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Winners Announced! 

Tainted Love Blog Tour $25 Gift card Giveaway

For the last two weeks of June excerpts from my first novel,Tainted Love: the Faith McKenzie Story, were showcased on a 14 stop blog tour. During this time readers had the opportunity to enter a giveaway for $25 Amazon gift-card.

I'd like to say a big thank to all the bloggers who feature Tainted Love during the tour and a massive thank you to Samantha at CLP Blog Tours for making the tour possible.

All entries were counted up to 6th July and the winners have been selected via random.org

The winners are:

T**** M**** (winners name withheld)

Debbie Jenson

The winners have now been notified. Thank you everyone who  followed the tour, shared and entered, your favourite romance novels have been collated and the results will be posted on Beyond My Writing Space in the next few weeks.

Keep your eye out for the very first Erin Cawood Newsletter  winging its way to you on 1st August 2013. (If you opted out of the newsletter you can opt in here).

What's Your Favourite Romance Novel? Mid Week update

The last 3 days have been exciting! There's over 85 titles which have been voted for so far!

There's still time to enter the giveaway to win one of two $25 Amazon Gift cards. (Click here to be redirected to the entry page and tell me your favorite romance titles.) And don't forget to share this page!




So here are the top titles up until Wednesday 26th: 

1. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
2. Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
3. Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella 
4. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
5. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

And the authors with the most books/votes so far:
(up until Wednesday 26th June)

1. Sophie Kinsella
2. Linda Howard
3. Abbi Glines
4. Jill Mansell
5. Nicholas Sparks

Erin

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CLP Tainted Love Tour - Curling Up With A Good Book

“Happy Birthday, Mommy!” Aww! They looked so cute.

“Can we have pancakes now, Daddy?” Zoe cheered.

Pancakes for breakfast on a school day? Not likely. Cal would fly into a rage if I served them anything more than fruit and cereal for breakfast before school. But he placed two plates with two smiley faced pancakes and syrup in front of the girls, then smiled at me.

“Close your eyes.” He wrapped his hand around my eyes. “No peeking,” he said, shuffling me forward.

The hairs rose on the back of my neck. The last time he put his hand around my eyes he’d surprised me with a candle lit bathroom and a romantic bath for two. There’d been good vibes that night, lots of good vibes… and I missed it when the vibe changed. I hadn’t seen it coming.

Hop on over to Curling Up With A Good Book to find out what happened next.

Erin

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CLP Tainted Love Tour - The Autumn Review

How does Faith handle what Caitlyn saw?

She burst out of nowhere, D. She was screaming at the top of her lungs. “Get off my mommy!” Suddenly she was between us. She was kicking and punching and pushing at John. “Don’t you dare hurt my mommy!”

“Whoa.” John’s hand dropped mine and he stepped back, his jaw slack and his eyes wide as he looked from Cate to me. “What the devil?”

Cate continued her fierce defense, but she was crying, and I knew I’d made a huge mistake. I shouldn’t have lied to her. I shouldn’t have pretended it never happened. I hadn’t protected her from it at all.

Read more at The Autumn Review: TAINTED LOVE by Erin Cawood Excerpt &; Giveaway:

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CLP Tainted Love Excerpt Tour - Excerpt #10

Its Halloween! Come find out how Faith and her family celebrate.

Are you having flashbacks of the lycra cat suit with the homemade ears, whiskers, and the feather boa tail, D? So you should, you made it! I didn’t tell you I’ve bought one this year and Gawd, it’s awful! I felt so self-conscious. Where do I start? It’s strapless, it laces up, it gives certain areas more and others less and it’s not suitable for public consumption! But it’s the only one I could find.

 Read more at DWED

Erin

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CLP Tainted Love Excerpt Tour - Excerpt #9

Evolved World has the next excerpt in the Tainted Love Excerpt Tour

Of course, I didn't sleep. I sat in the window seat watching the moonlight
on the lake, closed my eyes for a bit, let the deep relaxing breaths take me
away somewhere nice and cozy... but he's still there. He's always there.
He's always waiting to wake me up.

Read more as Evolved World

Erin

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What's Your Top Three Romance Novels?

Last week CLP Tours launched the Tainted Love Excerpt Tour, allowing readers to get inside the pages of Tainted Love. As part of the tour I'm hosting a giveaway with the chance to win one of two $25 Amazon gift cards. To enter this giveaway all you have to do is follow this link and tell me your top 3 favourite romance novels. 

After a week, here are your suggestions so far

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella
Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks 

Arranged by Catherine MacKenzie

Spin by Catherine MacKenzie

Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews

Savannah Blue by Mary Kay Andrews

Dream Man By Linda Howard 

MacKenzie's Mountain by Linda Howard

A Walk in the Park by Jill Mansell
Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Callie Khouri
Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
Up in the Air Series by R.K. Lilley
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
To Win His Wayward Wife by Rose Gordon
This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas
Best of Friends by Cathy Kelley
Lighthouse Bay by Kimberely Freeman
A Girl Like Me by Gemma Burgess
Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey
Mile Til Midnight Lisa Kleypas
Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medieros
Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Proof by Seduction by Courtney Milan
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
It Had to be You by Jamie McGuire
Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski
Never Too Far by Abbie Glines
The Help by Kathy Stockett


So far the Top authors are:

1. Sophie Kinsella
2. Jill Mansell
3. Nicholas Sparks
4. Emily Griffin



Erin

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CLP Tainted Love Excerpt Tour - Excerpt #8

We're fast forwarding a few years in the next excerpt

"Did you have fun today, Faith?" He asked as my foot landed at the bottom of the stairs.

