Wow – what a great month we had over at the Island!  First of all, to celebrate our first year in cyber space, we gave a book away every single day in July – the post office loved me!  And to top it off, we gave away not one, but TWO grand prizes of A BOOK A WEEK FOR A YEAR!!  Cathie Morton of Buffalo, New York and Becky Cruz of Valley Grande, Alabama were our two very lucky readers and they both were thrilled to death, let me tell you!! 

Cathie won just for being signed up to receive our newsletter and Becky sent in this wonderful response to the question, “What do you think of AuthorIsland.com?”  She said, “I just want to let you know how much I enjoy this site!  If I could choose an island to be stranded on, Author Island would be it!!  I read all types of books: romance, suspense, thriller and almost everything in between.  Author Island is the perfect place for someone with reading tastes like mine.  You cover every genre of books and I can always find out what’s going on with my favorite authors while finding new ones.  Thanks for creating such a great site.”

Thank you, Becky for your wonderful support and for stopping by!

We received hundreds of entries for this BIG CONTEST and all the comments were so sweet and every one of them was special – I wish I could have had hundreds of prizes to giveaway, but keep entering!  There are new chances to win prizes on Author Island every day.

For instance, this month we are spotlighting WOMEN OF MYSTERY with great contests from Shirley Tallman, author of the Sarah Woolson Mysteries; Brenda Novak, winner of the AuthorIsland.com Book of the Year; Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of The Boston Globe Bestseller, PRIME TIME; Michele Scott who writes The Wine Lover’s Mystery Series and the Horse Lover’s Mystery Series; Barbara Colley, author of The Squeaky Clean Charlotte LaRue Mysteries; Christine Poulson and her Cambridge Mysteries; Susan McBride, author of the Debutante Dropout Mysteries; Christina Skye with her CODE NAME: BIKINI novel; Kit Frazier and her new release DEAD COPY; Joan Lock, author of The Inspector Best Series; Deb Baker and her Dolls to Die For Mystery; Mariah Stewart; Lois Winston; Christiane Heggan and Kasey Michaels. 

Thanks so much ladies!!

Next month, we’ll focus on Fantasy and Paranormal will be in the spotlight the month after that, so be sure to check those out and if you’re an author of Fantasy or Paranormal, please think about sending us some books – the more we get, the more we can give away!!

There are a ton of other contests going on right now too besides our Women of Mystery spotlight.  We have prizes from authors Debbie Macomber, Rosemary Laurey, Jacki Bentley, Sandy Lender, Barrie Abalard, Catherine Stang, Pauline Baird Jones, DL Edwards, Sandy Patsy, Debbie Conrad, Linda Conrad, Cheryl Kaye Tardif, The Destination Romance Girls, Nikki Arana, Amey Tippett, Julia London, Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy, Dee S. Knight, Saralee Etter and Michelle Levigne. 

All in all, there are over 50 chances to win prizes over at AuthorIsland right now!  And more contests are being added every day!!  To be kept up to date when new contests are added – sign up for our newsletter.

Just when I think we can’t possible beat our record number of hits from the month before, I’m astonished and amazed when I take a look at our stats.  We had over a half a million hits in July alone!!!  I can’t believe it!  And we are on pace to snap that new record easily for the month of August – Thank you, thank you, thank you! 

And the sure way to keep those numbers up is by growing – and that we did.  In July, three authors made AuthorIsland.com their new cyber home.  Dani Harper joins us as she celebrates her first paranormal novel, HEART OF THE WINTER WOLF.  Sandy Patsy is promoting her controversial journal-of-sorts chronicling her intimate and most passionate moments in POWER OF PUSSY.  And Donna McAteer is celebrating her historical releases HANDSOME DEVIL and HEARTLESS WARRIOR.  Welcome ladies and thanks for hanging with us at the Island!

If you’re an author and you’d like to join us, contact me for a special AuthorScene discount!

Enjoy what’s left of summer and here’s to another record-breaking month over at AuthorIsland.com!  Expect great things!