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Hello everyone. Today I have a special guest here at my blog. Please welcome author Brian Cohen! Some of you may remember my raving about Brian's book, The Life O'Reilly. I really enjoyed this book and it will be on my top reads list for 2010.




The Life O'Reilly is a touching and emotional read. It's a story about life, love and finding oneself. You can read my full review here.

Visit the author's website here: http://www.briancohenbooks.com/



Not only is Brian stopping by my blog to do an interview, he has graciously offered to give away a signed copy of his wonderful book to one of my lucky blog readers!!
Read on for the interview, and the giveaway details.







Bookworm: Welcome to my blog Brian, and thank you for taking the time our of your busy schedule for this interview. Please tell us a bit about yourself.



Brian Cohen: A native New Yorker, I was born in Queens and raised on Long Island. I have had a passion for all things creative, including film, literature, and music, since elementary school. During my Middle School and High School years, when I was introduced to literary classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, Les Miserables, and The Count of Monte Cristo, I discovered both a love of fiction and a knack for creative writing. But it wasn’t until my first semester of law school that I truly caught “the writing bug” and knew I had to become a storyteller. I have been practicing law for over 12 years, specializing in complex litigation. I live with my wife and our daughters in the suburbs of New York City.



Bookworm: What was the hardest thing about writing this book?


Brian Cohen: Without a doubt, the hardest thing for me was finding the time to write!





Bookworm: In your book, Nick O'Reilly goes through an emotional journey, he discovers love, hope and happiness along the way. Where did you get the idea for Nick's story?



Brian Cohen: I am a huge fan of crime fiction, so as an attorney setting out to write a first novel, it naturally followed that legal suspense would be my genre of choice. I spent six months researching, plotting, outlining, and creating character sketches, and then another six months cranking out 150 pages of material. During that time, though, a lot was happening in my life – stories of people my age dying prematurely were being told with alarming frequency, the rat race had become all-consuming, and my wife and I were getting ready to welcome our first child into the world. Then one day, I appreciated that everything I’d been experiencing had inspired another story; I realized that, though writing a crime novel was something I wanted to do, telling the story of Nick O’Reilly was something I had to do. So that evening, I told my wife that I was shelving the thriller and starting on a new project and, the following morning, I began writing The Life O’Reilly and have never looked back.




Bookworm: Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?



Brian Cohen: Thanks so much for all of your support and enthusiasm. You've made the journey to publication all worthwhile!




Bookworm: I've read you have a second novel in the works. Can you tell us what it's about?



Brian Cohen: It's an emotional story of love and redemption that explores the politics of a family business and the impact it has on the relationships of its inter-generational members who struggle to understand the differences in each other’s values.





Bookworm: Who are your favorite authors and what is it that really strikes you about their work?



Brian Cohen: I admire so many authors whose books have inspired me over the years, but to name a few: Harper Lee, Chaim Potok, Sloan Wilson, Bernard Malamud, John Grisham, George Pelecanos, and Dennis Lehane.






Bookworm: Thank you again Brian! It's been a pleasure getting to know a bit more about the author behind the book. Your new book sounds interesting as well. Best of luck :O)





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Giveaway Details:

1. This contest is open worldwide


2. To enter to win, comment on this post and include your email adress

3. For an extra entry, blog about this contest or place it on your sidebar and include the link with your comment and email.

4. A winner will be announced on Friday Oct.1, 2010

Good luck!

WILLOUGHBY’S RETURN by Jane Odiwe
—IN STORES NOVEMBER 2009


And the lucky winner is.......


Haleyknitz


Congratulations!




Thank you all for entering!

I'd like to give a warm welcome to Jane Odiwe, author of Willoughby’s Return. Read on for her guest post and then for info on how to enter to win a copy of Willoughby’s Return!



Thank you Naida for inviting me to talk about my about my favourite Austen novel, and how it helped me to write my new book, Willoughby’s Return.



