BBAW Thursday Giveaway!

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

If you ever scroll down the right hand column of my blog you will find a button for The Hunger Site. If you go there you can click and help provide food to the hungry. Doesn't cost you anything but a minute to click! And while there you can click to help fund Cancer research, Animal Rescue, Child's Health, the Rainforest and Literacy! Six quick clicks to help others!

TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

1. Today please click on The Hunger Site or one of the other sites and then tell me which one you clicked to help others! Include your email address so that I can contact you if you win.

2. For an extra entry, become a follower or tell me if you are already a follower.

3. For another entry, share this giveaway on your blog, my space, facebook or Twitter and tell me where you shared it.

You may include all your entries in one comment. (Three total entries possible.)

This contest will close Midnight (Central) on September 20, 2009. The winner will be randomly selected from all entries.

Giveaway for One Scream Away

Here is another Hachette Book Giveaway for One Scream Away! There will be FIVE (5) Winners!!

by Kate Brady
Mass Market Paperback
Pages 464
Published by Forever in 2009
List Price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0-446-54152-4
Blurb:
Killer Chevy Bankes is a master of disguise, and just paroled, he's coming after the woman who sent him to jail, the beautiful antiques expert Beth Denison. A set of antique dolls brings Beth into his sight, and inspire Chevy's disturbing crimes as he draws closer to Beth and her young daughter. Chevy sends the dolls to Beth one-by-one and she soon realizes that these antiques carry the same marks as his victims, signaling that the final piece in his collection will be for her.

Neil Sheridan gave up his FBI shield five years ago, but his best friend Rick, a cop, pulls him in as a consultant on a case involving a serial killer who is eerily similar to a murderer Neil encountered in the past. The investigation leads Neil to Beth's doorstep, and he is certain she isn't telling him the truth. Neil is the only one who can get through Beth's defenses and, as they grow closer, discover the secrets that Beth is hiding about her fateful night with Chevy.

I haven't done my review yet but it will be coming up!

TO ENTER:

1. Comment here telling me what you look for or like about romantic suspense. Please include your email address, so that I can contact you if you win.
2. For an extra entry, become a follower or tell me if you are already a follower.
3. For another entry, blog or tweet about this giveaway and tell me where you did.
4. Leave a separate comment for each entry or you'll only be entered once. (This method is used to make it easier to put the entries into the random generator!)
(Three total entries possible.)

• This contest is only open to residents of US and Canada.
  
• No P.O. Boxes Please - for shipping reasons.
  
• This contest will close Midnight (Central) on October 16, 2009. The winners will be randomly selected from all entries.

A Big Thank You to Anna and Hachette Book Group who have graciously offered the 5 copies for this Giveaway!

BBAW Wednesday Giveaway

One $10.00 gift certificate at Barnes and Noble.

TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

1. Well - I won't make you look today... just post a comment and name a good book you recommend! Include your email address so that I can contact you if you win.

2. For an extra entry, become a follower or tell me if you are already a follower.

3. For another entry, share this giveaway on your blog, my space, facebook or Twitter and tell me where you shared it.

You may include all your entries in one comment. (Three total entries possible.)

This contest will close Midnight (Central) on September 19, 2009. The winner will be randomly selected from all entries.

Garden Blogger's Bloom Day September 15, 2009

This meme can be found at May Dreams Gardens.

This is what we found in our garden last week!!

DH thinks it is from some watermelon seeds that were discarded in the planter area!

I would have taken a picture of our monster tomato plant but the caterpillars had stripped it and it looked so sad!!!

Here is a picture of the log splitter DH rented to help clean up some of the trees he has cut down. Believe me we will have plenty of fire wood this year!

BBAW Interview Exchange

I hope you have noticed that we are celebrating Book Blogger Appreciation Week this week! My interview partner was Evelyn at Evelyn N. Alfred blog. It was nice to meet another blogger that I might not have crossed paths with if we both were not participating in the BBAW events. Evelyn sent me the questions below to answer!

1. How long have you been book blogging?

Just at two months!
What motivates you to keep going?

I really enjoy sharing with authors and readers! I like having a place to post the reviews I do for authors and publishers that are not for the sites I review for.

2. How do most of your followers find you?

I think they have found me through the chat groups I participate in!

Do you Twitter?

I am very new to Twitter – I have an account and I may visit once a day to see what others are doing but I don’t make many comments myself.

3. Do you ever review poetry or independently published books?

[I noted that Evelyn likes and writes poetry at her blog!] I have not reviewed poetry yet but I would as I love poetry- I read and wrote lots of poetry when I was young! I have reviewed independently published books or at least one which was self published if that is what you mean!

4. You mentioned being contacted by an author. Are there any authors out there that would make you faint if they contacted you?

HA! Good question!! I don’t faint easily so I probably would only gulp and go speechless! I saw Heather Graham at the RWA bookfair in Orlando this year – I think all I did was look at her across the room!! LOL I would love to have an interview or a good chat with Mary Balogh, Catherine Coulter, Christina Dodd, Julie Garwood, Merline Lovelace or Julia Quinn!! And those are only a couple of the HR authors who I love!

5. Are you as motivated to write reviews for books you don't enjoy?

I’m still motivated to write the review but it is harder to write a review for a book I didn’t enjoy. I have to take more time to be specific about what I liked and what I didn’t like so that the author might know an area that needs improvement…. at least in my humble opinion. I don’t wish to ever discourage an author! But sometimes there are books that just don’t make it for me!

6. Which authors can you always count on to write a good book?

I named some authors in my answer to 4 that I can count on to write a good book. In addition to those “big name” authors I would include these newer authors whose books have consistently been good books: Miss Mae and Rebecca Vickery. Recently I have been reading lots of "new to me" authors with very good books!! I am hoping all their books will be as good as the first ones I have read!

7. What are some of your favorite memes?

It’s Monday What Are Your Reading? (Join this meme at: J. Kaye's Book Blog) and What’s in Your Mailbox (This Meme starts at The Printed Page). I’m planning to start following another meme on the 15th of each month about Gardening!

Thanks for the fun questions Evelyn!