Welcome to Week 3 of our Birthday Bash!!
Sure, it is our birthday, but we’re giving the gifts to EIGHT lucky winners. We’re doing things a bit differently this time around. No weekly winners, but we’ll draw eight names when the giveaway closes March 18 and announce all the winners on Sunday, March 22. We’re doing only ONE Rafflecopter for the whole five weeks this time instead of one a week, and you can enter as often as you like. Plus, as always, every comment counts from now until then as well. Got it?
Each week in Sunday Edition I’ll tell you about one or two of the prizes you could win. This week, let’s talk about…
TWO $50 GIFT CERTIFICATES!
TWO lucky winners will be able to choose a 50USD gift certificate* from your choice of:
Amazon
Starbucks
Christian Book
Kobo
David’s Teas
Etsy
iTunes
Best Buy
*Don’t see your favorite on this list? If you’re a gift card winner, we’ll do our best to work with you!
If you’re a winner, please contact us at
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The winner of the $30 Amazon Gift Card for February is Andrea Cox for her comment on Sally Bradley’s post, Feb 3!
How We Met
Elizabeth Maddrey: My husband, Tim, and I don’t have one of those stories that involve longing looks across a crowded room. We’re both much too nerdy for that. So, picture with me, if you will, mid-August 1992. It’s warm, but not unbearably so. The grass is green. The early morning sun is shining. The air itself seems to be full of promise and possibility because today is the first day of our freshman year at Wheaton College.
As the institutional clocks all tick and chunk to mark the hour, we settle into our desks and look about furtively. It’s 8 a.m. There are just a handful of people in the classroom, and none look familiar. All but one are clearly returning students who know one another as they’re chatting comfortably and catching up. That one, like me, sits quietly at his desk looking slightly anxious. He’s wearing faded grey jeans and a teal striped shirt. Hesitantly, we strike up a conversation, exchange names and the fact that yes, we’re both freshmen, then the professor walks in and we’re awash in details about the fascinating (ha!) world of computer architecture.
What’s Happening?
Last Week:
Monday: Lynette Sowell is keeping warm’n’cozy in this weather. How about you?
Tuesday: Annalisa Daughety updated us on her upcoming Amish movie Love Finds You in Charm
Wednesday: Ginger Solomon shared her findings that some like it hot!
Thursday: Diane Adams talked about after the HEA
Friday: Heather Gray asks if we are drawing closer to the mark.
Saturday: Valerie Comer asked what is reality? (and do you like it in fiction?)
Next Week:
Monday: Gail Sattler
Tuesday: Kimberly Rae Jordan
Wednesday: Merrillee Whren
Thursday: Carol Moncado
Friday: Lorraine Beatty
Saturday: Sally Bradley
NEW RELEASES in March 2015
The Cowboy’s Forever Family by Deb Kastner
Forever My Love (The McKinleys 2) by Kimberly Rae Jordan
Dandelions for Dinner (A Farm Fresh Romance 4) by Valerie Comer
A Valentine for Kayla by Kimberly Rose Johnson
Engaged to the Single Mom by Lee Tobin McClain
A Splash of Substance (Taste of Romance 1) by Elizabeth Maddrey
Forget Paris (Love in Store 4) by Autumn Macarthur
Love So Amazing (Wondrous Love 1) by JoAnn Durgin
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Valerie Comer is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner who writes where food meets faith and fiction. She injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances. Her life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for stories of contemporary inspirational romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie and her family grow much of their own food and are active in the local foods movement as well as their church. She only hopes her creations enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters.
Thanks for choosing me as the winner. I know it’s random, but I still feel I should say thanks. :)
Looking forward to more great articles this week.
Blessings,
Andrea
It *IS* random, but we don’t mind being thanked. :) Enjoy your treat!
Great wedding picture Elizabeth & Tim! It always makes me laugh when the couple aren’t all serious, what’s life if you can’t laugh? I bet you had a fun-filled wedding, reception & honeymoon! So, how long did it take after that first meeting in the classroom for you two to start dating? Haha…I know there’s got to be a story in that :D Guess it’s the romantic coming out in me.
Thanks for sharing a tidbit about yourself! I always like learning a bit more about our wonderful authors and what makes them tick! Blessings to you and yours!
We had (and continue to have) a ton of laughs. It’ll be 20 years this year. :) we didn’t start dating until our sophomore year – but by that point we were best friends. Lots of amusing “almost” dating stories til we finally got it together. :)
Has it been sent yet? I have not received it.
Elizabeth Maddrey, I enjoyed reading how you met your hubby! :)
Thanks, Caryl!