Winner of Isle of Night

Thanks to all the amazing people who entered! The lucky winner is...

Casey (A Passion for Books)!

Congrats again Casey!

Be sure to stop by Figment's website to read 4 chapters (4!!!) of Isle of Night! Also, follow IsleofNight on twitter to partake in an epic literary battle this Thursday (the 15th)!




Remember, you can purchase Isle of Night right now! Be sure to check back again for a review of Isle of Night by moi!

The Fox Inheritance Winners!

The audiobook goes to...

Sarah R. from DC!

who said her favorite narrator is "Davinia Porter (narrates the Outlander series)"

The personalized copy of The Fox Inheritance goes to...

Shannan B. from IA!
who said: "I am thankful for computers. This makes it an  option for me to go to college and work full-time."-- Can't agree more Shannan! My boss is looking into doing some online courses as well.

Remember, you can purchase both the hardcover and the audiobook RIGHT NOW.

Don't forget to read my interview and enter for a chance to win Isle of Night by Veronica Wolff

Winner of the Elizabeth Scott Prize Pack

...is Prima A.! who said that her favorite Elizabeth Scott's book was

"Living Dead Girl-I love this book but I'm also terrified of it if you get what i mean. All her books were amazing, but Living Dead Girl were a different side that i haven't seen in her previous books. Taking a spin on her typical books gives me more excitement and gratitude. I love authors who take a chance, aren't afraid to widen their variety and then end up wow'ing us all. AH i love her."

I totally agree with you there Prima! Now that I got my copy of Living Dead Girl back from a friend, I think it's time I read it!

If you didn't win, don't despair! I have another on-going giveaway for a copy of A Discovery of Witches.

Winners + Pick My Poison Please

The winners for Numbers: The Chaos are:

Melissa C. (favorite number 11)

Cinnamon (favorite number 19)

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Pick My Poison.

I have to write a 10 page essay after reading one of the following texts. I have not read any of the texts so I want you to recommend me one from the following:

• Kipling: Jungle Books, Kim or Stalkey and Company
• Alcott: Little Women
• Barrie: Peter Pan (novel or play)
• Stevenson: Treasure Island or Kidnapped
• Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden, or Little Princess
• Lucy Maud Montgomery: Ann of Green Gables
• Tolkien: The Hobbit
• Adams: Watership Down
• The Wizard of Oz

Happy Blogoversary to Me and Happy Congrats to Some Winners!

Since the two years I've started blogging so much has happened yet so little has changed. Blogging has its ups-and-downs; the blogosphere has its ups-and-downs. Those ups only want to make me continue blogging nonstop, but those downs have made me consider stopping altogether. Blogging is an addictive habit that I can't let go of just yet. Carol and Sharon, I would kick your butts for disappearing off the blogosphere ;)

On a different note, congrats to the following peeps!

Alessandra B. from Oxford for winning the Simon and Schuster pack.

Taschima Cullen for winning the "Thanks for the Laughs" pack! Taschima, please email me or comment your choice of Team Edward or Team Jacob iron-ons :)

And Yiling N.; Renee R; LeAnn K.; April C.; and Debbie S.who should have received or will receive their copies of Mostly Good Girls.

Books by its Cover - October Winner!

Week 1:

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup:
3 sisters—3 powers
Pst, I think Buttercup is feeling

better; less green more yellow!

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Week 2:

It’s a giant magnet.
Seriously.
I’m not joking...
M-A-G-N-E-T

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Week 3:

I spy with my little eye:
Something blue,
Something wet,
Something vampiric.

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Week 4:

Whoosh goes the hair.

Old skool is the choice of music.

Vinyl baby, addiction.

Drum roll please! This month the champion is....Emily aka WilowRaven! EMAIL ME EMILY TO I CAN SEND YOU SOME FREE BOOKS!

Next month you have a chance at something else! I think I'm just going to have a giant pot of prizes to celebrate my 2 year blogoversary.

Bloodthirsty Winners + Poll Results!

First off, congrats to these three lucky winners*!

Taffy

Tara Hall

Mrs.DeRaps

I've forwarded your mailing address to Little, Brown and Company. Below are the results to the impromptu poll where I asked entrants who will win in a vampire fight: Bill, Stefan, or Edward. The majority, as you can see, says that Bill will kick the most butt! Others said that if Damon were an option, he would win. One entry just plain out said that Jacob would win.

