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Sunday, December 16, 2012

2012 BBLR Hunk Jimmy Thomas

                     JIMMY THOMAS

     International Cover Model / Entrepreneur

Jimmy Thomas, cover model, and creator/owner of the first and only romance novel profile networking website www.RomanceNovelCenter.com (RNC) and the first romance novel stock image website www.RomanceNovelCovers.com (RNC).

Currently on 4068 romance novel covers; more covers than anyone in history (Fabio's on about 230) . He produces and direct all his RNC photo shoots, as well as personally select all the images for it to give the romance novel industry what they want and need for cover images. From shooting every genre, look, theme, feeling, pose and expression, while personally choosing his female co-models, photographers, wardrobe, locations, settings and props, to coming up with the ideas of what poses, what theme and what styles, then personally selecting the most marketable images from each set within each shoot, then cleaning, editing and cropping all those selected images myself, where he then uploads them to his RNC stock image website for you to download and use either 'as is', or to alter as you see fit to produce the novel cover art, website design, banner art, trading cards, promotional material, novel trailer stills, etc., that you desire.


For self-publishing authors, feel free to select your own images from RNC for your covers, or look through his posted Pre-Made Covers on RNC that are already graphically designed and just need your book title and your name sent to him to put it on your new book (font is already chosen along with the design of the book).

So now you know he's real and he answers all his emails and comments personally, He also do many interviews, so don't be shy on contacting him, as responses are given as soon as possible.


 10 FUN FACTS ABOUT JIMMY

1.) I was hit by a train while a passenger in a car and walked away with just bruises.
2.) I was the Key Designer on patented, low-income homes made out of retired shipping containers that the 'Afghanistan World Foundation' want to use for their 'Rebuilding Afghanistan' project (see final credits):http://www.afghanistanworldfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=162:awf-announces-housing-project-initiative&catid=1:press&Itemid=98
3.) I've left my body.
4.) I haven't worked a 9 to 5 job since the mid 90's.
5.) I only need to workout twice a week to maintain my physique.
6.) I wept like a baby during the movie 'My Girl' back in 1991 when the little girl 'Vada' finally came downstairs and into Macaulay Culkin's wake (then again, so did everyone else in the entire movie theater ;)):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFr3BkrjGhU
7.) The 1st book I ever read was 'Old Man and the Sea' in middle school. The 2nd book was 'Jurassic Park' (1993) and thought it would make the best movie! Two weeks later the previews for the movie came out.
8.) I only sleep about 5 hours. This has been my entire life, and because I sleep in a DEEP sleep, which allows me to get the proper rest needed compared to most who toss and turn all night, who wake up from common sounds, while I'll sleep sound in a tent outside during a category 5 hurricane 
9.) My father's birthday (January 8th) is the same as Elvis Presley's birthday and my mother's birthday (May 24th) is the same as his wife, Priscilla Presley's birthday.
10.) My birthday (March 15th) is the same as Fabio's birthday... but NOT the same year 

Featured Author Patricia Watters:

Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Patricia Watters gave up the glamour and pageantry of the city, and now writes novels from a hand-built log house nestled in the evergreen forests of Oregon. An author with Harlequin and Avon-Harper Collins in the past, and a long-time member of Romance Writers of America, Patricia specializes in romance, and she invites you to visit her website and drop her a line. She responds to all notes, but please allow a couple of weeks for her to do so. 

 Visit Patricia Watters at: www.patriciawattersromances.com


BOOK 1: JUSTIFIED DECEPTION
Ruth Crawford's on a quest to find and reclaim her daughter, who was kidnapped four years before. Ruth's private investigator is all but certain that ranch owner, Matt Kincaid's, adopted daughter Annie is Ruth's own little Beth. But Matt's the maverick in a powerful family of lawyers and politicians, so even though Ruth manages to land the job as nanny to Matt's willful, six-year-old daughter, she must tread carefully. She can't predict what Matt or his family might do if the adoption is challenged. However, Ruth's carefully laid plans go awry when she finds herself falling in love with the man who might have stolen her child.


