It’s time for another Save the Contemporary campaign, with Dear Author, Smart Bitches, and prizes from Harlequin!
This time, we’re featuring two books – yes, two.
Some of the great contemporary stories are found in category romance, so we’ve picked two books that we both really loved:
Our contest takes its inspiration from Kathleen O’Reilly, who was explaining to Sarah what made category romance so great:
…a category novel will exactly fit the time it takes for me to run a hot tub of water until the water turns too cold to stand, which is the exact amount of peace I have until my family figures out where I’m hiding.
To encourage total indulgence, relaxation, and contemporary romance reading, Jane and Sarah have put together a multi-part contest with daily prizes this week only, plus a grand prize at the end.
First: at 9pm EST, 8pm CST, today (4 August) Jane and Sarah will select 10 winners from the comments to this entry on each of their sites. Those lucky winners will receive a copy of both Hot Under Pressure by Kathleen O’Reilly and The Magnate’s Make Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson.
Second: every day this week at 9pm EST, two winners a day will be chosen from those who Twitter about the Save the Contemporary campaign (#stc) and from those who blog about or email the contest entry. To email, simply forward the details to a friend using the “Email This Page” link at Save the Contemporary.com , or email us at sbj.contests @ gmail.com with a link to your blog entry. The more times you forward the details of this giveaway, the greater chance you have of winning. For the Tweet campaign, use the “Share This” and twitter the contest link, along with whatever you want to say about contemporary category romances—but don’t forget the #stc tag!
We’ll pick one winner a day at 9pm EST/8pm CST from those who blog/email, and one from that day’s #stc tweets. Each daily winner will receive:
– a Harlequin vintage cover art bag
– a copy of each book
– a Lush Bath Bomb for use while reading the books
Finally, on Friday at 9pm EST, we’ll pick our grand prize winner from all who entered. The grand prize winner will receive a Harlequin cover art bag, a copy of each book, and the LUSH True Romance gift set, which includes massage bar, bath bombs and other treats.
Jane and Sarah are all about the True Romance, after all.
PLUS, for the duration of the Save the Contemporary campaign this week only, Harlequin’s digital team is offering an additional 15% off the eBooks at eHarlequin.com, for a total of 25% off the digital list price. The coupon code is BLOGSPECIAL, and you can use it at checkout for purchases storewide at eHarlequin.com.
Special huge thanks to Harlequin for the books and the bags and the coupon-y goodness!
To sum up, leave a comment here to win a copy of the books. Make the contest viral by either going to “savethecontemporary.com” to use the Email This Page / Share This or twittering the contest using #stc. Virality = more prizes! Help us spread the word about great romance by helping us save the contemporary.
Have been so caught up in a Loretta Chase binge that I forgot about the contemporaries. Fingers crossed!
One of the things I love about SBTB is that it’s encouraging me to read books I’d never pick up on my own, and I’m getting some great finds out of it… and these two look great. 🙂
Please enter me in the contest.
Would love to have the prize.. Please pick me, I will share with my 7 Sisters, Daughter, Daughter In Law, and various assorted friends and adjunct relations! Please, please…………pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?
Cool prizes! Count me in for the win & keep those comtemporary recs coming!
Oooh pick me!
Pick me, pick me! My ridiculous TBR pile (actually, half a closet) can always use a couple more books.
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I look forward to my Blaze every month. If you ask me, the contemporary is going strong, with no small thanks to the Bitches!
Sign me up, please! I tend to avoid contemporaries like the plague, mainly because of the clunky titles, but after your review I’m willing to give them a try.
Oh oh 7:45 pm EST! Before 9 pm EST. Safe. *Grin*
love harlequins! my only problem with them is that they’re too short (which is the point I guess, but still…)
thanks for the coupon code for harlequin! i’m on my way there now…
you guys come up with the most amazing giveaways! i want everything you talk about 🙂
been a fan of bronwyn jameson fan for some time. i read an insane amount of harlequins and have to admit that i lose track of what i read, but i do keep an eye out for her books- please pick me!
i don’t have a tub so baths are out, but i can still enter, right? reading in a shower stall doesn’t have the same appeal…
Love Kathleen O’Riley! And would love to try Bronson!
already spent my monthly book allowance, and it’s the first week of the month. free books! yea!
I still have my save the contemporary button on my facebook page. I love contemporaries and they are getting tougher to find.
Please save the contempories, these are the books I always read… Great contest.
Ok I really can’t spell tonight. I meant to say save the contemporaries.