The Bloggy Giveaway Carnival has started and I am super excited to offer up 3 books for prizes! 2 winners in all….2 of the books are by the same author, and you REALLY need both to enjoy the full effect!
The books:
The Secret Life of Becky Miller and Renovating Becky Miller, both by the awesome Sharon Hinck.
Faster than a speeding minivan, able to leap piles of laundry in a single bound. It’s a bird, it’s a plane. It’s Supermom!
Move over, Walter Mitty. Here comes Becky Miller. A young mother with grandiose daydreams and a longing to do “Big Things for God” searches for direction amid the chaos of daily life and the disappointment of failed opportunities.
Becky’s rich fantasy life helps her cope with the pressure to be a Wonderful Wife and Marvelous Mom. But she keeps hearing the tape play: “Your mission, should you choose to accept it: support your husband when he loses his job, nurture an eccentric circle of friends, raise perfect Christian children, live a life full of grand Purpose, all while standing on your head and whistling Dixie. Your fantasy will self-destruct in five seconds.”
And…Emily Ever After by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt.
A quirky and quick-witted girl moves to Manhattan and holds on for dear life.
Emily Hinton needs out. She comes from a small town in California where the church handbell choir concert passes for a decent way to spend a Saturday and she’s known all the boys since kindergarten. She dreams of sophisticated people, love, and Louis Vuitton. When she lands a job at the world-famous publishing house Morrow & Sons in New York, she knows that she is finally on her way. She packs her bags, says good-bye, and sets out for Manhattan, where she will fit in, even if it kills her.
In spite of her naïveté, she quickly becomes friends with the girls at work and begins to learn a thing or two about how things are done in Manhattan. She soon attracts the attention of the handsome Bennett and is swept into a whirlwind romance, but an overnight visit to his parents’ home at Thanksgiving and his seemingly idle flirtations with one of her colleagues give her second thoughts about what Bennett really wants. Her uncertainty about her feelings escalates when one of the hometown boys she left behind reappears in her life. Emily’s days at the office are also becoming complicated: an ambitious editor is breaking all the rules to publish a controversial book that demeans everything she believes in. Will she stand up for what she knows is right and risk losing it all?
Balancing her passion for the glamour of New York City with her determination to live by her morals turns out to be much more difficult than Emily ever imagined. Her roundabout quest for happiness will endear her to anyone who has ever dreamed of making it big, and faced more than a few pitfalls along the way.
Just leave a comment if you’d like to enter and please include which books you’d like if chosen. Deadline to enter is 11 PM Saturday, April 26 at 11PM Central.
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I would love to read Emily Ever After. I took my first trip with my Hubby to New York this past December. It was a 5 year anniversary/make-up honeymoon trip because we missed our honeymoon due to his deployment overseas.
I fell in love with Manhattan and love reading about it!
I need some fresh reading material…sign me up!
These sound like great books! enter me please. taradawnrobertson at hotmail dot com
I’d ask you to choose for me. I haven’t read these books yet. They sound great!
Both sound great, and I would LOVE to be chosen as a winner. They sound perfect for some “relaxing holiday reading” ….if I can ever find time for that again
Great giveaway! The Becky Miller books sound awesome.
Hi, I love books and reading. They are all wonderful choices for reading. Please enter me in your drawing for “Emily Ever After!”
I love the cover art. I have read many good things about this book!
Thanks, Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
I’d like any of them. You choose. I’d love to read them all.
I’d love to win The Secret Life of Becky Miller and Renovating Becky Miller.
I love to read and they both sound good, so you could enter me for either one.
I would love to be entered in your giveaway.
Michelle
http://www.northofthe49.com
michelle (at) northofthe49 (dot) com
OOOO I want all three!! LOL but If I had to choose I guess Id go with Emily Ever After.
I am running a bloggy party right now too with tons of prizes! Come check us out!
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I’ve read the first one and wanted to read the sequel. Would love it! Emily Ever After sounds good, too.
