Posts Tagged ‘book-give-away’

Where I’ve Been

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

It seems like I do a lot of apologizing on this blog lately. And I’m doing it again, but life as I have recently come to know it has been getting in the way of regular posting.

My mother has been very ill and continues to be, and so I have not had the time to post — or even to write the book I’m supposed to be writing — that I would ordinarily have.

On top of that, the day after we came back from New York, my dear friend and traveling companion for the journey, Nancy the Cat Slayer, lost her son in an accident.

If there is anything worse than losing a parent by inches, it is losing a child in a matter of moments. He was the best friend of one of my sons for years and years.

Suffice to say, life around here has not be full of fun and games of late.

I will be putting together the last two weeks of April’s worth of books for the Great Book Give-Away and I appreciate your patience. Rach, if you read this, I’m still in the process of getting your book mailed. Everyone else who has won a book so far, I’ve posted the last of them through March. I’m working on sending out those from the first two weeks of April.

Bear with me. We’ll get there.

If you want one of the writing books, let me know. I’ve still got a couple of them left.

Cheers? Well, yes, it will be again sometime soon.

Oh, and big Hank is one today — so there are bright spots in life.

Great Book Giveaway — Redux

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The books for the Great Book Give-Away in April will be late coming to the contest page because my webmistress is now on vacation and due to circumstances beyond my control, I wasn’t able to send her the list before she left.

I can, however, tell you the first two weeks’ worth of books here, and the questions required to enter the drawing.

If you want to be eligible to win one of them, send your answer to me either from the bottom of the page at the “contact Anne” link or from my contest page. I will add your name to the list. Also, please include your name and snail mail address as well as the answer so I can just send out the books without having to track you down.

I’m still trying to catch up with everyone who won a book in March because I was gone for the last part of it and then those circumstances came along and I never got back here after March 31. So, my apologies for being late. I hope it won’t happen again. I may need to ask you for a snail mail address if I don’t already have one. It will only be used to send your book.

For the first week of April some of the books have to do with writing. So if you are a writer or interested in what writers read about when they are reading “how to” books and inspirational tomes, sign up to win one of the following books:

  • Jessica Page Morrell, Writing Out the Storm
  • Susan K Perry, Writing in Flow
  • Chris Baty, No Plot? No Problem
  • Jane Yoken, Take Joy
  • Elizabeth Lyon, A Writer’s Guide to Fiction
  • Noah Lukeman, The Plot Thickens (there’s some underlining in this one)
  • Donald M Murray, Shoptalk

To enter the drawing, send me your name, address and answer to the following question:
In my mini-series Beware of Greeks, all of her heroes are Greek but one. I calls him my “honorary Greek tycoon” because he tried to take over The Santorini Bride until I gave him his own book. What’s his name and what’s the name of his book?

The second week we have:

  • Anne McAllister, Antonides’ Forbidden Wife
  • Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now
  • Hester Browne, The Finishing Touches
  • Lucy Gordon, Farelli’s Wife
  • Barbara Metzger, The Hourglass
  • Fiona Walker, Lots of Love
  • Sherry Thomas, Delicious

To enter the drawing for this week’s books, send me the answer to the following question (also include your name and snail mail address): I wrote a mini-series for Harlequin American called Quicksilver. There were five books in the initial series. Thirteen years later I wrote a sixth book which came out as a Desire. Who was the hero and what was the name of the book?

Remember, if you enter for one week in April and you don’t win, you are automatically entered in all of April’s drawings, so you are welcome to answer the question and get another entry, but your original will still qualify you for the entire month’s drawings.

Mitch and Micah are eying the treat box eagerly, raring to go and pick winners.

I’m putting together the books for the rest of the month now. They should be posted sometime around the 15th. Heather The Webmistress will be back by then, tanned and rested (I hope), and she will add the above, plus the rest of the month to the contest page.

I must admit I’m re-reading bits and pieces of the writing books before I send them off, looking for inspiration for Yiannis and Edie’s story. I know a lot about her, oddly. I know less about him.

He’s the Savas Mystery Man — last noticed to any degree by his family when I wrote Tallie and Elias’s book, The Antonides Marriage Deal. Back then they still thought of him as a “forest ranger” because he’d worked for the National Forest Service a couple of summers while he was in college. That’s a part of who he is — or was. It’s not who he is now.

Finding out who Yiannis is now is turning into a very interesting project. He owns a Porsche. An accomplished flirt, a notable playboy.

Yiannis?

Apparently.

Who knew? And why? What happened?

Ah, backstory.

March Books for Great Book Give-Away

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Apologies for my disappearance — and Christo’s, too. Everyone at our house got sick last week, even the fictional characters.

My mother ended up in Intensive Care and when her doctors finally decided she could leave the hospital, they gave me twenty minutes notice to find her a place to live that afternoon (she couldn’t go home).

So I moved her — and then I was flat on my back for five days. I’m now coughing vertically, but it’s not much of an improvement. Tomorrow I have to move her again — to what I hope will be her permanent digs. It’s down two halls and around a corner from where she’s been for the last week, but a nice bright apartment. I hope she likes it.

Christo is still under the weather, so I’ve given him the weekend off.

But I do have the list of the rest of the March Great Book Give-away books. Check out on my contest page what my webmistress Heather has dreamed up so that you qualify for drawings for the month.

When you send me your response, please do me the favor of putting your name, your postal address AND your email with your entry. The last two weeks’ worth have somehow got truncated so that names are missing. Neither Heather nor I know what is going on. She’s fussing and tinkering and muttering. I’m coughing.

As a result, no one is winning books. But they are all here and Mitch and Micah will be having a field day drawing all the winners every week. So don’t forget to send in an entry.

The books I’m giving away in March are:

Books for the Great Book Give-Away

Fifth Week:

  • Anne McAllister, Lessons from a Latin Lover
  • Julie Anne Long, The Runaway Duke
  • Carole Mortimer, The Duke’s Cinderella Bride
  • Jayne Ann Krentz, Lost & Found
  • Nora Roberts, Key of Valor
  • India Grey, Mistress: Hired for the Billionaire’s Pleasure
  • Susan Andersen, Just For Kicks

Sixth Week:

  • Anne McAllister, Code of the West: The Cowboy’s Code
  • Margaret McDonagh, The Italian Doctor’s Bride
  • Trish Morey, The Greek Boss’s Demand
  • Meredith Duran, The Duke of Shadows
  • Kate Walker, The Unexpected Child
  • Sharron McClellan, Athena Force: Breathless
  • Mary Balogh, Nicola Cornick, Courtney Milan, The Heart of Christmas

Seventh Week:

  • Anne McAllister, A Cowboy’s Secret
  • Lucy Gordon, The Beauty and the Boss
  • Eloisa James, Duchess By Night
  • Rosy Thornton, More than Love Letters
  • Carrie Bebris, Pride and Prescience
  • Mary Kay Andrews, Deep Dish
  • Nora Roberts, Black Rose

Eighth Week:

  • Anne McAllister, Nathan’s Child
  • Lucy Gordon, Farelli’s Wife
  • Barbara Metzger, The Scandalous Life of a True Lady
  • Rita Herron, Beneath the Badge
  • Liz Fielding, Wedded in a Whirlwind
  • Linda Winstead Jones, The Guardian
  • Julia Quinn, To Catch an Heiress