WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

As promised a winner would be selected today for the 

Authors Saving Hearts Fundraising Giveaway!

I want to thank all the authors and friends for their participation.

Thank you also to everyone who donated, I wish you all could have won!

On to the winner....

The names go in...

Bea shakes them all about...

And then she picked a winner...

CONGRATULATIONS TO BECKY L! 

Happy Reading!!!

HUGE thanks to following people for their support and help in this fundraising effort, B.C. Burgess, Georgia Cates, Jillian Dodd, J.M. Hill, M. Leighton, R.K. Lilley, K.A. Linde, Sara Mack, E.L. Montes, Tara Sivec, S.C. Stephens, J. Sterling, Nicole Williams, Christina Collie of Doodles by Christina and Trish Brinkley of The Occasionalist Events. None of this would be possible without all of you!

The American Heart Association's goal is to reduce the risk of death from heart disease and stroke 20% by the year 2020, please click on the link for the American Heart Association for more about their mission.

Winner to be selected tomorrow!!!!

Scroll through the posts to see spotlights on your favorite authors and friends! We are in the final hours so Donate now!

Donate for a chance to win!!!

I am participating in the 2013 Greater Baltimore Heart Walk and have been lucky enough to have some help from some AMAZING Authors, Bloggers and Friends to help me in my fundraising goals.

For every $5 you donate, you will be entered for a chance to win this incredible group of SIGNED books* and a print of the sold out Doodle done for

S.C. Stephens' Thoughtless, Effortless & Reckless Series from

Dooodles by Christina.

Please feel free to email me at tarasreads@gmail.com with any questions.

Thanks and happy reading!

Winner to be selected October 11, 2013

Check out the beautiful books to be won:

HUGE thanks to following people for their support and help in this fundraising effort, B.C. Burgess, Georgia Cates, Jillian Dodd, J.M. Hill, M. Leighton, R.K. Lilley, K.A. Linde, Sara Mack, E.L. Montes, Tara Sivec, S.C. Stephens, J. Sterling, Nicole Williams, Christina Collie of Doodles by Christina and Trish Brinkley of The Occasionalist Events. None of this would be possible without all of you!

You can also donate directly through my heart walk page, but please be sure to email me your receipt so you will be included in this giveaway.

The American Heart Association's goal is to reduce the risk of death from heart disease and stroke 20% by the year 2020, please click on the link for the American Heart Association for more about their mission.

Authors Saving Hearts - Friend Spotlight - The Occassionalist Events

"Bringing Your Favorite Authors

to a City Near You!"

http://www.theoccasionalist.com/

For any questions regarding upcoming signings, please email:

trish@theoccasionalist.com

Copyright © 2013 The Occasionalist

Author Saving Hearts - Friend Spotlight - Dooodles By Christina

Christina's Facebook Page says she's:
"Doodling my heart out for all book lovers like me ♥"
Contact - dooodlesbychristina@gmail.com
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/DooodlesByChristina/info

Christina is also behind the awesome blog - Cocaine and Cupcakes.
Check her out here too: http://www.cocaineandcupcakes.com/

Check out the dooodle up for grabs to the winner:

Authors Saving Hearts - Author Spotlight - Nicole Williams

Amazon Author Profile:

I'm a wife, a mom, a writer.  I started writing because I lvoed it and I'm still writing because I love it.  I write young adult because I still believe in true love, kindred spirits, and happy endings.

Here's to staying young at heart *raises champagne glass* ... care to join me?

Nicole loves hearing from her readers.  You can contact her at nwilliamsbooks@gmail.com





Blog:  nicoleawilliams.blogspot.com
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nicole-Williams/215156715173890
Twitter:  @nwilliamsbooks

Synopsis for Crash

In this first book in the New York Times bestselling Crash trilogy, the world is introduced to this generation's Romeo and Juliet: Jude Ryder and Lucy Larson—Explosive. Sizzling. Tragic.

