Jul
25
2013

Facebook Fans Release The Book Cover For Bridget Jones

MAD ABOUT THE BOY By Helen Fielding

Facebook Fans Release The Book Cover For Bridget Jones

Remember when I helped reveal the title for the new Bridget Jones novel?! Well, another amazing and super fantabulous thing happened in Bridgetland and it all unfolded with the help of social media! Bridget Jones Facebook fans released the book jacket for Bridget Jones: Mad about The Boy by Helen Fielding! Read the press release below for more on this exciting info! Warning: this post may contain a few too many exclamation marks!

Over 117,000 Bridget Jones fans from all over the world took part in an exclusive book jacket reveal on the official Bridget Jones Book Facebook Page! Each page like helped to empty a bottle of Bridget's favourite tipple. Once the wine was completely "consumed", the book cover was revealed!

About Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy by Helen Fielding

When Helen Fielding first wrote Bridget Jones' Diary, charting the life of a 30-something singleton in London in the 1990s, she introduced readers to one of the most beloved characters in modern literature. The book was published in 40 countries, sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, and spawned a best-selling sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The two books were turned into major blockbuster films starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.

With her hotly anticipated third instalment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Fielding introduces us to a whole new enticing phase of Bridget's life set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by and the nightmare of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous email cc, total lack of twitter followers, and TVs that need 90 buttons and three remotes to simply turn on.

An uproariously funny novel of modern life, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a triumphant return of our favourite Everywoman.

BRIDGET JONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA FANS

You can join all the Facebook fun by liking BridgetJonesBook, and follow the #BridgetJones updates from @RandomHouseCA

Check out this handy dandy link for further details or to pre-order the book to be published in hardcover on October 15th, by Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada.

I'm an avid Bridget Jones book and movie fan so all this build up is driving me bloody crazy with all the waiting, and waiting for the book release date! Note to self: save the date October 15th, and be prepared to set up a chair outside Chapters Indigo the evening before! So, are ya with me? You know ya wanna! ;-) 

I will leave you with a bit of Bridget witticizm to mull over while you wait for book number three:

“The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem. It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit.”

Relish reading,

Wanda Lynne Young

@BookaliciousCA

Press release published with permission from Random House of Canada.

Helen Fielding photo credit: Alisa Connan

Jul
16
2013

Page-turner Debut Novel By Lottie Moggach

KISS ME FIRST

Page-turner Debut Novel By Lottie Moggach

Page-turner Debut Novel By Lottie Moggach

Have you ever wanted to disappear or live a different life? Leila feels this way. She's grown tired of her sheltered existence as an IT tester. All of her work and spare time is spent on-line. She discovers the Red Pill website and her life begins to change. The group gives her a sense of identity but the catch is it's not her own. Can she switch her digital life for something more exciting? Read on to learn more about Leila in the gripping novel KISS ME FIRST by Lottie Moggach.

KISS ME FIRST

After years spent caring for her ailing mother and now dealing with her recent death, Leila has become less and less satified with her lot in life. Lelia finds the Red Pill website and joins their on-line community for ethical debates. She feels as if she has found the answer to her isolated world. The group’s charismatic leader Adrian offers her the opportunity to go from geek girl to glamorous gal. Her secret mission is to assume the identity of a suicidal young woman named Tess. Can Leila take over Tess' digital identity? Will Leila's real life change for the better or will her virtual world make it all the more complicated?

KISS ME FIRST is an original first novel by Lottie Moggach. This psychological thriller is intense, fascinating and thought provoking. Moggach weaves a unique plot that blends a colorful array of twists and turns to keep the reader riveted. It makes one question our on-line relationships, our digital identity, and ultimately, our reality.

To find out more from Lottie Moggach, watch her talk about KISS ME FIRST in the Book Zone video for The Telegraph.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lottie Moggach is a London native from a family of acclaimed writers including her mother, the bestselling author Deborah Moggach. Lottie Moggach attended Sussex University before she began a career in journalism at The Times. There, she worked as a feature writer, book reviewer, and columnist for several years. She currently publishes in a variety of newspapers and magazines including the Financial Times, Time Out, ELLE, GQ, and others. KISS ME FIRST is her first novel.

BOOKALICIOUS BOOK GRAB GIVEAWAY

Bookalicious is giving away 5 copies of KISS ME FIRST courtesy of Random House of Canada! To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment in the "Click Here To Spill It" bubble below. You have until August 2nd, 2013 to enter. You must be a YMC member, and please be sure you've registered your email address in our commenting system so we can contact you if you win.

Yummy Rules and Regs: You must be a YummyMummyClub.ca member to win. Click here to sign up. It's free and filled with perks. One comment per member. Entries accepted until August 2nd, 2013. Contest open to Canadian residents (excluding Quebec). Winners will be picked using www.random.orgSee full contest rules.

FACEBOOK BOOKALICIOUS PAGE GIVEAWAY

Check out the bonus KISS ME FIRST Facebook giveaway on the Bookalicious Page!

To read about more great books visit RandomHouseCanada.caRetreatByRandomHouse.ca, and CraveByRandomHouse.ca. Social media fans can follow the bookish tweets with @RandomHouseCA on Twitter and find bookworm fun with Random House of Canada on Facebook.

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Relish reading,

Wanda Lynne Young

@BookaliciousCA

Author photo credit: Alexander James