Fabulous Promotion: Sourcebooks B&N Heyer Receipt Promotion

This September, Sourcebooks is exclusively releasing The Foundling by Georgette Heyer in Barnes & Nobles stores Nationwide!!

Sourcebooks is holding a fabulous receipt promotion! Send them your receipt/proof of purchase of The Foundling from your local Barnes & Noble to our office or a scanned receipt in an email to: danielle.jackson@sourcebooks.com

and you’ll be entered to win a $200 Barnes & Noble gift card! Receipts must be dated between September 1 – September 31, 2009, and can be from an in-store or online purchase. Any questions please contact danielle.jackson@sourcebooks.com.

Sourcebooks is so excited about the warm embrace everyone has given the Georgette Heyer reissues! Good luck!

Send your Barnes & Noble The Foundling receipts to:
Sourcebooks, Inc.
c/o Publicity
PO Box 4410
Naperville, IL 60567

Join Sourcebook's Georgette Heyer mailing list!: http://www.sourcebooks.com/spotlight/georgette-heyer.html

And the winners are ...!

The grand prize of 10 books: ChaChaNeen

The Grand Sophy (5):

• Shawna Lewis
  
• KJH
  
• Amanda nycbookgirl
• Vickie lovesreading
• Marie Burton
  

Marsha Altman's book, The Plight of the Darcy Brothers: Bloggin BB

Please email janeaustensworld [@] gmail [dot] com and send us your mailing address.

Thank you EVERY ONE for participating. We truly enjoyed reading your comments and having you over for a visit, Vic and LA

Georgette Heyer Continues to Inspire New Authors: The Grand Sophy Guest Blog with Romance Author Mary Margret Daughtridge

Gentle Readers: The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer was re-released on July 1st by Sourcebooks. Joining us today is romance author Mary Margret Daughtridge who will chat about how Regency romance author Georgette Heyer continues to inspire her writing of contemporary romances today.

A SEAL contemporary might seem like a far cry from a Georgette Heyer Regency, but it was Georgette Heyer who single-handedly converted me to romance--more years ago than I care to admit to. I would reread her books until the pages were soft and frayed and falling out, and then go buy a new one. Unfortunately, they were out of print in the eighties and nineties, so a "new" one could only be found in a used bookstore. Even after all these years, I would have to say Heyer's is the strongest influence on my writing. Just the other day I was thinking about how Sophy shoots one of the other characters with the best of intentions -- and with very good results.

Heyer is always aware that a story is about people, not the plot. She creates humor not by contrived situations but by letting characters reveal themselves, and as a result it never goes stale. I can (and have) reread her books over and over and laugh every time.

In fact, one of the funniest scenes I ever read happens in The Grand Sophy when the hero complains that Sophy has compared his fiancée to a horse. He counters that he considers his fiancée’s countenance particularly well-bred. “Oh,” she reassures him, “I meant a particularly well-bred horse!”

As the argument becomes more and more ridiculous, he sees for himself how narrow-minded he has become, which provides the opening for a change of heart.

I'm so thrilled Sourcebooks is reissuing Heyer, and letting a new generation of romance fans and writers discover her.

The Grand Sophy is one of her best.

Thank you Mary Margret for sharing your appreciation of this great author with us today.

Author Bio

Mary Margret Daughtridge is the author of the SEAL Series: SEALed with a Kiss (April 2008) and SEALed with a Promise (April 2009), contemporary romance novels featuring stories of Navy SEALS, hard men with soft hearts, published by Sourcebooks Casablanca. She has been a grade school teacher, speech therapist, family educator, biofeedback therapist, and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist. She is a member of Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America, and Romancing the Military Soul, and is a sought-after judge in writing contests. She resides in North Carolina. You can visit Mary Margret at her website and read excerts of her novels.

Enter a chance to win one of five copies of The Grand Sophy and a set of ten Georgette Heyer novels from Sourcebooks. Don’t delay. The contest ends July 31st.

Read Vic's review of The Grand Sophy at Jane Austen's World

Read Laurel Ann's review of The Grand Sophy at Austenprose

Book Giveaway Reminder

Gentle Readers, Tomorrow is the deadline to leave a comment for a chance to win Laurie Viera Rigler's Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict. You've read our reviews (see sidebar), now read for yourselves! Click here for details & to enter the contest.

The FABULOUS Georgette Heyer book giveaway contest will stay open until July 31st. One lucky winner will receive 10 Georgette Heyer books, and 5 lucky winners will receive their very own copy of The Grand Sophy. How outstanding is that? Click here to leave your comment.

In Honor of The Grand Sophy, The Biggest, Best, Grandest, Most Astonishing Book GiveAway from Source Books!

In honor of the reissue of The Grand Sophy, one of Georgette Heyer’s best and most beloved regency romance novels, Source Books will be giving away a full set of the Georgette Heyer books that have come out this spring. One LUCKY winner will receive the complete set. In addition, five copies of The Grand Sophy will also be given away to five runner up winners. Yes, you read this correctly. You have five chances of winning a Georgette Heyer novel and one chance to win a complete set of some of the most enjoyable Regency romances ever written.

The GRAND PRIZE winner will receive a set of 10 books, or one copy each of Georgette Heyer’s:

• The Convenient Marriage
• The Corinthian
• Cousin Kate
• The Grand Sophy
• The Nonesuch
• The Talisman Ring
• My Lord John
• Behold, Here's Poison (Mystery)
• The Unfinished Clue (Mystery)
• Why Shoot a Butler? (Mystery)

Please click on the titles of the books to read the reviews of the Regency romances on Jane Austen’s World.


If you live in the United States or Canada, all you need to do is to leave a comment on the following topics: For Georgette Heyer fans, we’d like to know which is your favorite GH novel and why. For those who have never read a Georgette Heyer book before, please let us know why you would like to start reading one.

This fabulous contest will be open until July 31st. Meanwhile, look for Laurel Ann’s review soon on Austenprose, and for posts related to The Grand Sophy throughout the month in Jane Austen’s World. Remember, only people who live in the U.S. or Canada will be eligible to participate in this giveaway.

Seen on the Blogosphere

If you own an iphone or ipod touch, you can download novels from ereader for only 99 cents. The selections are available through itunes. In the following post, Appengines E reader - Ephone Reader, the author describes how easy it was to download Emma and read its pages. At 99 cents, reading Jane Austen any time any where certainly seems like a bargain!


Laundry in the Regency at Regency Ramble goes into quite some detail about the topic. To add to your knowledge about how clothes were cleaned in days of yore, check out my post entitled Every Day Chores of Laundry and Scullery Maids, and Washer Women.


Sometimes a blog is simply gorgeous to look at, but this one is also informative. The title says it all: Antique Costumes and Textiles: Collectable, Hangable, Wearable.


Jane Austen was born during the mid-Georgian era, when this absolutely breathtaking blog,Versailles and More, is set.


Finally, here is an Index of the History of Fashion (Regency Period) with fashion plates that include Germany and Italian dress of the era. The differences in dress detail are fascinating.

Don't forget, today is the last day to leave a suggestion for summer reading for your chance to win a Georgette Heyer novel from SourceBooks. Go to the link on top of our sidebar to enter your suggestion!

Posted by Vic, Ms. Place