The FRAGILE Edition…
So how do you win this one?
That’s easy…you take the pic below and post it to your blog.
(You can grab it from photobucket if you like… )
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b160/shilohwalker/fragile-65-1.jpg
Then you take the excerpt below (including the read more link) …and post it to your blog.
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Sometimes the last thing you want is exactly what you need…
“Okay, you wanna be literal? Devon, are you avoiding me?”
Damn, where in the hell is an interruption when you need one? she thought irritably. A sardonic little voice in her head said, Chicken. To that voice, Devon thought back, Damn right.
She’d meant it when she told Luke Rafferty he was a complication she didn’t need in her life. She’d meant it even though she wished she wasn’t such a fricking coward. Devon just didn’t know if she was ready to handle the ups and downs that came with anything more than a casual friendship. Casual friendships–that was all she had. And it was damn lonely, too.
Then you need to do something about it.
Before she could talk herself out of it, she looked Luke square in the eye and said, “Yeah, I’ve been dodging you.”
He blinked, a little taken aback by her honest response. “Do I take that to mean you changed your mind?” he asked, his gray eyes narrowing on her face.
“I don’t know. Yes. No–” Devon blew out a breath, feeling like a fool. And a coward. Damn it, she liked this guy. He was funny, he made her smile and the way he was with kids just totally melted her heart. But she was too much a coward to do anything about it. Shuffling her feet, she shoved her hands into the pockets of her blazer and said, “Yes, I’d changed my mind. Then I changed it back. Right now I’m kind of caught in the in between.”
Luke reached up, brushed a strand of her hair away from her face. His hand lingered and Devon could have sworn electricity jumped between them, just from that simple touch. He felt it, too. She could see it in the way his eyes darkened, the way he hissed in a breath. His body changed, too, tensing and from the corner of her eyes, she could see his other hand close into a fist. The hand that had brushed her hair back from her face slid backward, curving around her neck.
“We really shouldn’t keep ignoring this, Devon. It’s not going away.”
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Then you email yours truly (contest4shiloh(at)gmail.com)and let me know you did it. Or you can a link here in this post. Only requirements for this contest is that you do the above, and that your blog be established and you well…post on it regularly. Established meaning you had it up and going prior to the date of this contest, posting on it regularly means just that…as long as you post on it a couple times a week, that’s all I require. Contest runs now thru the end of February.
Prizes will include:
- two signed books from my backlist (books released prior to 6/08)
- a GC to the bookstore (online or major chains only please) of your choice
- a goody bag.
Disclaimer…same old stuff, please only enter once, even if you have twenty blogs, you have to let me know that you posted it, winner will be posted here, prizes to be mailed 4-6 weeks after the end of the contest…blah blah blah…if you’re not familiar with my contests, you might want to read my disclaimer.
Yes, myspace blogs are fine. Yes, I’ll ship out of the country, but it will take a little bit longer to ship the prizes and I may swap out the goody bag for a different prize. Hope you can understand, but just one flat-rate priority envelope costs close to $15.00 and anything heavier can be close to double.
So lets see if we can get FRAGILE to do as well as THE MISSING did…