My favourite Austen novel is a difficult choice because I love them all, but, if I could only choose one, it would have to be Persuasion. Of course, Willoughby’s Return was inspired very much by Sense and Sensibility, another favourite, but my love of Persuasion is very strong, and sometimes themes and motifs from that book creep into my writing. One of these themes is of love being renewed after it is lost between the hero and heroine. I wanted to explore the idea in a different way in Willoughby’s Return. Although Marianne is very happily married, I wondered what would happen if her love was tested. If circumstances forced her to doubt her husband, and Willoughby returned to tempt her, would the love that Marianne and Willoughby had known be rekindled, or would Marianne’s “sense” prevail?



I also wanted to tell Margaret Dashwood’s story, as in Sense and Sensibility she only has a small part. I decided she was now old enough to fall in love! Enter Charles Carey – although we only hear of the Miss Careys in Sense and Sensibility, I thought it might be fun to introduce their brother. Charles is a sailor, and early on we learn he has gone to sea, and that he is strongly attached to Margaret. There are definite echoes of Persuasion here, but Mr. Carey is not her only suitor!



Finally, Jane Austen tells us that Colonel Brandon’s house is at Delaford in Dorset. I could not resist having Lyme Regis (from Persuasion) for some of the action that takes place in the book and it is also here in a village just out of Lyme that the Colonel’s ward has made her home. Marianne finds it difficult to talk about the Colonel’s ward, Eliza Williams, partly because she is the daughter of the Colonel’s “first love,” and partly because of Eliza’s past liaison with Mr. Willoughby. However, circumstances arise that are beyond Marianne’s control, and she is forced to face some ‘ghosts’ from the past.



Here’s an extract from Willoughby’s Return which was heavily inspired by Persuasion, taking place in the same setting as that book:

On the third day Marianne entered Lyme, weary but thankful she was nearing her destination. She had made occasional visits to the watering hole in the past with her sister Elinor and the children on hot sunny days and remembered them with happiness. The splendid situation of the town with the principal street almost rushing into the water looked very different in the winter light. Everywhere was shut up; only the fishermen were to be seen on the Cobb, their boats bobbing on the water, their nets prepared for fishing. In warmer weather the pleasant little bay would be lively with bathing machines and company in the season. Her eye sought the beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town; they passed through Charmouth, backed by dark escarpment, trotting down narrow lanes and past Pinny, finally entering the village of Wolfeton Fitzpaine where the forest-trees and orchards waved bare, skeletal arms as if to hasten the warmer winds of summer.


They were soon stopped outside a cottage in the centre of the village, a neat-looking house with mullioned windows to either side of a canopied doorway over which was trained an old rambler. There was a small garden to the front behind a wicket fence with a bench under a window and a stone path winding between the flower beds, where the first signs of spring were starting to sprout in the form of green shoots. Now she was here, Marianne felt very apprehensive. With anxious fears attending every step, she was assisted down from the coach and took a deep breath as she looked toward the house. Before she took another step, the door was flung back and a young girl, her dark hair framing her pretty features, rushed down the path to take Marianne’s hands in her own.

© Jane Odiwe, Sourcebooks Landmark, 2009

It usually takes about a year for me to get a book together, and it’s about a year or more between the publications. My next book is written, a story about Elizabeth, Darcy, and Georgiana from Pride and Prejudice, to be published by Sourcebooks in Spring 2011. I wonder if you can guess which of Jane’s books is the inspiration for the novel I am writing at the moment? I’d also love to know – what is your favourite Austen novel?


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Thanks again for stopping by Jane to do such a great guest post. I'm a big Austen fan myself, and Persuasion is one of my favorites. I don't think anything beats Wentworth's love letter to Anne.

Willoughby’s Return sounds really good, and the cover is great. I'd like to guess that Northanger Abbey is your inspiration for your current book. My favorite Austen novel is Pride & Prejudice . There's just something special about Darcy & Lizzie. It's one of the few books i'll re-read and I never get tired of it.








WILLOUGHBY’S RETURN—IN STORES NOVEMBER 2009

A lost love returns, rekindling forgotten passions…


In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, when Marianne Dashwood marries Colonel Brandon, she puts her heartbreak over dashing scoundrel John Willoughby in the past.


