Eeep. I was so immersed in editing yesterday that I forgot to announce the winners of the breakfast and private book signing with M. Leighton and I in New York City next week.
We drew the names from Rafflecopter— and they are: TERESA MARY ROSE and AMBER PRESLEY BOYD.
Congrats, ladies. Michelle and I are excited to meet you next week!
Thank you for entering, everyone! 
My BFF (and NYT bestselling author) Michelle Leighton and I are both going to be in New York City at the same time for BEA… so we figured, what better way to celebrate than to have an epic contest?? So, we’re excited to announce a joint contest hosted by the both of us, open to any of our readers who will be in NYC during BEA next month. (You can’t see me right now, but I might be running around in circles in excitement…)
You can enter to win on Rafflecopter HERE. All you have to do is tweet about the giveaway, follow Michelle and I on Twitter, and follow us on Facebook. Easy-breezy! And the winner shall receive….
Breakfast and a private book signing for both the winner and a guest with Michelle Leighton and I in NYC. Eeepppp!! Michelle and I are super excited about this. We’re each going to draw a winner through rafflecopter, so there will be two winners and each winner can bring a guest. So, including Michelle and I, that’s an intimate party of six and I’m guessing there will be mimosas involved…. (Note: you can enter to win on both Michelle’s rafflectoper and mine– so you can enter to win twice as many times! You can find Michelle’s website here.)
Anyway, I hope you’re as excited about this as I am. I’m a girl who loves breakfast. And to sit down and share breakfast with one of you… well, that will just be awesome. Good luck– and I can’t wait to see who wins!!
**disclaimer: This contest is for breakfast and a private signing only. Any and all transportation and lodging costs are the responsibility of the contest winners**
You guys, thank you so much for entering in the contest to win the If You Stay bracelet. It was fun– I love contests.
I just used rafflecopter to draw the winner– and the winner is…. Joanna S. Congrats, Joanna!
Tomorrow, Michelle Leighton and I are announcing an EPIC contest. I can’t wait! So stay tuned for the deets!
I have two super exciting things to announce today.
The first thing involves a tiny little thing called the New York Times Bestseller’s List. I found out last night that I MADE THIS LIST!! OMGOSH!! I think I’m still in shock, to be honest. When I first found out, I simply sat and stared at it for awhile. (I may have lovingly stroked my computer screen, too….) But seeing my name at #9 was so gorgeous that I think I will frame it and hang it in my office.
Thank you so much for putting me there!! It is the readers (you!!) who have bought and loved If You Stay that made this happen. And I will be infinitely grateful to you. You just have no idea how very thankful. (Trust me, it’s VERY thankful!)
And making this list (It’s the NYT, OMG!!!) has made me way too antsy to write– I just can’t focus today. So I was shopping online and found something that inspired an idea for a contest. Because I’ve been having so much fun with contests lately! I know… I’ve been getting a bit carried away with them- I can’t help it. Once I figured out how to work Rafflecopter, I haven’t been able to stop!! LOL. But this will be the last one for awhile.
This contest will be the Bring Pax Home contest. As in, bring him home to the top three on Amazon. If You Stay is hovering at number 6 right now. And Pax would really like to be in the top three. He’s competitive like that. If we can bring him home to the top three, then one lucky winner can bring a little piece of Pax home with her. How? Check out this necklace:
This necklace is going to be customized (It will not say Drew and Bethany on it!). I’m going to have LOVE inscribed on the top disk and NEVER FAILS inscribed on the bottom. I’m ordering one for a winner and one for me. That little dangling thing is a freshwater pearl. The reason this necklace is significant is because because Pax gives an identical one to Mila as a gift. The reason you don’t know this is because he gives it to her on their wedding night. And the reason you don’t know that is because I didn’t include that in the book.
However… if IF YOU STAY reaches the top three on Amazon, I will release that added scene right here on my blog. And yes… I realize what the competition is… the top three right now are Save Haven (Nicolas Sparks), Beautiful Creatures (Kami Garcia) and Alex Cross, Run. (James Patterson). So, yeah. I know that is some seriously stiff competition. But I think we can do it.
