Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

WoW! A Katherine O’Reilly book which you’ve just reviewed =D

Harlequin is really going all out on this. Great campaign!

Would love to win a copy of the O’Reilly! :)

Is Bronwyn Australian?
Hoping these books are available as ebooks.

Save the contemporary, save the world(?) :)

Thank you Harlequin for supporting your readers as they try to save the contemporary.

(Psssst.  Isn’t HQN saving the contemporary already by publishing lots ofcontemporary books?)

word: getting53.  Spooky - how did you know I was 53?

Ooh, sounds fun.

Yum!

How delicious is this? I have to admit, I tend to skip contemporaries, because I enjoy a certain amount of smut that I don’t think I’ll find there. I could be wrong.

(... and yes, I like the word smut, it makes my 6’6” tall husband actually giggle when he asks “what’s in the Amazon box?” and I answer “Smut.”

... and yes, I like the word smut, it makes my 6’6” tall husband actually giggle when he asks “what’s in the Amazon box?” and I answer “Smut.”

Hehe, it’s so much fun to watch tall men giggle. It’s the last thing you expect them to do, really.

Curious fact of the day: the instructions made more sense to me when I read them here than they did when I read them on Dear Author. Hmm. Give me a couple of hours and I’ll think up some logical explanation for it.

Query: are the Harlequin bags the same as the ones they gave out at the RWA conference this year? Because those were schmexy.

Wow, nice contest, my dears!

Oh, random integer pick me!

Wow!  What a lot of great stuff.

Like Rhonni, I tend to skip the category romances. But over the weekend @HeatherOsborn (another heathero! instant kinship, right?) tweeted the titles & I laughed until the tears streamed down my face ... then I started choking on the tears because I swallowed them funny (wrong pipe! ick!). Good times!

I love the category reviews. Its a part of romance I gave up on years ago, and I have actually gotten back into. Off to buy these two!!

Oooh!  Can I haz contemporary?

oo! *comments* Your review of that book made it sound so good, I WANT IT!
here’s hoping my stupid luck changes, and i’ll actually win something for once…

I have some categories I’ve picked up tres cheap at the thrift store - you’ve reminded me that I need to pull them out. :)

Apparently my validation word wants to aid me on that: remember59.

Gimme, please :)

I would love to win! Contemporary’s are always refreshing to read!

I curled up with the newest Diana Palmer the other day (finally) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Must confess that I read more contemps than anything else, though I do enjoy a number of paranormals and write in completely different genres from contemp. SilDes is my favorite line, not a fan of Blaze books, though. Haven’t found one that can keep me interested in it yet.

spamword: Arms36, if I had 36 arms, I’d get a whole lot more done in a day. Shoot, another set of arms and an extra set of eyes and I could read two things at once, which would be cool.

i just thought i would try this out and see how my luck is running these days.

and right now i feel like a moron since i just figured out what the spam word comments people leave behind are coming from…whoops thought you all should know that i had been wondering about that for awhile. :)

Reading category romance is like eating a box of chocolate. Can’t stop at just one!

Meghan, don’t feel bad about the spamword. Took me a while to figure it out, too, mostly because I read and never commented. When I started commenting, it hit me.

Love the contemporary!

I’ve been on board ever since you tweeted the line “She had her heart set to stupid and he wasn’t going to talk her out of it.”

NEED!

Would loove to win a copy of both books! I wanted to read The Magnate’s Make Believe Mistress by Bronwyn Jameson ever since it was mentioned in the people’s magazine article!

I’ve been eyeing both of those books for a few days now…

I’ve been meaning to contemporaries more of a try. Free books sound like a good way to do that. ;)

My first venture into category has been this summer with the e-reader, so I’m ready for more!

Any tech-savvy people wanna make a widget we can stick on our webpages?

I am going on vacation soon and historicals make me dizzy on the beach. Save the contemporary and save my vacation!

While the free books are an attractive prize, the item that sealed the deal for me is the bath bomb. Why? Because I’ll buy the books anyway, but the Bath Bomb—total, utter indulgence and the there’s only one store that sells them near me & I don’t go to that mall often. Want want want.

BTW, SB and DA are a publisher’s dream: you make up the contests, do the marketing, engage us readers. Pub provides some books (which they’d do anyway). If you ever decide to get into university press books, may I be first in line to provide the books? ;)

The workshop I staffed recently included a couple trips to B&N.  We mocked some of the Harlequin titles and ended up buying one.  I am still kicking myself for not buying three, including The Magnate’s Make-Believe Mistress.  Should have gone with the alliteration….

You know, I’ve never read a category. I’m not sure *why* but I now know that it is something lacking in my reading repertoire!

I should really start reading contemporaries… I keep getting stuck in historical mode. This is, of course not bad, but historicals are dreadfully similar sometimes.

You guys are totally in my trust network with the STC campaign, and these two will definitely be added to my limited shopping list to check out in person.

I’d love a chance to explore some contemporaries, thye’re not usually my style.  :) Oh, and I love free!

Save the Contemporary!

Jennifer Crusie get her start in the contemporary categories, I think.

I remember loving Anyone But You when it was a paperback in the “Love and Laughter” collection of either Harlequin or Silhouette.  It was among the few category romances I keep, instead of donating them to the library. 

Later, after Crusie’s books were coming out in hardback, I realized that her voice sounded really familiar—-and that I’d put four of her categories on my keeper shelf throughout the years without noticing they were all by the same author!

Free books—-my two favorite words. I prefer contemporaries to historicals, but I had gotten out of the habit of reading categories. I’ve recently rediscovered them and getting two for free would make my day.

Count me in, please.  Love these contests!

Oh wow—looks like a fun prize pack, at all levels, :)

I never read category.  *ducks*  My mother in law reads category—TONS of it—and I just can’t. do. it.  I completely get that I’m just uneducated.  It’s not all Presents, right?  I do love contemporary though, and it’s pretty hard to find these days.  So perhaps, (just perhaps, I’m not promising anything here…) I should think about doing a little category shopping over at HQN.

Please?
Thank you.

Definitely put my name in the hat for this one, please!

Love contests . .. love contemporaries, just wish I had a bigger budget for them.

*brandishing rifle over head*  Save the contemporary!!  *grin*

Cool Contest!

I would love to win!

A hot bubble bath, a hot romance….what more could you ask for.

O HAI!! I can haz contemporary romance!  I loves contemporary romance!

Can foreign readers enter?

Loved Kathleen O’Reilly’s book Sex, Straight Up and would be happy to have another.

Definitely save the contemporary.

I just saw the retweet about Julie James, Victoria Dahl, and Kristan Higgins. Those are the first three authors that popped into my head, I love all of their contemporaries. And if I don’t win, I’ll buy both of these books anyway. I love me some good contemporary! But hot damn I want that Harlequin bag.

Please I need some free fab books! My husband is going to make me take out a loan for all the books I am buying. Plus my local library does not have these authors, for shame! I am making an adorable pouty face, which if I am not selected I will be forced to email you a picture of it.  That would give you nightmares for weeks. Seriously I would really like a copy of these books, and if I am not selected I am sure you would find a worth home from them.

Have a great day!

ooh, was just looking at that O’reilly book but ended up passing over in favor of Jill Shalvis’s Storm Watch. I want to win! :)

I like O’Reilly, so hopefully the random integer selector will land on me!

Want. Very much.

Ohhhh, I loved the O’Sullivan stories that O’Rielly authored (was that last year?!?!?)

Does begging help? Puh-huh-lease.

oooh - me love some prizes!!

Long Live the Contemporary!!

Yay, Contemporary!!  I’m in!

Sweet. I’ve been eyeing the Make-Believe Mistress :D Thanks Sarah, Jane and HQN!

This just sounds heavenly!

i buy almost all my contemporary & category romances at secondhand stores. is it weird that i love “old” contemporaries? the ones with nurse and school teacher heroines that were written before i was born and thus aren’t really MY contemporaries. i totally got into romance with HQN category books and have never looked back!

Awesome!  I love these campaigns, even though I’ve never won, when I inevitably buy the book, I’m never disappointed!

Can I haz win?

What a fabulous contest.  And, I agree… Save the contemporary, save the world.

Thanks for a great contest. I’d love copies of these!

love catorgory romance blaze is my fav then desire lol
please enter me
i just love contemp books!!!!!!!!!!
go giants

Such an exciting contest! It’s certainly livening up a boring day at the office!

And re: Hot Under Pressure - AM SO THERE! Who hasn’t had a heart set to stupid??

pick me pick me!
ya contemporary!
Save contemporary save my weekends!

password: love67——- aaaaaaaaaw!

Ooooh, count me in.

I’ve rarely attempted reading in the tub, perhaps because I usually want to be in and out as quick as possible, and then when I do settle down to relax… Well, I get worried I’ll drop my book in the water. xD

Pick me, random number generator!

-anin

Count me in, both these books sound awesome!

Well, it’s no Tycoon, but can’t wait to read about the Magnate!

Count me in! Since her last trilogy, I’ve been eagerly awaiting Kathleen O’Reilly’s next Blaze, and Jameson book sounds delightful, too.

I learned the hiding-in-the-bathtub trick from my MIL! Thanks for the contest!

Hadn’t read category romance for a long time until I saw some great reviews here. Now if you recommend, I read them.
Count me in.

I’d love to have the books - I like Harlequins.

I haven’t read category for a very long time.  Years ago I used to be the type who would buy every book from my favorite lines.  Maybe I need a healing!  These two books could be the right medicine.  Please add me to the contest!

JoAnn K. Prater

Yes please, I’d like free books!

Ten winners just from the comments…I like those odds.  Sign me up.

What a perfect description of why category romances are such a perfect little bite.  They’re the first romances I ever read—my friend Diana’s mother had a monthly subscription and oodles of them all over the house—and they still provide total comfort reading.

Have Contemporaries become endangered?  Do I need to stock up now to avoid the rush when they run out?  Because I’d be lost without my box of red covers next to the tub.  It would be ruin and damnation.

