Carina Press Sports Week
Congratulations to the winners!
TAP OUT - Manda W
IMAGINARY LINES - Cathy P
PLAYING IT CLOSE - Jami B
LOVE IN STRAIGHT SETS - Judi L
THE ACE - Marcy S
ON THE SURFACE - Tammy Y
Congratulations to the winners!
TAP OUT - Manda W
IMAGINARY LINES - Cathy P
PLAYING IT CLOSE - Jami B
LOVE IN STRAIGHT SETS - Judi L
THE ACE - Marcy S
ON THE SURFACE - Tammy Y
In honor of Carina Press’s first-ever Sports Week, featuring six new
sports-themed romance releases, the Sports Week authors are defining unique
terms from their respective sports.
Between hockey, rugby,
tennis, MMA, football and baseball, do you have a favorite? We’re giving away
one of each of the Sports Week releases. Leave a comment for a chance to win!
Fast hands: Tim Hollander, the hero in my book, On the
Surface, is a professional hockey player with fast hands. Does this mean if
you met him in a bar, you’d have to be on your guard? Nah. In hockey, players
with fast hands can move the puck with alacrity across the ice, around
opponents and into the net to score. It's the guys on the other team who have
to watch out!
From Kat Latham, author
of rugby romance Playing it Close:
Touch: Rugby players might touch each other a lot
(mostly trying to knock their opponents off their feet), but there’s nothing
erotic about touch in rugby. Touch is the out-of-bounds area around the playing
field, and kicking the ball into touch is a common way of ending a rugby match.
There’s a common expression among rugby fans—kicking someone into touch—which
means that you’ve ended a relationship with someone, so if you hear a rugby
player say, “She kicked me into touch,” he’s telling you that his girlfriend has
dumped him. Poor guy. :)
Haymaker: A lethal, diving punch. If landed, it will
likely change the outcome of a fight. In Tap Out, book two in the Worth
the Fight series, each chapter begins with heroine Sophie Morelle’s tongue
in cheek interpretations of MMA moves. For example, Haymaker is a fight that
happens...in a barn. Right?!
From Rhonda Shaw, author
of baseball romance The Ace:
Can of corn: One of the strangest baseball terms I’ve heard
is “can of corn” which means an easy catch by a fielder. There are
different theories scattered across the web behind the ‘why’ of this term,
ranging from it having to do with grocers stocking cans of corn on top shelves
and easily catching them when they were knocked down, to the old days when the
outfield was termed the “corn field.” Whatever the reason, a strange term
indeed.
Let: In tennis, a let is the act of replaying a
point if anything has obstructed the trajectory of your shot or otherwise
interfered with the game. So if a streaker runs onto the court as you’re
serving, you ask for a let, or you opponent offers one. It’s a polite way of
mutually acknowledging that the competition has been disrupted in a way that’s
unfair and a chance for a redo, and something that wouldn’t go amiss in
romance. Ex-boyfriend unexpectedly shoves open the door during a first kiss?
Ask for a let!
From Allison Parr, author of football romance Imaginary Lines:
Line of scrimmage: The lexicon of football is wonderfully strange and
diverse, ranging from almost violent terms to oddly poetic, like line of
scrimmage. It refers to the imaginary line running
parallel to the goal from sideline to sideline, and touching the ball. Of
course, imaginary lines can refer to more than just those on the football field,
such as those people draw between themselves… Like those between two old
friends who aren’t ready to admit they might be falling in love.
Find Allison at her blog * Twitter * Facebook
Giveaway:
Six lucky readers leaving a comment or email entry will win one of the above-listed books!
Giveaway ends 11:59pm EST April 19th. Please supply your email in the post. You may use spaces or full text for security. (ex. jsmith at gmail dot com) If you do not wish to supply your email, or have trouble posting, please email maureen@JustContemporaryRomance.com with a subject title of JCR GIVEAWAY to be entered in the current giveaway.
Giveaway:
Six lucky readers leaving a comment or email entry will win one of the above-listed books!
Giveaway ends 11:59pm EST April 19th. Please supply your email in the post. You may use spaces or full text for security. (ex. jsmith at gmail dot com) If you do not wish to supply your email, or have trouble posting, please email maureen@JustContemporaryRomance.com with a subject title of JCR GIVEAWAY to be entered in the current giveaway.
ON THE SURFACE and THE ACE are the books I'm most looking forward to reading from this group.
ReplyDeleteMarcy Shuler
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Thanks, Marcy! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing (and researching!) it. :)
DeleteThanks, Marcy! Ditto on what Kate said. :) Good luck on the giveaway!
DeleteWhat a great giveaway! Everyone of these stories is appealing. Love the sports theme. Kudos.
ReplyDeleteJonettaallen77 at yahoo dot com
Really love books including hot sportsmen and women!!
ReplyDeleteSo excited to see all these sports themed romances...especially tennis! No one ever writes about tennis players.
ReplyDeleteboomer21(at)rogers(dot)com
Yay for another tennis fan! :-D
DeleteThanks for the chance to win... Love sports themes books!!!
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ReplyDeleteI prefer rugby, hockey, and football romances. All of these books sound really good though. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeletekscathy at yahoo dot com
Yay, rugby! Good luck in the giveaway, Cathy!
DeleteFirst: HOCKEY rules! Go Kings!
DeleteSecond: I have found I can enjoy sports romances that feature sports I don't really like to watch. I guess that's a testament to the writers!
I love sports themed books. I want to read them all. For Hockey - Go Kings. I was so happy when they finally won The Stanley Cup.
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Interesting books
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Ooh, I love the sounds of these! I'm looking forward to Allison and Kat's first, but am adding these all to my TBB! Thanks!
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this is an amazing group of writers, thanks for sharing (4jessad@gmail.com) I enjoyed the twitter party the other day
ReplyDeleteThe only sport I seem to excel at is competitive napping. I do love my naps!
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