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Australia Day Book Giveaway

1/25/2014

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Welcome to my Australia Day, long weekend book giveaway & blog hop.
To celebrate our glorious country and some of our truly fabulous home grown authors, my author buddies and I have put our heads and our books together to give you some magic prizes.
To go into the draw to win my eBook - Lost in Kakadu -  just pop into my comments and tell me what you'll be drinking on Australia Day. I know I'll be sitting in my friends spa (We call it the crab pot because once you get in, you're unlikely to get out) and I'll no doubt drink my share of Sauvignon Blanc. 
After you've entered my giveaway, make sure you follow the link at the bottom of this post for more chances to win! Its all FREE, FREE, FREE - so what are you waiting for?
I have another AMAZING Australia Day giveaway on offer too, so while you're here why not check it out too.  Just scroll down to my "What an Aussie means to me," below. 3 books on offer there, plus a $100- Gift Card and much much more.

Don't forget to hop around all the other Australian's celebrating with me. Lots of freebies on offer:  Australia Day Book'd Out Giveaway Blog Hop
Don't forget to leave a comment below to go into the draw...
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What being an Aussie means to me. Blog Hop and Giveaway

1/25/2014

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I am so grateful my parents took that horrific 8 week boat trip out from England to immigrate to
Australia when I was just 4 years old. Because although I have travelled extensively - some 36 countries and counting, I know I live in the best place in the world. When I dream up my stories Australia always has a special place in my novels.
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My latest book - Lost in Kakadu - is romantic suspense set in Australia’s Kakadu National Park. Kakadu is some 20,000 square kilometers of rugged Australian bush and it’s as beautiful as it is brutal. The scenery changes from lush overgrown rainforest, to open savannah, to crocodile infested swamps. The sunsets are the work of our greatest artist and the thunderstorms can rattle your bones. 

I did many crazy things while researching this book. I hiked for days in the sweltering
Australian bush, ate witchetty grubs that I dug from my garden, made slingshots with my bra’s, sat in the pouring rain and many other things that had my family assessing my sanity.

Lost in Kakadu is a survival story that will  also challenge your expectations of what a romance should be.
I’m proud to call Australia home. And almost everywhere I’ve travelled I’ve heard our great Australian mantra: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi Oi Oi.
Want to win a FREE copy of my eBook - Lost in Kakadu? 
Simply make a comment below on what was the most disgusting thing you've eaten and why.  Three lucky winners will be chosen at random on 29th of January - Good luck.
See below for more great prizes: $100 gift card and 26 books up for grabs
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Lost In Kakadu.
Crashing into an ancient Australian wilderness is pretentious socialite Abigail Mulholland’s worst nightmare. She survives the accident with two complete strangers, however things go from bad to downright hellish when rescuers never come. As she battles to live in an environment that’s as brutal as it is beautiful, Abigail finds herself also fighting her unlikely attraction to Mackenzie--a much younger man. A man she’s willing to change for.

Mackenzie Steel is devastated by his partner’s death in the crash, the only person with whom he shared his painful past. Now, as he confronts his own demons, he finds he has a new battle on his  hands: his growing feelings for Abigail, a woman who's as frustratingly naïve as she is funny.

Fate brought them together, but they’ll need more than luck to escape Kakadu alive.  Could the letters of a dead man hold the key to their survival?
My book costs less than a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and is available at: Amazon, Booktopia, Google  Play, Kobo, Itunes

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I'm so excited to announce  Lost In Kakadu is a finalist in the Australian Romance Readers Awards (ARRA) 2013: Are you an ARRA member? Voting open now.  Giddy up...
Best Romantic Suspense for 2013
Best Book Cover for 2013
Best New Author of 2013 
I am also truly honoured to have been nominated as Australia's Favourite Novelist of 2013.  I would love it if you could vote for me via the Booktopia Blog. Voting starts 13th Jan 2014.
Thank you Australia.
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Want to go in the draw to win $100- and 26 books in both Ebook and print. Of course you do.  Check out all the other blogs below for more chances at great prizes too.

COMPETITION CLOSED - Thank you for participating
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Check out my funny Hunky Hero tips I blog occasionally.
Here are some other secret bits and pieces about Lost in Kakadu. Check out my book trailer but warning - I write books better than I produce movies.
Don't forget to comment above to go into the draw to win a FREE copy of Lost in Kakadu...
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Hunky Hero - Doctors Beyond Borders

1/16/2014

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Doctors Beyond Borders
By Georgie Tyler

My hero is a doctor who is working for MSF in Sudan. He’s cute, has floppy, overgrown bronzy locks, lips you want fused to your own and is an adventure seeker who can rough it with the best of them. Not that unique huh? Well, my Ford (or should I say Ariadne’s Ford?) has an endearing quality that many bachelors don’t, he can hold a baby
comfortably in his arms without the baby screaming blue murder or looking like he’s holding a dirty big rat a metre away from his body. Now men with a couple of kids, they’re old hands, feeding and tossing their kids over their shoulders and throwing them in the air, but when you see a bachelor take a babe into his arms and the child doesn’t scream it’s little lungs out, well that’s quite something. But before I insert a very short excerpt from my book with Ford holding a babe, I have a funny story I’d like to share with you. Shortly after giving birth to my first baby, my husbands best friend who was a bachelor at the time asked me if he could borrow my pride and joy and my two dogs and take a walk along the promenade at the beach because he had heard that babies and animals were a good way to pull the chicks! Well, I can tell you it never happened and he had to find another way that didn’t include my newborn and pups to entice the chicky babes! I can still see the shock and then disappointment on his face when I said no. What did he expect? 

