It's true: I have the sweetest wife in the world. In honor of my next book, Sweet Misfortune, she got me a huge, chocolate-dipped fortune cookie for Valentines Day. It weighed several pounds and took the whole family to eat. The custom message inside was just as sweet as the cookie itself. Thanks Rebecca!
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"Bev F." Congratulations Bev! I used a random number generator, which selected you (the 40th entry among 47 total) as the book winner!. Please shoot me an email with your mailing address, and Jason will get an ARC of The Cross Gardener out to you shortly.
To everyone else: thanks for participating!
Can it really be true? Kevin Milne is hosting a giveaway for a book by Jason Wright? The Jason Wright? As in, the New York Times best selling author? The one who wrote Wednesday Letters, Recovering Charles, and who is literally changing lives with his Christmas novella, Christmas Jars. Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes! It's all true.
Jason is a heckuva guy, and has kindly agreed to send one of you a signed ARC (advance reader copy) of his newest book, The Cross Gardener, which hits bookstores on March 2, 2010. I had the pleasure of reading a .pdf copy of this book a number of months ago, and I promise it wont disappoint. It will tug at your heartstrings and cause you to reflect on what it means to live. Glenn Beck has read The Cross Gardener too, and describes it as "Passionate, spiritual and thought-provoking."
So how can you win this fantastic book? Easy! Just reply to this blog and let me know that you'd like to be entered in the contest. If you have a favorite Jason Wright book and want to others know about it, feel free to share that in your comments too.The winner will be selected at random on February 9th. I'll post the winner's name here on the blog, so be sure to check back.
Good Luck!
I just wanted to take a moment to thank the 7th Grade Language Arts teachers at A.E. Wright Middle School, in Calabasas, California, for choosing The Paper Bag Christmas as their December reading project. It's been wonderful to get so much positive feedback about the book, both from the teachers and the students. I'm told that their final assignment, following vacation, may include a note to me. How nice! Maybe some of them will even want to post their letters here....(hint, hint)...
Go Spartans!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Happy Thanksgiving! I just waddled in the door after a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with the whole Milne clan. What a great day! Sure, I'm ten pounds heavier, but I'll worry about that later.
As promised, today is the official end of my book contest. First, let me say THANK YOU to everyone who entered. I didn't expect such a huge response! Believe it or not, there were nearly 500 entries! Yes, I said FIVE HUNDRED!! Most of them were post-card entries, but there were also many great Thanksgiving recipes shared online.
Here are the lucky winners:
Prize # 1 goes to Jackie Wisherd, from La Mesa, California, who submitted a delicious recipe (post-card submission) for Praline Candied Yams. It was delicious! I'll post the full recipe soon so everyone can enjoy it.
Prize #2 goes to Lisa Helms-Guba, from Annapolis, Maryland.
Prize #3 goes to Kristy Kimball, from Calabasas, California.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this contest. For me, it made this a Thanksgiving I will not soon forget.
Yes, it's been far too long since my last book contest. But the drought is over! I am happy to announce the easiest book contest in the entire universe (okay, that may be a stretch...but the criteria for such things is very subjective, so I'm sticking with it). There are 3 separate prizes up for grabs:
I just wanted to say thanks to the Sherwood Book Club for having me at their monthly meeting this past Thursday to discuss The Nine Lessons. Of all the book clubs I've been to, this one was by far the scariest for me...I think because it was in my home town. Before showing up I had this nagging fear that the local crowd might be a little tougher on 'one of its own'. Thankfully, just the opposite was true! We had a great discussion, lots of terrific questions, and the club members were the nicest people in the world. Silly me for expecting anything less. Hopefully they enjoyed it as much as I did and they'll have me back for Sweet Misfortune next June...
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To me, one of the best parts about writing books is getting to see what the amazing design folks come up with for cover-art. Usually, when I'm first seeing one of my covers for the first time, I just and stare at it for like 2 hours, familiarizing myself with every square millimeter. So I just finished another two-hour stare session, and I'm happy to report that I love every square millimeter of the Sweet Misfortune cover! The book is not due out until June 2010 (which, by the way, is already a 2 month pull-in from the original planned date), and yet the cover is already set. Gotta love the planning/scheduling that goes into getting a book to market! It really is an amazing process, and the Hachette team seems to have it down to a science.
It's official: Hachette is "repackaging" The Paper Bag Christmas for the '09 Christmas season. I just got to see the final product today. Hope you like it as much as I do!
Nice to see that The Nine Lessons is still selling...today it ranked #10 in the category "Fiction - Sports".
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