Featured Author Paige Tyler:

Paige Tyler is a full-time, multi-published, award-winning writer of erotic romance. She and her research assistant (otherwise known as her husband!) live on the beautiful Florida coast with their easy going dog and their lazy, I-refuse-to-get-off-the-couch-for-anything-but-food cat. When not working on her latest book, Paige enjoys reading, jogging, doing Pilates, going to the beach, watching Pro football, and vacationing with her husband at Disney. She loves writing about strong, sexy, alpha males and the feisty, independent women who fall for them. From verbal foreplay to sexual heat, her wickedly hot stories of romance, adventure, passion and true love will bring a blush to your cheeks and leave you breathlessly panting for more!

Visit Paige Tyler at: paigetylerofficial.com


Book Blurb: SADIE AND HER COWBOY
When a ruthless cattle baron is determined to do anything to get his hands on Sadie Buchanan's ranch, including running off her ranch hands and killing her cattle, she hires the infamous gunslinger Jake Wagner to protect her property. Despite the fact that they butt heads right from the start, Sadie is helplessly drawn to the ruggedly handsome cowboy, even when he warms her bottom repeatedly for her willful and sometimes reckless behavior. But all the cards are put on the table when Sadie bets the cattle baron that she, Jake and her small band of cowpokes can get more cattle to market than anyone in their right mind would attempt. It's all or nothing for Sadie, her ranch and the dangerous cowboy she's fallen for hard. 





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13 comments:

  1. my fav part of the holidays is the big holiday dinner with family - regnod(at)yahoo(d0t)com

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  2. Spending time with family :)
    Making Cookies with my daughters
    Happy Holidays
    BeckeyWhiteATgmailDOTcom

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  3. Hi Jenni-

    Thanks for featuring me today with Jimmy. Jimmy's images are on eleven of my covers. What I found unusual about using Jimmy's image is that he looks like different men in different images, depending on pose and lighting, so the heroes on the 6 covers in my Dancing Moon Ranch series actually look like different men. Two of the heroes are identical twins, which helps, and the others are sons, which explains some similarities, but the only one who is not related really doesn't look like Jimmy. I'm my own cover artist so I can cut and paste and merge images as I need to. Like Jimmy, I also sleep only five hours a night and have been doing that for as far back as I can remember. There just aren't enough hours in the day otherwise. Here's hoping everyone has a joyful Christmas.

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  4. Patricia, thank you so much for joining us. It is a pleasure having you here along with Jimmy. Say, what is that interesting picture you have as your avatar? Looks like some kind if dome.

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  5. Hello, thanks for the giveaway! I love everything about the Christmas holiday!

    skizzles_22_hju@yahoo.com

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  6. Yep, that's a dome all right. My gmail address is for my one and only non-fiction book, which is entitled "The Biodome Garden Book." It's about a doomed, passive solar greenhouse I designed and developed in the 1980s. The book's been so successful that I have a backlog of almost 200 people who now want a dome for the circular bases they're prepared to build if they can locate a dome, which they won't because there are no 16' fiberglass domes on the market. So now I'm manufacturing those, along with fiberglass fish tanks, biofilters and circular vegetable rings. It's all on my other website at www.biodomegarden.com if there are any organic food nuts like me among your bloggers.

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  7. my favorite part of the holidays is the 2 weeks I get off with pay!

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  8. Patricia, So that's how you get hunky men on your covers! And, what a cool way to cross-promote by using your biodome book cover for your avatar. I've so much to learn from you!

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  9. Judith, thanks for the compliment, but it's out of necessity that my biodome avatar's used here, and the fact that I'm a rank amateur at this blogging thing. At least I'm not responding as Anonymous today, like I did on your blog. Ugh! I'm learning.

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  10. Jimmy Thomas is my fav cover model..yum ! He is also really nice also.

    I adore Paige's books ! Enjoyed the post :)


    Merry Christmas !
    ~Kym
    flwrs4ever(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  11. I'm waiting to see a new dome go up on your property, Pat. And congratulations on your ability to design covers from similar images and make them different.

    Barb

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  12. I recognize Jimmy on a cover in a heartbeat. Websites, too. He definitely is the most popular cover model. :)

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  13. MAKING BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES WITH FAMILY ,LOVE ONES & NEW PEOPLE:D! I WILL N JOY & TREASURE 4 EVER:D((sigh))! thanQ
    redz041@yahoo.com

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