Three years later, Willoughby's return throws Marianne into a tizzy of painful memories and exquisite feelings of uncertainty. Willoughby is as charming, as roguish, and as much in love with her as ever. And the timing couldn't be worse—with Colonel Brandon away and Willoughby determined to win her back, will Marianne find the strength to save her marriage, or will the temptation of a previous love be too powerful to resist?



About the Author


Jane Odiwe is an artist and author. She is an avid fan of all things Austen and is the author and illustrator of Effusions of Fancy, annotated sketches from the life of Jane Austen, as well as Lydia Bennet's Story. She lives with her husband and three children in North London. For more information, please visit http://www.austeneffusions.com/



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Giveaway info:

To enter to win:

1. for one entry, leave a comment on this post, include your email.

2. for two entries, blog about this giveaway and leave me the link.

3 for three entries, share your favorite Austen novel or film adaptation.

4. open to US and Canada residents only please

5. deadline to enter is Monday November 23rd, a winner will be announced on Tuesday November 24th.

good luck!




Special thanks to Danielle over at Sourcebooks for making this possible.

The fabulous Laurie Viera Rigler has kindly offered autographed copies of her books to two of my lucky blog readers!
And the winners are....








Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict : Margay











Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict : Suko






Congrats! Thank you to all who entered. And special thanks to Laurie!

Hello fellow bloggers, I have a special treat today. The fabulous Laurie Viera Rigler
has kindly taken time out of her busy schedule to do a guest post here at my blog.





Laurie is the author of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict .




You can follow Laurie on Twitter where she is tweeting Jane Austen's PERSUASION and will soon be tweeting NORTHANGER ABBEY.


Read Laurie's guest post below, then read on for information on how you can win a signed copy of her book.





Scenes from the Writing Life: Embracing the "I Don't Know"


Not knowing can be a pretty unpleasant place to be. Not knowing the answer to the test. Not knowing what's in style. When you're going to find a job. What you're supposed to wear to the party. What you should say to that gorgeous neighbor of yours when you finally get up the nerve to introduce yourself.



When we don't know, we can feel small, uncertain, inadequate, out of control. Even frightened.



It's no wonder that when writers find themselves in the place of "I don't know," as in, "I don't know what's supposed to happen next in my story," they often freeze. Or block.



I've done it myself, many times. See, I tend to be a control freak. And the thought of not knowing what's going to happen can be terrifying, storywise and otherwise. How can I have control over something that I can't see coming? How can I prepare for it, manipulate it, and predict its outcome? Truth is, I can't.



And that doesn't have to be a bad thing.



When I was in the early stages of writing my first novel, CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, I wrote an outline, figuring it was my key to certainty. I wouldn't have to worry about what was going to happen next, because I'd made all of the decisions beforehand. Makes sense, right?



Not for this author. By the time I finished the book, it bore almost no resemblance to the outline. And when I look at the outline now and see what I had planned for my story, it wasn't nearly as good (understatement; it was terrible) as what happened when I just let the story unfold in its own way.



That doesn't mean that plotting and outlining is a bad thing. Quite the contrary. I know many fine authors who are plotters. Plotting works for them. But what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another.



All well and good, you might say, but what about those times when nothing's coming out? What about those times when you're staring at the blank page or the blinking cursor on your screen?



If you find yourself in that position, I have some helpful rules for you—guidelines, actually—that helped me tremendously while I was writing my second novel, RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT.



By the way, these rules aren't only for those of you who are writing a novel or a short story—they could also be helpful if you are writing narrative nonfiction. Or a paper for school. Or a college application personal statement. Or a presentation to a prospective client. Or maybe even a difficult email (as long as you make sure you're not getting your brilliant ideas for said email while in a state of anger. Brilliance comes when your mind is clear, not clouded with anger).



Rule number one: Don't freak out.



Rule number two: Step away from the vehicle, i.e., stop trying to turn over that engine in your head. It's flooded with too much analytical, know-it-all thinking.



Rule number three: Decide that you are in the wonderful land of "I don't know," where magical answers appear without any effort.



Rule number four: Sit in a quiet space (it's often a good idea to get away from your desk) and close your eyes. In your mind, ask your character or whomever you're writing about or your inner wisdom or whomever you turn to (or wish you could turn to) for guidance to show you or tell you what happens next. Or what you're supposed to say. Trust that whatever you need to hear or see will be revealed to you.



Rule number five: Be open to the possibility that what comes to you may be quite different from what your analytical mind would have thought up.



Rule number six: If nothing happens and you start getting frustrated sitting around in silence, or you second-guess the process and start grinding your analytical thinking gears again, decide that the answer will come to you in good time. Then do something mindless. Like go for a drive,* do the dishes, take a shower, work in the garden, or organize your collection of DVDs. Or Jane Austen action figures.



Rule number seven: Have faith that the answer will come. Because it will. You'll see: Like magic, the ideas start flowing. You'll see/hear the scenes or words unfold in your head. At times you'll be hard pressed to keep up with the flow of words and/or pictures as you try and write it all down.


*If you start getting a flow of ideas while driving, do pull over. I once got so lost in a flow of creative ideas while I was pulling out of a parking space that I scraped the car parked next to me. In other words, don't try and operate heavy equipment while your muse or character dictates to you. Besides, if you pull over, you can actually take dictation on paper or pull out the mini cassette recorder you keep in your glove compartment.



Rule number eight: Decide to remember the exhilarating, mind-opening experience you've just had. Which will help you put into practice rules one and seven the next time you get stuck.



Has any of you ever had a similar experience? I'd love to hear about it.



Would any of you like to try out these rules with your own writing or with something else that doesn't involve writing at all? I'd love to hear your thoughts about that, too!



Please feel free to ask me questions as well. Who knows; I may even have an answer. :)

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Thank you so much for stopping by and chatting with us Laurie! You've given some great advice here. I think rule number one is one to live by!

And I agree with rule number seven, 'Have faith that the answer will come'. So many times in life, if you just step back and take a minute away from the situation, the answer to the problem or dilema will come to you when you least expect it.




Giveaway info:


I'm giving away one personally inscribed copy of my new novel, RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, which is the parallel story to my first novel, CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT. I'm giving away an inscribed copy of CONFESSIONS, too. Everyone who enters a comment or a question gets a chance to win.



***This contest is now closed***




***Thank you again to Laurie for kindly offering two signed copies of her books!***



Here's a trailer for Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict .

Courtesy of Sourcebooks I am able to raffle off a copy of Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange.


And the winner is.....


Jenny Girl

Congrats! And thanks to all who entered.

Special thanks to Danielle over at Sourcebooks!

title: Mr. Darcy, Vampyre


author: Amanda Grange


published: August 2009, ARC

genre: romance

pages: 308

first line: Elizabeth Bennet's wedding morning was one of soft mists and mellow sunshine.


rated: 4 out of 5

Amanda starts where Pride and Prejudice ends and introduces a dark family curse so perfectly that the result is a delightfully thrilling, spine-chilling, breathtaking read. A dark, poignant and visionary continuation of Austen’s beloved story, this tale is full of danger, darkness and immortal love.

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre starts off with Jane and Elizabeth Bennet getting ready for their double wedding. The two sisters are excited and nervous about the special day, and both are happy as can be.
Once the ceremony is over, Darcy and Elizabeth head on out on thier wedding tour.


As the days pass, Elizabeth is worried because Darcy has not visited her bedchamber at all. She wonders why he is acting so distant.

He sat with his face turned away from her and she watched him, examining his profile. It was strong, with handsome features, yet there was an air of something she could not quite place. He was the man she had married, yet different, more reserved, and she wondered if it was just because of the tiring nature of the journey or whether he was reverting to his former aloof ways.

First they go to France, where Lizzy meets Darcy's friends and family. They then travel to a remote castle in the Alps, where Darcy wants her to meet his uncle, Count Polidori. While inside the gloomy castle Elizabeth has a bad feeling and wants to leave. She knows the servants are whispering about susperstious things, there is a creepy tapestry hanging above her bed and the Count himself is a bit odd. The one request Lizzy has for her room is a mirror, which she is denied because for some reason there are no mirrors in the castle. Then one evening the Count has a dinner party in her honor, and a mysterious fortune teller shows up. She reads Lizzy's palm and warns her about grave danger.


