A Giveaway for the 61 Current Followers!

My blog has been up for not quite 2 months and I already have 61 followers!! That is exciting to me and I appreciate it! I hope you are getting to enjoy the reviews and memes I post! I especially hope you find some new authors and books to read!!

Before I get more new followers from the BBAW Giveaways I decided to reward the existing group of followers for their support. So this contest is for YOU CURRENT 61 Followers!!

I am giving a $10.00 gift certificate - online or gift card - whichever works for the winner! This is just a one comment entry per person! Please comment to this post to enter and I would like you to tell me what you like about my blog or what items you would like to see here! The contest will remain open until Thursday September 17th at midnight central time, with the winner to be announced on Friday!

Speaking of items to see here - I will be starting author interviews... if not during this busy week then next week!

Since this is a gift certificate/card of choice, it is open worldwide! I'm not sure which of my followers are across the seas but I think there are a couple of you out there! You would know what would work for you if you win so I hope you will enter for your chance!

Thanks again to each and every one of you for your support!!!

Winner of Friday's Interview Contest!

Thank you authors and readers who came by and commented on my Interview/Contest!
WOW what great support! I combined the lists from the two posts (one entry per person) and listed them chronologically; then I used random generator!

The winner is: Joyce DiPastena! Joyce is the Author of two medieval romances:

Loyalty's Web

and

Illuminations of the Heart.

Visit her website HERE.

Congratulations Joyce!

Since I won Loyalty's Web a couple of weeks ago Joyce has asked me to do the review on that one. So it is being inserted into my review schedule to be done in two weeks!

Sunday Words of Encouragement 9/13/09

Today our Pastor gave a message of HOPE!

Here is a wonderful old Hymn:
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On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand!

My hope is built on notheing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus' Name

When darkness seems to hide His face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil

His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood
When all around my soul gives way
He then is all my Hope and Stay

When He shall come with trumpet sound
Oh may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne

Chorus:
Oh Christ the solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand.

A verse for today:

Romans 15:13 (New International Version)
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I pray today for Grandparents and for Girls missions!

Giveaways for BBAW!!

The BBAW widget is up and we can start to link our giveaways so here are the Giveaways I will be doing starting on Monday:

Two $5.99 gift certificates (two winners) at Desert Breeze Publishing. Lots of wonderful books there!

Two $6.00 gift certificates (two winners) at White Rose Publishing. Lots of sweet inspirational books to choose from there!

One $10.00 online gift certificate at Barnes and Noble.

One $10.00 online gift certificate at The Literacy Site Store.

One $10.00 gift certificates at Amazon.

So that covers five days PLUS a Grand Prize at the end of the week of a $25.00 gift card for Barnes and Noble.

All of the above will be open "worldwide". I don't honestly know if you can use a download on your computer or if you have a reader or how the Borders, Amazon or B&N cards are for overseas.... so that will be up to you to decide!

I will also have some book giveaways posted during the week which will be US or Canada only.

Any contest connected to BBAW will have this little balloon gift graphic!

So come visit and enter the giveaways when they are posted if you are interested!!

AND have a GREAT WEEK visiting and sharing at the book blogs!!

Martha's Contest for September 11, 2009!

I’ve been interviewed as a reviewer by Carol J. North, Author of Eternally His and other good books.

To participate in the contest – make a comment regarding the post. There are different prizes for authors or readers, so please state in your comment whether you are an author or a reader. Make sure to leave your e-mail or a way for me to contact you. On Sunday PM, a winner will be drawn from those commenting and I will announce the winner Monday morning.

The Prizes:
Author Prize: A Review of any book you provide. I will pull the chosen book into my schedule and complete the review within two weeks. I will post it at my blog, Amazon, Goodreads, SaSR, WRDF (the review group not BTL) and other places that might be appropriate!

Reader Prize: Choose a book as a prize from the list of Prize books on the blog, any of the print books shown in my Mailbox Monday posts, or any of the print review books posted that were not giveaways. I may take two weeks to get the book to you as I may read it if I haven’t yet! If an international participant wins I will give an e-book of their choice up to a value of $7.00.

Books from which to Select a Prize:

(HB is hardback; A is autographed and PA is personally autographed)

Bennett, Sara - Led Astray by a Rake
Bennett, TJ - The Promise (A)
Cassidy, Dakota - The Accidental Human
Evanovich, Janet - Foul Play
Flielding, Liz - Wedded in a Whirlwind (PA)
Holby, Cindy - Fallen (PA)
Holly, Emma - Kissing Midnight
Jeffries, Sabrina - Don’t Bargain With the Devil
Johnson, Alissa - Tempting Fate
Kent, Alison - No Limits (A)
Knight, Deidre - Red Fire
Laurens, Stephanie + It Happened One Night (Anthology HB)
Long, Julie Anne - Like No Other Lover (A)
Maclaine, Jenna - Grave Sins
McCray, Cheyenne - Moving Target (A)
Moncrief, Skhye - He of the Sword (A)
Mallory, Margaret - Knight of Desire
Rodale, Maya - The Rogue and the Rival (PA)
Rogers, Donna - Marie Meant to Be
Ryan, Hank Phillippi - Prime Time (A)
Scott, Amanda - Tamed by a Laird
Snyder, Maria V. - Storm Glass (PA)
Stockham, Kay - Another Man’s Baby (PA)