Last Night’s Scandal: Today’s ARC!

Book CoverI’ll get right to the good part, with no flirting around. I have ARCs to give away of Loretta Chase’s 27 July book “Last Night’s Scandal.” In fact, I have six ARC copies.

And I have a grand prize, too: a selection of her printed backlist, including Don’t Tempt Me, Last Hellion, Lord of Scoundrels, Not Quite a Lady, and Your Scandalous Ways. AND a $25 gift card to your choice of Amazon or BN.com.

You wish to have? Sure you wish to have. It’s Loretta Chase!

All you have to do: get crazy and tell me what would you do for a Loretta Chase book – and a selection of her backlist? Much like what you’d do for a Klondike bar, only MORE BETTERER AND AWESOMERERST because did I mention it’s Loretta Chase? It’s Loretta Chase! So get creative and share, and I’ll pick the winners over the weekend. You have 24 hours, so get cracking!

Disclaimer: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway, except that I get to talk about Loretta Chase and write words like “betterer.” No additives or preservatives. Slippery when wet. You give love a bad name.  Sealed for your protection.

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  1. ks says:

    I’d keep my niece and nephew for another week (they’ve already been here for two and are leaving Sunday, and combined with my kids, that makes four kids in all here, with ages of 5, 6, 7, and 8).  And I’d take them to the zoo on a 95+ degree day and buy ice cream and souvenirs and not complain at all about the heat stroke or the crazy kids.  And then let my 7 year old niece *do* my hair however she wanted.

    But only if I got to kick back when I got home in a cool bath with a stack of LC books and a margarita.  Otherwise, I’d probably do all that (and have done most of it), but there would be a lot of complaining to the husband once I got home.

    Alternately, I would dress up as a really tall and buxom cabin boy by wearing pants and tucking my long blond-ish hair up in a hat and fool the hot pirate captain, causing him to question his heterosexuality because of his unwanted lust for my person and sassy personality.  Hilarity and hi-jinks would ensue.

  2. BH says:

    @Cam!  You’ll need that frozen Klondike bar for your newly epilatorerered area.
    *grimace*

  3. chey says:

    Let’s see…..I’d give up chocolate for a month!

  4. Lyssa says:

    For a LC ARC, I would give away my title as Miss Wonderful take on the cloak of The Last Hellion, and marry Mr Impossible. When that marriage caused me great stress I would show him he is no Lord Perfect, and I am Not quite a Lady! But that is only if I won a Lorretta Chase ARC.

  5. wendy says:

    For a Loretta Chase book I would enter this contest knowing how amusing everyone else was in their answer and that I am worserer than most at being amusing.

    looked 37 Yes, nobody ever says that about me.

  6. Sue Brandes says:

    I would give up my internet for a month, no a week. I have not read her books. They sound wonderful. Love the cover.

  7. bungluna says:

    For an arc of a Loretta Chase book and other books that I don’t already own I would carry a naked copy of the most awfull bodice ripper covered book you can imagine while excersising at the gym on a military post.

  8. Gail says:

    I would totally bribe anyone willing hand me a new Loretta Chase with tasty homemade baked goods. Even if that means turning on the oven in this heat.

  9. I’d do something truly scandalous like fall in a Venetian canal or make love in public at the top of a bell tower! I’d even marry a self-loathing rogue with a habit of scaring people sh*less 🙂

  10. Sarah W says:

    Thanks for the shout-out, Carrie and Erica!

    If I win, I’ll will the books to both of you!  XD

  11. dreadpiraterachel says:

    I would give up frozen mojitos for the rest of the summer, even though they are the only way to bear this sweltering weather.

  12. Claire says:

    This thread is the win b/c its chock full of Loretta Chase nerd jokes.

  13. Pamelia says:

    What would I do for a Loretta Chase ARC?  Or a Loretta Chase library?  I would display a book of hers proudly on my desk at work and tell anyone walking by “I’m a romance novel reader and proud of it and by the way, if you read this book and don’t agree it’s great literature, I will give you a dollar!”

  14. jenny says:

    Hmmm….lots of crazy things posted already, lol!  Loved reading them all.  Let’s see…honestly, if I won this, I’d do the crazy thing of hiring a baby sitter and then disappearing to the pool or starbucks and just reading for the pleasure of reading.  All the while thinking of that Christmas Story movie, where the dad says “I won a major award!” (remember the leg lamp?)

