Winners – excitement – celebrating – and thanks to the fabulous readers!

Posted on 4 November 2013 by Linn

Angels Among Us series Ceri It’s time to announce the winners in the Falling (Angels Among Us #1) launch competition!

There were 3 prizes, but because of the number of entries received there are now 5 winners! I was so thrilled at the response and would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter. If you didn’t win I will be announcing a new competition to celebrate the launch of Forbidden (Angels Among Us #2) very soon!

1st Prize – Emma P (ecopies of the complete series)
2nd Prize – Ana (goody bag)
3rd Prize – All B (goody bag)
4th Prize – Kat (ecopy of Falling)
4th Prize – Toni (ecopy of Falling)

I will be contacting the winners today!

Every new writer has to go through a tremendous learning (and growing) curve. It often feels like an apprenticeship and mistakes will be made, lessons will be learnt. What has come as a real surprise to me is the wonderful way readers take you to their heart! People who follow and support you, cheering you on as each new book is launched. I’m celebrating today as the fabulous HarperImpulse have set up Forbidden and Forever on Amazon and so parts 2 and 3 of the Angels Among Us are now available for pre-order! A reader emailed me to ask if I knew all THREE were ‘up’ and did I know they were both in the UK charts?? It was a ‘whoop’ moment and sincere thanks to those who were so quick off the mark in placing an order! I did laugh though, can anyone spot the spelling mistake on the Amazon website?

http://mybook.to/ForbiddenAngelsAmongUs

Angels best sellers pre order

The next couple of months are going to be a busy time for me personally (we hope to be moving house) and also wearing my author’s hat (two promotions for the Angels Among Us series and a Winter Warmers promotion for The Restaurant @ The Mill).

However, I wanted to take a moment to stop, take a breath and just ‘count my blessings’. Every time someone downloads one of my books it’s one more reason to keep writing. Whenever (and often that’s at 3am when I’m typing away because my mind is too full of a story to sleep) I start to doubt whether I have what it takes to become a really successful writer, I look at the wonderful reviews readers and book bloggers have posted. YOU keep ME writing and without readers I would be doing something else … the problem is, I don’t quite know what! All I know is that I really appreciate having the luxury of being able to write and I am very aware that it’s only possible because of a very supportive husband, writing friends and fabulous readers!

Thank you balloons

Ceri’s journey: Angels…sending gifts to some fab winners!

Posted on 1 August 2013 by Linn

After a fabulous launch party on FB, Ceri’s journey: Angels has received some wonderful reviews and it’s thanks to the amazing people who joined in to celebrate!

Amazon Reviews

I would like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who dropped by, posted a comment and Tweeted/RT’d #cerisangels – it was hard to keep up with you all!

Here is the list of winners:

JB Johnston (most frequent participant) – Willow Tree Angel
Erin Missick (best angel story) – Glass Angel

Winners (drawn from a hat by Bill – aged 3 – thanks Bill!):

Michele Turner – Rainbow Maker
Petra Rovere – Crystal pendant
Heidi – Key ring
Janice Horton – Key ring
Joanna Gawn – Key ring
Katie Phillips – Key ring
Kim Nash – Key ring
Carol Wright – Key ring
Sue Fortin – Key ring

Congratulations to the winners, please send me your full address to lbhalton@googlemail.com, I can get those gifts sent off!

Here is a reminder of the prizes:

Celebrating the good things in life…and sharing

Posted on 30 June 20135 July 2013 by Linn

Saturday, July 6th over at LLm – Loveahappending Lifestyle magazine, as well as here, I will be formally launching Ceri’s journey: Angels, part one in this series of three novellas. Ceri’s story is a psychic romance about two people who fall in love, but are not destined to be together.

I want to celebrate the positive things in life – the times when someone has been there to pick us up at a time when we were in need. And I’m sprinkling that angel dust all around… after a shopping spree I chose some little gifts to mark this event and one lucky person will win their own ‘Willow Tree Angel‘. There are ten other momentos on offer to anyone joining in and commenting over the launch period (scroll down to see all 11 gifts) – which will end on Sunday July 14th.

Anyone who leaves a comment either on this page, over at the FB party HQ (see link below), or on the LLm official launch post up to midnight on Sunday July 14th, will have a chance of winnin.below. Alternative simply Tweet or RT using the hashtag:

#cerisangels

The names of everyone who posts a comment or using the hashtag in a Tweet, will be put into a hat. The winners will be drawn by three-year-old Bill…I figure he’s impartial and he’ll have some fun!

Read Chapter 1 here

Find out what some amazing book reviewers have to say here

and find out a little more about the research that went into this series, over at the

Romantic Novelists’ Association Blog

Scroll down to see all the prizes and here’s the link to the FB party – join and you’ll get to check out the fun. I’ll be posting about some of the research I carried out for this series and sharing some thought-provoking snippets. I hope some of you will share you own ‘thank you’ moments too!

https://www.facebook.com/events/211276729026028/