroes to come! If you have suggestions for other hotties with the right stuff, I'm happy to hear them, though. Inspire me!
Monday, September 19, 2011
Happy Monday!
It looks like my website was nominated for one of AAD's Bookies awards! Thanks, y'all--that site takes work to update and keep fresh and fun, so it's really nice to know readers are actually using and enjoying it. If you feel like voting, here's the link! Lots of great authors nominated in all sorts of categories, mostly paranormal.
And in other news, I'm working on my September newsletter, and y'all, this is a good one! I'm so stoked about how well Too Hot to Touch is doing, I want to thank all my lovely, adorable readers by offering lots of cool freebies and chances to win stuff.
This next newsletter will include the blurb and cover for Some Like it Hot, plus a link to an all-new, loooong excerpt from the book, which comes out 11/29. I'm also offering a chance for one newsletter subscriber to win an advance reading copy of the book! Plus a sneak peak at one of the hero, Danny's, pastry chef specialties (yay, recipe!) and a way to get your hands on a free set of my Romance Trading Cards!
Whew. So if you haven't signed up for my mailing list yet, now would be a good time...
Click here to sign up!
Friday, September 16, 2011
Some Like it Hot ARC Contest
Or, as one of my beta readers put it, You Better Like it Hot. That's Danny's book, boys and girls, and it's smokin'! As you can probably tell by the oh-so-sexy cover. Sadly, that cover didn't make it onto the advance review copies this time around, but I promise, the book is just as yummy on the inside. ; )
Would you like to read it early? Before it hits shelves on November 29th? If so, just answer this one question: What's hotter...a guy who can cook you a gourmet dinner? Or a guy who can whip up a decadent dessert?
THE RULES
So here's what's going to happen. Pay attention, this is how you win!
1. Answer the question posted on my Facebook wall. Just put your comment right under my post on my fan page here. OR if you don't have an FB account, answer the question on this blog, in the comments below.
2. If you haven't already, you can feel free to "Like" my Facebook Fan Page, but it's not a requirement to enter the contest! I'd also love it if you followed me on Twitter @LouisaEdwards. Because then we can chat!
3. Check back tomorrow morning on my Facebook Fan Page to see if you’ve won–I’ll post the winner’s name here on the blog, too, so make sure to come back and look for it. You’ve got one week to claim your prize, or I’ll have to give it to someone else. So be sure to check back!
4. Due to contest restrictions between countries, this giveaway is only open to U.S. residents and U.S. military. Sorry!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The New Hotness!
I've got fun news today--I'm unveiling the gorgeous, bitable, likable, delicious cover of the third book in the Rising Star Chef trilogy! Meet Beck, the hottest thing any kitchen has ever seen:
I know, right?! I could just squeeze him. This might actually be my favorite cover yet...but what do your think?
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