CaddyGirls – Page 2 – Vanessa Kelly, Author

Reader Rally!!

March 15, 2016January 16, 2012 by VanessaKelly

Here’s something really cool – a reader’s rally. Along with a group of authors and bloggers, I’m part of a blog hop sponsored by Random House and their Romance at Random column. Each participating blog, including mine, will host a book giveaway for our readers. And Random House will be offering a grand prize!

Readers can enter the GRAND PRIZE drawing on www.romanceatrandom.com for a random drawing of free books, the winner to be announced on 2/1/2012. The Romance at Random contest page also lists all the participating blogs, so be sure to check them out.

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? So what am I giving away? Two books! The first is a copy of my latest Regency-set historical romance, My Favorite Countess.

The second book I’m giving away is a digital copy of CaddyGirls, the Carina Press contemporary romance that I wrote with my husband under the pen name of V.K. Sykes.

All you have to do to enter my part of the contest is tell me what book you’re reading right now. To enter for the Romance at Random grand prize, check out their contest page. Easy peasy, right? So, tell me what you’re currently reading, and then get to hopping!

We have a winner!

December 28, 2010 by VanessaKelly

And the winner of my Blizzard of Books giveaway is Alana Morales! Alana, a copy of CADDYGIRLS is on its way to you – congratulations!

A Blizzard of Books

March 15, 2016December 27, 2010 by VanessaKelly

The handsome fellow posing with Santa is Yukon, the book-loving Norwegian Elkhound. As you can see, he’s got quite the pile of presents there, and I can guarantee that some of them will be books.

My family loves giving and receiving books for Christmas. I’ve already checked out everybody’s haul, and there are a few that I’m going to be “borrowing” for myself. My step-mother has one particularly interesting book in her pile: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who, without her consent, made medical history. The book has been getting great reviews, and it sounds both important and fascinating.

I also got a few swell books under the tree, ones I had been hoping Santa would bring me to help with my research. The first is the revised edition of The London Encyclopaedia. This tome – and I do mean tome – can tell you anything you ever wanted to know about London, seemingly from the dawn of time. It’s lucid and beautifully written, and full of cool stuff. Want to know about the Kensal Green Cemetary? It’s in there. About the history of electricity in London? That’s in there too. An invaluable research tool, and it’s also just plain fun to read.

The other book I got was Georgian and Regency Houses Explained. It’s not a very big book, but it’s meaty. Not only does it give details on things like the kinds of building materials used during the period, it explains the socio-economic factors that influenced the development of style and function. Another very cool book.

What books did you get this holiday season? Tell me what you got, and one commenter will win an e-book copy of my VK Sykes contemporary romance, CaddyGirls.