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10 Winners of the Instant Attraction by Jill Shalvis Giveaway

The following commenters are the random winners to the Save the Contemporary Campaign featuring the late January release of Instant Attraction by Jill Shalvis. The winners are: Peggy P Victoria W rd2129 Lori S. Bonnie L Brandy W Jessica Darby Lohrding El Edith I’ve sent an email to the winners requesting a snail mail address(…)

Sony Reader Giveaway at Dear Author

Sony Reader Giveaway at Dear Author

Today’s the day, Dear Author Readers. We are going to give one beautiful RED Sony Reader away to a random entry. Here’s how to win. Below is a set of questions that require you to go to Sony.com and read about the Sony Reader and maybe even watch a demo. You have to provide the(…)

Dear Author’s Sony Partnership and Giveaway Details

Dear Author’s Sony Partnership and Giveaway Details

If you missed last week’s announcement, I thought I would bring you all up to date. The reviewers for Dear Author are being outfitted with Sony Readers (the red ones) and Sony has provided us with 3 extra RED readers to give away to the readership here. In exchange, we’ll be providing an ad each(…)

Winners of Talk Me Down by Victoria Dahl

The winners of the 5 paper copies and the 2 ebook copies of the Victoria Dahl book are as follows.   The ebook winners will be emailed a coupon code and you can download the format of your choice.   The download code is good starting January 1, 2009, at 12:00 am EST. Alys Babs Jude wonderings(…)

Save the Contemporary Winner

And the random integer generator has spoken. Over 80 people spread the word, and many a person mentioned their hope that the contemporary romance will not die but flourish happily. We certainly hope so. Without further ado, or any ado at all, the winner is: Margay! at http://www.myspace.com/margay1122 Congrats – please email Sarah or Jane(…)

WINNERS of the Erin McCarthy Flat Out Sexy Contest

For Dear Author, here are the ten readers who won a copy of Erin McCarthy’s book, Flat Out Sexy, the first book in the Smart Bitch/Dear Author “Save the Contemporary” Campaign. Moth Allison ArkansasCyndi Darby Heidi Kay Sisk Lori Sara Andrade Sarai Zoe Archer I’ve emailed you, I think.   If not, please send me your(…)

The Worst Prose in the World Is Rewarded

Oh, so many snarky comments to be made in reference to past published work, but I’ll refrain. The winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is 41 year old Garrison Spik. Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their(…)

2007 Cover Cafe Contest Results Are In

The 2007 Cover Cafe results are in and the winners may or may not surprise you. I think I voted for several of the winners although the two cover winner is not my favorite. I loved the comment by Karmyn on the worst cover on Big Spankable Asses. “But this gets my vote because that(…)

Winners of the Karen Rose Giveaway

The winners of the Karen Rose, Scream for Me, Giveaway are listed below: Send to Kindle

Winners of the Kresley Cole and Fictionwise GCs

We hosted a giveaway for 15 copies of Kresley Cole’s delicious upcoming May release, Dark Needs at Night’s Edge. The winners are as follows. Please send me (jane @ dearauthor. com) your snail mail address. # 92 Little Lamb Lost # 36 Miss Kitty # 14 Ana # 50 Emily # 107 Josie # 97(…)

DA BWAHA Tournament Continues

64 Books Enter. One Book Leaves. Because we are having fun getting the brackets in and mostly because the games of the NCAA Tournament are not going to be played until Thursday, we are allowing people to fill out brackets until Wednesday at 11:59 pm. The deets again are as follows: Dear Author and the(…)

DA BWAHA Tournament Begins

64 Books Enter. One Book Leaves. Dear Author and the Smart Bitches present the DA BWAHA Tournament. We have fielded a slate of 64 “best” books in 8 different categories: Young Adult Paranormal Erotica/Erotic Romance GLBT Historical Contemporary Novel With Romantic Elements Category Today through Wednesday 7 am EST, you are allowed to fill out(…)

DA and Smart Bitches Present March Madness for Romance

It’s March Madness time which means brackets, spoilers, and, of course, romance books! Admittedly, the last element of the list is a rarely known component of March Madness, one that is often lost amongst the basketball hoopla. Which is so wrong, we will do all kinds of crazy shit to make it right. We thought(…)

Winners

The winner of the Wendy Nelson Tokunaga Midori by Moonlight festival is Andrea. I’ve emailed you so be sure to check your spam folder if you don’t see anything from Dear Author. The second winner of the “guess that book” contest is Shannon Stacey. Thanks for commenting folks. We have a great giveaway tomorrow. Send(…)

Guess That Book

In the grand tradition of the Smart Bitches Trashy Books’ Guess That Lonely Heart, Dear Author presents its first (and probably last) book quiz. What famous romance author’s book features a lesbian love scene and concludes with the heroine having her cake and eating it too. (pun kind of intended). Excerpt: “Are you going to(…)