Blog Hop Winners!

Thank you everyone who participated in the Evernight's Christmas Blog Hop and in The Holiday Gifts of Love Hop! I hope you all enjoyed yourself and I look forward to "seeing" you in future hops! Now for the winners...

Evernight Christmas Blog Hop: 

 Kimmies Kreations and April Holgate

Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop:  

Dawna Newman 

Again, Thank you everyone for participating, following and playing along! Happy Holidays! *hugs*

Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop

*If you're looking for the Evernigh Christmas Blog Hop: Click Here

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!

Now what are those prizes?

1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

2nd Grand Prize: A $200 Amazon or B&N Gift Card

3rd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack that contains paperbacks, ebooks, 50+ bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!

Greetings everyone! Christmas is around the corner! Barely a week left! Yay! Aren't you all excited? I am. I'm not sure why but I love this time of year. Maybe it's the good food, the Christmas carols, the magic lingering in the air or too much eggnog (LOL just joking). Truth is, I think my passion for Christmas might come from my childhood. Family was too far away but my mom always made sure that I believed in Santa, The Three Kings and their magic.

She did a good job for I was utterly convinced Santa existed until I turned 11 and got told the awful truth. (Okay, by the time I was 11 I was already suspecting that maybe parents had something to do with it, but I liked to hang on to the dream!). Needless to say, when my mom sat me on her knee and told me the truth about Christmas I cried. At that moment, I felt like my childhood was coming to an end and I was losing a part of me!

But, as my mom gently reminded me, I had a younger sister who still believed in that special magic that surrounds the Christmas holidays, so instead of becoming a scrooge I took up the role of Santa's (Mom's) little helper. Now that my sister is all grown up and my mom doesn't really care for the holidays anymore I still can't shake off the feeling that Christmas is supposed to be special. I still decorate the house and have just made my first batch of Christmas cookies, I eat Candy Canes and listen/sing Christmas carols all day long. It doesn't matter if our tree is tiny and the dog has a habit of playing with the ornaments, that we no longer get any gifts, or that it isn't going to snow on Christmas day, there is still some magic lingering in the air. *Wink*

To celebrate this holiday and this great Blog Hop I'm giving away a copy of my recent Silver Publishing Christmas release Punishing Santa. Just leave a comment below with your email telling me what you like best about the holidays! (Get extra points for liking me on Facebook or following me on Twitter *wink*)




When Santa fails to please his wife, Helena takes matters into her own hands. This Christmas, Santa will be on her naughty list and he'll get more than he bargained for when she decides to teach him an unforgettable lesson.

Punishing Santa is available at:

Silver Publishing  (* My other two holiday books The Uncertain List and Teaching Alisse are available with a 50% discount at the Silver Publishing site!*) 

Amazon.com
Amazon.uk

Barnes & Nobles

All Romance Ebooks 


*Everything but the swag prize is international

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