
I’m certainly between Days and between birds–Liz Crowe’s Blog Hop stops at the Journal today and Save a Turkey: Gobble a Book starts today. What else can I do but encourage to all to hop through both blogs–double your pleasure, double your fun–and prizes!
Today is my day to post on the In-Bewteen Days Blog Tour. And I’m so excited to tell you about my books, especially my newest release, All Wrapped Up: A Collection of Christmas
Love Stories, and my soon to be released (two weeks and counting) Almost Perfect from Decadent Publishing.
The Christmas Collection contains four short stories all revolving around Christmas traditions and love–with both contemporary and historical settings.
Almost Perfect sets two people who hate each other down on a beautiful deserted island alone–haven’t I heard this plot before? That’s what the heroine, Pam, would ask. And she should know, she’s the movie buff! In fact, she uses those movies as her survival blueprint! With a few twists and turns along the way, however, Almost
Perfect becomes the perfect vehicle for romance.
Blurb for Almost Perfect:
Pamela Kimball’s birthday present, a 1Night Stand adventure, promises to jump-start her life, put a new man in her bed, and help her forget her past. Unfortunately, movie-buff Pam’s Pirates of the Caribbean fantasy takes an alarming wrong turn when she’s abandoned on a not quite deserted island—with ex-husband Roger Ware.
Forced by hunger to accept Roger’s offer of dinner, Pam realizes the geek she married has transformed into one of the most charming, sexiest men she’s ever met. His newfound confidence—and hot body—re-kindles old fires. A simple kiss leads Roger to challenge her to discover how much his lovemaking skills have improved, leaving Pam torn between self-preservation and burning desire.
With time running out before they’re rescued, Pam must decide if her heart can survive the consequences of becoming Roger’s “almost” perfect one-night stand.
Excerpt for Almost Perfect:
She inched into the lapping surf, searching for movement. Reflection off the water made this task harder than expected. Wasn’t the Caribbean supposed to be teeming with fish? Now that’s something she’d had a lot of instruction in. Almost every marooned-on-an-island movie had a scene where the heroine learned to catch fish. Six Days, Father Goose, Blue Lagoon. All you needed was your hands and patience. She could do this.
Pam waded out further then stopped just before the water hit her now dry shorts. “Not gonna to have a damp crotch all night.” The words reminded her of exactly what she had hoped for tonight. “But not from wet shorts!” She headed back to shore to remove and drape them next to her shirt. The bandeau was a different story. Still damp, even after several hours, and uncomfortable. Might dry better if not next to her skin anyway. “Screw it! Live dangerously.”
Standing as good as naked on the deserted beach, Pam smiled as the warm breeze caressed her bare body. The sense of being slightly naughty added to her delight in the sensual feel of the air as it dried her breasts. Her nipples peaked as the wind cooled them. She strutted down to the water’s edge to sink her toes in the sand, the salty tang in the air adding to the perfect moment.
“If you’re skinny dipping, you forgot to remove one very important piece of clothing.”
Pam whirled around. Roger stood on the beach behind her, a green bottle of Perrier in one hand. His gaze played up and down her naked torso and his salacious grin widened. “Mind if I join you?”
Four short stories filled with romance at Christmas time.
The Present
A girl has to break the news to her sister’s boyfriend that he’s being dumped–on Christmas Eve– she finds herself a pawn for the boyfriend’s revenge.
Sing A Christmas Carol
A singing group’s decision to drop one member before the big carolling competition leads to an awkward situation.
The Kissing Tree
Two children discover a secret place on Christmas Day–with far-reaching effects.
‘Tis the Season
A Christmas dinner announcement shatters a young girl’s dream of a magical social season until a knight in shining armour proposes an alternate plan.
Like eating romance M&Ms.
Celinda Graham—young, naïve, passionate—is head-over-heels in love with Andrew Finley, Viscount Hurston and insists on marrying him. Unfortunately, Andrew’s family has been feuding with Celinda’s for generations. When her father refuses to allow the marriage, Andrew proposes a scandalous way to get his approval. But Andrew has a secret that may spell disaster to his plans if Celinda finds out he is not what he seems.
