***Update: we have selected our winner (using www.random.org) and commenter #124, Danielle Resnick, is the lucky recipient of both novels, the chocolate, and a lovely homemade card. Danielle has been contacted via e-mail and as soon as she responds with her address, will have her prize shipped. Thanks for participating, everyone!
Today we are excited to participate in a blog carnival with several of the ladies from Proverbs 31 Ministries. Here’s how it works: we’re all giving stuff away and if you see something you want, just click the link to enter. Easy. Fun. And free! What could be better than that?
This week we’re celebrating love. Love of books. Love of writing. And the love that brought author’s Chris Coppernoll and Christa Parrish together in a story fit for a novel. We’ve been visiting with them all week and you MUST read the Valentines Day Post on how they met and fell in love. These gifted and wonderful writers are giving away copies of their new novels, Screen Play and Watch Over Me, chocolate, and a homemade card. Simply leave a comment on this post to enter.
Sometimes the person farthest away from you is the one closest to your heart . . .
At thirty, Harper fears her chances for a thriving career and tru love are both fading fast. But when Harper is offered an unexpected role in a Broadway play – as understudy to New York’s biggest diva-she wonders if everything is about to change.
Hoping to find love in NYC, Harper reluctantly signs up for an online dating site-but the only match Harper is even remotely interested in lives thousands of miles away. An actress who doesn’t act, searching for love with someone she’s never seen, Harper longs for God to show her He’s still listening.
Through the contemporary text-message world of Internet dating, Harper learns it’s possible to care for someone outside her own universe. And as she reaches out through the impersonal world of cyberspace, she becomes more aware than ever of god reaching out to her . . .
Her rescue might be the miracle they needed…
Things like this don’t happen in Beck County.
Deputy Benjamin Patil is the one to find the infant girl, hours old, abandoned in a field.
As police work to identify the mother, Ben and his wife, Abbi, seem like the obvious couple to serve as foster parents. But the newborn’s arrival opens old wounds for Abbi and shines a harsh light on how much Ben has changed since a devastating military tour.
Their marriage teeters on the brink, and now they must choose to reclaim what they once had or loose each other forever.
Blog Carnival Giveaways
Wendy Blight is giving away a copy of the One Year Chronological Bible and her book Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner: The Transforming Power of God’s Story.
Shari Braendel is givng away 3 beautiful jewelry pieces to begin a spring wardrobe with! One for a Glamor Girl, one for a Movie Star and one for a Rock Star!
Micca Campbell is giving away her book An Untroubled Heart, and a cute clutch purse for those fun summer evenings!
Whitney Capps is giving away a $30 Francesca’s Gift card, redeemable at www.francescascollections.com
Melanie Chitwood is giving away one marriage conference call (see her blog for details) and her new book What a Wife Needs from Her Husband.
Lynn Cowell is giving away a prize for mom and a prize for a teen girl in her life – the 3 book series B.A.B.E. series by
Andrea Stephens (Beautiful, Accepted, Blessed, Eternally Significant) for the teen and for Mom a $10 gift card to Starbucks along with Lynn’s CD Building a Bridge to Your Child’s Heart.
Karen Ehman is giving away a Winter White Basket that includes Skin Milk body wash, a white loofah, Winter White Citrus Bath & Body Works products, white lily linen and room sprays, white hot cocoa, a white mug and white-chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Along with it, a copy of her book on celebrations entitled Homespun Memories for the Heart: More Than 200 Ideas to Make Unforgettable Moments.
Suzie Eller is giving away a webcam!
Zoe Elmore is giving away a journal, a copy of My Heart’s Cry by Anne Graham Lotz and a piece of jewelry Zoe style!
Charlene Kidd is giving away a $20.00 Starbucks Gift Card and a copy of Karen Ehman’s book: A Life That Says Welcome, Simple Ways to Open Your Heart and Home to Others.
Tracie Miles is giving away her CD Overcoming Stress with Extraordinary Faith and a Soulmates Slipper with Christian Notepad and Pen.
Rachel Olsen is giving away Bread for Life, a hardback copy of The Daily Message, Through the Bible in One Year by Eugene Peterson (which you can read this along with her this year) and the Williams-Sonoma Muffins Cookbook.
Wendy Pope is giving away a copy of her book Out of the Mouths of Babes and her CD Yes, No, and Maybe of a Balanced Life.
Luann Prater and Encouragement Cafe are giving away an Encouragement Cafe mug and t-shirt at both sites!
LeAnn Rice is giving away a copy of her cookbook Sharing Grace: Recipes- Family Traditions-Gift ideas and a Starbucks gift card.
Susanne Scheppmann is giving away her Birds in My Mustard Tree Bible Study with an I-tunes gift card.
Renee Swope is giving away Lysa TerKeurst’s Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl 6 week DVD set and a copy of Renee’s message Living Beyond the Shadow of Doubt on DVD.
Lysa TerKeurst is giving away a Mom’s Book Club gift pack including 4 copies of Lysa’s book, Am I Messing Up My Kids? and a 30-minute Q&A conference call with Lysa.
