Giving Gifts and GILT Giveaway

With major gift-giving holidays approaching, we’ll be discussing gifts for writers this week.  We wrote something similar last year, and had so much fun doing it.  And, of course, we’re always up for suggestions from our followers!

I remember the first Christmas I was more excited about a gift I would give than about the gifts I would receive.  I don’t even remember what it was, but I remember the feeling – I didn’t sleep well, I was so excited, and my stomach churned a little when my sister finally picked up the gift I had chosen and wrapped just for her.  I wanted so much for her to love it as much as I thought she would.  And I remember wanting to cry when she said she did.

Well, this week, I have that feeling again.  In part because I have something to give away.  But also because I’m asking you to give me something every writer wants.  A reader.  We write to communicate – our art, our passion, our stories – and a readership is the biggest gift anyone could give us.

So I’m calling this a giveaway, but really you’ll be giving me something I have wanted all my life.  Someone to read my book. 

In the Tudor age, ambition, power and charismatic allure are essential and Catherine Howard has plenty of all three.  Not to mention her loyal best friend, Kitty Tylney, to help cover her tracks.  Kitty, the abandoned youngest daughter of minor aristocracy, owes everything to Cat – where she is, what she is, even who she is.  Friend, flirt, and self-proclaimed Queen of Misrule, Cat reigns supreme in a loyal court of girls under the none-too-watchful eye of the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk.  


When Cat worms her way into the heart of Henry VIII and becomes Queen of England, Kitty is thrown into the intoxicating Tudor Court.  It’s a world of glittering jewels and elegant costumes, of gossip and deception.  As the Queen’s right-hand-woman, Kitty goes from the girl nobody noticed to being caught between two men – the object of her affection and the object of her desire.  


But the atmosphere of the court turns from dazzling to deadly, and Kitty is forced to learn the difference between trust and loyalty, love and lust, secrets and treason.  And to accept the consequences when some lessons are learned too late.

We have an ARC of GILT, to be sent to a randomly-selected reader anywhere in the world. All you have to do is comment and/or tell the world about us and the giveaway.

Each of these things will give you one entry into our hat:

◦       Any comment on any blog posting this week

◦       Any tweet or retweet (please include a #giltnovel hashtag and a link to the blog)

◦       Any Facebook link to the blog (please add a link to your comment, so we can see this!)

◦       You can enter as many times as you want

◦       Contest is open internationally

◦       Contest runs from right now through December 12 – winner announced next Tuesday.

I have some GILT-related items to give away, too, so come back and keep reading!