Emily Bryan is running a quarterly contest in conjunction with her free online novella A DUKE FOR ALL SEASONS. Each month her readers vote for the direction the story should take and she writes the next chapter. March is the last month a vote will enter readers in her March 31st drawing for a $100 gift card. The link to the contest is: http://www.emilybryan.com/contest.htm

It’s that time of year again – Christmas! And the question in my latest contest is: What would be your perfect way to spend Christmas? Would you like money to be no object? Or would you be happy with your family around you? The more I think about this the  more I realise that it does not matter whether we’re financially well off. Christmas is a time for families. To have our loved ones around us.

In 2004 I wrote a book called Her Husband’s Christmas Bargain. My poor hero had fathered a daughter he knew nothing about. She is four years old when the story starts and she asks Santa for a Daddy for Christmas. And guess what – she gets her wish. It’s a long uphill struggle before her Mummy and Daddy finally get back together but love conquers all in the end.

So do you agree with me that Christmas is about family get togethers and not money? Or do you think Christmas is too commercialised these days? Would you like to fly away from it all and enjoy a holiday somewhere different? Email me your answers here and you could win a copy of my latest book – The Twelve-Month Marriage Deal. The perfect Christmas present to yourself!

Happy Christmas everyone!

Margaret

A name will be drawn at random on Nov 30 and the winner allowed to select a paperback from any of the author’s novels, including: TAINTED HERO (receiver of six 5 star reviews), FORGOTTEN CHILDREN (nominated best romantic suspense of 2008 by two sites), or the new release BLIND CONSENT. To apply, go to the Contest page at Davisstories.com and follow the instructions.

75 Books & Counting Contest

Margaret Mayo

Since I’ve reached that magical figure of 75 – who can tell me what my very first book was called?  It was published way back in 1976.

The first three names picked out of the hat will win a book from my backlist, and I would be interested to hear how you think it compares to my present day books.  There’s no denying that they have changed over the years.

To enter visit Margaret’s site: http://www.margaret-mayo.com

Hi! Thank you We Write Romance for letting me visit. My name is Teryl Cartwright and my book is called A Sensible Match which is a Regency romance about the sometimes disastrous and sometimes wonderful results of matchmaking. Abby and Edwin, my fantastic and witty combatants, fight each other, their meddling families and fate itself. The big question for the reluctantly thrown together couple is simply this–can you choose whom to love?

Matchmaking is relevant today—not because of those annoying websites, but because we pick and choose everything from our schools to churches to home address. The internet has even given us freedom to choose relationships without the limits of geography, age or background. You just can’t get away from all the matchmaking we have around us! So I guess I wanted to write about matchmaking because it has a lot to do with the idea of whether we choose our destiny or it chooses us.

Why my enormous interest in matchmaking? I had it done to me (and it failed) until my husband and I decided to see why we were so “perfect for each other”. Some other neat facts about me—I have a horse which I snuck into the story, my favorite authors, Georgette Heyer and M.C. Beaton, were also “included” in this romance along with some inside jokes about being a pastor’s wife (which I know well).

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