When Lula Wolfendale’s motorcycle breaks down on her way to a Harley rally, she detours into tiny Shoshone, CA to find a new ride. Seducing bikers Beau and Rob Hogue and commandeering their Harleys is easy; finding sexual satisfaction is a “hog” of a different color. A Blue Phantom, to be exact, owned by the pair’s older brother, Jesse. After brief, unsatisfying encounters with the first two Hogues, Lula approaches Jesse with a proposition: a sexual contest for his Phantom, where Lula will emerge with either a bike to die for or the climax of her dreams. Or can she possibly obtain both?
Now, the rules for the Save A Turkey: Gobble a Book Blog Hop are below:
Now, for my Contests/Giveaways:
For the In-Between Days Blog Hop: Subscribe to my blog and enter a comment telling me what your fantasy destination would be if you could go anywhere in the world for one night.
For the Save A Turkey: Gobble A Book Hop: Subscribe to my blog, Like me on Facebook and enter a comment telling me about your favorite Thanksgiving/holiday tradition.
Grand Prize: A $10.00 Gift Card to Amazon
1st Prize: Copies of all three of my published works–Heart of Deception, Hog Wild, and All Wrapped Up.
2nd Prize: A copy of your choice of any of my published works. (There will be multiple 2nd prize winners)
All winners will be announced on Tuesday, November 22.
Enter Both Giveaways and get two chances to win!
To get to the next stop on the blog:
For the In-Between Days Blog Hop Tour click the button in the column to the right to go to the linky list.
For the Save A Turkey: Gobble A Book Blog Hop Tour click the Turkey: 
HAVE A GREAT TURKEY DAY!










































well the hop is all most of the fun will e gn and then i cant wait till see the winners
desi the blonde@msn.com
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great give-a-way 🙂 I just love spending Turkey day with my two boys and wonderful Husband 🙂
Last year I had to work on Thanksgiving and I had to miss out but not this year!
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In-Between-Days Hop
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I would love to go to a romantic castle in Ireland near the water. Just sounds wonderful. Thanks for the giveaway!
geschumann at live dot com
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Ireland seems to be the romantic getaway of choice! And I certainly understand why having spent time there several years ago. A great romantic place indeed. Thanks, for hopping by!
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Save a Turkey Hop
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FB – Gloria Sell Schumann
I love watching the dog show with my kids. We’ve discovered it about 5 years ago & have insisted on watching since. Thanks for the giveaway!
geschumann at live dot com
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What a cool thing to do with your kids! Hope your favorite breed wins this year. 🙂 And good luck with the giveaway!
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For the Save a Turkey hop,
followed by email
FB: Sally Michele Shaw
I love Thanksgiving as a holiday because it is almost non-commercial and strictly about reflection of what we have to be thankful for and being with our family and friends. Traditionally, we watch the parade, watch the football game, enjoy the big family gathering at the grandparents, and a smaller gather later with friends.
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
sophiarose1816@gmail.com
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Sounds like a great family day you have planned. I’m getting antsy now, reading about everyone’s plans. Can’t wait for next week! Good luck in the contest, Sophia!
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Wow two hops for the price of one! Busy you. Thanks for participating and for the giveaway opportunity.
For the In between hop, I am signed up for your page. My get away destination would be Tuscan villa in Italy.
sophiarose1816@gmail.com
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I’ve actually looked at those on the internet. Wow! Gorgeous. I might not want to leave once I got there. 🙂
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Just stopping by. Got all the books and read them all.
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I think this is your subtle way of telling me to get off my butt and write another book for you to read. LOL And I’ll be glad to oblige you, Lindsay. 🙂
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It’s about time.
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For your double duty blog post, here is a double duty blog comment.
