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Fall Into Love Contest!
Announcing the FALL INTO LOVE ultimate giveaway!
Join us as award-winning authors Tracie Peterson, Jody Hedlund, Nancy Mehl, Melissa Tagg, and Jen Turano take us on a journey for love in their upcoming novels. To celebrate the September/October book releases, we’re hosting FIVE incredible giveaways with ONE fantastic grand prize drawing. Enter all five contests and receive FIVE entries into the grand prize drawing with additional chances to enter the FALL INTO LOVE ultimate giveaway throughout the month of September!
The Prizes:
ONE GRAND PRIZE winner will receive the FALL INTO LOVE prize package – a $500 value!
– containing everything you need to snuggle up with a great book…
• A 16GB Kindle Fire HD for all the books you want, right at your fingertips
• Fall into love as you fall into this beautiful free-standing wooden hammock
• A Sherpa & Micromink cream throw to keep you warm as the weather turns chilly
• A selection of gourmet caramel apples
• A copy of each novel represented Unforeseeable by Nancy Mehl, Rebellious Heart by Jody Hedlund, A Talent for Trouble by Jen Turano, The Miner’s Lady by Tracie Peterson, and Made to Last by Melissa Tagg.
FIVE INDIVIDUAL PRIZE PACKAGES! Fall into love with these beautiful stories from 5 amazing authors, and enter each contest for your chance to take home a meaningful part of their story. To learn more about each novel and to enter visit www.FallIntoLoveContest.com.
1) The Miner’s Lady: From award winning author Tracie Peterson, comes a beautiful story rich with the comfort of good food, the love of family, and the struggle for faith and forgiveness. Have a seat in Nonni’s Italian kitchen with a basket of cultural delicacies and experience both the flavor and heart of Italian America with The Miner’s Lady Giveaway! ENTER HERE…
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 1st!
2) Unforeseeable: Settle into your favorite reading chair with author Nancy Mehl’s delicious story of intrigue, danger, and suspense, all set against the serene setting of the small Mennonite town of Kingdom. Enter the Unforeseeable Giveaway to bring the delicious tastes of Mennonite life right into your home… ENTER HERE…
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 1st!
3) Made To Last: From author Melissa Tag comes the story of Miranda Woodruff, star of a home-building television show who apparently has it all, until it all threatens to fall apart. Read, laugh, and enjoy the hilarious misadventures of a heroine with a tremendous amount of skill, a lot to lose, and even more to discover about her own heart. As part of the Made to Last Giveaway, experience the joy of having the right tools, the right guides, and something beautiful to reward yourself with on a job well done. ENTER HERE…
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 15th!
4) Rebellious Heart: From Best selling author Jody Hedlund, Rebellious Heart brings the history of 1763 Massachusetts to life with the story of socialite Susanna Smith and poor country lawyer Ben Ross. When Susanna’s decision to help an innocent woman no matter the cost crosses with Ben’s growing disillusionment with their British rulers, the two find themselves bound together in what quickly becomes a very dangerous fight for justice. Bring the fight for justice and liberty to your home with this meaningful prize package. ENTER HERE…
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 15th!
5) A Talent for Trouble: Set in the early 1900’s, Jen Turano’s spirited new book, A Talent for Trouble, will leave you feeling like you have lived in the Victorian era of New York City, strolled through Central Park with your best hat on, and had a hilarious and unpredictable adventure with a new friend. With the prize package for A Talent for Trouble you can continue the adventure and bring some of Felicia’s journey home with you. ENTER HERE…
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1st!
How to Enter:
Click on one of the banners or visit www.FallIntoLoveContest.com to submit your information. Each week during the five-week contest, we will reveal a new method of entering and increasing your chances for the grand prize.
Week 1: Enter one or all of the individual novel giveaways. For every individual giveaway you enter, you gain one entry into the grand prize drawing. (Possible grand prize entries: 5)
Week 2: Like one or all authors on Facebook. Every author liked gains you one entry into the grand prize. (Possible grand prize entries: 5)
Week 3: Refer a friend. One grand prize entry awarded per friend, per contest. (Possible grand prize entries: 5)
Week 4: Submit a review of any book by one (or all) of the five featured authors. 3 entries awarded per review per author (limit one per author). (Possible grand prize entries: 15) **
Week 5: Pin a picture of you with one of the 5 featured novels. One grand prize entry awarded per picture per novel. (Possible grand prize entries: 5)
To enter via the methods available week 2-5, visit each individual giveaway and submit your information through the entry form. Follow the prompts for completing your bonus entries.