Oh Id love the second great prizes!
Kelsey
mysweetlife.org
Emily Ever After is my first choice, but either would be great!
All the books sound great! So hard to choose. I think the first set sound really cute.
Awesome – I would love to read Emily Ever AFter…
these look like fun books! emily ever after looks good!
Either set sounds good. I’d probably have to get you to choose. Would love a new book to read while on the elliptical machine.
eazelie at gmail.com
I would like the Becky Miller books.
I would like any of those books!
I think they all sound great!! The Becky Miller books would probably be my first choice, but I’d be thrilled with any!!
Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!
I’ve read “Emily Ever After” – it is good! So, I’d be up for the other set….
I read post about the Becky Miller books a few weeks ago and it sparked my interest, with us moving and all I hadn’t had time to go look for the books! I am ready for some new material to read!
I’d be interested in “Emily Ever After” so I could review it for my book review website. Thanks!
I’m giving away a Target gift card as well as an Amazon gift card!
I would love the Becky Miller books. “…able to leap piles of laundry in a single bound.” Yup! That’s me!
Enter me, please!
The Becky Miller books sound like something I would enjoy! Count me in!
Yay!! I LOVE book giveaways! Count me in for the Becky Miller books…thanks!!
Count me in!
I’ve not read her. If I won, I have a circle of Christian women friends who would LOVE to spread these books around.
These sound so great..I will probably buy those books if I don’t win! Thanks for the offers.
Do I have to choose?
I’d love to read any of the books! I love Christian fiction. I am giving away some historical Christian novel.
I am a voracious reader! Love, love, love all types of books – especially Christian fiction. I’d like to check out the Becky Miller books.
I would love the Becky Miller books….I definitely could use a little Mom humor about now!
Thanks!
In desperate need of the becky miller books! please oh please…
The Secret life of Becky Miller sounds great! What a great giveaway!
I’d like Emily Ever After.
I think the Becky Miller books would fit me perfectly!
Pick a book? Any book! I love books!
I love to read! My first choice would be Emily Ever After, but I would take the others too!
I haven’t read any of these books, so I would be happy with any one of the three. Thanks for the great giveaway!
mnatherson(at)comcast(dot)net
I would love to read any of these books! What a great giveaway! Please enter me in your drawing! Thanks!
I love reading. Most of the books we have I’ve read two or three times. I would choose Emily Ever After.
Emily Ever After! I have read the other two and they were great!
I don’t know they all sound like a fun read. Either one is fine. katie_mmartin (at) yahoo [dot] com
I’d love to do some reading!
They all sound great. I would let you chose.
I’d love to win Emily Ever After! It sounds cute!
adashofsassitude(at)gmail.com
Emily Ever After sounds great… and for the second I guess I’d take the first in the other series!
Emily Ever After looks really interesting to me…
Emily Ever After looks like my kind of book.
All of them sound great!
Thank you for the chance to win. I just read her Sharon Hinck’s newest book and it was great. I was looking forward to picking these up!
mindysaid (at) gmail (dot) com
I haven’t had time to read a book in so long…I would be quite fine withe being surprised! Thanks for the contest.
I havent read any of these yet. Sign me up.
The Secret Life of Becky Miller
Thanks for the giveaway.
I’d like the 2 books about Becky Miller! Thanks for recommending some new reading!
I would choose the Becky miller ones. I love fun Christian fiction series.
They all sound so good! I’d like to try Emily Ever After if I win.
Becky Miller sounds just like, well, ME! I need to read those. Please enter me.
I agree — the Becky Miller books sound much like my reality!
I’d love to read them. Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d like either (both?!?) of the Becky Miller books. I love to read, and am always running out of good books!
julie_ruhlman(at)hotmail(dot)com
I LOVE reading
jen at whitty4jen@yahoo.com
I LOVE reading
jen at whitty4jen@yahoo.com
I LOVE reading
jen at whitty4jen@yahoo.com
I would love “Emily Ever After”!
I would LOVE to read these!!!!
