Author: emarx
SPRING FLING–WIN 5 AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS
Who’s tired of winter? Looking forward to some beach reading? Or sitting on your favorite patio and listening to the hummingbirds while you read?
I am giving away a paperback copy of all five of my titles to one lucky winner!!!
All you have to do to enter to win is:
1) GO to my FACEBOOK AUTHOR PAGE & give it a
like! FACEBOOK AUTHOR PAGE
2) Share the BOOKLOVERS post pinned to the top of my page! Look for this icon:
3) Enter the RAFFLECOPTER
Happy Reading & Reviewing,
Elizabeth Marx
CHICK LIT CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY 2013!!!
29 Talented Chick Lit Authors have banded together to offer you a spectacular Christmas Giveaway! One lucky reader will win all 29 of these AUTOGRAPHED CHICK LIT TITLES*!
All you have to do is click on the Rafflecopter below and like one of our Facebook Author pages to be entered to win! Like more than one author page for additional entries. Please spread the word about this wonderful Christmas giveaway!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
HARD HATS AND DOORMATS Cover Reveal
It’s cover reveal time. The very talented Laura Chapman has a debut novel coming December 11th…
To celebrate the cover reveal for her debut novel, author Laura Chapman is sharing behind-the-scenes tidbits about the making of Hard Hats and Doormats here and on other blogs with her “Hard Hat Confessions.”
5500 SPRING LIKE EVENT!!!
I’m looking for a little love in all the wrong places…nah, just kidding, but I am giving away a paperback copy of all of my titles to one lucky winner!!!
5500 LIKES CONTEST!!!
Win an autographed copy of all 5 of my titles!
RULES:
1) GO TO my AUTHOR page & give it a like!
FACEBOOK AUTHOR PAGE
2) SHARE the post like the one below on your
Facebook page!
3) ENTER the RAFFLECOPTER
This contest is open to U.S. residents, if you’re international and you’d like to enter feel free but you will get ebook copies of all the titles. I’ll select one international and U.S. winner once I reach 5500 Likes on my Facebook author page. You must still be following me at the time that the winner is selected.
Happy Reading & Reviewing,
Elizabeth Marx
The Paradise: Cast of Characters Even Dickens Would Applaud!
I’m happy to introduce you into the world that is The Paradise. A period drama filled with characters even a literary icon like Dickens would applaud!
Arthur a young boy, apparently a foundling, who performs all manner of odd jobs at The Paradise seems to be the moral compass of out story, telling Denise that anything she needs he can arrange for her and then the next second indicating where he was born on the premises with no mention of who his parents are. Throughout English literature the name Arthur was given to first-born sons, I won’t make any conjectures here but he has to be someone’s child, the question is whose?
Almost immediately we are introduced to the ‘clandestine’ Mr. Jonas who seems to be the one armed watchdog of our Byronic hero, John Moray. Mr. Jonas lurks, writing in his little black book and is the epitome of the sinister gothic henchman.
Dudley a young man who grew up with Moray and acts as his assistant tries to be the voice of reason when Moray doubles the inventory for a one day sale. Moray believes that the sale will establish him as the foremost retailer and also get him the loan he requires from Lord Glendenning, his patron. Dudley
is a practical businessman of the day and acts as a counterpoint to Moray’s idea to tempt them with ‘cheaper and cheaper’.
We have an assortment of minor characters: the sarcastic, manipulative nemesis Clara who we soon learn had a thing for Moray and she probably should be taking some Prozac as a result. Sam, the kindhearted counter boy whose generosity soon lands him in trouble. Pauline the fun loving girl just looking to land a husband, any husband would do. And finally, Edmund Lovett, Denise’s disgruntled uncle whose sales philosophy of selling person to person is just a side effect of his dwindling draper business.
We have to wait and see just how long Denise can withstand the most seductive allure The Paradise holds, for Moray has a way of utterly hypnotizing all under his sway.
Join us each week as another author wraps up a week of The Paradise!
Make sure you see the Paradise Launch Party in the post below and enter our CONTEST!
Happy reading, reviewing, and drama making!
Elizabeth Marx
SHOPPING AT THE PARADISE CONTEST
Ladies let the shopping begin! If you enjoy shopping and high drama then you have to shop at The Paradise!!!!
Some period drama-loving friends and I are throwing a big online party to celebrate Masterpiece airing season one of The Paradise.
There will be a premiere night Twitter chat, weekly recaps, and to kick things off . . . a fun contest involving one of our favorite pastimes – SHOPPING! This seemed appropriate as The Paradise is a Victorian-era department store where plucky heroine Denise Lovett is employed in the Ladieswear Dept.
