Giveaway Holiday Story from my first Florida Author - Linda Swift!

Hi blog friends.  If you follow the blog a bit you may have noticed I put out a call for Florida Authors to spotlight. Linda Swift contacted me for another reason but when I realized she was from Florida I said "Hey, Can I spotlight you and your books?" and she said "Sure - want to do some Giveaways?" Well - what do you think I said?

Now isn't that a great way to kick off introducing Florida Authors?

Linda has two Christmas books out and has offered an eBook win for each!

LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY
Available through The Wild Rose Press

BLURB:

Kala’s position as tour guide at a Kentucky Welcome Center isn’t enough to cope with debts left by her late husband’s illness, but she manages to make ends meet until her car quits running. To save money on repairs, she enrolls in an auto-mechanic class taught by Rex, a handsome part-time instructor whose heart needs repairing, too After recently losing his important job and family, he has sworn never to get involved with another woman.

Kala discounts her growing attraction to Rex when she learns he is years younger, until the winter storm of the century throws them together. When the Interstate closes down, Kala opens her home to a houseful of strangers.

Despite fire, flood and friction, she creates an old fashioned holiday rich in the true spirit of Christmas. In the process, Kala and Rex discover the greatest gift of love.

TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

1. Leave a comment telling me if you have ever been snowbound, where it happened and how long you were snowbound!

Please include your email address, so 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, facebook, tweet (any of those networks!) about this giveaway and tell me where you did.

4.  For another entry visit Linda's site and sign her guestbook or friend her at her MySpace or Facebook and tell me in a comment if you did!

5. You may make all entries in a single comment or separate comments. Since I haven't numbered the comments yet I have to put names/entries on a list for numbering anyway, so posting separately doesn't make a difference unless you post at different times so your numbers are not consecutive!

That is four total entries possible.

This contest is open to anyone who can read an eBook.

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

Martha's Bookshelf *** Friday Pick 12-11-09

More books to pick from!

Yes! I have a new group of books plus the ones not yet selected form pick#1 and pick#2.  BUT I also have some additional clarifications.

Issue 1:  Some of the books I have listed may be in the win list for my SaSR weekly drawings - eventually all of the books will be in both lists. So I have to say it will be first pick to the one who claims it.  SaSR winners are announced Friday mornings (or afternoon if I get busy!) and it usually takes that person a bit of time to get back to me.  That means the Friday Pick winner who is drawn Thursday night will usually get the choice named in their comment as I will have time to remove it from the SaSR file list before I announce that winner!

The problem comes then when the SaSR winner picks a book that is in the remaining Friday shelf picks! So I may have to announce later on Friday or Saturday that a certain book has been eliminated from those that are available. If that occurs either people choosing that book can comment naming a new choice or if/when their name is drawn they can pick another book at that time. I hope that makes sense and won't upset anyone!

Issue 2:  I had forgotten to put any restrictions for international winners. I don't want to preclude them but the postage can certainly be prohibitive. :(

SOOO - how about a compromise.  I am willing to give a $5.00 book certificate to international winners - Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, TWRP, ClassAct Books, eTreasures, Desert Breeze, etc....you tell me where and I'll set it up. So for my overseas visitors your comment may indicate your choice of gift card.

Now here are this week's books!

Put Your Dreams First - Handle your [entertainment] business HY[E]B by Thembisa Mshaka

Delivered by Christmas Anthology - Linda Howard, Joan Hohl andSandra Steffen

The Woman Next Door by Barbara Delinsky

Until Prove Guilty by J.A. Jance

One Night with a Prince by Sabrina Jeffries

Maverick Wild by Stacey Kane

Red Fire by Dierdre Knight

Cloud Nine by LuAnn Rice

The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe

One Eye Closed by Karen Whiddon

Under the Mistletoe by Mary Balogh

The Bartered Bride by Mary Jo Putney

Isle of Palms by Dorothea Benton Frank

Payback by R.I. Kaiser

The Angels of Darkness by Caleb Carr

Dream in Color - How the Sanchez Sisters are Making History in Congress

Next week I'll start to add in some audio books!

Winner of Friday Pick 12-04-09!

Well - I have decided to have two winners each week for the month of December anyway!

Congratulations to Friday Pick 12-04-09 Winners:

who chose: Kissing Midnight by Emma Holly 

AND





who chose: The 11th Hour by Bradley Warshauer

I will e-mail the winners to send me their snail mail addresses! 

Enjoy your reading!! 

Winner of 150 Followers Drawing!

Thank you again to followers and commenters!!

Random generator picked # 16 and the winner of the 150 Followers Giveaway is:

(That's Llehn - since her avatar looked like a cat I thought she might like the cat letters!)
I will be sending Llehn a
$15.00 gift card of her choice!

Thanks for  voting in the polls too! I thought the results were interesting!  If it is a gift card the majority want the larger amount!! But if it is books then it is okay to spread them one book each to several winners! =D

I know this month has been full of giveaways and there are still some to come with interviews and featured authors!  I hope to slip a couple of reviews in too!

Giveaway - Three Audio CDs of What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

What the Dog Saw and other adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell

Category: BUSINESS; ECONOMICS, PSYCHOLOGY

Format: CD AUDIO BOOK

Edition: Unabridged

Publish Date: 10/20/2009

Price: $39.98 / $49.98

ISBN: 9781600249150

Publisher's Summary

Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 bestsellers, The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among the pieces: his investigation into why there are so many different kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup; a surprising assessment of what makes for a safer automobile; a look at how we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job; an examination of machine built to predict hit movies; the reasons why homelessness might be easier to solve than manage; his famous profile of inventor and entrepreneur Ron Popeil; a look at why employers love personality tests; a dissection of Ivy League admissions and who gets in; the saga of the quest to invent the perfect cookie; and a look at hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America.

For the millions of Malcolm Gladwell fans, this anthology is like a greatest hits compilation-a mix tape from America's alpha mind

TO ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY for the AUDIO CD:

1. Comment here telling me - have you ever had to take an employee personality test?!  Please include your email address, so 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, facebook, tweet (any of those networks!) about this giveaway and tell me where you did.

4. It isn't necessary to use separate entries unless you want them in different chronological order.

(Three total entries possible.)

THERE WILL BE THREE WINNERS!

THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO HACHETTE AND ANNA!

* 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 December 27, 2009. The winners will be randomly selected from all entries.