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February 17, 2011
3 Giveaway Winners!
I decided to wait until all the Valentine giveaways were over to announce the various winners, and today the results are in:
Follower Love Hop Giveaway: Winner is SiNn. Prize: A copy of my sweet medieval romance, Loyalty's Web
Get to Know the Reviewer: Kathy Habel: Winner is Susan M. Prize: Beneath the Honeysuckle Vine , by Marcia Lynn McClure
Books with LOVE Hop: Winner is Cheryl S22. Prize: a copy of my sweet medieval romance, Loyalty's Web
Thank you to all who participated. And stay tuned: You never know when I'll be giving something away next!
Follower Love Hop Giveaway: Winner is SiNn. Prize: A copy of my sweet medieval romance, Loyalty's Web
Get to Know the Reviewer: Kathy Habel: Winner is Susan M. Prize: Beneath the Honeysuckle Vine , by Marcia Lynn McClure
Books with LOVE Hop: Winner is Cheryl S22. Prize: a copy of my sweet medieval romance, Loyalty's Web
Thank you to all who participated. And stay tuned: You never know when I'll be giving something away next!
Tuesday Teaser on Thursday
It's been a couple of weeks since I shared a Tuesday Teaser because I've been running various blog hops over the last two Tuesdays. But I didn't want another week to go completely by, so I decided to share a Tuesday Teaser with you on Thursday this week!Tuesday Teaser is a weekly bookish meme (rhymes with "cream"), hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. (I've borrowed it from LDS Women's Book Review.) Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current readOpen to a random pageShare at least two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!
I'm adapting the rules slightly. I'll be quoting some random lines from the last chapter I read before I post a teaser. I'm a slow reader, so you may get multiple teasers per book. Here's a teaser from Dearly Departed :
"If you get caught, I'll make it up to you," Ida Mae promised.
"How can you make up something like jail? That would take more than a pan of brownies, Ida Mae."
From Dearly Departed , by Tristi Pinkston, p 193
If you'd like to share a teaser from a book you're currently reading, I'd love you to do so in the comment section. And you don't even have to share it on a Tuesday! Be sure to include the title, author, and page number in case others would like to check out the book you're reading, too.
February 16, 2011
Book Blog Tour for "Dearly Departed", by Tristi Pinkston
Ida Mae
Babbitt rides again!
Ida Mae Babbitt may be a reformed woman, but trouble just can't stay away.
Follow the blog tour for Dearly Departed by Tristi Pinkston and learn
about Ida Mae's latest adventure.
We will be giving away THREE copies of Dearly Departed . One
GRAND PRIZE winner will win this fun
scrap booking pack.
It's easy to enter.
1. Visit the fabulous reviews and leave a comment letting us know why
you're excited to read Dearly
Departed. Remember to include your email address.
2. For an additional entry become a follower of Walnut Springs Press blog,
Tristi's blog, or any of the fabulous reviews blog. Leave a comment letting
us know who's blog you now follow.
3. If you tweet about the blog tour, or post about it on your blog or
facebook, leave the link in the comments section and you'll receive an
additional entry for each post.
Good Luck! Entries close at midnight (MST) on March 6th.
***
Ida Mae Babbitt has done her community service and is a reformed
woman - no more law-breaking for her. But when Arlette's granddaughter
Eden discovers a mystery in a fancy nursing home, Ida Mae - with the
perfect excuse of a broken wrist and a broken ankle - checks herself into
the place. After all, it is for the greater good. Soon she's buzzing
around in her motorized wheelchair, questioning the residents and swiping
files from the office. She's bound and determined to get to the bottom of
this case. But can she solve the mystery before she becomes the next
victim?