Emily Ever After sounds nice!
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I would be thrilled to have the Emily Ever After book.. I would be thrilled just to win something for a change. LOL…
They all look great to me! Surprise me!
dbstout[at]juno[dot]com
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Please enter my name, those sound really good.
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Emily Ever After sounds like it would be a great book. I would love to read it.
Emily Ever AFter sounds great! Thanks for the give away
I would like to read about Becky Miller. She sounds really interesting. I have never heard of Sharon Hinck before.
http://www.melodyanddoug.blogspot.com
i have read Emily Ever After and LOVED it!! So enter me for one of the other 2 please. Thanks.
I think I’d sign up for Emily Ever After as I’m reading Hinck’s newest series now (The Restorer) and the second one is driving me crazy what with all it’s explaining of the first book I just read!
I would love any of these books, they look great!
The Secret Life Of Becky looks like a fun read! Sign me up! Thanks for the chance, as well as passing along a new-to-me author!
I’ve read “The Secret Life of Becky Miller,” but I’ve not yet read the sequel.
However, I have not read “Emily Ever After!” so I’d like to try for that one. Thank you.
SmilingSal55@yahoo.com
They all sound wonderful but if I must choose…Emily Ever After. Thank you
ablkathy(at)aol(dot)com
I would love, LURVE…EMILY EVER AFTER!! pweettyy pwweessee!!! Thank you so very much…
It’s been a long time since I’ve read a good book, so I would love to win this. I think I could relate more to the Becky Miller books, but either prize would be terrific. Thanks for such a great giveaway!
~ Amy @ Memoirs of a Mommy
The Becky Miller books sound wonderful…though I have yet to meet a book I didn’t like!
theyakmom AT yahoo DOT com
The Becky Miller books as I strive to be “Supermom”!
elkmeese (at) yahoo (dot) com
This is a great giveaway! Sign me up!
Sounds great! Count me in!
Kathy (Mom to the princessesindisguise)
bigfamily8(at)yahoo(dot)com
Enter me for the Becky Miller books – thanks!
Tamara (AK)
mrshuntinak AT msn DOT com
Please enter me for The Secret Life of Becky Miller and Renovating Becky Miller. Thanks!
Count me in – these sound great!
I’d really love the Becky Miller series. Sounds like a great read! Thanks!
I think any of these three books sound like great reads. If I had to choose one, it would be “Emily Ever After”.
Thanks!
Angie
We’re giving things away at:
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Very interested in the Becky Miller series. I have wanted to read them, but just haven’t gotten out to purchase them. Please enter me in your drawing. Thanks
Difficult decision. I love to read. After much deliberation, I’ll go with the Becky Miller series if chosen. Thanks.
Heidi
sweet_soul_sistermi@yahoo.com
I would love to win these great books. I am always looking for more Christian fiction to read. I think I would like the Becky Miller books. Thanks!
Emily Ever After sounds so good! I would love that one. My email address is in my Blogger profile, just in case I win!
I would love either choice since I haven’t read any of them. I love books–especially Christian fiction!
I love Christian literature…and any opportunity to read new authors is a great opportunity!
I would choose the Becky Miller books b/c I already have the other one
Thanks!
I would choose any of those, they look great! Thank you for much for the giveaway. I would love to win this! nw_wife(at)hotmail(dot)com
I think the Emily Ever After would be me… I love chick litq
I would love to read Emily Ever After
parky695 (at) hotmail (dot) com
Any of the books would be great
I haven’t had a chance to read these books yet. They look great! Thanks for a chance to win them.
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I’d go for the Becky Miller books! I’m in Canada too, so hope that is okay!
Well really I’d like either of the Becky books or the Emily book, I haven’t read either of them.
Would love to win some books!
I would love to read them all but if I have to choose I would have to pick “The Secret Life of Becky Miller”.
If I don’t win I’m going to find them and read them!
What a wonderful giveaway!
Have fun with your giveaway this week. Don’t forget to come and enter my giveaway too!