  15. Jen T says:

    To win a Ms Chase ARC
    I’d write poems most ridiculously
    For bosoms a-heavin’
    And man-tears a-streamin’
    Can’t match LC’s sweet comedy

    —and if the ridicule this godawful limerick inspires isn’t enough, pick me, pick me, I love Loretta Chase’s books! _And_ SmartBitches! 😛

  16. Linsalot says:

    I would loudly and proudly proclaim my love of Romance by dressing as Fabio and holding a sign that says “I love Romance Novels” on the jumbotron/big screen and a major sporting event of your choice (baseball, football etc)

  17. Julia T. says:

    Wow. I’ve only ever read one LC book after hearing all the good things the bitchery said about it…

    So what would I do?

    And I would do anything for LC books
    I’d run right into hell and back
    I would do anything for
    LC books
    I’ll never lie to you and that’s a fact
    I would do anything for
    LC books
    But I won’t do that…

    OK. I’d even do that…

  18. Meggrs says:

    I will selflessly volunteer to drink all the frozen mojitos that dreadpiraterachel is giving up. I know, I know—it’s a big order, but someone’s gotta step up to the plate.

    Gotta keep the bartenders in business, peeps. It’s a recession!

  19. daffiney says:

    I would let you send me a selected backlist of Loretta Chase novels.

    That doesn’t sound like an impressive feat, you protest? That’s just because my guileless beauty and enviable fortune has once again caused you to underestimate the cleverness of my mind in making you THINK that you’re so generously giving me a selected backlist of Loretta Chase novels when in reality, that’s precisely what I had PLANNED for you to think since the very moment we met! You’ve fallen into my dainty, yet surprisingly-capable, hands again—and this opening salvo in our lifetime of battling wits is something for which you and I shall both be grateful ever after.

    You gotta love Loretta Chase.

  20. cin says:

    I would give up driving for a week (or a month or whatever it takes) and walk or take the bus or the T everywhere, which would simultaneously be good for the environment and give me extra time to read all those LC books!  Of course, the kids might not be all that happy about their commute to and from summer camp each day… but, c’est la vie.  It would totally be worth it.

    Plus, I would pass on all of the LC backlist that I already have on my “keepers” shelf (or shelves, to be accurate), so that some LC virgins could experience the joy of her novels.

  21. Sarah B. says:

    LC loves me and wants me to have her books. so you should give them to me. what? i’m not lying! much.

    i would give up my 63 pair shoe collection. and my laptop. for a month. i’d even loan the books out and not force my friends to by me new ones if they break the spine! (my monstrous book collection wouldn’t be as perfect but it would be worth it.) i am also giving up my lurker status for this. (see. i’m proactive) and i’d give you the last klondike bar. in the world.

    furthermore, i would squeeze my puddingness into a Xena the Warrior Princess outfit, go to the mall and read all the steamy parts aloud while standing on a soapbox, simultaneously performing daring feats of karate-ish athletic skill causing a massive upswing in the reading of romance hither and yon.

  22. Jennifer says:

    I will actually watch the *entire* Lebron James show later this evening….and I hate basketball!

  23. Sybylla says:

    I would do a lot.  I might even be willing to spend several hours pretending to listen politely to Bertie Trent burble away at me.

    strength84?  Yes, it probably would require the strength of 84 people to actually listen politely to that character.

  24. For the Loretta Chase books I would attend the anime con dressed up like Pokemon.

  25. morwen says:

    I may be daring and just say please! =^.^=

  26. Catriona says:

    For LC, I would unlock my limited profile on Facebook and let my co-workers actually see those pictures of me from adolescence.  Not the cute ones – the ones with huge teeth and even bigger glasses.

  27. Joanne says:

    THIS IS NOT AN ENTRY IN THE CONTEST:

    I have all of the books Loretta Chase wrote and Last Night’s Scandal is on pre-order. 

    Instead of the chance to win books I would like a pony. I would give the pony to Loretta Chase. I love Loretta Chase enough to give her my nonexistent pony. So don’t send books, and actually, send the pony right to Ms Chase.

    (I KNOW you have a pony there Sarah!)

  28. mirain says:

    I would be willing to loan to my flaky friends the LC books I already own!

