Day One

1. Tiffany Vega – personal website – First dibs on everything!

2. Brandy Dorsch

3. Felicia M. Ciaudelli

4. Babs

5. Nicole S.

6. Anna Doll

7. JenniferK

8. Barbara Elness

9. Maureen O. Betita

10. Vanessa

Day Two

1. Dalila G.  – RAINN post

2. Mikki – RAINN post

3. infinitieh – RAINN post

4. Karen H in NC

5. Tracey D.

6. Raelena

7. Nahal Momin

8. Julie

9. Laura H.

10. Chelsea B.

Day Three

1. LSUReader

2. FrankieJohnny

3. Diane P. Diamond

4. Lynette

5. Penney Wilfort

6. Cathy P.

7. Jody F.

8. Andrew Grigaliunas

9. Monica C.

10. iokijo

Grand Prize Winner  –  Danielle West

Congratulations, everyone!!! Please select your 5 books from the rules stated in Day One’s post. After you’ve done that, select 5 back up books, so you’ll be sending me a list of 10 in all. Danielle, please send me a list of 40 books, 25 plus 15 back up books. Send your list to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com along with your snail mail address. Bear with me, it will take a bit of time to put this all together and get the books out.  You have one week to contact me to collect your books!

It’s TIME!!!

It’s the first day of The Season’s Thanksgiving MEGA Giveaway!!! You’ll have your choice of 5 genres, 7 pages of books!

The rules are simple:

1. Comment here to enter to win.

2. 10 winners a day / 5 books each

3. Maximum of 3 total Premium books per winner. Maximum of 2 Premium books per genre.

4. Grand Prize winner wins 25 books and chocolate. Maximum of 12 total premium books. Maximum of 3 Premium books per genre.

5. U.S. Residents Only. No P.O. Boxes.

6. First winner will be selected from those entered in the November Contest on my personal website.

7. All entries MUST indicate which genres they are interested in.

8. One entry per household per day.

If you have any questions, you can email me directly at contact at theseasonforromance dot com.

Have fun!!!

The books being given away in The Season’s Thanksgiving MEGA Giveaway are up. Finally!

This time, I’ve separated them out by genre.

The giveaway begins Wednesday and runs until 11:59 PM on Black Friday.

Rules and instructions on how to enter will be posted here on Wednesday.

Is it just me or does Christmas seem to sneak up on us every year like a stealth bomber? I swear, it feels like yesterday I was stifled by the oppressive heat of Georgia’s August sun, and now Thanksgiving is a week away and in only 38 days 2011 culminates in the biggest holiday of the year: Christmas.

So as we’re staring down the end of the year, I want to hear from you:

1. Favourite book of the year (first release copyright in 2011)

2. Favourite author of the year

3. Favourite cover of the year.

I’ll post the results of the top 10 from each category and have a vote off in December.

Commenting will also enter you to win an advance copy of one of the following December 2011 reissues from Avon. Also, if you haven’t commented on the post below, please take a moment to help The Season raise money for a very worthy cause: RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). Help protect our children!!

 **Click above covers to read back cover copy

Okay, let’s start with the ‘Biggie’–the KINDLE. The winner is…

JenM

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Congratulations, ladies! Please email your snail mail addresses to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com and remember to include the title or the prize you won. You have one week to claim your prizes!

The winner of the St. Patrick Day’s Giveaway is…

Darcy Crowder

Congratulations, Darcy. Please email your snail mail address to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com. You have two weeks to contact to collect your prize!!

Just an FYI for all those who haven’t entered, today is the last day to enter to win a Kindle! Click here for entry details. Winner will be posted March 4, 2011.

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Crystal Broyles - Dreams of Desire
Carol Luciano – Hungry for You
Evelyn Childers - In the Dark of Dreams
Jackie Wisherd – Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman
Tracey Dent - The Duke’s Night of Sin
Sonya J. Moody – You Dropped a Blonde On Me

And SANDRA LYNNE you get your choice of book for commenting on The Highs and Lows of Publication post.

Congratulations, ladies. Please email your snail mail address to me at contests at theseasonforromance dot com. Remember to include the title of the book you won in the email. Sandra, please also include the title of the book you want. You have one week to collect your prize.

Instead of having more weekly giveaways this month, I’ll be doing a MEGA Christmas Giveaway and one lucky winner will receive approximately 50 books and yummy chocolates. I’ll have the contest posted this coming week so don’t forget to check back.

At the end of the upcoming week I’ll also be giving away another book (of winner’s choice) for best commenter. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do anything special, just keep commenting.

In closing, don’t forget to vote in November Readers’ Top Picks. The poll closes November 30th! Click here to vote.

With 2010 coming to a close in the next two months, which books have made your Top Ten?

So far The Season Readers have picked:

January – Pregnant by the Warrior ~ Denise Lynn
February - Bound by Temptation ~ Lavinia Kent
March - The Wild Marquis ~ Miranda Neville
April – Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake ~ Sarah MacLean
May – Sweetest Little Sin ~ Christine Wells
June – Married by Morning ~ Lisa Kleypas
July – Love in the Afternoon ~ Lisa Kleypas
August – Wicked Intentions ~ Elizabeth Hoyt
September – The Devil Wears Plaid ~ Teresa Medeiros

How close are we to your personal list? Let me know.

Also, I’ve posted 6 more books on the site for giveaway. Please include your full name in the body of the email. Below are the titles and links:

WORTH THE TRIP – Penny McCall

LIVING NIGHTMARE – Shannon K. Butcher

REGENCY CHRISTMAS PROPOSALS - Gayle Wilson, Amanda McCabe, Carole Mortimer

SEDUCING THE DUCHESS – Ashley March

THE ACCIDENTAL WEDDING – Anne Gracie

SEVEN NIGHTS TO FOREVER – Evangeline Collins

Winners will be posted November 1st.

What are we going to be doing on the blog in the coming weeks. Oh lots of fun stuff.

On Tuesday, I’ll be joined by Sophie Jordan and we’re going to be chatting about her new Young Adult novel, FIRELIGHT and how she’s juggling writing in three different genres.

Also on Tuesday the October issue will go live on the website. There’s a lot of really great Top Picks this month and even some reviews from books that missed the cut off deadline from previous months. I’ll post more about the new issue on Tuesday.

On Wednesday will be another Authors Under the Radar post. Do I know who that is yet? Um, no, but I’m looking.

Thursday I’ll be giving away some books. I have a nice stash of October releases I’d better get working on.

Friday I’ll be discussing my Fabulous Find of the month and giving away a copy of that book.

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In other news, I’ve updated the blog page to make it mirror the site exactly with a slight caveat. If you click on the BLOG image on the header, it will take you to the homepage of this blog. However, if you click anywhere else on the header, it will take you to the homepage of The Season website. That’s just an FYI in case you’re on the comment screen or another blog page and want to get back to the blog homepage  in just one click.

In the coming week or so, I’ll be announcing this year’s The Season Writing Contest. Last year I did a Pitch Contest, this year I want to do something more fun. I’m basing this contest on Avon Fanlit (which I really credit for giving me the courage and motivation to write and complete my first book, SINFUL SURRENDER).

Entrants will have to write a 1600 word scene or scenes and the readers will be the judges, voting on whose they think is the best. There will be semi and then final round. The grand prize winner will receive a $100 Visa Gift Card (nice to have right before Christmas) and a 25 page critique from an agent or editor. Second prize winner will also receive a 25 page critique from an editor or agent. There might be a third prize winner if I can rope another agent or editor into doing this. But stay tuned, I’ll be posting more about this contest hopefully fairly soon.