Monday, July 6, 2015

Christmas in July MASSIVE #Giveaway

What to my wondering eyes do I see? A mini cooper and 20 authors smiling with glee! (Yeah I played with that a bit)

IT'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY here on Diverse Reader! TWENTY amazing authors are participating in this huge giveaway. Some with double giveaways so YOU, the reader, THE FAN, are in for a super treat!

Let's meet the reindeer and elves ready to make your day! There's a banner, their bios, links where you can find them and what they are giving away. At the end is a rafflecopter. Enter and you'll be selected at random and paired with an author! This will run until July 31st and you'll be emailed at the end, so check your spam!!!

Okay, I'm ready to jingle your bells. Here are the amazing magical authors:


Born in Liverpool, Kate Aaron is the bestselling author of the #1 LGBT romance titles 'What He Wants', 'Ace', and 'The Slave', and other critically acclaimed works. 

She has the best of friends, the worst of enemies, and a mischievous muse with a passion for storytelling that doesn't know the difference between fact and fiction. Kate is engaged to award winning author AJ Rose, and together they plan to take over the world.

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After writing for years yet never really finding the right inspiration, Keira discovered her voice in gay romance, which has become a passion. She writes contemporary, historical, paranormal, and fantasy fiction, and—although she loves delicious angst along the way—Keira firmly believes in happy endings. For as Oscar Wilde once said, “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/keiraandrews

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Kade Boehme is a southern boy without the charm, but all the sass. Currently residing in New York City, he lives off of ramen noodles and too much booze.

He is the epitomy of dorkdom, only watching TV when Rachel Maddow or one of his sports teams is on. Most of his free time is spent dancing, arguing politics or with his nose in a book. He is also a hardcore Britney Spears fangirl and has an addiction to glitter.

It was after writing a short story about boys who loved each other for a less than reputable adult website that he found his true calling, and hopefully a bit more class. A member of Romance Writers of America's New York City Chapter and Rainbow Writers of America, Kade works as a full time writer.

He hopes to write about all the romance that he personally finds himself allergic to but that others can fall in love with. He maintains that life is real and the stories should be, as well.


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Charlie Cochet is an author by day and artist by night. Always quick to succumb to the whispers of her wayward muse, no star is out of reach when following her passion. From adventurous agents and sexy shifters, to society gentlemen and hardboiled detectives, there’s bound to be plenty of mischief for her heroes to find themselves in, and plenty of romance, too!

Currently residing in Central Florida, Charlie is at the beck and call of a rascally Doxiepoo bent on world domination. When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found reading, drawing, or watching movies. She runs on coffee, thrives on music, and loves to hear from readers.

E-mail: charlie@charliecochet.com
Twitter: @charliecochet

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Joe Cosentino is the author of Drama Queen the first Nicky and Noah mystery (Lethe Press), An Infatuation (Dreamspinner Press), Paper Doll the first Jana Lane mystery (Whiskey Creek Press), and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Eldridge Plays and Musicals). He has appeared in principal acting roles in film, television, and theatre, opposite stars such as Bruce Willis, Rosie O’Donnell, Nathan Lane, Holland Taylor, and Jason Robards. His one-act plays, Infatuation and Neighbor, were performed in New York City. He wrote The Perils of Pauline educational film (Prentice Hall Publishers). Joe is currently Head of the Department/Professor at a college in upstate New York, and is happily married. His upcoming novels are Drama Muscle the second Nicky and Noah mystery (Lethe Press), A Shooting Star (Dreamspinner Press novella), A Home for the Holidays (Dreamspinner Press holiday novella), and Porcelain Doll the second Jana Lane mystery.


ebook: An Infatuation





Barbara Elsborg lives in West Yorkshire in the north of England. She always wanted to be a spy, but having confessed to everyone without them even resorting to torture, she decided it was not for her. Vulcanology scorched her feet. A morbid fear of sharks put paid to marine biology. So instead, she spent several years successfully selling cyanide.
After dragging up two rotten, ungrateful children and frustrating her sexy, devoted, wonderful husband (who can now stop twisting her arm) she finally has time to conduct an affair with an electrifying plugged-in male, her laptop.

