CONTEST WINNERS and KISSING BLOG FEST
First, contest details: Thank you to every person who emailed, tweeted, FB'ed, spoke of, wore sandwich boards, blogged, re-tweeted and made announcements at Arby's about this contest. You all are just plain awesome.
Thank you to all my new blog followers. Hey, hope you continue to stop by.
Drum roll please...
Winners were randomly selected by "The Hat"
RUNNER UP WINNER = Loralie Hall
Loralie, you are now the proud owner of an Apocalypsies tote bag full o'books
GRAND PRIZE WINNER = Alicia (comment from February 2, 2011 12:40)
Alicia, you are the proud winner of a first chapter critique from Sarah Lapolla
*Since there were two contestants named Alicia, one went in with her first name - which is her actual screen name & the other "Alicia" contestant went in with her full name.
CONGRATULATIONS TO LORALIE HALL & ALICIA!
Winners, email me at kmwalton1 at verizon dot net and I'll give you more details.
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Now onto The Kissing Blogfest organized by Christina Lee and Stina Lindenblatt...
This excerpt is from my contemporary YA titled OUT OF ORDER. Ruby has fallen for her older brother's best friend, Trick.------------------------------------------------------------------
I lean up against the tree to steady myself and it helps, sort of. Trick’s standing in front of me dripping wet.
He leans in and says in my ear, “You are beautiful, Ruby.”
I feel my knees give a little and the tree bark scrapes my butt through my bikini bottom. I wince.
“You okay?” Trick asks.
I nod and grin.
Without taking his eyes off mine he nods along with me and then presses himself against me. Our wet bodies touch in all the right places.
A moan escapes, and I’m embarrassed.
But then Trick moans too.
“I want to kiss you. Can I kiss you, Ruby?” he whispers in my ear. I nod again because I’m incapable of forming words.
Trick gently puts his lips to mine and he tastes like the funnel cake he ate at the stand. His kiss is tender, almost too tender. I want to devour him. I daringly press my lips to his and he groans. My arms wrap around his neck, and he pulls me in even tighter against him.
His tongue softly explores my mouth, and I don’t want him to ever stop kissing me. But he does.
He pulls back enough to look at me and say, “Oh my god. Do you know how long I’ve wanted to do that?”
I nod again like a lovesick mute. I seriously can not speak – I don’t want to speak – I only want him to kiss me again.
*HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO EVERYONE!!*
23 comments:
Congrats to the winners. Now, I need to read more of that. :) Whew! Great excerpt, I'll go and take a cold shower now.
Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!
I love this. And I want him to kiss her again, too. :D
Congrats to the winners!
I just have to say that Trick is one of the coolest character names ever.
Congrats to the winners!
KATE, SQUEE!!!!!!!!!!! I remember this scene now--one of my favorites from the book! LOVE your writing, girl!
Congrats to the winners! Alicia, you will not be disappointed with the critique--Sarah knows her stuff! :) Oh, and that excerpt--swoon. I'm still waiting to be kissed like that!
Congrats to the winners! Great excerpt. You know how I love Trick! :)
Congrats to the winners.
Wonderful scene. I think i'd be incapable of forming words after a kiss like that ;D
I love that she's literally speechless through it all.
Ha! Awe a little humor in with a lot of HOT! I love it! Awesome job!
Yummy. Funnel cake!
Christine: I love this book. Hopefully it sells one day...
Stina: Oh...they do : )
Matthew: How he got the nickname is pretty cool too...
Christina: You are too kind.
Pam: Yay for swooning : )
Susan: I know ; )
Lindsay: Glad you liked the scene!
Donna: It is soooo Ruby to be speechless!
Colene: "...a lot of HOT" - I like how you worded that!
Melissa: : )
Oh so sexy! I love the tension here and the very real reactions to the entire situation ^_^
And yay! I won :-D I'll be e-mailing you my address, and thank you and congratulations to the grand prize winner! What an awesome, fantastic prize.
Oh, this is lovely! All wet and sweet and hot -- and goodness, a lot of moaning too. I giggled when she said she was embarrassed by moaning, but then he did too. It's kind of sweet and innocent, while not innocent at all!
Woooow that was hot!! I'm kind of jealous of her!
Congrats to the winner.
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Funnel cake and devouring...Trick sounds absolutely yummy!
Edge of Your Seat Romance
Congratulations to the winners. I enjoyed your excerpt - humour goes well with hot. :)
Congrats to the winners! I LOVE your kissing scene. I think Trick is my new crush!
Congratulations to the winners!
aw, so cute. the whole bodies pressing against each other was super-hot. :)
also, im a new follower, hi! and i just added your book on goodreads, it sounds amazing.
Aleeza: Wow, thanks!! And welcome to my blog.
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