Saturday, June 15, 2013

Fool's Gold Cheerleaders Give Back

From Books to Real Life: Fool’s Gold Cheerleader Charity Drive

Fool’s Gold may be a fictional setting, but 24 real life Susan Mallery fans are taking the town’s generous spirit beyond the pages of books this summer. By telling readers about the romance novels Just One Kiss, Two of a Kind, and Three Little Words, the “Fool’s Gold Cheerleaders” will win prizes for themselves and at the same time, raise money for their favorite charities.

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Author Susan Mallery as a cartoon cheerleader, guarded by two bodyguards
Author Susan Mallery in her cheerleading "uniform."
The Cheerleaders have collectively pledged $2,220 to the charities that mean the most to them, and Mallery has pledged an additional $5,000.
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 15, 2013
Fool’s Gold, California may be a fictional setting, but 24 real life Susan Mallery fans are taking the town’s generous spirit beyond the pages of books this summer. By telling readers about the romance novels Just One Kiss, Two of a Kind, and Three Little Words, the “Fool’s Gold Cheerleaders” will win prizes for themselves and at the same time, raise money for their favorite charities. The Cheerleaders have collectively pledged $2,220 to the charities that mean the most to them, and Mallery has pledged an additional $5,000, which will be prorated according to the number of points each Cheerleader earns.
The Cheerleaders earn points for talking to people about Susan Mallery’s books, for handing out excerpt booklets, for placing bookmarks into copies of Just One Kiss, Two of a Kind, and Three Little Words, and other street team marketing activities. At predetermined points levels, the Cheerleaders win Fool’s Gold themed prizes from the author. Some of the Cheerleaders have been on the squad for three years now, since its inception.
The 2013 Fool’s Gold Cheerleader Charity Drive was inspired by Cheerleader Beccie W. of Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Beccie told the group that if she reached her own personal points goal, she was going to make a donation to St. Jude’s Hospital in the name of a special little girl she knew. Mallery loved the idea and wanted to support Beccie’s generosity and to extend the offer to any other Cheerleaders with charities near to their hearts.
Cheerleader, Location, and Charity
Alisha W. – Bentonville, AR – Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Bethesda, MD
Allyson B. – Roxboro, NC – Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, New York, NY
Angela M – Evans, GA – American Diabetes Association, Atlanta, GA
Beccie W. – Wynnewood, OK – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Brenda R. – Tulsa, OK and
Suzie Q. – Maurice, LA – National MS Society, Denver, CO
Charlotte S. – San Antonio, TX and
JoAnne W. – Trumbull, CT – American Heart Association, Dallas, TX
Darla P. – Crown Point, IN – Humane Society of Hobart, IN
Deb O. – Hollywood, FL – American Red Cross, Washington, DC
Dee M. – Kansas City, MO – Friends of the Parkville Animal Shelter, Parkville, MO
Denise R. – Carlsbad, CA – Love on a Leash (LOAL) North San Diego Chapter, Encinitas, CA
Emily C. – Alexandria, VA – Navy/Marine Corps Relief Society, Arlington, VA
Jayme M. – Berea, KY – 4p-Support Group, Sunbury, OH
Jeanette B. – Killeen, TX – USO Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX
Judie B. – Sarasota, FL – The Life Raft Group, Wayne, NJ
Lesley L. – Mechanicsville, VA – Ronald McDonald House Charities, Charlottesville, VA
Maria S. – Mechanicsburg, VA – American Conservation Association, Washington, DC
Michele Rybak – Myrtle Beach, SC – Alzheimer’s Association, to benefit the Greensboro, NC chapter
Shannon H – Pickerington, OH – March of Dimes, Westerville, OH
Stef M. – Perkasie, PA – A Woman’s Place, Doylestown, PA
Suzette R. – Bismarck, ND – Boys Town, Boys Town, NE
Tanya C. – Voorheesville, NY – Mowhawk Hudson Humane Society, Menands, NY
Wendy K. – Macclesfield, NC – Victory Junction Gang, Randleman, NC
For more information on the Fool’s Gold Cheerleaders, visit http://www.foolsgoldca.com.
About Susan Mallery:
With more than 25 million books sold worldwide, New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery is known for creating characters who feel as real as the folks next door, and for putting them into emotional, often funny situations readers recognize from their own lives. Susan’s books have made Booklist’s Top 10 Romances list in four out of five consecutive years. RT Book Reviews says, “When it comes to heartfelt contemporary romance, Mallery is in a class by herself.” With her popular, ongoing Fool’s Gold series, Susan has reached new heights on the bestsellers lists and has won the hearts of countless new fans.
Susan grew up in southern California, moved so many times that her friends stopped writing her address in pen, and now has settled in Seattle with her husband and the most delightfully spoiled little dog who ever lived. Visit Susan online at http://www.SusanMallery.com.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Just One Kiss Blog Tour & Contest

