It’s almost time!!!!!!!!
The reveal will be in my newsletter, so sign up here to see it first: Lauren Christopher Newsletter.
I’ll also be giving away a $15 Amazon gift card to one newsletter subscriber (old or new) and a blue Sandy Cove souvenir gift pack to match the cover!
Come join the fun!
And the Launch Party continues! Friends from all over are sending me their pics of buying my book in Barnes and Noble, and it’s so much fun to see. (The above represents Boise, ID; Springfield, VA; Escondido, CA; Fullerton, CA and more.) Giveaways and celebrations are still going on, so here’s where you can catch some prizes:
Penguin Beach Bag: Berkley-Penguin is giving away a Penguin tote bag, a copy of Lorelie Brown’s RIDING THE WAVE (also a surfer story!), a copy of my THE RED BIKINI, a Penguin water bottle, and sunscreen (all the fixings for a perfect day at the beach) to four lucky winners over the next two weeks. How do you play? You can come to any of these places where Lorelie and I are blogging together and enter at any spot any time:
Beach Bag filled with 5 Hot Summer Books!: I’m teaming up with four other contemporary romance authors to give away hot summer reads, bookstore gift cards, and fun-in-the-sun goodies on Facebook. The grand prize is a hot-pink beach bag filled with 1 copy of each of our five books, plus some summer swag. The event takes place on July 9 from 2-6 PST/5-9 EST, and you can play for 5 minutes or 4 hours from your computer or phone. You can join here by clicking “join” and we’ll send you more info when it starts —“Beach Blanket Books” Giveaway!
Come win some books!
New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery, who has sold more than 25 million books worldwide, read my book and wrote a cover blurb saying how much she loved my hero Fin! She was kind enough to plan a contest this week to help introduce her readers to my book. Come play with us here!
If any of you has been getting my newsletter, you know that I’m including a quote each month. I’m pulling them from a file I keep of “Favorite Quotes.” I kicked it off in March with a Maya Angelou quote, and now that I look at my file I see I have so many from her.
She had so many beautiful things to say about women, and love, and fighting for your place in the world, and being part of humanity by being kind.
Here are some of my favorites. The last one sometimes makes me cry:
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~ Maya Angelou
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” ~ Maya Angelou
“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.” ~ Maya Angelou
So the April book club book, The Fault in Our Stars, was my selection, so volunteered to host. (Our book club switches around houses for hosting.)
Of course, for TFIOS, I had to have some orange tulips. (Points if you know why.)
For the menu, I decided to have pizza, since this was a YA book. But plain ol’ pizza didn’t seem exciting enough, so I decided to have an entire pizza-topping bar! Continue reading
