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Christo Here!

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Hey, I’m Christo.

Anne has given me free rein with her blog for the rest of the month so she can take care of her mother and so I can talk about my book and Natalie and give you a chance to win three great books (mine, of course, being one of them) in the 4th annual Here Come The Grooms contest.

So let’s get business out of the way and then we can talk.

Business:

What the contest is: a chance for you to win a copy of Anne’s book about me and Nat and also books from Kate Walker and Liz Fielding. That’s a pretty good deal, if you ask me.
What you have to do: go to all of their websites to find the answers to three questions. Answer them in an email to each of us — three answers in each email. That means you find all three answers and send them to Kate, to Liz and to Anne. Then sit back and wait.
When the contest starts: now
When the contest ends: March 1st the winners will be announced. So get your answers in before that.

One entry per person, please, at each email address, which gives you three chances to win if you send all three of them an email. Also a pretty good deal.

KAL’S QUESTION (from Her Desert Dream): Of which literary character did Kal remind Lydia? (apart from Prince Charming!)
CHRISTO’S QUESTION (From One-Night Mistress, Convenient Wife by Anne McAllister)

Why is Natalie staying at her mother’s house?
NIKOS’S QUESTION (From The Konstantos Marriage Demand by Kate Walker)

What name did Sadie use so that Nikos would not know his 10 o’clock appointment was her?

Good luck!

Okay? If you have any questions that I didn’t answer, email Anne or Kate or Liz.
Don’t ask me.

I’m just the hero of a book. I don’t know anything about the contest beyond what I’ve just told you.

So, business is out of the way, yes?

Now we can talk . . .

Got questions about the book or me and Nat — I can answer those. And I’ll be back soon to tell you more about how this all got started between Nat and me. She scared my socks off, if you want to know the truth.

Talk about temptation. . .

But I don’t want to get ahead of myself. So for now I’ll just say, have a happy Valentine’s Day.

Nat and I are celebrating the birth of a very special someone who has made this the best Valentine’s Day ever. I’ll tell you about him later, too.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Well, it’s that time of year again!

I wish you and your beloved the happiest of valentine’s days. Me and mine are having cake with our 86 year old neighbor to celebrate. Also taking flowers to my mother who is in transition from the hospital to wherever she goes after she gets out of skilled nursing.

I’m going to be busy over the next couple of weeks because of that and because Sol, my youngest grandson, is coming to visit! He’s bringing his parents, too, but he’s the main attraction, as you might imagine. He’ll turn 8 months while he’s here and he’s on the verge of crawling.

As the physical therapists I’ve been talking to ad nauseum lately say, “He has all the motions.” Yes, but does he put them together? Not yet, my son says with a sigh of relief. But it’s coming. And it may be here by the time he is. So I’m scrambling to make sure the house is baby-proof again.

So it’s a really good thing that it’s also time for the 4th annual (can you believe it?) Here Come The Grooms contest that Liz Fielding, Kate Walker and I have been doing every February since 2007.

Liz has kept track. Kate and I know just that we’ve been doing it for a lot of years.

And so later today Christo Savas will be taking over my blog for the next couple of weeks while I deal with other stuff.

Christo, you may recall, is the hero of One-Night Mistress. . . . Convenient Wife. He’s a charming guy — for a lawyer — and he’s absolutely one of the most honorable men I’ve ever written about. He’s also been seriously tempted in his life — by one Natalie Ross. He . . . well, never mind. I’ll shut up and let Christo tell you all about it.

Also, speaking of prizes, the second week’s Great Book Give-Away is wrapping up today.

Winners will be notified by email. If you don’t hear from me by tomorrow, you didn’t win this week, but you might win next week. Your entry is good for the month of February. But I’d love to have you drop by and comment this week (and get another entry that way!).

Week three is posted on my contest page if you click on the 25th anniversary link. Heather will be removing lists one and two and moving three and four to the front sometime this week (she has a life, too).

In the meantime these are the books for week three and what you need to do to be in the drawing.

Week Three:
Comment on my blog this week (any post, but the post must be one I’ve made this week) and you could win a book! One of the following books will be sent to the winner (one book per winner):

Anne McAllister: The Santorini Bride
Janet Evanovich: Naughty Neighbor
Marie Ferrarella: Cavanaugh Heat
Elizabeth Rolls: Lord Braybrook’s Penniless Bride
Kathleen Long: Undercover Commitment
Julia Quinn: What Happens in London
Jennifer Ashley: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Please Note:

Easy Entry

To enter most of my 25th Anniversary Celebration Contests, send an email containing the correct response(s). Be sure to include your name and address so, if you win, I can send your book.

Rules, Regulations & Deadlines

The great book give-away contests will run for the entire year. While there are few rules, there are some things to note.

Prize wins are limited to one per person per address per month. That means in an effort to be fair once you enter, your entry will be good for 30 days but if you are a winner during 30 days you can only win one book. So there’s no need to enter more than once, multiple entries will not insure you win.

Unless otherwise noted, the prize winners will be chosen in a random drawing by various esteemed members of my crew (Mitch, Micah, the dogs, the dh, etc.).

Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery of your prize. Winners outside the U.S. might take longer.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

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Okay, so there we are.

Christo will be along later today. Check back. Talk to him. He’s charming. Handsome. Smart. Honorable. And not quite as fierce as Natalie remembers him. But they have a history . . .

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We Have Winners!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Micah and Mitch have picked the winners for the first week of my 25th anniversary Great Book Give-Away. Winners have been notified.

If you didn’t win a book this week, you can submit a new entry with the answer to week two’s question. And your old entry will continue to be active all during February as well (so you have two chances to win a book).

If you did win, I’d be delighted if you want to answer the questions this month, but I’m trying to spread the goodies around, so if you have already won a book in February, you’re eligible to win again in March.

I would appreciate your including your snail mail address with your answer so I can address the packages as soon as M&M pick the winners. Thanks!

I’ve been out of commission this week as my mother has been ill and in and out of the hospital. She is currently ‘in’ which means I have time to address envelopes. I hope she’ll be out and on her way to improvement early next week. Worrisome times.

The books for next week’s contest are: