I keep "bumping" into Jodi Thomas at book gatherings! Last year we shared a table at the RWA Awards Ceremony. Jodi's WELCOME TO HARMONY won the RITA for "novel with strong romantic elements".
This year, Jodi hobnobbed with Sally MacKenzie at the Kensington party during during the RT Booklovers' Convention.
I look forward to seeing Jodi again at the RWA National Conference in Anaheim! Jodi is a breath of fresh air and I'd like to share her with you. From her bio,
Jodi Thomas is the NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 novels and 11 short story collections. In June 2011, WELCOME TO HARMONY won a RITA, the highest award for women’s fiction. Jodi currently serves as the Writer in Residence at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas.
Contact her through social media at:
www.jodithomas.com
Twitter.com/jodithomas
www.facebook.com/JodiThomasAuthor
I am giving away a print copy of JUST DOWN THE ROAD, the fourth novel in her award-winning Harmony series.
When Tinch Turner lost his wife, he gave up on living. Now he spends his nights brooding, boozing and brawl-ing. When one of his escapades lands him in the ER, he finds himself staring up at the beautiful new doctor in town. For the first time in years, he feels a spark, but Addison Spencer wants nothing to do with the unruly rancher—or any man for that matter. She’s only in Harmony four months, long enough for the trouble she left behind to be over. But then a vulnerable little boy barrels into both of their lives, forcing them out of the past —and into a future where love is just down the road…
“Extremely powerful and gripping writing...full of passionate moments, hidden secrets, and likable characters.
~ Roundtable Reviews
“ Even for readers new to the series, the intricate relationships between these affable men and eccentric women are easy to follow and even easier to love. “
~Publishers Weekly
JUST DOWN THE ROAD
Available April 3, 2012
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 978-0425246924
Retail price: USA $ 7.99
To enter the giveaway,
1. Leave a comment about what is down the road from you - family? friends? good eating? fun shopping?
I have a beach ...
2. This giveaway is open to all readers.
3. Comments are open through Saturday, May 5, 10 pm in Hawaii. I'll post the winner on Sunday, May 6.
Mahalo,
Kim in Hawaii
Jodi Thomas is the NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 novels and 11 short story collections. In June 2011, WELCOME TO HARMONY won a RITA, the highest award for women’s fiction. Jodi currently serves as the Writer in Residence at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas.
Contact her through social media at:
www.jodithomas.com
Twitter.com/jodithomas
www.facebook.com/JodiThomasAuthor
I am giving away a print copy of JUST DOWN THE ROAD, the fourth novel in her award-winning Harmony series.
When Tinch Turner lost his wife, he gave up on living. Now he spends his nights brooding, boozing and brawl-ing. When one of his escapades lands him in the ER, he finds himself staring up at the beautiful new doctor in town. For the first time in years, he feels a spark, but Addison Spencer wants nothing to do with the unruly rancher—or any man for that matter. She’s only in Harmony four months, long enough for the trouble she left behind to be over. But then a vulnerable little boy barrels into both of their lives, forcing them out of the past —and into a future where love is just down the road…
“Extremely powerful and gripping writing...full of passionate moments, hidden secrets, and likable characters.
~ Roundtable Reviews
“ Even for readers new to the series, the intricate relationships between these affable men and eccentric women are easy to follow and even easier to love. “
~Publishers Weekly
JUST DOWN THE ROAD
Available April 3, 2012
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 978-0425246924
Retail price: USA $ 7.99
To enter the giveaway,
1. Leave a comment about what is down the road from you - family? friends? good eating? fun shopping?
I have a beach ...
2. This giveaway is open to all readers.
3. Comments are open through Saturday, May 5, 10 pm in Hawaii. I'll post the winner on Sunday, May 6.
Mahalo,
Kim in Hawaii
hanging out with friend
ReplyDeleteI just love her books! Thanks for the giveaway Kim. And for me just down the road are too of my favorite places one being the postoffice for when I visit there it means I have a awesome book parcel ! And the second place is the library filled with great books !
ReplyDeleteDown the road for my husband and I is retirement in a few years.
ReplyDeleteDown the road is retirement for me as well. I just want to get my last one through college. And the this is turning out to be a feat worthy of only the bravest.
