Sizzling Summer Reads Event! Let's Play!

Have you lined up your Sizzling Summer Reads!

Well, I'm here to help!

http://www.theromancereviews.com/event.php

I'm participating in a spectacular promotion over at The Romance Reviews blog. About 400 authors are participating and there are loads of wonderful prizes. I'll be offering a copy of Collector's Item to one lucky soul who plays my game on June 17th. 

TODAY!

So, go on, pop over to The Romance Reviews and register to play. You can't win if you don't play and, honestly, what have you got to lose? Nothing. And even if you don't win a prize, you're still a winner because you'll be piling up a list of TBR books for your summer enjoyment.

COLLECTOR'S ITEM
Available from The Wild Rose Press

Alpha were-jaguar, Katarina "KT" Marant is trained to protect the pride so when her aunt disappears, KT naturally takes up the hunt. Her suspicion settles on the Collectors, humans who view shapeshifters as the ultimate big game.

Peyton Allers can't believe he's got to blow his cover to rescue a shapeshifter "princess." Even harder to believe is that she wants to stage her own kidnapping in order to catch the leader of the Collectors and find her aunt.

Everything goes sideways when KT is kidnapped for real and by someone she never suspected. Will Peyton find her before time runs out? Or will she become a true Collector's Item?

Congrats to All Party Winners!

The Virtual Release Party for

Collector's Item

Spin The Mug Winner

Susan White!

THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this important week! Susan, I'll be sending your mug and postcard next week.

A final reminder that COLLECTOR'S ITEM is available from The Wild Rose Press in all eformats. To get your copy in your choice of pdf, mobi and epub, just click this Buy Link or go to The Wild Rose Press Website and search for Collector's Item.

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PICTURE PERFECT WINNERS:

Postcard winners:

Sharon Chalk
Andrea Cooper
Susan White
Amber Hall
Stanalei Fletcher
Suzanne (who commented on the party blog)
Leah St. James


Again, thanks for playing along and if you've made the leap to purchase COLLECTOR'S ITEM, I hope you let me know what you think.

The Party's Over But One Thing Remains

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It's been great fun, but all good things must come to an end
The Virtual Release Party for
Collector's Item Ends Today


COLLECTOR'S ITEM has been released by The Wild Rose Press in all eformats. To get your copy in your choice of pdf, mobi and epub, just click this Buy Link or go to The Wild Rose Press Website and search for Collector's Item.

First and foremost a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this important week! It's been a lot of fun, and I hope that you've been entertained, intrigued, and enlightened by the various tidbits I've shared about Collector's Item. 


Alas and alack, tonight I must draw the curtain on the festivities.

Consider this your Last Call to participate in my Virtual Release Party Games!

SPIN THE MUG: The lucky winner will get a mug to create their own coffee-flavored kisses. I've been accumulating names and TOMORROW, May 24th, I'll pull a lucky winner for this delightful Collector's Item coffee mug filled with caffeine and chocolate.

 
This lovely 11oz, ceramic mug comes in a universally coordinating white to match any kitchen or office decor. The stunning cover of Collector's Item appears on one side and on the other, we pose the question on everybody's lips: 

 
To find her missing aunt, a headstrong shapeshifter joins forces with a cynical Alpha to investigate an illegal hunt club, but when their plan backfires can she escape a trap of her own making?

To earn entries in this contest, you just have to do a few things for me:

• LIKE my fb Author Page - Denise Golinowski/Author - 1 Entry
•  TWEET something about Collector's Item using BOTH @DGolinowski and #collectorsitembook in the tweet. - 1 Entry
• COMMENT on this blog post and mention that you did #1 and/or #2 - 1 Entry
• WAIT - I'll be posting the winner here on this blog on May 24th!
• EXTRA ENTRY - LIKE my fb Book Page - Collector's Item/Golinowski - 1 Entry 

Easy Peasy!

PICTURE PERFECT PICKINGS: Every day until May 24th, I've been picking random commenters, Likes, and tweets to win one of these signed Collector's Item Cover Postcards:

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Postcard winners to date:

Sharon Chalk
Andrea Cooper
Susan White
Amber Hall
Stanalei Fletcher
Suzanne (who commented on the party blog)

One more Picture Perfect Winner to go. It might be you!

Again, thanks for playing along and if you've made the leap to purchase COLLECTOR'S ITEM, I hope you let me know what you think.

COLLECTOR'S ITEM VIRTUAL RELEASE PARTY!

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Today's the Day!
Welcome to The Virtual Release Party for
Collector's Item!


COLLECTOR'S ITEM has been released by The Wild Rose Press in all eformats. To get your copy in your choice of pdf, mobi and epub, just click this Buy Link or go to The Wild Rose Press Website and search for Collector's Item.

All day today, you can help me celebrate the formal launch of Collector's Item, a suspenseful paranormal romance enovella. Follow along on Facebook and twitter as I share tidbits about Collector's Item--the world, the characters, the story.

I'm also guesting over at Delilah Devlin's blog today -  http://www.delilahdevlin.com/blog/
sharing some fun information about my shapeshifters in COLLECTOR'S ITEM.


