TJ Michaels

Hey all! This year we’re doing something a bit ‘bigger’ for the Brenda Novak Diabetes Research charity auction. In addition to a Nook, a group of awesome authors have graciously donated a ton of signed books to my basket. The winner will receive everything in the picture below, and then some!

Please spread the word. We want to raise more money for this cause than we did last year, as well as show these authors that we love their work. If you are unable to bid, pass the word to your friends, coworkers and relatives. They may know someone that would love to get their hands on this awesome basket.

Big thanks to NYT and national bestselling authors Lauren Dane, Richelle Mead, Shelli Stevens, Meljean Brook and Lacy Danes for donating to this worthy cause.

To bid, visit Brenda Novak’s auction HERE.

To pass the link to a friend, the item is listed here:

http://brendanovak.auctionanything.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2104698

Have a fabulous weekend!

TJ

Thanks to Mizz Mandi over at Smexybooks (follow her at @smexybooks on Twitter), I am hopelessly hooked on this danged series.

My first Karen Moning book EVER was Darkfever, the first book in the Fever series. After tearing through each novel, I’m excited to see Shadowfever, the conclusion of the series, to get all my questions answered. At the same time I’m sad to see Barrons, Mac and all their friends (and enemies) leave the stage.

To celebrate the end of our nail biting, er, I mean the end of the series, I’m joining forces with Smexybooks - we’re giving away two hardcover copies of Shadowfever! Just visit Smexy and join in on the Dreamfever discussion (<--- click here) for a chance to win.

Starts at 9:00am (Eastern Time) on Thursday, 01-13-2011
End at noon on Friday, 01-14-2011
Mandi will post the names of the winners right after the contest ends.

Release day is coming up fast, so if you're announced as a winner, PROVIDE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS - (NO P.O. BOXES) to me via e-mail as soon as humanly possible so we can get your order scheduled to ship as soon as the release drops!

NOTE: U.S. and CANADA only due to customs issues with shipping.

Have fun and good luck!

Stay to the light!

TJ

Congratulations to the winners of the Christmas Goodies Twitter contest! I put all of the entries into a list randomizer from www.random.org (see results below) and selected the top four as our winners. So winners are:

janastocks – Tempting Adam & Dangerous Grounds by Shelli Stevens
rissatoo – Dragon Witch & Night Huntress by Yasmine Galenorn
Selestial – Happy Hour of the Damned & Road Trip of the Living Dead by Mark Henry
crista_mchugh – Undercover & Relentless by Lauren Dane

E-mail me your mailing address to tj@tjmichaels.com by tomorrow, Thursday, December 17th by 5:00pm. No exceptions.

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For each author mentioned in this contest I’ll be giving away two books from one of their popular series, including:

Lauren Dane’s Federation Chronicles, Mark Henry’s Amanda Feral series, Shelli Steven’s Seattle Steam series and Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of the Moon series!

This contest will only run for two days – December 15 and 16, but I’ll be giving away lots of books in that short time. After announcing on Twitter and here on my website, I must have ALL winner responses (basically name and address for shipping) by 5:00pm Pacific time on December 17th in order to get your prize to you by Christmas.

Here’s how to play – simply retweet the announcements on Twitter (www.twitter.com/tj_michaels) with the name of the authors whose books I am giving away and you’ll be automatically entered. Please enter only once for each author (if you are interested in books from only one author, only retweet with that author’s name. If you’re interested in them all, you may retweet once for each author. Hope that makes sense ;D). Your name will go into a random name picker and that’s it!

Good luck all! And Merry Christmas!

Over at the Raven Happy Hour! Authors, Michelle Pillow and Mandy Roth (aka The Shoe Maven) are hosting a ha-yuge contest this month – The Raven Halloween Hunt! I’m a bit late advertising but here’s the info:

There’s a ridiculous number of prizes. Be sure to join in the fun. Can’t win if you don’t play.

Also, I’ll be blogging regularly over at The Raven along with a slew of awesome authors. I’m up on the 4th Tuesday of each month so be sure to stop by.

You know, I’d never paid much attention to Diabetes…until I was diagnosed with it during Christmas of 2007. What a present, eh?

I felt fine. No symptoms other than I kept gaining weight no matter how well I ate, how much I walked or exercised. So I decided to go in for a typical routine physical. The doctor called me back into the office a week later to tell me the tests had come back. And that I was just “over the line” enough in my blood work to be a diabetic.

It didn’t make a damn bit of sense. I wasn’t overweight (not by much anyway *smile*). Ate pretty healthy. However, I had allowed myself to totally stress, and I mean stress, over my job for a whole year, getting very little sleep, few days off, and hardly any exercise. And even though we all know stress does all kinds of nasty things to our bodies and causes the secretion of nasty hormones.

It took me a year of keeping my stress to a minimum, taking a blood-sugar control medicine and making my already pretty good diet even better. I went into the doctors office about six months later and received some good news. My blood tests came back non-diabetic. YAY!!

So I shared all that to say I really, really support what Brenda Novak is doing with her auction fundraiser for diabetes. And it is my fervent hope that you’ll participate, too.

So you’re probably wondering who the ‘us’ in the title of the post refers to. Click on the banner, hop over to the auction and take a look at what some of your favorite authors, editors, agents and publishers are doing this year.

HATS OFF TO YOU, BRENDA!!!

I am so glad to announce the winners of the Holiday Hotties contest! First let me say thank you to all the people who played. We received almost 100 entries this year and I already look forward to doing it again next year!

Now, this is important – WINNERS YOU HAVE TEN DAYS TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. Send me your preferred eBook format (for those who won eBooks) and your physical mailing address as soon as possible.

Sooooo…here’s who won:

Third Place: Lexee Toste
Prize from: TJ Michaels – Gift Wrap Optional Promo Pack

Second Place: Cathy MacDonald
Prizes from: Rhianna Samuels – Copy of eBook ‘Shaking off the Dust’ (any format)
Desiree Holt – A special gift from the author
Mechele Armstrong – Promo Pack and T-shirt

And the GRAND PRIZE goes to….Kimberley A. Sutton!
Prizes from: Shelley Munro – Copy of eBook ‘Tea for Two’ (any format)
Taige Crenshaw – Copy of eBook ‘Carnal Awakening’ in PDF
Kelly Jamieson – Copy of book ‘Sex Bombs’ and bookmarks
Anna Papadacos – Copy of eBook ‘Where Dreams Are Made’ (any format)
B.J. McCall – Copy of eBook ‘Santa Six’ in PDF
Adele Dubois – Basket of seashells for home decor
Sharon Cullen- Copy of eBook ‘Redemption’ (any format)
Natasha Moore – Copy of eBook, Author choice (any format)

Congratulations to all and Merry Christmas to you!

TJ
www.tjmichaels.com

Thank you to all who joined us at the Holiday Hottie chat on December 19th. It was a load of fun. And now, HOLIDAY HOTTIES is done! The two grand prize winners will be announced on Monday, December 22, 2008. Stay tuned!

I’m giving books this year which, believe it or not, is something I’ve never done. If you’re doing the same here are some links to make it easier.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

TJ
www.tjmichaels.com