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 love the small town setting. At the same time I like when a city is selected and the author include specific landmarks and street names of that city. It just makes it more real for me.
Cities by far. Especially cities I’ve been to or know well.
“Big” cities other than the usual NY, LA, Chicago. More like Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Denver, Tulsa, San Antonio, etc. But small towns with their quirkiness also get a lot of love from me.
I’m not that picky on setting. I read too much to be picky. I love books set in different countries. đ
Hmmm, depending on the story I like either cities or small towns!
Big cities for me.
I love books set in small towns, never read a book set on a cruise though.
I’ll take any setting – as long as the author understands it. I hate to read poorly done settings, especially when contemporary research ought to be so much easier. If it takes place on a ranch, make it feel like a working ranch and not just give a few vague nods to “the hands” or “the cattle.” If it’s a big city, cabs just don’t magically appear every time someone walks out the door and it takes time to get any place during rush hours. If they are out in some third world country, a nod towards how they get potable water would be nice. It does not have to be info dumps, but just phrases here and there to make it more real would be nice. (Can you tell I’ve just read a long string of stories with poorly done settings?)
I don’t think location makes the story. I think it’s the reverse. But, if I had to pick, I would say small town.
I love cities, as long as they’re done well—give me true details! If I’ve been there once and I know you’re wrong, or if I’m reading about Chicago and the characters go places that don’t exist, I get cranky. Maybe that’s why I like small towns, too, because they’re often all made up. Okay, I like them all.
Thanks for the contest!
Small towns. I grew up in a small town and live in a city now. It’s nice to read about the dynamics of small town verses the solo-grind (hehehehe) of big cities.
I like a small town that feels like a city – where there’s stuff to do, lots of detail, but still enclosed enough that people know each other, there’s lots of ‘group’ activities (picnics, town Christmas celebrations, etc), and there’s the time to do that kind of stuff.
I’ve not much of a contemporary reader but those that I have read and liked have all been small towns. I need to try some more.
All of the above? I like contemporaries in all their flavors. đ
I love reading about places I’ve been—so, books set in cities I’ve visited or lived in. There’s this really great connection when you read a line or a detail and can be like, hey, I’ve seen that!
No specific setting here. I like them all.
I like small town romances. I’m not as fond of small towns in real life, but in romances they can lead to some very interesting character interaction.
Contemporary romance is my favorite! My favorite setting are big cities.
If gravity is working, I like to be on the ground. Beyond that, I don’t much care whether I am in a city or a town or the middle of nowhere. Oh, wait, there needs to be an internet connection and post box nearby, also. Everything else is gravy.
My favorite setting is the small town- I grew up in a place where the people I started Kindergarten with were the people I graduated high school with, though through the years I watched my ‘small’ town become a ‘big’ town. I like the social undercurrents in a small town setting, the way everyone knows some of everyone elses business.
I like cities better, if you get a sense of the city. Small towns tend to get a bit cutesy/quirky, if you know what I mean. How about small cities? Then you get more of a community feel with a little more action.
I don’t have a preference for settings – big cities, small towns, anywhere! – is fine with me đ
I’ll take all comers on location but small towns are particularly charming.
Wow, I’ve never thought about it before now. I don’t seem to like things set in the country, but other locales are okay.
Well, most of my contemporary reads have been Crusie, who does small town – so I guess I’d have to say small town!
If I thought about it, and made a conscious choice about what kind of setting I’d enjoy for a contemporary…I think I’d look for ones about the average Jane going someplace fun/interesting/exotic for a vacation and being out of her element when she meets THE ONE.
I prefer the small town setting.
I enjoy both small town and city set contemporaries. But, I HATE it when a a small town setting is portrayed as some backwater, perpetually stuck in the 1950’s hamlet. Just saying.
I’ll admit it, I really want “Goodnight Tweetheart”… I hate Twitter (yet I have one and actually check it every so often), but the idea behind that book sounds so darned cute!
I love a good small town contemporary.
I like small towns because I always wished I grew up in one.
I love small towns especially when the newcomer is either the h/h..
I read and enjoy reading stories set in both cities and small towns. I started small town, but I’ve gotten into to the contemporary action romances lately (I love me a good militant alpha male), so I’m reading more city.
Small towns, especially with the old friends to lovers theme. Hard to do right, but so good when it is.
What a nice collection. Would love to win and curl up on the couch under the afghan and read, read, read! Sarah, thanks for the eight great days of holiday cheer!
Oh, yay, contemporaries! I prefer citiesâI am a city girl at heartâbut unusual settings are fun, too.
I vote for country settings, especially in Scotland and England in the past. I also prefer living in the country, preferably in the present. I wonder if your preferred place to live is also your preferred setting for novels.
I like Big Cities! I like books set at work when the characters have a solid working team as well.
Big Cities—I like it when a city is like another character.
Small towns—I hate it when the town is all full of folksy quirky characters. Epic Hate.
I’ve never read one in a space station or on a cruise ship. But I’m not ruling it out!
Small cities! Small enough that you can know your neighbors, big enough that they aren’t too folksy…
I’m a big fan of space stations, lots of zero g to play around with đ
I work in a big city so that is my preference.