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!
If wishes were earls… there would be inflation in earls and being an earl would be a whole lot less special. In fact not special at all.
If wishes were earls, aristocrats would be running ALL around America.
If Wishes Were Earls…I’d own an iPad.
If wishes were earls…. I would hope they could be trained in useful skills like housekeeping (Gotta have something to do with all those surplus aristocrats).
If wishes were earls… there would be an influx of impoverished nobility seeking wealthy heiresses. They’re would be so many of them and all so desperate for cash to regain their family’s honor (etc.), that they would even lower themselves to marrying heiresses from trade (*gasp*) or ones from America (*shudder*)!
The shades of many noble estates would be thus polluted.
If Wishes Were Earls…
*snatches someone’s magic lamp*
Rubbing the magic lamp would get a lot more naughty. Why, yes, I’ll give you three earls a whirl! (1 girl, 3 earls, yes!)
Ha, such bad rhyming; sorry, ladies. Can’t seem to get my mind out of the gutter today (its favorite hangout lately).
If wishes were Earls and
pearls were marquises
then we’d all have a lovely tea
If wishes were Earls … oh what a reality show that would be.
I’m thinking a combo makeover show/the Bachelor.
If wishes were Earls, then things could get complicated…
“If Wishes Were Earls, I’d be royalty”
If wishes were earls we’d all just want to be California girls…
That’s all I got. I’ll be here all night folks. Try the veal.
If wishes were earls, then I’d have an awful lot of hot, bare-chested males with wind blown hair standing around in my living room. And maybe in my kitchen. In aprons. Cooking my dinner.
If wishes were earls there would be nearly as many earls in the world as there are in Romancelandia.
If wishes were Earls, there’d be a lot more plumbers and sandwiches in the world!
If wishes were Earls there wouldn’t be enough ladies to go around and the men of the world would have to step up their game. Nothing wrong with a little friendly competition. 🙂
If wishes were Earls, regency romance authors would be in trouble!
If wishes were Earls, it would give a whole
new meaning to “make a wish and blow out
the candles on the birthday cake.” That’s a
party I would like to attend!
If wishes were Earls, I would have met at least 5 by now in addition to 2 attractive Viscounts and at minimum 1 devastatingly hansom Duke!
If wishes were earls, I’d still go after the bastard son of a Duke.
If wishes were earls,
Beggars would ride …bareback.
If turnips were dukes,
Rutabagas would be a fair snack.
If wishes were earls,
Beggars would ride… barebacked.
If turnips were duchesses,
Rutabagas would be well stacked.
A dream is an earl your heart makes
If wishes were earls, where would the pearls be? Around my neck with diamonds galore that sparkle at night like a thousand stars.
If wishes were earls, there’d be more regencies about them….
Ok if wishes were earls then it would seem earls would be wishes so that means that if you blew out the candles on your birthday cake (yeah cake!)you would then get and earl…might get confusing after a few years…all those earls milling about.
Oh well, guess I will try this.
If wishes were Earls, then I would be one lonely girl, because I would not date anyone named Earl.
If wishes were Earls, I would hope to wake up to you, alive, every morning, but we both know the sun doesn’t always rise on exactly the same zenith we want it to most.
If wishes were earls and aces were wild, then I’d be one happy gal.
If wishes were earls, I’d have a million of those titled gentlemen running around—and I’ll put them to work pampering me. ^_^
If wishes were earls, all walls would hold murals.
We would all have a much better chance of landing one!
If wishes were Earls chocolate would not have calories.
If Wishes were earls….. I don’t even know. That title doesn’t make sense to me and reminds me why I dl don’t read many historicals.
If wishes were earls, I would be surrounded by diamonds and pearls
If wishes were earls, we’d all be royals.
Happy Birthday!
If wishes were earls…….. ahhh if only!
If wishes were Earls, all my wishes would be granted.
If wishes were Earls, I would go to the Bahamas with my wife!!!!
then I’d have one of my own, instead of my churl.
If wishes were Earls, the only thing frigid would be the chaperons, not the weather!