Thanks Sveta for the nudge that reminded me I'd written all this out and not posted it. MY BAD. Sorry!
The winners of a digital copy of The Long Shot are:
Sally
Nadia
Alex
AKD
riwally
Amy
Gabriel
ReadingPenguin
Carrie Gwaltney
SarahA_B
Fiona Morrigan
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Thank you to everyone who entered the Under a Vampire Moon giveaway - now I want to spend a lot of hours on the beach, which isn't happening to day at all, since it's miserably rainy outside.
The grand prize winner is: April McGlamery! April wins a Baggalini roller carry on stuffed with Lynsay Sands' Argeneau backlist - a total of 16 books!
The winners of Under a Vampire Moon ( A | BN | K | S ) and a Lynsay Sands beach ball are:
Jessica D. Lavonne Page Elizabeth JoAnn Parker Fran Annie Q.Winners, please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your address so we can send your prizes out. Congratulations!
And thank you to everyone who entered - and to Avon Books for giving me one more carry-on bag to add to my "I don't have enough luggage" wishlist, and a list of beaches to visit. Who's with me?
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I have a fun and funky giveaway today, so get ready!
Lynsay Sands' Argeneau series has a new book, Under a Vampire Moon ( A | BN | K | S ), and Avon has offered some very fun prizes for you.
Because Under a Vampire Moon is partly about travel to exotic locales (in this case, St. Lucia), the prize is travel and beach themed, and I think the grand prize is really spiffy.
read more »First, I typed up the entry but it didn't go live - my apologies! I think the next technology I'm going to find is voice-activated blogging. "Post, go live, OK SUCCESS!"
Anyway, the winner of a free six-month subscription to Sourcebooks' new "Discover a New Love" community is Karen H Near Tampa.
Congrats Karen H, who is lucky to live near Tampa, since St. Pete Beach and the Tampa zoo are two very awesome reasons to live near Tampa!
And now, Links that are All About the Joy and the Beauty!
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Interesting news from Sourcebooks this AM: they're launching an online reading club, "Discover a New Love" for romance fans. For $9.99 per montg for six months (my apologies for the misinformation), members get exclusive discounts off ebooks (up to 40% according to the site), and the books they buy are DRM-free on a trial basis. Plus, each month's membership yields one free ebook from a selection of four.
The inaugural books featured are Mairana by Susanna Kearsley, Enraptured by Elisabeth Naughton, Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal by Grace Burrowes, and One Hot Cowboy Wedding by Carolyn Brown. There are four additional titles in the Discover store, priced from $4.19 to $14.00. Membership is not required to shop in the bookstore, though the free titles and exclusive opportunities are for members only. And, while she hasn't started writing yet, the blog at Discover a New Love will be hosted by Barbara Vey of Beyond her Book. Which is totally awesome in every possible way (Go, Barbara!).
The online book club will include "online parties and chats with authors, and exclusive early releases… read more »
At the book club chat with Bella Andre, I announced the April Book Club Pick - and now the rebate is live for your buying pleasure! Plus, I'm giving away five copies for your winning pleasure, so read on!
The April Book Club Pick is: Love is a Battlefield by Tamara Morgan.
Summary, ahoy! It might be modern times, but Kate Simmons isn’t willing to live a life without at least the illusion of the perfect English romance. A proud member of the Jane Austen Regency Re-Enactment Society, Kate fulfills her passion for courtliness and high-waisted gowns in the company of a few women who share her love of all things heaving. Then she encounters Julian Wallace, a professional Highland Games athlete who could have stepped right off the covers of her favorite novels. He’s everything brooding, masculine, and, well, heaving. The perfect example of a man who knows just how to wear his high sense of honor—and… read more »
Time to pick a winner in the Tessa Dare Traveling Tour Giveaway! You have all given me so many ideas of places I want to go - so long as there's internet access, anyway.
The winner of the $200 gift card to I Love Inns is Comment #16: Modokker/Lisa B! Congratulations! Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom to claim your gift card - and please let us know where you end up going. That website is seriously tempting, geographically speaking.
A Week to be Wicked ( A | BN | K | S ) is available today, and features more traveling, more Minerva and Colin, though very likely not any mention of bloggers. Thank you to Avon Romance and Tessa Dare for including us on the trip - and for the very charming short story.
Happy traveling romance, and thanks for playing along today!
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Tessa Dare's characters from her novel A Week to be Wicked ( A | BN | K | S )are making the rounds of the internet today, and we're the last stop on the tour with a really wonderful prize to give away.
First, if you've been following Minerva and Colin, here is the final chapter of their touring story:
From the Journal of Minerva Highwood: “As the sun sets over the English midlands, we stride together through a deserted oatfield. I can no longer deny that I’m falling deeply, madly in love with this prince of a man. His wavy hair dances in the tender breeze as fading sunlight gilds the contours of his aquiline nose and—” “Excuse me,” Minerva interrupted. “What on earth are you doing?” “Nothing.” Colin shoved the journal behind his back.
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I can't tell you the number of times I heard or read, "Sarah, that isn't the REAL COVER, is it?"
Oh, yes, it is, cow and all. Nothing says erotic romance like a stress cow, and nothing relieves big stress like the captions you came up with!
Honorable Mention goes to:
Everyone said "Why buy the cow when the milk's free?" but Buck knew that there was more to Elsie than just dairy. There was BEEF!! - Inez Kelley
Gotta love a man who is not lactose intolerant! Even if he has to carry a plastic cow to prove it. - Carol
Seared by the fire of his passion, would he ever get enough of her tender loins? - Ceci
His milkshake brought all the girls to the yard. - Sabbyc72
They say milk helps strengthen bones, but it was the cow that had Frank's bone growing strong. - LJmysticowl
We have winners! The four winners of an ARC of Beguiling the Beauty as chosen by Random.org are:
#120: JulieM #44: Terrie #95: secohen #257: scigirlcindy
Random.org has also given me a winner for the grand prize, an ARC and a bounty of beauty products made by Sherry Thomas: comment #161, JennyB!
Winners, please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing address.
You can also try again to win an ARC at Sherry's Facebook page for the next 72 hours - and, whoo hoo! All of Sherry's backlist is on sale digitally for $3.99 right now!
Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas * $3.99 * A | BN | K | S | ARe His at Night by Sherry Thomas * $3.99 * A | BN | K | S | ARe Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas * $3.99 * A | BN | K | S | ARe Delicious by Sherry Thomas * $3.99 * A | BN | K | S | AReAlso: you guys are full of the good beauty advice - and I can't believe I needed a reminder to… read more »
Boy, oh boy, did you all ever rise to the occasion, tweaking the very best phrases into hilarious, pointed entries describing the romance novel nipples! It's the Bulwer-Lytton of nipples, y'all. The entries were so hilarious, it's been a challenge to pick the winner. Mostly because I kept laughing!
But here are the honorable mentions:
His eyes were closed, but his nipples stood erect, watching her, their areolae as dark as the deep chocolate pools of his irises, undressing her with their hungry gaze as she walked toward the bed. - Elizabeth Lloyd
Lisa playfully kissed her way up his chest. She took his nipple in her mouth and rolled her tongue around the nub, like the head bitten off a gummy bear and just as sweet... - Mia
He slid his fingers up over her nipples. They were shiny little nubs, just like the positive end of a AA battery. He felt their electric current shoot through his fingertips, zapping him with their nippleness. - Angie R
"His hot gaze swept over her body which she had all… read more »
I did a lot of vacation reading last week, and one thing that jumped out at me (not literally but if it had been it would have been awesome) is the relentless pursuit of cliches when describing nipples.
I'm sure you know what I'm talking about here: there's a sexy scene, and the characters undress. The sex scene - which is, it seems to me, more often from the male point of view than the female - includes a catalog description of the heroine's body.
First, I don't know why there's a need for a list of descriptions for each part, particularly the breasts. There are times when I see the catalog of naked parts and skim right over it, because it seems necessary only because the reader might need to be reminded THEY ARE NAKED NOW SEE THE NIPPLES?
read more »Update! We have a winner! Thanks to the random number generator, comment #111 is the winner. And that's Kaetrin! Email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom to claim your books, Kaetrin, and congratulations!
You guys have the makings of one hell of an awesome booksigning if we could get all those authors in one room. Thank you to everyone who entered!
Last weekend I was at a booksigning at Turn the Page Books in Boonsboro, MD, along with Mary Kay McComas, Mary Burton, Donna Kauffman, and Nora Roberts/JD Robb. Each author was kind enough to sign a book for me to give away here, so hooray! Signed books from a collection of subgenres!
Up for grabs, and each of these copies is a signed copy - signed by the author of the book, not by me or some random person, unless Nora Roberts was played by a lookalike:
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It's Valentine's Day! There's red and chocolate everywhere, and there will be a lot of dining out and champagne and general fuzziness. Oh - and some media attention toward the romance novel since it's an annual thing, asking romance authors what the best date nights are and how to woo the unwilling maiden after you've taken over her father's business in an act of cold blooded corporate revenge.
I figure, let's give gifts! I am giving away two $50 gift cards to the bookstore of the winner's choice! All you have to do: tell me which romance novel you think would make a great gift, and for whom. Maybe it's the book that has the most wide and giddy appeal to the most readers you know. Maybe it's the book you think is one of the best kept secrets of romance publishing. Maybe it's just your favorite for a whole pile of reasons. Either way: name the book you think would make a marvelous gift in the comments, and you might receive the gift card that will enable the purchase of much of the… read more »
Once again, Smart Bitches is a media partner for the 2012 O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference, and as part of my media sponsorship, I talk about the conference (which I totally would do anyway because it makes my brain explode with the happy creativity every year). There's a conference! It's brainful.
If you'd like a 15% off discount code for registration, you can visit the TOC website and use code toc12sbtbc.
But there is no denying that Tools of Change, if you are an individual, is an expensive prospect. Conferences like these are not cheap. And so I also have a code good for a complimentary admission to the conference to give away - yay!
ETA: We have a winner! Thanks to the random integer generator, the winner is: Jill Shultz! Thank you to all who entered, and congrats to Jill!
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