**Reviews can be submitted to Amazon, Goodreads, or your own blog. To enter the contest via this method, paste a URL to the review in the entry form where indicated. Entries will be verified before final grand prize drawing.
More Information:
For details about the contest, prize packages, entry methods, or contest rules, visit www.FallIntoLoveContest.com.
Book Giveaway!!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER! WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE.
I’m hosting a book giveaway! To enter, YOU MUST DO THE FOLLOWING – NO EXCEPTIONS – PLEASE READ EACH STEP:
#1. You must join my mailing list! You can join my mailing list here:
If you’re already on my email list, then you can skip step one.
#2. You must comment on this blog post to enter and LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS – IF YOU DON’T LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR COMMENT, THEN YOU WON’T BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST! I need an email address so that I can contact you if you win! CONTINENTAL U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY.
#3. If you haven’t already done so, you must “LIKE” my Facebook Fan Page!
I’ll be drawing the winner within the next week or so! 
Remember, I have the right to announce your first and last name, city and state on my blog if you win! Void where prohibited.
***My e-book, Milk Money, is only 99 cents! Download it now before the price goes up!
These are the 21 titles that I’m giving away to ONE person:
Book Giveaway – August 2012!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER!! THE WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE!
I’m hosting another book giveaway! ONE winner will receive the new/slightly-used 23 titles listed below. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE DRAWING YOU MUST DO TWO THINGS:
#1. You must join my mailing list! You can join my mailing list here:
If you’re already on my email list, then you can skip step one.
#2. You must comment on this blog post to enter and LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS – IF YOU DON’T LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR COMMENT, THEN YOU WON’T BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST! I need an email address so that I can contact you if you win! CONTINENTAL U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY.
I’ll be drawing the winner within the next few weeks or so! Remember, I have the right to announce your first and last name, city and state on my blog if you win! Void where prohibited.
Book Giveaway – Win A Box Of 23 Books! Follow The Rules To Enter! :-)
I’m hosting another book giveaway! ONE winner will receive the 23 titles listed below. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE DRAWING YOU MUST DO TWO THINGS:
#1. You must join my mailing list! You can join my mailing list here:
If you’re already on my email list, then you can skip step one.
#2. You must comment on this blog post to enter and LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR COMMENT – IF YOU DON’T LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR COMMENT, THEN YOU WON’T BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST! I need an email address so that I can contact you if you win!
I’ll be drawing the winner within the next few weeks or so! 🙂 Remember, I have the right to announce your first and last name, city and state on my blog if you win! Void where prohibited.
Book Giveaway! :-) Follow The Rules To Enter! :-)
THIS BOOK GIVEAWAY IS OVER!! WINNER IS LISTED HERE!
I’m hosting another book giveaway! ONE winner will receive the titles listed below. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE DRAWING YOU MUST DO TWO THINGS:
#1. You must join my mailing list! You can join my mailing list here:
THIS BOOK GIVEAWAY IS OVER!! WINNER IS LISTED HERE!
If you’re already on my email list, then you can skip step one.
#2. You must comment on this blog post to enter and LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR BLOG POST – IF YOU DON’T LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR BLOG POST, THEN YOU WON’T BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST! I need an email address so that I can contact you if you win!
I’ll be drawing the winner within the next few weeks or so! 🙂 Remember, I have the right to announce your first and last name, city and state on my blog if you win!
Stephen Bly Book Giveaway! :-)
THIS BOOK GIVEAWAY IS OVER. WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE!
 I’m hosting Stephen Bly on my blog today! If you want to be entered into the drawing for his book giveaway, you must read the following article AND you must leave a comment with your email address and you must REFER TO SOMETHING YOU READ IN STEPHEN’S article…in other words, you have to read his article and comment about it in order to be entered into the drawing!
I’ll start by commenting…the mention of the outhouse scene has piqued my curiosity!
Enjoy!
~Cecelia Dowdy~ON GETTING PLOT IDEAS
for Throw The Devil Off The Train
I don’t have a clue how I derived the idea for my newest release, Throw The Devil Off The Train. Sometimes plot ideas seem to fall out of the sky for me. When I recognize one that I like, I pick it up and run with it, to see where it leads.
I’ve set stories in Colorado and Arizona, in New Mexico and Nevada, in Montana and Idaho, in Wyoming and Nebraska, in Texas and South Dakota. The old western Stagecoach was a road story in a stage. Throw The Devil Off The Train is a road story inside a train headed west.
Idea germs that evolve
The grandeur of the West from a train window.
The very slow journey, compared to modern transportation.
The theme that people are much more complex than first meetings reveal.
