It’s the eighth and final night of the Extrava-Hanukkah giveaways!
I hope you’ve had as much fun as we have with all the mayhem and merriment. It’s just delightful for me to celebrate all of you and to party for eight straight days.
The eighth night of Hanukkah is pretty special for me, too. We can probably heat the whole house with the warmth from all the candles, and we can definitely make s’mores. It’s bright and warm and beautiful while the are lit, too.
On to the giveaway! I know you like the handbag giveaways – I try to pick patterns that go with everything and shapes that are both useful but not too overwhelming. And I have one more bag in the strangely-shaped prize closet!
Today’s giveaway is:
A Kate Spade Blake Avenue Margareta tote in Diamond Dot!
This bag is 11.3″ high, 15.6″ wide, and 6.2″ deep (27.9cm x 39.5cm x 15.24cm), and the handle drop is nearly 10 inches (25cm). You’ll definitely be able to put it over your shoulder.
It’s an open tote with a recessed zipper closure, and it has two inside slide pockets and a zipper pocket as well. You can carry just about everything you need in this bag.
And, since you’ll need to get some new books and possibly other treats for yourself, we’re adding a $25 gift certificate to Amazon as well! Woo hoo!
Ready to enter? All you need to do is tell us about a book you really want to read next year. Maybe it’s a title or a series you’re anticipating, or maybe it’s a book that hasn’t been written yet but you still want to find it? What book are you looking forward to, real or imagines?
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age. It’s totally okay to mix patterns while carrying this tote. Honestly, wear whatever you want. You’re going to look fabulous either way! Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Comments will close at or near 12pm ET on Sunday 1 January 2017 and winners will be announced shortly afterward.
Happy Hanukkah everyone! Thank you for being part of the Smart Bitches community!
Update: Our final winner of our Extrava-Hanukkah giveaway is Jill L.! Big thank you to all the comments and to every one of you who make the community so awesome! Here’s to great things in 2017!
OMG – I have been desperately awaiting the release of Ilona Andrews’ second installment of her Hidden Legacy series – White Hot. If it were possible to wear through an ebook, the first book in the series would have disintegrated in my hands by now! I love Andrews’ characterizations and their world building skills are incomparable. I’m also looking forward to the next installment of Jenn Stark’s Wilde series – I ripped through all of those in an epic binge read over the holiday break (#whatyourenglishteacheractuallyreads). Considering how suck 2016 has been on so many levels, I am happy that 2017 is at least giving me a number of good tomes to look forward to.
I’d love to read the 9th book in the Outlander series but I don’t think Diana will be done with it this year.
I’ve pre-ordered Seven Minutes in Heaven by Eloisa James.
I can’t wait for Patricia Briggs next Mercy Thompson book, Silence Falling. Although her Alpha and Omega series is my fav I love her writing and world building! Especially to read anything about Bran *sigh*.
I am really looking forward to “White Hot” – Ilona Andrews next book. Can’t wait!!!! 😀
Another vote for the new Lucy Parker book. “Act Like It” has become one of my favorite “comfort reads!”
I’m working my way thru the Perfect Gentlemen series by Shayla Black & Lexi Blake. Goodreads claims #4 Smoke and Sin is scheduled for May 2017. I’m hoping Goodreads is not lying to me.
I really need to catch up with Nalini Singh. I love her books but haven’t read one in a while and it’s starting to make me twitchy.
Devil in the Spring!! I also have Hidden Figures on the deck to start reading and I am so excited for that
The Milla Vane barbarian novel, due to be out in the summer!! + more of any Ilona Andrews & the etched in bone the next instalment in Anne bishops, the others series.
The next IAD novel!!
I’m looking forward to the next Mercy book by Patricia Briggs
Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet. Just 3 more days until I can get my hands on it.
I’m hoping to get a copy of Marrying Mrs. Winterborne and I can’t wait for the new, last Outlander book.
I’m looking forward to Unyielding, the next book in the Call of Crows series by Shelly Laurenston. I just finished the first two and I can’t wait!
Looking forward to Elizabeth Hoyt’s Duke of Desire, Laura Griffin’s At Close Range and Julie James’ The Thing About Love.
