It Really is Hotter in Texas

Winners!  Winners!!  Here are the list of winners for yesterday's contest:

The winners of a copy of Lori Wilde's book Kiss the Bride are:  Sara S.  Alison, Linda, Chrissy Atkins and Traveler. 

The winners of the Blame it on Texas ARC  are:  Alostpen9uin and Tina Hoelzl. 

To claim your prize, send an email to me at Christie (at) Christie-Craig (dot) com.   Please let me know if you want a print copy or an e-book copy of the book.

Mega congrats to all the winners!

CC

Contest! Contest! Today two people will win ARCs of Blame it on Texas and five will receive copies of Lori Wilde’s Kiss the Bride, which is a rerelease of two of her fabulous Wedding Veil Wishes novels.            

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Well, it's getting hotter in Texas. And a lot of that heat isn't coming from Mother Nature this time—though, Lord knows, it can be a real scorcher in June around here. But nope. It's not the weather that's sizzling. This heat is totally different. You see, I've been working on the book video for my Hotter in Texas humorous romantic suspense series that releases through Grand Central/Forever. Book two is Blame it on Texas, which is Tyler and Zoe's story and will make you laugh and sigh; it also features a secondary romance that will melt your heart between Rick and Ellen. The book will be out August 28th and I wanted to do something special to celebrate the series as a whole. Then it hit me . . . why not get R.M. Brand, who did such an awesome job on the video for my Shadow Falls YA paranormal series that I write as C.C. Hunter for St. Martin's Press/Griffin, to do a book video about the series. So I did, and I gave her all of the info about the series and how the main heroes and heroines looked. Rosa did the rest.

Only problem, she needed me to sort through the photos and pick out the ones to use in the video.

Now, Hubby volunteered, but there are just some things a writer's gotta do by herself.

Especially when it comes to choosing hunks to represent my sexy-as-sin heroes.

So, that's what I've been doing—picking out pictures of my hunky heroes to use in the video. And believe me, picking out the right pictures of Dallas, Tyler and Austin is hard, sweaty work. Why, the other night, I probably spent three hours peering at my monitor with beads of sweat prickling my forehead, just trying to pick out the perfect pair of six-pack abs for Rosa to use. Now, I'm talking abs so ripped, I needed to turn up the a/c a few degrees to cool down. Then I had to choose the perfect pair of shoulders—strong, muscular shoulders just perfect for resting a girl's weary head against. Okay. I admit it freely. I love a good pair of shoulders on a man. (Just ask Hubby. It's one of the first things I noticed about him back when we were dating.) Oh, and eyes. Eyes are so important to a hero, too. The color doesn't matter so much, though. They can be anything from a seductive brown to a smoldering green or maybe even a sizzling blue or a knee-weakening hazel. What's important is how he uses those eyes. I'm talking deep, penetrating gazes that can see into a woman's soul . . . and make her bra fall off.

And I had to pick out the women whose bras would fall off, too. For some reason, those didn’t take nearly as long to find. LOL.

Now, I tried to explain all of this to Rosa when she was gathering together the photos for me to review. I must have gotten a little carried away because Rosa sent me photos of guys so hot, I swear smoke was pouring out of my monitor at one point. Hey, my books are sexy, but they're also suspenseful, filled with emotion and laugh-out-loud funny; and those models were just flat-out promising things that I couldn't deliver in my books. Well, I deliver, but in small doses. So, it took us a while to find the right pictures but I think all those hours we spent working on this were worth it.

And I hope you'll agree.

I've posted the video below. Oh, yeah. You might want to turn up the a/c a little before you click Play. Just to be safe.

So, what did you think about the video for my Hotter in Texas trilogy from Grand Central/Forever? Did it whet your appetite for Blame it on Texas? If so, hit the comments section and tell me what you think. I'm giving away two ARCs (Advanced Reading Copies) of Blame it on Texas to two lucky commenters.

And because my friend and Lori Wilde, who just happens to write a pretty hot hero as well, just had two of her Wedding Veil Wishes stories, rolled into one book, and rereleased, I decided to give away five copies of her book as well. That means, today seven people will win. So make sure you leave a comment.

Good luck!

C.C.