To celebrate the release of Sarah Morgan‘s upcoming novel, Sleepless in Manhattan, Harlequin and Sarah M. have picked out a really fun set of Kate Spade desk accessories for a giveaway!
We have, for one lucky winner, a copy of Sleepless in Manhattan, the first book in the “From Manhattan with Love” trilogy, plus:
- Top of the line pen set
- Strike gold pencil holder
- Gold dots pencil pouch
- Spiral notebook
- Confetti card set
- Strike gold stapler
- Office kit
Have a look!
I know I have a small (ahem) problem with cute stationery and desk accessories, and I imagine I’m not alone in this problem!
Three runners up will receive either a paper copy or one of two ebook copies of Sleepless in Manhattan.
Want to enter? Sure thing! Just leave a comment below and tell us your favorite useful thing on your desk right now. Not at your desk? No worries! Tell us about an item that is always useful and near by that you value a lot.
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and ready to be stylishly organized. Try not to staple your finger. That really hurts. Binder clips can be addictive in their usefulness. Please be advised. Comments will close Friday June 3 around noon ET and winner will be announced shortly afterward.
Good luck!
ETA 3 JUNE: We have winners!
Our grand prize winner: Bee!
Runners up are Melanie, Carrie, and bahamia.
Thank you to everyone who entered, and congratulations to our winners! Happy reading!
stapler
Paper clips forever! They can be used for so many things–including breaking out of handcuffs!
My favorite useful thing on my desk is my desk lamp. Because my desk is adjacent to my bed, I don’t have to get up and turn on the lights if I can’t sleep and want to read. I can just roll over 🙂
A letter opener! I used to just open letters (and bills) with my finger, and would get paper cuts and have torn, raggedy envelopes. After reading so many historical romances with scenes in gorgeous studies and offices, I decided that I should see if I could find a letter opener to make my workspace a little fancier. i got a simple one for about $5 from amazon and it changed my life. Even bills are more fun to open with this thing! Just a little thing but it makes all the difference in my day.
Hmm… my stand up desk that sits on the regular desk?I designed and built it, so I’m rather proud of it.
I’m obsessed with the little post it flags that come in a ton of different colors. I think I currently have 6 different colors on my desk drawer. So helpful and so pretty! 🙂
A pot that a friend made when he was going through a ceramics phase. It’s a very nice pot, glazed and all, so I keep pens in it.
My favourite useful thing on my desk right now is my wedding planner – with all tick lists duly ticked 🙂
A snazzy little tool for taking staples out of documented so they can be scanned – prevents broken and chipped nails
My handy x-acto.
Any other day I would have said “pencil!!”, but today the most useful item has to be … lip balm. For some reason I woke up this morning with badly chapped lips,and now I’m putting balm on like crazy. (Ok, help a non-native speaker bitch out here, is “chapped” even a word? The more I think about it, the weirder it looks and sounds.)
I am a total stationary addict, and the only thing so far that helped me curb my notebook excesses is that I created a strict colour code – now I don’t even buy stuff that doesn’t match. BUT OF COURSE GOLD ALWAYS MATCHES, YOU EVIL MASTERMIND. 😀
Most used item on my desk – lip balm!
A good pair of scissors. (Though stapler is probably a close second.)
On the practical side I would have to say pen and notebook, with post-it bookmarks running a close second (third?). The first thing that I looked at having read “most useful thing on your desk”, though, was my cup of tea.
I can stop whenever I want. Really.
My whiteboard! To-dos, reminders, handy drawing space for impromptu process mapping plus magnetic so i can stick flyers and other non-permanent items to it.
My favorite thing on my desk is my mug of pens. The mug itself is from my university, so I love it for that, but the colorful pen collection it holds is useful and makes me smile.
The most useful thing on my desk is my cat Chase, who sleeps behind my laptop while I work. No writing means no Fancy Feast for Chase, so he is my muse and constant inspiration.
I’d say spare chargers and wires for my phone and tablet. Also, a few bottles of essential oil and a bottle of room mist.
Reading glasses. Old. ‘Nuff said.
Scissors for sure. I think the height of luxury is to have scissors in every room, so you never have to run around searching for them. But I’m also very partial to my “barkclips” (https://www.barkshop.com/items/barkclips-kitted?gclid=CNWx0eXUgc0CFQhkhgod5wgHfg) – dog shaped paper clips. I rarely actually use them, because I don’t want lose or damage them, but I love looking at them.
Two coasters – one for the teapot and one for the teacup. I have days of reading and writing that I just couldn’t get through without a big pot of tea!
Sticky notes!
My pencil holder that is chock full of pens, pencils, and Sharpies!
My pen. It’s definitely the object that gets the most use!
BIg button calculator. Sure, my computer has a calculator, my phone has a calculator. But I really can do more with an old-fashioned big button calculator. I have one at my work desk, one at my home office desk, and one at my side of the sofa!
Sticky notes, notebooks and Sharpies.
Most useful – pencil and spiral note cube. Most necessary – tea mug. Makes me happiest – picture of the family.
Small notepad and pen, without which no lists get made and nothing gets done.
I am lame, but I just got a new wrist rest for my keyboard and I’m a little bit in love!
Most useful? Ergonomic keyboard with reverse tilt – a game changer for my sore wrists. A useful item that brings me the most joy? My fountain pen. I am more thoughtful about what I write, and then I pause for a moment to admire the beauty of the shading in the ink.
I have a huge eraser that my boss brought back from her travels. I love it because it works really well to erase my mistakes!
I have to say my staple remover, as lame as that sounds. I’m constantly getting proposals that are stapled together despite repeated requests to not staple them, so I use it more than almost anything that’s not my computer.
Hot glue gun. It saves the day so often.
Most useful is my black pen!
Fudging a bit, since my actual desk is currently a clutter repository, but a pen. Probably one of my purple gel ink Uniballs.
Coloured sticky notes. I have more than I need but I love them and I can’t stop buying them.
Post-it notes are always very helpful.
3 hole punch – it means I can keep all my readings and notes nice and tidy in binders, rather than all over my desk, coffee table, and dining room table.
My tobacco bark candle… Makes me feel like a gritty writer when I work, like maybe I just put out my cigar before typing out the great American novel. But minus the side effects.
The most useful thing on my desk is my legal pad of the moment…I go through them so quickly.