I have long professed my love for Twitter. I feel like I can be myself more than I can on Facebook and most of the people I follow are awesome and not sharing long ranting posts full of song lyrics or every detail about their latest illness. Plus, I enjoy trying to be witty in 140 characters.
Awesome things happen on Twitter. It’s great for breaking news and for spreading a message quickly. It’s also great for promotion. Lots of authors use Twitter to great extent and I enjoy following them; most authors tweet a good mix of their real lives and information about their books. Whenever I read a book I love, and especially if I review it, I always make sure I tag the author in my tweets. It’s always fun to get a “thank you” or “glad you enjoyed it” back from an author. So I got pretty excited when this happened:
@SuperWendy @LibrarianLizy Honored to be a part of the #tbrchallenge! Thanks much.
— Theresa Romain (@TheresaRomain) December 18, 2013
And then I squeed a little because this happened:
@SuperWendy @LibrarianLizy May I send either of you the 2nd bk, Season for Surrender? Set entirely during Christmas country house party.
— Theresa Romain (@TheresaRomain) December 18, 2013
I was all over that like whoa. I’ve NEVER had an author offer to send me a book before. I couldn’t believe Ms. Romain’s generosity. Obviously, I tweeted her back and we arranged for her to ship me the book. It arrived on Christmas Eve, autographed, and included a sweet note.
Current and future authors: THIS is how you attract loyal readers. She could write crap from now on (which I doubt because she’s really quite good) and I would still read her books. If you’re nice to me, there’s a 99.99% chance I’m going to support you however I can.
I finished the book last night and I thought it was really well done. I had a suspicion that I might enjoy it more than the first (which I gave a B), because I like heroines who are more like me – bookish and not quite sure where they fit in. I also like Regencies that are set at house parties. So this was a win for me. My only complaint was that it dragged a little about 3/4 of the way through. But I thought it wrapped up nicely and the ending was more satisfying than Season for Temptation did. Season for Surrender 
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