PORTRAIT OF SEDUCTION Winner!

We have a winner for Carrii Lofty's PORTRAIT OF SEDUCTION guest blog. A free copy goes to:

Rosie Hong!

Contact Lisa to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

We have a winner for MIA MARLOWE'S guest post. A free copy of Distracting the Duchess goes to:

Soft Fuzzy Sweater!

Please contact Mia Marlowe to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

CAPTIVE Winner!

Whoops! A little late with this one. Sorry, folks! We have a winner for Christina Phillips's CAPTIVE guest blog. A free copy goes to:

LINDA!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

EITHER ORE Winner!

We have a winner for Karen Mercury's EITHER ORE guest blog. A free copy goes to:

pageturner!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

FOR A ROMAN'S HEART Winner!

We have a winner for Denise Agnew's FOR A ROMAN'S HEART guest blog. A free copy goes to:

TRACIE!

Also, no winner stepped forward for E. D. Walker's THE BEAUTY'S BEAST contest, so the new winner is:

DANIELLE GORMAN!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

LETTERS FROM HOME Winner!

We have a winner for Kristina McMorris's LETTERS FROM HOME guest blog. A free copy goes to:

CINDY L!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

THE BEAUTY'S BEAST Winner!

We have a winner for E. D. Walker's THE BEAUTY'S BEAST guest blog. A free copy goes to:

RUTH M!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

APRIL AND MAY Winner!

We have a winner for Beth Elliott's APRIL AND MAY guest blog. A free copy goes to:

Seyda!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

LILY OF THE NILE Winner!

We have a winner for Stephanie Dray's LILY OF THE NILE guest blog. A free copy goes to:

Laura H.!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

Movie Adaptations: The Worst Offenders?

Since last week's contest was so much fun, I decided to try another. Only this time we should all put on our historian hats and utterly lambaste the worst of the worst. So what will it be, dear readers? What are the worst movie adaptations of historical events? Give me the movie and your reason.

Maybe it's Kevin Costner's accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and the fact he walks Hadrian's Wall on the way to Nottingham. Or perhaps you'll choose Braveheart, where William Wallace gets a child on Princess Isabella, who was actually only ten when he died. If you need a starting point, The Times recently put together a list of the 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies. Take a peek!

As a reward for playing along, I'll give away a $15 gift certificate to either B&N or Amazon to the winner I draw randomly on Tuesday morning. Best of luck!

UPDATED: This contest is closed. Amy Kathryn is our winner. Thanks for playing along!

THE DARLING STRUMPET Winner!

We have a winner for Gillian Bagwell's THE DARLING STRUMPET guest blog. A free copy goes to:

pageturner!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

Movie Adaptations: Your Favorites?

Readers! Today could be your lucky day!

Because of a scheduling mix-up, we have no official post for you today. Instead I thought I'd open up this month's topic to you. Let us know what your favorite (or lease favorite!) movie adaptation of an historical event. Could it be Young Victoria or Bonnie & Clyde? Saving Private Ryan or Amadeus? Give us a little taste of your tastes!

As a reward for playing along, I'll give away a $15 gift certificate to either B&N or Amazon to the winner I draw randomly on Tuesday morning. Best of luck!

EDITED: This contest is closed. Michele Hauf is our winner. Congrats to Michele, and thanks to everyone else for playing along.

JAZZ BABY Winner!

We have a winner for Lorelie Brown's JAZZ BABY guest blog. A free copy goes to:

Daphne!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

EARL OF DARKNESS Winner!

We have a winner for Alix Rickloff's EARL OF DARKNESS guest blog. A free copy goes to:

Danielle Gorman!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

CHRISTMAS MOON Winner!

We have a winner for Elizabeth Lane's CHRISTMAS MOON guest blog. A free copy goes to:

librarypat!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

A PIRATE'S POSSESSION Winner

We have a winner for Michelle Beattie's A PIRATE'S POSSESSION guest blog. A free copy goes to:

D.L.!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

Anniversary Bash Finale Winner!

The winner of the Anniversay Bash Grand Finale is:

windycindy!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The books must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Congratulations!

Winner Updates

The winner of the A GROOVY CHRISTMAS anthology announced on Saturday is:

VIRGINIA!

In addition, the name selected for Day Five of the Anniversary Bash has not stepped forward. Thus I'm drawing a new name for that awesome paranormal historical prize package:

KANCHB!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

Michelle Styles Trio Winner!

We have a winner for Michelle Styles's guest blog. Free copies of three of Michelle's novels goes to:

Bunny's Mom!

Contact Carrie to provide your mailing address. The book must be claimed by next Sunday or another winner will be drawn. Please stop back later to let us know what you thought! Congratulations!

Anniversary Bash: Finale!

Welcome to the final day of Unusual Historicals' anniversary!

I have to say, this has been one of the best blogging experiences I've had in a long time. The comments all of y'all have provided have often had me rolling with laughter. Definitely the way to start every morning, and even more than that, the best way I can think of to celebrate four years at such an awesome blog. I can't wait to see everyone stick around as we return to normal programming.

Before we get to the really, really good stuff--the extra huge pack of books we have to give away today--I want to take a moment out to thank Carrie Lofty for the work she puts in around here on a regular basis. I've always known she was the one who kept this gig running smoothly, but I never realized until I took over this week exactly what that entailed. A lot. Like, just putting up posts with pictures and silly questions has taken me hours of work. I can't imagine how much time Carrie must put in. Ms. Lofty, I tip my hat to you.

Ok, the books. What have I been holding back for today? Why, really awesome stuff. Twelve books! You read that right, twelve. All stuffed carefully in one box and mailed off to a single lucky winner. Sounds like a wonderful distraction from family and holidays!

Today's winner will get:

Elizabeth Lane:
The Horseman's Bride (signed)

Amanda McIntyre:

The Diary of Cozette; Tortured; The Master & the Muses (all signed)

Hope Tarr:
Vanquished (signed)

Diane Whiteside:
The Devil She Knows (signed and there's a matching keychain)

Lisa Marie Wilkinson:
Fire at Midnight; Stolen Promise (both signed)

Lisa J. Yarde:
On Falcon's Wings

Kate Bridges:
Alaska Bride on the Run; Mail Order Marriages (both signed)

Monica Burns:
Kismet

Seriously people, how can you top that stack? Y'all are lucky the books are actually at Carrie's house. If I had 'em, they'd probably be pre-read before they got to the winners. (Honestly, I've read most of them already. But that's just because I really do love the special zing I get from reading a great historical set somewhere different.)

We've hopefully introduced you to a lot of new Unusual Historicals authors this week. So for today's Grand Prize, tell me which UH author you're most eager to read. The winner will be drawn at random first thing next Sunday morning, just like our usual Sunday giveaways.

The usuals: Void where prohibited. Prizes can only be mailed to the US and Canada. Don't talk to strangers. (Unless they're really cute and rich.)

***

Lorelie Brown's first book, JAZZ BABY, is currently available from Samhain Publishing and will be released 4 January in paperback. Her second romance, an 1880s-set western, will be published by Carina Press in Summer 2011