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And the winner is…
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Print Books or eGalleys? You choose
Friday, August 20th, 2010Today, on top of the 150+ books, I’m giving away this week, I’m giving away both print books and eGalleys.
I’ll give you the print books first. 
To her surprise, Lady Mallory Byron finds herself walking down the aisle with the last man she ever expected to ask for her hand.
Everyone knows the Byron brothers are “mad, bad, and dangerous.” Now their sister shockingly discovers she’s the newest talk of the Ton when she marries the scandalous Earl of Gresham. Faced with a tragic loss, she’d sought comfort from him as a family friend. But soon consolation turned to passion, scandal––and a wedding! In the bridal bed, she finds pleasure beyond her wildest dreams. But can nights of wicked delight change friendship into true love?
Charming rakehell Adam, Earl of Gresham, has secretly loved Mallory for years. He lost her once to another man, but now he has a second chance to win her love––and plans to do so by any means necessary. Will Mallory’s heart give him what he so dearly desires? Or is the past too much to overcome?
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Former FBI Special Agent Sloane Burbank is finally ready to take the next step in her relationship with her former colleague Derek Parker. The couple has already survived hardship, from breaking up to outwitting a crazed killer targeting Sloane. This second chance at love and happiness seems like a dream come true. But nothing is that easy.
Sloane’s father witnessed a crime over a decade ago that has come back to haunt him – and his family. After a vicious attack at the Burbank home, Sloane faces a tough decision: betray her father’s secret, or withhold vital information from him, especially when it impacts his job.until he is faced with the same tough choice.
Though they love each other deeply, can this couple who’s faced so much overcome this ultimate test of trust – and will they stay alive long enough to find the answer?
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Legend has it that Armand Argeneau is a killer in the bedroom . . .
But with all three of his late wives meeting unfortunate and untimely ends, is this sexy immortal a lover or a murderer? That’s what Eshe d’Aureus intends to find out. As an enforcer, it’s her job to bring rogue vampires to justice, even if the rogue in question makes her blood race red hot.
Armand knew she was trouble the moment Eshe roared into town on her motorcycle, clad in tight black leather. She claims she’s hiding from dangerous fiends, though he suspects something more. But after three wives who’ve all had trouble remaining, well, undead, Armand is reluctant to open his heart again. Then strange accidents start to happen, each deadlier than the last, and Armand realizes he may not have much time to prove he’s a lover, not a slayer.
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Indeed, you’re also going to get another chance to win eGalleys for 3 fabulous Avon October releases.
They call him Lord Lightning…for his shocking behavior. An unrepentant rogue with a wicked reputation, his outrageous conduct ensures no woman will get close enough to hurt him.
But demure and lovely astrologer Eliza Farrell casts a chart that tells her Lord Hartwood is capable of great, passionate love. When Hartwood indulges in one of this famous pranks and invites Eliza to become his new mistress, the virginal country miss must meet her fate armed only with her knowledge that the cynical lord will become the tender lover she sees predicted in the stars.
Though Eliza is nothing like the brazen strumpets he prefers the seemingly incorruptible seer excites Lord Lightning much more than the hard, calculating women he is accustomed to. Eliza’s trusting spirit and quick mind touch his cold heart-and when the bewitching innocent surprisingly agrees to be seen on his arm, neither can predict the sparks that fly between them–or resist the electric passion that threatens to transform them both.
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Diana Fanshawe has always wanted to be a duchess. She uses Sebastian Iverley to get to his ducal cousin, but finds she cannot forget the brilliant, unconventional viscount and his sizzling kiss.
Sebastian Iverley has no time for women until he meets the beautiful Diana. When he learns she is trifling with him, the scholarly bookworm studies what it takes to please a lady. He initiates a game of seduction and revenge that can only end in disaster … or true love.
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Elinor thought it would very simple to marry a duke, until she found them in short supply
Elinor Sterling is the second Standon widow ready to make the leap back into matrimony–but for her it is a different situation. Forcing her hand is her step-father who is threatening to take away her younger sister, and so it is up to Elinor to find a powerful husband to send this troublemaker packing–in other words, she needs a duke.
But what she discovers is that dukes are in very short supply so she hires solicitor James St. Maur to track down the most likely candidate. But the man she’s hired isn’t quite what he appears to be, and all too soon Elinor finds herself mad about the most unlikeliest of heroes.
Comment to enter to win either the print books–all 3 of them–or the eGalley for the October historical releases. Commenting will also double your chance to win 5 books from Friday’s selection of The Season One Year Anniversary Giveaway.
Thursday’s Question
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Today’s Question:
What was Rachel Farris’s former job occupation before she returned to Destiny to help her grandmother save the family orchard in Toni Blake’s SUGAR CREEK?
Email your answer to contests at theseasonforromance dot com. Please include your first and last name.