****
February 16th
Starcrossed book
reviews (Nichole Giles)
Febraury 17
Inksplasher (Karlene Brown)
February 18
Heather Justensen
February 21
Elizabeth Muller
February 22
LDS Women's Book Review (Shanda
Cottam)
February 23
Rachelle Writes
(Rachelle Christensen)
Sometimes
Hard But Oh So Worth It (Kimberly Coates)
February 24
Fire and Ice (Heather
Gardner)
February 28
Cheryl's Book Nook
(Cheryl Koch)
March 1
JDP News (Joyce DiPastena)
March 2
Teri Rodeman
March 3
Why Not? Because I Said
So (Sheila Stayley)
Ida MaeBabbitt rides again!Ida Mae Babbitt may be a refor...
Ida Mae
Babbitt rides again!
Ida Mae Babbitt may be a reformed woman, but trouble just can't stay away.
Follow the blog tour for Dearly Departed by Tristi Pinkston and learn
about Ida Mae's latest adventure.
We will be giving away THREE copies of Dearly Departed . One
GRAND PRIZE winner will win this fun
scrap booking pack.
It's easy to enter.
1. Visit the fabulous reviews and leave a comment letting us know why
you're excited to read Dearly
Departed. Remember to include your email address.
2. For an additional entry become a follower of Walnut Springs Press blog,
Tristi's blog, or any of the fabulous reviews blog. Leave a comment letting
us know who's blog you now follow.
3. If you tweet about the blog tour, or post about it on your blog or
facebook, leave the link in the comments section and you'll receive an
additional entry for each post.
Good Luck! Entries close at midnight (MST) on March 6th.
***
Ida Mae Babbitt has done her community service and is a reformed
woman - no more law-breaking for her. But when Arlette's granddaughter
Eden discovers a mystery in a fancy nursing home, Ida Mae - with the
perfect excuse of a broken wrist and a broken ankle - checks herself into
the place. After all, it is for the greater good. Soon she's buzzing
around in her motorized wheelchair, questioning the residents and swiping
files from the office. She's bound and determined to get to the bottom of
this case. But can she solve the mystery before she becomes the next
victim?
****
February 16th
Starcrossed book
reviews (Nichole Giles)
Febraury 17
Inksplasher (Karlene Brown)
February 18
Heather Justensen
February 21
Elizabeth Muller
February 22
LDS Women's Book Review (Shanda
Cottam)
February 23
Rachelle Writes
(Rachelle Christensen)
Sometimes
Hard But Oh So Worth It (Kimberly Coates)
February 24
Fire and Ice (Heather
Gardner)
February 28
Cheryl's Book Nook
(Cheryl Koch)
March 1
JDP News (Joyce DiPastena)
March 2
Teri Rodeman
March 3
Why Not? Because I Said
So (Sheila Stayley)
February 14, 2011
Romance Blogfest
(For the Books with LOVE Hop Giveaway, click here)
Welcome to my very first blogfest! What is a blogfest, you ask? (I had to ask, too!) A blogfest is when several bloggers get together and all blog about the same theme on the same day. Then you, our loyal readers, can hop from blog to blog to catch all our different "takes" on the theme.
As is perfectly appropriate for a Valentine's Day blogfest, today's theme is…romance! Each of the participating blogs will be sharing an excerpt that highlights the very first meeting of the hero and heroine in one of our books or our latest WIP. So here's mine, from The Lady and the Minstrel :
***********
At first, she thought the low whistle no different than any other night the wind moaned through the branches. But after a moment, she registered the subtle difference in tone. A soft, pure trill. Of all the unique colors of sound she had lay listening to in the night o'er the past two years, none of them had ever rung so true.She reached out a hand to still the limb nearest to the window and leaned forward to gaze into the darkness. The clouds skittered across the sky, playing hide and seek with the moon, until suddenly the moon leapt out in all its white brilliance and she saw him, standing directly below her at the base of the oak. Dark hair shone silver in the moonlight and bathed the face she had dreamed of for weeks in all its haunting charm. The minstrel who had smiled at her so boldly in the hall.He raised a hand. "Please, my lady, don't cry out.""What do you want?" she called softly. "Ought you not to be with the other musicians in the gallery? What are you doing there?""Come down and I will tell you.""Come down? Are you mad? My father would have my head!""What, are you afraid? Then I must come to you."She watched with fascinated shock as he wrapped his hands around a low hanging branch and swung himself up into the tree. He scaled the branches, lithe and quick as a cat, and she barely stumbled back in time to allow him room for the final bouncing step that brought him through her window."You are mad!" she gasped. "Do you know what my father will do to you if he finds you here?" The shadows of the chamber closed in around them, shading the features she had committed to heart, but a flicker from the grate fire flashed against his scarlet tunic and dully