SECRET AGENT IVANA GETCHA
aka Lyn.
LYN email me your address and how you want your copy of The Naughty List personalized and I will let Suz know! (grace.gracetopia at gmail dot com)
Thanks to everyone who entered! More copies are in the mail to me as we speak, so I’ll be doing another giveaway soon!
And once again, congrats to Suzanne on publishing her first book!
(wowwww exclamation points much? oh well, Suz deserves them!) (!!!)
As mentioned yesterday, my friend Suzanne Young‘s first novel is about to be published—it’s already available via Barnes and Noble! (sneaky, B&N, very sneaky)
Since I am about to see the fabulous Suz in New York City, I thought this giveaway would be a SIGNED, PERSONALIZED COPY of The Naughty List.
As if being a purrfect cheerleader isn’t enough responsibility! Tessa Crimson’s the sweet and spunky leader of the SOS (Society of Smitten Kittens), a cheer squad–turned–spy society dedicated to bringing dastardly boyfriends to justice, one cheater at a time. Boyfriend-busting wouldn’t be so bad . . . except that so far, every suspect on the Naughty List has been proven 100% guilty!
When Tessa’s own boyfriend shows up on the List, she turns her sleuthing skills on him. Is Aiden just as naughty as all the rest, or will Tessa’s sneaky ways end in catastrophe?
The Naughty List. Is your boyfriend on it?
I know, right? You want to read this. (Okay, so some of my geektastic friends who come here for the Star Wars may not want to read this, BUT THE REST OF YOU!! Want to read this.)
To enter the drawing for this book:
If you were in a secret spying-on-boyfriends society, what would your secret agent name be???
Answer in the comments! I will draw a winner on Thursday February 4th (release day!), and the winner will have to email me the name they want the book signed to. (As well as, you know, an address to mail the book to. Postage is on me.)
Let the games begin!
One more day to enter the drawing for Soulless! Click here.
So sometimes I do this thing where I don’t pay attention and accidentally buy two of the same book from amazon. Like, I click it twice or something. And if I were paying attention when I hit “Submit Order” I would notice the 2 next to the book, but yeah, I don’t.
So anyway, now I have two copies of Gail Carriger’s Soulless. I could just return it, but I decided to give it away instead. Because hey. Why not?
soooo FREE BOOK FREE BOOK DO YOU WANT IT????
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.
Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire — and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London’s high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?
SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.
Feel free to judge me for thinking this book sounds like the shit. I make no apologies.
So, hm, what should the question be this time? AH! A simple one:
Werewolves or Vampires?
Post your answer in the comments to enter the drawing!
I will randomly choose a name* sometime next week. I pay shipping!
*I mean it’s not totally random. If your name is something like Cillian Murphy or David Tennant, you will probably win.
Mi amiga Suzanne the Fabulous is giving away her book THE NAUGHTY LIST, plus a goodie bag! Check it out!
KODY!!
As you can see, my method was to write everyone’s name on a slip of paper and put it in my awesome straw hat, and with help from Vanna Monkey I pulled out a name.
So Kody, email me your address at grace.gracetopia at gmail dot com and I’ll mail you your SUPERAWESOME prize!
Thanks for playing, everybody! I was impressed by the turnout. :)
Final day to enter the super-duper YA book giveaway! I’ll be choosing a winner either tonight or tomorrow AM. Scroll down for the details.
I’m going to be occupied with family adventures and responsibilities this week, but I thought I’d give you all something to do while I’m gone: WIN BOOKS!
But not just any books. No. This week you get a chance to win 3 books written by 3 of my very good friends, all debut authors within the past year. (The first from last December, the latest from… today, with Cindy snuggled in the middle.)
That’s Break by Hannah Moskowitz, Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon, and Handcuffs by Bethany Griffin. They’re all very different YA books, but they’re all very good, and YOU KNOW YOU WANT THEM. (Click the titles for descriptions/reviews in case you aren’t sure why you want them.)
Since there are three books this time I’m going to make winning them sliiiiightly more difficult than previous giveaways, but only slightly:
TO WIN:
What is the last book you read, and do you give it a thumbs-up or thumbs-down?
Please post your answer in the comments section below.
The contest will be open for one week; in other words I will choose a winner on… Tuesday September 1st! What a great way to start the month.
In case you still aren’t sure if you want these books, look how pretty they will be on your shelf:
Monkey and hockey puck not included. Have at!
(psst–I’m paying postage! you no longer have any excuses.)
(pssst 2–these aren’t my copies that I’m giving away, obv.)
Hahahahahahaha
If I only had a dollar for every time I said I was going to do something and then failed miserably at following through. If only.
Remember SF/F Writers Day? And how I was going to do something? You may have noticed that I didn’t. I’m only a day late, I could pull something together, but… I really don’t see that happening. So, uh. Here’s what the originator of the Day posted on her blog. Have at. Opportunity to win a book!
It’s been a pretty eventful weekend here in Gracetopia. Well, really just one major event. I unpacked my final box! I’m finally moved in!
The astute among you might remember that I moved here in December. So this is six months after I moved that I finally unpacked the final box. Hey, I’m not speedy but I get it done. Tortoise and hare, people. Tortoise and hare.
I mean, granted, there are three piles of stuff from this final box sitting on my floor, just piles because I don’t know where to put anything. But the box is gone, and that’s what’s important.
This final burst of unpacking was brought upon by a sudden desire to get my spring-cleaning done (okay, so maybe it’s summer by now, whatever I procrastinate). This process necessitated the purchase of a 2nd bookcase. Part of my cleaning yesterday was trying to get all my books on my bookcase, and I quickly came to realize that I had twice as many books as bookspace. So, 2nd bookcase! Which then led to one of my favorite activites: organizing my books. Seriously, I love organizing my books.
I may be a slight nerd.
I don’t organize by author, in case anyone was wondering. I organize by category. Within categories an author’s books are grouped together but the authors are not in alphabetical order. Mostly they’re grouped by size—my shelves must be pretty.
My categories, in descending order of size, are:
Any books that could go in more than one category go wherever they look the best or whichever category is more specific.
And there you have it, more than you ever wanted to know about how I organize my life.
Speaking of books, there’s still a free book available. Somebody must want it!
