December 2015 - Elisabeth Staab

19 Dec

#ChristmasTreats Blog Hop Giveaway

What are our favorite Christmas Treats? Books, of course! Stop by each blog for a chance to win fabulous books & gifties for the Holidays!

(Want double the giveaways? Check out my upcoming release, BY THE RULES, and enter the cover-reveal giveaway!)

So. Favorite holiday things. It occurred to me that I don’t really have a favorite holiday romance – I think the last one I read was All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann, which was excellent by the way. I love Christmas movies – my favorites are all the remakes of A Christmas Carol, specifically Scrooged and A Muppet Christmas Carol.

Mostly I’m boring over the holidays because when I’m not cooking and and frantically screaming HOLY SHIT I FORGOT TO <fill in the blank with all of the things> I’m writing or I’m hanging out with my kids. Holiday time is prime catch up on work time for me because when hubs is off work I can buckle down and squeeze in as much writing / working time as I can. Right now I’m getting ARCs ready for my upcoming m/m NA novel, BY THE RULES – you can check it out plus an excerpt and giveaway in the By the Rules giveaway post.

When I squeeze in fun reading time at the holidays, I’m usually catching up on things I’ve been meaning to read but hadn’t gotten around to. Right now I’m reading Pent Up by my friend Damon Suede, and Elanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (I just finished her LGBT YA fantasy novel, Carry On, which I LOVED sososomuch).

My kiddos love that Penguins of Madagascar short where the penguins go to the big city to rescue their friend. My husband isn’t much into books or movies but he has the jazzy Xmas music playing 24/7 pretty much starting December first. So tell me – what are your favorite holiday books/movies/things on your wishlist? What have you read lately that’s good?

Since I know we ALL want to get ourselves more books (even I do, and I’ve got hundreds more than I have time to read), I’m giving away a B&N gift card for this hop, and some swag. So you can go out and get yourself something pretty and bookish. 😉 Happy reading, and happy holidays!!

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Be sure to visit the other folks who are taking part in the hop:

By the Rules Cover Reveal and #giveaway

By Elisabeth General December 10, 2015 14 comments

Look, Ma! I wrote a book with boys kissing! Okay, maybe my mom shouldn’t look (she doesn’t actually read any of my books, because of the kissing – it’s cool). The rest of you though, you should totally look, because this cover is pretty damn awesome and so is the book.

Photo by Michael Stokes – Cover Design by Babski Creative Studios – Model: Brad Greiner

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BY THE RULES is book 3 in my Evergreen Grove new adult series. I got so many requests for AJ’s story, and I had to write about my snarky, former male escort. I hope you all will love AJ and Hayden as much as I do.

Now, a little info about BY THE RULES:

He thinks I want him because of the rumors around town. Because I think he’s easy. I want AJ, because he’s AJ.

No liars. No suits. Absolutely no straight guys…

AJ Fabin’s list of rules keeps him safe. Since getting kicked out of his parents’ home and attacked by a former escorting client, his rules and his life in the tiny town of Evergreen Grove provide a quiet haven. He may be lonely, and he may stick out like a sore thumb, but the folks like him well enough. When he’s not dodging his old pimp, things are peaceful.

Hayden Price is having a quarter-life crisis. Engaged to a woman he can’t connect to and working a job he secretly hates, he comes to Evergreen Grove to help his mother through a health scare. Returning to his childhood home makes Hayden reevaluate a lot of things, including himself. When he meets AJ and finds he can’t stand the mouthy jerk—almost as much as he can’t stop thinking about him—he has a lot more to change than his career.

To be together, they’ll both have to break all of their rules.

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GIVEAWAY!

To celebrate and help spread the world about BY THE RULES’s upcoming release, I’m giving away a fun mystery bundle! The bundle will include one signed book of mine for sure, some swag, and possibly some cool stuff I’ve picked up from other authors. It’ll be a surprise!

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Furiously Happy Giveaway Winner

By Elisabeth General Giveaways December 4, 2015 0 comments

Hey – sorry to be late in posting this! I’m always late with blog posts though, so I’m sure we’ll persevere. The winner of my Furiously Happy #Thankful4u giveaway is Amanda W! Thank you so much for entering the giveaway.

Everyone else, you can check out Jenny Lawson and her books at her blog and pretty much everywhere books are sold these days.

A little light, a little dark, a lot of heat.

Monthly Archives: December 2015

#ChristmasTreats Blog Hop Giveaway

By the Rules Cover Reveal and #giveaway

Furiously Happy Giveaway Winner