Goodreads Giveaway!

During the month of February, I'll be doing a series of Goodreads giveaways for both my middle grade novels, The Rabbit Ate My Homework, and The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops! The first giveaway is up and running.

Click below to enter to win!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops

by Rachel Elizabeth Cole

Giveaway ends February 05, 2016.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

Rafflecopter Giveaway Winners!

Congratulations to the winners of my Rafflecopter giveaway!

Up for grabs was one paperback copy of The Rabbit Ate My Homework and five ebook copies of The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops.

Congratulations Carol L, you are the lucky winner of the paperback copy of The Rabbit Ate My Homework!

Heather B., Connie S., Theresa C., Jo A., and Sandra G., you are winners of the five ebook copies of The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops! Congratulations!

Due to technical difficulties, I've ended up with some extra winners. So congratulations to Hope C. and Brandi D.! You are also winners of ebook copies of The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops!

I will be emailing the winners today!

Congratulations! And a big thank you to everyone who entered!

Hoppy reading!

Kidtastic Back-to-School Giveaway!



Continuing with The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops new-release celebrations this week, I'm also participating in the Kidtastic Back-to-School Giveaway. Over thirty fantastic and fun free and $0.99 kids' books are available from September 11 - 15, 2015! Follow this link to see the entire list:

 

Kidtastic Back-to-School Giveaway

 

Back to School Blog Tour

This week, in preparation for the launch of my second book in The Rabbit Ate My . . . Series, The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops (September 16th! Mark your calendars!), I'm participating in the Back to School Blog Tour. Check the host site for featured author interviews and links to participating author blogs with behind the scenes posts, back to school memories, and more. Plus your chance to win books and prizes!

Participating authors:

Marilyn Peake Monday Sept. 7
Rachel Elizabeth Cole Tuesday Sept. 8
Sean McCartney Wednesday Sept. 9
Lee Winters Thursday Sept. 10

How to Cook Up a Disaster Audiobook Giveaway!

May is International Chick Lit Month. So to celebrate, I'm giving away 5 audiobook copies of How to Cook Up a Disaster, DIY Dating Book One!

Sadie Dawson's mother goes into labor hours before her great-grandfather's 100th birthday party and Mom refuses to cancel the festivities. Now it's up to domestically-challenged Sadie to host the dinner party--only she hasn't a clue how to cook a turkey.

This could be the mother of all culinary disasters, but with the help of her two best friends, Sadie is determined to pull off the best dinner party in a hundred years. And maybe land Mr. Right, too.

Mary Jane Wells' effortless narration adds just the right dash of spice to this breezy chick lit romantic comedy. You might just have seen her in the films Elena Undone and Meth Head, or as Josie Marks in the HBO series The Newsroom, or caught her work on the Downton Abbey audiobooks.

The DIY Dating Series:
Book One: How to Cook Up a Disaster
Book Two: How to Knit a Tangled Mess
Book Three: How to Wallpaper a Catastrophe (coming 2015)

Enter to win!

YA Spring Fling Blog Hop Author Interview

 

The YA Spring Fling giveaway runs from March 20^th to April 3^rd and gives readers the opportunity to win ebooks, paperbacks, audiobooks and swag from some of the most awesome YA writers around.

To be in with a chance of winning head over to Sarah Dalton Books after the giveaway opens.

 

Over 70 authors are participating, with over 100 books up for grabs. From contemporary romance to ghostly gothic, all kinds of YA books are covered. Find new authors to follow or grab a free book from your favourites. One thing is for certain, this spring is going to be epic for YA books!

The Rabbit Ate My Flip-Flops Sneak Peek!

I'm very excited to share the first chapter of Book Two of the Rabbit Ate My Series (coming in 2015)!

Chapter One

Time to Go

 

I stare at my computer screen and sigh. On the screen, a picture of a super-cool looking space station hovers in front of a swirling alien planet and a vast starry background. Above it, in large glowing green letters it reads, "Galaxy Guilds: Connect. Construct. Conquer." Beneath it, a countdown timer ticks down the minutes. 20:42:16. Less than a day until the coolest game of the year--the game my best friend Quentin and I have been waiting ages to play--finally releases, and am I going to be around to play it? Nope.

