On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, eleven pipers piping. . .

I don’t know about you, when I think of pipers I think of the Irish, although in my grandparents’ native Galicia they played the pipes as well!

So today’s giveaway is a copy of my erotic paranormal novella, THE VAMPIRE’S CONSORT, since the vampire hero, Adrian, is a tortured Irish soul.

Please remember that you have until midnight EST on January 6th to follow instructions on all the other 12 Days of Christmas blogs in order to be entered to win that daily prize.

Hope you have a lovely Saturday!

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love game to me, nine ladies dancing!

Well, I’m game for a party and some dancing. LOL! I know I’ll get my fill of that at the wonderful Create Something Magical Conference when the readers’ and writers’ tracks come together for a Saturday night of fun, dancing and networking! Whether you are a reader or a writer, this one day conference is a great deal.

Nine ladies dancing had me pondering what I could do for today’s giveaway until I realized I had two novels with a dancing motif: MORE THAN A MISSION and TEMPTATION CALLS! Both are favorites, so today I am offering up your choice of one of these two novels if you win the daily prize.

For a chance to win, just share and/or retweet and/or e-mail one of these to a friend to help me raise money for a good cause, the Hurricane Sandy NJ Relief Fund:

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Once you do that, just leave a comment on this blog to confirm you’ve entered for today’s prize!

On the Eighth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, eight maids a milkin’…

You know, this true love must be loaded! Did you know that today these 12 days would cost your true love about $107,000, especially these 8 maids a milkin’ between the maids and the cows and all their upkeep. LOL!

Since I’m a little lacking in funds, I’ve only got six maids to share with you today and they’re here to tell us about an anthology they put together to help raise money for a local literacy organization!

So without further ado, here is a little bit about the LOVE AND MERRY CHRISTMAS anthology! You can also click here for more information.

Leave a comment on this blog for a chance to win a copy of THE CLAIMED, the second book in the SIN HUNTERS series!

Love and Merry Christmas Story Blurbs

Jingle Bell Bodyguard
by Christine Wingate
Harper Palmquist has been quietly drooling over gym hottie Rick Avery every Saturday. Can a series of mishaps over a Christmas season create the perfect setting for romance?

Home for Christmas
by Susan Craig
Max Moretti has long treasured memories of a beautiful red-haired woman from his past. When fate brings her into his life together again, can he convince April they can create a new home…together?

Christmas a La Carte
by Jeanne Kern
Stressed-out Susan Albright is overwhelmed about hosting her family for Christmas. Hiring fortune teller Zelda seems like the perfect way to get everyone the right gift. But the mysterious lady just might have enough magic left over to arrange a surprise for her.

The Christmas Gift
by BJ Akin
Young Sandhills teacher Miss Rebecca faces the raging storm on an untamed Nebraska prairie with courage. She’s concerned for the welfare of two particular students, and ends up with more than she bargained for when their widowed father comes to her aid.

Starstruck
by LK Lien
When a bright new star appears in the sky, it is only the beginning of the miracle season. But closed hearts resist miracles. It takes a lot of love wrapped with a blast of fun to break through the barricades.

Blame it on the Christmas Lights
by Karyn Cole
Lucy Potter isn’t very thrilled with the start of her holiday season. She’s convinced her only long-term relationship will be with her favorite sweatpants. But Christmas gets unexpectedly merry when she runs into an old crush. Will she be able to enjoy the gifts of the season? Or will thoughts of what might not be, ruin it all?

About the Authors

Christine Wingate is the author of various e-books, including His Escape Artist. With a love for 70’s culture – she owns both a gold and white disco boots. While several of her book heroes are bodyguards, at the time of this writing Christine does not yet have one in her employ. But if and when she does hire one, odds are good applicants will be asked to demonstrate their ability to tolerate disco and 70’s soft rock tunes.

Susan Craig lives with her husband — in a house they gutted and remodeled together. It comes as no surprise, then, that her life as an author grew out of a desire to do something completely new. With a doctorate in neuroscience, her “day job” is complex, busy and interesting, but “mostly factual.” So she enjoys opportunities to create fictitious stories of love and romance purely from her imagination.

Jeanne Kern’s life became a romance novel when she met husband Rich on line and moved to Nebraska with scaredy cat Boo Radley. Happily retired from teaching high school in Texas, she serves on too many committees and boards and is trying to learn to say no so she can devote more time to writing. See her website www.jeannekern.com for news about her travels, acting career, and e-book Destination: Love and Whales.

LK Lien has worked as a waitress, in a bank, as a photojournalist, a writer and an editor.

Karyn Cole has been a fan of romance since a charming Prince’s kiss woke Sleeping Beauty. (As a grownup she decided to see what science could teach her and discovered that chemistry didn’t just happen in a laboratory. A good romance story lets a reader experience the chemistry between characters.) Now, Karyn writes romance where the Princess doesn’t always need a princely rescue, but isn’t opposed to the kissing part. Drop her a note at [email protected].

BJ Akin has found that writing stories is almost as much fun as telling them. During her life of living in the Nebraska Sandhills, she experienced things that anyone in their right mind would never attempt or be dared into doing! But that never seemed to stop her. Drawing on her love of this region — and the people who live there — she shows that life even in the “olden days” still had its excitement…and romance.

Happy New Year! Wishing you all lots of love, happiness and good health in the New Year!

Today’s the seventh day of Christmas which means we’ve got seven swans-a-swimming. Swans! What’s with all the birds in this song!

If the familiar carol is code for a catechism lesson, then today’s lesson is about the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Since we’re getting spiritual, how about sharing a story which has a spirit or two in it?

Leave a comment today for a chance to win a copy of my brand new paranormal novella, GHOST OF A CHANCE! Here’s a little blurb about this story:

True crime writer Tracy Gomez is unsure of what to make of the unusual invitation from New York City attorney Peter Angelo: A one million dollar prize to anyone who can solve the mystery of three deaths which had occurred nearly eighty years earlier. Tracy desperately needs the money to fix up the old inn she’s just inherited and solving the crime will also provide welcome publicity to help her sagging writing career. But accepting the invitation brings unexpected challenges, like spectral help during a séance and Tracy’s attraction to the sexy attorney monitoring the contest. Does Tracy only have a ghost of a chance to discover the secrets of the past or can she win a prize far better than a million dollars?

This is a tough one! Six geese a laying is what my true love would give to me today and I don’t know about you, but getting six geese to do anything seems rough. Especially those Canadian geese that seem to have taken up residence everywhere.

So I looked for something that might be arguably bird-like and instead found this cool t-shirt from the Aina Clothing Company at the fabulous OG Surf and Skate Shop.

This T-shirt is made from organic cotton and water-based inks so it’s Earth-friendly, something I think that the geese would like.

For a chance to win this T-shirt, either leave a comment here or tweet/share this:

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Remember, you can go back and post on each blog for a chance to win that day’s prize!

On this Fifth Day of Christmas, I’d love to be able to give you five golden rings, but the budget is kind of busted for that. But I will be giving one lucky person who leaves a comment something golden: A copy of my paranormal novella AZTEC GOLD!

I’m also asking that in this season of giving, you check out this very special auction for one of our own who is battling lymphoma. You can click here to find out more about this auction and please take a moment to share this information!