**Hint: Answer can be found in the pop up review on the website. Double quotes around the search string helps limit the results.
Wednesday’s Question
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Today’s Question:
What specific sub-genre is Meljean’s Brooks’ novella Here There Be Monsters in the BURNING UP anthology?
Email your answer to contests at theseasonforromance dot com. Please include your first and last name.
**Hint: Answer can be found in the pop up review on the website. Double quotes around the search string helps limit the results.
What’s going on and coming up.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010If you belong to The Season Facebook Group, I hope you’ve received the email for the mini-giveaway I’m throwing–a small preemption of the one year anniversary one that will begin August 16th. If you like visuals, here’s the selection of books. Follow the directions on the Facebook email to enter!
A special thanks to all the authors and publicists that afforded me an extra book here and there when they learned I was giving all my books away (You know who you are). You guys are the best!!!
Tomorrow, join me on the blog when Lila DiPasqua will be guest blogging and giving away a copy of her debut book, AWAKENED BY A KISS, three steamy retellings of classic fairy tales.
Excerpt Thursday will be moved and become Excerpt Friday this week. I’ll be featuring two ‘hookable’ excerpts; ones that will hopefully heighten your anticipation for the books release.
I’m back from the RWA National Conference that took place in hot and muggy Orlando, FL at Disney World. I’ll blog about that next week.
Upcoming Events and Other News
Monday, July 12th, 2010August 17th of 2009, The Season celebrated the official launch of The Season website. It was a month long bonanza with an 8+ book and 2+ winners a day giveaway, which totaled 44 winners and over 90 books.
Well, The Season’s one year anniversary is just a month away and while it won’t be for a month this time, but starting Monday, August 16th thru August 20th, I’ll be holding a week long celebration with books aplenty to be won, and lots of fun and games.
If you are a published author and would like to donate your book(s) to be featured on the Blog for the giveaway, please contact me at contact at theseasonforromance dot com.
In other news, I’ve updated The Season website with a search feature!!! Yes! Believe me when I say, this feature is a major time saver. When the number on books on the site grew to unwieldy, even for me, I knew I had to put aside my trepidation and just do it. I’m happy to say that it seems to be working better than I could have hoped. Here’s a hint, if you’re doing literal searches, put a quote around the string. For example, if you’re searching for “I Kissed An Earl“, put a quote around the title so you don’t get everything with “Kissed” and “Earl” in it.
The search is on all home pages. The good news about that is, starting with the August issue, all genres featured on the site will have their own home pages.
Getting back to The Season’s One Year Anniversary week long celebration, what else would you like to see or do besides receive fantastic books? I’m looking for ideas. If I use your idea, you’ll be one of Day One’s winners and will get your choice of 3 books.
And the winner is…
Sunday, July 4th, 2010The winner of the Red, White and Blue Fireworks Giveaway is….
Giuseppina Cusumano
Congratulations Giuseppina! Please email your contact information to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com. You have two weeks to collect your fantastic prize.
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, EVERYONE!!!
Enter to Win in The Season’s Red, White and Blue Fireworks Giveaway
Sunday, June 27th, 2010The time to enter has arrived! To celebrate July 4th, I’m giving away 45 Fabulous Books and Chocolate! Entering is as easy as posting a comment. Newsletter subscribers entered last week and get two chances to win if they post a comment here today. Click the image below to check out the books on the contest pages on the website. Good luck, everyone!
**Available to US and Canadian residents ONLY.
Red, White and Blue Fireworks Giveaway
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Check out books 13 and 14!
An expert in antiquities, Lady Alessandra della Giamatti arrives in Bath to excavate newly discovered Roman ruins-only to find herself caught in a web of evil intrigue by a blackmailer threatening to expose her scandalous past. The one man who can help her is Lord James “Black Jack” Pierson, a fellow member of the expedition and a sinfully handsome rogue whose tempting presence ignites a different sort of danger.
Jack has clashed with Alessandra in the past, so when she suddenly surrenders her body he can’t help being suspicious. Is she a scheming temptress? Or is she truly a lady in trouble? As desire and deceptions swirl around them, Alessandra and Jack must find a way to win each other’s trust. For if they don’t work together to uncover a shocking truth, their enemy-and their own simmering passions-may destroy them and everything they cherish.
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A reclusive widow known for her scientific scholarship, Lady Ciara Sheffield is shadowed by rumors that she poisoned her husband . . .
A rakehell rogue notorious for his devil-may-care antics, Lucas Bingham–the Earl of Hadley–is not accused of murdering anything–save for the rules of Polite Society. The only thing they have in common is seeing their names featured in the lurid gossip columns of London’s newspapers. Until an ancient manuscript draws them together.
Ciara needs a titled fiancé to quell the slanderous speculations which may send her to the gallows. Lucas needs brilliant scholar to help his elderly uncle decipher the secrets of the mysterious manuscript. So when her friends urge her to accept the earl’s proposal of a temporary alliance, Ciara decides that she has no choice but to make a deal with the Devil. And so begins a seductive dance of sinful pleasures and hidden desires as the two of them waltz through the mansions of Mayfair.
