Kindle for the Holidays Week 6

It’s the final week to enter my Kindle for the Holidays contest! Make sure you get your entries in before 12pm PST on December 10, 2011! I have the brand new Kindle 3G Touch sitting on my desk for one lucky winner. Thank you to everyone who’s participated so far – this has been so much fun. Congrats to Corrina and Ashley, the week 4 and week 5 winners.

The question this week comes from my upcoming February release, “A Waltz at Midnight“, and the weekly prize is a $25 gift card to DecalGirl so you can snazz up your phone, laptop, MP3 player, or maybe even a brand new Kindle.

Question: What does Susanna plan on doing with the money she earns from Charlotte for writing the letters?

Answer can be found here.

If you are new the contest, you can got through and answer all the previous questions for entries into the grand prize drawing. The complete rules of the contest and all the details can be found here. Remember, all your entries need to be in before 12pm PST on Saturday, December 10th, to be entered into both the weekly prize drawing and the grand prize drawing. Thanks, and Good Luck!!

Kindle for the Holidays Week 5

The complete rules of the contest and all the details can be found here.

The question this week comes from the third book in the Kavanaugh Foundation series, Kiss of Temptation, and the weekly prize is a $20 gift card to Barnes and Noble.

Question: What important information about the Staff of Octavius does the stranger share with Daniela?

Answer can be found here.

Remember, you can answer the question any time before December 10th to be entered into the grand prize drawing for the Kindle Touch 3G, but only those correct responses received before noon on Decemeber 4th will be entered into the weekly prize drawing. Thanks, and Good Luck!!

Kindle for Holidays Week 4

Wow! We’re halfway into the contest, and I love the fact we’ve already had three winners. The Week 3 winner was Nancy G.

The complete rules of the contest and all the details can be found here.

The question this week comes from the second book in the Kavanaugh Foundation series, Angelic Surrender, and the weekly prize is a $15 gift card to Amazon.

Question: What does Will do to all the pictures in Anjali’s apartment?

Answer can be found here.

Remember, you can answer the question any time before December 10th to be entered into the grand prize drawing for the Kindle Touch 3G, but only those correct responses received before noon on November 27th will be entered into the weekly prize drawing. Thanks, and Good Luck!!

Kindle for the Holidays Week 3

I’m amazed at how many people have entered! Thank you!! Congrats to last week’s winner, Angel G.!

I have 8 bonus questions available in my Holiday Newsletter that will be going out over the weekend, so if you haven’t signed up for it yet, that’s 13 more entries you’re missing out on (5 for signing up and 8 for the bonus questions).

The complete rules of the contest and all the details can be found here.

The Question for Week 2 comes from my Historical Paranormal Romance, The Alchemy of Desire. The prize this week is a $15 eGC to B&N.

Question: What does Diah offer Oni as a deposit for her guide services?

Clue: Answer can be found here.

Remember, you can answer the question any time before December 10th to be entered into the grand prize drawing for the Kindle Touch 3G, but only those correct responses received before noon on November 20th will be entered into the weekly prize drawing. If you’re new to the contest, you can answer previous week’s questions for entries into the grand prize drawing. Thanks, and Good Luck!!

Kindle for the Holidays Week 2

Wow!! Week 1 was awesome! Thank you to everyone who’s entered so far.

The winner of the Week 1 prize was Gigi S. Congrats!!

Remember, the complete rules and all the details can be found here.

The Question for Week 2 comes from my latest release, The Tears of Elios. The prize this week is a $10 eGC to Amazon.

Question: What is the name of Gregor’s dog?

Clue: Answer can be found here.

Remember, you can answer the question any time before December 10th to be entered into the grand prize drawing for the Kindle Touch 3G, but only those correct responses received before noon on November 13th will be entered into the weekly prize drawing. Thanks, and Good Luck!!

Kindle for the Holidays Week 1

That’s right — I’m giving away a BRAND NEW KINDLE TOUCH 3G for the holidays. For all the fine print, go to this page on my website.

Remember, there’s no purchase necessary to enter. Each week, I’ll post a question from one of my titles and even give you a clue where to find the answer. Only correct answers get entered into the final drawing. Please use my contact form to send me the answer. All correct answers sent to me from today until 12pm PST on Sunday, November 6, will also be entered into a weekly drawing for a $10 B&N giftcard.

Since it’s Halloween, I decided to pick a question from my sexy ghost story, “Provoking the Spirit“.

Question: What does the ghost break in the front parlor?

Clue: Answer can be found here.