lit the rough, threadbare cloak she remembered from the village that he had tossed over it. Somehow, without quite seeing his eyes in the dark, she could feel the force of his gaze sliding over her."Ah. You are lovelier now than you were in the hall. I had not thought such a thing possible."A hot flush rushed into her cheeks, but though she held the coverlet steady, she did not draw it tighter. "Sir, I beg you to leave. If you are found here—""If you are afraid, my lady, call your father's guards. But I swear on my life that I mean you no harm."She tried to ignore the soft throb in his voice that spoke of sincerity—or masked his sinister intent. She should scream, she told herself, or at least run for the door. Instead, she only moved enough to force him to shift where the firelight fell across his face. Oh! That was a mistake. The same jolt of attraction she had felt when she'd laid eyes on him in the village, and again a few hours ago in the hall, blazed through her again."Who are you?" she whispered. "My name is Robert Marcel. I brought my lute, should you crave a song." He motioned to the instrument slung over his shoulder, shrouded now in some sort of supple covering. She stifled a nervous impulse to giggle and repeated yet again, "You are mad.""Nay, I am in love." He closed the space between them before she could blink. His arms swept around her, pulling her into a strong embrace, and yet he held her lightly enough that she might have broken away had she wanted to. And for that very reason, because he made no effort to trap her, her hands found his chest of their own accord, not to thrust him off, but to rest there with a hesitant trust. The coverlet slid away to the floor, leaving her clad in her long-sleeved woolen nightdress. She searched his face—a fiercely handsome face worthy of a man reckless enough to climb an oak tree to invade a lady's chamber!—seeking so much as a glimmer of the lust Strode wore so openly for Lady Lovell, but the flames lit only a solemn longing in the midnight eyes. His voice shook a little as his words spilled out in a rush."I have thought of nothing but you since our eyes met that day in the village. And then when I saw you tonight in the hall, so beautiful and so innocent, and you smiled at me, I knew I was lost. 'Tis hopeless, I know, for I am only a poor minstrel, nothing to compare to the noble Earl of Strode. Pray, my lady, do not be afraid. I crave but one kiss from your lips—one kiss to last me a lifetime!—and then I will be gone."Marguerite's heart raced. She had never been in a man's arms before and she found the experience somewhat dizzying. He did not look like a man who often hesitated to take what he wanted, and yet when he bent his head towards hers, he checked himself just short of her lips. It was that instant of uncertainty in him, briefer than a heartbeat, that nudged her leap of faith in his honor and lifted her willing mouth and drifted shut her eyes.And then she felt his mouth on hers, gentle, warm, strong, yet somehow cautious, as if weighing something in her, as if waiting…for what? Outrage on her part? Resistance? Oh, heavens! If Marguerite had felt dizzy before, her senses now swam in earnest, and she wound her arms around his neck and let her body melt like fresh butter against him and kissed him back as if all her future hung on this one moment.He pulled away with a little gasp, then despite his vow, found her lips again, this time with greater force. She tightened her hold, for her knees felt strangely untrustworthy. He did not smell of fresh air and green wood as she had dreamed, but of the smoke of her father's hall and a faint, fresh hint of mint(?). Ah! This was better than any daydream, this flurry of snatching kisses he suddenly pressed against her mouth, this quivering little flame inside her."Marguerite? Child, are you asleep?"Marguerite pushed him away with a sharp breath of dismay. "My mother," she whispered, relieved when Lady Leah rapped gently on the door instead of entering unannounced. "Oh, you must go. Quickly."She pushed him toward the window. "Marguerite?""Yes, yes, Mamma, just a moment," she called. He caught her hands and held them against his heart. She could feel it beating strongly beneath his tunic. "I shall return," he said."Not here. Not like this.""But I must see you again."Her lips parted to protest, and he bent forward to kiss them. Her head whirled. Again came the rapping and her mother's voice. She pulled her lips away. "Please!""When shall I see you?""I don't know. I—Tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, late. There is a place outside the village called the North Glade. Anyone can give you directions. I will meet you there. Now please, go."He raised her hands to his lips, swung himself over the windowsill, and vanished into the night
***********
Now click here to find the links to more "first meeting scenes" in our Romance Blogfest!
