Guestpost and Giveaway with Author Julia Rachel Barrett
I very proud to have Julia Rachel Barrett here today. She is a multi-published author and one of my great discoveries of my blogging year. I love her books and so it is my pleasure to haver her here today. You can check out my review of her last book The Beauty and the Feast here. And because Julia is made of awesome we have a huge wonderful giveaway for you at the end of the post.
Please give her a warm welcome.
Happy Birthday Susi Sunshine!
To quote the Machiavellian character, Yabu, from James Clavell’s masterpiece, Shogun, “The pen is a long arm from the grave.” I agree with him, no question about it. The written word reaches out to future generations. One generation imparts its essence to the next, not only in cultural mores and technological advancements, but in its literature, maybe most especially in its literature and art, even in the case of romance writers and romantic poets. Think of the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and George Elliott, Louisa May Alcott and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A few hundred years after stories like Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein and Little Women were recorded, we still read and discuss them.
We can go back even further to the tragic story of Tristan and Isolde, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote, and the Arthurian romances written by Chretian de Troyes, a French troubadour. These are love stories, hero stories – the authors utilize the exact same themes romance writers use today – a roadblock thrown in the way of a relationship, a challenge that must be overcome in order to achieve the ultimate goal. What is the ultimate goal? What else? For the purposes of romance, the ultimate goal is true love. I’m a big fan of true love.
So keep dreaming, keep reading, keep enjoying our stories!
~*~*~Giveaway~*~*~
Julia offers 3 books for 3 winners:
All you have to do is leave a comment on this post
Open to everyone who own's a email addy.
Giveaway is open till Sunday May 30th and I will announce the winner on Monday.
Good Luck!
30 comments:
These are Hot covers, I'm intrigued! tWarner419@aol.com
Happy birthday, Susi! Thanks for inviting me.
God. You make even smart people look dumb.
I wanna be Julia when I grow up. Especially if it means I get to have her husband.
Plus... *grin* You quoted Shogun. LOL!! I love that about you... all your randomly diverse interests swimming around in the pool of your consciousness, stirred by the wooden spoon of ironic humor.
Thanks Julia!
Mia, I agree that what I thought after reading Julia's post too. She is just awesome.
Yes, please enter me :)
lisa.2713 at gmail dot com
Mia said it all! You amaze me.
I loved Tristan and Isolde.
My only grumble with some of the classics like Tristan and Isolde is the unhappy ending--I want my HEA! But you're right in that love and romance is a timeless part of the human experience!
Being told I'm right is like being on crack! Um, I'm told. Coz I'd have no way of actually knowing that. *whistling*
Just say no, folks.
Also, Susi, she's freakishly astounding. She actually talks that way too.
@Lisa: Soooo many ways to interpret that. heh heh heh
What a great guest post! True love...*sigh*
@Mia Ahhhhh So i'm not alone with a dirty mind! I giggle any time someone write that...but yeah dirty-minded I've been told. LOL
OMFG! Do I talk like that?!? I spared Susi the truck driver speak! I suffer from a severe case of potty mouth! However, I also come from a long line of scholars and my dad taught me to read at 18 months of age - Black Beauty - I kid you not. (I love that book and it breaks my heart every single time I look at the cover because I still have the one from my childhood!) I got teased to the 'enth degree because my nose was/is always buried in a book.
So thanks all, and since I have no ego, your words will not go to it!
Mia - my hubby is cute, huh! I love him so!
Hey Julia,
I loved reading Captured...totally captivating. Can't wait to get my copies of My Everything and Beauty and the Feast.
Thanks for the great interview.
*hugs*
Anna
s7anna@yahoo.ca
What a great post! Trystan and Isolde is one of my fav's to be sure.
Thank you Julia for such a generous giveaway.
And, Susi, once again, happy geeky anniversary, thank you for hosting so many contests. ;)
Happy birthday!!
Please sign me up. Keeping my fingers crossed!
lucybeugelingramos@gmail.com
LOL you girls are wonderful.
We sure have to find an ego for Julia. She deserves one.
Thanks for letting me post here, Susi! Hey, how was Sex and the City, Two? Yummy?
great post.
those covers are hot :)
plesae count me in for the giveaway
elaing8(at)netscape(dot)net
Please count me in. Those books look yummy.
marlenebreakfield(at)yahoo(dot)com
The evening was nice the movie was okay. It was kind of VIP preview with champagne and canapés. So we ate and drank before the film started.
I don't know what I expected but it was than the movie gave me. It was really funny- perhaps next I should go with my bestie again, she at least knows the series, not like my Mom in-Law who had her first Sex & the City contact yday.
I think I expected more smut too...
All in all a nice evening.
Oh, Susi you must feel touched reading all the beautiful things Julia wrote about you :-)
Great guest post, I didn't know that quote, but it is so true! I find it amazing that something that was created hundreds of years ago is not only still present today but lots of people are still passionate about them (isn't Jane Eyre and the novels of Jane Austen, the playes of Shakespeare just to name a few, are some of the most popular books still sold today).
Thank you Julia for the great giveaway too! :-)
Please count me in.
stella.exlibris (at) gmail (dot) com
These sound so good. Love the covers.
Sue B
katsrus(at)gmail(dot)com
I'm glad you had fun at Sex and the City - I get your disappointment. My issue with the movies is that sometimes it seems to be all about the clothes.
Thanks, all of you, for your lovely responses!
Happy Blogoversary Susi!
Julia - They all look like great stories.
ainfinger@comcast.net
@Julia I think some side stories were ignored the whole time and at the end it was like here 20 seconds to solve that problem. And yes, some of those clothes are hilarious to say it nice.
I read an excerpt of Captured and it sounded intriguing. I'd love to try these books. Thanks for the giveaway.
jen at delux dot com
My heaven, if those books are as hot as their covers...WOW! Thanks for the giveaway.
Hi Susi, happy birthday.
Julia, can't believe I haven't read any of your stories yet, so thanks for the chance to win one.
am a follower
caity_mack(at)yahoo(d0t)com
count me in, Those covers are hot!
shundelt@yahoo.com
Oh I love Julia's work, I'd love to win a book!
christina101092@yahoo.com
I too am a huge fan of Julia's! I love to win a book, a signed one even better!!! hint, hint, :)
Thanks for the awesome contest!!
chirth7@yahoo.com
Thanks for your wonderful comments!
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