But I digress.  Here’s the snippet from Doctors Beyond Borders:

With her hands in her pockets, she strolled over. The faces that turned to her as she approached smiled, and the people fell away to let her through. 
 
Ford was standing by a trestle table flanked by women on either side, holding a tiny child in his arms. The baby’s large skull rested on his forearms, and his big, round eyes stared up at Ford as he was fed intravenously. Ariadne’s heart swelled. Ford cradled the baby, like the crook of his arm was made to hold the fragile bundle. He gently lowered the child into the mother’s arms and she stepped away into a corner where she sat, cross-legged, holding him. 

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She's about to find out that nothing is fair when it comes to war except perhaps, the healing power of love.
When Ariadne Tate takes a deployment to Sudan with a medical aid organisation, romance is the last thing on her mind...but Dr Ford Gosden puts a glitch in her plans. Too damn attractive for his own good and a thoroughly nice guy, Ford slowly seeps under Ariadne's skin.

But Sudan is not a stable place to form a relationship, and as political tension escalates in the region, Ariadne has no choice but to focus on her job and her safety. Under the protection of a UN convoy, she heads out into the war-torn countryside — and the unthinkable happens. Captured and held hostage by a renegade with no chance of escape, Ariadne's hope for a new life with the man she loves begins to fade and the fight for her life begins.

Author Links:
http://www.georgietyler.com


Purchase: Doctors Beyond Borders
Amazon (Kindle)
Itunes (iBooks)
Barnes & Nobel (Nook)
Kobo
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The A.B.C Award

1/2/2014

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My lovely yet crazy author friend Noelle Clark has bestowed upon me this award.  I can't decide if she is being nice or mean. The rules may be a simple as ABC but I'm not sure the answers will be.  Here are the rules:
1.    Display the logo and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2.    Nominate some other blogs.
3.    Work through the alphabet writing one word or phrase about yourself or things you like or associate with yourself, that begins A...B....C....  All 26 of them.

So here goes:
A: Adventurous - yep that's me to a T. I love experiences that make me scream.
B: Books - not a day goes by when I don't read.
C: Cheese and Chocolate - not usually together.
D: Dean - my wonderful husband.
E: Explorer - I love a good adventure. Egypt - my favourite exotic holiday.
F: Family and friends - they mean everything to me.
G: Girlfriends - I'd be lost without my girlfriends. We share all our ups and downs usually over wine.
H: Happy - I'm a glass half full kinda girl. Actually if it's wine then fill it up baby.
I: Interesting - with the crazy life I lead, I like to think my friends and family find me interesting. 
J: Journey - because life is about the journey - not always the destination.
K: Kids - I'm so very proud of my two sons.
L: Love - I've been with my real life hero for 28 years and couldn't imagine life without him.
M: Madness - I'm an author and with all the characters running around my head I could be a little nuts
O: Opportunity - I don't like to let a chance go by.
P: Passion - 'cause that's how I roll.
Q: Quest for knowledge - the day I stop learning is the day I start fading.
R: Romance - I love it, so I write about it. I think I'm lucky to believe in it.
S: Sunset's - with my hubby, oh, and Sauv Blanc and Swiss cheese. 
T: Travel - I always have a holiday on the horizon. Europe here we come.
U: Uninterested in TV - Hardly ever watch TV, but love a great movie.
V: Visionary - I'm a goal setter. My bucket list has 101 things on it. I have 68 to go.
W: Wine and writing - sometimes at the same time.
X: X-rated movies are not my thing. Much prefer a great storyline.
Y: Youthful - sometimes I'm just a big kid.
Z: Zeal - That's how I approach my life. It's too short to waste even a day.

So now I bestow this award to:

1) The wonderful, fantabulous author Sarah Belle
2) The incredibly talented Juliet Madison 
3) The effervescent Tania Joyce
4) The exciting new author Darry Fraser
5) The stylish and sophisticated J'Aimee Brooker

And linking back to the person who nominated me:  Noelle Clark
Thank you
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Hunky Hero - In Safe Arms

1/2/2014

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In Safe Arms
By Lee Christine

Nate Hunter is a detective with the Sydney Gang Squad. Tall, dark and handsome, he’s naturally athletic, buff in an unpumped kind of way—and he’s deep undercover with a Sydney bikie gang. Patient, strategic and with an innate sense of justice, he’s determined to  protect the community, get the drugs off the street and bring down the
‘overseer’, the Mr. Big of Sydney’s underworld. With the club name ‘Bolt’, Nate poses as a mechanic by day and lock picker by night, while covertly gathering information about the bikies’ money laundering activities, and the man behind it all.

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When the world believes you dead, who do you turn to?
 
Amidst the escalating violence of Sydney's underworld, legal secretary, Josephine Valenti,
witnesses the murder of a notorious bikie president on Skype. With her safety compromised, Josie flees, only to be kidnapped by Nate Hunter, a bikie, a man radically changed from the one she lusted after two years ago.
 
Drawn deeper into a conflict of warring bikies, drugs, money laundering and prostitution, Josie is forced to make choices she could never have imagined. Enveloped in a cauldron of corruption, she fights for survival, for the truth, and ultimately for the man who still has hold of her heart.

“In Safe Arms” is the second novel in Lee Christine’s Grace and Poole Lawyers series.

Author Links:
Website:
www.leechristine.com.au
Buy In Safe Arms here:
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