Welcome to my very first blogfest! What is a blogfest, you ask? (I had to ask, too!) A blogfest is when several bloggers get together and all blog about the same theme on the same day. Then you, our loyal readers, can hop from blog to blog to catch all our different "takes" on the theme.
As is perfectly appropriate for a Valentine's Day blogfest, today's theme is…romance! Each of the participating blogs will be sharing an excerpt that highlights the very first meeting of the hero and heroine in one of our books or our latest WIP. So here's mine, from The Lady and the Minstrel :
***********
At first, she thought the low whistle no different than any other night the wind moaned through the branches. But after a moment, she registered the subtle difference in tone. A soft, pure trill. Of all the unique colors of sound she had lay listening to in the night o'er the past two years, none of them had ever rung so true.She reached out a hand to still the limb nearest to the window and leaned forward to gaze into the darkness. The clouds skittered across the sky, playing hide and seek with the moon, until suddenly the moon leapt out in all its white brilliance and she saw him, standing directly below her at the base of the oak. Dark hair shone silver in the moonlight and bathed the face she had dreamed of for weeks in all its haunting charm. The minstrel who had smiled at her so boldly in the hall.He raised a hand. "Please, my lady, don't cry out.""What do you want?" she called softly. "Ought you not to be with the other musicians in the gallery? What are you doing there?""Come down and I will tell you.""Come down? Are you mad? My father would have my head!""What, are you afraid? Then I must come to you."She watched with fascinated shock as he wrapped his hands around a low hanging branch and swung himself up into the tree. He scaled the branches, lithe and quick as a cat, and she barely stumbled back in time to allow him room for the final bouncing step that brought him through her window."You are mad!" she gasped. "Do you know what my father will do to you if he finds you here?" The shadows of the chamber closed in around them, shading the features she had committed to heart, but a flicker from the grate fire flashed against his scarlet tunic and dully lit the rough, threadbare cloak she remembered from the village that he had tossed over it. Somehow, without quite seeing his eyes in the dark, she could feel the force of his gaze sliding over her."Ah. You are lovelier now than you were in the hall. I had not thought such a thing possible."A hot flush rushed into her cheeks, but though she held the coverlet steady, she did not draw it tighter. "Sir, I beg you to leave. If you are found here—""If you are afraid, my lady, call your father's guards. But I swear on my life that I mean you no harm."She tried to ignore the soft throb in his voice that spoke of sincerity—or masked his sinister intent. She should scream, she told herself, or at least run for the door. Instead, she only moved enough to force him to shift where the firelight fell across his face. Oh! That was a mistake. The same jolt of attraction she had felt when she'd laid eyes on him in the village, and again a few hours ago in the hall, blazed through her again."Who are you?" she whispered. "My name is Robert Marcel. I brought my lute, should you crave a song." He motioned to the instrument slung over his shoulder, shrouded now in some sort of supple covering. She stifled a nervous impulse to giggle and repeated yet again, "You are mad.""Nay, I am in love." He closed the space between them before she could blink. His arms swept around her, pulling her into a strong embrace, and yet he held her lightly enough that she might have broken away had she wanted to. And for that very reason, because he made no effort to trap her, her hands found his chest of their own accord, not to thrust him off, but to rest there with a hesitant trust. The coverlet slid away to the floor, leaving her clad in her long-sleeved woolen nightdress. She searched his face—a fiercely handsome face worthy of a man reckless enough to climb an oak tree to invade a lady's chamber!