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Winners of the Birthday Bash Prizes!!

28 Apr

 

Happy Saturday, everyone!  It’s rainy and cold here in lovely Michiana, but I’m sure it’s warm and dry elsewhere, right?  I’m not going to complain.  It gives me the opportunity to make chili and curl up in front of the fireplace for what is probably the last day of the year.   Silver linings, right?

Anyway.   I wanted to announce the winners of the Birthday Bash prizes!  So exciting!   Several people tweeted so many times that they got many multiple entries and won more than one prize, so make sure you read all the way through them to make sure you don’t miss something.

Here goes:

Bloodstone Saga t-shirts:  Jessirae Lloyd (@xjessirae) and Danielle Morales (@danilove413)

Signed copies of Every Last Kiss:  Pamela Rosensteel (@vanillaorchids) and Breila (@goldensunangel)

Signed copies of House of Thebes:  Helen (@helldog3), Jessirae Lloyd (@xjessirae), Danielle Morales (@danilove413), Vivien (@deadtossedwaves), Celeste (@itsmeceleste)

A “Cadmus” bracelet and a signed bookmark:  Helen (@helldog3) and Ana (@beingbold)

A signed bookmark and a Greek drachma:  Danna (@dannamarie), Nat Cleary (@natcleary), Laura Thomas (@laurathomas), CE Hart (@CEHartAuthor) and Sabrina Spicer (@tngal1977).

Thank you so much to everyone who participated and helped make Every Last Kiss‘ birthday bash so awesome.  I truly, truly appreciate it!    If you were a winner, email me your mailing address at:  courtneycolewrites (at) gmail.com.  I’ll be mailing the prizes out next week.   Have a fabulous weekend!!

Blog Hop: Wishing For Someday Soon

25 Mar

So, my friend Tiffany King is releasing a new book and I’m so excited to be part of her blog hop today!   It’s going to be a great book- check it out:

Seventeen year old Katelyn Richards is a stronger person than anyone will ever know, and that is just the way she wants it. Behind her normal façade, lies the reality of a broken home life. Thanks to her abusive mother, a string of deadbeat stepfathers, and an unsympathetic system, Katelyn has learned that the only one she can count on is herself. Her life’s mission has become to shield her nine year old brother, Kevin, and to give him the future that they both wish for. A life with no more abuse, no worries about where their next meal will come from, and no more wondering if they will have a roof over their heads.

When her mother moves them again, this time to a small town in Montana, Katelyn’s resolve is shaken when she meets Max, a cute boy from her new school who gets a glimpse into her real world. Max slowly manages to break through Katelyn’s wall of distrust, stirring up feelings she never saw coming. Now with her world more complicated than she ever intended, Katelyn struggles with the decision to follow her heart into the arms of the first boy she has ever loved. A decision that could risk the promise she made to protect Kevin, and to give them the ‘someday soon’ that is so close within their grasp.

Excerpt:

“I mean that Max has taken quite a liking to you. It won’t last, though. You need money coming out your ass to fit in with them,” she said, looking at me knowingly.

“What makes you say that, and besides, why would that matter anyway?” I asked, almost sarcastically.

“I just know from past experience. They all think they’re better than trailer park trash like us,” she said sadly, all bite leaving her voice as she shuffled off to join her brother.

I pondered her words, climbing the steps to our trailer. Were my new friends really that superficial? Max already knew about the food stamps and the beat-up car, surely, living in a trailer park wouldn’t be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Blog Hop instructions

Collect the colored or bolded letter(s)  from each of the excerpts provided on all the blogs listed below and then head back to http://authortiffanyjking.blogspot.com/ to plug them into the secret phrase. You could win a Wishing For Someday Soon t-shirt, mouse pad or a signed copy of Wishing For Someday Soon!!! Take the time to leave a comment on each blog you visit and you could win a Kindle copy of Wishing For Someday Soon on the day it releases!!

http://amyjonesyaff.blogspot.com/

http://michellemuto.wordpress.com/

http://courtneycolewrites.com/

http://nicholechase.blogspot.com/

http://mleightonbooks.blogspot.com/

http://shellycrane.blogspot.com/

http://cakunz.blogspot.com/

http://laurasmagicday.wordpress.com/

http://meganduncan.blogspot.com/

And the Winner is….

10 Jan

As you may recall, I’ve spent the last three weeks wrapped up in a blog tour.  And it’s been a lot of fun and I’m giving away tons of prizes. 

Anywhooo… since the blog tour is now wrapped up, Kismet Book Tours has drawn the winner of my grand prize offering… a Kindle Touch wrapped in a custom My Tattered Bonds skin and loaded with my books. 

And the winner is….. Denise Z!  Denise, Kismet Book Tours will be contacting you with an email confirming your win!  Congratulations! I hope you love the Kindle and my books too, of course.  :)  

Thank you everyone, for participating in the blog tour!  The individual bloggers will be announcing the winners of the daily prizes- and if you’ve won, you can expect to receive your prizes soon. 

I hope everyone has a great day- and thank you again for participating in my blog tour!!

