Journal Jots – Blog

YEE-HAW … we have WINNERS

  in the “Fall in Love … Texas Style” Contest!!

WHEW!!! What a FUN ten days Becky Wade and I had with our Texas contest, and we hope you did too!!

A big hats off to each and every one of you who participated, and we sure wish everybody could win.

BUT … regrettably, we only had four prizes for Rafflecopter to pick, so without further ado, here are our esteemed winners!!

1st Place, Kindle Fire loaded with Becky’s book and mine:

Linda Marie Finn

2nd Place, Texas Gift Basket with Becky’s book and mine:

Rochelle Saldana

3rd and 4th Places for Book Bundles of Becky’s book and mine:

Amy Etner
Ronya Ervin

SUPER CONGRATS TO ALL THE WINNERS AND BIG TEXAS-STYLE HUGS TO EVERY ONE ELSE FOR ENTERING!!

BUT GUESS WHAT?? I have something REALLLLLLLY fun for you today, WHICH includes a chance to win your choice of any of my ebooks from the “Daughters of Boston” or “Winds of Change” series OR A Light in the Window!

An incredibly talented and sweet reader friend of mine, Salyna, recently sent me celebrity montages for EACH of my books depicting the characters. I fell in love with all of them but Katie and Luke’s (Salyna and I respectfully disagree on Luke’s celebrity look-alike), and TALK ABOUT FUN!!

Salyna has agreed to let me post one montage each week on my Journal Jots blog, so I hope you check back in the weeks ahead to see these true works of art!! 🙂

But TODAY, Friday, August 2 through next Thursday, August 8, she is featuring pics for Faith and Collin from A Passion Most Pure (not the montage she sent me, mind you, but her pics).

So …  I hope you will bounce on over there just to leave a YAY or a NAY on her choices and your own celebrity choices for Faith and Collin if you have them. Just one comment enters you into the contest for your choice of my O’Connor e-books and there are even bonus points you can easily accrue. And because this is a last-minute, unadvertised giveaway, odds for a win are good since the number of comments will probably be low.

Here’s the link to Miss Salyna’s wonderful blog entitled “Kissed Books” — do pop in and say “hey,” okay?  KISSED BOOKS BLOG GIVEAWAY

20-AUTHOR GIVEAWAY THROUGH AUG.18!

Join me and nineteen other authors on Soul Inspirationz blog for a book givaway extravaganza!! Just click on the “Featured Author Interview” link below each of the author’s pic to enter their particular contest. At Julie’s Interview Link you can win your choice of Julie’s books including her January release of Dare to Love Again or a signed spiral-bound printed copy of A Light in the Window, so GOOD LUCK!!

CALLING ALL WRITERS!! 

Be sure to check out my recent Seeker blog entitled “LIGHT-BULB MOMENTS: Illuminating the Path to Publication and Beyond.”  The giveaway is over, but the writer’s tips are still worth checking out!

HAPPY WEEKEND AND HAPPY READING!

HUGS,

Julie

WELCOME, ALL!

I don’t normally feature authors on my blog, but today is an exception. Suzanne Woods Fisher is a fellow Revell author and good friend, and she just happens to write some of the BEST Amish books in the biz, so please help me welcome her to a mid-week, special edition of Journal Jots. 

Book one, The Letters, in Suzanne’s new series, Inn at Eagle Hill, is about to release on August 1. Suzanne is hosting a scavenger hunt July 23 – August 1, and I’m one of the stops! Keep an eye on Suzanne’s blog for a clue as to that day’s scavenger-hunt stop and visit for a sneak peek at The Letters and the chance to win a copy of the book!

“The time to make friends is before you need them.” Amish proverb Rose Schrock and Delia Stoltz in The Letters had little in common. Rose was Amish; Delia was a Philadelphia doctor’s wife. Yet the two women forged an unlikely friendship when Delia arrived as the first guest at the Inn at Eagle Hill, broken in spirit and body. The kindness Rose extended to Delia ended up being returned to her many times over. And isn’t that the way of a true friendship? Give and receive, help and be helped. Rose and Delia could have kept up the walls of their differences—significant differences when you consider the Amish—yet they took a chance and opened up to each other. Who is your most unlikely friend? What quality that drew you to that friend, despite your differences? How has your life been enriched through that friendship?

______________________________

Suzanne Woods Fisher is the bestselling author of the Inn at Eagle Hill series, Lancaster County Secrets series, and the Stoney Ridge Seasons series, as well as nonfiction books about the Amish, including “Amish Peace.” She is also the coauthor of a new Amish children’s series, The Adventures of Lily Lapp. Her interest in the Anabaptist cultures can be directly traced to her grandfather, who was raised in the Old Order German Baptist Brethren Church in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Suzanne is a Carol Award winner and a Christy Award finalist. She is a columnist for Christian Post and Cooking & Such magazines. She lives in California. For more information, please visit http://suzannewoodsfisher.com/ and connect with her on Twitter https://twitter.com/suzannewfisher. Get Amish proverbs delivered right to your mobile device! Download the Free App! http://bit.ly/10Tygyi

______________________________

SWEET TEXAS TEA …

There’s still time!! The Becky Wade/Julie Lessman “Fall in Love Texas Style” giveaway is in progress!! Win a KINDLE FIRE, GIFT BASKET, or SIGNED COPIES of their books PLUS join in on lots of FUN, CHATTER, HUNKY HEROES, EXCERPTS and RECIPES. Just click on the purple “Fall in Love … Texas Style Contest” link below and HAVE FUN!! 

FALL IN LOVE … TEXAS STYLE CONTEST

Deep down, I’m a Texas girl

looking for that big romance every girl dreams about.

— Renee Zellweger

Sweet Thunderation … do I have some TEXAS-sized fun for you!!

  Author Becky Wade (she’s up for a Rita Award this weekend!!) and I have teamed up for a TEXAS-sized giveaway guaranteed to sweeten your tea!!

Our “FALL IN LOVE … TEXAS STYLE” giveaway begins next MONDAY, JULY 22^nd and continues through the 31^st, so mark your calendars to visit both our websites for lots of prizes, fun, chatter, excerpts, and recipes!!

Did I say “prizes”??? You bet your Texas tea I did, people, and we’re talkin’ TEXAS-sized giveaways including a KINDLE FIRE loaded with both our books, a TEXAS GIFT BASKET with lots of Texas goodies and our books, and 2-PACK BOOK BUNDLES of both our books.

All you have to do is visit both my contest page here AND Becky’s Contest Page throughout the ten days for new postings per the schedule below. Then don’t forget to officially enter the contest by clicking on the Rafflecopter box at the very bottom of the page on either BECKY’S contest page or MINE or on our FACEBOOK event page. Winners will be announced here and on Becky’s contest page, so GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN!!

Here’s the schedule, so be sure to check back for all this fun!

•        July 22-24: Talkin’ Texas (Texas slang and book excerpts)
•        July 25-27: Hats Off to our Heroes (hero pics and romantic excerpts)
•        July 28-31: A Taste of Texas  (Texas recipes and food excerpts)

So, y’all come, ya hear?

Hugs and Happy Weekend!!

Julie