Today is one of the most important day for Janeites and Austenite lovers. It is the birth date of our revered and most loved author who gave us many hours of enjoyment of reading her six completed novels, an epistolary novella, two unfinished manuscripts, numerous short stories and hundreds of personal correspondence with family and friends. So how will you be marking this joyous occasion? It certainly calls for a celebration with prizes to be given away in the listed blogs below.
Firstly Meredith Esparza has organised a giveaway on her blog, Austenesque Reviews. She is offering three Austen-related gifts to her readers who leave a comment on her post sharing your plans for Jane Austen on her birthday. You can choose to receive a Jane Austen action figure, a paperback edition of Nancy Moser's Just Jane or The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James. It is open internationally and closes next Monday, 22 December 2014.
Sophia Rose of Delighted Reader has invited author Mary Lydon Simonsen to talk about Jane Austen's enduring legacy. There is an e-book of Another Place in Time and Dying to Write to be won for worldwide readers so leave a comment on her guest post mentioning which place you would go if you could time travel and the book preference. The deadline for this giveaway is also on next Monday, 22 December 2014.
Head over to Austenprose where Laurel Ann Nattress has listed 75 excellent quotes from Jane Austen's novels and letters. Besides this she has generously offered a Barnes & Noble Collectors Edition of Jane Austen: Seven Novels. Just comment on her post sharing your favourite Jane Austen quote by 11.59 on next Wednesday, 24 December 2014. Take note that this giveaway is open to US residents only.
Quirk Books is hosting a grand giveaway for three of their published Austen-inspired books on their blog. The prize pack include Margaret C. Sullivan's Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Covers and The Jane Austen Handbook, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. There will be three winners chosen so fill up the Rafflecopter form on this post to enter the competition which ends on Sunday, 21 December 2014.
Thank you for sharing your gift of writing to us, dear Jane. I wish you a very happy birthday.
Firstly Meredith Esparza has organised a giveaway on her blog, Austenesque Reviews. She is offering three Austen-related gifts to her readers who leave a comment on her post sharing your plans for Jane Austen on her birthday. You can choose to receive a Jane Austen action figure, a paperback edition of Nancy Moser's Just Jane or The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James. It is open internationally and closes next Monday, 22 December 2014.
Sophia Rose of Delighted Reader has invited author Mary Lydon Simonsen to talk about Jane Austen's enduring legacy. There is an e-book of Another Place in Time and Dying to Write to be won for worldwide readers so leave a comment on her guest post mentioning which place you would go if you could time travel and the book preference. The deadline for this giveaway is also on next Monday, 22 December 2014.
Quirk Books is hosting a grand giveaway for three of their published Austen-inspired books on their blog. The prize pack include Margaret C. Sullivan's Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Covers and The Jane Austen Handbook, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. There will be three winners chosen so fill up the Rafflecopter form on this post to enter the competition which ends on Sunday, 21 December 2014.
Thank you for sharing your gift of writing to us, dear Jane. I wish you a very happy birthday.
Yay! Thanks for posting our event, Luthien!
ReplyDeleteIt has been fun with all the visitors. I'll have to go check out the others.