Her books feature quirky heroines and bad boys, and she hopes they are as much fun to read as they were to write.
More details about Barbara and her books can be found at
 
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Author bio: Jordan L. Hawk grew up in North Carolina and forgot to ever leave. Childhood tales of mountain ghosts and mysterious creatures gave her a life-long love of things that go bump in the night. When she isn’t writing, she brews her own beer and tries to keep her cats from destroying the house. Her best-selling Whyborne & Griffin series (beginning with Widdershins) can be found in print, ebook, and audiobook at Amazon and other online retailers.

Links:

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   John Inman grew up on a tiny 60-acre farm in Indiana.  His childhood was a happy one.  He spent most of it barefoot with a cane pole over his shoulder, fishing and roaming the countryside and dragging home every wild creature he could get his hands on hoping to make it a pet, much to his mother's horror.

     Longing to see the world (what kid doesn't?), he joined the Navy two minutes after graduating from high school.  The Navy carried him all across the Orient before finally landing him in San Diego, California, a city he fell in love with at first sight.  He lives there to this day with his husband John (yep, John and John), and an assortment of pets they've happened to adopt along the way,  (Yep, he's still doing that too.)

     The one great longing that has stayed with John his entire life, from his childhood on the farm, to his years in the Navy, and all the way up to retirement from the working world, was the need he felt to write fiction.  And he did.  He wrote every chance he got, from elementary school all the way through to Social Security.

     John calls this passion of his a wonderful addiction, and he thanks God every day that he suffers from it.  Since he can't think of a happier way to spend his remaining years on this marvelous planet, you can now find John seven days a week, merrily slogging along on his computer, doing what he most dearly loves to do.

     Writing. (And there's usually a pet on his lap while he's doing it.)    

ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/john.inman.79?fref=ts

ebook Sunset Lake (Releases July 8th)




Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 25. Her best-selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Paranormal Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft.  She lives with her soul-mate husband and her soul-mate dog near the sea in California where she sets a lot of her books.  Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!

Website:              http://www.taralain.com
Blog:                http://www.taralain.com/blog
Goodreads:        http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4541791.Tara_Lain
Twitter:               http://twitter.com/taralain
FB Page:          http://www.facebook.com/taralain


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Chris McHart is from Germany and, while she's an accountant, writing is her real passion. She likes to spend time with her family and has way too many animals that demand constant attention. Chris also enjoys landscaping and cooking, even if she’s still looking for someone to clean up after her.
Whenever Chris has a free minute, she spends it writing, a cup of coffee in hand, deeply lost in the worlds her muses have created. When she's coming up for some air, you’ll find Chris on a lot of social networks. Check out Chris’s website to see where you can find out more. She looks forward to hearing from you!

 
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Ben Monopoli lives in Boston with his husband, Chris. (Not very exciting but it's the one I always use. Haha.)

Links:


Giving away two Kindle copies The Youth & Young Loves of Oliver Wade




Jay lives just outside Bristol in the West of England, with her husband, two children, and two cats.
She comes from a family of writers, but she always used to believe that the gene for fiction writing had passed her by. She spent years only ever writing emails, articles, or website content. One day, she decided to try and write a short story–just to see if she could–and found it rather addictive. She hasn’t stopped writing since.


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Award-winning author Sloan Parker writes passionate, dramatic stories about two men (or more) falling in love. She enjoys writing in the fictional world because in fiction you can be anything, do anything—even fall in love for the first time over and over again. Sloan lives in Ohio with her partner and their neurotic cats. Her greatest moments in life are spent with her family, her friends, and her characters.

To contact Sloan, find out about her books that are available for purchase, and read free stories, visit: www.sloanparker.com. If you'd like to be notified of new releases and get exclusive sneak peeks, be sure to sign up to receive Sloan Parker's newsletter via her website.







