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Goodreads Giveaway ~ House for all Seasons

Bookmarks House for all SeasonsTime to celebrate…

To celebrate one month to go (not that I’m counting … much!) until the official March 1 release of House for all Seasons (in one month’s time, or have I mentioned that already?), I am giving away another copy of House for all Seasons WITH one of my lovely bookmarks. And who doesn’t love a book giveaway — not to mention a matching bookmark?!

Unlike the Blog Hop giveaway last week, this time you don’t HAVE to DO anything to be in the running. Just enter using the Goodreads widget below. (If you’re not a Goodreads member, I recommend you sign up. It’s easy, and Goodreads is a great service for people who love to read.) Entries remain open until 25 February, so no rush.

Of course, should you feel like sharing some country love by telling your friends about the giveaway, or sharing this givaway on Facebook, Twitter, etc, karma may reward your goodness. (Besides, if your friend wins tell them they will have to share with you!) I have trusted karma all these years and it has brought me to this point … to one month to go (in case I hadn’t mentioned that already!!) I am so into karma, I named one of my characters Karma.

Yes, I am a tad excited and cannot wait to mail out a copy of my novel on March 1, hot off the press, to one lucky person.

About my March 1 Online Event …

It will be a big day here on the blog too with special guests all the way from Canada to help kick the celebrations along. Put the 1st of March in your diary so you don’t forget (or subscribe to my blog and I’ll be sure to remind you!). In the meantime, enjoy Author Harvest’s next guest. One of my Simon & Schuster buddies, Kate Belle, whose book The Yearning is also due for release this year.

Enter now …

Goodreads Book Giveaway

House for all Seasons by Jenn J. McLeod

House for all Seasons

by Jenn J. McLeod

Giveaway ends February 25, 2013.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Take it away, Kate …

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Extra! Extra! Read all about it. The 2013 Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop

 

CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA DAY THE CALINGARRY CROSSING WAY

The local Saddleton Harvest News extends a big Calingarry Crossing Australia Day welcome. Our little town is buzzing with business owners ready to celebrate. Bring the family. Bring the dog, the horse, the cow. Ladies, bring your husband (if you can tear him away from the cricket).

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It’s here! And the House for all Seasons town of Calingarry Crossing is ready to par-tay! Celebrations begin with a dawn flag raising event at Calingarry’s war memorial in the main street, followed by a program of fun for the whole family, with street closures in place from 7 am – 3 pm. The afternoon will see the return of Saddleton Rotary HFAS front cover workingClub’s traditional spit roast with beer games, music, and rides for the kids. You can even win this book – the story of four women forced to spend a season each in the century-old Dandelion House, back in the country town of their youth, where they discover a secret that binds them to the house and to each other forever.

 

Who else is doing the blog hop this weekend? See Book’d Out and Confessions from Romaholics.

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A Guessing Game, A Book To Win, A Blog To Hop

While many, many people have inspired me in some weird and wonderful ways over the years, there is a group of Australian authors who have definitely influenced my writing.

Call it cocky, quirky or crazy, I used to amuse my ‘unpublished’ self by writing an author into each novel, never imagining:

a) I would be published and

b) the author – with title – would escape an editors red pen.

Guess what? I AM published (soon) and the author’s name DID stay in the final version of House for all Seasons, out March 1. (Pre-order here).

But which author gets a mention?

HINT: It can’t be Lisa Heidke and Bronwyn Parry as I have already included them in novels yet to be published — like this.

From The Simmering Season (coming 2014)

Maggie refused to get up before she’d read at least three chapters of her latest Lisa Heidke novel. The author had a knack of portraying motherhood and the every day, showing real woman struggling to balance work, family and dreams, just like Maggie. Only in fiction there was a guarantee of happy ever after.

Bronwyn Parry features in one of my favourite (and earliest) works – which means it may never see the light of day!)

From MOSAIC…

Throwing open the flap on her knapsack, Gina took a quick inventory: denim shorts; a black, cheesecloth top; beach towel; the super, scrunch-it-up-all-you-like jacket she’d owned for years; her new digital camera and the latest Bronwyn Parry novel.

So… are you a smartie? Can you correctly guess which author made it into House For All Seasons?

Any one who leaves a correct guess on this post today (Thursday 24-01-13) will automatically get one extra entry in my Australia Day Blog Hop Book Giveaway -starting Friday 25 at 12 noon (AESD) – on this blog. So leave your guess now and pop back on the weekend, read the Australia Day Blog Hop post, and you can double your chance of winning.

If you want another hint, you will find the author’s name on this list (my ‘most read’ Goodreads data).