A steamy summer encounter with bad boy Jude means trouble for Lucy. Her sights are set on becoming a ballerina, and she won't let anything get in her way . . . except Jude.

He's got a rap sheet, dangerous mood swings, and a name that's been sighed, shouted, and cursed by who knows how many girls.

Jude's a cancer, the kind of guy who's fated to ruin the lives of girls like Lucy—and he tells her so.

But as rumors run rampant and reputations are destroyed, Lucy's not listening to Jude's warning. Is tragedy waiting in the wings? This racy romance is hot, hot, hot!

Synopsis for Lost & Found

There's complicated. And there's Rowen Sterling.  

After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school.  Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen's dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch.  Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing.

Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she'd thought was frozen go boom-boom.  Jesse's like no one else, and certainly nothing like her.  He's the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded.  

Rowen knows there's no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl-happily-right-now is a stretch so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she's not sure she's ready to feel.  But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get.  The more she convinces herself she doesn't care, the harder she falls.

When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she's kept up for years, Rowen realizes it's not just everyone else she needs to be honest with.  It's herself.  

Nicole Williams is an Author Saving Hearts!

Authors Saving Hearts - Author Spotlight - J. Sterling

Amazon Author Profile:

I got fired from my last job.

It's true.

I know you're sitting there thinking, "Jenn, how could anyone in their right mind fire someone as amazing and awesome as you are???" And i'd love to give you a good reason, but the truth is... being This! Awesome! is clearly very scary to other less awesome people. :)

So I said screw them and started writing my first book. And you know what I realized? Writing books that mean something to me is a million times better than working my ass off for someone who doesn't really care about anything other than the bottom line.

My soul feels more satisfied.
My heart, more full.

So thank you for reading, loving and recommending the stories I write.
I think you're awesome- and not only am I not scared of other awesome people, I want them on my team!

Jenn enjoys hearing from her readers:
Website & Blog: http://www.j-sterling.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheRealJSterling
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RealJSterling

Synopsis for The Game Changer (Note this is the second book in this series):

Jack appeared at my door last night after six months of no communication wearing a Mets jersey and holding a dozen red roses. He told me he was sorry, that he loved me, and that he would earn my trust again. It took everything in me to not fall apart at the mere sight of him. I wanted to take him back into my life, but I needed to know that this time it would be forever…

In J. Sterling’s highly anticipated follow-up to her USA Today bestselling novel The Perfect Game, Jack and Cassie quickly realize that their new lifestyle can often be cruel and unforgiving. Their happiness is put to the test as the past is never truly far behind.

How do you stay together when the world's trying to tear you apart?

 J. Sterling is an Author Saving Hearts!

 

Authors Saving Hearts - Author Spotlight - S.C. Stephens

Amazon Author Profile:

S.C. Stephens is a bestselling author who enjoys spending every free moment she has creating stories that are packed with emotion and heavy on romance.
Her debut novel, Thoughtless, an angst-filled love triangle charged with insurmountable passion and the unforgettable Kellan Kyle, took the literary world by storm. Amazed and surprised by the response to the release of Thoughtless in 2009, more stories were quick to follow. Stephens has been writing nonstop ever since.

In addition to writing, Stephens enjoys spending lazy afternoons in the sun reading fabulous novels, loading up her iPod with writer's block reducing music, heading out to the movies, and spending quality time with her friends and family. She currently resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her two equally beautiful children.

For almost two years now, Kiera’s boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she’s ever wanted: loving, tender, and endlessly devoted to her. When they head off to a new city to start their lives together—Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university—everything seems perfect. Then an unforeseen obligation forces the happy couple apart. Feeling lonely, confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera turns to an unexpected source—a local rock star named Kellan Kyle. At first, he’s purely a friend she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their relationship. And then one night everything changes . . . and none of them will ever be the same.

S.C. Stephens is an Author Saving Hearts!