I love your blog header- That is so how I feel sometimes. I think I would pick a Becky Miller book- They look very entertaining! Thanks for the grerat giveaway!
I would choose the Secret Life of Becky Miller. Thanks!
I would choose the Secret Life of Becky Miller. Thanks!
I would choose the Secret Life of Becky Miller. Thanks!
Both prizes look great, but if I had to choose I would pick Emily Ever After.
egreca [at] hotmail [dot] com
I haven’t read any of these yet so they all look good, especially the Becky Miller ones.
Adena
http://www.friendshipalley.com
Please enter me for the Sharon Hinck novels. They sound GREAT! Thank you!
I’d never heard of BEcky Miller until last week. I’m reading Renovating Becky Miller now but I’d love to be able to read the other two…
Thanks
i am always looking for new authors! i’d love any of the 3 books. would love the two that go together. thegoodmanfam at msn dot com
I would take any of the three books you are offering. I haven’t read any of them.
I’m up for any of these books! I need some new books!
The becky miller books so good
Those look great. I would love either ones. Thanks.
Christy
imasharp@yahoo.com
I am in need of a good book at the moment. One of these would be great. Thanks for the giveaway.
All three books look like great reads! I’d let you pick because I just enjoy any good book. Thanks for the opportunity – I love to read!
The Becky Miller Books look like the kind of fiction I love. Please enter me
I absolutely adored the first Becky Miller book and would love to read the 2nd one! Thanks for the opportunity!
BTW, the name of your blog is just fantastic.
I love christian fiction and would love to read the books and pass them on the my friends to read. Thanks Kathy
Wow, I don’t know which one I’d choose! We are planning a trip to New York, but I am totally the big dreams in a small world kind of woman. You would have to pick for me!
Please count me in for the Becky Miller books. I love Christian fiction, and these sound really good. Thanks!
I’m a bookaholic, and these sound like fun to read, and uplifting to boot!
oh i’d let you pick for me – i read anything and everything, and all three look great!
The Secret Life of Becky Miller looks like a cute book.
hafner611 {AT }gmail {DOT} com
The Becky Miller books – thanks!
I’d like to win any of these books. But if I have to pick only one I would choose Emily Ever After. Thank you for the chance.
i’d love to win these books! thanks for the give~away….
blessings,
missy
I think I would like to win Emily Ever AFter. I am starting to use my reading time as escape time…I’d love to escape with Emily. In my chaotic life, quiet time has to be gripped firmly and squeezed out like toothpaste from an almost empty tube. They would notice, though, if I was reading a book I had won. And I’d feel better about sticking to my guns about my escape time when I was reading about Emily. Thanks for the chance!
The Secret Life of Becky Miller and Renovating Becky Miller–these are the books I’d be interested in. Thanks very much.
Emily Ever After. Sounds wonderful! Thanks! ( meg.wilson@gmail.com )
I think that Emily Ever After sounds great! I’m in!
I have the first two, and LOVED them, but I would be very excited to read Emily Ever After. I love their other works. Thanks!
kpuleski at gmail dot com
Emily Ever After please and thanks.
yourstrulee(at)sasktel(dot)net
Renovating Becky Miller sounds great!
I think I wopuld like renovating Becky Miller
I would love any one of these!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Rejoicing in Him,
Jill
http://tonsofsons.wordpress.com/
I haven’t read any of these so…it wouldn’t matter which one.
Please enter me.
Thanks!
Alicia
I would LOVE any of those! Thanks for the giveaway and chance to win!
I would like a book that you have read and enjoyed
Please enter me to win either of the authors books that you are giving away.
hawkes(at)citlink.net
The Becky Miller books sound wonderful to me.
Theresa N
weceno@yahoo.com
well, hey, i made it with a day to spare – thanks for a great giveaway!!
Oh my goodness I’d probably like the first set, they’re on my list of need to reads.
Missy
These look like really great reads! Thanks for offering them!qedrv