Andi Marquette

DAY 1 of the 12-Day Holiday Hootenanny, 2012!

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE WINNERS. THEY ARE POSTED NEXT TO THE INDIVIDUAL BOOKS. CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!

Hey, kids! Welcome to DAY 1 of our festivities here at Women and Words! All of us here are SO excited to do this. Many, many thanks to all the authors and publisher (BSB, we’re looking at you!) who donated books to get in on the fun.

Today’s offerings are listed below, in the order they’ll be given away. So the first name we draw will win Andrea Bramhall’s book, the second will win Carrie Carr’s book, and so on.

To enter today’s drawing, leave a comment on this blog entry. Include your email address at the comment prompt (it won’t be seen publicly). To avoid spam-bots, don’t include your email in the body of your comment. You have until 10 PM EST US (here’s the world clock link) to enter. At that point, we’re doing the drawing and we’ll post the winners here, on the Day 1 entry.

And every day is a new contest. That means you need to enter each day to play. Otherwise, the elves get confused. Thanks.

And a reminder to authors: if your book is featured today, please don’t participate in the drawing. Cuz it’d be weird to win your own book!

Have fun and good luck!

Andrea Bramhall, Ladyfish (Bold Strokes) WINNER – ANITA BRADSHAW
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Scuba diving instructor Olivia Zuckerman loves her work, loves her play, and enjoys the latter with a lot of different women. Then one day she has to pick up a new trainee at the airport, much to her chagrin. Daniella Finnsbury-Sterling is in search of herself, and trying to escape an overbearing father whose reach extends further than she thinks. Will sparks fly in the Florida Keys? Or will the waters of the Gulf douse the potential?

Carrie Carr, Heart’s Resolve (Regal Crest) WINNER – KAY
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Former Park Police Officer Gibson Proctor returns to the rural area she once called home, after spending 20 years with the Texas Dept. of Parks and Wildlife. She’s trying to settle in, when she inadvertently manages to offend fiery architect Delaney Kavanagh over the repairs of a spillway at a local lake. Kavanagh’s already in a relationship, but for some reason, she can’t get Gibson off her mind. . .

Laurie Salzler (Blue Feather Books), winner’s choice of either Kiss Before Dawn or Right Out of Nowhere (the latter available 2/2013) WINNER – KATHY SKARUPA
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Country girl Chris Martel has struggled all her life to find and make strong relationships. It seems she’s much better with animals, until veterinarian school graduate Mary Jo Cavanaugh enters her life. Can the two of them put their baggage aside to create something? Or will somebody from Chris’s past lure Chris away?

For more info about Laurie’s forthcoming Right Out of Nowhere, click HERE.

Chris Paynter (Blue Feather Books), winner’s choice of one of the following: Playing for First, Come Back to Me, Two for the Show or Survived by Her Longtime Companion WINNER – ROWAN
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Chris’s latest features Bailey Hampton, hired to work on a biography of the late film star, Daphne DuMonet. Cool project, until she finds out that DuMonet’s surviving longtime companion has also brought in Bailey’s ex to help with the project. Can Bailey and her ex build something new, using the past as a guide? Or was this whole thing a really bad idea?

To find out more about Chris’s other books up for the drawing, click HERE.

Clifford Henderson (Bold Strokes), Romantic Interludes 2: Secrets WINNER – LISA T

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An anthology of passionate, sensual love stories featuring authors Clifford Henderson, Erin Dutton, Radclyffe, Meghan O’Brien, Jennifer Harris, Ali Vali, Gun Brooke, Lisa Girolami, Merry Shannon, MJ Williamz, and many others. Click HERE for more info.

L.T. Marie, Three Days (Bold Strokes), WINNER – KJ HURST
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Dakota Riley has to go to Vegas for her best friend’s wedding. She’s so not looking forward to it, the 20 women in the party she can’t stand, and the Vegas heat. But she goes, and when her best friend introduces her to Shawn, her best friend’s oh, so intriguing cousin, the three days in Vegas suddenly might not be enough.

Bold Strokes Books – winner’s choice (PRINT or EBOOK) WINNER – RUTH CARSON
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ANY book on the BSB list, friends, is yours. Hit the link and start browsing the catalogue!

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  7. Thanks, Andi and Jove, for organizing this again this year. And thanks to all the authors and publishers for their generosity. And I guess with all that I am hereby entered!

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  11. With a sister who has been published by Bold Strokes Book how could I not enter this Hootenanny. Does anyone remember the old hootenanny’s from the 60′?

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  19. Season Greetings!! Thank you to all who donated books and your time to setting up this marvelous opportunity.

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  23. I absolutely LOVED Laurie Salzler’s A Kiss Before Dawn. However wins that book will be a happy reader IMO.

    Hope I win a book I haven’t read yet 🙂

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  29. Let the Hootenanny begin…..yeehaw!!
    Cheers to all the authors for sharing their wonderful work.
    Terry 😉

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  30. Wow! What a line-up of books! Thanks to all the authors and the women at Women at Words for putting on this Holiday Hootenanny! I would love to win any of the above titles!!

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  40. Please enter me in the drawing. Thanks for organizing this contest and to all of you who are donating books! 🙂

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  41. The authors of lesfic are a truly wonderful and remarkable group of women. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

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  43. Let the Hootenanny begin! Thanks for doing the giveaway this year. You will make some individuals very happy this holiday season!

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  46. I want to thank all The bards for their awesome work and thank you all for doing this . I so love to read it takes you away from the real world for a short time at least . so hope I win = )

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  54. What fun! Thanks to all authors for graciously offering their books and, of course, to Andi [hey, nice to be back in touch!] and Jove for organizing this drawing. Here’s hoping!

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  55. Oh joy! Let the merriment begin! Everyone really does appreciate all of the authors because of their wonderful writing.

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  61. hi forgot to leave my email address so here it is…

    NOTE: Andi edited this to take the email address out of the comment body. No worries, Jen! When you fill out the form and include your email in the little fill-out form, we can see it in the back. Nobody else can, though, and that’s what we’re trying to do. Save you from evil spambots marauding across the interwebs! 😀

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  71. Woo!! Thanks for the Hootenanny! What an awesome thing to do for the holidays. I’ve not yet read books by any of these authors and am crossing my fingers to be introduced to one of them!

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  91. Hi, Sue–not sure where in Australia you are, but the drawings close at 10 PM EST US every night. Think New York City. There’s a world clock link in each day’s instructions, so you can check to see what time it is for you so you can sign up. AND KEEP COMING BACK! 11 more days to go, people!

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