Giveaway: Making Waves by Tawna Fenske

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I am very happy to be bringing you this giveaway for this awesome book. Earlier I had an interview with Tawna HERE and I even got to review this book HERE.

Now thanks to Sourcebooks I get to offer two of my readers a chance to win this book. You must be a residant of the USA or Canada to enter. This giveaway will end on September 6th, 2011. All you have to do is fill out the form below.

Interview: Tawna Fenske author of Making Waves

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I for one and very excited to have Tawna Fenske on the blog today. I enjoyed her debut book Making Waves to its fullest and you can see that in my review HERE.

Welcome Tawna! Readers, sit back and enjoy this interview between her and myself:

First up, give us a quick bio on yourself.
TF: You’ve got the whole “About the Author” thing at the bottom of this post, so let me think of a few things not on it. I’m 37 years old. I love wine. I hate shopping carts, windy days, and whiny people. I have three cats and an Australian Kelpie, which is pretty much a herding dog on crack. I love to laugh, so it’s probably a good thing I write romantic comedy and not morose literary fiction.

Your novel, Making Waves, is a hoot! How did you come up with this idea?
TF: The story started brewing in my brain on a sailing trip around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2006, though at that point it was the equivalent of, “wow, men on boats are kinda hot.” The plot didn’t come together in my mind until the economy tanked a couple years later and tons of people around me started getting laid off. I began mulling the crazy lengths people might go to if they were unfairly sacked by a shady employer. A high seas diamond heist organized by the four most unlikely pirates on the planet seemed like a good start.

Making Waves by Tawna Fenske

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Publication Date: August 2, 2011
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Reviewed for: Sourcebooks
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Book Blurb: When Alex Bradshaw's unscrupulous boss kicks him to the curb after 20 faithful years as an executive with the world's largest shipping company, he sets out to reclaim his dignity and his pension. Assembling a team of fellow corporate castoffs, he sails to the Caribbean to intercept an illegal diamond shipment. None of them counted on quirky blonde stowaway Juli Flynn, who has a perplexing array of talents, a few big secrets, and an intoxicating romantic chemistry with Alex.

My Thoughts: What a hoot! That's what I have to say first. Pirates, an urn filled with ashes, a woman with a high IQ without any common sense, it was hilarious. When I first started this book Juli was a puzzle to me. In fact, she is a puzzle for the first half of the book. There is something different about her. You aren't sure if she just has a severe case of ADHD or what. She bounces from job to job, trying them all. She gets bored, very easy. Her common sense seems to be out the window and as a reader you find yourself scratching your head wondering what this girl is going to be up to next. Well, after taking some sea motion medicine to get herself ready for a cruise to spread her uncles ashes, oh yeah, did I mention through this whole book she is carrying an urn of ashes. Yes, Tawna Fenske has packed this book full of laughs. So, as she hallucinates she gets on the wrong boat. Instead she crashes Alex's ship (who she met the night before) and they are in fact, pirates.

Juli turns the pirate mission into a disaster but a success. The last few chapters of this book will have you in amazement on one, where the treasure is hidden and two where Tawna came up with such an idea. This author has got some talent and she will surely top your list of authors to watch for their upcoming books.

Clicking the picture above, you can go ahead and pre-order this book. Yes, there are just a few more days before you will see this one on shelves but I wanted to go ahead and let you know about it.