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. Libby says:

    What would I do? I’d succumb to my baser instincts and pre-order if from Amazon, instead of getting on some godforsaken long wait list at the library. Dedication, I tell ya.

  2. I would sing! SING, I TELL YOU!

    [cues up the violins and clarinets, to the tune of the Disney Beauty and the Beast overture]

    Awesome blog
    Full of snarked-on covers
    Each book more grand
    Than the one before

    Awesome blog
    Full of awesome women
    Shouting out to saaaaaaay
    BONJOUR! Bonjour! Bonjour bonjour bonjour!

    Here’s SB Sarah with the ARC and backlist
    By Missus Chase, who legends sell
    As an author of renown
    Yes, for her the romance crown
    Shines for each lovely, lively story that she’ll tell!

    [Our heroine drops a comment on the ARC thread!]

    ANNA: Good evening! I’ve come to state my worthiness for entering this contest! I’d like to have books, please!

    SB SARAH: Wait, don’t you already have a couple thousand books and nearly 550 titles on your To Read shelf on Goodreads?

    ANNA: I DO! But that’s okay! If I win books I shoot ‘em straight up to the top of the queue and review the hell out of ‘em, on Goodreads AND on my personal blog!

    SB SARAH: Tell you what, I’ll put you right into the pool with everybody else so you’ll have a shot! Will that work?

    ANNA: Carry on!

    [Our heroine sallies out of the thread, and she’s last heard caroling “Ohhhhhh isn’t this amazing? It’s my favorite part because you seeeeee, here’s where she MEETS Prince Charming…]

  3. Sycorax says:

    To get my hands on a Loretta Chase ARC, I would wear a corset full time, and enter gaming hells dressed as a man. I would plumb the depths of Egyptian tombs, and mouldering English crypts. I would shoot a man – in the shoulder – in as theatrical a manner as possible (unless he was the villain in which case I would set my dog on him). I would escape a harem at the dead of night and face down the most hardened of criminals, haughty of butlers and irascible of dukes. Then, my Loretta Chase backlist and I would live happily ever after… in Venice.

  4. Kathy C says:

    I would convince my husband to read Lord of Scoundrals.

    Oh, and post awesome reviews on goodreads.

    I don’t have enough energy to do much more than that. 🙂

  5. Mags says:

    Well, since my offer to accept Amazon gift cards as payment for services rendered has been ignored by the masses, I would set aside my Kindle and reacquaint myself with the scent of ink on paper.

  6. terhare says:

    I’d memorize all the euphemisms for the pleasure place found in “Don’t Tempt Me” and use them daily at the office….

    alone89 – maybe my colleagues would leave me alone after the 89th euphemism!

  7. Elizabeth L. says:

    Something involving musical theater, me dressed as the Playboy Billionaire Sheik’s Virgin Amnesiac Mistress, a Klondike bar, a vuvuzela, and potentially some sort of ritualistic drum.  I’m not sure where it might lead other than to me making a fool out of myself and someone making a youtube video.  But dadgumit, it would be so worth it!

  8. E! says:

    I’d go see the new Last Airbender movie… with a bunch of 8 year old fans of the cartoon. If you don’t know what this means please watch video below:



  9. sweetsiouxsie says:

    I will sign in to Amazon.com and buy the book because I am tired and I just don’t feel too terribly clever tonight. Thank you for letting me know she has a new book out. I have all of her others.
    may24=my birthday plus+3

  10. Castiron says:

    What would I do for a new Loretta Chase novel?  I would go over to Book Depository, add the book to my shopping cart, cause the price of the book to be charged to my credit card, and check the mailbox anxiously for the next two weeks.

    For a selection of her backlist….well, I think I already own most of them, but I would hand the spare copies to coworkers and insist that they read them.

    (For a copy of Captives of the Night, in our next editorial council meeting I would pick a random packet and in the middle of the discusssion declare, “Well, this seems like a fine project on $SUBJECT, but it would be much better if it were written by Loretta Chase, author of Lord of Scoundrels and other excellent novels!”)

