There were so many great entries to the giveaway of a copy of Allison Winn Scotch’s TIME OF MY LIFE that we couldn’t pick just one! After much late-night deliberations and backstage considerations, Allison and I have picked three winners to the contest for the best five-word description for the time of your life.
The grand prize winner is Emilie with “‘Secret Garden’ late-night dancing.” Emilie, you’ll get a signed copy of the book from Allison.
And our two other winners are Sunny with “19 weeks… Surprise! It’s TWINS!!!” and Lauren with “I flew through the air.” Lauren, can you write a novel please about being a trapeze artist!?! I’ll send both of you copies of the book via Amazon.
Email me, dear readers, with your addresses.
Published August 10th, 2009 at 8:02 am in Uncategorized with 3 comments
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One of my favorite books recently is Allison Winn Scotch’s New York Times Bestseller “Time of my Life,” which I recommended earlier this year. It’s just been released in paperback this week, so to celebrate the launch and to support an author I adore, I’m having a contest to giveaway a copy of this delicious novel! The rules are simple — describe the best time of your life in five words or less in the comments section below. I’ll pick a winner — along with input from Allison hereself — and announce it here by this weekend. So weigh in on why you should get a free copy of a novel you’ll gobble up in a night or two!
Published August 5th, 2009 at 8:45 pm in Authors, Contemporary Women's Fiction with 23 comments
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I’ve read all the Harry Potter books, I’ve read the Twilight series, but I don’t know that I’d buy every single book written by J.K. Rowling or Stephenie Meyer. I haven’t read Meyer’s “The Host” and I haven’t read Rowling’s “Tales of Beedle the Bard.” But I do buy and read every single book Emily Giffin writes. I fell in love with her debut novel “Something Borrowed” back in 2004 when it was released and since then I’ve known the release date of each of her next three books and have bought them all and starting reading them all the day they went on sale. Her next novel “Heart of the Matter” releases next spring and that’s not soon enough for me.
Emily Giffin would be tops on my list of authors whose books I will always buy and buy right away. On that list I would also include Khaled Hosseini, Courtney Summers, Julie Buxbaum, Allison Winn Scotch, and, increasingly, Elizabeth Scott.
Julie Buxbaum’s second novel, After You, releases this summer and I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my advance copy because I happen to think Julie is a phenomenal author and her debut “The Opposite of Love” is one of my favorites.
Whose books will you always buy? Which authors do you track? Whose tales do you make sure to purchase or check out from the library the day they release?
Published July 27th, 2009 at 10:19 am in Authors with 14 comments
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What if you could do it all over again? Or maybe just the last seven years? The what-if promise is a tantalizing one for many of us; Allison Winn Scotch breathes fresh insight into what might happen when you get your “what if” in “Time of My Life.” A young suburban mom, Jillian Westfield can’t stop wondering what happened to the one who got away. Then one day she doesn’t have to wonder. She gets to find out because she wakes up seven years in her past with the chance to figure out what went wrong, what went right, and which path to choose. Scotch keeps you wishing and wanting different outcomes for Jillian with every twist and turn of this story – that’s the brilliance in “Time of My Life,” because getting what we think we want isn’t always what we want.
Published January 9th, 2009 at 12:19 pm in Authors, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Recommended Reading with 1 comments
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