The common requirement of following your blog is met.
In-Between Days: Since this is a fantasy, I’m going to assume that travel time is not an issue & say I want to go to Australia. I’ve never been & unless I win an obscene amount of money somehow, I doubt I will ever get there any other way.
Save A Turkey: Have liked you on facebook & my favorite thanksgiving tradition is spending the day with my family, eating way too much wonderful food & then laying around the living room of whoever hosted that year, doing our beached whale impressions, while the older generations tell us stories about what they did when they were kids.
Thanks for the opportunity to win such fantastic prizes.
drainbamaged.gyzmo at gmail.com
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Great double duty comment, Kathryn! I particularly like the image of the after-dinner beached whale impressions. LOL Australia is on my bucket list and I don’t see me crossing it off any time soon either. But we can dream. 🙂 Good luck in the giveaway!
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Hi Jenna,
WOW 2 hops. I’m impressed! My fantasy destination is Megan’s Bay Beach on the island of St. Thomas. My aunt and cousins live there and when I was younger I got to go there. I was too young to enjoy the adult things to do there, but had a blast learning to surf as a teenager.
My family’s Holiday tradition is to come to my house for dinner. It used to be my grandmothers house til she passed. It then was my mom, (who has also passed). Now it’s my turn. I make a family dish that has been passed down thru the generations as far back as my great great grandmother. Everyone brings their appetite and we all stuff ourselves silly. Then we either watch a movie or play a game. Sometimes we do both. LOL
I’m an old follower (Nay Nay) and a friend on FB.
Thank you for the chance to win. I have Heart of Deception and Hog Wild already, so I’m looking forward to the chance to win All Wrapped Up and Almost Perfect. (I’m optimistic that I will win. he he)
reneebennett35 at yahoo dot com
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Hi, Renee! Glad you hopped back by. 🙂 St. Thomas has always sounded like a romantic paradise to me. Too bad I couldn’t have done some in-person research there for Almost Perfect! Bon Chance in the contest!
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My fantasy destination would be Greece. Just to feel the history of the place and to be surrounded by blue water. AHH!!!
My holiday tradition that I loved was Thanksgiving at my maternal grandmother’s. The food was fabulous and my mother and her siblings would sit around and tell us stories from their youths. I really miss that now.
koonie2888 at yahoo dot com
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Being a theatre buff Greece is definitely on my list of places to visit–ancient theatres, great food, and like you said, surrounded by gorgeous blue water. *Sigh* Your Thanksgiving sounds a lot like mine growing up. Thanks for stopping by and entering. :0
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great blog! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving. This year, I will be travelling to 3 different relatives’ houses–not my dream destination, though. My dream is always somewhere tropical(Caribbean!)
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Thanks for coming by, Mercuryval! Sounds like your Thanksgiving Day Hop is all planned! And the Caribbean is the ultimate fantasy destination! Like Jack Sparrow, I’d love to sit (and read) for three days on a beach drinking rum (and fruit juice)! Hope you enjoy the Blog Hop!
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Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for the great giveaways! I follow your blog and i liked you on fb- shadow kohler. I love thanksgiving, getting to see all of my family, eating yummy food, enjoy the togetherness!
My fantasy destination would be Eygpt. Id love to explore over there, Ireland comes in a close second. 😉
shadowluvs2read(at)gmail(dot)com
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My husband and I were fortunate enough to visit Egypt many years ago. Fabulous place–the people, the history, the food! But the 110 degree heat–not so fabulous. Even if it’s dry heat, it’s still heat! Thanks for stopping by, Shadow! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family also! 🙂
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Thanks for being part of the Blog Hop, have been finding lots of new authors and blogs to follow! 🙂 My fantasy destination would also be somewhere in Ireland or Scotland, stay in a little house by a cliffside, that would be my fantasy…
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I always think of the cottage from The Quiet Man–the perfect Irish thatched cottage. Great destination, Eva. Thanks for hopping through!
