I am excited to be taking part in Mother’s Day contest Jennie Nash is hosting in conjunction with the release of her latest novel, The Threadbare Heart. I thought this was such a fun contest and I’m glad I was able to participate. Here are the details from Jennie Nash herself:
The Threadbare Heart is a story about a mother and a daughter torn apart by grief, jealousy and misunderstanding — and the family heirloom that finally brings them together. To celebrate its publication, and in honor of Mother’s Day, I’m running a ?Favorite Fictional Mother & Daughter? contest with the fantastic bloggers listed in the box to the right. We want to know which fictional mother-daughter pair made you laugh? Made you cry? Made you cringe? Which pair revealed something true about your own mother-daughter relationships? (And yes, mothers and daughters in film are eligible. Fiction is fiction, right?)
Please note that I am one of many blogs participating in this contest and I would love to have all of my readers enter my contest – but you can only enter on one blog.
How to Enter:
Send me an email at literatehousewife (at) gmail (dot) com and in 250 words tell me your favorite fictional mother-daughter pair and explain why. Send your email to me by Saturday, May 8th at 12pm EST to be entered. If you happen to write about my favorite fictional mother-daughter team, you will win a special prize directly from me. I will be copying and pasting all entries into a document without identifying information and reading from there. Per Jennie’s rules, I’ll be selecting the entry I like the best. The winner I select as well as the winners from the other blogs receive a signed copy of The Threadbare Heart and will be entered in the Grand Prize Giveaway.
On Mother’s Day, I will be a) reviewing The Threadbare Heart and b) announcing my favorite fictional mother-daughter combo, c) announcing anyone who selected my favorite combo, and d) posting the winning entry for my blog.
Jennie will choose a Grand Prize winner on May 16 from all the winning blog entries. From Jennie: “How will I pick? Whichever entry just hits me as being heartfelt and true. The Grand Prize will be announced on the participating blogs, on my website and on Twitter.” [Speaking of Jennie's website, here is a link. You can read the first chapter of The Threadbare Heart while you're there. Jennie's Twitter account is @jennienash.]
What does the Grand Prize winner receive? Here is Jennie’s description:
The Grand Prize winner will receive a ?Book Club in a Box — ten signed copies of The Threadbare Heart, a call-in from the author, and a delicious rum cake to share with your book-reading friends. (Why rum cake? You’ll have to read the book to understand! I’ve picked out a cake by a baker named Kelli because she started selling rum cakes when she lost her baking buddy to cancer and I loved her story – and I happen to think that good stories are a big part of a good life.)
I look forward to reading your entries. Good luck to everyone who enters on every blog. I think this is going to be a lot of fun.
What a conundrum! First I have to think of a mother/daughter relationship in a book. I did (in the middle of church) but it is non-fiction. Can I do this, or does it HAVE to be fiction? Then I have to pick between the 10 blogger friends who are sponsoring this contest. Ugh! How to decide?