Maya Rodale Interview ~ A Groom of One’s Own
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Today we welcome Maya Rodale to the blog. Yes, Maya has agreed to virtual chit chat so I can literally pick her brain. And she’s pretty brainy so she can spare the loss of a couple of gray cells. 
And not only is Maya here to chat about her upcoming release, A Groom of One’s Own, but she (aka Avon Books) is going to give away 5 (five) advanced copies to 5 lucky commenters. Also, A Groom of One’s Own is another book in the July 4th Red, White and Blue Fireworks Giveaway!
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I’ve heard A Groom of One’s Own, the first book in The Writing Girls Romances, compared to Sex in the City in Regency London. What do you think of that analogy?
Instead of four girls in New York City, it’s four girls during London’s Regency. These are stories about female friendship, as well as being straight up romances. Oh, and then there is the scandal, the gossip and the heart-to-heart talks and the fabulous fashion.
Can you tell us a little about A Groom of One’s Own?
Newspaper columnist Sophie Harlow is reporting on the duke of Hamilton and Brandon’s wedding to Lady Clarissa, who is falling for a visiting Prince, while Sophie is in love with the duke, who refuses to jilt his betrothed, even though he’s falling for the scandalous Writing Girl. It’s a love quadrangle and a comedy.
You said that your mother made you start reading romance novels (chuckle, chuckle) because you were working on a degree of Women in Fiction. How do you feel about romance novels prior to reading your first book?
I confess, I was a snob (see my next answer). I also didn’t know the first thing about romances either—other than that my professors at my Serious Academic Institution might laugh at me. They didn’t, in part because I think I was able to argue how romance novels are significant, powerful and valid literary works. In the end, I wrote my graduate thesis on how revolutionary romance novels are.
But I still read them for fun. A lot.
What kinds of books were you reading before you starting reading romances?
Honest to gosh, in high school I was reading Hemingway. For fun.
What does your mother think of your writing career? Was she surprised her nudge got you addicted and now a writer of the romance genre?
My mother is always right, so she wasn’t really surprised that I became a convert and began to write them. She thinks it’s really cool that I write the romance novels and often brags about it or mentions it in her blog.
A Groom of One’s Own
Author: Maya Rodale
Publisher: Avon
Pub. Date: June 29, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0345518859
Retail: $7.99
384 pagesMiss Harlow’s Marriage In High Life London, 1823
A handsome duke. His beautiful soon-to-be duchess. A whirlwind courtship. It is this author’s privilege to report on the event all of London is talking about: the upcoming wedding of the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon to the only daughter of the Duke of Richmond. Every details of the “Wedding of the Year” will be reported in these pages as a London Weekly exclusive.
But I, Miss Sophie Harlow, must confess to a secret infatuation with this “double duke” that can only lead to trouble. It is impossible that this notoriously upstanding gentleman would ever jilt his bride for a scandalous female newspaper writer. And yet…the arrival of a foreign prince, the discovery of a shocking secret, and one passionate kiss could change everything. Will this perfect duke risk the scandal of the year to marry the woman his heart desires?
There are only just three more weeks until the wedding…
For a woman to be a writer in Regency London is rare so a woman has to be very independent. Do you prefer to write about independent and self-sufficient heroines?
It was rare for women to be writers—but they did it, and a lot more than we think. Usually they did it because they had to support themselves and kids because their husbands were dead or deadbeats. These women were amazing.
I definitely love reading about independent and self-sufficient heroines because I can either relate to them, or I’m really inspired by them. The challenge of balancing self-interest with a relationship appeals to me, too. And my rule is to write what I like to read.
To you, what makes for a great hero?
Six pack abs, a rakish grin and a title. Just kidding (sort of). I like heroes that are proud, kind men, with a sense of humor. And a rakish grin.
Tell us about the ‘call’, when you sold your first book, An Heir and a Spare.
That morning I had gone on a Real Job interview—I had given up on the book deal, you see. And then I was taking a nap because that is what you do when you’re unemployed and have given up. Usually I am very irked when someone calls while I’m napping, but not when it’s my agent saying I have an offer on my books!
How many books do you have planned for this series and who is next on the agenda. Can you tell us anything about that story?
Oooh…secrets! The next Writing Girl book will feature Lady Julianna, the secret author of the gossip column Fashionable Intelligence. Our hero is the rakish Lord Roxbury (complete with six pack abs, a rakish grin, a sense of humor, and a title). Scandal GALORE.
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I want to thank Maya for dropping by and I encourage you to check out Maya’s other books on her website.
Ladies…have any of you had a crush, fallen in love, been smitten by a married, engaged, seriously dating or likewise man?
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