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One US and one UK winner will receive a “Movie Night Prize Pack” with a few of Jackie’s favorites:

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We’re kicking off five days of giveaways for the holiday season!

Starting on Monday, December 19 through Friday, December 23, visit my Facebook page and answer the trivia question of the day.

Then, fill out the contact info form on this page. If you have the correct answer and you’ve provided all of your contact info, you’ll be entered to win a Jackie Collins Holiday Gift Bag with a:

• Reusable Lucky Rules tote
• Lucky Rules mug
• Lovers & Players notebook
• JC paperback

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And here’s to a rockin’ 2012!!!

Love and good health, and stay safe,

Jackie

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Goddess of Vengeance

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of chick lit novelists who aren’t talented enough to dust Jackie Collins’ stack of writing pads… in the NEW new media capital of the world, St. Petersburg, Florida!

By Bob Andelman

The first time Jackie Collins was a guest on Mr. Media, I have to admit I was a little nervous. This is a novelist who has sold about 4 billion copies of her books and has been producing quality, popular work since I was in short pants.

Would she hang up the minute the first dumbass remark came out of my mouth?

You can LISTEN to this interview with novelist JACKIE COLLINS, author of GODDESS OF VENGEANCE, by clicking the video player above!

And when I inevitably stumbled over the title of her then current book, Poor Little Bitch Girl, would she put me in my place with a withering glance so toxic I could feel it through the phone line?

Nope. She was a doll.

I remember finishing that interview and feeling like that was a keeper. Miss Collins was charming, effervescent and, for struggling and successful writers alike to hear, quite the inspiration.

I’m quite eager to spend the next 30 minutes with her to hear about her new book, Goddess of Vengeance, which continues the adventures of Lucky Santangelo and her supporting cast. I’m also hopeful we’ll hear more about her craft and how the autobiography is coming. I might even ask what her actor sister Joan is up to this time. Or I might not.
JACKIE COLLINS audio excerpt:

I’m not that explicit but I’m explicit enough”

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Time is precious. I am completely on time and if people are 10 minutes late I am pissed; in that 10 minutes I could have been doing something. At least I could have written another page. – J.C.

Jackie Collins’s carpe minutom approach to life is regulated by at least seven Cartier clocks on her prairie-like desk, and when she strays from her office there is a Mavado on her wrist, which, come evening, is changed for a Harry Winston. If one were so minded it might be possible to see a metaphor for the tawdry glitter of the life she chronicles in a vintage gem-set watch that used to belong to Billie Holiday’s pimp. For On Time she slips on a Chanel J12, which she commissioned herself, adding a diamond-set bracelet from another watch, as she considered the plain ceramic links a little, well, plain for life in Beverly Hills.

In the 1980s, she recalls, “powerful women ran the town and would put together the biggest stars and producers at their dinners and parties.” By the 90s the matriarchal period has passed into Hollywood history–but not before she had put it all down, longhand, on page after page of yellow legal pads. This is a method that she has seen no reason to change since her debut, The World is Full of Married Men, in 1968. And although those Hollywood Wives of the 80s may have lost their power, as she heads towards her 30th book (Goddess of Vengeance was her 28th), she runs more risk of running out of legal pads than she does of her inspiration.

Jackie Collins, photographed by Doug Inglish on June 17, 2011, at home in Los Angeles, in her writing den, wearing a Chanel J12.

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Hi everyone,

Well, the holidays are just around the corner, and every year I get letters from fans asking if I would consider doing special holiday gifts like a signed first edition of one of my books personally autographed by me with a special message for a friend or family member.

So, for those of you who’ve been asking, I’m doing something a little different this holiday season to say thanks for such a great year…

My most recent book, Goddess of Vengeance, was a New York Times Bestseller and went to #1 in the UK.  Also, we passed 100,000 fans on Facebook, and we’re about to hit 70,000 followers on Twitter.

The numbers keep growing, and it’s all thanks to you — my fans. I deeply appreciate your love and support, your continued loyalty, and your desire to lose yourself in a good story!

So, here’s the deal… As usual, I’m going to spend most of my time this holiday season writing.

But instead of books, I’m going to be writing special personalized notes to YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY.

We’ve secured RARE first-edition hardcover versions of these books in the Jackie Collins Store:

One fan — Angela, in Florida — asked me to autograph a book with this message to her mom…

“To an amazing mom!
A strong, passionate woman. Congratulations on finally dumping dad!

xo, Jackie

That’s just one example. You can make it your own, so long as it doesn’t get too raunchy!

Anyway, we’ve only got a few dozen of these first-edition hardcover books available, and I’m sure they’ll sell out very quickly.  If you’re interested in buying one for your friends/family this year, head on over to the store and secure your copy now!

Let me know what message you want sent and who it should be autographed to.  Click here to get started.

Cheers, and Happy Holidays!
Jackie

P.S. - This offer is only good until Dec. 10th  So if you want a book before Christmas or New Years, get going!

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A Jackie Collins novel is an excellent template for life. Family must be cherished and protected at all costs, time and care must be put into precious relationships and kindness is usually repaid with loyalty…Jackie celebrates the brave, intelligent and strong woman who is not only bound to survive whatever life throws at her but to come out the other side having made huge success of herself and her family against all odds’ Daily Mail reviewing Goddess of Vengeance, April 2011.

Let rewind for a moment, Jackie’s first novel was published in 1968. Barbara Cartland called it ‘nasty, filthy, and disgusting’. It was banned in Australia and South Africa. It went stratospheric in the U.K. and the U.S. Its title? The World is Full of Married Men. A year later came The Stud, followed by Sinners, The Love Killers, The World is Full of Divorced Women, a triumphant succession of novels published through the seventies, eighties, and nineties and into the 21st century. Over four decades of writing, over 400 million copies sold of an oeuvre consisting of 28 titles and counting, with readers in over 40 countries. Jackie has received no less than five Golden Pans (awarded to authors published by Pan who sell a million copies of a title). Her most recent novel, Goddess of Vengeance, went straight to Number 1 on the hardcover fiction bestseller list earlier this year.

Let’s square Barbara Cartland’s opinion with that of others: Louis Malle, the late film director, called Jackie ‘a raunchy moralist’, Vanity Fair hailed her as ‘Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust‘. Jackie is without dispute one of the world’s top selling novelists. Her star shows no sign of fading…

How come? Simply put, Jackie knows what her readers want. She is a born story teller. We love the gorgeous settings – Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Manhattan – we love the skill and bravado with which she weaves her plots, the glamourous lifestyle of her characters, the guessing games at to who might be who. ‘I write about real people in disguise,’ she says. ‘If anything, my characters are toned down – the truth is much more bizarre.’ She never talks down to her readers, she never shortchanges them. Many have been with her from the outset, others have come on board as time goes by and never left. She writes with enormous passion, fast pace and an unwavering commitment to tell a satisfying story. Lucky Santangelo, who made her first appearance in Chances (1981) and has gone on to be the star of seven subsequent novels, Jackie has developed her most popular and enduring heroine, beautiful, formidable, shrewd and sassy. Lucky may live a life we can only fantasize about, and yet we root for her, we adore and admire her, we want to be her. She is an amazing woman, a consummate professional, a true survivor like her creator.

Keep reigning, Jackie.

–Suzanne B. of Galaxy National Book Awards 2011

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