Spot The Season Photo Contest! Awesome Prize!

Ok, y'all...back in February when The Season began to appear in the wild, dozens of you guys started sending in photos of the book in its natural habitat...bookstores, libraries, chillin' with cats...

and i LOVED it.

Loved it loved it loved it! I started putting all those photos on a map...which lives in my sidebar, and I would go home everyday and irritate my husband by showing him the newest awesome photos of the day!

But then...you stopped sending them. so...suffice to say...i got sad. :(

And YOU--yes, you in the middle--Kansas? Nebraska? Wyoming? Montana? What happened to you? My map is so sad and pathetic in the middle! Come on! Alaska delivered! And Alaska is FAR!

But then...a bright spot.

This week, Molly & Clare (a mother/daughter team who sound AWESOME) and the incredible Carrie Ryan (yes...THE...FAMOUS...CARRIE RYAN)...sent me new photos out of the blue! YAY!

Don't you want to be as awesome as Molly & Clare & Carrie? Send me your photos!

Need me to sweeten the deal? Well...ok. If you insist. I just so happen to have awesome bookmarks that have special commissioned art of The Season girls on them! I offer you this awesome trade -- your photos of The Season in the wild for a bookmark!

Shall I sweeten the deal even more? The best, most creative photo of The Season in the wild (indoors or outdoors, with people or without) will receive a SIGNED POSTER of The Season! Isn't that worth it?

The contest is now, officially open! I'll put all the photos on my map...and choose the winning photo on June 19th. That gives you two weeks to be as creative as possible!

Yay! I'm so excited!

This Thursday! Rhode Island!

Be there or be square! (You don't want to be *square* do you???)



Barnes & Noble
Warwick, RI
4pm

Ideas on what passage I should read from The Season?
Leave them in comments!

Publishers Weekly! And Happy Author Giveaway!

Ok...so I SWEAR I won't do this often...but when you wake up on a miserable, snowy, grey Monday when the last thing you want to do is drag yourself to work...and an email from the lovely and talented Saundra Mitchell is in your inbox containing the long-awaited Publishers Weekly review of The Season...AND it has the greatest compliment you could ever ask for in it...you can't help but squee.

And immediately post it to your blog.

So...forgive me for the momentary bragging, but...Oh. Em. Gee.

"Clever conversation in the spirit of Jane Austen makes this quite a page turner."

Oh. Em. Gee.

That's about my book. And it references Aunt Jane. Are you KIDDING me, PW?!?!

Ahem. By which I mean to say, of course, "Thank you. Very much."

Ok...I was raised never to have a great day without paying it forward...so here we go with our first Happy Author giveaway! In comments, tell me the one thing you love about historical fiction...Regency or otherwise, and I'll enter you in a drawing to win a The Season Wordle Journal! Contest is open through Friday!

Tell your friends!

xoxo

Hey Brooklyn!!! Get Yer Signed Copies!!!

So...Eric and I just took a walk to our local Barnes & Noble...where I did my first official authorial act (well, second if you count writing a book)...I signed stock. There were three copies of The Season on the New for Teens table...and a very nice bookseller tolerated my squeeing and let me sign the stock there. So...if you're in Brooklyn...stop by the Park Slope B&N and pick up your very own autographed copy of The Season!

Of course, Eric took a photo!



Also...had to share this one...note Mt. St. Twilight in the background. Seriously. Like 150 copies of Twilight in every imaginable version! You can barely see The Season (third row, on the end) Someday I shall have a heap of books like Stephenie.

Hometown Pride...

Just had to share this one...and then, I SWEAR I will stop posting photos of the book here and just let them live on the map. :)

BUT...My dad braved the YA section of our local Barnes & Noble in my homestate of Rhode Island...and found 5 copies of The Season. And, because he loves me more than I deserve, he took a photo. Yay!

So...I've added the photo to the map on the sidebar...don't forget to send in your own photos of the book! You don't have to be in a bookstore...just take a pic with the book and send it in to win a fun prize!

Spot The Season!

Ok...Cecilia also sent in a photo...so I'm starting a map to track The Season! If you see it and have a camera handy...or if you're reading it and want to share...take a shot and send it to me so that I can add it to my official collection! (Added bonus...you win a fun prize!)


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OMG!

YOU GUYS! It's for real!

Thanks to Khy over at Frenetic Reader who not only took the first photo, risking embarrassment, but also bought a copy!

I can't BELIEVE it's real!!!

Regency Contest!

Ok...so I hadn't planned on this giveaway...but something happened tonight that inspired me...namely that fellow 2009 Debutante Jenny Moss SAW THE SEASON IN A BOOKSTORE TODAY!!!

OMGOMGOMG!

Ok. So. After some looking, it appears that there are Barnes and Nobles across the country that are already stocking The Season! Of course, none of these Barnes and Nobles are in New York City. Of course. And so, I turn to you, dear readers! If you're in a bookstore anytime in the next two weeks...and you see The Season...AND you take a picture of it and send it to me...you will win something awesome!

"Something awesome, you say, Sarah?"

Indeed, dear reader. I did say just that. You win a Regency-themed or Season-themed goodie from my Regency/Season goodie bag...which I had planned to break open in March! But, instead, I break it open here and now. In there are stickers, magnets, pins, bookmarks, postcards, greeting cards and other odds and ends (all nifty)! To sweeten the deal, the FIRST person to send a photo of The Season in an ACTUAL bookstore, will win copies of my two favorite Regency books (I'm not saying who they're by, but the author's name might rhyme with Rain Pausten)!