Kate Angell's NO TAN LINES:
- Jane wins a $25 Amazon electronic gift card
Kristine Grayson's THOROUGHLY KISSED
- Lexi is the winner!
Sally MacKenzie's BEDDING LORD NED
- Cathy P. is the winner!
Darlene Marshall's CASTAWAY DREAMS
- Stacie D. is the winner!
Remembering D-Day
- Freedom is the winner from the sacrifices made on that fateful day ... Betty Hamilton wins a book choice from my convention stash.
Jayne Fresina's THE MOST IMPROPER SOPHIE VALENTINE
- GirlyGirlHoosier is the winner from Sourcebooks!
Winners - please claim your prize by sending your mailing address to sos.aloha@yahoo.com. I am a winner in the RT Bookreviews Magazine, which I receive later than most readers on the mainland. The RT staff asked three quick questions to fourteen authors at the RT Booklovers' Convention. On page 29, historical author Donna MacMeans responded to AUTHOR SQUEE MOMENT:
Oh - and Kim Adams! As she lives in Hawaii, I only get to see her at Rt. She was so kind to let me "borrow" her room so I could ditch my heavy carry-on bag while I waited for a room assignment. It's no surprise that such a generous person is involved in the SOS project.
Thank you, Donna, for your loving words! Donna is celebrating last week's release of THE CASANOVA CODE: Book One of the Rake Patrol:
“A refined gentleman, age 25, of wealth and education, seeks the acquaintance, with a view to matrimony, of a high-minded, kind-hearted lady who prefers an evening of quiet conversation to the lively demands of society."
Edwina Hargrove knows that this “gentleman” was, in fact, Ashton Trewelyn, a rake notorious for seducing the young and naive. In fact, five decent women have already been tricked and bundled off to the continent for scandalous purposes. There was a way to thwart his scheme though—by shadowing this devilishly handsome Casanova and warning his prey. If only it were that simple.
Wounded and weary, Ashton Trewelyn returns home to London from the King’s Royal Rifles, but soon discovers a coded message that has implications to the Crown and his family. His only hope to unravel the mystery lies in the enigmatic Edwina’s ability to recognize patterns. Even as he leads her on a path of secret societies and risque temptations, he discovers she arouses his jaded soul with temptations of her own. Must they risk everything to decipher Casanova’s code?
Oh, this sounds delicious! I've ordered my copy ... and I am giving away a copy to one randomly selected commenter. To enter the giveaway,
1. How are you with secret codes, pattern recognition, and/or foreign languages?
I can barely eek out "Hola, como esta?"
2. This giveaway is open to all readers.
3. Comments are open through Saturday, June 16, 10 pm in Hawaii. I'll post the winners on Sunday, June 17.
Mahalo,
Kim in Hawaii
To learn more about Donna and her books, including links to purchase, check out her website at donnamacmeans.com.
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| King Kamehameha the Great was a Casanova with 25 wives! June 11 is his day in Hawaii! |
Congrats to all the winners!!!! I can just say a few words in Italian!
ReplyDeleteCongrats winners. Me too, only a few words in Italian. For shame too as my Mom always spoke Italian with my Aunts. :)
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I am great with foreign languages but I have never tried codes.
ReplyDeleteI'm terrible. Can see patterns somewhat ok, but other languages or puzzles (whether requiring dexterity of fingers or mind or good hand/eye coordination) I'm pretty much am lost.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Kim!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners.
I'm not good at other languages or secret codes..ect..
Yo Quiero Taco Bell? ...is about the extent of my spanish...lol
A friend and I devoted ourselves to secret inks, mixed from chemicals in her Christmas present. Alas, neither the CIA or NSA came enlisting our talented selves. [Of course, at the time, there was no such agency.]
ReplyDeleteI'm not too good with foreign languages, but my daughter is a wiz at it! And the closest I get to secret codes is the daily crossword puzzle!
ReplyDeleteI like foreign languages. Our language has a bit of Spanish in it, so can understand some Spanish words. But I'm good with directions, so secret codes and pattern recognition are not my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteI'm not great with foreign languages, I think you have to use it in real life full-immersion to really get at all fluent. I do seem to be able to understand people speaking English with an accent - at least in person, tho that my be due to use of hand signals & pointing.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winners. I can speak some spanish. I understand what others are saying when they speak, but not able to respond back in spanish.
ReplyDeleteChristinebails@yahoo.com
I'm hopeless when it comes to secret codes and pattern recognition - I can't even do those criss cross puzzles. I can't speak any foreign languages, but being from Southern California and now living in Central Florida, I recognize a lot of Spanish words - just from being around them. :D
ReplyDeletecongrats to all the winners enjoy the reads...
ReplyDeleteNope not so good with other languages though I would love to learn Spanish OOOOo and Gaelic .
Have a good one Ann/alba
Kim -
ReplyDeleteHum, how do I score when I say only well on one out of three!
1. Secret codes - If you include Sudoku it's hit or miss.
2. Pattern recognition - Sorry, just an okay on that one unless you include Sudoku which I can complete 5 out of 6 correctly!
