Book Related Events And Contests To Kick Off Your Monday! (November 22)

Holiday Events:

• Reminder! Black Velvet Seductions is celebrating a month of thanksgiving (the feeling—not necessarily the holiday—though we will be celebrating the holiday too) at their blog (http://www.blackvelvetseductions.com/readers_blog/ with daily posts relating to Thanksgiving (the holiday) and thankfulness. There will be recipes, shout outs, daily prizes (in addition to those already awarded each week).  Stop by to join the fun. All posts during the month of thanksgiving events will be included in the spreadsheet for the Kindle giveaway as well as for other prize drawings throughout the month.

Contests:

• Win a “Naughty” Stocking & Holly’s Big Bad Santa paperback from Starla Kaye.  Enter this contest for a very soft, very nice…well, “naughty” stocking and an autographed copy of Holly’s Big Bad Santa paperback. A picture of the prizes is on Starla’s website (www.starlakayeromance.com) along with the complete contest rules. Each entrant must answer the three questions based on information in the excerpt for Holly’s Big Bad Santa posted on her website. Entrants must email their answers to her at starlakaye.romance@gmail.com. The entrants with correct answers will have their names put into a drawing on December 12, 2010, to be performed by an un-involved person at Starla’s office. Only one winner will receive the prize. The winner will be notified by email and arrangements will then be made to mail the prize.
• Win a pair of Western Santa ornaments from Starla Kaye. Starla loves Christmas time, cowboys, and a good story where the confident, independent heroine gives her cowboy a run for her heart. The characters involved in the three holiday stories in Ranch Christmas (from Blushing Books) struggle in their relationships. Each story deals with domestic discipline elements between people who love each other. Going with the theme of cowboys and Christmas, Starla is giving away a pair of whimsical Western Santa ornaments. A picture of the ornaments is on my website (www.starlakayeromance.com) along with the complete contest rules.

  CONTEST RULES: Each entrant must answer the three questions based on information in the story overviews for Ranch Christmas posted on the website. Entrants must email their answer to Starla at starlakayecontest@gmail.com. Put the name of the contest in the Subject line of the email. The entrants with correct answers will have their names put into a drawing on November 30, 2010, to be performed by an un-involved person at her office. Only one winner will receive the ornaments. The winner will be notified by email and arrangements will then be made to mail the prize.

• To celebrate her latest anthology release, Her Cowboy’s Way, which includes domestic discipline and lots of loving, Starla Kaye is giving away a whimsical, hand-painted porcelain figurine of a Western bride roping her groom. A picture of the figurine is on her website along with the complete contest rules. Check it out at: www.starlakayeromance.com
• Don’t forget to play the Chatty Member Shout Out – and authors can play too. J To play you just go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RomanceJunkiesReaders/ and chat! Respond to posts and questions…pose your own…share what you are reading…etc. Each month three winners will receive packages of print books, one to three winners will win free ebooks, and one or more author will win free advertising at Romance Junkies.
• Stacy Juba is giving away one spiral bound early readers copy of her soon-to-be-released mystery/romantic suspense novel Sink or Swim and one e-book download of my romantic suspense novel Twenty-Five Years Ago Today. Entrants may enter one time by leaving a comment with their email address and how they follow. Extra entries will be given to Twitter, Facebook and Goodreads followers. The Sink or Swim giveaway is open to U.S. residents only, and the e-book giveaway is open to everyone. Visitors may also click on links to over 175 other book giveaways, part of the Gratitude Giveaway Blog Hop. Entry dates are November 17th at 12:01 am EST through Sunday, November 28th at 11:59 pm EST. Stacy’s giveaway is at http://bit.ly/b5iD0N
• Reminder! Celebrations are underway the entire month of November at All Romance Ebooks where they are celebrating four years as retailer of ebooks. Starting on November 1 and continuing throughout the month of November one shopper per day will win all of the books on their wish list (up to a value of $100). Make sure your wish list is fully stocked and check out the contest at: http://allromanceebooks.com