Read on to find out how you can enter this exciting contest and be eligible to win several FABULOUS prizes!
CONTEST RULES
1) Take a photo (camera pix are fine) of yourself shopping for one (or more) of the following items:
Shoes
Jewelry
Purses
Lingerie
Make-Up
Perfume
Hats
Stockings/Hosiery
I was supposed to stalk the Hosiery department, but I got sidetracked by the slippers!!! I’ve narrowed it down to these two pairs!
Let me know in the comments if I should go with the grey or the black and white with pink bow!
This is how you can enter the contest!!!
You will receive ONE entry per picture of an item listed above (up to 8 entries.) You can earn a bonus FIVE entries if you submit a photo of yourself with a cute/crush-worthy shop employee. (Male or female.)
2) You may submit your contest photos via Twitter or Facebook. Twitter – Tweet your picture(s) to @ParadiseParty2 Facebook – Post your pictures to the Facebook group, Paradise Party. Note: You will have to join the group in order to post to the forum. Join the FB Group: Paradise
3) This contest is open to residents of the United States ONLY.
4) Contest will begin on Friday, October 4th, 2013 and end at midnight on Sunday, November 17th, 2013. Winners will be announced on Monday, November 18th, 2013.
5) Prizes are as follows:
(1) Grand Prize – A $50 Macy’s gift card, which can be used online or in-store. The winner of this prize will be selected by the True Random Number Generator at www.random.org
(1) Bonus Prize – The Funniest Photo – A Kindle copy of The Ladies’ Paradise by Émile Zola (this is the classic novel that the TV series is based on.) The winner of this prize will be selected by the 8 authors/bloggers participating in The Paradise online event.
(1) Bonus Prize – Item We Most Want Photo – An audio CD of The Paradise TV Soundtrack. The winner of this prize will be selected by the 8 authors/bloggers participating in The Paradise online event.
So, you can earn up to 13 entries and there are THREE great prizes up for grabs. Cleverness and originality count with these pix, so have fun and be creative!
Be sure to check out the shopping finds from these fellow Paradise Party bloggers:
Tracie Banister
Laura Chapman
Lauren Clark
Tracey Livesay
Sara Palacios
Martha Reynolds
Julie Valerie
Hope you’ll stop by Sunday evening for the Twitter chat and all things The Paradise.
Happy reading and reviewing,
E
FALL QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER
It’s my favorite time of year—FALL. I love the color of the changing leaves and the crunch of nuts under my feet when I hike through the forest preserve. The light shines and shifts a little differently through the windows around my house and gives a comforting glimpse of things to come. Beckoning the excitement of Halloween, the thoughtfulness of Thanksgiving and sheer joy of Christmas morning for a child.
So I’ve decided to send out a quarterly newsletter. The contents of the first one are below. Please let me know what you think. There are directions if you’d like to get the newsletter delivered to your mailbox and how you can enter to win the fall prize pack pictured at the bottom of this post.
THREE SIPS BLOG HOP BLOG TOUR
Hop on the Three Sips Blog Tour for a chance to win a $100 worth of Amazon gift cards! Gather your blogger friends and check out this new type of blog tour!
Blogger prizes:
1 $50 Amazon gift card & 2 $25 Amazon Gift Cards
Big prize pack for tour!
Rules and sign up here: Three Sips Blog Hop Blog Tour
Happy Reading and Reviewing!
Feel free to TWEET this!
STAINED LAUNCH PARTY
Please join me on Tuesday August 20th for the VIRTUAL launch party for STAINED. Starting at 9 a.m and going to . . . well . . . possibly, till the cows come home, or the cock crows, or until we get tossed out of Three Sips Distillery!
I hope you’ll join us. We are going to have all sorts of events. I’ll introduce you to some of the characters that reside in Crossroads, especially Revell, Scarlett, and the Sisters. You have got to meet the Sisters, the hundred year old cherokee triplets, Miss Ruby, Miss Pearl, and Miss Sapphire are wise women you don’t want to let down, and only Scarlett is allowed to call them Red, White, and Blue.
I’ll answer questions about STAINED, have contests, including a Rafflecopter with a huge prize pack. Talk about all things Southern, show you some of my grandmother’s homemade quilts, and pictures of my daughters dressed as Southern belles in costumes I made for them. Who knows what else might happen once we start passing the moonshine around?
Look forward to seeing you there! Until then, Happy Reading & Reviewing,
Elizabeth Marx