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Chick Lit Plus Awards: Day 5 Nominations
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Chick Lit Plus Awards: Day 5 Nominations

Categories: Novel That Should Be a Movie, Best Novel Made Into a Movie, Character with the Best Job

Prizes: 3 winners will receive a copy of Vivian Rising by Daniella Brodsky
Winners will be announced August 23rd.
Please post below to enter your nominations, or email me directly at Samantha@chicklitplus.com. The top 5 from each category will go on to the final voting process.
Some early nomination votes for these categories include:

Hook Line and Sink Him by Jackie Pilossoph¬- Novel That Should Be a Movie
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella- Best Novel Made Into a Movie
Marla Martenson- Matchmaker- Diary of Beverly Hills Matchmaker by Marla Martenson- Character with the Best Job

August 20, 2010
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Author Profile: Tilly Bagshawe
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Author Profile: Tilly Bagshawe

Author Name: Tilly Bagshawe

Website: http://www.tillybagshawe.com/index.php
Bio: Tilly Bagshawe upset the nuns at her catholic girls’ boarding school by getting pregnant unexpectedly at seventeen. Expelled but undaunted, she gave birth to a beautiful daughter alone and went on to Cambridge University as a single mom, taking her baby with her. Tilly had a successful career in finance before fulfilling her dream of becoming a writer. Now married with two more children, she lives in Los Angeles and London. In addition to her bestselling novels, Tilly has contributed to numerous British newspapers and magazines including Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Elle, The Sunday Times, The Times and The Daily Mail.
Titles: Showdown, Adored, Do No Disturb, Scandalous, Flawless. She also has two titles published under Sidney Sheldon: Mistress of the Game, and After the Darkness.

August 20, 2010
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Chelsea Handler to Host VMA’s
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Chelsea Handler to Host VMA’s

Outspoken E! comedienne Chelsea Handler has been tapped to host this years MTV VMA’s. Handler, who hosts her own late night comedy show and has penned three books, says in a statement, “”This has been a huge year for hip-hop and rap, and it is well-known that I have the closest ties with these communities – musically and sexually. I am to rap and hippity-hop what Warren Buffet is to finance, minus the sex.” MTV said they have put “the censors have been put on high alert,” in order to prepare for the funny woman to take the stage. Handler, 35, will be only second woman to host the VMAs solo, following Roseanne Barr in 1994. The VMA’s will air live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sept. 12 at 9 p.m. ET.

August 20, 2010
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Chick Lit Plus Awards: Day 4 Nominations
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Chick Lit Plus Awards: Day 4 Nominations

Categories: Best Female Character, Best Male Character, Best Series

Prizes: 2 winners will receive a copy of Reunion by JL Penn
Winners will be announced August 23rd.
Please post below to enter your nominations, or email me directly at Samantha@chicklitplus.com. The top 5 from each category will go on to the final voting process.
Some early nomination votes for these categories include:

Rachel- Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin- Best Female Character
‘I Heart’ Series by Lindsey Kelk- Best Series
‘Shopaholic’ Series by Sophie Kinsella- Best Series

August 20, 2010
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Love You Love Your Work Let’s Do Lunch! by Micheline McAllister
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Love You Love Your Work Let’s Do Lunch! by …

Ashling Donovan decides to move from Des Moines to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a successful teleplay writer. After moving in with her boyfriend, Ashling sets her sights on securing a job. But when said boyfriend unexpectedly breaks up with her for a Myspace girl, Ashling is desperate for a job, a home, and money. When she shows up to interview as a PA, Ashling is seized with an opportunity, a lie, that could change her life. Overnight, Ashling becomes a widely known head writer, creator of a new show, and her own personal assistant, all in one. But will the truth about her double life identity be discovered- and ruin her Hollywood reputation?
Love You, Love Your Work, Let’s Do Lunch! is Micheline McAllister’s second novel, and just as filled with juicy Hollywood secrets as the first. It was comical to read how people in LA will fall all over themselves trying to name drop, and what some people will do to get ahead. I highly enjoyed reading Ashling’s tale from an Iowa nobody to a big name in Hollywood, all because of a well crafted lie. I did think a couple times that there was no possible way someone could make up being a well respected writer, but in the land of celebrities, I guess almost anything is possible. I think chick lit readers will find humor in this novel, appreciate good writing, and be able to escape in the heroine’s double life.
Rating: 4/5