Winner of Super Massive Prize Pack

3 Jul

Okay, first I need to tell you thank you…. for following my blog tour this past week.  I organized it on the spur of the moment, so thank you for putting up with me.  And thank you to my awesome friends, Wren, M. Leighton, Tiffany, Allie, Patti and Fisher for hosting me. You guys are amazing.

Okay, so I put all of the names in a pot and had my eight year old draw one out.  And the winner…. is….

 

MARY PRESTON

 

Yay!  Mary, I’ll be emailing you  with details.

And, in case you were wondering the answers to the mystery questions… here they are.

Day 1:  What is my biggest phobia?    Answer:  Since I am petrified of buoys and birds, my biggest fear is that I’ll be in a boat/ship wreck and have to cling to a seagull covered buoy in order to survive.  I honestly think I would rather drown.  Yes, I know I am weird.

Day 2: What superpower would I most like to have?  Answer:  Hmmm.  I was torn on this one.  I’d love to be able to move things with my mind. That would be sooo awesome and useful. Or I’d like to control the elements.  If only I were a goddess, I could do both of them.  Drat my mortal constraints!

Day 3:  Have you ever gone skinny-dipping?  Answer:  Um, yes. 

Day 4:  How tall am I?  I am 5’10″.  I come from a very tall family.  My dad is 6’5, my uncle is 6’8…

Day 5:   Tiffany asked a series of questions.  My answers were:  A,B,B,A,A,B

Day 6:  And sweet Allie Burke asked me about my all-time fave book.  My all time favorite book is:  The Five People You Meet in Heaven.  I love Mitch Albom.

Thank you so much for participating everyone and helping me celebrate the release of Fated, Book Two in the Bloodstone Saga.  It’s super exciting and it makes me so happy to share that excitement with all of you.  I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Fourth of July!

Fated Virtual Book Tour with Awesome Prizes- Next Week!

24 Jun

So, many of you are aware that Fated was released early… yesterday instead of July 1.  That was a surprise, but a nice one.   Thank you so much to everyone who went out and bought it yesterday.  You truly made it an awesome release day.  Thank you!

Because I have the most amazing friends EVER, I will be hosted on a virtual book tour next week by six truly amazing authors.  They are going to interview me and ask me all kinds of nosy (and probably embarassing) questions that will hopefully entertain you. 

AND, we will be hosting a huge contest.   Every day, each author will ask me a different mystery question and readers will try to answer it.  Any reader who follows the interviews each day and tries to answer the mystery question all six days will be entered for the HUGE, AMAZING prize pack.  I’ll draw the winner on my blog on Sunday, July 2.

This is the virtual blog schedule.  Do visit us every day… I promise it will be fun. 

And all you have to do to be entered for the MASSIVE prize pack is to try and answer the mystery question every day in the comments section.   OKAY,  REVISION:  Due to a little confusion, you don’t need to answer the question every day in order to enter… but every time you answer the question, you’ll be entered another time. 

What does the MASSIVE, INCREDIBLE prize pack contain, you might wonder?  I’m glad you asked.  It will include:

  • An autographed copy of Meant To Be by Tiffany King, along with bookmarks and some miscellaneous signed Tiffany King swag.
  • An autographed copy of The Understorey by Fisher Amelie and a bookmark.
  • Autographed copies of Every Last Kiss and Fated by me, with bookmarks. 
  • An e-copy of Blood Like Poison: For the Love of  a Vampire by M. Leighton
  • An e-copy of I Wish by Wren Emerson
  • An e-copy of Curiosities, Inc. by Patti Larsen
  • An e-copy of Violet Midnight by Allie Burke
  • An e-copy of Princess, by me
  • And…an original piece of Wren Emerson art, because she’s awesome and artistic like that. (I would give you some of the art that she is trying to teach me to make, but trust me, you don’t want mine…)

I told you the prize pack was awesomely AMAZING, didn’t I?   And all you have to do to enter is anwer one mystery question per day for six days.  And I have no idea what the questions will be… but my friends are creative and ornery so it might very well be “What color of underwear is Courtney Cole wearing today?” You never know.

So, stay tuned and follow the craziness next week!  Hugs to all!

Blood Like Poison 2 Contest Winner

3 Jun

Okay, so here is something about me. 

I really hate to watch when people lose.   That’s why I don’t watch American Idol- I hate to see so many people trying so hard for one prize– putting their hearts and soul into the contest and only one person can win.  I always feel so sad for the ones who came close, but still lost.

Anyway, hosting this giveaway has been a lot of fun.  I loved reading the wonderful things that everyone said about my friend M. Leighton when you entered the contest.   Every single one of you were right- she totally rocks and her books are awesome.

And the good thing about my giveaway is that no one really lost- it is easy enough for everyone who didn’t win to go to Amazon and pick up a copy of Ms. Leighton’s new book.  And I highly recommend you do, because it’s so awesome! :)

But now… the winner of my giveaway…. is…. Ms. Sarah MacFerrin.   Yay, Sarah!  I hope you love the books as much as I do.

Everyone else… thank you so much for entering and for the wonderful comments!   Have a great weekend!!

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