    (glass67—the glass is 2/3 full?)

  11. Amanda Blair says:

    For a Loretta Chase book I would pose outside the country club where I work wear nothing but heart shaped pasties and a black lacy thong, balancing a stack of romance novels on my head.  With a pet tiger.  Because things are always better when you add a pet tiger.

  12. cindylouwho says:

    I would swallow.
    nuff said. 😉

  13. Theresa I says:

    For a Loretta Chase book, I will brave potentially being stoned and ostricized by the romance community for admiting that I don’t like Lord of Scoundrels.  But love all the rest of Loretta Chase’s books!

  14. Vi says:

    I agree with everyone: Sarah W deserves to win!

    Here’s what I am willing to do to win an ARC. I would stand in front of you and
    1) Tell you the only joke that I know how to tell without first screwing up the punchline:
           What did the fish say when it hit                              the wall? 
          “Dam” 
    2) Recite the only poem that I have remembered since junior high. (I’m in my late 30’s, so that’s a lot of years!):
               The Fly by Ogden Nash
           God in his wisdom made the fly.
           And then forgot to tell us why.
    3) Read a haiku that I wrote in your honor:
              fun brilliant contest 
            smutty novels to be won            
              Who will Sarah choose?

    End of my recital. 🙂

  15. Dee says:

    Absolutely not creative… and my willpower stinks, so giving up chocolate is out… Cripple myself-er-walk all day in stilettos (if you have ever seen me try to navigate just on 2 bare feet you will understand the hazard of this proposal even though it may not have the drama of bungeeing off the Angel Falls). Haven’t ever read any of hers and keep meaning to. Couldn’t ever find Lord of Scoundrels which based on reviews sounds like it should be the intro to her works…  So on the off chance that random entries stand a chance against the really creative ones (like the sacrificial hubby’s backhair!), here’s to hoping I might have a chance, anyway.

  16. Pam says:

    I would do a 40 page thesis on that cover, focusing intensely on how that dress is fastened when it’s not being scandalous.  It’s so nice to see a woman’s back for a change.

    Since I read and enjoyed Lord of Scoundrels on based on SB recommendations, I would be majorly tickled to nab one of those ARCs.

  17. marly says:

    Good Grief – I don’t know how I came to double (triple?) post, since I was getting an error message that said no comments could be received at that time.  Obviously, I still have the power to cause technological break-downs with my cape and electromagnetic field.  I’m so sorry.

  18. Carmel says:

    What would I do for this ARC?  Well if it came on one of the days of the bar examination I should scuttle my not so promising legal career by skipping out on the bar to read it, because I would NOT be able to wait.

    And if I got the backlist, I would convince my friends to also scuttle their careers and skip the bar to read all the wonderful books Chase has written.  Already I’ve got my bar studying group borrowing the romance novels I have for study breaks.  The best part is that they are all doing it secretly so they don’t know EVERYONE in the group is staying up to read romances!  I’ve got Kleypas, Kinsale and Foley passed around but somehow lost my Chase books so they haven’t been introduced to Lord of Scoundrels yet!

  19. donna ann says:

    Just started reading Lord Perfect in anticipation of the new release.  If I won a copy I’d give you a big giant (virtual) hug & smooch on the cheek, have my puppy dog give you one too, then proceed to do a “happy dance” 🙂  oh, heck, I’d even be willing to go out in public in (gasp!) shorts!  🙂

  20. JaneDrew says:

    For a Loretta Chase ARC and her backlist (the backlist! the prize that makes the entire competition that much fabulouser, much as Regency romances are always made splendiferouser through the addition of dukes!), I would shun such petty concerns as having to find a new apartment, preparing for a new job, packing an ungodly number of books (among which, tragically, there is only one—one!!—work by Loretta Chase, lurking lonely amongst the Crusie and the Heyer), and keeping reasonable control of a considerable quantity of cats, in order to devote myself, rapturously, heart and soul, to my true love—-a great story.