Some of the best answers that either made me LOL or was insightful in some ways:

Angelique: Stefan. Cause I believe in the power of hotness =)

Virginia: Edward. His hair is a deadly secret weapon. 

Mrs.DeRaps: Bill. I'm more scared of him than the other two. He just has this violent I-don't-give-a-damn look about him, whereas the other two are kinda pretty and wuss-y.

Monica: I do believe Edward would - because despite his broody emoness, his power allows him to know every step his attacker is thinking to act on.

Justine: Umm probably Bill since Stefan doesn't drink human blood but I wish you would have included Damon cause all my money is on him :D :D :D

(also left a comment with a statement that made me giggle) However, Damon Salvatore would kick everyone's butt, Stefan doesn't even drink human blood so he can't compete...And Edward, good grief he's too busy sparkling :( BTW the best 'real' vampire out there is Jack White, geesh!

*two of the three winners were drawn via random.org. The last winner was hand-picked for some of the best answers and then one of the answers was randomly chosen as a winning entry.

P.S. BrittLit, please email me your mailing address to claim DANGEROUS NEIGHBORS before you forfeit the prize!

Books by its Cover (September) Winner!

Week 1:

X marks the truth

If X is the skull

And the truth is the red-headed girl

Where does it leave the dogs?

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Week 2:

3y = x

One y = an old VW bus

Another y = shhh

The final y = the bottom half of a school uniform

What is x?

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Week 3:

15 Cups + 1 Girl

= a book cover

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Week 4:

Started off with 10 pieces of chocolate

I ate 1

Now we have 9 pieces of chocolate

This month's winner is BrittLit (Brittany M.) who happened to have gotten all 4 weeks right! Wow! Congrats!!

Next month's prize is is winner's choice of either TWENTY BOY SUMMER (hardcover) or an ARC of FIXING DELILAH (which has the old cover) :) Sound awesome? Then stop by this Saturday for your chance to win!

Guardians of the Ga'hoole Prize Winner!

Tonya! 

who said "We are so excited to see this! It looks great." I've forwarded your mailing address :)

Also I just wanted to point to a soundtrack from the movie by Owl City, who sang Fireflies. (The rest of the album is quite good between)

Maybe This Time Winner

Angelique! who said...

I don't believe in ghosts,but I would love to be proved wrong =)

Books by its Cover August Winner

Week 1:

What’s black and white and re(a)d all over?

Hint:

The king came before the pawn.

review of the Twilight Saga
(a reader alerted me that it's a queen, not a king so I feel really stupid now lol I'm sorry to those who thought it was Breaking Dawn, but my mistake of queen/king screwed you over! Also several of you spelled Stephenie wrong ;)

Week 2:

Why did the wolf cross the woods?
To meet the girl in green.

my rant of Linger

Week 3:

Why are your eyes so red Mr. Wolf?
The better to look at you Little Miss Red
with your cloak to hide.

review of Sisters Red

Week 4:

Hey, you! You with the blond hair
Yeah you in the blue!
What’s that in your head?
Are those…horns?

We had 116 entries and only 4 of them were wrong this month! Everyone's getting better at this! And the winner is...Marg K.!! (gosia...) Please email me your address Marg. I do not plan to hunt you done.

Next Saturday we're starting a new contest. The prize will be my ARC of Dangerous Neighbors so be on the lookout for that! Since everyone did extremely well this month that means I'm making it too easy for you ;) Just in case it's the latter, next month is going to *hard*

Books by its Cover July Winner

It seems as though Week 1 was the easiest by far. Week 2 and Week 3 proved to be a big challenge (that or not many seemed to care lol). Below are the correct answers, but I will admit that some answers I received could have worked except for one or two words.

Week 1:

Fire, passion, anger
Endless cycle—
a snake eating its own tail

my review of The Eternal Ones will be up shortly

Week 2:

The bright neon;
Hazardous;
Both design and font.
Osculate

you can read my review of Crash Test Love here

Week 3:

Mutated slime
Tendrils search,
Then embed.

you can read my review of The Gardener here

Week 4:

Space, void, nothingness;
Thorny heart;
Hush—it’s—!

you can read my review of Forbidden here

And the long awaited winner is... ALLISON (killer___@hotmail.com)!

Next month is a new start for Books by its Cover so hopefully this served as a good practice! The prize is my ARC of Sea by Heidi R. Kling so if you are interested watch out for next Saturday. Contest is open internationally and past winners are allowed to enter again for next month.