The Darcy's continue on thier wedding tour and end up in Venice.

Strange tales began to come back to her, folk tales she had read in the library at Longbourn, stories of strange creatures that preyed on the living and haunted the forests of Europe, half men, half beasts, mesmeric and seductive but evil and dangerous, creatures who bit their victims, piercing thier skin and drinking thier blood; beasts which could be held at bay by garlic.

I really enjoyed Mr. Darcy, Vampyre . I'm a sucker for anything Pride & Prejudice related and I like vampires, and the two came together perfectly in this book. It was fun and interesting and the plot had me sucked in from page one. I like how Elizabeth keeps thinking back to her home in Meryton and her beloved sister Jane. She continues to write Jane letters while she is on her honeymoon.

Oh, Jane! If I could only tell you half the things that have happened to me since leaving Longbourn. There have been many difficult and frightening things in my life but there has been much of great beauty too; the dread and awful majesty of the Alps as Darcy and I rode over thier snow-capped heights; the peaceful tranquility of Piedmont; the great river Brenta with its weeping willows trailing thier branches in the water; Venice rising like a dream from the lagoon, basking in the morning sunlight, ageless and timeless and serene.

You can visit the author's blog here or website here.

You can read a book excerpt here over at the Austenprose blog.




Take a look at the UK cover:



Pretty cool eh? I don't know which cover I like best though. I think the U.S. one.


Special thanks to Danielle over at Sourcebooks for sending me a copy of this book!

Now onto the giveaway details:

To enter to win a copy of Mr. Darcy, Vampyre :

1. U.S. and Canada residents only please

2. for one entry to win, leave me a comment on this post, include your email adress

3. for an extra entry, blog about this contest and leave me the link.

4. I will draw a winning name on Monday August 17, good luck!

This contest is now closed, thanks!

Suko is having an awesome giveaway at her blog. She is giving away a new copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Here's the details:

To enter this contest, leave a comment after this blog post by Thursday, July 30. If you also mention this giveaway on your own blog, you'll have an extra chance of winning the book. I'll put all commenters' names "in a hat" and select one randomly. The winner will be announced on Friday, July 31.

So, head on over to Suko's blog for a chance to win.

In honor of my 2 Year Blog-A-Versary, I raffled off three books. I drew 3 winning names this morning...and the winners are...





10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea (self-help)

mommablogsalot
















All The Pretty Girls (thriller/suspense)

LadyTink











Wicked Ties (erotica)



annmarie



congrats! and thanks to all who entered :O)

And the winner of What Would Jane Austen Do? is gaby317!

Congratulations!





Thanks to all who entered.






Special thanks to the folks at Sourcebooks

It's my 2 Year Blog-A-Versary!

First off, you know I have to play some music:

"The Sweet Escape"....that's kind of what reading books is like, a sweet escape.





Last year I forgot my blog-a-versary. So this year I made it a point to remember.
I began this blog May 12, 2007. When I first started a book blog, I did it for myself, just to kind of have someplace to jot down my bookish thoughts. Little did I know that i'd be entering into a wonderful world of online book blogging. When my hubby first noticed my typing a mile a minute, he asked something along the lines of: 'What the heck are you typing? Are you chatting online?'


I told him, that no, i'm not chatting, i'm just jotting down my thoughts about a book I just read. Little by little, I began to find blogs that I frequented on a regular basis. And little by little, people began to read my posts and comment.


The rest is history. I've met so many special fellow bloggers online, and these are the bloggers who I visit regularly. I won't log on without stopping by thier blogs for a visit, or just to say 'hello'.


I have a link here to my first book review, The Mermaid Chair. If you take a look at the comments, Dewey was one of the first people to stop by my blog and comment.
I laugh now at how differently I review books now. *note to self* Re-read the Mermaid Chair and re-review it.





Since I remembered my blog-a-versary this year, i'm hosting a book giveaway. These are the books I am giving away (i've read and reviewed them all here on my blog):





10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea (self-help)





All The Pretty Girls (thriller/suspense)





Wicked Ties (erotica)







To enter to win:


1. Leave a comment on this post, along with your email adress, letting me know which book you want to win. There are 3 books being raffled off, there will be 3 different winning names drawn.

