Valentine’s Day is next Thursday. Between now and then, one lucky winner will receive a copy of my latest STAC Mystery, My Deadly Valentine, in this simple, free to enter competition.
All you have to do is tell us who would be your perfect Valentine and why. Your answer can be any person, real or fictitious, from any time in history (or even the future) and the competition is open to anyone over the age of 18. You can be serious, funny, eccentric, even saucy, but please keep it clean.
You have until midnight GMT, next Thursday February 14th, to post, and you can do so either as a comment here, or on the Sanford Mysteries Facebook Page (you will have to “like” the page to comment there).
The competition will be judged over the weekend of 15-17 February, and the winners will be notified by email.
The winner will receive a paperback copy of My Deadly Valentine.
Two runners-up will receive e-copies of My Deadly Valentine in the format of their choice.
Maureen Vincent-Northam, editor of the STAC Mysteries, will judge the competition.
To learn more about the STAC Mysteries visit the site at https://sites.google.com/site/sanford3rdageclubmysteries/
If you’d like to learn more about My Deadly Valentine, check the book page at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00B9HHF8I
So come on. Who is your ideal Valentine, and why.
There’s no question, it’s Maureen! Oh. Have I just excluded myself?
Reads to me like an attempt to influence the judge, David
Ooh, Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) … straight from the lake … whoops, did I say that out loud? Then of course, with my twisted way of writing romantic historicals, someone would come along and kill him off. Ho hum. ;D
You’ll probably laugh at this but I’ve always had a secret fascination for John Major! He appears quiet and conservative (with a small ‘c’) but I’m sure that, given the right woman, he turns into a passionate beast! If we went out for a meal, we’d look like any other boring married couple – but when we got home there’d be steam between the sheets!
Someone was currying favour there before you!
Very clever, David!
I would like a composite man, please. Hugh Jackman for the wolfy manliness (but no singing, please), Chekhov for compassion, conversation and sensitive intellect, Count Dracula for the sex, Hugh Fernley-W to wash up and then Patrick Stewart’s voice for a bedtime story.
Yes, I think Maureen too. Okay, Paul Newman, I know he’s dead but if he wasn’t, he would be able to talk to me about acting…
My real person today (I say today, because I’m notoriously fickle) would be Chris Evans,(no, not that one), especially the way he looked in the movie Push. Has an amazing bod, gorgeous blue eyes with long lashes, lovely mouth, and manages to look both sexy and vulnerable.
And as I’m as greedy as I am fickle, I’ll choose a fictional Valentine too – so many to choose, so little time. On the short list….Faramir, Sue Moorcroft’s Ratty, and Christina Courtenay’s Killian. I’ll choose…..drum roll….Killian! Just.
A Valentine – at my age?
Let me think … what about a silver-service dinner under the stars at Koobi Fora, Richard Leakey’s romantic campsite on the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya – with the man himself, fifty years back from now.
Champagne, and the music of the crickets, with the soft lapping of wavelets, and a smouldering fire between us and the shadowy shapes of crocodiles lurking on the sands.
Sorry Maureen, but you will have to take second place.
My Valentine,
happens to be my height (tall women weren’t easy to find),
my age (give or take 15 months),
understands me perfectly (despite what I might claim).
She’s called Helen, and for the past 43 years has put up with a Valentine card from me (a different one each year!).
I know she’s my wife, but I don’t hold that against her!
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Well. Colin Firth for his looks maybe but not sure I can really beat OH After more than forty years he can still surprise even if not on Valentine’s Day. After all there are 364 other days and surprises are more of a surprise on those!
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