—seeking so much as a glimmer of the lust Strode wore so openly for Lady Lovell, but the flames lit only a solemn longing in the midnight eyes. His voice shook a little as his words spilled out in a rush."I have thought of nothing but you since our eyes met that day in the village. And then when I saw you tonight in the hall, so beautiful and so innocent, and you smiled at me, I knew I was lost. 'Tis hopeless, I know, for I am only a poor minstrel, nothing to compare to the noble Earl of Strode. Pray, my lady, do not be afraid. I crave but one kiss from your lips—one kiss to last me a lifetime!—and then I will be gone."Marguerite's heart raced. She had never been in a man's arms before and she found the experience somewhat dizzying. He did not look like a man who often hesitated to take what he wanted, and yet when he bent his head towards hers, he checked himself just short of her lips. It was that instant of uncertainty in him, briefer than a heartbeat, that nudged her leap of faith in his honor and lifted her willing mouth and drifted shut her eyes.And then she felt his mouth on hers, gentle, warm, strong, yet somehow cautious, as if weighing something in her, as if waiting…for what? Outrage on her part? Resistance? Oh, heavens! If Marguerite had felt dizzy before, her senses now swam in earnest, and she wound her arms around his neck and let her body melt like fresh butter against him and kissed him back as if all her future hung on this one moment.He pulled away with a little gasp, then despite his vow, found her lips again, this time with greater force. She tightened her hold, for her knees felt strangely untrustworthy. He did not smell of fresh air and green wood as she had dreamed, but of the smoke of her father's hall and a faint, fresh hint of mint(?). Ah! This was better than any daydream, this flurry of snatching kisses he suddenly pressed against her mouth, this quivering little flame inside her."Marguerite? Child, are you asleep?"Marguerite pushed him away with a sharp breath of dismay. "My mother," she whispered, relieved when Lady Leah rapped gently on the door instead of entering unannounced. "Oh, you must go. Quickly."She pushed him toward the window. "Marguerite?""Yes, yes, Mamma, just a moment," she called. He caught her hands and held them against his heart. She could feel it beating strongly beneath his tunic. "I shall return," he said."Not here. Not like this.""But I must see you again."Her lips parted to protest, and he bent forward to kiss them. Her head whirled. Again came the rapping and her mother's voice. She pulled her lips away. "Please!""When shall I see you?""I don't know. I—Tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, late. There is a place outside the village called the North Glade. Anyone can give you directions. I will meet you there. Now please, go."He raised her hands to his lips, swung himself over the windowsill, and vanished into the night
***********
Now click here to find the links to more "first meeting scenes" in our Romance Blogfest!
February 13, 2011
Books with LOVE Hop!
Didn't I promise you lots of good giveaways this month? Well, here's another one! Today kicks off the Books With LOVE Hop, sponsored by Good Choice Reading and Once Upon a Twilight. This giveaway is to celebrate the love in books that make our heart jump and I'm celebrating by giving away another copy of my sweet medieval romance, Loyalty's Web !
To enter you MUST be a follower of JDP NEWS and you must leave me a comment telling me that you are a follower. AND don't forget to include your email address so I can contact you if you win!To earn extra entries, you may do any or all of the following:
+1 Subscribe to JDP NEWS via the Feedburner subscription box in the left hand sidebar. You must confirm your subscription. Then leave a comment letting me know.
+1 Like my "Joyce DiPastena" page on Facebook, then leave a comment letting me know.
+1 Become a NetworkedBlog follower (below the Feedburner subscription box), then leave me a comment letting me know.
+1 Share news about this giveaway on Twitter, Facebook, or blog, then leave me a comment letting me know.
AND INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WITH EACH OR ALL OF THE ABOVE. (Thanks!)
Deadline for entries is 11:59 PM EST/7:59 PM PST on February 16th.
Now that you've done one or all of the above, hop on along to the list of participating blogs below to check out the other fantastic Books with LOVE Hop giveaways!
