LIVING THE HISTORY: And the Winners Are....!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

And the Winners Are....!

I've just taken time out from the big Christmas cook-in to do the draw forThe Running Vixen give away. This is my other half standing in the kitchen between chores. I am sorry not to have more copies, but the lucky five winners are numbers 8 and 11 who win The Running Vixen and The Wild Hunt, and then numbers 23, 18 and 40, who win The Running Vixen on its own. When I count the number of the poster in the blog, I find the winners are:

For the two books

Meghan
Lady D

For The Running Vixen

Rachbe
Katherine
Ashomodai

Congratulations! :-)

If you would like to PM me a forwarding address, I'll get the books sent off first thing in the New Year. My e-mail adddress is elizabethchadwick@live.co.uk

Sorry to those who didn't win - blame my husband who picked the numbers! I'll be running other draws though. Next one will be in March when The Scarlet Lion comes out in the USA, and then in May when To Defy a King is published in the UK.

In the meantime, merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Right, back to the baking frenzy....

10 comments:

Passages to the Past said...: Congrats to all the winners!!!; 2:48 pm
Daphne said...: Somehow William Marshall doesn't look quite as hunky in a santa suit!!; 3:23 pm
Jules Frusher said...: Whoop, whoop! That's made my Christmas :-) !!!!! Thankyou Elizabeth.... and, I don't want to push it... but you couldn't throw a Marshal in with them could you?? *grin*

I shall PM you forthwith!; 3:27 pm
Jan Jones said...: Hmm - now if I found HIM at the end of my bed with a stocking, I might not struggle too hard!; 9:46 pm
Katherine said...: Oh, goodness, I laughed when I saw the Greatest Knight cover with the new makeover! Have a great holiday!; 1:41 am
Carla said...: Congratulations to the winners, and Happy Christmas and New Year to everyone; 3:23 pm
Rowan said...: Oh awesome! I am more than happy!
Thanks a whole bunch!; 9:14 pm
4everQueen said...: I am so happy for the Winners, and the Santa-Knight is so darkly-Gorgeous!!

Happy New Year everyone!; 6:43 pm
Anonymous said...: There isn't a chance that you would be giving away The Leopard Unleashed anytime soon is there? ;) I am having trouble getting my hands on that one through my library.; 12:47 am
Elizabeth Chadwick said...: Ashlee, The Leopard Unleashed is due out next December, so there will be a contest then!; 11:06 am

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" Wow! I feel like someone used to watching movies in black and white but has just seen the first one in technicolor! " A personal letter from a reader.

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Professor Michael R. Evans in Inventing Eleanor - Bloomsbury Academic.

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"What I loved about this novel, and I have felt this way about all of Elizabeth’s novels that I have read, is that she does not pander to stereotypes or write scandal for the sake of it. The historical Eleanor is defamed beyond belief- a whore chasing anything in trousers, a woman who committed incest with her uncle, a woman who was ‘ahead of her time’, and so on. Elizabeth’s Alienor is none of these things. She is treated fairly, as a woman of her own time, written in a believable way. Elizabeth does not go for scandal because she does not need to- the writing in this novel makes that very clear. Her scene setting is lovely, her character development top notch, and the book is a compulsive page turner. I couldn’t put it down." Sarah Bell

."The Summer Queen is a fabulous novel based on the most up-to-date and meticulous research. This is historical fiction at its best and I loved every page of it." Kate Atherton, blogger.

"I have read just about everything I can about Eleanor and enjoyed both biographical and fictional accounts of her life but I must say that your creation of Eleanor is the most compelling." Reader from Australia

"I loved the story; I loved the way the author wrote Alienor as a woman of her times instead of a thoroughly modern independent woman, or a slut in chase of anything in pants. As with all Chadwick novels, there's also the added plus of being sucked into another century with the sights, smells and sounds that wrap up a darn-near perfect reading experience. I couldn't put it down, and very sorry I'm going to have to wait for the next installment. Reader from the USA

"Meticulous research and strong storytelling." Woman & Home
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"I often see the expressions, `fleshing out the history' and `making it real', and they more than apply here...the main aspect that made me keep turning the pages and burning the midnight oil? The things that I didn't know about Alienor.." Reader from Australia

"Chadwick has succeeded where many other novelists have failed by giving us not just the legend but the very human young woman – intelligent, determined, witty and sexy." Pam Norfolk. Lancashire Evening Post.