YourNovel.com Review and Giveaway

This holiday season, loving couples everywhere can snuggle next to the fireplace and read to each other from a personalized romance novel from YourNovel.com. That's right: personalized, as in they are the stars of the book, and believe me, they'll want to turn the pages to find out what they'll be doing next in their fantasy adventure.

YourNovel currently has over 30 titles to choose from, and each book is laced throughout with more than 25 details about the starring couple crafted from an online questionnaire, such as their names, hometown, places of work, eye and hair color, best friends, favorite perfume, cologne and music, affectionate nicknames for one another, and how long they’ve been a couple. The customized capers come in both huggy-kissy "mild" or sexy-seductive "wild" versions. There's even the option of adding the starring couple's photo to the book cover, and novels come in paperback or hardback.

Depending on the title selected, the starring couple finds themselves skinny-dipping in the Caribbean, frolicking under a waterfall, making love none-too-easily in a swinging hammock, or encountering a pair of vampires. And, because these novels are adventure romances, the starring couple will also be chasing bad guys on wave runners off the U.S. coast, foiling a stalker on a luxury cruise ship, tangling with a cougar in the wild, fighting off bad guys near Rome’s Coliseum or confronting black pearl thieves in Tahiti.

For a specific holiday-season slant, YourNovel has available "Season's Greetings, Season's Love" by Marcy Thomas. The starring couple go on a romantic getaway to a picturesque mountain hamlet called Harmony, where the winter holidays are a time of enchantment and celebration. They find a Currier-and-Ives painting come to life, but an unexpected turn of events tests their love and the fabric of this utopian village.

YourNovel.com’s founders Kathy M. Newbern and J.S. Fletcher, who form the husband/wife writing team Fletcher Newbern, have been penning the novels since they met and fell in love in 1992. They've written 18 of the company's novels and have groomed new authors to expand the line-up.

Who buys the books as holiday gifts? People who are giving gifts to someone who loves to read romance novels, or anyone looking for a unique, thoughtful gift.

My Opinion

I really love the idea behind YourNovel.com! I love reading, but to have a book with my name and my husband's name in it is the ultimate romance novel!

Besides being personalized, I love that these books are actually really interesting and good reads! They are all good storylines and will keep you interested!

I recommend Your Novels for a great holiday gift this year - either for you or your spouse or for that fun couple that would love a book personalized just for them!

Buy It: You can purchase a paperback Your Novel book for $49.95 on YourNovel.com

Win It: Your Novel is generously offering (1) $50 Gift Certificate (which can be used toward the purchase of merchandise on their website valued at $50 or more) to a lucky winner!

Enter here for a chance to win:

$50 gift certificate to YourNovel.com

Ok, here are the rules:

1) This giveaway will end December 7, 2010 at 12:00 P.M. (noon) central time.

2) Must include email address in comment/entry to qualify to win (so I can let you know you won) or tell me it is in your profile

3) This giveaway is open to worldwide entrants (as long as you have an email address).

How to Enter:

***Mandatory Entry***

(must do this one before all others to qualify to win)

- Be a follower of The Review Stew on Google Friend Connect (publicly) and tell me you are currently one or became one in a comment below

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4) Follow Your Novel on Twitter - let me know in a comment

5) Enter any of my other giveaways - see the list on right hand side of blog. Let me know each giveaway entered in a comment (up to 5 entries only for giveaways entered)

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Winners will be chosen randomly by Random.org, contacted by email and Your Novel will send your prize by mail.

* Thank you to Your Novel for their product for review! Disclosure - This product was given for review for my honest opinion. No other compensation was given.*