Fiesta, baby!

(Yes, you can win a book today. Keep reading.)


Oh, I am tired. Bone deep, heavy-eyed, sleep like the dead TIRED. It was a long and crazy three days, but it was SO fun. I'll be doing a full report of the book launch fun tomorrow, but for today, I wanted to tell you about this week's giveaways.


The first week I did a beach themed giveaway. Have you seen the cover of my book? It's over there *points right* in the sidebar. The beach theme should make total sense to you.


The second week, I focused on fashion. Have you read the book and met Ashley Barrett? That theme should also make total sense to you, too.


This week, it's all about reading. Um, because I wrote a book. And you read a book, get it?


So OF COURSE I'm giving away another book! Yay! This is the next to last book giveaway, so get it while it's hot! (Um, and I really hope this book stays hot for a while.)


To win the book, you need to stand on your head and find a way to play La Cucaracha on your belly with spoons (still standing on your head) and then video tape it and upload it to YouTube. Bonus points for doing the Mexican Hat dance. Naked.


Yeah, I just made that last part up.


Oh, fine. I made the whole thing up. Here's what you really need to do to win a book:


Leave a comment.


Yeah, that's it.


Want to win some other stuff? Like, oh, say  . . .


This amazing quote that's done by the talented and beautiful Nancy Ostergar, my faux mother-in-law, who has spent many, many hours studying with master calligraphers? She sent me one a while back and I love it. LOVE IT. So I begged her to do one for the giveaway. It will look fabulous framed in your house.

"She is too fond of books and it has addled her brain." ~Louisa May Alcott (My favorite author from childhood, btw.)


Next up, NAMING RIGHTS. Yep, that's right. You can name a character in my next manuscript. If you've read The List, you've met Sister Powers, the institute teacher. She was named by none other than DeNae from My Real Life Was Backordered  who won a similar contest I did many moons ago. Think of the possibilities . . . you could name a character after your daughter or a parent or a friend and then give them the book as a gift. Even if you have to say, "Sorry that the rest of the book blew chunks, but your name is totally in it." You should give it to them for Christmas and then whoever it is will feel all sad that once again, their gift to you in inferior. (Although this is totally not what Christmas is about, imagine your satisfaction when that happens.) Uh, I'm getting off track here. My point is, you get to name a character in my next manuscript which begins on April 1. Good luck!


The last thing you can win is my three year old! Yay! He is connected to reading because . . . um, wait. Oh, because you totally will have to read him at least five stories at night. Every night.


Hm. You know, when he's not wreaking havoc at church, he's pretty all right. So, never mind. He's no longer up for grabs.


But the book, the naming rights, and the calligraphy quotes still are, so I'm about to tell you what to do to win. If you've already done these things, then you're already entered and you don't have to do it again. (Except for one of them).


1. For the book: Comment on this post.


For the rest:


1. Like my Facebook author page. A lot of the giveaway winners come from there.

2. Throw the button for my book from my sidebar up in YOUR sidebar. It's up there, at the top. Comment here to let me know you did it.

3. Include a link from your blog to my website at http://melaniejacobson.net/ and tell people they can read the first chapter of the book there. Comment here to let me know you did it. (You have to do this one new this week.)

4. You can also go to my website (link above) and sign up for my newsletter for an entry. You'll get it twice a year. It's not even worth putting in your fake spam email address, either. I won't bother you enough for it to matter if you put your real one there.

And that's that. Like I said, if you've done these things, you're golden. Please just leave me a comment to let me know what you did so I can credit you with entries. That will also double as your entry for the book. See how I did that? See? See? Always thinking of others, trying to make it easy on them. Yep, that's me.

Lastly, in awesome news, The List climbed to #4 on the Deseret Book romance list. If I move up two more spots, I get on the Top Ten fiction list! Whoohoo!