Avon contacted me and asked if I'd like to host a giveaway to celebrate the release of Elizabeth Boyle's new book, If Wishes Were Earls, and to celebrate Ms. Boyle's birthday, which is today! Happy birthday, ma'am!.
I like birthdays (CAKE) and I like celebrations (CAKE) and I like giveaways (NO CAKE — SORRY. SHIPPING CAKE WOULD BE GROSS) so I agreed. Ready for some fun?
Have a look-see at the cover below:
Help complete the above title with as much silly or savvy as you like by leaving a comment below answering, “If Wishes Were Earls….what would happen?” If you do, you're entered to win.
(One second – excuse me.)
(Pssst, listen Avon, I don't mean to be obvious but If Wishes Were Earls does not rhyme with “love.” I'm sorry to be the one to tell you.)
Anyway. Standard disclaimers apply. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law (I'm covering the international shipping for the prizes and I FEAR NO STAMPS.) Must be over 18 and getting your hem wet in some random body of water to win. Corsets optional. Shirt and shoes optional. Nose mandatory. Comments will close 12 pm ET, Friday 10 January 2014. I will select the winner from the entries in the comments on Friday 10 January. You're welcome to tell me in the comments which entries you like best.
So, what are the prizes?
Yay! Thanks, Avon! I wonder if wishing earls might buy iPads?
Second runner up will win a $50 gc to the e-retailer of their choice (open internationally as well). Wishing earls would totally buy bookstore giftcards, too, I'm thinking.
So, if you'd like to enter to win, leave a comment below and complete the sentence If Wishes Were Earls….
Good luck! May the earls be with you!
If wishes were earls, then wouldn’t there be only like ten wishes in the world? Which maybe true, since everyone wants to be happy, smart, rich and beautiful (with a few variations)!
If wishes were earls ………well, then the earl would be cleaning my house right now! And also feeding me bon bons whilst I lie about on the sofa and peruse a new book about him. Sounds divine!
If wishes were earls……. There’d be a lot of broken hearts!
I’d be arrested for polygamy.
If wishes were Earls, what would desires be?
Still, it sounds like fun! Of course, all the Earls would have to look like the “rakes” in the romance novels we all love to read….
If wishes were Earls, all could marry nobility. And commoners would be much more desired.
If wishes were Earls, we’d all live in Alabama. (Regional naming pattern humor.)
If Wishes Were Earls… We’d all be pretty happy ladies, but the Dukes and Barons might start to feel left out.
If wishes were Earls, then I’d be all dressed up wearing pearls, in Regency England at a ball, instead of in Chicago, freezing in wool, working like a mule, shoveling the driveway so I can get to the mall!
If wishes were Earls, I’d have one in three twirls.
If wishes were Earls, I’d have one. Or two. With plummy accents and fabulous manors with great housekeepers and a few chefs.
If Wishes Were Earls, there will be a lot of happy Girls.
Happy Birthday to Ms. Boyle and congrats on her new
book release. Thanks for the chance to win the ipad.
If Wishes were Earls – every girl would get one!
If wishes were earls, I’d be swimming in pearls (gifts from the earls, dahling!)
If wishes were Earls I’d have mirrors instead of this pond to look at my reflection in.
If Wishes Were Earls…. then we’d be so out numbered!
If wishes were Earls, I’d have my own pony.
If wishes were earls, I would like a tall dark handsome wish please!
If wishes were earls, there would finally be as many real earls as there are in romancelandia!
If Wishes Were Earls, than I would love to have one or three!
If wishes were Earls, their dreams are girls
If wishes were earls, pulling a wishbone is not something you do in polite company.
(Also, happy birthday, Elizabeth!)
If Wishes were Earls,I would be a Countess. hehe!
Thanks so much. This is fun!
If wishes were earls
And dishes were pearls
Then I’d be a girl
With a reason to twirl.
If wishes were earls
And kisses were curls
The I wouldn’t be such a hardworking playgirl.
If wishes were Earls, they’d outnumber the churls!
If wishes were Earls, there would be a worldwide shortage of french brandy, hessians, and shoe polish.
If wishes were Earls, My Duke would still have my love
Two years ago I adopted a former farm collie dog who came with the name Duke. In my part of the world a dog is called Duke either because the farmer doesn’t think much of his landlord (the Duke of Cornwall, aka the Prince of Wales) or because he thinks very highly of his dog. Or possibly because he thinks both at the same time.
If wishes were Earls, everyone would be a peer and the House of Lords would become Common. (Apologies to English people everywhere as I display my ignorance of how things work.) Thank you for the giveaway.
And women were pearls, I wish the Earl to choose me as his Countess with dark curls.
Happy Birthday!
If Wishes were earls…he’d be mine (like my pearls)
If wishes were Earls….
feisty (yet virginal – for now) maidens would ride.
…it would set a maid’s heart atwhirl!?
And if an earl can’t do it, an iPad sure can!
if wishes were earls…i’d have a half-dozen of them waiting on me hand and foot.
If wishes were earls, they wouldn’t bump their asses a-hopping. Is that not how it goes?
If wishes were earls I’d have one with curls.
If wishes were Earls, I’d have one and then I could hire someone to go shovel my driveway of all this snow!!! One can dream…..thanks for the giveaway!
If wishes were earls it would really devalue having a title.
If wishes were earls, they’d fill up the world.
If wishes were Earls…I’d be married to a Duke and wouldn’t have to clean my own house, or cook, or dress myself, or do my own hair, or walk my own dog…
If Wishes were Earls..then I would prefer one who can keep me warm during this bitter cold winter and deal with the snow so I won’t have to.