Avon contacted me and asked if I'd like to host a giveaway to celebrate the release of Elizabeth Boyle's new book, If Wishes Were Earls, and to celebrate Ms. Boyle's birthday, which is today! Happy birthday, ma'am!.
I like birthdays (CAKE) and I like celebrations (CAKE) and I like giveaways (NO CAKE — SORRY. SHIPPING CAKE WOULD BE GROSS) so I agreed. Ready for some fun?
Have a look-see at the cover below:
Help complete the above title with as much silly or savvy as you like by leaving a comment below answering, “If Wishes Were Earls….what would happen?” If you do, you're entered to win.
(One second – excuse me.)
(Pssst, listen Avon, I don't mean to be obvious but If Wishes Were Earls does not rhyme with “love.” I'm sorry to be the one to tell you.)
Anyway. Standard disclaimers apply. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law (I'm covering the international shipping for the prizes and I FEAR NO STAMPS.) Must be over 18 and getting your hem wet in some random body of water to win. Corsets optional. Shirt and shoes optional. Nose mandatory. Comments will close 12 pm ET, Friday 10 January 2014. I will select the winner from the entries in the comments on Friday 10 January. You're welcome to tell me in the comments which entries you like best.
So, what are the prizes?
Yay! Thanks, Avon! I wonder if wishing earls might buy iPads?
Second runner up will win a $50 gc to the e-retailer of their choice (open internationally as well). Wishing earls would totally buy bookstore giftcards, too, I'm thinking.
So, if you'd like to enter to win, leave a comment below and complete the sentence If Wishes Were Earls….
Good luck! May the earls be with you!
Thanks for hosting the giveaway. I have enjoyed many Elizabeth Boyle books and I think I have at least one of the Rhymes with Love in my TBR e-pile.
So here is my entry, please try to be kind,
I am not a poet, something to keep in mind.
If wishes were Earls, I would not be at home,
no longer reading of English homes of stone.
I would be at the manor outside of Shrewsbury,
a newly minted Countess, that will be me.
Living a life that includes servants and going to balls,
no more working in my pj’s and daily conference calls.
But maybe the coffers these days are a bit bare,
I will take my job with me and keep designing software.
My wished for Earl and I will be quite glad,
as we resticate in the county with our new iPad.
If wishes were earls, I’d be a countess!
If Wishes Were Earls, then (birthday) Candles Would (be their) Bride(s).
And we’d all get lots of cake! 🙂
… since I first saw any mention of this, I’ve really really really really wanted to write “If wishes were earls … then horses would ride.” Which I know makes absolutely no sense, but I can’t help it.
But I guess if wishes were earls, I’d have a very rich dude harem 😉
If wishes were Earls…
it’d probably be a joke so I’d end up only being able to drink Earl Grey Tea!
If wishes were Earls, then we’d finally escape from the duchy!
If wishes were Earls, then Countesses would ride 🙂
My Gram’s favorite saying is
If wishes were horses then beggars would ride
If wishes were Earls, then Countesses would ride 🙂
My Gram’s favorite saying is
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
If wishes were earls, then we’d all be eating steak!
(Sorry, I had to go for the Firefly reference.)
If Wishes Were Earls….then dreams would be dukes. (rhymes with foreplay)
If wishes were earls – we’d make them by blowing out candles at birthday parties. Which would cause many a confused earl poofing into existence at strange moments. But then we could feed them cake -which is where this comment was always heading. CAKE!
If wishes were earls, the subsequent population crisis would cause a catastrophic resource crash that would send the world hurtling into apocalyptic squalor, necessitating the wearing of leather pants and probably motorcycles.
Also, the price of tea would skyrocket.
If Wishes Were Earls…there would be titled men around the world.
If wishes were Earls … I’d have many pennies! Medieval earls, acting on behalf of the king, collected taxes. He was allowed to keep the “third penny”. Perhaps that’s why his wife was called the countess … she was counting the pennies!
If wishes were Earls, I’d have a harem 😉
If wishes were earls ….I’d aim for a prince
Happy Birthday Elizabeth 🙂
If wishes were Earls…..what would we do for romantic angst and tension? we would have to elaborate our plots to be unrealistic or something
If wishes were Earls…I’d be warm right now and not wearing two pairs of socks inside
If wishes were earls…in real life there wouldn’t be many but in romancelandia there would be one around every corner (or is that dukes…). 🙂
If wishes were Earls, I’d be a Countess and not just girl!
If wishes were earls, then I’d have my very own!
If wishes were earls, we’d all have diamonds.
If Wishes Were Earls….Countesses would be many. 🙂
If wishes were earls, I’d never cook another meal.
If wishes were Earls, far more ladies would ride.
If wishes were Earls, the heroine would only wear pearls? Did I mention I tried out for the job of greeting card writer . . . and failed.
If Wishes were Earls – my 7 year old could get her own hockey equipment on. No seriously – it’s that bad.
If Wishes were Earls there would be more Disney princess girls.
If wishes were earls, we’d all have a happily ever after…
If wishes were Earls, any number of historical romance heroines who had to settle for mere misters and second sons with courtesy titles would now be countesses.
(What I think is funny about this giveaway is that it neatly taps into what is basically irresistible catnip for nerds who read a lot by dangling an unsolveable word puzzle (“Earl does not rhyme with love!!!”) in front of them, thus compelling them to enter. Very cunning of Avon!)
If wishes were Earls …the fountain in my local park could be renamed the ‘Noble Containment Facility.’ Because of all the coins, it would be self-supporting, though.:)
Happy Birthday!! If wishes were earls and Hopes were pearls….
If wishes were Earls, I’d have beautiful curls
If wishes were Earls,
And plastic beads were pearls,
And straight hair suddenly curls,
What a wonderful world it would be.
If wishes were earls… ice cream sundaes would be the answer.
If wishes were Earls, then presumably Earls would be wishes, giving a whole new meaning to the concept of one’s dream man…
Actually, if wishes were Earls, daydreaming could get really messy. I mean, consider this scenario. You are lying in the bath, daydreaming, and wishing that you could just have a lazy evening and – bang! Suddenly there is an Earl in your bathroom! Which is really quite embarrassing, though he is tall and blond and handsome and he has a glint in his eye, so you get distracted and it doesn’t occur to you to consider where this Earl came from in the first place, which is a bad thing, because you wake up rather later in a very good mood, wishing that this could last forever, and – crash! There’s another Earl in your bedroom, and he is dark and sardonic and rakish, with a wicked appeal, but this isn’t as good as it sounds because the first Earl also wakes up, and it turns out that he and the second Earl are mortal enemies (some business to do with a debutante and a stocking), and there’s a lot of posturing and possibly threats of a duel and you wish that they’d both just show some sense and stop being Alph-holes and zing! Another Earl! And he has hazel eyes and red hair and a cheeky grin, but you are beginning to get cross now, because you actually didn’t get a lot of sleep last night and you have three Earls shouting at each other in your bedroom early in the morning and really, you just wish that the three of them would all get…
Yeah. And suddenly it’s a whole different romance novel.
Best not, really.
if wishes were earls, there would be a lot less churls, who make my chest hairs curl!
If wishes were earls then beggars would ride. Clearly.
If wishes were earls, his crown jewels would be decorated with pearls!