So this is really a two part contest. In the first part, you can enter on Rafflecopter by doing several things:
The prize for this first part, will be a necklace just like Mila’s. I will draw a winner through Rafflectoper on February 28th– in one week from today. It is open to the US and Canada. You can enter on Rafflecopter HERE. And if IF YOU STAY reaches the top 3 on Amazon, I will release the bonus scene from their wedding night. It is both sexy and sweet, and it is from Pax’s point of view.
So… please help me Bring Pax Home. Pax does so enjoy the view from the top. Haha.
I’ll leave you today with this. Just because I like it.
The winner of the signed copy of If You Stay is.. Tabitha W.
Tabitha, I’m going to need you to email me your mailing address.
I’m so sorry that everyone couldn’t win- because so many of you entered! I thank you so much for your enthusiasm and for helping to spread the word about If You Stay.
If you tweeted or Facebooked the link that I posted yesterday and you haven’t sent me your mailing address, please send it and I’ll get a signed postcard mailed out to you. Just email your address to courtneycolewrites@gmail.com and include your FB/Twitter link. If you already sent it, then I sent out your postcard this morning.
I hope everyone has a fabulous Tuesday!
Okay…. so you guys have voted in the FIND YOUR PAX contest… and I am a bit flabbergasted.
Alex Pettyfer didn’t win!!! How is this possible? *shakes head in shock and then stares longingly at the picture of Alex on my If You Stay storyboard*
In my head, this is Pax:
Buttttttt, the winner of the people’s choice vote goes to Jesse Pavelka, Picture 3, which was sent in by Jessica R. (Jessica, you’ll be getting an email from me today).
I looked up another pic of Jesse from the web for your viewing pleasure:
He’s hot and swoon-worthy. I have to give him that.
So thank you so much to everyone who played FIND YOUR PAX. It was fun- and my inbox appreciates it, too. It was filled with yummy hotness all week!
Also, I just want to take a second to say thank you. THANK YOU, thank you!! If You Stay released early and it broke into Amazon‘s top 100 on it’s second day out of the gate and is sitting at #10 on Barnes and Noble. I am still in shock. But it wouldn’t have happened without awesome readers like YOU. Thank you so, so much!!
Okay…
So by now, you probably know that If You Stay released early. You can find it on Barnes and Noble here and Amazon here. But! I still have the Find Your Pax contest going… the winner will receive my last signed ARC.
I got some really good pics, too, peeps!
As you know, I feel that Alex Pettyfer is the perfect Pax Tate. However, I wanted to see if anyone could prove me wrong. And I have to admit, I got some pretty good alternatives as well as a couple of Alex Pettyfer.
Let’s start though, with Alex Pettyfer. Several people sent me this pic, so I took the first person who sent it, Kimberly S. Eeeep. Whoa. He’s so freaking hot.
PICTURE 1
Several people also sent in this pic of Alex. And he’s so beautiful that I have to include it, as well. The first person to send it was Wendy R.
PICTURE 2
Excuse me for a moment while I fan myself.
Okay. I’m good now. Let’s carry on with picture 3. Jessica R. was the first to send this one in.
PICTURE 3: Jesse Pavelka
Aseel N. sent in picture number 4. Holy cow– this guy has a ‘come hither’ look doesn’t he? wow. His name is Nicholas Lemmons.
PICTURE 4- Nicholas Lemmons
Melissa M. sent in picture 5. Harvey Haydon is pretty smokin!
PICTURE 5: Harvey Haydon
Okay, ladies. We have two pictures of Alex Pettyfer (because I just couldn’t help myself) and three alternative choices. Three smoking hot alternative choices. This decision is rough. However, I have full faith that you guys will pick the right one! All you have to do is vote on who you think should be Pax Tate. And the winner will receive my last signed ARC. Eeeppp!! Let the voting commence!! I’ll announce the winner tomorrow!
Soooooo.
First things first. I’m back from vacation and I have drawn two winners of my last ARC contest through Rafflecopter. Thank you to everyone who entered!!! But the winners are Jen S. and Alexandra B. I’ll be emailing you this afternoon to get your mailing addresses.