 

I'm going to be stuck in a camper with my annoying little sister, Libby, and my grandparents in a campground in the middle of nowhere. Why? Because Mom has to go to a conference in Hawaii for her job at the insurance company and Dad is going, too. So that means nobody will be here to take care of me and Libby. And since Nana and Papa are going camping this week, they thought we should come with them. Oh, and did I mention this camping trip is an annual thing Nana and Papa do every year with a bunch of other old people they've known since Dad was a kid?

 

I sigh again.

 

Just then a Skype message chirps. It's Quentin.

Goodreads Book Giveaway for The Rabbit Ate My Homework!

Win a signed copy of The Rabbit Ate My Homework! 5 copies are up for grabs on Goodreads!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Rabbit Ate My Homework

by Rachel Elizabeth Cole

Giveaway ends October 21, 2014.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Last Chance to Win!

Thanks to everyone who participated in my Launch Day Contest #3 on Twitter!

The winner is: Louise Cole! (No relation. If she is, it's prior to 1570!) Congratulations, Louise! You've won a free copy of How to Cook Up a Disaster!

Unfortunately, we did not get to 75 Likes on my Facebook page, so I won't be giving away the $25 gift card. BUT I will be doing another draw later tonight for one last chance to win a free copy of How to Cook Up a Disaster. Just Like my Facebook author page! If you missed out before, now's your chance!

 

How to Cook Up a Disaster

Her mother is in labour.
The guests are due to arrive any minute for her great-grandfather's 100th birthday party.
And she hasn't a clue how to cook a turkey.
Why did the man of her dreams have to show up on her doorstep now?
Sadie Dawson is overwhelmed--and that's putting it lightly--but with the help of her two best friends she just might pull it off and land Mr. Right too.

Launch Day Contest #3!

With all these contests and giveaways, I probably should've called this Launch Week!


So, up for grabs is yet another copy of How to Cook Up a Disaster! If you missed out on the other contests, now's your chance!

All you have to do is Follow me on Twitter (if you aren't already) and retweet this line to be entered into the draw:

RT to #win a #Kindle #ebook! @rachel_e_cole http://amzn.to/SAwOIv 1 turkey dinner 1 wacky family 1 hottie fireman What could go wrong?

Also, the $25 Amazon gift card is still up for grabs if I get to 75 Likes on my Facebook Page by Friday! You know you Like me!

 

Happy tweeting!

And the winner is...

Thank you everyone who participated in my Launch Day Contest #2, yesterday. I have to say, those were quite the dinner disaster stories.

 

Now I bet you're all eager to know who the winner is. Well, you'll be happy to know, there will be TWO winners for this contest! One for best dinner disaster story. And one from the draw. See, when I set up this contest yesterday, I was planning to pick a winner simply by doing a draw (like I did for my Facebook contest), but after reading some of these fabulously disastrous dinner stories, I decided I simply had to award a prize for worst dinner disaster story, too!

So without further ado, the winner of the draw is . . . *shakes hat full of names*

Liz Penney!

And now the winner of the best worst dinner disaster story is . . .

H. Pinski!

Congratulations! You've both won a free copy of How to Cook Up a Disaster! Step right up and claim your prize! (Okay, email me and I'll send it to you! ;) )

Thanks everyone for participating in my fun Launch Day Contests! Watch this blog (and my Twitter feed and Facebook Page) for details on another contest coming up tomorrow!

Launch Day Contest #2!

If you missed out on the Facebook giveway yesterday, you're still in luck! I'm doing another giveaway today right here through my blog. Tell me about the worst dinner disaster you've ever had in the comments below and you could win a free copy of How to Cook Up a Disaster! (Deadline: tonight at 11:59 pm Pacific Time)

Also, the $25 Amazon gift card is still up for grabs! If I get 75 likes to my Facebook page by Friday, one of my lucky Facebook fans will win it!

