Bella Street Romance Goes Retro

UPDATE: WE HAVE WINNERS! After over 4,000 comments our Lucky in Love Blog Hop has some grand prize winners!! These readers answered the questions on the posts and were chosen randomly using Random.org. Congrats! Grand Prize Winners: Amazon Gift Card: Shadow37 Swag Pack: Heather B.   3 COPIES OF KISS ME I'M IRISH  Rachel Kirsty Jessiel   Winner have been notified   Consider signing up for my email list and never miss another giveaway! Lucky in Love? Well, are you? It's a time of luck and wealth...or not. With each romance we find ourselves in a new world of love and memories. Are these just by chance? Is it luck? Welcome to your second annual Lucky in Love Blog Hop where we want to hear about your love, your romance, and how much you love St. Patrick's Day!!! Are you wearing green? Ready to get pinched...or wait...do you like that? I once tried to get in the spirit of the Irish--so I made ...

Co-hosted by Books Complete Me & Author Cindy Thomas WINNER SELECTED! Congrats to E rika for being randomly selected to win the Amazon card, chocola tes, and Kindle copy of Kiss Me, I 'm Irish ! Woot! Thanks to everyone else who partici pated. To make sure you don't m iss another giveaway, sign up for my e mail list.   What makes the Irish so magical? Is the selkies? The faeries? The pots of gold? Or perhaps it's the ability of a people who subsisted on plain ol potatoes to take the mundane aspects of life and turn them into enchanting yarns that make us all want to be a little bit Irish .  To celebrate that magic, I'm giving a little swag pack to one lucky (heh) winner. A box of these:  One of these:  And a copy of my paranormal romance KISS ME, I'M IRISH . Emily Musgrave is heading a direction she never wanted to go in Regency England--namely a convent to turn her from her waywardness. But it's more loneliness than re...

After over 4,000 comments our Heartbreakers Blog Hop has some grand prize winners!! These readers answered the questions on the posts and were chosen randomly using Random.org. Congrats! Grand Prize Winners: Kindle Fire Winner: Ashley M. Amazon Gift Card: Jess987 Swag Pack: Meghan Stith The grand prize winners have already been notified and have their prizes or the prizes are on their way! The three winners of Kiss Me, I'm Irish are: Shannon Bereza Ashley Applebee   wajiha1993   CONGRATS EVERYONE and be sure to sign up for my email list for the next great giveaway!   (Original post below:) Who else is humming that Pat Benatar song ?? But I digress (the 80s always make me digress). Today's hop celebrates those heartbreaking cuties who populate our romance novels and imaginations (and who apparently do lots and lots of tummy crunches). How's this one for an example?  Yes, I know Gabriel has a ...

After over 8,000 comments our Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop has some grand prize winners!! Congrats! Grand Prize Winners: Kindle Fire Winner: Aimee F. $200 Amazon Gift Card: Laura T. Swag Pack: Debbie G.     The winner of my prize ($10 Amazon card and 3 putz houses) goes to Cynthia W. W is for WOOT! :) Congrats to all the winners and thanks to everyone who participated! Be sure to check back for future contests and giveaways. And be sure to peek at my current giveaway if you haven't already--because everyone needs a pink velour Juicy Couture tracksuit!  Merry Christmas!

Welcome to the Holiday Gifts of Love blog hop sponsored by Carrie Ann Ryan Blog Hops !  It's a Happy Holiday from your favorite Authors and Bloggers. While we know everyone celebrates a different way, we wanted to make sure that you guys knew how much we treasure you all. So from Dec 14th to Dec 17th, all 200 or so of us will be blogging about the holidays and what they mean to us. We may talk about our favorite holiday traditions, recipes, gifts, reads, heroes, and so much more. We want to hear about what you do for the holidays, what you read, and who you'll spend it with. We hope to see you here and happy hopping! And while we do that, we are EACH doing a giveaway. Yep. There will be over 200 giveaways on each blog hosted by that Author or Blogger. But that's not all.... We have  THREE  grand prizes. You as a reader can go to EACH blog and comment with your email address and be entered to win. Yep, you can enter over 200 times! ...

Men . They're the real reason we read romance novels, savvy? Of course we all love strong female leads, fast-paced plots, and exotic locales...but we really like the heroic honeybun hotties who populate the pages of our favorite novels. As a romance author, I will often peruse celeb websites looking for someone who matches my mental images of my characters. It's never the other way around for me--I don't use a celeb as a hero. I just try to find someone who's a close match. Scott Speedman For my Apocalypse Babes series, one of the male lead characters-- Trent --really reminds me of the guy in this picture. Not the guy in Felicity --at least personality-wise, but the way this guy on the right looks --cranky and delish. In my book Kiss Me, I'm Irish , I imagine my moody, Irish musician hero Liam to look something like the guy below in all his blue-eyed, scruffy yumminess: Matt Bomer If you'd like a chance to meet either one of t...