Winner for the Jennifer Sturman Prize Pack!

Congratulations to Ann! I have forward the address you provided to the publicist and your prize should be there shortly! Thanks to everyone who entered the contest :)

Winners and Quick Help!

Anyway onto happier news. The contest for Shade and Deception finally closed and I drew the winners.

The 5 winners of Shade (from US entries):

Anna (annasbookblog) -claimed-

Marianna (patronus) -claimed-

Andrea I (ainfinger) never responded. Julie is chosen as new winner

Amanda B (crazypplrok) [they so do rock!] -claimed-

Meredith Miller (meredithfl) -claimed-

The winner of Shade (from international entries):

Mariska (uniquas) -claimed-

(I will be shipping this copy of Shade to Indonesia, woot!)

The winner for Deception:

Mable -claimed-

If one of those emails is yours send me an email with your full name and mailing address! I will wait 36 hours before spamming you and then you have a limit of less than 24 to respond back before I give up your prize to someone else. Sound fair?

Order Deception (Haunting Emma) or Shade (less than $10) from Amazon.

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I typically use Iron Chrome (an Internet browser that not many have heard of, but my brother swears it load pages super fast. I just use it so he can shut up) but for no real reason I decided to load my blog on Firefox. What. The. @#$%. On Firefox my blog looks very different; you can see more of my background image (which I changed slightly) and everything shrank. On Iron the posts' font is legible, on Firefox it is squint-worthy.

I increased the font size by 10% and my sidebar font by 10% as well. Did it make a difference? Was it a helpful difference!? Maybe my Iron browser was fine and that Firefox was acting crazy? So can you let me know if the size of the font is too small or too large or if it is fine right now?

Then I noticed another difference.... I think my blog lags. Maybe it was just Firefox lagging. Opinions? *sigh*

Winners and More Giveaways!

Winner for the Nancy Drew Prize Pack is:

Emily Wittenberg never responded back

Christy!

Winner for the Read, Remember, and Recommend Journal is:

Kayla (kayla...@sbcglobalnet)

Email me within 48 hours or I will select new winners!

Ka-Yam is giving away a STOLEN prize pack. 1 is international and the other is within Europe!ENTER!

I'm also giving away a couple more books--6 in fact! The giveaway is for Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready; you can read my review here. Please make sure you entered the right one!

Winners and Nancy Drew Giveaway!

In celebration of Nancy Drew's 80th Anniversary, Simon and Schuster has kindly offered one of Books by Their Cover readers a Nancy Drew Prize Pack! What to know what's in it? Well it's something pretty awesome if I do say so myself.

The prize pack includes:

• (1) The Secret of the Old Clock 80th Anniversary Limited Edition
• (1) THQ's Nancy Drew: The Model Mysteries for Nintendo DS
• (1) Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy PC Adventure Game
• (1) Nancy Drew Silhouette Pewter Charm
• (1) Nancy Drew Girl Detective: Secret Sabotage

Um...wow? So fans of Nancy Drew visit the Nancy Drew facebook fan page and then come back to enter for the prize!

Contest will end slightly before the end of May so hurry! tweet, post, do whatever you can to win this prize! (Remember to answer the mandatory question!)

Winners of The Light contest are (according to Random.org):

Dani claimed

Sarah (Limerick) already won a copy

Bianca claimed

Aik claimed

Mrs. DeRaps claimed

Virgina claimed

If you can, kindly email me your addresses (US only remember!) and I'll forward them so you can get your prize :)

Winners (A Lot of Winners!)

Congratulations to all winners! Though you're all winners in my eyes for entering ;P

Aries Rising:

Lisa R.

Demigods and Monsters:

Donna W.

Sarah L.

Numbers:

Sylvia

Leslie G.

Tawnda

NEW Winners for Token of Darkness (because some never emailed me back):

Emily L.

Stacey (xxsquigglesxx)

P.S. Would this be a bad time to say April Fools? Because I'm just kiddin' y'all. Seriously I don't know what I'm talking about.

P.P.S. So the no updating thing? I'll fix that soon, count on it!

P.P.P.S. I'll send the winners emails soon, but if you want to take the incentive I'll ♥ you for it! (Addresses please).

Winners of Token of Darkness

Congrats to the 5 lucky winners:

Anna ♥ (goodgonegirl)

Isalys (booksoulmates)

Anne J. (ajolly)

Bonnie M. (wakeupangel)

Elie N. (zenfoxflower)

Email me if you can!

