**Please note: the giveaway is now closed. Winners will be announced shortly.

Well, folks, we’ve been having a great time these last couple of months, getting ready for the April 2nd release of Love Irresistibly. Now here we are, one week away, which means we’ve come down to the last giveaway. And it’s a big one.

This week I’m giving away a grand prize of an iPad mini (16 GB wi-fi, winner can choose either white or black) and a $25 gift card to Amazon to start loading it up with books through the Kindle app. Already have an iPad mini? Don’t want an iPad mini? No problem. If you win the grand prize and don’t want the iPad mini, you can substitute that part of the prize for a $325 gift card to either Amazon or Barnes & Noble. That’ll buy a lot of books.

In addition, I’m giving away five runner-up prizes of a signed copy of Love Irresistibly. So what do you have to do to enter, you ask? It’s simple: spread the word about Love Irresistibly. Here are the details:

1. Post somewhere letting people know about the upcoming release of Love Irresistibly. (To be clear–you need to post about the book release, not just that I’m hosting a giveaway.) You can talk about the book on your blog, your website, on Facebook, Twitter (my Twitter name is @juljames, for those of you who want to get extra-super bonus points for including that). Don’t have a blog? Don’t tweet? No problem–you can post a comment on somebody else’s blog, or even on a message board.

2. Then, come back here and comment below with a link to wherever you’ve posted your qualifying blog/post/tweet/comment. This is important, as your comment below is your entry in the giveaway.

3. Please make sure your link works! If I can’t confirm you that you’ve posted/commented/blogged/whatever-ed about the book, you won’t be entered in the giveaway.

4. To qualify, your blog/comment/tweet must be new (meaning it must be posted starting March 26th).

5. For those of you who want to include details about Love Irresistibly in your post, a summary of the book can be found here and there’s an excerpt here. Oh–and there’s also a very cool video interview of me talking about the book here.

6. In order to give everyone who promotes my book an equal chance to win, I am limiting the giveaway to one entry per person. But feel free to spread the word far and wide about the release of Love Irresistibly regardless. : )

7. The contest is open until 10pm CST on Sunday, March 31, 2013. Everyone who correctly enters will be in the running for both the grand prize and the runner-up prizes. The giveaway is open internationally, and authors are eligible to win as well. Winners will be chosen at random from among eligible entries.

8. Special note for international entrants: Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t ship iPads outside the U.S. So, if the grand prize winner lives outside the U.S., I’ll substitute the iPad mini portion of the prize for a $325 gift certificate to either Apple.com or Amazon.com.

Thanks, everyone, for helping me spread the word about Love Irresistibly. And good luck to everyone who enters!

Wow, over 550 comments! What a great turnout for the Love Irresistibly ARC giveaway! I’m so thrilled you all are looking forward to the book release. (Which is less than a month away now, whoo-hoo!)

So without further ado, the winners of the five ARCs of Love Irresistibly are…

Timitra (comment #30)

Karen Lawson (comment #23)

Sandra (comment #333)

Melinda (comment #269)

Mel (comment #143)

Congratulations! Winners, I’ll be contacting you shortly via email.

Everyone else: well, the bad news is that I’m now out of ARCs. But the good news is, I’m not out of giveaways. So stayed tuned…

**Please note: the giveaway is now closed. Winners will be announced shortly.

Here we are, folks–only five weeks away from the April 2nd release of Love Irresistibly! Not too long now…

A few weeks ago, I ran a giveaway for two ARCs (Advance Review Copies) of the book, and, man, you guys came out in droves! I’m so thrilled you’re all looking forward to reading it. So how about if we have some more fun this week?

This time, I have five ARCs of Love Irresistibly up for grabs. Note: this will be the last ARC giveaway from me; after this I’m all tapped out. (But there will be other fun giveaways coming in March, I promise.)

Want to know what people are saying about Love Irresistibly? Here are a couple early reviews:

“LOVE IRRESISTIBLY has firmly established Julie James as one of today’s premiere contemporary romance authors. Fresh and inventive, full of intelligent people and witty repartee, this is a great story in a fantastic series …. recommended not only to fans of the series, but fans of solid and realistic love stories.” —Fresh Fiction

“James’ latest in her FBI/US Attorney series takes readers along on a ride filled with heat and passion. Cade and Brooke’s battle of wills keeps the tension high and the chemistry sizzling. Add to that good pacing and strong storytelling, and this is a read that will keep you turning the pages. Truly entertaining.” —Romantic Times

And here’s a brief description of the book:

HE’S USED TO GETTING WHAT HE WANTS. . .

A former football star and one of Chicago’s top prosecutors, Assistant U.S. Attorney Cade Morgan will do anything to nail a corrupt state senator, which means he needs Brooke Parker’s help. As general counsel for a restaurant company, she can get a bug to the senator’s table at one of her five-star restaurants so the FBI can eavesdrop on him. All Cade has to do is convince Brooke to cooperate—and he’s not afraid to use a little charm, or the power of his office, to do just that.

AND WHAT HE WANTS IS HER.

A savvy businesswoman, Brooke knows she needs to play ball with the U.S. Attorney’s office—even if it means working with Cade. No doubt there’s a sizzling attraction beneath all their sarcastic quips, but Brooke is determined to keep things casual. Cade agrees—until a surprising turn of events throws his life into turmoil, and he realizes that he wants more than just a good time from the one woman with whom he could fall terrifyingly, irresistibly in love . . .

An excerpt of Love Irresistibly can be found here.

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Now for the giveaway part: all you have to do to enter is leave a comment below. It’s that easy. (Note: those of you reading this on my Goodreads page should click here to leave a comment.) Five randomly-selected winners will receive an ARC of Love Irresistibly. Giveaway is open internationally and will run until this Sunday, March 3rd, at 9pm CST. No multiple entires please; only one comment/entry will be counted per person.

**Don’t miss out: For those of you on Goodreads, my publisher is also sponsoring a giveaway for twenty-five (25) copies of Love Irresistibly. You can enter by clicking on this link. (U.S. only on that giveaway.)

Also, next week I’ll be including a new exclusive excerpt of Love Irresistibly in my monthly newsletter–if you haven’t signed up, you can do so via the “Subscribe” box on my home page.

Good luck everyone, and remember to check back over the next several weeks!

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