And as at any self-respecting party, physical or virtual, There Are Party Games!

SPIN THE MUG: The lucky winner will get a mug to create their own coffee-flavored kisses. I'll be accumulating names from now until May 23rd to put in a drawing for this delightful Collector's Item coffee mug filled with caffeine and chocolate.

 
This lovely 11oz, ceramic mug comes in a universally coordinating white to match any kitchen or office decor. The stunning cover of Collector's Item appears on one side and on the other, we pose the question on everybody's lips: 

 
To find her missing aunt, a headstrong shapeshifter joins forces with a cynical Alpha to investigate an illegal hunt club, but when their plan backfires can she escape a trap of her own making?

To earn entries in this contest, you just have to do a few things for me:

• LIKE my fb Author Page - Denise Golinowski/Author - 1 Entry
•  TWEET something about Collector's Item using BOTH @DGolinowski and #collectorsitembook in the tweet. - 1 Entry
• COMMENT on this blog post and mention that you did #1 and/or #2 - 1 Entry
• WAIT - I'll be posting the winner here on this blog on May 24th!
• EXTRA ENTRY - LIKE my fb Book Page - Collector's Item/Golinowski - 1 Entry 

Easy Peasy!

PICTURE PERFECT PICKINGS: Every day until May 24th, I'll be picking random commenters, Likes, and tweets to win one of these signed Collector's Item Cover Postcards:

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I hope you'll stay to play. The party won't be the same without YOU!

Luck, Collector's Item Release Party, and Monday Fortune Cookie 5/13/13

YOU WILL BE SHOWERED WITH GOOD LUCK!

SNARKY RESPONSE: Wow! I hope it doesn't leave a stain.

You will be showered with good luck!

Actually, I'm feeling VERY LUCKY this week. Why, you ask?

Because on Friday, May 17th,

COLLECTOR'S ITEM is being Formally Released

by The Wild Rose Press in ALL eformats!

In case you haven't picked up my various posts, hints, blogs, and such about my new paranormal romance, let me share once more the totally fabulous cover and a little hint about the story:

To find her missing aunt,

a headstrong shapeshifter joins forces with a cynical Alpha

to investigate an illegal hunt club,

but when their plan backfires

can she escape a trap of her own making?

In honor of this momentous event, I'll be hosting an all day VIRTUAL RELEASE PARTY on Friday, May 17th! I will posting here, on facebook, and (gasp) tweeting all manner of things COLLECTOR'S ITEM related. And since I can't offer you libations or edible delectables via the www, I'm going to be offering a variety of fun prizes.



Also, All Week (May 17th through May 23rd), I will be offering chances to Enter to Win one of these truly Collectible COLLECTOR'S ITEM mugs filled with various forms of caffeine and oh so yummy chocolate. I'll be sharing all the particulars about the contest on Friday, May 17th here on this blog.

And, as luck would have it, I'll also be Guest Blogging over on the Delightful Delilah Devlin's blog that day! Talk about being showered with luck!




I hope you'll join in all the fun beginning on May 17th!

MONDAY FORTUNE COOKIE, 2/11/13

NOTHING DARED, NOTHING GAINED

SNARKY RESPONSE: Exactly what I said about dessert the other day! But I ordered it anyway.

Nothing dared, nothing gained

This week's Fortune Cookie works surprisingly well for me. About time! And speaking of time...


Over at NPR, they're running a little writing contest called Three Minute Fiction.


Writers are asked to write and submit a short, and I mean short, piece of fiction that can be read on air in three minutes, roughly 600 words. Entries had to be submitted by midnight last night, February 10th.

They choose a theme for the entries and this year the story has to be in the form of a voice mail message.

The fearless leader of my science fiction and fantasy critique group, Bud Webster challenged us earlier this year to participate in the next contest. He wanted us to step outside of our current WIPs and comfort zones to meet a challenge and a deadline!

Short or Flash Fiction is mucho hard for me. I'm a novella gal. Though I have had two short stories published, it's not my medium. However, I agreed with Bud that we should stretch ourselves. So when I heard about this year's contest, I decided to do it.

There were so many different ways to approach the voice mail concept, but I settled on a basically tried and true one. With a little twist to make it more interesting.

It's the "I'm sorry. I don't really want to break up" call. The "I take it back" that may or may not be welcome words after the recipient of the break-up has been up all night attempting triage on a broken heart and dreams.

My twists were to (1) set a time-limit on the response, (2) show that the deadline is missed, and (3) hint at a darker problem at issue in this relationship or with this apologetic soul.

I set up my time limit with the "unnamed" caller being in the airport leaving for an unavoidable trip. He wants the recipient, Maria, to call him back before he leaves as a sign that she'll take him back.

However, in this day of cell phones and international coverage, why would such a deadline be necessary?

It wouldn't, UNLESS my person will be incommunicado or have to "go dark" for some reason. Heading into the depths of the Amazon or onto the frozen tundras of Antarctica  Or is it something more nefarious? Something involving "contracts," per se.

Well, that's where I went and that's what I sent. If it never makes it past the first round, I'll be posting it here later. Fingers crossed.