3.Foreign languages? - Let me put it this way. In High School I learned to read French (2 years with teachers that grew up in different parts of France) but couldn't understand a single word.
3. Latin - YEAH! Four years Four A's in High School! Okay the difference with Latin and French is that Latin is referred to as a dead language and you don't have to actually be able to understand it spoken but it also helped me not only to get all A's in my Latin classes but also help me in my science classes as well.
Now if I had only been born in a later century I might have been able to use that talent to help me get a job in the 1960's!
I am horrible at foreign languages. I took 3 years of Spanish plus my BF is Spanish and I live in a predominately Spanish speaking area and I still am unable to pick it up. I can have a basic conversation and that is about it. It's horrible.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty good at puzzles though.
I like word puzzles. I teach French and Spanish.
ReplyDeleteI love words and word games and had to learn bits of languages when I worked at the library many moons ago. I love puzzles but am not always as patient as I should be. Congrats on the mention...of course everyone who knows you appreciates you!
ReplyDeleteI took French in high school and college, but only rememeber a few words now.
ReplyDeleteCongrats winners!
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds like fun, code breaking and threats to avert. I like to think I am good at that, at least after watching A Beautiful Mind I did. But alas not for me. I did pick up Spanish quickly in school, but after never using it I am afraid all I can do is introduce myself, order a beer and ask where the bathroom is. Oh wait, I am ready to visit Mexico!! hahaha
Thank you. Congrats to the winners. I love crosswords. I wish I were fluent in ancient languages like hieroglyphs and Sanskrit.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all of this week's winners!
ReplyDeleteI never thought myself very good with other languages until I went to work for a company that was based out of Mexico. I didn't speak a lick of Spanish (and still don't) or any other language, but I have found that I could read Spanish fairly well. I haven't really applied this skill to any other languages, but I can make sense of simple sentences and get the gist of what some is trying to say.
LOL...I am NO good with codes or patterns. I'm lucky to be fluent in English. I got through the required foreign language requirement in college and grad school but have not retained much.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winners!!
ReplyDeleteI am ok with codes and patterns, not the greatest. But I do know sign language. I use it most everyday!
Mel
I am good with reading and writing foreign languages but suck at speaking and listening to it...
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, winners.
ReplyDeleteI can't speak a foreign language but I still remember a lot of the spanish words that I learned in school. A lot of my relatives spoke Italian dialects and I got use to hearing them talk and if I paid attention I could understand some of it (of course some english words would sometimes be thrown in lol).
I really love Donna's books and am looking forward to her newest one.
English, only!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty good with foreign languages but haven't tried to decipher codes. marlenebreakfield(at)yahoo(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI'm not so good with languages. English is the only other language I can speak (besides Dutch), read, uderstand and write. I tried hard at French and German but I can count the complete sentences I know on one hand.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winners! English is the only language I really know....I can speak a very tiny bit of Spanish.
ReplyDeleteI pick up foreign languages very quickly. In college my major was Spanish and my minor was French. I can also speak a little Italian and German. When I lived on Oahu I taught myself a bit of Japanese. And I can pronounce any word in the Hawaiian language. If you know the Spanish vowels you can learn Chinese and Japanese easily. Also you too can pronounce ANY word in Hawaiian. I can write brogue but I can't speak it. I want to learn Russian, Lakota, and Gaelic.
ReplyDeleteI love Donna's books! I can't wait to read THE CASANOVA CODE!
Oh, I'm horrible. My college spanish professor passed me (w/ a C) just so that I didn't have to retake it and she'd be stuck w/ me again :)
ReplyDeleteI'm not good with languages. I took one semester of Spanish and dropped it.
ReplyDeleteI am miserable at any puzzles,foreign languages, etc.. and I'm also not good a math... I think that 'logic' is kinda not me.. But I've always love stories - truth or fiction - about people involved in spying and secrets.. like WWII and the breaking of codes, etc..
ReplyDeleteOh well.. I can win books!!! that's a plus for me!!
I'm pretty good with foreign languages.
ReplyDeleteIf I take the time I can usually work out a simple code, but then I do love puzzles.
ReplyDeleteI would like to add my congratulations to all the winners too.
ReplyDeleteI'm a whizz at jigsaw and crossword puzzles. However, speaking a foreign language is a no go for me. Believe it or not, I did have to take 3 years of French when I was at school. However, the teacher, Monsieur Denis, was a very strict man and would walk around the classroom hitting our knuckles with his ruler. I spent a lot of time rubbing my knuckles and thinking to myself, "well, if this is how the French behave, then I don't want to learn their language". I have to say though, that I did pick up some and still remember of it to this day.
Thank you for this opportunity to win Donna's book. I always love finding new Authors.
Congrats, winners! I love puzzles, but I'm definitely not so good with codes. I speak 4 languages & I really want to learn Greek.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I'm horrible! Just horrible! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in school I really enjoyed learning languages, solving puzzles but all these years later I have lost the ability to do it.
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