  29. EbonyMcKenna says:

    Oh God, please, please, please, I do properly love me some Loretta Chase.
    And it’s all your fault because you got me utterly hooked on LC in the first place with Lord of Scoundrels.

    Hyperventilating.

    pick me, pick me, pick me!!!!!!!

    I’m even standing on my head (well, I’m writing this from Australia, so that’s technically true!!!)

    OK< and what would I do to win Loretta Chase? I would rewrite the 2003 film Alex and Emma with Kate Hudson and and Luke Wilson so that it made sense: She would be the writer, he’d be the one from the publisher’s office urging her to hurry up.
    He: (reading through an earlier draft) “When do things blow up?”
    She: Nothing blows up, it’s a romance novel.
    He: But something has to blow up, otherwise there’s no plot
    She: I’M TELLING YOU, THERE ARE NO EXPLOSIONS IN THIS BOOK!
    He: Except your temper.

    Failing that, I’ll just keep begging.

  30. meardaba says:

    I would kiss the Hoff for a Loretta Chase book.  And he is DEFINITELY not in my generation…

  31. BlackVal says:

    Aw, I love Loretta Chase!  For this, I’d donate all my trashy books to the local hospice(I’m sure they could use some brooding virgin werewolf stablehands in their lives).

  32. DrgnsLdy28 says:

    Hmmm, what would I do?  After reading through some of the other post, I don’t know.  I am thinking its been awhile since I read a Loretta Chase book.  And SBTB’s mention of Lord of Scoundrels the other day made me say oh yeeeahh, I remember that book.  It’s time for a reread.  So I guess, its start rereading her books.

      Can I please get one of those copies or possibly the grand prize?  I’m not greedy.  If not I’ll just march myself down to the library and have them order me a few Loretta Chase books from other libraries.  (Small town library + small selection of books = me waiting weeks sometimes months for them to find the books)

    Well, reread her books is what I’ll do.  I’ll be at the library Saturday, no sense in waiting to get started.

  33. Sara Lea B says:

    For a LC book I would…..procrastinate my school work and devote the day to reading what I want to read!

  34. Sara Lea B says:

    For LC, I would put off my mountain of school work, pretend like I’m not applying for jobs in a panic, and kick back and enjoy myself, reading what I want to read.

  35. 17catherines says:

    I would read them on the train
    I would read them in the rain
    I would read them if I could –
    I’d really like these books, I would!

    I would read them very fast
    And then again, to make them last
    I would read them in the park
    I would read them in the dark
    (…you’ll ruin your eyes doing that, Catherine…)
    I would read them if I could –
    I’d really like these books, I would!

    I’d read them while I should be working
    I’d read them while I’m stealthily lurking
    I’d read them standing on my head –
    Then read them – right way up – in bed.
    I’d read them underneath a cat
    I’d read them in a silly hat
    I’d read them walking down the street
    I’d read to strangers that I meet!

    I would read them all aloud
    I would read them loud and proud!
    I’d make my husband read them too –
    I’d even read these books to YOU.
    I would read them if I could –
    I’d really like these books, I would!

    (May I have them? Please?)

  36. krsylu says:

    LORETTA!LORETTA!LORETTA!LORETTA!LORETTA!!!! (deep breath.) Okay. Got that out of my system.

    What would I do for a Loretta Chase ARC and an A+ selection of her backlist? I would trade all of the romance novels I currently own (except Jennifer Crusie!); I would totally give up all TV watching; I would climb every mountain; I would ford every stream; I would follow every rainbow; I would find my dream.

    Er.

  37. SugarSpice says:

    I’d kiss the son of a devil in the pouring Parisian rain right next to a lamppost that is very likely to get struck by lightning at any second. I’d also adopt his bastard son, but that’s another chapter.

  38. Liz says:

    Look, I could claim that I would go crazy and watch Fox News while wearing a bikini in Times Square in December, but that would be a lie. At most, I’ll post a comment on one of my favorite sites and hope I win, while writing down that Loretta Chase has a new release on my ‘new book’ list.

  39. christy says:

    OK….I will admit it…I have never read any LC books….I know that’s bad…..but I really would to start reading here work….could be a good time to start?????

  40. Pat says:

    Have multiple virgin orgasisms?  Dust off my maidenhood?  Cuddle his (whoever he is) shaft of love?  Sling exceptionally funny romance-isms at an unsuspecting public (or was that pubic)?

    Whatever it takes, baby!

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