ReplyDeleteDown the road from me is the commuter train station where I can hop a train downtown and walk to Lake Michigan.
ReplyDeleteJust down the road from me is the library.
ReplyDeleteJust down the road is my sister's house and the library. Both places I like to go!
ReplyDeleteRevolutionary War and Civil War sites were down the road, but now the road and attendant developments tend to run through them.
ReplyDeleteDown the road from me is a park where I enjoy walking when it isn't to hot.
ReplyDeleteJodi's series sound like my kind of book. Suspense, romance and fun reading.
ReplyDeleteJust down the road are family and friends.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter giveaway.
misskallie2000 at yahoo dot com
Oh I wish I had a library down the road lol. We have a business section with all kinds of various shops and our fire station is very close by.
ReplyDeleteWe have a golf course, which is quite nice, I don't golf but it is nice to be by the greens.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this book.
Kim -
ReplyDeleteRoundtablereviews hit the nail on it's head when they said that Jodie's books have likeable characters! You just can't falling in love with them!
Just down the road from us - in fact just one block - is a great little lake with a private beach that was perfect for teaching my sons, and now my grandchildren, how to swim! It's quiet and cozy and children can even fish right off the dock! In our family the saying goes "if you catch it you clean it and eat it for dinner!" No wasting a good catch in our family! Talk about fresh seafood! We live in a ocean community so most people go salt water fishing but I was raised in Up-State New York and used to go fishing with my Dad all the time up in the Adirondacks so fresh water fish will always be my favorite. Our "local" catch might not be rainbow trout but I'll still pick a "home caught" fish over the grocery stores anytime!
I love this series!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter and her family live just down the road.
Today, what's down the road is the Cherokee Triangle Arts Festival in Louisville.
ReplyDeleteI love the Harmony series.
Yeah, Kim, you're rubbing it in, the beach.
ReplyDeleteJust down the road from me is I-85 and I-26. LOL!!! I actually live in a rural area but close enough to reach these two highways to get to my next great escape!
Literally within walking distance down the hill from me is my favorite diner. I am from Oklahoma and this Seattle diner makes biscuits and gravy that rivals my grandma's.
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Not much is down the road. I live in the country and 1/4 mile from both neighbors. We have cows down the road. I love living out there. If I go farther down the road is Anamosa Iowa where Grant Wood lived for awhile.
ReplyDeleteLove Jodi's bookis and would love to win this one.
christinebails@yahoo.com
I have seen Jodi's books read the back thought to myself I should buy this Story sounds wonderful but I never do.... I will now.
ReplyDeleteDown the road from me is The cemetery I love walking through looking at the head stones reading the names, We visit my DH's Grand parents who I adored & Miss.
Have a good one Ann/alba
Down the road from me is an IGA, and houses before reaching the interstate. Continue down and you reach a series of gas stations, fast food joints, post office, bowling alley and eventually elementary school.
ReplyDeleteA park is down the road
ReplyDeleteDown the road from my home-only one mile away, is one of our main Interstates and a small shopping center. Down the road for my family is moving west across the county to warmer/less humid US states.
ReplyDeleteI have read a few of Jodi's books and enjoyed them. She has a way of drawing you into all of her characters.
A school is down the road from where I live. Lots of kids going past my house. There used to be a mailbox aswell but that was moved.
ReplyDeleteDown the road from me is a beautiful park with a creek running through it. I can walk along the creek all the way into the City Centre.
ReplyDeleteWould love to read Jodi's Down The Road.
ReplyDeleteJust down the road from me are two of my daughters and their families. One to the right and one to the left. :)
Carol L
Lucky4750 (at) aol (do) com
sorry, it should have said Jodi's "Just Down The Road". Too early for my brain. lol
DeleteCarol L.
Down the road from me are my sons' friends. They run back and forth between our homes all day and all summer long. I love when our house is full of screaming boys, then quick for those brief moments. AAhhhh!!! Children!
ReplyDeleteMel
bournmelissa at hotmail dot com
Just down the road, I have a major university! Which certain has wonderful opportunities for the arts and learning!!
ReplyDeleteMy mom lives down the road and we spend a lot of time doing things together.
ReplyDeleteI love this contest and reading all your replies for what's "just down the road."
ReplyDeleteThe Delaware River is down the road from me.
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