Giveaway Winner! UPDATED

What better way to celebrate it finally being Friday, at the end of a long weird week, than to announce that someone - one of my blog visitors! - has just won a brand new book?! Yeah, I think it's a pretty awesome way to start the weekend too.

Remember Angela Shelton's totally awesome guest post on the Top 10 Reasons to Wear Hats? And how she's generously agreed to give some lucky duck a copy of The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton? Well, I just checked with Rafflecopter, and the lucky A Word's Worth winner is ...

Okay, so I had a cuh-razy hard time getting a winner to respond, but ... after more ups and downs than you could shake a stick at... the SUPER lucky winner is:

Valynn H!

I've already heard back from Valynn (who is one excited lucky duck), so this giveaway is finally complete! YAY!

If you didn't win this time, don't despair! I'm having so much fun hosting giveaways for blog tours, that I think I'm going to examine my piles of books and see what I have by way of a semi-mystery box ... What say you? A good idea?

Hope everyone has an awesome Friday and a wonderful weekend! It's almost Thanksgiving, people!

New Books + Winners!

Okay, before I share the books I received in October, I have two WINNERS to announce! Remember the two awesome Peachtree blog tours I got to be a part of? I have winners for both books!

Tammy 

has won a copy of the incredibly fun The Universe of Fair

Susan

has won a copy of the gorgeous, pro-library Return of the Library Dragon

Congratulations to both ladies, who have already sent me their mailing addresses! I think you'll enjoy the books -- I know I did.

And now, my new acquisitions ...

Won:

For Review:

NetGalley:

Swap/Purchase/Otherwise Received:

Pre-ordered a signed copy of Keepers, and got a sweet swag pack -- which Shannon had to send me after the fact. Just another reason everyone should buy her book: she cares!

Pre-ordered a signed Romeo and got another set of special swag! Yay swag!

Not too bad a haul for October, and I got to support some awesome, reader-friendly authors too. How'd you do?

Blogoversary Winners!

Yes, you read that post title correctly: WINNER-S! Plural!

Since I had almost 200 entries, I decided to add a second winner to receive a little something-something in the mail ... Are you curious?

The main giveaway winner is:

Gabby!

Gabby blogs over at Gabby Reads, and is a girl after my own heart: She has A Thing for YA.

And the surprise second winner? None other than

Candy!

Candy also blogs, you can find her at So Little Time... where you can read about her reading adventures, often involving Austenesque romances.

I've already emailed and confirmed both winners, and their prizes will be in the mail shortly. Please join me in congratulating these lovely reading ladies! And if you didn't win, don't despair: I still have a decent number of books in my "giveaway stash," and I may just decide to have another giveaway sooner rather than later. You never know ...

Giveaway Winner!

Friday the 13th is one reader's lucky day! On this second giveaway announcement of the week (these are kind of fun, y'all...I wish I could afford to do one every week!), I'll be announcing the winner of an ARC of Julianne Donaldson's debut novel Edenbrooke! The clean romance...the thrilling adventure...the smoldering hero!


There were 6 entry comments left, and I tossed the numbers into the handy-dandy number generator at Random.org, and it spit out this result:

Comment #4 belonged to Emily! Congratulations, Emily! I've emailed you, and you have 48 hours to reply before I have to return to Mr. Random and find a new winner.

If you didn't win, keep your head up and your eyes open. You never know when another giveaway may pop up, whether here or elsewhere. And I hope you do manage to find and read Edenbrooke!

BBE Scavenger Hunt Winner!

I hope everyone had a great long weekend, and got to spend plenty of fun, quality time with friends and family. Because I timed the BBE Scavenger Hunt giveaway to end right at the beginning of the holiday weekend (bad planning on my part, haha), I decided to wait until today to pick my winner ...

... Are you curious to find out who's going to be the lucky winner of a mystery prize pack?

Wait no longer, dear readers, because the entries were jumbled and Rafflecopter picked lucky #11 as the winning entry!

Christina, of A Reader of Fictions, you are lucky #11!

Christina left a comment saying the book(s) that have drawn her in and not let go have been:
Recently Starters, Croak, Spellcaster, Scarlet...the list goes on.

I haven't read any of those yet (but Scarlet is totally on my To Read Soon list), but thank Christina - and everyone else - for sharing their arresting reads.

Check your email Christina!

And for everyone else - don't despair, there's another giveaway going on right now! It ends Friday morning, so enter quick (shortcut: click the Edenbrooke cover image under "Giveaway" in the upper lefthand corner of the blog).

Giveaway Winners!

I've had a pretty "meh" week (complete with getting sick, ugh), so I don't know about you, but I am super happy it's Friday! I do know that two of you are fixing to get real happy about this Friday: I've got giveaway winners to announce!

Yup, The Thorn and the Blossom giveaway ended yesterday, and Rafflecopter helped me pick two winners. Are you ready to find out  who the lucky winners are? Who am I kidding, of course you are...

Drumroll please....

Candy M

&

Colleen K

Congratulations, ladies!
I've already emailed you, so check your inboxes and/or spam filters, and let me know where these books need to be sent!

I'm excited for you  both - and I hope you'll let me know which side you read first: Brendan or Evelyn!

If you didn't win this time, don't despair - there will be more giveaways!

Wander Dust winners!

I love announcing winners! And today I get to share the happy news that three people have won something cool!

First, remember the prizes?

One grand prize winner is going to receive a signed paperback of Wander Dust, signed bookmarks, and a really, really amazing Tolkien necklace.

Two other winners are getting signed bookmarks.

All around, it's a pretty cool little giveaway!

So, winners...Are you curious? Well, let me make the big announcement...

Huge congratulations to the winners, who have already been emailed (check your inboxes and/or spam filters, ladies!) and have until Friday morning at 9am EST to send me their addresses.

And a huge "THANK YOU!" to everyone who visited my blog and facebook pages during this tour. I hope you like what you see, and will come back soon! Plus, I have it on good authority that more giveaways are in the future...

Giveaway Winner!

Okay, so I had some difficulties getting a review finished for today, but...how about a GIVEAWAY WINNER?!

Yeah, I thought you'd like that.

This morning was the cut-off to enter to win an ebook copy of Double Clutch.
There were 3 entries, and when I consulted Random.org, I got this result:

And just who is lucky, winning commenter number 3?

So glad you asked...

Not only does Jessica crack me up, but she's got a really nifty giveaway of her own going on right now! If you like Mr. Darcy and Starbucks, you definitely want to check it out.

Jess, I'm fixing to email you!

And to everyone else reading this: there's going to be another AMAZING giveaway coming up soon. Real soon. Next-weekend-soon. Stay tuned!

Giveaway Winner!

It's October 12th, which means one super-exciting thing: I get to announce the winner of the Cheshire Cheese Cat giveaway!

Since I used the super-nifty Rafflecopter giveaway system, the winner is announced on that widget. But I won't make you go back to that post, I'll tell you here!

So now, without further ado - but with much smiling applause - allow me to congratulate ....

Entry 16: Stephanie M!

Stephanie has already been emailed and has 48 hours to claim her prize. If she does not, then I'll have to draw another winner.

For those who didn't win, there's still a chance! Swing by and check out The Cheshire Cheese Cat Challenge hosted by Peachtree Publishers - but hurry, it ends Friday evening!