Remember, you can get one extra entry a week by retweeting about my contest and using the hashtag #CristasKindle.

Book Giveaway

The Tears of Elios

by Crista McHugh

Giveaway ends October 05, 2011.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

New Cover and Updates!

Sorry I’ve been away for while. Between work and moving, I haven’t had much time to blog. I’ve been updating my website, though, so check it out when you get a chance — lots of new stuff for readers.

I finally get to show off the cover for my upcoming release, The Tears of Elios. Kim at Hot Damn Designs made it. Here’s the blurb:

Shape-shifters’ Rule #1: Don’t let the humans know you still exist.

Rule #2: If a human finds out about you, silence them.

Some rules were meant to be broken…

Ranealya ruthlessly plays by the rules and has outlived most of her race because of it. If she wants to survive, she’ll have to stick to them, especially with a genocidal tyrant hell-bent on destroying all the non-humans in the realm. But everything falls apart when a human saves her life.

Gregor knows he’s inviting trouble when he helps a wounded shape-shifter, but he can’t pass up the opportunity to study one before they become extinct. She disturbs the quiet order of his scholarly existence, vexes him in more ways than he can count, and encourages him to break enough of the kingdom’s laws so that not even being the king’s cousin will save his head. The problem is, he’s already lost his heart.

Coming October 2011 to Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and other E-book retailers.

Print Edition to follow.

Blog Tour and New Releases

To celebrate the release of my Steampunk Western, The Alchemy of Desire (previously titled, Once in a Coyote Moon), I’ll be doing a short blog tour. Please stop by and say hi to win a few prizes.I’ll be at the following locations:

April 25: Fresh Fiction (win a $10 GC)
April 26: Steamed (win a free copy or a $10 GC)
April 27: Carina Press (win a $25 GC to Lush)
April 29: Teresa D’Amario’s Blog (win a free copy)
April 29: Harlequin Blog (win a $10 eGC)

The Alchemy of Desire goes on sale tomorrow, so grab a copy! It’s available at Carina Press, Amazon, B&N, and other ebook retailers.

Blurb: After winning the Civil War against the Confederate Wielders, the Union Machinists have outlawed magic to usher in a new age of steam-powered technology. Diah, an alchemist and the only non-wielder in his family, owes his brother for saving his life in the war; so when Cager is blackmailed into procuring the magical hide of the White Buffalo, Diah accompanies him to the Dakota territory.

Their guide is Oni, a half-Lakota woman with plenty of secrets to hide. She’s a magic wielder with an illegal wand concealed in her knife—and she’s a coyote shifter. To her people, killing the White Buffalo is not only sacrilege, it’s dangerous. Oni has no intention of helping them actually achieve their mission—until she falls in love with Diah…

Also, I re-released Cat’s Eyes. You can find it at All Romance Ebooks, Amazon, B&N, and Smashwords for $0.99.

Blurb: Andy Rodriguez has always desired his partner, Emily Hawkins, but the memory of his former lover’s murder five years ago still haunts him. Em doesn’t know he’s a shapeshifter, and he has no plans to drag her into his world where a war between true shifters and werewolves constantly wages. All that changes the night a werewolf attacks Em.

Lastly, my free read is live! You can read it on my website, or download it from All Romance Ebooks (free), Smashwords (free), B&N ($0.99), or Amazon ($0.99).

Blurb: Espe enjoys the naughty games of hide-and-seek she plays with Greg. Not only does he satisfy her kink for having sex in public places along the Las Vegas Strip, but he also is a no-strings attached lover. Vampire hunters are strictly forbidden from forming serious relationships, so when Greg asks for something more, she’s not sure if she can break his heart, especially since the thought has crossed her mind more than she cares to admit. Before she can give him an answer, their liaison is interrupted by a vampire, and Espe is forced to choose between her dreams and her desires.

This is a short story that takes place between books 1 and 3 of the Kavanaugh Foundation series.

New Covers

I have some great new covers to share!

The first one is for my upcoming Samhain release, Kiss of Temptation. It’s the third book in my Kavanaugh Foundation series:

Then I had a cover made for the free read I’ll be posting around May 1st. It features Espe and Greg, two minor characters from Heart of a Huntress, and takes place between books #1 and #3:

Lastly, I got the rights back on Cat’s Eyes. I was going to use it as a jumping point for a new project, but since I’ve gotten a couple of requests for it after it went out of print, I decided to go ahead and self-pub it. I’m working on the formatting now, and I hope to have up soon for $0.99 (at least for the first few months). Here’s the new cover: