As a romance author, I enjoy celebrating Valentine’s Day for the entire month of February. No mere day is sufficient for this sappy romantic. In case you’re like me, I thought I would share some fun opportunities for prolonging your Valentine celebration.
Obviously, we all need to pad our TBR piles with romance novels this month. Here are a couple ways I can help with that.
Enter a Valentine’s Giveaway
This is the perfect time of year to find giveaways that feature romance novels. I just happen to be involved in a great one going on now through Valentine’s Day. You could win 18 Christian novels filled with sigh-inducing romance and guaranteed happy endings.
Click here to enter the contest.
Take Advantage of Romantic Sales
February is a great time to find sales on romance titles. Here are a few being offered this month on books from Bethany House and Revell.
Historical, contemporary, Amish – something for every taste. All on sale for only $1.99!
An Unexpected Love by Tracie Peterson & Judith Miller
The Fiddler by Beverly Lewis
You Belong with Me by Tari Faris
A Bride for Keeps by Melissa Jagears
The Girl in the Gatehouse by Julie Klassen
My book, Short-Straw Bride is on sale this month, as well. This book is consistently named by my readers as their favorite. If you haven’t read it and would like like to spice up your February with some laughter, heart-pounding adventure, and a sweet marriage-of-convenience love story, now’s the time to give the Archers a try.
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Try a Romantic Reading Challenge
In my Facebook group, The Posse, we do a monthly reading challenge where each month has a different reading game to play. For example, last month was the start of 2022, so the challenge was to read a book with To, Too, or Two in the title.
For February, our challenge is to read a book with HEART or LOVE or VALENTINE in the title. Not all of our challenges are related to the title, but they are all broad enough to allow for a wide variety of books to qualify.
If you are interested in joining our challenge, you can join the Posse here. Whether or not you officially join the Posse challenge, you can have fun challenging yourself to read as many books with a Valentine-ish theme as you can this month. Maybe read books with pink/red covers. Or books with lacy design elements. Or maybe re-read all your favorite book boyfriend novels.
What bookish Valentine fun do you plan to get up to this month?
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Monthly reading challenges in the Posse! That’s such a fabulous idea. 🙂
Thanks, Becky. We are one our third year, and it has given me that extra little push to read more each month. We have such fun with it.
Great idea!
I have With All My Heart at the top of my pile for this month. Thanks for the added incentive!
Perfect, Jen! Sometimes it’s just that little push that gets us to dig a book out of the TBR pile. 🙂