The hurts and pains, the victories and defeats of the past form a part in acts and responses in any given situation.
I tossed two cats into a burlap bag, then watched to see how they’d survive. . .or not. After a few gouges and bites between Catherine and Race, I could see the trail and markings of their story in Throw The Devil Off The Train..
Setting A Scene
You’d think after more than a hundred books in print, most of them set in the Old West, that I’d have exhausted every possible location. I’ve used cabins, saloons, dance halls, jails, hotels, cafes, sandbars and most any other place you could name. All, except one. In my newest book, Creede of Old Montana, I set a whole scene inside an outhouse.
As much as I like telling western tales, it was not the time for me to live in. Two reasons at least: health care and sanitation. That doesn’t mean a cowboy never used soap. Some even shaved every morning. Living in a wild and primitive land doesn’t mean you have to look uncivilized.
And I don’t want you to think I’m weak-willed and pasty skinned. I can survive just fine for days, weeks, even months in the wilderness. But I know that sooner or later I’ll be back in civilization that boasts hot showers, waste treatment plants, and flush toilets.
I wouldn’t even mind a footed bathtub. Many fun western movie episodes have centered on bubbly bathtub scenes. But hot baths were a real luxury and only the nicest of hotels would offer such an amenity. Some of the more modest hotels would advertise: Baths 25 cents; Used Water 15 cents. Which, in my opinion, is a great motivator to save up your money when on the trail or hang with friends who smell like you do.
Which brings me back to…setting a scene inside an outhouse.
On a trip to Yellowstone with our teen grandkids, Zachary and Miranda, we stopped to explore at Garnett, a Montana ghost town. One structure that captured the kids’ curiosity: the double set of outhouses behind the old hotel. There was a two-seater for gals and a two-seater for guys. Quite the deal on a busy Saturday night.
Ah, the romantic Old West.
And about that scene in the outhouse…you can read about it yourself after October 1st in Creede of Old Montana. I promise…it won’t be R-rated. That’s the thing about the classic western genre. Good triumphs over evil. There’s little or no bad language. And sensual details are relegated to the fightin’ and shootin’ only.
WRITING EXERCISE for you:
Create two strong characters. Make one the type the other tends to dislike. Make them so disgusted with each that they cannot exist in the same room for several minutes without being at each other’s throats. Then, stick them in a place where they have to co-exist for hours, days, weeks: a cabin, a mine shaft, a train car, etc. Then, write the dialogue. Start out with no descriptions. No identifiers. No narration. Just two voices conversing. Make the words authentic as you can. Then, edit it later.
Do they wind up killing each other? Or total estrangement? Or a truce of some sort? Or a breakthrough to relationship?
April 2011 Book Giveaway!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER! THE WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER! THE WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER! THE WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE.
I’m hosting another book giveaway! ONE winner will receive the titles listed above. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE DRAWING YOU MUST DO TWO THINGS:
#1. You must join my mailing list! You can join my mailing list here:
If you’re already on my email list, then you can skip step one.
#2. You must comment on this blog post to enter and LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR BLOG POST – IF YOU DON’T LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR BLOG POST, THEN YOU WON’T BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST! I need an email address so that I can contact you if you win!
I’ll be drawing the winner within the next few weeks or so! 🙂 Remember, I have the right to announce your first and last name, city and state on my blog if you win!
March 2011 Book Giveaway!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER! WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER! WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE.
I’m hosting another book giveaway! ONE winner will receive the titles listed above. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE DRAWING YOU MUST DO TWO THINGS:
#1. You must join my mailing list! You can join my mailing list here:
If you’re already on my email list, then you can skip step one.
#2. You must comment on this blog post to enter and LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR BLOG POST – IF YOU DON’T LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR BLOG POST, THEN YOU WON’T BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST! I need an email address so that I can contact you if you win!
I’ll be drawing the winner within the next few weeks or so! 🙂 Remember, I have the right to announce your first and last name, city and state on my blog if you win!
BOOK GIVEAWAY – FOLLOW THE RULES TO ENTER
This giveaway is over! Winner is listed here!
I’m hosting another book giveaway! ONE winner will receive the titles listed above. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE DRAWING YOU MUST DO TWO THINGS:
#1. You must join my mailing list! You can join my mailing list here:
If you’re already on my email list, then you can skip step one.
#2. You must comment on this blog post to enter and LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR BLOG POST – IF YOU DON’T LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR BLOG POST, THEN YOU WON’T BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST! I need an email address so that I can contact you if you win!
I’ll be drawing the winner within the next few weeks or so! 🙂