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First I want to wish you a blessed holiday season. Now I am going to have to check out the other blog hop – LOL So I will answer for both. Where would I want to be for one night would be on any beach lying on the sand with hubby making love to me all night long. LOL
For the thanksgiving tradition, my favorite is always cooking with my daughters for two days and drinking cocktails with them while we joke around. The feast we cook is always delicious with both turkey and ham, dressing of course and turkey gravy. But our favorites are sweet potatoe cassarole and country style greenbeans.
Ronda Tutt
mrsqueentutt@yahoo.com
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Based on your first answer, Ronda, I think you’re going to LOVE Almost Perfect! LOL And your description of your Thanksgiving feast has my mouth watering. Happy Holidays to you and your family and Happy Hopping to you!
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we put up the christmas tree thanksgiving night cause everyone is here to help do it . so its lot of fun
meandi09@yahoo.com
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That’s a great idea! I wish we could put ours up that early but we get a live tree and it would be long gone by the time Christmas came. LOL Thanks for hopping by, Jennifer!
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Great post! Almost Perfect looks great!!!
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Thanks, D’Ann! I hope you get to read it. There are no horses, but I think you’ll like it anyway. LOL
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Jenns is a new author for me and always looking for new books and authors to check out. I love the cover of the book Almost Perfect and would love to read that one. I love Thanksgiving. Since my husbands mom and grandma have passed away, we started hosting Thanksgiving at our house. It is crazy, busy and an all day event. I love doing it. I love making all the food. My favorite things about the holiday is planning the party and seeing everyone full and having fun. It used to be just my husbands family, now some of my family are coming, friends. Now anyone that comes is welcome. It is an all day eating event. We make tons of food.
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Sounds like your Thanksgiving is the old fashioned kind–food, family and fun. Wonderful images. I can smell pumpkin pie from here! LOL I hope you get a chance to read Almost Perfect, Chris. It’s a fun and sexy book–a great way to relax during the holidays. 🙂
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Great post, Jenna! You offer so much for a reader to love. Almost Perfect isn’t almost perfect, it is perfect! I’m sure it’ll be a best-seller. Good luck with the hop and the release!
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Thank you so much, Trish! I do hope people enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. 🙂 Your praise is truly appreciated. Can’t thank you enough for all your help.
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Great post! Great stories. For you people who have never read the beautiful prose of Jenna Jaxson – you are missing out. It’s like soft butter on warm bread. Mmm… And in my opinion she is one of the best literary kissers ever!
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Casea! You make me blush! Thank you for the vote of confidence. 🙂 I appreciate you more than you know.
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Great post…so many books to add to the to-buy and read list! OH MY!
Hmmmm fantasy destination would be a night in a historical hotel in the French Quarter, New Orleans…with the hubby but the kids can stay home hehe
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That description almost sounds like a 1Night Stand premise, Joanne. Hmmmm. and New Orleans is such a romantic place! Almost anything could happen there. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
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Nice Post Jenna THANKS For participating.
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Thank you, Liz, for arranging it! It’s been a blast and it ain’t over yet!
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Oh, I’ve been waiting for Almost Perfect for a while now. You’re pretty busy today. Happy Hopping! 🙂
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Thanks, Jessica. Yes, the wait is almost over. *big grin* I’m getting more and more excited. Thanks for “hopping” by. 🙂
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My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is getting together with family and friends! Too often with the busy lives we lead we don’t get together as much as we would like, but Thanksgiving is a day that my house is always full of people that I love!
iarvd@yahoo.com
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Being with the people you love is the best thing about Thanksgiving. It was the strongest tradition in my childhood, the only day in the year that we knew we would all sit down together. A lot to be thankful for. 🙂 Hope yours is wonderful angain this year.
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My fantasy destination would be a castle in Ireland or Scotland! Me and my hubby dream of one day being able to visit both of these countries!
iarvd@yahoo.com
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Ireland is my destination of choice too! And a castle stay sounds so romantic. I’d probably never want to leave! Thanks for sharing!
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