Making Waves, by Tawna Fenske

Okay. I'm back from my vacation, and back to work. I promise to give you all several posts about What I Did, and How Much I Love Seattle, but first I want to do something for a friend.

Do you all know Tawna Fenske? Before I talk about her book, I just want to tell you a bit about her. Tawna was the first published author who read and critiqued a part of my novel. Okay, she wasn't technically published yet, at the time, but she already had a deal in place. I won a critique from her and her CP Cynthia Reese, in a contest on Candace's blog.

Anyway, point is, Tawna and I don't write anywhere near the same genre, style, or anything, but her critique contained some of the best writing advice I'd ever seen, and even more importantly it was incredibly encouraging, and funny as hell. I wasn't too familiar with her before that experience, but I've read her blog every day since.

You should do the same.

You won't regret it, I promise.

Tawna is absolutely hilarious, but she's also honest and very open about this process we call getting published. Mostly her blog will make you laugh, out loud, literally, but there is also a lot to be learned there as well. Please go visit Don't pet me, I'm writing, now, and become a follower.

Now, the reason I'm hyping Tawna today is that her debut Romantic Comedy, Making Waves, was just released. I haven't read it yet, but I intend to, even though I don't read romances, because I know it will be side-splittingly funny. But what's even cooler than that is I'm going to give one of you a copy.

I don't often do contests here, because I'm really lazy, and not organized enough to do them well, but I think this calls for one. I'll buy a copy of this book and ship it to one of you lucky readers. All you have to do is leave a comment. You can tweet, blog or Facebook it if you want, but I'm not giving points for that because I'm too lazy to check that you actually did it. Instead I'll give you points like this: +1 for your comment (only rewarded once), +1 if you become a follower of my blog today, +1 if you become a follower of Tawna's blog today, +2 if you're an old follower of my blog, +2 if you're an old follower of Tawna's blog, and +5 if you already followed both (no, those will not stack). Don't lie, even though I won't be checking.

Tell me how much you earned in your comment, and then I'll just pick who I want to give the book to, and ignore all the points.

Just kidding.

You all know how these things work.

If you don't win, here is where you can find Making Waves for yourself:

Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Powell's
Indiebound

And here is where you can find Tawna, in addition to her blog:

Tawna's Website
On Twitter
Facebook

So that's it. Except if you say something funny, and relevant, in your comment, you might get an extra point. Or not. Good luck!

NOTE: I better limit this to U.S. readers only, I'm not sure what customs would make of a story like this.