My dinner disasters have fortunately been fairly minor, but here are a couple almost-disasters I've had:

I was making roast beef dinner and discovered the potatoes in the pantry had grown roots and gone mouldy and were completely inedible. I didn't have a car at that time, so couldn't run to the store to buy more, so I ended up asking our guests to bring some with them! Another time I dumped an entire bowl of stuffing onto the floor while trying to stuff the turkey. This time I did have a car and was able to run out to the store and buy more bread crumbs. Still, dinner was more than a little late that night.

Like I said, pretty minor. I got nothing on poor Sadie. ;)

Launch Day Contest!

Tomorrow, October 2nd, is launch day for How to Cook Up a Disaster!

And to celebrate, I'm holding a contest!

Up for grabs is a free copy of How to Cook Up a Disaster! BUT only if I get 50 likes for my Facebook fan page. That's only ONE more likes and one of my lucky readers can win a free copy of my new chick-lit/romantic comedy novelette! BUT WAIT! There's more! If I get 75 likes, I'll be giving away a $25 Amazon gift card! So tell your friends, tell your family, tell everyone to like my page and get a chance to win a free book or a free gift card!

Trindie Books

Trindie Books has featured The Perfect Ring: http://trindiebooks.com/perfect-ring-short-story/

Free ebooks until August 31st!

I'm making three of my short stories FREE on Kobo until August 31st! Click the covers to download your FREE copy!

 

 

And watch for more titles coming to Kobo September 1st!

 

I'm a featured author at Freebooksy!

Caring For Lily is being featured along with three other short stories on Freebooksy today!

4th of July Hangover (Free Ebook Event Extension)

The highly successful 4th of July Literary and Thriller Fireworks Free Ebook Event will now extend through July 5, 2012. Five of the literary fiction and thriller authors have announced they will continue to offer their ebooks free for a third day.

The authors, who are all members of the Backspace online writers organization (www.bksp.org) include Rachel Elizabeth Cole, Loretta Giacoletto, Mary Beth Daniels, Daniel A. Smith and Nora Carroll.

The ebooks included in the free promotion are:
• Fallen Leaves by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
• Chicago's Headmistress by Loretta Giacoletto
• Heteroflexibility: A Romantic Comedy by Mary Beth Daniels
• Listen to the Rain by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
• Storykeeper by Daniel A. Smith
• Hemingway Point by Nora Carroll

Free Ebooks!

Today nine literary fiction and thriller authors announced that they will be offering their ebooks free on Amazon.com (http://amzn.com/lm/R2WOWYEBBT2Q8E) during a two-day promotion. The two-day free ebook promotion named 4th of July Literary and Thriller Fireworks will take place on July 3, and July 4, 2012.

In the spirit of writers helping writers and as such making ebooks more easily accessible to readers, the authors who are all members of Backspace (http://www.bksp.org), an online writers organization, include Karen Dionne, Eileen Cruz Coleman, J.H. Bográn, Danielle Younge-Ullman, Rachel Elizabeth Cole, Loretta Giacoletto, Mary Beth Daniels, Daniel A. Smith and Nora Carroll.

The ebooks included in the free promotion are:

Sweetwater American by Eileen Cruz Coleman
Freezing Point by Karen Dionne
Falling Under by Danielle Younge-Ullman*
Assassin's Mistress, a short story by J.H. Bográn
Fallen Leaves by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
Chicago's Headmistress by Loretta Giacoletto
Heteroflexibility: A Romantic Comedy by Mary Beth Daniels
Listen to the Rain by Rachel Elizabeth Cole
Storykeeper by Daniel A. Smith
Hemingway Point by Nora Carroll

*Falling Under by Danielle Younge-Ullman will be free only on July 3, 2012, but will be discounted to .99 cents on July 4, 2012.

“The 4th of July Literary and Thriller Fireworks promotion is a unique opportunity to pick up some exciting thrillers and gorgeous literary novels from several talented members of the Backspace Writers' Organization -- for free!” said Darcie Chan, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the literary novel, The Mill River Recluse (http://www.amazon.com/The-Mill-River-Recluse-ebook/dp/B0051PRFLQ/)

Readers may easily download all ten free ebooks from Amazon.com on July 3rd and July 4th by going here: 4th of July Free Ebooks

Don't have a Kindle? Don't worry! You can download a FREE Kindle app for your computer, smart phone, tablet, or other electronic device here.