2. Blog about my contest and I will enter your name an extra time in the drawing.

3. I will draw the winning names on May 31st.


Good luck! This drawing is open worldwide.

Hello blog readers, I have a special treat. I am raffling off a copy of What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown. Laurie stopped by my blog yesterday for a guest post.





about the book:

Surely Jane Austen would know how to handle such a rake...


From the author of Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, a new time travel romance featuring a modern day career woman swept back in time to Regency England, where she thwarts a Napoleonic spy, chats with Jane Austen, and falls in love with a notorious rake.


Eleanor is a costume designer in England for the Jane Austen festival, where her room at the inn is haunted. In the middle of the night she encounters two ghost sisters whose brother was killed in a duel over 200 years ago. They persuade her to travel back in time with them to prevent the duel. Eleanor is swept into a country house party, presided over by the charming Lord Shermont, where she encounters and befriends Jane Austen. But there's much more to Lord Shermont than the ghosts knew, and as Eleanor dances and flirts with him, she begins to lose her heart.

The Rules:


To enter to win (U.S. and Canada residents only please):

1. post a comment to this post, leave me your email adress

2. for a better chance of winning, blog about this post, leave me the link, and i'll enter your name an extra time in the drawing.

3. for a third entry, comment on Laurie's guest post

4. I will pick a name on Sunday May 17th

good luck!


Special thanks to the folks at Sourcebooks!

This contest is now closed

Special thanks to Hachette for giving away 5 copies of Jantsen's Gift: A True Story of Grief, Rescue, and Grace by Pam Cope here at my blog.







I used the handy dandy list randomizer and the winners are:

1. Serena

2. Shauna

3. Sally

4. Iliana

5. Lady Roxi



Congrats ladies and thanks to all who entered!

I emailed the winners, please send me your mailing adresses so I can forward it to Hatchett. As stated in the originial contest rules, U.S. and Canada residents only and no PO Box's please.

Hello blog readers, I have a special treat for you. Thanks to the folks over at courtesy of Hachette Book Group, I am raffling off 5 copies of Jantsen's Gift: A True Story of Grief, Rescue, and Grace by Pam Cope.

Read on for a bit more info on the book and giveaway.

Nine years ago, Pam Cope owned a cozy hair salon in the tiny town of Neosho, Missouri, and her life revolved around her son's baseball games, her daughter's dance lessons, and family trips to places like Disney World. She had never been out of the country, nor had she any desire to travel far from home.




Then, on June 16th, 1999, her life changed forever with the death of her 15-year-old son from an undiagnosed heart ailment.




Needing to get as far away as possible from everything that reminded her of her loss, she accepted a friend's invitation to travel to Vietnam, and, from the moment she stepped off the plane, everything she had been feeling since her son's death began to shift. By the time she returned home, she had a new mission: to use her pain to change the world, one small step at a time, one child at a time. Today, she is the mother of two children adopted from Vietnam. More than that, she and her husband have created a foundation called "Touch A Life," dedicated to helping desperate children in countries as far-flung as Vietnam, Cambodia and Ghana.




Pam Cope's story is on one level a moving, personal account of loss and recovery, but on a deeper level, it offers inspiration to anyone who has ever suffered great personal tragedy or those of us who dream about making a difference in the world.

This giveaway is now closed


I will draw the 5 winning names on Thursday, April 30th





Special thanks to Anna over at Hachette!

I also have my own copy of this book and will be reading and reviewing it here soon.

I am participating in the Book Giveaway Carnival 2009! Tracy is hosting and several bloggers are participating.



There was alot of interest in my giveaway :




He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: A Memoir of Finding Faith, Hope, and Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Finding Faith, Hope, and Happily Ever After by Trish Ryan


And the lucky winner is...

sweetsue!!!! happy reading :)



Thank you all who entered and took time out to let me know who inspires them.

Wisteria is raffling off a copy of The History of Now. And she makes this book sound really, really good! So go on over to her blog for details on how to enter to win.



The contest will run through March 15th midnight. USA Residents only