Today, I’m announcing the last and in my opinion, the most fun contest to win an ARC. If You Stay will release on February 12– so close, yet still so far away for my poor impatient heart. So, to kill the time between now and then, I want to have a FIND YOUR PAX contest.
The object of this contest is to see if you can prove me wrong. Hehe. As I have mentioned several times, I firmly believe that Alex Pettyfer should be the lead male for every book or movie ever produced or published. That is certainly true for If You Stay. I picture Alex Pettyfer as Pax Tate.
To enter to win the last signed ARC of If You Stay, I want you to send me pictures of other hot bad-boys that might change my mind. OR, you can send me a picture of Alex Pettyfer, if you agree with me that he would make an excellent Pax. (Because he would SO make an excellent Pax). You can email your pictures to courtneycolewrites@gmail.com.
I know it’s hard– to pick a picture of a lead character that you haven’t met yet. But just picture a hot, tattooed bad-boy who uses drugs and women to help him cope with an issue that he can’t remember. Because that’s Pax in a nut-shell.
Out of all of the entries, I will pick my favorites (3 or 4) and then we’ll vote on them here on my blog on Sunday (Feb 10). I’ll announce the winner on Monday– the day before If You Stay releases. Whoever submits the winning picture, will win the contest. Fun, right? I don’t know about you… but I love seeing pictures of smoking hot bad-boys. And I am feeling extremely doubtful that anyone can prove me wrong– and find someone better suited as Pax than Alex Pettyfer. But good luck! I’ll have fun seeing your attempts!
Have a great Tuesday– and stay tuned– because I’ll be releasing the final excerpt of If You Stay tomorrow! Eeeepp!!
Happy Tuesday!
I hope everyone is wearing long underwear today. Ohmygosh is it cold!! Up here where I live, the windchill is -12. Actual temperature is 5. Either way, it’s way too cold.
But. I’m not going to think about it. Instead, I’m going to announce another If You Stay contest. Since I’m going on vacation, this week’s contest will run for TWO weeks, from today until Tuesday, February 5. Two winners will be drawn on the 5th, each will win a signed ARC of If You Stay.
Winners will be drawn by Rafflecopter and you have three different things you can do to enter. You can: Follow my blog, Like me on Facebook or Name your favorite part of the male body. Since I use WordPress, I can’t embed the rafflecopter here. But you can follow this link to the contest so that you can enter.
Good luck! After this contest, I will be hosting only ONE more… the most fun of them all, during the week of Feb 5. Details on that to come.
I hope everyone has a great day– and stay tuned tomorrow- I’ll be posting another excerpt from If You Stay!
Stay warm!
Happy Sunday!
Okay. I had so many awesome dream cars in my inbox that it was insanely hard to pick a winner. OhMyGosh. But. When two people each sent in my own personal dream car, I knew that they had to win. So, we have two winners this week.
Courtney D. and Vivian both sent me pictures of a Maserati, which just happens to be my dream car. In fact, I love it so much, that I gave one to Dante in Dante’s Girl. Beautiful, sexy car. I just told my husband the other day that I needed one and he rolled his eyes at me. I’ll have to keep working on him.
Anyway, congratulations, Courtney and Vivian. If you email me your mailing addresses, I’ll get a signed ARC in the mail to you.
If you didn’t win, don’t despair! I have another fun contest coming up. Since I leave for vacation on Friday, this particular contest will run for two weeks and there will be two winners. One will be chosen by rafflecopter and one will be chosen by me. I can’t wait- and I’ll announce the contest details on Tuesday, so check back!
Til then, have a great day!
I am a novelist who loves thunderstorms, Autumn, Harry Potter books and picking all of the cookie dough out of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
I am the author of If You Stay (book one of the Beautifully Broken series). I am represented by Catherine Drayton of Inkwell Management.
My other books include: The Minaldi Legacy (Of Blood and Bone), The Paradise Diaries (Dante's Girl and Mia's Heart), The Cougar Chronicles (Confessions of an Alli Cat), The Bloodstone Saga (Every Last Kiss, Fated, With My Last Breath and My Tattered Bonds), The Moonstone Saga (Soul Kissed and Soul Bound), Princess, and Guardian.
