To celebrate our one year anniversary, the seven Word Wenches are awarding autographed books to SEVEN lucky winners! In honor of our week-long Naked Anniversary Blog, we're giving away copies of books with half-naked guys on the covers (and one naked horse)!
These seven winners, all chosen at random from the many visitors who left comments this week, will get one of these books by random author decision. Congratulations to all the winners listed below!
THE WINNERS: Kathy Kremer, Pam P, Susan/DC, Margaret Evans Porter, Jane O'Sullivan, Maya Missani, and Robyn L.
Actually it's eight winners -- a SPECIAL PRIZE goes to Word Wenches visitor KAY, for posting the original question that started us talking about nakedness in history in the first place. Thanks, Kay, and congratulations! You win one of Mary Jo Putney's books, to be decided. Please contact Sherrie (email listed below) for the details.
THE BOOKS: these will go out into the mail soon, one per winner (prizes assigned by author choice) -- here are the covers in all their fabulous, uncovered glory:
PROVIDENCE, Miranda Jarrett
SOMETHING WICKED, Jo Beverley (here's the stepback art)
CAPTIVES OF THE NIGHT, Loretta Chase
DANCING ON THE WIND, Mary Jo Putney (stepback art)
MAGIC MAN, Patricia Rice
(naked horse!)
STEALING SOPHIE, Sarah Gabriel
FOR THE LOVE OF A PIRATE, Edith Layton
Cheers to all the winners! If you didn't win and you'd like to, please keep posting comments, because we love giving away books at whim to commenters -- and ya never know when the book-giveaway mood will strike again!
If your name is posted here, please contact Sherrie, our admin Whipster, at [email protected], to confirm and to give her your mailing address. Thank you!
KATHLEEN NITSCH, of Sarasota, Florida!
Wow, did we ever have fun with our "guess the book cover" contest! We received lots and lots of entries with correct guesses, so we put the names in a hat and drew a winner. Congratulations, Kathleen! Watch your mailbox for a positive deluge of autographed Wench books!
We'd also like to thank the rest of you for entering the contest. Judging by the feedback, everyone had a blast hunting down book titles and matching them with the authors' names. We have more fun and games planned for you in the future, so keep an eye out! (Hint: next month is our one year anniversary!)
Here are the book covers, along with a link to the Wench Web site for each book:
(kiss) The Return of the Earl by Edith Layton
http://tinyurl.com/2ly3px
(ancient) Seduction of an English Beauty by Miranda Jarrett
http://tinyurl.com/2n4djn
(eyes) A Most Unsuitable Man by Jo Beverley
http://tinyurl.com/2jnbef
(hands) Stealing Sophie by Sarah Gabriel
http://tinyurl.com/22noo9
(hat) Small Town Girl by Patricia Rice
http://tinyurl.com/2wwxku
(pearls) The China Bride by Mary Jo Putney
http://tinyurl.com/2oo9qv
(Vneck) Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
http://tinyurl.com/345kaa
And hey, wasn't that fun?!!
But don't run away, now! Be sure and check out the post below. Loretta does it again!
Do you recognize any of these snips from book covers? Can you name the author and title? Here's one hint -- they're all books written by Wenches. But you probably guessed that. So what's the deal? A great one. To start our new schedule on a grand note, one lucky winner will win SEVEN books. Yes, a book from each Wench. All you have to do is identify the author and the book title of each snip and send your answers to Sherrie at [email protected]. If you don't recognize the covers straight away, go to our web sites and look around. The covers are there somewhere. Some are new, some are older. Some of these should be easy. A couple may challenge you a bit, but that adds to the fun. Next Sunday, April 8th, at 10am Pacific time, Sherrie will see who's won. If more than one person gets all the right answers, she'll draw a name and announce the clever winner. We're not allowing comments on this post to stop any of you absentmindedly sending your answers to the whole world. Here we go, in no particular order. Have fun! 
Judith Me
rkle Riley will be interviewed this coming Friday by Mary Jo. Judith writes books that have a lot of history, humor, and mysticism. She has a rabid fan base (including the Wenches!) and we're all thrilled that some of her older books are being reprinted. In fact, Crown will be putting out her three Margaret of Ashbury books this year. Put a yellow sticky on your computer reminding you to drop by this Friday while we visit with Judith!
Did you know that if you want to read every post by one of the Wenches, all you have to do is 
scroll down to the bottom of one of her posts and click on her name? When you do that, it will bring up all her posts in a new window. No more wandering through a maze of posts to find the ones you want. Just the click of a mouse and you're there! As a reminder, we've also added this tip in the sidebar on the left.
From Sherrie:
We just keep getting better! Hi Wenchlings! I've been doing some tweaking and updating behind the scenes. We have two new sidebar items: Announcements, and Favorite Websites. Both are in the right column, with Announcements at the very top, and Favorite Websites at the bottom. Be sure to check out the Announcements sidebar now and then, because that's where we'll be listing upcoming interviews, guest bloggers, new releases, contests, etc. Don't be surprised if you see more tweaking in weeks to come, either! As they used to say in those old-timey newscasts: "Stay tuned for further developments."
From Sherrie, the Blogatrix:
I've been piddling around in the background (too shy to piddle in the foreground!) doing site maintenance and tweaking here and there. Over the next few days you'll see updates to our Favorite Blogs and Reissues sidebars, and the addition of a new Favorite Websites sidebar. In the meantime, check out the latest update: scroll down and click on Susan Holloway Scott's face and it will whisk you to her gorgeous new website! If you'd rather, scroll down even farther and click her name under "Links to Author Websites." ( I'd rather click on the Wench's name instead of her face, because every time I move my mouse to the face, the arrow turns into a hand with a pointing finger, which always manages to look like it's picking the Wench's nose. Nasty.)
CinderSherrie, ready to party with the remaining CinderWenches in true Cinderella style while the other Wenches do National
Word Wenches is a blog featuring seven authors, plotting in the present, writing about the past. . . and improvising the rest. Authors include Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Anne Gracie, Susan King aka Susan Fraser King, Nicola Cornick, Andrea Penrose, & Christina Courtenay.
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