MARTHA'S BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!! I'm now a Publisher!

Well this announcement really needed a big flash!! 

Since late December I've made a few references to a "new project!"

Now my "team" and I are bursting so we decided to go ahead and announce even though the website isn't 100% yet!

Here is my news!

As of January 1 this year I became a publisher!

I purchased eTreasures Publishing!  We have 31 authors with 33 books!

Our website is still under construction with the books and author pages being added today and tomorrow!

But check it out here!

It is hard to appreciate the changes we are making without seeing the orignial site so here is a snapshot of an author page from the old site:

The previous owner had major health issues and was not able to actively grow the company over the past year and a half!  Now we are ready to shoot forward!

Please visit our new blog at http://etreasurespublishing.blogspot.com/ to see some of our opening plans and join in the celebration!!

I do plan to continue with my review site here although I will no longer be doing reviews for some of the sites and publishers as it is sometimes viewed as a conflict or that the review will be more critical. It will be interesting to see if my review eye does change!!

Now that the big push to get things ready is ALMOST behind me I hopefully will get all caught up - or mostly - on the reviews I have to complete!

Martha's Bookshelf *** Friday Pick Giveaway February 5, 2010

The “Shelves with a Bench” was designed by Stanislav Katz,

a designer from Latvia.

UPDATE! Sandy who won last week's Tuesday Comment has chosen the book Outlander. 

Sorry to those of you who were hoping to win that one.  I knew it would be a popular choice!

No new books today but there are still plenty of books left in the Friday Pick lists!  So the deal works the same as it has for the past 10 weeks.  Check the choices by clicking on the link to review the books available.  Enter to win a book of your choice or a $5.00 gift certificate for our foreign friends!!

Tell me what book you would want if you win or what gift certificate.  Make sure you leave your e-mail for contact!!

Winner from Cover Comment Drawing!

Thanks to everyone who commented on the cover post!
I thought the comments were very interesting!!  I chose those two covers because I wasn't sure either of them was the best choice! ;o)
I think the majority agreed that the "busy" cover caught their eye but for the subject matter the more sedate cover on the right would get the attention!

CONGRATULATIONS

to the WINNER OF THE DRAWING

I will e-mail Sandy to pick a book from the Friday Pick lists!!

I enjoy the comment drawings and it gets you bloggers thinking and chatting so I will no doubt do more of these!  I hope you like them too!

Winners of Friday Pick January 29, 2010

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS FROM FRIDAY PICK January 29!

NCgrampsof2 chose Digital Fortress!

AND

Scottsgal chose Fool's Paradise.

I will e-mail the winners for snail mail info!!

Winner of Reading Glasses!!

If you didn't win you can always check out the sale at Reading Glasses Shopper!!

My glasses are still doing a great job! See -  no spelling errors or anything!! LOL

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER!!

Molomatic chose

THE BECKY

But she might change her mind and chose a new arival:

THE PAISLEY!

I had to mention that because this past weekend we were talking to the teenagers at church and most of them did not know what argyle and paisley were.... ah youth!

I will e-mail Molomatic and arrange for her to recieve her credit for the glasses of her choice!!
Thank you to all who entered and thanks to Reader Glasses Shopper!