Pick me! Pick me! Please.

I tend to drop books in the tub. My favorites are the ones with excessive water damage. Would love some more to maltreat!

Love O’Reilly’s books. Love contemporary books. Pick me!!

Comment. Take 10

1) Comment! Comment, comment, comment, comment.

2) Hrmm… ok, now I feel inclined to go join Twitter. Hee.

Great idea!  I would love to be included.

Me, me, me=)
I wanna win!
Luvdaylilies at bellsouth dot net

Ooh, pick me! I love a good contemporary.

I WANT TO WIN SO BAD!!! I have entered every contest on here and I have not won yet. I ABSOLUTELY love contemporaries, so this rocks. PICK ME!!

Thanks! Here’s hoping!

Oooh, I love contemporary and don’t indulge enough!  I’d love to win!

oh! me! please!

PS I don’t tweet but I changed my facebook status to promote :)

Oooh!  Can haz free books please?  Many, many thanks in advance from a semi-broke mom!

Gah! Comment!

(I always feel teh sad when I forget to enter for possible random winnings.)

I would love to win these books.

I’m jonesing hard enough for one of those swanky bags, I’d buy everything on the H/S rack at my local bookstore just to get one. Utter. Sex. Only it’s a tote.

Reading a “category novel” is as relaxing as having a margarita! Maybe more if you include a hot bath!

Great contest! Can’t wait to read both books.

Now, if only the pages were laminated.

So true about bath length corresponding to reading time!  And seriously, when are Harlequin going to start selling those tote bags?  I want me one of those!

I used to relax in the tub with a book all the time…but haven’t done so in years.  What a great way to regain an old past-time! 

I’ve definitely got some lust going on for this giveaway.

Great contest, count me in !!!!

Here’s me commenting. :)

When I read romance, it is usually Historicals (because there tend to be more of those.) Besides, the historicals tend to be thicker, and for a speed-reader like me, the longer they last the happier I am. ;-)

I have read some brilliant Contemporaries, though. And certainly won’t mind reading more!

Oooh!  Pick me!

What a great contest.  I would love a chance to win these books.  I love reading contemporaries.

I need to start picking up category romances when I go shopping- the free ebooks from Harlequin are getting me hooked!

(read99- i’ve read 99 books, but o’reilly ain’t one, unfortunately)

Products from Lush AND free books?
I’m in.

I don’t have a blog, don’t Twitter and I’m a Grade A lurker.  But I’d love to have these books, so please add me to the mix.  :-)

*praying to the god of random*

I am so excited about a new Kathleen O’Reilly book! I could just squee! :)

OOooooo would love to win!  *crosses fingers*

Okay, these books sound totally fun. *wants*

Count me in!
perhaps78,,,well perhaps

Yeah for the contemporary!  I love this campaign.  It introduced me to Erin McCarthy and Victoria Dahl, and it reignited my taste for contemporary romance.  Recently I’ve been trying to appreciate category books again, figuring out where they fit in my schedule where my usual epic reading wouldn’t. Kathleen is absolutely right that they are perfect for short get-aways.  They also fit better in my purse than heavier reading!

Ooh, free books?  Count me in!

... I could use something good to soak with…

;^)

Have been so caught up in a Loretta Chase binge that I forgot about the contemporaries. Fingers crossed!

One of the things I love about SBTB is that it’s encouraging me to read books I’d never pick up on my own, and I’m getting some great finds out of it… and these two look great.  :)

Please enter me in the contest.

Would love to have the prize.. Please pick me, I will share with my 7 Sisters, Daughter, Daughter In Law, and various assorted friends and adjunct relations!  Please, please….........pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?

Cool prizes!  Count me in for the win & keep those comtemporary recs coming!

Oooh pick me!

Pick me, pick me!  My ridiculous TBR pile (actually, half a closet) can always use a couple more books. 

Spamword action26:  If there’s sexxoring action within the first 26 pages, it must be a Blaze.

I look forward to my Blaze every month. If you ask me, the contemporary is going strong, with no small thanks to the Bitches!

Sign me up, please!  I tend to avoid contemporaries like the plague, mainly because of the clunky titles, but after your review I’m willing to give them a try.

Oh oh 7:45 pm EST! Before 9 pm EST.  Safe.  *Grin*

love harlequins! my only problem with them is that they’re too short (which is the point I guess, but still…)

thanks for the coupon code for harlequin! i’m on my way there now…

you guys come up with the most amazing giveaways! i want everything you talk about :)

been a fan of bronwyn jameson fan for some time. i read an insane amount of harlequins and have to admit that i lose track of what i read, but i do keep an eye out for her books- please pick me!

i don’t have a tub so baths are out, but i can still enter, right? reading in a shower stall doesn’t have the same appeal…

Love Kathleen O’Riley! And would love to try Bronson!

already spent my monthly book allowance, and it’s the first week of the month. free books! yea!

I still have my save the contemporary button on my facebook page.  I love contemporaries and they are getting tougher to find.

Please save the contempories, these are the books I always read… Great contest.

Ok I really can’t spell tonight.  I meant to say save the contemporaries.