HARD AND FAST by Lisa Renee Jones - and a CONTEST!!

I have followed the writing career of Lisa Renee Jones http://www.lisareneejones.com/ almost from the very beginning. Many of the first ebooks I devoured were Lisa's and I'm thrilled to have witnessed her career skyrocket. HARD AND FAST is Lisa's first Blaze and is now available - here's the back cover blurb:

For Amanda Wright—new reporter on the pro baseball block—this rule is harder to keep than she had thought. Especially with the team's star pitcher, gorgeous Brad Rogers, sending signals her libido can't possibly miss. How can she indulge her craving for Brad and still prove she can play with the big-league journalists?
From their first illicit kiss, their private ball games lead to delicious pleasure. Then she discovers Brad is hiding a big secret that could make her career—or blow his. And suddenly she has to choose: the best story of her life… or the best sex!

I've read HARD AND FAST and adored it - Lisa has written characters who are intelligent, caring and sensitive, both with very definite ideas about what they want for themselves, now and into the future. Neither is looking for love, and isn't that always when it hits you the hardest? Fun baseball scenes and locker room talk are excellently incorporated into this book and it will especially make for fun summer reading while you watch the boys of summer on television! Add all of that together with an abundance of deliciously passionate romance and you have a beautifully crafted love story - a home run, so to speak!
Lisa has an exciting incentive for readers who buy HARD AND FAST - if you contact her lisarenjones@aol.com about submitting your sales receipt, from either brick and mortar stores or online stores, she will in return send you either an EC print book or a Secrets volume (maybe some other goodies as well) as a thank you. How great is that?? Please keep in mind that first week sales are extremely important to an author, so act fast and get your own copy.
Lisa is very generously offering an autographed copy of HARD AND FAST and I'm offering an unsigned copy as well, right here! Many of you already know that my contests are very simple and always easy (tell me I didn't just hear someone say "just like her" lol) You comment here that you're interested in winning a book and you're entered. Invite a friend to visit and when they also express an interest in winning and they're entered - if they mention that you sent them over, you'll get a second entry. The more friends who mention your name, the more times you'll be entered to win.
I'll draw the names of the two winners on Monday, August 6th at approximately 9:00 p.m. (Eastern).
I hope you'll check out HARD AND FAST as well as Lisa's upcoming releases, EXCLUSIVE, an anthology with Eden Bradley and Jaci Burton, releasing in September '07 from Berkley Heat and her Silhouette Nocturne, THE BEAST WITHIN, available in November '07. I would ask that you keep in mind that THE BEAST WITHIN is NOT a western historical, something Lisa fears readers may think after seeing the cowboy on the cover.
Thanks so much for stopping by - click the link below to take a quick trip to Amazon to order your copy of HARD AND FAST!
Laurie
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Harlequin-Blaze-Renee-Jones/dp/037379343X/ref=sr_1_1/104-1683269-9826358?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185974497&sr=1-1