The Way to Your Heart Winners

The Way to Your Heart bloghop is now over and I have two winners to announce! I should've announced the first a few days ago, but RL stuff got in the way, so both will be announced here. 

Winner of the 2nd Way to Your Heart blog post: Jbst. 

Winner of the 3rd Way to Your Heart blog post: Carolyn. 

Congrats to you both and I will send you both an e-mail shortly!

The Way To Your Heart Bloghop #3

Less Than Three Press is turning four years old and they're thus doing a bloghop. You can check out the masterpost HERE, with links to all the other wonderful authors participating.

So what do I love, besides writing? Reading, television, music, is what comes to mind. As the hop runs for fourteen days, I've decided to do a post for each of those three and spread it over the two weeks. Each post will also host a giveaway, so be on the look-out for them!

Music is an important part of my life. I like listening to it when I'm out walking, when I'm taking the bus or riding in a car. I like to listen to it when I'm writing as well. I don't have a particular genre I prefer; I listen to most anything. 

The band I've been with the longest must be Nightwish. I started listening to them back when I was in middle school or something like that, back when they were newly popular. I had every album they released and (im)patiently waited for a new one. It was a sad day when I found out Tarja was no longer in the band, and though I did enjoy Anette, she did not have the soprano voice of Tarja. Now Anette has quit as well, and I hope they'll go back to the soprano singer of the Tarja-era again, but I trust Tuomas to do what he thinks is best for the band. No matter what, I will always enjoy Tuomas' music. 

I'm also very much into k-pop, like Big Bang, 2NE1, B.A.P, NU'EST, to name a few of my current favourites. I also do enjoy many cover songs from Glee, along with their originals (though sometimes the Glee version is better), and I'm currently hooked on the soundtrack to Rock of Ages. 

Music can help set the mood for anything, especially when I'm writing. If I'm writing a sad scene, I like to listen to sad music. It can also distract from the writing, but that's not the point of this blog post. /grin

* * * GIVEAWAY * * *

One lucky commenter will win one (1) ebook of their choice from my backlist. All you have to do to be in the drawing is to tell me what artist/band you love most of all and leave me an e-mail so I can contact you. This giveaway will run until Sunday April 14th.

The Way To Your Heart Bloghop #2

Less Than Three Press is turning four years old and they're thus doing a bloghop. You can check out the masterpost HERE, with links to all the other wonderful authors participating.

So what do I love, besides writing? Reading, television, music, is what comes to mind. As the hop runs for fourteen days, I've decided to do a post for each of those three and spread it over the two weeks. Each post will also host a giveaway, so be on the look-out for them!

Today I want to talk a bit about television. There are so many good television series out there I've enjoyed tremendously. One of my all-time favourites is Queer As Folk US. Who can keep from falling in love with Gale Harold as Brian Kinney? No matter what a tosser Brian is, he's just so loveable being it. 

As for more recent shows, I am entirely hooked on Teen Wolf and I really cannot wait for the third season to start up in June. Derek Hale and Stiles Stilinski, they make that show, I tell you. I am most definitely a Sterek shipper. 

Another show I'm quite hooked on is Shameless US. I just watch the penultimate episode of the third season, and next week will bring the finale episode. I'm going to re-watch that show several times, I'm sure, as the fourth season won't premiere before 2014. 

Other shows I'm following and enjoying is The Vampire Diaries, Grey's Anatomy and Glee. I'm looking forward to Hannibal starting, and I want to keep watching The Following (I've only seen the first episode, which was quite good!) and after seeing the finale of Private Practice, I'd like to start in on that series as well. 

* * * GIVEAWAY * * *

One lucky commenter will win one (1) ebook of their choice from my backlist. All you have to do to be in the drawing is to tell me what TV show you love most of all and leave me an e-mail so I can contact you. This giveaway will run until Wednesday April 10th.

Sakura Kiss Release Blog Hop Links

The Sakura Kiss Release Blog Tour is still going strong. If you've missed some of the stops, there's still chance to go comment. There's a giveaway on every stop, so five chances in all to win a copy of Sakura Kiss. 

Stop 1: Megan Derr's blog. 

Stop 2: Summer Michael's blog. 

Stop 3: Talya Andor's blog. 

Stop 4: World of Diversity Fiction. **coming Thursday**

Stop 5: The Armchair Reader. **coming Friday**

The Way To Your Heart Bloghop

Less Than Three Press is turning four years old and they're thus doing a bloghop. You can check out the masterpost HERE, with links to all the other wonderful authors participating. 

So what do I love, besides writing? Reading, television, music, is what comes to mind. As the hop runs for fourteen days, I've decided to do a post for each of those three and spread it over the two weeks. Each post will also host a giveaway, so be on the look-out for them! 

Let's start with the reading. I love to read, I always have. Years ago, when I still read and wrote in Norwegian, I used to read these serial historical romance novels popularly called 'housewife-porn'. I devoured so many of those series during the years, then got my mother hooked on them. 

Now I'm reading exclusively in English, and almost exclusively m/m fiction. I tend to read what I write, so when I'm writing contemporary fiction, I normally read contemporary fiction. I have a one-track mind so if I read something outside of the genre I'm currently writing, it tends to ruin my momentum. 

This is also true when it comes to tenses. If I write in 3rd person POV, I read 3rd person POV. If I read a 1st person POV, I tend to be inspired to write it. Still, I love to read and I can devour a book in a day. If it's a small book, I can certainly devour two. 

I could list my favourite books and series, but that would take up several blog posts in itself because there are so many awesome authors out there and so many awesome books! I still have so many of those on my to-be-read list, so I should now get back to devouring them. First though, a little giveaway for you readers!

* * * GIVEAWAY * * *

One lucky commenter will win one (1) ebook of their choice from my backlist. All you have to do to be in the drawing is to tell me what you love most of all (it doesn't have to be reading books!) and leave me an e-mail so I can contact you. This giveaway will run until Saturday April 6th.

Sakura Kiss Release Week Blog Hop

Sakura Kiss will be released this week, on Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on where you live. For me, definitely on Wednesday. In honour of this, I have a blog hop going this week and the first can be found at Megan Derr's blog HERE. There's a giveaway too, so be sure to check it out!

Tomorrow, on April 2nd, I will be over at Summer Michaels's blog, and the following day, April 3rd, on Talya Andor's. On April 4th and 5th respectively, I will be at World of Diversity Fiction and Armchair Reader. I will post links once the blog post is up! All of them have giveaways, so there's five chances to win Sakura Kiss (or, in case you've already pre-ordered or ordered it by next weekend, another book from my backlist). 

New Year’s Kisses Party!

Kay Berrisford and Tara Lain is hosting a New Year's Kisses Party over at their blogs on December 31st and January 1st. There are some great first kisses excerpt featured, and there will be some awesome prizes up for grabs! One of which is a book from my own backlist. 

Check out the prize post HERE. 

Over fifty excerpts will be posted over on their blogs during the party, so be sure to head on over and check it out!

★ Kay Berrisford

★ Tara Lain