My Cal-sense went haywire. I knew that tone of voice. No children present equaled no protection. The hairs stood up on the back of my arms. My eyes flickered around the entrance hall. The house still remained in almost complete darkness. That's when I realized I had no idea where he was. He could have been in any of the four rooms leading away from where I stood. 

Want to know what happened next? Head on over to ai love books to read the rest of the excerpt.


Erin

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CLP Tainted Love Excerpt Tour - Excerpt #7

We left Faith and Cal as they reconciled after months of heartbreak. What happened next...

You know, this was the first and only time we were ever caught by the children. I thought he’d be angrier, or at least as angry as I was embarrassed. I mean, I knew it would happen eventually, but still prayed it never did.
I mean you… you always seemed to have ESP for this kind of behavior. You’d knock before you came in and you didn’t come in our room without permission. But Caleb, he just wandered right in.
“Mom, I’m starving. What’s for dinner?”
We shuffled and I scrambled, but Cal wrapped his arm around my waist and said, “No, you and me are staying right here.” He placed a kiss on my lips. “Tell Georgia to order takeout, there’s money in my wallet.”

Read the rest of the excerpt at Karma For Life

 

Erin

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The Book Bag: On Tour: Tainted Love by Erin Cawood, an Excerpt a...

The Book Bag: On Tour: Tainted Love by Erin Cawood, an Excerpt a...: For anyone in a relationship, the words 'we need to talk' can only mean one thing. In the last twenty-two years, the McKenzies ...

"You know…” I tried to keep things light between us. I always tried to keep things light between us, because the alternative was just too hard to bear. “You really shouldn't sneak up on a woman who's holding a paring knife."

A feather light touch hovered at my waist. I thought I’d imagined it, but every nerve went into overdrive. I was hyperaware of just how close he was to me. Then his hand fully slipped around my waist and pulled me against him. My heart skipped. His lips nuzzled into the side of my neck and the rest of me flew skywards. I swear I never thought this day would ever come. And then a dozen roses, white roses, appeared in front of me.

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Tainted Love Excerpt Tour - A Blue Million Books - Excerpt #5

Today there's two chances for you to get inside the pages of Tainted Love,

Then all I heard was screaming. My heart stopped. I flew out the door. Everyone was running in one direction. But not me. I froze at the porch. My eyes scanned the street. Where were you? I was looking for the most important three kids. No, two, because Caleb wasn’t there.

So far, I could only see Georgia. I saw the tears were pouring from her eyes. My heart dropped into my stomach. The fear, it lodged in my throat like a ball. “Darryl!”

I shot to the edge of the garden. The street was a war zone of twisted metal and tilting poles. Streets lights were held up by cables and solider like old oak trees.

“Someone call 911!” I yelled and pushed my way through the crowd. I dreaded what I’d find there. Some combination of you mangled with a car.

Get yourself on over to the A Blue Million Books to read the rest of this excerpt.



Erin

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Tainted Love Excerpt Tour and Giveaway - Regina May Ross - Excerpt #4

Here's another chance for you to get inside Faith and Cal's marriage. 

 Cal was as white as one of the sheets of paper still floating in the air. He was probably more stunned than I was. I couldn’t quite fathom what had just happened. He turned. I stepped. But how did his hand end up on my face? This just wasn’t possible. He just wouldn’t do that!

"Oh, God." The words gushed out on the air he breathed. No voice attached to them. "Faith, I'm sorry." Tears filled his eyes. "Faith, please...” He stepped forward, his hands hesitant as he reached for me. “Say something."

Check out the full except and giveaway at Regina May Ross

Erin

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Tainted Love Excerpt Tour and Giveaway - Ditzy Delusions - Excerpt #3

I visited Ditzy delusions on today to be greeted by a fabulous review of Tainted Love. 

Erin Cawood does not merely dip a toe into this subject matter, she dives all the way in to be engulfed by the magnitude of that which she is discussing. A well written novel with strong characters. Strong imagery resonates throughout and her words are left behind long after your reading is complete.

Find out what else Ditzy Delusions had to say about Tainted Love and read an excerpt from the novel. 

Erin

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Tainted Love Excerpt Tour and Giveaway - Chick Lit Chit Chat - Excerpt #2

Everything — the clothes, the feeling unwanted and unloved on Valentine’s Day, the fake labor pains, the just not wanting to be pregnant anymore — came out in three very angry, very loud words.

“I’m not Emma!”

I don’t think I ever raised my voice at Cal like that before. He looked stunned for a moment. Then his eyes darkened and his lips made a thin line, and he said, “No. No, you’re not. Emma would never have me racing to the hospital at four o clock in the morning with phantom labor pains!” I gasped at the venom in his voice. “One time, Faith? Fair enough. But two? Both times? I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life.” He walked out.

Get further inside the pages of Tainted Love over at Chick Lit Chit Chat



Erin

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Tainted Love Excerpt Tour & Giveaway - EveryFreeChance, except #1

Over dinner, Cal announced he was leaving the hospital to join Dad’s private practice, and I thought I knew what that meant…
Happy ever after… right?
That night, we walked along the beach to his favorite spot. As we sat with the waves lapping against the shore and the gulls picking at the remains of the outgoing tide, we talked. About the hospital, about Dad’s practice, about the future, about the fact Cal hadn’t contemplated even having a future for a long time.
“Faith…” His whisper carried on the early spring breeze.
We weren’t touching, but I felt a chill as he pulled away. He blocked off the tiny window I’d found into his soul. You see, men weren’t as touchy-feely twenty-odd years ago, so this small amount of emotional real estate carried a lot of value, and had an even higher price to lose.
“I’m falling in love with you,” he admitted.

Want to read some more ....?

Go on over to Every Free Chance to read the full excerpt and enter the giveaway.
 

Erin

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