Van Walton is giving away her DVD for children – From the Pound to the Palace.
Glynnis Whitwer is giving away her book Work @ Home: A Practical Guide for Woman Who Want to Work from Home and a French Country Wire Silverware Basket.
RadRevolution Our ministry to teen girls is giving away a copy of Do the Hard Thing along with a RadRev t-shirt!
Good luck, have fun, and let us know if you win!
Thanks for the contest. I love to read and really enjoy contests where books are the prize!
Thank you for taking the time to share background information on Chris and Christa. I am happy to be in the drawing for the book give-away.
Thankful,
Maria in CT
I love to read! What a great idea with the give-a-ways! Thank you
I love She Reads! Thanks for the opportunity to win some great books!
I’d love to win this contest, thank you for offering it! I love to read, new books are always welcome!
How fun and free books are always great!
As you both know I have enjoyed all your books-
BUT could you write more faster!!!!
I would love the opportunity to win these books! I am an avid reader and would make lovely additions to my home.
Love and Hugs ~ Kat
I would love to read either one of those books! Thanks for the opportunity to win!!
These two books sound awesome!! Thanks for the opportunity.
edwina.cowgill@yahoo.com
I love love love to read. I am an English major and love to study literature and dive into a new book. Reading is an escape and books are like little treasure boxes just waiting to be opened. Once I read them they are stored safely on a shelf until I am ready to relieve their adventure, or give it away to a friend who needs encouragement through the crisp pages of a world I once fell in love with.
I have been looking for some great Christian Fiction reads and just happened upon this site today. She Reads just became an instant favorite, book marked for future browsing 
Thanks for the contest, this is too fun!!!
These books look fabulous! I just added them to my must read list
I’d love to win.
I so enjoy reading. Would love to read these books.
I read the beautiful love story about Chris & Christa. It is so neat how God brings people together. I look forward to reading their newest books. What the ” Proverbs 31″ ladies are giving away is awesome. I’m always open to receiving free gifts and books.
God Bless each of you.
Rita Newlin
Thank you for introducing me to these great authors! Can’t wait to read their collections!
These books sound amazing! My marriage has just ended. We had been separated for 3 years and I was praying for a miracle and that our marriage could be restored. We were just divorced this month. I believe God has a new beginning for me. I am trying to press into Him and allow Him to guide and direct my path. I believe that once I draw closer to Him, He will open up the door He has ready for me. I do truely believe that could be restoration with my husband and if not, I will praise Him anyway!
Both books sound great! Free is better!
As someone who has also found their mate, sent by God, through a Christian on-line dating service, I can certainly relate to your story! We met almost 5 years ago and have been very happily married almost 4 years now. God bless both of you.
Two great books and chocolate to boot – - sounds like a great afternoon!!
Both of these books sound fun and interesting. Count me in!!
Two great books plus chocolate? Sounds wonderful to me!!
Thanks!
I would love to win and read these 2 books! And of course the chocolate would just sweeten the deal!
I’m in! I would love to read these books!
I would love to have these books. They sound amazing!!!!
Ah – I love to read and these books sound sooo good!
The books sound awesome!
Would love to win….Gail:)
I love to read and celebrate love stories. Would love to win these books and read them, then pass them along to a few girl friends.
What a fun giveaway!
neweverymorning AT yahoo DOT com
Would love to win some FREE books!
Nicole
Love the fun of this carnival today!!! Thanks! Free books are always great!
Can’t wait to read these!!! Thanks for joining the carnival!!!! This has been a blast.
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE to read….what a great prize pack!
emma
emmastormy08@gmail.com
Such fun giveaways! Who doesn’t like a freebie?
I love giveaways….especially for books! These look amazing! I can’t wait to get my hands on them!
Love that P31 has gotten into the fiction world and is leading “She Reads.” These books sound great!
These books both look really good, but the authors love story was even better! That was so sweet and obviously from God. Only He could have brought two people together who live across the country from each other and weren’t looking for love. I’m so glad their story ended so wonderfully and I only hope that one day my love story can be anywhere close to that sweet
How fun! I need to win these books – I’m totally addicted to fiction! I already read their love story & cried!
I’ve never read anything by either author, but their books sound great. I’d love the chance to check them out! (Chocolate is always good, too.)
I can’t tell you how much I need chocolate right now! What a great combo of gifts. Thank you for the chance !
I love to read and write. Winning these books would be so much fun. Thanks for the opportunity.
This giveaway is fantastic! Who doesn’t love a good read! Thank you!
Thanks for the opportunity – this is the best Mardi Gras ever!
Wow! What an amazing story of how God brought you two together. I can not wait to read your awesome books that sound wonderful.
I loved reading their story, and I’d love to read their books!
These sound like great books to read.
I love to read and am always looking for new authors. new to me anyway!
Please enter me.
I’ve never heard of these authors but I’m always looking for a good story to read. Their story sounds like a great one.
i love to read!! please enter me. thanks!
I could use a good read!!