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Author and artist Jordan Castillo Price writes paranormal sci-fi thrillers colored by her time in the midwest, from inner city Chicago, to rural small town Wisconsin, to liberal Madison. Her influences include Ouija boards, Return of the Living Dead, "light as a feather, stiff as a board," and boys in eyeliner.
Jordan is best known as the author of the PsyCop series, an unfolding tale of paranormal mystery and suspense starring Victor Bayne, a gay medium who's plagued by ghostly visitations. Also check out her new series, Mnevermind, where memories are made...one client at a time.
Jordan Castillo Price monthly newsletter
Jordan's LJ Blog
Jordan on Facebook
Jordan's official Amazon page

READER'S CHOICE titles at http://jcpbooks.com or any of her audiobooks at Audible.com. 




Posy Roberts writes about romantic male love. Whether her characters are family men, drag queens, or lonely men searching for connections, they all find a home in her stories.
Posy is married to a man who makes sure she doesn’t forget to eat or sleep. Her daughter, a budding author and dedicated Whovian, helps her come up with character names. When Posy’s not writing, she enjoys crafting, hiking, and singing spontaneously about the mundane, just to make normal seem more interesting. 

Giveaway choice: Anything on my backlist except Silver Scars







It began with a Halloween themed short story assignment from a second grade teacher, and from then on, AJ Rose fell head over heels in love with writing. Time has seen the beginning and end of many things, college and graduation, a finance career, and a marriage, and through it all, writing has been her first love. Now, AJ is also head over heels for her wife-to-be, fellow author Kate Aaron, who gets it, the twitchy fingers when word counts are low too many consecutive days, the thousand-yard stare when an idea turns AJ's vision inward, and the jitters when the word-babies go out to meet the world. Nothing could stop the tall tales about imaginary people that refused to be ignored. With a life full of this much passion, it's no wonder AJ chose romance. The voices in her head are mostly of the male persuasion, so m/m romance was about the only option. But don't be surprised if the occasional ghost still pops up.


AJ's work can be found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and All Romance eBooks. AJ tweets as @_AJRose and blogs at
http://ajrosewrites.wordpress.com, where there is more information about future titles.


blog | Amazon | facebook | Twitter | tumblr | GoodReads |

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RJ Scott has been writing since age six, when she was made to stay in at lunchtime for an infraction involving cookies. She was told to write a story and two sides of paper about a trapped princess later, a lover of writing was born.

As an avid reader herself, she can be found reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror. However, her first real true love will always be the world of romance where she takes cowboys, bodyguards, firemen and billionaires (to name a few) and writes dramatic and romantic stories of love and passion between these men.

With over seventy titles to her name and counting, she is the author of the award winning book, The Christmas Throwaway. She is also known for the Texas series charting the lives of Riley and Jack, and the Sanctuary series following the work of the Sanctuary Foundation and the people it protects.

Her goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.

www.tumblr.com/blog/rjscott  (some NSFW (not safe for work) photos)
www.pinterest.com/rjscottauthor/
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I have always been a romantic at heart. I believe that while life is tough, there is always a happy ending just around the corner. I started reading traditional historical romances when I was a teenager, then life and law school got in the way. It wasn’t until I picked up a copy of Bertrice Small and became swept away to Queen Elizabeth’s court that my interest in romance novels became renewed.

But somewhere along the way, my tastes shifted. While I still enjoys a juicy Historical romance, I began experimenting with newer, more cutting edge genres and discovered the world of Male/Male romance. Once I picked up her first, I became so enamored of the authors, the character-driven stories and the overwhelming emotion of the books, I knew I wanted to write my own.

I live in New York City with my husband and two children and hopefully soon a cat of my own. My day begins with a lot of caffeine and ends with a glass or two of red wine. I practice law but daydream of a time when I can sit by a beach somewhere and write beautiful stories of men falling in love. Although there is bound to be angst along the way, a Happily Ever After is always guaranteed.

Amazon  * Facebook * Twitter

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Brigham Vaughn has always been a voracious reader with her own stories to tell.  After many years of abandoned plots, something finally clicked.  Now she’s eating, sleeping, and breathing writing and is excited to have finally figured out what she wants to be when she grows up.  In the little time that isn’t spent writing or reading, she loves cooking, yoga, photography, and remodeling her ninety-year-old home.  