  21. Silverflame says:

    What would I do for the new Loretta Chase book?

    I would attempt to have wild passionate sex in a MOVING CARRIAGE traveling on a bumpy road, and report back to the SB’s about the likelihood of ANY of those scenes actually happening in real life!

  22. Amelia says:

    I would wear the mullet wig for a week.  Ugh, I feel dirty already.  Damn the things you make me do for books!

  23. Susan Z says:

    It was only a few months ago that I discovered the awesome that is LC, through this very blog. What followed was a whirlwind romance between a not-so-innocent feisty heroine (that would be me) and a dangerous, oh-so-seductive antihero (that would be Loretta Chase’s entire catalog). Stolen moments, secret trysts, and scandalous flaunting of propriety—why, I spent so much time in the company of these books that it was as if we had publicly danced three times in a row.  All waltzes.  And had been seen entering a house of ill repute together. UNCHAPERONED.

    What would I do for Loretta Chase ARC?

    What wouldn’t I do for a passion like that?

  24. meoskop says:

    Um bark like a dog? I was actually going to come up with a REAL thing, (although I would TOTALLY bark like a dog) but I want Brandylynn to win because I want to see stick figure comics of LC’s backlist.

    Make her follow through.

  25. Dusk Carter says:

    I will clean your house, mow your law, cook you a fancy dinner, and PAY YOU FOR IT!

    hehe, i would go without food and water, without anyother romance novels, i would even admit that twilight is amazing.

    I would KILL!!

    But the most horrible thing i could think of, i would do it infact write it all out in all sinceriousity.

    I Would Say That I Love Cassie Edwards

    Oh god it BURNS IT BURNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    AHH!!!!!!!!

    oh wells is worth it 🙂

  26. Katie says:

    For a Loretta Chase ARC, I would spurn Fabio.

    (Unless you are reading this, Fabio baby, in which case I was kidding! Totally kidding! Ahem).

  27. Kirstin says:

    I don’t have much creativity to speak of, but here goes.

    I would:

    a) Buy and watch/read every Twilight movie and book without   crying, laughing or ranting to my best friend about my psychotic hatred for this series.  Then I would follow it up by going to see Eclipse dressed in a werewolf costume and wearing a “Team Jacob” t-shirt.

    b) I would donate my entire humongous book collection and my beloved Ipod to charity and give up meat for a year.

    c) I would do a one woman show at my local mall, acting out several scenes from different pirate-themed romance novels (and probably get arrested).

    (placed84 – Well, at least I placed)

  28. diane/Anonym2857 says:

    I’d be willing to do something drastic… like swim in a blender.  Even tho it involved the horror of buying a new swimsuit first.

    I’d attempt to be brave and not pout, knowing that my pals were off playing in Maryland with Nora and Loretta without me. :o(

    I’d clean out the sewing room AND sort through all those mountains of spare books and donate them to worthy causes. I’d actually sew up some of the fabric I’ve been saving for The Great Fabric Shortage of the next millennium, and sort by color and neatly put away the rest,

    And as part of that book sorting and fabric sewing, I could even promise to keep you stocked in out of print ancient-yet -still-wonderful category romances.  AND I’d make you a quilt.  I’m darn good at it too, even if I do say so myself—I could give you references! LOL

    made55—oh, i’ve made a lot more than 55 quilts. :oP

  29. Ashley JAM says:

    I would give my Yankee shrouded virginity to a Red Sox fan… In Fenway Park… while Sweet Caroline plays (the shame!)

  30. Jessica M.D. says:

    I would finally give my mom the grandchild she’s been desperately praying for. 

    Well, probably not, but I so want that arc!

  31. Liz W says:

    I would post everything that I ever wrote in high school. All four years’ worth of terrible, purple, embarrassing, bad-sexy fanfiction.

    There are over 200 files in that folder.

    Oh God.

    BUT I WOULD DO IT FOR A GIANT LC BASKET. ALL OF IT. EVEN THE MARY-SUES.

