You’ve Got Words Challenge Grand Finale (And a BIG Giveaway!)

ByJody Hedlund
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As you may be aware, a group of authors including Becky Wade, Dani Pettry, Jamie Jo Wright, and Katharine Reay, and I have been participating in a month-long “You’ve Got Words” challenge. If you missed the first two weeks challenges, be sure to go back to Becky’s post and read through our entries where we crafted titles and heroes using random words that we drew from a cup.

Last week we crafted heroines using the names Emily or Sarah and the occupations governess/nanny or midwife. Here are our entries and big congrats to Dani Pettry for having the winning heroine!

Katherine Reay’s Heroine

 

Dani Pettry’s Heroine

 

Jamie Jo Wright’s Heroine

 

Becky Wade’s Heroine

 

Jody Hedlund’s Heroine

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This is the final week in the challenge and our task was to create the scene where our hero and heroine meet. Our words came from the categories: relationships, verbs, and settings. Katherine Reay drew the words (you can watch the video here). She randomly picked two words from each category: attraction or marriage, crawl or run, threshold or porch.

Our job as authors was to take one word from each category having a total of three required words that need to show up somewhere in our entry. To make this even more difficult, our scene could only be 150 words long!

Here are this week’s entries!

Read them, then go over to Dani’s Facebook Album to vote on scenes by clicking “like” (you can vote on more than one!). Our entries will remain anonymous and the voting will remain open for a week (Oct. 3-10). By voting, you’re automatically entered to win one of Katherine Reay’s books. Make sure to stay tuned to Facebook and find out which author is crowned queen of words as well as whether you’re the winner of one of Katherine’s books.

To wrap up the “You’ve Got Words” challenge, we’re also having a grand-prize giveaway! Enter the Rafflecopter form below for a chance to win ALL of our latest releases along with a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card.

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

What books would you buy if you won a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card?!?

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Award-winning author Jody Hedlund makes her home in central Michigan with her husband and five children. When she's not busy with her family, she loves to read and consume large amounts of chocolate and coffee.

45 Comments

  1. I’m sure I’d go into Barnes and Noble with a list of books I wanted to buy, but then I’d get distracted by all the pretty books and wind up going rogue! LOL (hasn’t ever happened to me before *wink wink*) This challenge has been so much fun! What a great way to get to sample some new (to me) authors as well!

  2. I would probably by books for my 20 month old granddaughter – she loves books and I love reading with her! I have enjoyed your writing challenge, and these all sound like they would make great books!

  3. Ummm…WOW! 🙂 I’d have a lot of fun spending $50 on books!!! I would look for new releases from some of my favorite authors that I don’t own paperback copies of yet…

  4. i would buy some fiction with a holiday theme, some books to inspire my teens to start reading again. maybe a cookbook or two

  6. 50 dollars on books?!? Talk about a dream come true! One book I have my eye on is the new release “Becoming Mrs. Lewis.” It looks amazing! Beyond that, I am honestly not sure. I have soooo many books I want, that I’d have to think a bit to narrow it down….so many books, so little time….and money!!😂

  7. This challenge has been so fun! I’m so glad you gals are participating! With $50 at Barnes and Noble, I don’t know where I would start. Someone else above mentioned the Becoming Mrs. Lewis book that’s on my to-read list too. I have some other new Christian fiction on my list I would probably buy. I would also probably get a few new picture books to add to my writing/research collection.

  8. I would enter the bookstore with a list and the best of intentions. I would find the books on the list but wind up in the clearance section to get more bang for my buck.

  9. After reading those, now I want the whole stories. Haha!! The challenge has been so much fun to watch!

  10. There are so many books I want to read, it would be a very hard decision for sure. Thanks for your great generosity.

  11. I really like the Jane Austen Collection book with the gold pages, so maybe that one. Thanks for the giveaway!

  14. $50 to spend on books plus favorite authors new releases equals bookworm paradise! 😉
    Hmm…if I had that kind of $ to spend on books…I’d probably buy some books for friends, a few from my “wish list” & some books for my nieces & nephews! 😊
    Thank you for the opportunity to enter the giveaway! The ‘You’ve Got Words Challenge’ has been fun to follow. 😊

  15. I have a list!! I’m waiting for Katherine’s new book to be published. I’m also interested in reading Justice by Emily Conrad. And I love some of the journals B&N have.

  16. Why spend it all on Christian fiction of course! And I have a whole list to choose from!

  17. I would probably buy The Printed Letter Bookshop, Sweet on You, Searching for You, The Curse of Misty Wayfair, and The Cost of Betrayal. I can’t wait for all of them to come out!

  19. I would purchase A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens as my nephew is young Scrooge in his school musical.

  20. With $50 to spend, I’d have to have a list with me! So many good Christian fiction books I want to read, what a challenge! How fun 🙂

    1. I would buy the new upcoming books: Searching for You by Jody Hedlund; The Lieutenant’s Bargain by Regina Jennings; The Christmas Heirloom with Karen Witemeyer, Becky Wade, Kristi Ann Hunter, and Sarah Loudin; and Flights of Fancy by Jen Turano. I think I just went over budget by $8.46. I will have to wait for a sale or sign up for the 15% off (I would just squeak by with 30 cents to spare!)

  21. If I win the $50 Barnes and Noble card, I’d probably order online using my wish list and buying as many of the books as I could. Thanks for offering your books and the gift card!

  22. I’m not sure what I’d buy because I haven’t been in a Barnes and Noble for years. I’d just have to wait and see what caught my eye and attention.

  23. The books I would buy are the ones that our church library readers are asking for.
    Thanks for giving me the opportunity to win the GC.

  24. If I had a $50 gift card to Barnes and Noble, then I would go buy some books from my favorite Christian fiction authors. I have so enjoyed the “You’ve Got Words” challenge, because it has introduced me to some new authors!

  25. Like others I have a rather lengthy list of Christian Books that I’d like to buy, but based on what I already have in my stack, I think I’d like to add Jody Hedlund’s new book Searching for You or the The Lieutenant’s Bargain by Regina Jennings, or An Obvious Fact by Craig Johnson or The Mentor by Rebecca Forster or maybe a couple of older ones that include For Time & Eternity by Allison Pittman or While We Were Far Apart by Lynn Austin. It would just depend on what I choose then.

  26. Oh my goodness. I would get the new Kara Isaac book and a something by Jamie Jo Wright. I am listening to The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond, which is my first JJW book.

  28. Wow $50 in Barnes and Noble!!!! SOOOO many books! I would try to find new books in any of the series I’m reading now, but would more than likely just go hog wild!

  36. This challenge has been the most fun to follow! I honestly don’t know where I’d start on my TBR buying books, because it’s climbing high into the stratosphere at this point! But it would be so lovely to have the option, I’d just pick a spot & start buying!

  37. I have a whole list of books I’d love to purchase. Since we are on a strict budget this season of life, I ask for gift cards for Christmas so I can spend those on the books I haven’t been able to purchase through out the year. I usually end up with enough books to last me roughly 6-8 months. It’s wonderful!

  38. With $50.00 I would have a great deal of fun buying books since I have been seeing some great books out there.

  39. Oooh if I won that would be a hard, very hard decision as I love to read all the books written by our great christian fiction writers.

  40. A$50 gift card would be a wonderful beginning to the list I have going…Love all Inspirational fiction books so I would get the latest releases from Kim Vogel Sawyer, Amy Clipston, Jody Hedlund, Suzanne Woods Fisher,Dani Pettrey,Karen Witemeyer, and try some of the new authors Ihave not read before…Have really enjoyed these challenges as they have developed and would really like to see each of these fully fleshed out into full books.

  41. I have so many books I would buy, but I’d honestly end up buying books for my kids 🙂

  42. I would use it sparingly and buy new releases as they come out or just recently released books. I have several already on my list that I can’t wait to get my eyes on!

  43. too many books…not enough time….what times does Barnes & Noble close?? always open online!

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