Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah, I’ve eaten my body weight in gelt, so it’s time to go lift weights – or books. Or both!
To continue the festive merriment to celebrate reading, both paper and digital, I have a collection of contemporary romance – hardcovers and paperbacks!
All you have to do to win is leave a comment, and I’ll select a winner each day. These contests are open to international winners, and I will do my best to ship this week, provided people send me their addresses promptly.
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. If anything, my gift is exceptional support of the United States Postal Service (Happy Hanukkah, US Mail Carriers!). We r who we r. Edited for television. Keep cool. Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear. A one that is not cold is scarcely a one at all.
Ahoy! Contest the seventh!
On the Seventh Night of Hanukkah, Smart Bitches Gave to Me: A massive selection of contemporary romance and contemporary fiction!
Just leave a comment below, and tell me which contemporary romance setting is your favorite – cities? small towns? cruise ships? space stations? – and you’re entered to win. Comments close in 24 hours, but fear not, there’s another book – paper or digital – giveaway coming soon. Because Hanukkah lasts for eight crazy nights, and I have lost my ever lovin’ mind.
Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Reading!
I think vacation locales are neat. Getting away from everyone who knows you can lead to some good situations.
In contemporary stories, I usually like small, quirky towns. . . or SPACE!
I don’t read a lot of contemporaries, but I don’t think location matters too much to me. If I did have to pick, I’d want it to be somewhere I’d never been before and/or with interesting places for backdrops, like Louisiana or London or Cork or something.
I’m a city girl so I have this fascination with small town romances.
small quirky towns.. the quirkier the better!!! With lots o’ farmers hanging around.
Small towns/country – mostly b/c I grew up in such a place, and fiction is almost always better than the reality was. 🙂
I love a small town setting, probably because I’ve never lived in one and have a romanticized view of what that life is like.
I don’t know if I have an absolute favorite location, but I’d have to say small city—not a heartwarming small town tale or a flashy big city, but in between.
I don’t know what my favorite contemporary romance setting is! I’m not sure I have one. I like “cabin” settings (Is that right? Where the H & H are isolated together?) and don’t really have a location preference. I’m not a fan of small town settings generally – too many interfering locals.
My favorite greeting this time of year (other than Merry Christmas) is Happy Ramahanukwanzmas! Covers all the bases.
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I prefer small town settings over cities, which can be distracting.
I love em all but really enjoy small town settings! Thanks!
Small towns, big cities, cruise ships…it’s all good, as long as the story draws me in, entertains me, and makes me happy. : )
I like city stories, because I miss being in cities. I also like mountain settings, for both the view and the danger potential.
Small town settings are kinda nice.
I love me some small town romances – particularly if they are couples reunited or new girl in town style. Rachel Gibson has written some of my fave small town contemps!
My favorite setting is in a metropolitan city, where hero and heroine both have high-profile, exciting jobs and at the end…neither of them has to give it up at the end, and they show that a happy ending does not necessitate moving to a small town with eccentric characters.
Would love to come home to a box of books!
Small towns will be my favorite 🙂
I like the small towns! I don’t know why—I’ve never lived in a really small town, and I really like living in a city. But the small town romances are fun.
I applaud the author who worked the Twitterverse into a novel before it becomes passe!
Big cities and small towns! Posh heroines and some cowboys!!
No better holiday gift than a good book!!
Small towns
My favourite setting for a contemporary is urban. I love to read about Chicago or NYC or even better, a city I’ve never been too.
I’m starting to warm up to Westerns and have enjoyed reading about wide-open country, etc. much to my surprise!
small towns but especially westerns!
I love small town stories. Even though I live in a small town and know there’s just as much bad as good about them.
Small towns. I live in one. Grew up in a medium sized city, met DH outside of a very large city, which we left and eventually ended back in a really small town. Doesn’t even qualify to be a village even.
Are there really romance novels set in space stations? I just can’t see it and I read science fiction.
I like small towns or suburbs for my contemporary romances. I like a small town of people who all know each other. And it’s even better if the town is in the South. There’s something about Charleston, Dallas, Savannah, etc. that is just so sweet and charming!
San Francisco and not just because I live there and enjoy playing the ‘I know where that is!’ game, but because there are so many diverse places in which to set the story. Free-loving vegan chick who falls in love with a biker (motorcycle)? Gotta be located in the Haight. You’ve got the Castro, the Mission, and don’t get me started with North Beach. 🙂
It’s old, but The Carlton Club is great for this.
Do they have romance novels in space? That would be so epic. I’m calling that my favorite, even though I’ve never seen one.
I prefer cities as settings, since you get all kinds of possibilities: parks, coffeeshops, swanky hotels, awesome stores. All that said, I don’t think I could live in a big city permanently. But I love visiting, in fiction and real life.
I prefer cities! But I love a good contemporary set anywhere really, as long as the writing is good. Thanks for the opportunity!
I like small towns, in a city setting the two leads running into each other repeatedly feels more contrived. Space stations also work.
I love interconnected books and it is indeed easier to imagine these characters living in a small town. With that said I also like interconnected books set in cities like Robin Kaye’s Domestic Gods books set in Brooklyn and SEP’s books set in Chicago.
Honestly, I don’t care so much about the “where” of romance (contemporary or otherwise) as long as the relationship itself is believably written. I will admit to a soft spot for “knew each other as kids/teens, and meet again/rediscover each other as adults” storylines—maybe that’s kind of where they are in their lives, and so counts as a favorite location? No?
As long as it’s a good story I really don’t care where it’s at. Although I probably read more small town than anything else.
I love romance set in and around bookstores. Bookstores + romance = perfection!
Happy Ever After… how I long to read you.
I prefer big cities. I live in a small town and when authors write things akin to “it took an hour to get across the town of 800 people” it make me want to scream. Instant wall-banter.
I like small town settings. Like Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie.