Giveaway Wednesday: Take the Monkeys and Run

Time to draw the lucky winner for Lee Libro's Swimming With Wings!

Are you ready?

I'm on pins and needles myself . . . okay, here we go. And the winner is . . .

Patsy!!! (YAY!)

Patsy, I have your email address, so I'll be contacting you shortly to arrange for mailing of your winning book. I'm SURE you will enjoy it. :-)

Now for THIS week's giveaway:

My own novel, Take the Monkeys and Run.

And I'm playing a sort of game with this one: I'll give away 2 copies if there are LESS than 10 entries (comments requesting to be entered). If there are between 10 and 19 entries (comments requesting to be entered), then I'll give away 4 copies. And if I'm lucky enough to get 20 or more entries, I'll pick 6 WINNERS! :-)

SO TELL YOUR FRIENDS! Facebook or tweet the contest and let people know. :-)

A few facts about Take the Monkeys and Run -

It was a 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest Semi-finalist

It has sold over 3500 Kindle versions since June 17th, 2010

It is now available in ereader format for Amazon's Kindle and B&N's Nook as well as in paperback from both Amazon.com and B&N.com

It has 30 Amazon Customer Reviews with an average of 4.5 stars

All of these things make me very happy :-)

Want to know what it's about? Okay, if you insist:


Film lover Barbara Marr is a typical suburban mom living the typical suburban life in her sleepy little town of Rustic Woods, Virginia. Typical, that is until she sets out to find the missing link between a bizarre monkey sighting in her yard and the bone chilling middle-of-the-night fright fest at the strangely vacant house next door. When Barb talks her two friends into some seemingly innocent Charlie’s Angels-like sleuthing, they stumble upon way more than they bargained for and uncover a piece of neighborhood history that certain people would kill to keep on the cutting room floor.

Enter sexy PI Colt Baron, Barb’s ex-boyfriend who would love to be cast as new leading man, filling the role just vacated by her recently estranged husband, Howard. When Colt flies in from out of town to help Barb, events careen out of control and suddenly this mini-van driving mother of three becomes a major player in a treacherous and potentially deadly FBI undercover operation. It’s up to her now. With little time to spare, she and she alone, must summon the inner strength necessary to become a true action heroine and save the lives of those she loves. The question is can she get them out alive before the credits roll?

Sound like fun? I hope so, because that's what I intended when I wrote it.

So start leaving your comments and telling me you'd like to be entered to win. Remember, it's always easier if you leave your email address in the comment. If you don't like leaving an email address, remember to check back NEXT Wednesday to see if you won.

And GOOD LUCK!!!!

As always - Thank you for following my blog.

Giveaway Wednesday: Swimming With Wings by Lee Libro

As always, FIRST on my agenda today will be to announce the winners of last week's Giveaway Wednesday: a signed copy to two lucky readers of Debbi Mack's hardboiled mystery, Identity Crisis.

In the past I've used a random generator site on the internet, but today I employed my own, less technical but far prettier random number generator: my daughter. :-) And the two winners she chose are . . .

(Drum rolllllllllllll)

avalonne83 and Wanda

YAY!!! CONGRATULATIONS! I have email addresses for both of you, so will contact you shortly to make arrangements for mailing. :-)

And now for this week's Giveaway - Monday I featured a chapter from Lee Libro's Swimming With Wings, and this week you will all have a chance to enter to win a copy of your very own.

About Swimming With Wings:

What do a 20th century light healer who can raise the dead, an eccentric, would-be dubutant teen and a wandering gypsy have in common? A story of human brotherhood released only through the colliding dogmas surrounding their shared tragedy from long ago.

Lark Jennison is a free thinker and imagines she has wings! Set in the 1970's in a small southern town laced with folk mysticism, faith healings and the evangelistic zeal of the era, Swimming with Wings is her coming of age story. Orphaned, seventeen-year-old Lark and her brother are the last generation of the illustrious Jennison lumber family, and her uncanny ability to read a person, along with her eccentric ways as a budding artist, shine a spotlight of scrutiny upon her. When she falls for Peter Roma, a river gypsy from Summerville, she finds in him an equal, but is soon disturbingly set on a collision course with his fanaticism.

The drowning accident that had killed their fathers remains a mystery, a harbinger of ill feelings between the Romas and the Jennisons. Is Peter Roma, a scammer, a real gypsy or Lark's personal savior? To protect her, Lark's older brother sends her to art school in Maine, the home state of their mother's family. Uninvited, Peter follows but eventually considers their relationship a danger to their souls. His grandfather had been a mystical light healer and heralded the rising tide of a new age; however, Peter's "being saved" interpretation of this leads him into a cult and a world of corruption. The question then becomes who will save who?

Here's what one Amazon customer reviewer had to say about Swimming With Wings:

"I read this book straight through without putting it down. The characters were so real and I could really relate to them. I felt like I was stepping right into their lives. The topic was close to my heart and I felt that the author was sensitive in her approach to the subject. This is a must read!"

I know - sounds great, doesn't it?

Wanna win a copy?

Just leave a comment to this post that you are entering and don't forget to include an email address so I can contact you when your name is chosen!

And thank you for reading my blog.