A BookTrib Valentine - Giveaway of Much Ado About Loving

I am sharing this News Flash, and chance to win a book about dating and love, from BookTrib:

As BookTrib’s Valentine to you, we are serving up a bibliophile’s delight on February 13 at 2 p.m. ET!

Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly will be chatting LIVE about their book, MUCH ADO ABOUT LOVING: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals.

USA Today called MUCH ADO ABOUT LOVING “a treat for any book lover, happily mated, or cheerfully single.”

MUCH ADO ABOUT LOVING is a series of accessible and funny essays that are equal parts dating advice and lit crit. During our chat, the authors will touch upon the timeless lessons and insights they’ve found in the world’s most beloved novels, touching on such conundrums as:

©       Why do men talk so much, and why do women put up with it? (Infinite Jest)

©       Will too much emailing before a first date work against you? (Love in the Time of Cholera)

©       Should you cross the political aisle for love? (Howards End)

©       Is it ever smart to get back together with an ex? (Remembrance of Things Passed)

©       How can you deal with a mother-in-law who’s screwing up your relationship? (Sons and Lovers)

What’s more—10 lucky winners will receive their very own copy of the book!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

FLASH!! Special Chance to Attend Live Chat with Victoria Alexander!

Would you love to meet a bestselling romance author?  Here is a chance for some lucky readers to share an online visit with Victoria Alexander to chat about writing, books, characters, the romance genre and more!


Victoria Alexander loves her readers but knows it’s impossible to get out to meet each of them. That’s why this #1 New York Times Bestselling Author is participating in two unique live video virtual events to help celebrate her latest book release: WHAT HAPPENS AT CHRISTMAS.

LIVE CHAT Event dates: 

October 16 and November 6 at 6:00pm PST. 

Here is how we are participating at Reviews by Martha's Bookshelf.

• There will be a winner for ONE SEAT at the Live event for EACH DATE plus a copy of the book;  

• THREE additional winners will get copies of the new release.

The live chat events are being hosted by Author Marketing Experts as a Google+ hangout.

HOW TO ENTER:
1) You must have a Google+ account and be able to participate at 6pm PST on the event night.
Hint: Anyone with Gmail or other Google account is already set up to activate Google+
If you don't already have one you can set up a Google+ account here: https://plus.google.com

2) To enter for October 16 you will have to act quickly. (I'm sorry I had internet difficulties so I lost the weekend to announce this and had to make a Flash for the first date.)  If you have a Google+ account (or will get one by tomorrow morning), AND you can attend on Tuesday 10/16 at 6pm PST (registering by 5:50pm PST) Please email me at mesreads AT gmail.com between when this post goes live and 8am Central tomorrow morning (10/16). Put "October 16 Live Event with Victoria" (or similar wording) as the Subject of your email. I will use random.org to pick ONE WINNER from the emails for the "Seat" at the October 16 event.

3) To enter for the "Seat" for the November 6th Event and the additional THREE book copies watch the blog for the Entry Post a little later tonight.

Anyone who doesn't win is encouraged to register and tune in to a live stream of the chat on YouTube and submit questions/comments for Victoria using a special Twitter hash tag.
 
You can familiarize yourselves with Google Hangouts before hand; it’s very easy - if you can do Skype,  you can do this. More information about Google+ hangouts: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

NOTE!!!
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR READERS:

Anyone who doesn't win a “seat” at the live chat is encouraged to participate by registering!

Anyone registered can tune in to a live stream of the chat on YouTube and submit questions/comments for the Victoria using a special Twitter hash tag.

Event registration: www.amarketingexpert.com/author-events-live-with-victoria-alexander

At the time of the event participants should tune in here: www.youtube.com/user/BookmarketingAME

A YouTube account is not needed to view the live stream.

At the time of the event questions/comments can be sent in via Twitter using: #authorslive

A Twitter account is required to send in questions/comments.

To sign up for Twitter: https://twitter.com/signup

How to use hash tags: https://support.twitter.com/articles/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols#

From AME and myself:

Please don’t hesitate to ask questions, we want the events to be fun and easy for everyone involved. See you there!

Sourcebooks Celebrates the Royal Wedding!

This News Flash is in from Sourcebooks!

If you haven’t already checked out the Sourcebooks British Babes Book Brigade Facebook Page (where you can participate in giveaways and interact with authors like Elizabeth Chadwick, Jill Mansell, Helen Hollick, Sarah Bower and Phillipa Ashley and more…) then you should before next week because the page is about to go royally mad!!

The royal wedding is only a week away and we are going to be celebrating all next week. Starting Monday we will be doing a giveaway every day until the big celebration on Friday. But these are no ordinary giveaways – these are royal wedding prize packs!

3 winners will be randomly picked each day:

- The 1^st place winner will get a William & Kate wedding memento (it is top secret for now (just like Kate’s dress J) but check the page out on Monday to find out – oh and they are all different so there will be a different memento each day).  Along with that they also get their choice of three books from any of our British Book Babes. 

- The 2^nd  place winner will have their choice of any two books from any of our British Book Babes.

- The 3^rd  place winner will have their choice of one book from any of our British Book Babes.

Check out Review and Giveaway for The Last Track by Sam Hilliard

I am trying to keep the GOT BOOKS? post on top of the blog today. However I also am a blog tour stop today for The Last Track: A Mike Brody Novel by Sam Hilliard. Please take a few minutes in between the GOT BOOKS? event this weekend or set a reminder to come back and check the Review and Giveaway for this entertaining mystery.

My Friday Picks post for July 23 will also be posted but will be scheduled to place below the GOT BOOKS event. Thanks for understanding.

MARTHA'S BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!! I'm now a Publisher!

Well this announcement really needed a big flash!! 

Since late December I've made a few references to a "new project!"

Now my "team" and I are bursting so we decided to go ahead and announce even though the website isn't 100% yet!

Here is my news!

As of January 1 this year I became a publisher!

I purchased eTreasures Publishing!  We have 31 authors with 33 books!

Our website is still under construction with the books and author pages being added today and tomorrow!

But check it out here!

It is hard to appreciate the changes we are making without seeing the orignial site so here is a snapshot of an author page from the old site:

The previous owner had major health issues and was not able to actively grow the company over the past year and a half!  Now we are ready to shoot forward!

Please visit our new blog at http://etreasurespublishing.blogspot.com/ to see some of our opening plans and join in the celebration!!

I do plan to continue with my review site here although I will no longer be doing reviews for some of the sites and publishers as it is sometimes viewed as a conflict or that the review will be more critical. It will be interesting to see if my review eye does change!!

Now that the big push to get things ready is ALMOST behind me I hopefully will get all caught up - or mostly - on the reviews I have to complete!

NEWS FLASH - Vote for New Covey Cover Awards + YGR Video Submissions

NEWS FLASH! - The two books I have posted reviews for this week, Loyalty's Web and The Macgregor's Daughter are in the current competition for the Most Eye Catching cover at The New Covey Cover Awards.

There are also covers for some other authors I know from some of the chat groups I participate in: Giving Into Charity by Nancy O'Berry, All My Hopes and Dreams by Celia Yeary, Shattered Illusions by Karen Michelle Nutt, Witch's Magic by Tabitha Shay and Whitney In Charge by Diane Craver. The poll is on the left side when you go to the site. Why not pop over and vote for your favorite cover!  Voting ends October 3!

Scrolliong down I saw that the July winner of the Most Eye Catching Cover was Kiss of Life by Brian Porter! Congratulations Brian!

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While I'm doing a news flash here is a reminder: You Gotta Read Videos is taking submissions for trailers for October 2009!