Wherever Nina Lies Winners

Congratulations to the following three winners:

Wendy (mindingspot)

Tasha (andanotherbookread)

Krista (towerofbooks)

If you guys see this email me to confirm that you have not yet won a copy of Wherever Nina Lies elsewhere (as there were a bajillion online). Or wait until I send out an email (which might be sometime Monday...weekend does not relaxing time D:)

My Brain Won't Work--Winners, Awards, and News!

So the contest winner has been decided for my IN A HEARTBEAT contest. I had a whopping 156 entries (I gave up halfway double checking if anyone entered more than once), which is really surprising! It's actually been one of the best contest for a single book in regards to unique entries. At any rate the winner is:

Lisa (A Life Bound by Books)

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Award Time! Yes I realize that this is really, really late.

This was awarded to me by Aimee from A Book Dork and by Lucy of Delightful Reviews. The rules are to: 1) List 10 honest things about yourself and 2) Pass it on to 10 other honest bloggers.

1. I can't swim, float, paddle, or waddle in water. I am, however, capable of drinking it. Look at me go drink!
2. I tried learning how to ride a bike when I was 9, 10, and 12. At the age of 12 I finally mastered pedaling on a bike whose breaks did not work. Shortly after learning to ride I ran into a pole (after I tried to emergency break twice times), chipped one of my front tooth, bleed profusely, and was promptly banned from riding ever again. Well that was a good 3 hours of having wind blowing through my hair!
3. I can't seem to be able to bake chocolate chip cookies, but I can bake a chocolate chip cookie cake to perfection. Yeah I don't understand the logic behind that either as the cake version is just like the cookie version but bigger.
4. Whenever one of my friends ask if I have a crush on someone I reply back saying that I'm asexual and reproduce by budding. It works every time.
5. I am a Twi-hard so shut it. (Just not the really crazy ones).
6. I hate the number '6'
7. I have a bad cold right now so I dare you to get within two feet of me. I double dog dare you.
8. I am rather shy in right life. But once I get to know you and we've become friends I get somewhat violent towards you. But don't take it the wrong way! It's my way of showing I care.
9. I once mailed a book out using dimes, nickels, and pennies. Let's just say the USPS worker wasn't very happy with me.
10. I dislike hanging posters above my bed. Why? Because I have an unhealthy fear that it'll fall on my face whilst I sleep and I'll suffocate because of it.

I'm passing this on to:

1. Dannie
2. Carol
3. Kate
4. Lenore
5. Steph Su
6. Krystle
7. Lenore
8. Diana
9. Jenna
10. Sharon

And since I was awarded two I'm going to list more! :)

1. Gail
2. Ka-Yam
3. Brooke
4. Adele
5. Khy

Okay I'm going to stop there. I feel nauseous now.

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was given to me by Turning Into YA Books. Rules are: answer the following questions with Single Word answers then pass this along to 5 other bloggers. Make sure you let them know about it though.

Your Cell Phone? Old

Your Hair? Straight

Your Mother? Loud

Your Father? Child-like

Your Favorite Food? Edible

Your Dream Last Night? Black

Your Favorite Drink? Water O_O

Your Dream/Goal? Live!

What Room Are You In? Bedroom

Your Hobby? Reading

Your Fear? Failing

Where Do You Want To Be In Six Years? House

Where Were You Last Night? Bedroom

Something That You Aren't? Male

Muffins? Crumbly

Wish List Item? Tissues (for my cold)

Where Did You Grow Up? America

Last Thing You Did? Dishes

What Are You Wearing? Clothes

Your TV? Useless

Your Pets? None

Friends? Happy

Your Life? Sick

Your Mood? Amused

Missing Someone? Friends

Vehicle? None

Something You Aren't Wearing? Jewelry

Your Favorite Store? N/A LOL

Your Favorite Color? Depends

When Was The Last Time You Laughed? Now

Last Time You Cried? idk (that's one word!)

Your Best Friend? Missing

One Place You Go To Over And Over Again? Bedroom

Facebook?

Favorite Place To Eat? Table

Five blogs:

1. Cat
2. Velvet
3. Eleni
4. Jenny
5. Brizmus (because I love one of her blog names)

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from Little Miss Becky! I'm going to skip this one as I've already done this twice before :)

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