  32. Ros says:

    I would pay money.

    And then I would move mountains, swim oceans, climb trees to overcome the stupid geographical restrictions that prevent me from reading it.  And then I would commit acts of piracy to get around the DRM problems that prevent me from reading it.  And, did I mention, I would pay actual money?

  33. nekobawt says:

    OH MY GOD SHE WROTE A SEQUEL do want.

    what i would do for this book is read it in my dad’s house, and gladly suffer the ensuing week of respiratory illness and allergy fugue that follows every time i visit him and my step-mom.

    ok seriously his COMPUTER gave me SINUSITIS when i replaced the cd-rom drive, because of all the dust and crud there! i’m not even kidding! the doctor gave me antibiotics! EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!

    (captcha word: self93—ironically, my family moved into the Now Dread House of My Doomed Lungs in 1993. guess that’s what almost 20 years of pet dander and rarely vacuuming or dusting will do. not to mention the cat pee on the carpet. sorry. digressing. :[)

  34. nekobawt says:

    oh yeah, and all the cigarette ash and smoke, which i am now quite allergic to. think that’s the worst part.

  35. Lea B says:

    Can’t say I have ever read Ms Chase but a very good friend of mine is in ‘lurve’ with her so I’m guessing she’s something special.

    If I win I can use the prize to have said friend do things for me or get me things I can’t get here in Australia (MWHAHAHAHA!). No, seriously, I would share with her after seeing first hand what the big deal is. Who knows, I might be a convert and then she will have to enter these competitions herself…

    🙂

  36. Alexys says:

    To win this, cause I don’t think I’d ever entered one and it would be super-mega-foxy-awesome hot to win this one cause I totes love this author, I would clean the drain for the soda machine at work which is filled with soda-drenched popcorn, mold, and a drain in which bugs and other unknown creatures crawl out of. It’s disgusting.

    I would donate all 135 of my romance novels (FOR SHAME) to, well somewhere that wants romance novels, and not buy all of them back on my Nook. It would not be a bestest time for me.

    (Captcha: minutes66- I prolly took me 66 seconds to realize that this was the most AWESOMEST giveaway.)

  37. Jen M in AZ says:

    I just started reading Ms Chase, and I am in love!  I’m pretty sure I would call out of work and read all of these in one day if I won this contest!

  38. Vixenbib says:

    I bought “Lord of Scoundrels” after stumbling across your site a few months ago.  (Goodness knows what I was looking for at the time. (*??*)  Anyway, I ended up with you… you bunch of wierd and wonderful – and, to be frank, somewhat kinky – bitches.)  I also ordered “Not Quite a Lady” ONLY LAST WEEK from Amazon – so I’m SLIGHTLY MIFFED that you’ve just announced that you’re including these two books in the give-away.

    WHAT is the POINT? 

    On reflection, I suppose that when you send me the Grand Prize, I’ll be able to share The Love with my Romance-virgin friend, whom I’m selflessly converting/subverting to our Ways.

    Yes. Yes. That’s right. I need these books for the good of all Womankind. And probably Mankind too.

    P.S. I SERIOUSLY love this website. I never thought I would have the opportunity to eavesdrop on intelligent women talking so sensitively, wittily and appreciatively about Romantic novels – a genre of books I have loved passionately for over 35 years. Thanks Sarah and Candy. YOU IZ DA BIZ. (I’m allowed to say that; I’m Black.)

  39. I would abandon my own manuscript right when I got to writing the juicy part for a chance to read a Loretta Chase book, knowing full well when I got back to the juicy part I could never hope to replicate Loretta’s sheer (and propbably opaque) genius and be in a profound funk for the foreseeable future. But I would have my memories of Last Night’s Scandal to fall back on….

  40. Delia says:

    For the Chase ARC adn some of her backlist, I’d use the redundant (and extremely annoying) phrase “from whence” on my Facebook page. That would be the most embarrassing thing I could do!

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