Category Archives: The Skinny

Meet the Bookettes

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rockette-experience-imgStarting June 1st, a dozen writers are joining me as regular bloggers on Book End Babes. We’re calling them the Bookettes. Kind of like the Rockettes, only with books. I’m sure we’re going to have lots of high-kicks and hijinks as we share book and author news, reviews, interviews and essays with you on the blog. I’m excited to expand our reach and continue to build the community at Book End Babes. To celebrate, we’ll be giving away a book every Friday in June.
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Our first give-away is SWEET MISFORTUNE by Kevin Alan Milne. To enter, you must leave a comment on the blog that week. Each comment gets one entry as well as each tweet. You may RT @bookendbabes or create your own message and include @bookendbabes so I’ll get the mention. Contest is for USA addresses only.

Meet our bloggin’ babes over at the Bookettes page.

Name a Winery

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by Malena Lott

object007If you love to name things and win prizes, this is the contest for you. I’m hosting a series of contests this summer to promote FIXER UPPER, a novel about girl power and power tools, set at a winery and vineyard in Oklahoma. Check out the contest details here on how to submit your names for the winery AND the names for the red and white wines. They’ll be put in the novel AND we’ll be private-labeling the wine for give-aways and parties this summer. Yep, from an Oklahoma winery. How cool is that?

If you’re the winner, you’ll also get a character named after you in the book as well as a bottle of the wine. If your name for the red and white wine is picked, you’ll receive a beach tote bag.

I’m also looking for Fixer Uppers to feature on my blog at malenalott.com so if you’ve done a renovation or remodel project at your home you’d like to share with us, send it in and if you’ll be entered to win a grand prize pack at the end of the summer.

To wine, wrenches and women –
xo,
Malena

Heart of the Matter Launch Day

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57374057.JPGAtta-babe to Emily Giffin on her launch day for HEART OF THE MATTER, her fifth novel. I’ve read all of Giffin’s novels and her protagonists are growing up, just like Giffin, who is married with kids. I ordered the book in iBooks ($12.99) for my iPad last night and got to about page 60. The intersecting stories are well-told and I look forward to finishing it this week.

About the book:
“Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives.”–Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother’s warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life.
Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie–a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance–and even to some degree, friendships–believing that it is always safer not to expect too much.
Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.
In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.

You can also order it for your Kindle or Nook for $12.99 OR get the hardback for just $14.99 (full cover price is $26.99) on Amazon or $15.78 on BN.com.

Buy it here.