A little flurry of excitement over the weekend: the just-released audiobook version of The Four Ms. Bradwells showed up on the itunes bestseller list at #12, just ten behind Bossypants. Since I’m a big audio listener, I’m thrilled – and attribute it all to my amazing reader, Karen White.
I first “met” Karen over the phone, when she called to ask me how to pronounce several phrases in the novel. I told her yes it was Me-a, not My-a (in case you were wondering) and referred most of her questions to my Latin expert, John Downey, who is also amazing.
But one of the nicest things that has happened so far on my book tour is I got to meet Karen in person at my reading at Pages in Manhattan Beach (a beautiful store; see the photo at the bottom of the post). She read a little both from my book and from Sarah’s. And she was even nicer and more wonderful in person than she was on the phone.
A small world story, too: It turns out Karen used to be neighbors with my law school housemate Darby Bayliss, who was also at the reading. We all had a great time together afterwards.
To celebrate this bestsellerdom, since I don’t have any CDs of The Four Ms. Bradwells audio, I’m doing a giveaway of your choice: a signed first edition hardcover of my first novel, The Language of Light, which will be rereleased in paperback next month, or a signed set of CDs for The Wednesday Sisters. (If you like to listen on an ipod, like I do, you can stick the disks into your computer and import it into itunes, and you’re good to go.)
To enter to win, just leave a comment below (on the original blog, for those of you who might be seeing this on Goodreads, Amazon, or elsewhere) and make sure you’re a fan on my facebook author page. If you’re the winner and you’re also a fan on Karen’s page (I am!), or have retweeted my tweet of this, I’ll send you both.
Will pull a winner when I get back from Chicago in June. Happy reading and/or listening! – Meg
Post Note: The winner, using the random.org number generator, is Heather McBride, who blogs at ProudBookNerd. Thanks, everyone, for participating!
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What a lovely duo. Karen does read beautifully, and is as charming as her voice.
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Congratulations! I really enjoyed The Four Ms. Bradwells, and would love to get my hands on a signed copy of The Language of Light.
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What a small world we seem to live in! I cannot wait to read both the language of light and the four ms. Bradwells, as well as the beach trees!
I loved The Wednsday
Sisters & am sure I would love the Language of Light. If I win, I MIGHT not publish a picture of you from Patti Gianaris’s 14th Birthday Party!
I love audiobooks and really enjoyed The Wednesday Sisters, so I will add The Four Ms. Bradwells to my audiobook queue. I would love to win a copy of The Language of Light. It looks fantastic.
Congrats on the bestsellerdom! I would love to win either one of these books in either form. I’m sure they’re both great reading experiences
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Thanks, Meg – I’m so glad the audiobook is doing so well! I will be giving away a copy of it soon, so Facebook Fans, keep your eyes on the posts!
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your success with all of us!
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Congrats on the success of The Four Ms. Bradwells. I just finished reading it and it has been added to my “recommend to others” stack, alongside The Wednesday Sisters, which is at the top of that stack! Looking forward to reading The Language of Light.
I’m thinking I need to draw Teresa as the winner! But there are so many bad photos of me floating around the internet …
Hmmm, how bad is it?!
Hi, Meg–Great news about the itunes list! A set of the Wednesday Sisters CDs sounds good, but alas, I have no photos to bribe you with…
Congrats. Both sound good but I’d be interested in the audio of The Wednesday Sisters.
They sound like terrific books
Congratulations on your success!
Sounds awesome! I’m a fan of both of you on Facebook. I’d love to win a signed first edition hardcover of Language of Light.
Meg, I hope to meet you at the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago in a couple of weeks (I’m registered for your event). Meanwhile, I’ll keep my fingers crossed that I win one of your giveaways.
Would love that, Paulette!
This book looks great.
Congrats on your success, Meg! I’d love a copy of The Language of Light.
Congratulations on the success of your books. I just finished the Four Ms. Bradwells. I’d love to have the copy of the Wednesday Sisters cds to listen to while I drive my sons across country this summer.
Thank you.
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I loved The Wednesday Sisters! The Four Ms. Bradwells is the top book on my to-read stack. The Language of Light is on my Amazon Wish List A signed copy of this book would be much appreciated!
It’s not bad at all! I WILL get around to posting all the pictures from that party as well as our 8th grade picnic pictures someday…
Hi Meg, I am a HUGE fan of audio C.D.’s and would love to win the copy you’re generously giving away. Being read to as an adult. What could be more soothing?
(Other than the cup of tea and chocolate tto go with it that is!)
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>Other than the cup of tea and chocolate tto go with it that is!
Amen. Or scones! Or those little cookie-like crackers you get in Engand.
How fun to see your rise to even greater fame! You deserve it.=)
Congrats! I’ve loved keeping up with you on shewrites.com. It’s such a great feeling to have accomplished writers on line to talk to
Hi Meg, Not sure if we’re supposed to comment again, but all’s fair in love and war and I LOVE READING! Congratulations on your every success and for willingly mentoring others in the process.
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Love audio books! Books sounds great!! Liked both FB pages Shannon Johnson!
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I would LOVE to read “The Language of Light”, or “The Wednesday Sisters”. Although I usually love reading the book, I also like having audiobooks to listen to when I go for my work out or when I’m taking a road-trip (I have one coming up soon, at the end of June!). So, either would be amazing. Thank you SO much for this amazing giveaway opportunity!
~Hira~
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Just LOVED Wednesday Sisters…even visited the park in Palo Alto and took some photos…Now I am loving The Four Ms. Bradwells. It is the first book I downloaded on my Kindle…sort of miss a “real” book!
Wow, what a small world! I love when things such as Karen White being neighbors with your law school housemate, happen. It’s a reminder of how connected we all are!
Congratulations on the itunes audio listing of The Four Ms. Bradwells, wonderful! I really appreciate this giveaway, too. I’m a newbioe to audiobooks but love the idea of being able to sit and listen to someone reading. I’m a big fan of you and Karen White, too. Thank you to both of you for your beautiful books and wonderful writing!
~ Amy
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Congratulations, Meg!! Such great news. I’d sure love to read your first book. Wednesday Sisters was delightful.
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These sound so interesting! I plan to gift one to a friend for her birthday and have added the others to my audible queue. I would LOVE to win one too of course.
I, too…would love to win an audiobook. I love all things related to books as you can see by my blog. Feel free to journey over and take a look:
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Would love to listen to the audio! Thanks for the opportunity.
Congrats, Meg!
Thank you all! I’ve just random number generated a winner, and will post the details shortly.