February 12, 2011
Winner of "A Very Merry Chase"
February 11, 2011
Get to Know the Reviewer: Kathy Habel of I Am a Reader, Not a Writer
Today's Getting to Know You interview is with book reviewer Kathy Habel, AKA Inspired Kathy at I Am a Reader, Not a Writer. Kathy is shy. You'll notice that there are no photos of her on her blog, but I managed to sneak one of her setting the table for dinner. (Just kidding. I don't really know why she's holding all those forks. Maybe she'll share the full fork story with us someday!)Kathy has generously offered to hold a book giveaway in connection with this interview. If you'd like to win a copy of Beneath a Honeysuckle Vine by Marcia Lynn McClure, just leave a comment below AND INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS. Deadline to enter is midnight PST, February 16. The winner will be drawn by Random.org. USA entries only.
JDP: Welcome to JDP NEWS, Kathy. Do you remember a favorite book from your childhood?
Kathy: Raggedy Ann and Andy. My mom had it memorized and I have the very tattered, falling apart copy she read to me.
JDP: I have a very tattered, falling apart Raggedy Ann doll. Name a favorite author as an adult. Kathy: Just one? It's hard to pick just one! Marcia Lynn McClureJDP: Share a book you've read multiple times.Kathy: Twilight Series, Pride and Prejudice , Harry Potter Series, Jane Eyre JDP: Kindle, Nook, or good old hard copy? Kathy: Still a good old fashioned hard copy but I'm sure I'll make the switch someday soon.JDP: What's your favorite place to read? Kathy: Curled up on the couch although I can and do read just about everywhere. I'm the queen of multitasking, I can read and fold laundry at the same time.JDP: Wow! There's a good trick! What are your three favorite reading genres. Kathy: Fantasy, Clean Romance, Historical FictionJDP: What's the last book you read? Kathy: You know I read a lot right! This week I've finished Falling Under (Gwen Hayes), The Peasant Queen (Cheri Chesley), Spells (Aprilynne Pike), Pearl (Jo Knowles), Lost on Spirit River (Tommy Batchlor), The Blood of Cain (T.L. Gray) and Sapphique (Catherine Fisher) . JDP: Wow! And what are you're reading now? Kathy: I'm always in the middle of several books. Currently The Life and Opinions of Amy Finawitz (Laura Toffler-Corrie), Impractical Grace (John S. Bushman), The Last Olympian (Rick Riordan) and Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream (Jenny Han).JDP: What's next on your reading list? Kathy: A lot! Here is my next months worth of reading: Delirium (Laura Oliver), Road Show (Braden Bell), Latte Rebellion (Sarah Jamila Stevenson), Crusade (Nancy Holder), Flirt Club (Cathleen Daly), Dearly Departed (Tristi Pinkston), Heart of a Hero (Marie Higgins), By Heart & by Compass (Danielle Thorne), Fused (Kari Lee Townsend), How Sweet It Is (Sophie Gunn), Rhythm of Secrets (Patti Lacy), Shades of Gray , Other Words for Love (Lorraine Zago Rosenthal), Midnight Tunnel , Long Weekend (Savita Kalhan), Mad Love (Suzanne Selfors), False Princess (Eilis O'Neal), A New Birth (Robert G. Pielke), Timeless (Alexandra Monir), Fallen Grace (Mary Hooper), Letters From Home (Kristine McMorris), Sean Griswold's Head (Lindsey Leavitt), Sing Me to Sleep (Angela Morrison) and A Modest Proposal (Michele Ashman Bell)... Wish me Luck!JDP: Whew! Good luck! What you would like to read more of? (author, genre, etc) Kathy: I'm already reading mainly what I want to. I really enjoy young adult books and clean romance. That is what I mainly read. I just wish I didn't have to sleep so I could get through more books.JDP: Share a favorite book that you've read in the last 12 months
Kathy: So hard to pick one! Here's one to look forward to that comes out in April: My Unfair Godmother by Janette Rallison.
JDP: Thank you for joining us today, Kathy!
