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November shines the Spotlight on Love Inspired, and we're doing it up in style. Here are a few things you can look forward to this month.

First, if you haven't started reading yet, we have a great online read by Margaret Daley, called Shattered Trust. A bit of trivia for you- this is Margaret's FIRST online read for us. Those of you who've been on the boards a while know that Margaret is one of our longtime members and we just adore her. So please stop by, lend your support, and let her know just how much we appreciate her.

Second, starting November 9th, and going through November 24th, we're having a Thanksgiving Blessings and Traditions discussion. Because the heart of Love Inspired books is all about faith and family, we're sharing this special holiday with our online family. We hope you'll join us and share your traditions as well. And who knows, maybe you'll find a special new tradition of your own to incorporate into your celebrations.

eHarlequin.com and the eHarlequin eBook Store are getting into the Paranormal spirit, too, with a great sale! From now until October 31st, you can save 35% on paranormal romance and fantasy novels in the Moonlight Madness sale. Snap up books by favorite authors like Gena Showalter, Rachel Vincent, Jennifer Armintrout, Heather Graham, P.C. Cast, and more… or you could try something new like a paranormal Blaze or Spice book.

And pssst…come back on Monday to play our Nocturne Hangman game on the Hosty Hot Spot forum and WIN book prizes!

Jayne

Love to dress up for Halloween? Let your imagination fly and you can win a great prize!

eBook retailer Omnilit, Silhouette Nocturne Bites and Sony are co-sponsoring an online Halloween Costume Contest — with a grand prize of a silver Sony Pocket Edition Reader (one of their new eBook reader designs, worth $199!).  Other prizes include Omnilit $50 gift certificates for the Prettiest, Scariest, and Sexiest costumes!

Love to dress up for Halloween? Let your imagination fly and you can win a great prize!

eBook retailer Omnilit, Silhouette Nocturne Bites and Sony
are co-sponsoring an online Halloween Costume Contest — with a grand prize of a silver Sony Pocket Edition Reader (one of their new eBook reader designs, worth $199!).  Other prizes include Omnilit $50 gift certificates for the Prettiest, Scariest, and Sexiest costumes!

Our 60th Anniversary just keeps getting better!

Harlequin has teamed up with Flower Pot Press to release a line of tantalizing paper products, including journals, notepads, and address books that capture the allure of our early Harlequin novels.  Cover art from sixty years of satisfying readers with daring adventures, psychological intrigue, and steamy romance will adorn products to capture your secrets or even your to-do lists...and more! This particular line will display some of our most memorable cover art from the 1940s and 50s and feature products in the Harlequin Notables line ranging in price from $8 to $15.

We all have temptations that we can't resist. For some it's as harmless as a piece of chocolate cake, for others it's as risky as a romp in public. Some of us give into temptation, others resist. What do you do?

Can you be tempted to share?

Harlequin would like to invite you to participate in our exciting Romance Report online survey and Tempted Forum. Your contributions will help shape the content of our Report which will be filled with results, tips and advice from the experts, the hottest celebrities and more! We want to hear about the people, places and things that tempt you most. Participate in the Romance Report online survey and your contributions will help shape our upcoming Report.

Click here to take the survey and tell us what you find the most Tempting!

Jayne

Remember that tomorrow,  Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 11am EDT / 4pm GMT / 8am PDT is our live editor chat with Harlequin Presents editor Joanne Grant about the Harlequin Presents Writing Competition! Joanne will be taking questions and telling us everything she's looking for in the line. You could join the ranks of previous winners Lynn Raye Harris whose debut novel, SPANISH MAGNATE, RED-HOT REVENGE, is coming out in 2009 from Harlequin Presents and Lucy King who sold her novel Damsel in Distress to Modern Heat. This will be a live event held in the eHarlequin.com Community chat room — click here to get there when the times comes!

Bring your questions (just remember it’s a protocol chat — you alert the moderator that you have a question and she will tell you when it’s our turn to ask) or just follow along! I will be live-blogging on   Harlequin Twitter using the hash tag #presentschat as well and we will post the transcript sometime on our Community pages afterwards.

Do you ever wonder what you’d say to an author if you had the chance to discuss each chapter of her story with her WHILE you’re reading her work? Wonder no longer! In the eHarlequin.com Community we have a tradition of inviting our Online Read authors to visit while the chapters of their stories are published in our Daily, Weekly and Special Event program on the Online Read section of the website.

These discussions have not only provided our aspiring authors with a great opportunity to learn how to craft a serialized story in a shorter format, they’ve given our authors a wonderful forum to discuss motivation, characterization and plotting…not to mention hot heroes, crafty villains and feisty heroines! In fact on a couple of occasions our Community’s love of a secondary character in an online read, has resulted in a spin off story!

Every year, Harlequin honors women who make a difference in their communities through their selfless dedication to a chosen cause.  We also understand the power of stories and their potential to move and inspire people.  The More Than Words program and our philanthropic strategy aims to enhance the well-being of women, and to support those causes that are meaningful to them.  The More Than Words annual anthology is a collection of stories by 5 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors that honor the recipients of our annual More Than Words awards, the stories in turn are inspired by the accomplishments of these real -life heroines.

Our fifth annual More Than Words anthology is on the shelves now, but we need your help finding candidates for next year's book.  We are soliciting nominations of ordinary women who have made extraordinary contributions to their communities. Five women will be chosen as award recipients, and Harlequin will make a donation of $10,000 to their chosen causes. Their stories will be published and shared with our readers, with proceeds from the book being reinvested in Harlequin's charitable initiatives.

We're having another book club meeting and YOU are invited.  Comment for a chance to have Maria V. Snyder respond to your questions on her brand new Glass series starting with Book One, Storm Glass and then come back the week of August 3rd to discuss and get a preview of Sea Glass. Also Maria is running a CONTEST (see below)  Correctly answer the 20 questions for a signed book plate and your name will be entered into a draw to win a signed copy of the first book in the Glass series (hint:  all answers can be found by reading Storm Glass)  I'm also throwing in a coveted (highly) Harlequin Anniversary tote bag to a name picked randomly from your comments below that will include a signed copy of Sea Glass.  Just send the answers to Maria with your mailing address, and she'll send you the book plate/label.