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!
…then chocolate would be calorie free!
I know that makes no sense, but as long as we’re wishing, let’s go for the good stuff.
If wishes were earls, Aladdin would be one sad soul indeed. Instead of winning the heart of fair princess Badroulbadour, he would be saddled with a band of three rakish, rhyming bachelors of rank.
If wishes were Earls, a lot more people would owe English taxes?
Happy Birthday, Ms. Boyle! And, thanks, Avon, for the opportunity!
If wishes were Earls…..Downton Abbey would be on TV every week, all year long. Thanks for the contest. Happy Birthday!
I wouldn’t have to work…
if wishes were earls…there would be more dukes
If wishes were earls, then beggars would be titled.
If wishes were earls…
a) I’d have too many earls which is a phrase no girl should utter
and
b) The girl on the cover would probably have someone to fetch whatever priceless treasure she’s dropped in the pond
If wishes were Earls, mine would still be Grey … and hot.
Happy Birthday Ms Boyle! Hope that you are having as much fun with this as we are!
We would all be living in the South
IF WISHES WERE EARLS… I’d be beating them off with a stick.
If wishes were earls, we’d be covered in pearls.
If wishes were Earls…Marcy would be a happy girl. *blink* Because she’d get the Earl, right? What, no? Oh. *sigh* Drat.
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth!
If Wishes Were Earls….There’d be way too many British aristocrats running around!
Great contest! Thanks.
If wishes were earls… I’d wish one up, and he’d make my toes curl. 🙂 << Take that as you wish he he he <3
If wishes were earls, countesses would be scullery maids.
If wishes were earls the book’s title would make a little more sense. Because, after all, how can a thing (wish) be a person (earl)? Am I right?
If wishes were Earls, I’d have an ipad for my girl!
If wishes were earls, I would be a wealthy woman!
If Wishes Were Earls then my name would be Ray.
If wishes were earls, then beggars would… bow?
I f wishes were Earls,I’d be much more than s girl.
If wishes were earls, I’d hope they’d be the heroes of books and not of “Goodbye Earl”.
IF WISHES WERE EARLS THEN I WOULD BE HEALTHY, WEALTHY & WISE !~
If wishes were earls then I’d lay on a bed of pearls.
If wishes where earls, I’d get through a few every night!
If Wishes were Earls, the sky would be filled with dazzling pearls,
and the moon would align with the stars in his eyes
and life would be fine, if Wishes were Earls.
If wishes were earls, I’d own many diamonds and pearls.
If wishes were Earls I’d have to rethink my convictions about hereditary nobility.
If wishes were earls…then every time I made a wish a dude would show up?
If wishes were Earls… I’d be decked out in pearls!
If wishes were Earls…we’d seriously have an over-abundance of trivial nobility.
If wishes were Earls I’d be using my own ipad instead of my kids to enter this contest!
If wishes were Earls I would own many more tiara’s
If wishes were earls, no one would wear their grandmothers’ pearls, for earls can afford more expensive jewelry.
Unless they are impoverished earls, in which case, most of us would be sorely out of luck—with the noted exception of those heiresses among us *looking at Bitchery Peerage for clues on wealth status*
Thank you for the giveaway, Avon and SBSarah, and happy b-day to Ms Boyle!
If Wishes Were Earls All Girls Would Have Pearls.
…every girl would have a complete set of over-bred Englishmen.
Happy Birthday to a fabulous author. I’d have to guess that… if wishes were Earls, every girl would ride (to her happily ever after, of course)
If wishes were Earls, I’d have a lot more time to read!
If wishes were Earls, my DH could quit his job!