Brigham lives in Michigan with her three cats and an amazing husband who has always been her biggest champion.


Twitter: @AuthorBVaughn

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Thank you for reading and taking the time to review and/or rate. It's jaw-dropping to me that you would do either. I feel a bit like Sally Field in her famous Oscar speech "You like me - you actually like me"

I live in a small seaside town just outside London, on the South Coast of England that boasts the longest pier in the world; where I am ordered around by two precocious children and a dog who thinks she's the boss of me.

I've been writing seriously for three years now and love giving voice to the characters warring to be heard in my head, and am currently petitioning for more hours in the day, because I never seem to have enough of them.

I like nothing more than bringing together two people in interesting and sometimes bizarre ways, and hope that the readers enjoy the characters' journey as much as they and I do.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisa.worrallauthor?fref=ts
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 GIVEAWAY

Ends July 31st! All winners will be notified via email! Have fun good luck. Thank you to ALL these incredible authors for their generosity. Sharing, good cheer, and kindness should be all year long. Thank you to these 20 awesome authors for spreading it!









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39 comments:

  1. Wow, what a very special event. Thank you so much to you and all the participating authors :)

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  2. Christmas in July giveaways is a wonderful idea thank you to every one taking part.

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  3. What a FANTASTIC giveaway that includes so many of my favorite authors that I am a huge fan of!! Please count me in: jennifer.avidan@gmail.com

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  4. Great event. Love Christmas in July. Thank you. :-)

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  5. Awesome! Christmas in July. What fun

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  6. Love the sand snowman or would it be sandman? :) thanks for the wonderful giveaway.

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  7. Lovely idea. Lots of lovely books.

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  8. Wow, what a great group of authors.

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  9. Fabulous Giveaway I'm thrilled to be a part of

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  10. Wow! So many fabulous authors and generous give away! Can't believe it's only 6 months til Christmas! Time flies when your nose is in a book!

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  11. What a great idea, Christmas in July. I'm just glad there's no snow!

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  12. This is a good way to learn about authors I'm not familiar with although I know and love a lot of them already. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  13. Christmas in July, I Love it. Thanks to Diverse Reader and all the great authors for this fabulous giveaway :)

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  14. Great giveaway! Thank you for the chances ;)

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  15. Awesome giveaway! So many great authors!

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  16. Mere, I love that you included my little parenthetical with my pathetic bio. Hahaha! :-D

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  17. Wow! Thanks to everyone for this awesome giveaway :)

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  18. Thank you! What a fabulous giveaway!

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  19. Wonderful, I love Christmas in July

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  20. Awesome event! Thanks to all the authors and Diverse blog for this great giveaway!

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  21. Great giveaway!
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  22. WOW What an amazing giveaway! Thank you to each author and Diverse Reader for bringing a little Christmas in July joy.

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  23. What an wonderful list of authors. Thank you for the giveaway. <3

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  24. Such a lovely giveaway! Thank you to all the authors and Diverse Reader for the giveaway chance =)

    -H.B.

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  25. Merry Christmas!! Thanks for all the links. They'll keep me busy for quite a while. :-)

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  26. This giveaway is amazing! A huge thank you to all the generous authors involved and to Meredith as well!

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  27. Super excited! Loving this awesome giveaway

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  28. WOW! Thank you to Meredith, and to all of the various talented authors who have generously given to this fantastic giveaway. :)

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    1. I've entered my URL for my tweet about this giveaway THREE times already. Why does it not register that I have?!!

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    2. When you put the URL in the slot do you click "I tweeted" ?

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    3. I checked the entries and it is registering. Tweeting is something that you can do every day to gather up more entries. It's not that it isn't registering it's that the option is there to do more than once

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  29. awesome giveaway....amazing group of authors!

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  30. All the lights make me almost long for Christmas..wonderful giveaway you've pulled together.

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  31. Thank you for a chance to win one of these authors books :)

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