August 19, 2010
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Chick Lit Plus Awards: Day 3 Nominations
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Chick Lit Plus Awards: Day 3 Nominations

Categories: Best Novel from a Debut Author, Best Novel Written by a Celebrity, Most Intriguing Concept

Prizes: 2 winners will receive Tonya Planks debut novel Swallow
Winners will be announced August 23rd.
Please post below to enter your nominations, or email me directly at Samantha@chicklitplus.com. The top 5 from each category will go on to the final voting process.
Some early nomination votes for these categories include:

The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen- Best Novel from a Debut Author
LA Candy by Lauren Conrad- Best Novel Written by a Celebrity
Tuesday Tells it Slant by Holly Christine- Most Intriguing Concept

August 19, 2010
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Welcome To My Life by Micheline McAllister
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Welcome To My Life by Micheline McAllister

Samantha Kelly is a 32 year old personal assistant working in Hollywood, hoping for her big break. While working fourteen hour shifts and doing mundane tasks like calming down her bosses wife and picking up dry cleaning for everyone on set, Samantha wonders if she is stalled out. Long shifts, little pay, and no recognition on top of being single and having an untrustworthy best friend has Samantha ready to call in quits in Los Angeles. But when another friend offers Samantha a part in her movie, her life suddenly starts looking better and better. Offered more acting jobs, Samantha soon can afford the nicer things in life, including bigger homes and designer clothes. But while her bank account and fame keep expanding, Samantha’s love life and friendships seem to be depleting. The life of a working celebrity suddenly doesn’t seem so exciting and fabulous. Can Samantha find a way to balance it all?
Welcome to My Life, the debut novel from Micheline McAllister gives an insider’s look on the Hollywood scene. McAllister has worked in the entertainment industry as a personal assistant, actress, writer and artist, and holds nothing back when recounting this tale. I enjoyed reading both sides of the main character- her bleak life as “just” a personal assistant, to the high life of being an overpaid actress. I like the fact that this novel is written from an “insider” because there are a few eye-openers about the industry that had me shocked! My only downside was that Samantha’s character didn’t stick with me after I closed the book; I almost forgot who she was and what her story was. But the duration of the novel is witty, fast-paced, and filled with juicy tidbits that will satisfy chick lit fans.
Rating: 3.5/5

August 18, 2010
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Chick Lit Plus Awards: Day 2 Nominations
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Chick Lit Plus Awards: Day 2 Nominations

Categories: Best Villain in a Novel, Best Scandal in a Novel, Best Tear Jerker Novel
Prizes: 2 winners will receive both novels from Micheline McAllister- Welcome To My Life and Love You, Love Your Work, Let’s Do Lunch!
Winners will be announced August 23rd.
Please post below to enter your nominations, or email me directly at Samantha@chicklitplus.com. The top 5 from each category will go on to the final voting process.
Some early nomination votes for these categories include:

Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner- politician’s affair- Best Scandal
I Heart Paris by Lindsey Kelk- Cici- Best Villain
The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen- Best Tear Jerker

August 18, 2010
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Chick Lit Plus Awards- Nominations
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Chick Lit Plus Awards- Nominations

It is time to start giving nominations to those books and authors you feel deserve it! The first annual Chick Lit Plus Awards are kicking off, and I am so excited to see who you want to win. There are 21 categories in all, but I will be showcasing three different categories a day. Please not that even if that day has passed, everyone still has the opportunity to vote on each and every category. Just find the original post or send me an email at Samantha@chicklitplus.com for your vote to count. This week will be all nominations, and then I will narrow down each category to five potential winners. Beginning the week of August 30th, the final voting will begin!
I also have excellent prizes to give away, courtesy of some lovely authors. I will have different books up for grabs on each voting day. This includes your votes for nominations and the final vote- lots of ways to win! Each time you put your vote in, your name is submitted to win the prize for that day. The winners during the nominations voting will be announced August 23rd, and the winners during the final vote segment will be announced September 6th. So vote, vote, vote!
Thanks in advance to everyone who participates, and to all the authors who donated their novels for prizes!
Day 1 Categories: Best Laugh Out Loud Novel, Best Romance Novel, and Best BFF Novel (Best Friends Forever). Click here to vote!

August 17, 2010
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