I cheated and read an ARC of the upcoming Others book by Anne Bishop, so I am looking forward to a new Patricia Briggs title in March, IIRC.
I just read Kelly Bowen’s Duke of My Heart and A Duke to Remember, so I’m looking forward to Between the Devil and the Duke.
I’m looking forward to reading my new favorite author. I don’t know who they are yet, but I love discovering someone new to me so I can glom everything they’ve ever written!
So many books here I didn’t even know were coming out, but I’m looking forward to anything by Tessa Dare, Laini Taylor, Joanna Bourne, and Lucy Parker.
I plan to read The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir – The Tudor Era is one of my favorite 🙂
It’s a toss up between Beard In Mind (Winston Brothers #4) and Royally Matched (Royally #2). The audio for Royally Screwed was the best. I hope she uses the same narrators.It got my lazy ass motivated to trail run many times. I’m keeping a close eye on Kristen Callihan’s VIP series too. That last one was slow-burn sexy awesomeness.
I am now 46 and finally hoping to finish my 9th grade summer reading project of Catcher in the Rye…lol
I am really looking forward to reading the new Lisa Kleypas.
I a man dying for A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas. I’ve been desperate for it since I finished book 2 last May.
I’m so looking forward to the next Veronica Speedwell book (A Perilous Undertaking) by Deanna Raybourn. I adored the first book so much and I’m glad the next one will be out in January!
I’ll be waiting for the next C.S. Harris book in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series. They come out once a year in the spring, like clockwork!
I’d love to read the In Death series.
One of your commenters recommended Wedding? Impossible! by Karen Templeton a few months ago and omg! I’ve been looking so long for a book like that which features second and third generation Asian Americans falling in love, and it’s probably the only romance novel featuring Asians I can relate to. I am so looking for more of those for the upcoming year, but I doubt there will be any.
I just read the cover copy Tessa Dare released today for her novel in August (or some other unfathomably long time from now), and it sounds like my catnip. Vicar’s daughter! Marriage of convenience! Battle-scarred hero! Catnip catnip catnip!
All new Anne Bishop, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Mariana Zapata, Kristen Ashley, Lucy Parker releases are marked on my calendar. My heart longs for something new by Jennifer Crusie, though. A big, fat book on the order of Fast Women, Welcome to Temptation or Agnes and the Hitman. And what I wouldn’t give for a last Vicky Bliss novel. Sigh.
Ever since the option of having a character named after yourself in a sequel to His Road Home was one of the prizes for DABWAHA, getting my grubby mitts on said book has been in the back of my mind, lurking. I have definitely checked Anna Richland’s amazon page a time or two just to be sure I didn’t miss its publication.
Happy New Year Bitches!
I’m looking forward to reading “White Hot” by Ilona Andrews.
White Hot by Ilona Andrews. I’ve been waiting for years!
There’s a few books I’m really looking forward to in 2017. Most of them are parts of series that I’ve really enjoyed.
Ash & Quill – Rachel Caine
The Brightest Embers – Jeaniene Frost
A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J. Maas
Breath of Fire – Amanda Bouchet
Midnight Jewel – Richelle Mead
Snared – Jennifer Estep
Windwitch – Susan Dennard
Etched in Bone – Anne Bishop
Into the Fire – Jeaniene Frost
The Sweetest Burn – Jeaniene Frost
Thank you for another great giveaway! I love Lisa Kleypas and cannot wait to read Devil in Spring. I’m also looking forward to reading Laura Griffin’s newest and Emma Chase’s Royally Matched!
I’m looking forward to Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet! A Promise of Fire was so great that I can’t wait to know what happens next.
I’m wasting away waiting for the next Nalini Singh! I’m excited to see how the PsyChangling series will branch out.
I can’t wait for Julia Quinn’s new book (the Rokesbys) and the new Lauren Layne Oxford book! I really loved the previous books in both series.
Thank you for hosting the giveaway!
There are a couple I’m hot to get to. The second book in Ilona Andrews new series is calling my name….Go “White Hot”! Also the next Kylie Scott Dive Bar novel. Most of all it’s not really a sequel per se, It’s the Lisa Kleypas follow up to Devil in Winter with the son’s story. Squeee!. All the above are on pre-order and anxiously awaited.