Thank you for all the well wishes on my two years of blogging! I really appreciate the thoughts, it makes the writing so much more fun to know there are people reading!
The winner of the celebratory giveaway is number 25 out of 41, which is
I’ll verify your e-mail address, and send out your prize!
Thank you to everyone that entered.
Yesterday, I reviewed Roxanne St. Claire’s book Edge of Sight. I liked it, but it sounds like everyone else who has read it loved it!
If you want to see for yourself, enter this giveaway.
Thanks to Hachette Book group, I’m giving away 3 copies of Edge of Sight!
Hachette Books/Grand Central Publishing are allowing me to pick 2 winners of this book.
Having an address (not a PO Box) in the US or Canada is a requirement. I’ll pick the winners on the evening of September 24, 2010. One winner per household– if you win on two blogs, please let one of us know, so we can pick a new winner (and thank you to all of my readers that already do this!)
So:
This giveaway ends November 19th.
Good luck!
Home Again is the second book in Mariah Stewart’s Chesapeake Diaries series. Having read the first and the second book, I think that this one really does stand alone, and it won’t diminish your enjoyment of either one if you read them out of order.
Unfortunately, reading the back cover might, so I need to come up with my own summary! (Click here for my full review)
Dallas MacGregor is a highly successful Hollywood actress– but that success didn’t carry over to her choice of husband. Luckily, the divorce was almost final before his latest creative endeavor, a sex tape with two young women, hit the Internet. It’s pretty clear that his interest in Dallas is only what she could do for his career, and his interest in their 6 year old son is non-existent.
Dallas returns to her childhood retreat and the one person that can really understand the pressures of Hollywood life– Her Great Aunt Berry, a Hollywood legend, and her estate in a small town.
Dallas begins to rebuild her life, and build a new life for her son, while she tries to figure out what role (if any) her childhood sweetheart will play.
If you want to know more, read an excerpt.
As part of the Home Again Blog Tour, I have one copy of Home Again available from Random House for a lucky winner!
Having an address (not a PO Box) in the US or Canada is a requirement. I’ll pick the winners on the evening of October 8, 2010.
So:
Good luck!
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could LoveI’m really more of a cat person than a dog person. Although I still really want a new kitten someday, I’m beginning to understand the charms of a sweet, well behaved dog.
When I was at BEA (Book Expo America) I saw this book, and the cover reached out and grabbed me. When I got home, it had the same effect on my daughter. I haven’t read it yet, but will soon– check back here for my review.
In 2002, Larry Levin and his twin sons, Dan and Noah, took their terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to have the beloved pet put to sleep. What would begin as a terrible day suddenly got brighter as the ugliest dog they had ever seen–one who was missing an ear and had half his face covered in scar tissue–ran up to them and captured their hearts. The dog had been used as bait for fighting dogs when he was just a few months old. He had been thrown in a cage and left to die until the police rescued him and the staff at Ardmore Animal Hospital saved his life. The Levins, whose sons are themselves adopted, were unable to resist Oogy’s charms, and decided to take him home.
Heartwarming and redemptive, OOGY is the story of the people who were determined to rescue this dog against all odds, and of the family who took him home, named him “Oogy” (an affectionate derivative of ugly), and made him one of their own.
Oogy will be in stores on October 12. If you win this giveaway, you may or may not have it in your hands by then, but it should be close!
Hachette Books/Grand Central Publishing are allowing me to pick 2 winners of this book.
Having an address (not a PO Box) in the US or Canada is a requirement. I’ll pick the winners on the evening of September 24, 2010. One winner per household– if you win on two blogs, please let one of us know, so we can pick a new winner (and thank you to all of my readers that already do this!)
So:
Good luck!
Warning, the story in this video is horribly sad.
Congratulations to the winners of Deadly Fear by Cynthia Eden!
Forever/Hachette allowed me to host a giveaway for 5 copies, and here are the lucky winners:
This book is part of the huge Sizzling Summer Nights 5 book giveaway ending on 9/1/2010, so go enter there if you didn’t win here (or if you did, but want to win some of the other fabulous books).
Thank you to Forever and thank you to everyone that entered– a particular thanks to those of you that provided a favorite contemporary romance to add to my list to explore. Some of these include
Some of these authors I know, some I don’t… yet!
Wicked Intentions is one very spicy romance!
The book is touring the blogosphere from August 2- 13, and is stopping here today.
To find out more about what I thought, read my review.
To learn more about the book, watch the trailer.
To win a copy to read yourself, follow the directions below!
As part of the blog tour, Forever/Hachette Books is allowing me to host a giveaway for 5 copies of Wicked Intentions.
Having an address (not a PO Box) in the US or Canada is a requirement. I’ll pick the winners on the evening of August 26, 2010.
So:
Good luck!
I’m not sure what season is best for steamy hot reads. Are they best suited to hot summer days where you’re already steaming, or cold winter nights when you need something to warm you up?
I’m not sure it matters, but this summer I’ve been reading more romances again (But not too many. Within my eclectic reading, I do go through phases. I’ve learned to spread out my reading, otherwise I’ll get tired of a genre, and I’m having too much fun to let that happen!).
I’ve read (and enjoyed) two of the books in this giveaway, so I jumped at the chance to share it with you. These two were very different (contemporary romantic suspense and historical romance), and the other 3 each have their own style. To Surrender to a Rogue and Deadly Fear both featured interesting characters, some very spicy scenes, and a readable plot to tie it all together. I’ll bet the other three do as well.
In this collection, we have:
Hachette Books/Forever are allowing me to pick 3 winners of this collection.
Having an address (not a PO Box) in the US or Canada is a requirement. I’ll pick the winners on the evening of September 1, 2010.
So:
Good luck!
Deadly Fear by Cynthia Eden (click for my review and a description of the book!) is here!
As part of the blog tour, Forever/Hachette Books is allowing me to host a giveaway for 5 copies of Deadly Fear.
Having an address (not a PO Box) in the US or Canada is a requirement. I’ll pick the winners on the evening of August 20, 2010.
So:
Good luck!
Edited to add this link to my review of The Disappearing Spoon.
I’m currently reading an absolutely amazing book. The full title is The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, and that title isn’t a bad summary of the book. Here’s a little more information, from the Hachette Book Group website:
The Periodic Table is one of man’s crowning scientific achievements. But it’s also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues’ wives when she’d invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history?
From the Big Bang to the end of time, it’s all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.
I’m a science nerd, or at least I used to be, so this book called to me from the moment I heard about it. It hasn’t disappointed me from either a science or a storytelling perspective.
I’ll post a review when I finish reading, but for now:
Hachette Books is allowing me to host a giveaway for 2 copies of The Disappearing Spoon. Thank you!
Having an address (not a PO Box) in the US or Canada is a requirement. I’ll pick the winners on the evening of August 12.
So:
Good luck!
Hachette Books is allowing me to host a giveaway for 5 copies of To Surrender To a Rogue, which I reviewed today.
Having an address (not a PO Box) in the US or Canada is a requirement. I’ll pick the winners on the evening of July 7.
So:
Good luck!
Both this giveaway and my review are part of a blog tour. Thank you to Hachette Books/Forever Romance for providing me with a review copy and allowing me to participate. Check out the other tour stops!
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