Posts in which we or our guests offer a giveaway.
The winner of a copy of The Outrageous Confessions of Lady Deborah is…Melody May! Since we have your email address, the info is on its way to you. Congrats!!
Guess what I have in my hand today?? A brand-new, shiny ARC of Two Sinful Secrets!! (Out in December)
A hundred years has passed since the bitter rivalry between the St. Claires and the Huntingtons began. But in London, the feud goes on . ..
Lady Sophia Huntington isn’t what she appears to be. Born into a noble family, the impulsive, wild-hearted beauty has fallen on difficult times. Banished from her home, Sophia dreams of the day she can finally win her father’s forgiveness and return to London. Until the sudden appearance of a suitor from the scandalous St. Claire family threatens to reveal her darkest secrets . . .
Dominic St. Claire vows to exact revenge upon the Huntingtons, who destroyed his family’s fortune generations ago. His perfect target is the lovely but proud Lady Sophia. After using her to discover the Huntingtons’ financial secrets, he will cause a great scandal by eloping-and then abandoning his bride. But his plot soon unravels when he finds his own heart ensnared-in a trap not of his own making.
“I’ve found me a new series!! Swoon. How nice life will be. It could only get better if the next book were available RIGHT NOW!!” (Examiner.com on One Naughty Night )
Comment today for a chance to win this ARC!! Tell us what’s your favorite series, what you think of this cover, if you liked One Naughty Night, anything…
And if you don’t win today, you can pre-order here…
First of all–Winners! Always a great way to start a Tuesday.
The winner of Helen Dickson’s The Housemaid’s Scandalous Secret is–RegencyGirl01! Please send us your contact info at Riskies AT yahoo.com
And the winner of my ARC of Two Sinful Secrets is…Diane D–Florida! Look in your email box for more info.
Thanks to everyone for visiting and reading!
This weekend, I went to a Civil War battle reenactment in Kansas. I LOVE geeky things like that, especially when it’s a beautiful sunny day and lots of great people to talk to. (I sat next to a kid who was about 10 or 11–he was wearing a full Confederate uniform, despite the mid-80s temps, and knew everything about the battle, so he was able to tell me all the strategic moves, the retreats and surges, all sorts of things). There was also great shopping.
One of the things I bought was a little book called The Dancer’s Casket: Or the Ballroom Instructor: A New and Splendid Work on Dancing, Etiquette, Deportment, and the Toilet, originally published in 1858. Besides detailing dance steps, it gives excellent advice like this (after telling us that with certain lively dances, like a quadrille, it’s best to dance with friends):
“…frequently…a gentleman must dance vis-a-vis to a lady with whom he is not at all acquainted, he must not expect the lady to treat him as a friend, with pleasant smiles or even with looks directed towards him; for the etiquette of society is somewhat too scrupulous to admit of this familiarity. This prevailing etiquette is in direct opposition to the spirit of the dance, which is that of sociality and interchange of kind feelings. Many persons, however, exhibit extreme lack of taste and ill manners in treating even friends with averted looks, assuming pompous airs and indifferent expression…”
I do hope that this blog gives a feeling of sociality and interchange of kind feelings!!!
In the meantime, I am finishing writing one book and starting another, and making some progress on wedding plans, as well as practicing my quadrille. What are you doing this week???