More about Kathy: So many books, so little time! Kathy is an eclectic reader and blogs her reviews of many different genres: fantasy, fairy tales, clean romance, historical fiction, science fiction, Christian, LDS and anything else that is clean, uplifting or entertaining. Her juvenile, middle grade, young adult, and adult book reviews include content information for parents and the conservative reader. If you love free books, stop by her blog, I Am a Reader, Not a Writer each week for a new giveaway!
And remember: Leave a comment on this interview for a chance to win a copy of Beneath the Honeysuckle Vine , by Marcia Lynn McClure!
February 10, 2011
What Am I Reading Now?
Well, I closed
The Eagle of the Ninth
with a very contented sigh, and promptly ordered three more Rosemary Sutcliff books. I'm a little worried from the movie trailers that
The Eagle
is going to deviate from one of my favorite parts of the book, but I'm willing to give it a chance to come out right in the end. (Hopefully I'm off to see it this Friday!)
While I'm waiting for my Amazon order to come in, I'm reading a light LDS mystery called
Dearly Departed
, by Tristi Pinkston. I'll be reviewing this book for Tristi's blog tour in March, so check back for that.
Here the back cover blurb for Dearly Departed :
Ida Mae Babbit has done her community service and is a reformed woman--no more law-breaking for her. But when Artlette's granddaughter Eden discovers a mystery in a fancy nursing home, Ida Mae--with the perfect excuse of a broken wrist and a broken ankle--checks herself into the place. After all, it is for the greater good. Soon she's buzzing around in her motorized wheelchair, questioning the residents and swiping files from the office. She's bound and determined to get to the bottom of this case. But can she solve the mystery before she becomes the next victim?
Stop by next Tuesday to read a Tuesday Teaser from Dearly Departed .
While I'm waiting for my Amazon order to come in, I'm reading a light LDS mystery called
Dearly Departed
, by Tristi Pinkston. I'll be reviewing this book for Tristi's blog tour in March, so check back for that.Here the back cover blurb for Dearly Departed :
Ida Mae Babbit has done her community service and is a reformed woman--no more law-breaking for her. But when Artlette's granddaughter Eden discovers a mystery in a fancy nursing home, Ida Mae--with the perfect excuse of a broken wrist and a broken ankle--checks herself into the place. After all, it is for the greater good. Soon she's buzzing around in her motorized wheelchair, questioning the residents and swiping files from the office. She's bound and determined to get to the bottom of this case. But can she solve the mystery before she becomes the next victim?
Stop by next Tuesday to read a Tuesday Teaser from Dearly Departed .
February 7, 2011
Follower Love Giveaway Hop!
I promised you two blog hop giveaways this month, and here is the first of them! The Follower Love Giveaway Hop is sponsored by Inspired Kathy of I Am a Reader, Not a Writer. (You can read my interview with Kathy, by the way, this coming Friday, right here on JDP NEWS!) Over 200 blogs are participating in this blog hop, each of them giving away some book-themed item having to do, appropriately enough, with love!
This blog hop runs from today, February 8, through February 13. Here is chance #1 to win a copy of my sweet medieval romance, Loyalty's Web . (Sorry, USA entries only this time.) To enter, you MUST be a follower of JDP NEWS and you must leave me a comment telling me you are a follower. AND don't forget to include your email address so I can contact you if you win!
To earn extra entries, you may do any or all of the following:
+1 Subscribe to JDP NEWS via the Feedburner subscription box in the left hand sidebar. You must confirm your subscription. Then leave a comment letting me know.
+1 Like my "Joyce DiPastena" page on Facebook (leave a comment letting me know)
+1 Friend me on Goodreads (leave a comment letting me know)
+1 Share news about this giveaway on Twitter, Facebook, or blog (leave a comment letting me know)
AND INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WITH EACH OR ALL OF THE ABOVE. (Thanks!)
Deadline for entries is 11:59 EST/7:59 PST on February 13th.
All done? Then see the list below for links to the other blogs participating in the Follower Love Giveaway Hop and continue hopping away!
