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Last Day of the 2013 Summer Splash Blog Hop

Miss Darcy just wanted to remind you that July 29th is the last day of the Summer Splash Blog Hop. What a delightful way to begin the last week of July. You’ll meet 48 independent authors and have a chance to win a Kindle Fire and other grand prizes. Some of these authors may be old friends but it is also an opportunity to meet authors who are new to you.

Miss Darcy is aware you are anxious to learn about the 2013 Summer Splash Blog Hop and her own giveaway prizes.

To enter Miss Darcy’s contest to win a $10.00 Amazon gift card and to hear the rest of the details CLICK HERE!

And after you’ve entered to win at Miss Darcy’s page check out the rest of these amazing chances to win at the 2013 Summer Splash Blog Hop main page!

Karla Darcy, Regency romance author, is doing a blog hop and giving away a $10.00 Amazon gift card

Have a wonderful day of hopping and I hope you’ll win lots of prizes!

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How Do Six Best Selling Authors Celebrate Women?

Miss Darcy Welcomes you to the Celebrate Women giveaway

Win an iPad Mini, 6 individual prizes or one of 60 bestsellers

Miss Darcy would like to share a story with you before you enter for prizes at the bottom of the page.

Grandmothers Rock!

My friend Tish is going through a traumatic period. Like all grandmothers, she is convinced that her grandchildren are extraordinarily bright. True to her hopes and expectations, her grandson Max Jr. had tested in the gifted range.

Tish had come across an article on how to recognize the signs of a gifted child. Over coffee, she sobbed into a slightly yellowed Thanksgiving napkin.

“Do you know what this means?”

Unsure whether she was criticizing my use of Thanksgivng napkins well into spring, I merely shook my head.

“I read that article and discovered I was a gifted child!”she wailed.

Karla Darcy, a regency author, loves toy trains.

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Looking into the family room, I watched as Max set up an intricate railroad track formation. Beside him, my grandson was attempting to eat the electric train. Luckily I would not have to worryover Jem’s giftedness.

At four, he still assumed he could walk across a toy-strewn floor without looking down. He was gifted with the finest set of bruises I’ve seen since one of our neighbors fell into the Christmas tree while attempting to hang the star on top.

“Look at me, Karla.”

It was not a very prepossessing view. Eyes swollen, nose red and mouth quivering, Tish sniveled into the turkey napkin. Unfortunately some of the brown dye from the napkin had streaked her face, giving her the look of a distraught Indian on the warpath.

“I’m 65 years old and my most mentally challenging moments are trying to decide whether to wash the clothes in hot, cold or lukewarm water.”

Max, who is the same age as Jem, was using Magic Building Sections to make skyscrapers and houses around the train tracks. Jem had somehow jammed his foot inside his dump truck. After several minutes of trying to loosen it, he fell over into the toy box.

“Numbers just defeat me,” Tish continued. “I haven’t been able to balance my checkbook since Clinton was president. When I was treasurer of the bowling league, there was a motion to impeach me for embezzlement.”

“Perhaps math just isn’t your field?”

“It’s not just math. I can’t spell, and when I went to one of those speed reading demonstrations, they suggested a good remedial course.”

Karla Darcy, a regency romance author, loves TinkerToys

We can make things

Max was building an elaborate construction crane. Some of the parts even moved. I had gotten Jem the blocks last year when he was visiting and he contented himself with scattering the pieces around the floor and dropping them down the sink drain.

The only time he ever built anything was when he took a long stick and jammed it into one of the round bottoms and made a hammer, with which he proceeded to make dents in all of the table tops.

“I could have been gifted in any field,” Tish mourned, “but nobody ever suspected it and how it’s too late.”

Fondly I watched Jem, foot still enmeshed in the dump truck, clomp across the tile floor. His eyes had the glazed look of a visionary as he hobbled towards Max’s creation.

It occurred to me that Jem might be a late-blooming genius. Maybe Einstein couldn’t tie his shoes either. Maybe Beethoven couldn’t remember to keep his pants zipped up. Jem was staring at the Magic Building Sections as if he’d had an epiphany.

I suddenly had a vision of the genius that lurked beneath Jem’s vague but winsomely dimpled expression. Banked fires of scientific inventiveness or artistic grandeur were just waiting for th eright moment to burst forth.

The words Pulitzer and Nobel blinked like neon lights in my brain. He definitely took after my side of the family. I watched with great anticipation as he stood over Max and opened his mouth to speak.

“Gimme a long stick, Max, or I’ll bash you. I wanna make a hammer.”

Then again, giftedness isn’t everything. There’s always a need for brute force and Jem seemed to have a corner on that market.

Makes a grandmother proud!

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Now for the Giveaway!

To enter to win an iPad Mini or one of 60 eBooks, fill out the Rafflecopter below:

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Before you leave, enter here to win a $25.00 Amazon Gift Card!

Karla Darcy, a Regency romance Author, will giveaway a $25 Amazon Gift card

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All you have to do is leave a comment below and tell me you’re having fun!

Miss Darcy is always fair minded and she will have random.org choose the winner of the gift card.

Could it be you?

 

In addition to the iPad Mini and the eBooks, all the other authors are giving away prizes today. To enter their giveaways, follow the links below to enter to win:

Steena Holmes bestselling author of Finding Emma is giving away a chocolate gift basket to someone who leaves a comment about their fairy godmother

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Rachel Thompson, bestselling author of Broken Pieces is giving away an Amazon Gift Card to a lucky commenter about “sisters”

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Christine Nolfi, award winning author of Treasure Me is giving away a gift basket of Charleston treats as her giveaway

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Patricia Sands, bestselling author of the hot new release, The Promise of Provence is giving away a beautiful book on the Most Beautiful Country Towns of Provence from Amazon to a lucky commenter.

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Bette Lee Crosby, ten-time award-winning author of Spare Change is giving away an Amazon Gift Card for answering a question.

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6 Authors, 60 eBooks And An iPad Mini For You

COMING SOON

A SPECIAL CELEBRATION OF WOMEN

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Six Bestselling Authors, Loads of prizes and giveaways and

special stories about the women we are and the women we love.

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EVENT STARTS RIGHT HERE ON SUNDAY APRIL 28TH

Bette Lee Crosby – Winner of Ten Literary Awards, Author of Spare Change

Karla Darcy – Golden Heart winner & Bestselling Author of Regency Romances including The Divided Hearts

Steena Holmes – Featured Speaker London Book Fair,  Author of Bestseller Finding Emma

Christine Nolfi – Award-Winning Author of Treasure Me, a USA Today “Best Pick”

Patricia Sands – Bestselling Author of the Hot New Release The Promise of Provence

Rachel Thompson – Author of Broken Pieces, nominee Women’s Studies Global e-Book Award

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