Long-Lost Loves
By Susan Mallery

With more than 25 million books sold worldwide, New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery is known for creating characters who feel as real as the folks next door, and for putting them into emotional, often funny situations readers recognize from their own lives. Susan’s books have made Booklist’s Top 10 Romances list in four out of five consecutive years. RT Book Reviews says, “When it comes to heartfelt contemporary romance, Mallery is in a class by herself.” With her popular, ongoing Fool’s Gold series, Susan has reached new heights on the bestsellers lists and has won the hearts of countless new fans.

Susan grew up in southern California, moved so many times that her friends stopped writing her address in pen, and now has settled in Seattle with her husband and the most delightfully spoiled little dog who ever lived. Visit Susan online at www.SusanMallery.com.




Remember that boy from high school, the one who you thought about while listening to romantic songs on the radio, by yourself, in the dark, sobbing because he didn’t return your feelings? Remember how seeing him in the hallways at school made your breath catch in your throat? And if he caught your gaze and smiled at you, your spirits soared.

Remember him?


What if he was your best friend? And what if you went to his house before school one day so you could walk together as you always did… only he was gone?

Gone-gone. The doors were open, the closets were empty, and you never saw him again. He just… disappeared.

That’s what happened to Patience McGraw when she was a teen. As JUST ONE KISS begins 15 years later, Patience is at work in a salon in Fool’s Gold, California when Justice returns.
"Patience?"
She didn't recognize the male voice, but turned anyway. A man stood in the entrance of the shop. He was tall, with dark gold-blond hair and deep blue eyes. His shoulders were broad and he had the kind of face that would be happy up on a movie screen. Nice, but she had no idea who he...
She felt the cape flutter to the floor as she really looked at the man moving toward her. He was a few inches taller, a lot more muscular, but his eyes... They were exactly the same. They even crinkled when he smiled at her.
"Hello, Patience."
She was fourteen again, standing in that empty house, more scared than she'd ever been in her life. There hadn't been any answers. Not then or since. No solution to the mystery. Just questions and a gnawing sense that something had gone terribly wrong.
"Justice?" she asked, her voice more breath than sound. "Justice?"
He gave her a slight shrug. The familiar gesture was enough to send her flying across the shop. She flung herself at him, determined to hang on this time.
He caught her against him and held on to her nearly as tightly as she held on to him. He was warm and solid and real. She pressed her head against his shoulder and inhaled the scent of him. A clean, masculine smell that had nothing to do with the boy she remembered. This wasn't happening, she thought, still dazed. Justice couldn't be back.
Yet he was, and here. But the man was very different from the boy and the moment got awkward quickly.
Justice has returned to Fool’s Gold to open a bodyguard academy with a few of his ex-military buddies. (This is Fool’s Gold, where we go light on danger and heavy on humor, charm, and fun, flirty romance.) Justice leapt at the chance to return to the town that took him in at a very tense point in his life, and he was eager to see Patience again, his sassy, beautiful friend.

She’s just as open-hearted as she was back then, unstained by the darkness in the world, darkness he lives with every day. The moment Justice holds her in his arms, he vows to protect her from himself. Patience is everything good and pure in the world, and he won’t ruin that. She draws him like sunlight on a cold day, but though he can’t resist the need to be near her, to kiss her, he won’t allow himself to fall in love.

Enter the JUST ONE KISS blog tour contest once a day every day from May 28 through June 9 for a chance to win a $25 Amazon or BN.com gift card! And because this blog was set up by Fool’s Gold Cheerleader Allyson Brann, if you win, she’ll win a gift card, too!
Click here to enter: http://www.susanmallery.com/contentpage.php?id=0014
Are you still in touch with the boy or boys you had a crush on in high school? Did they grow up to be as cute as you thought they would?