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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Sunday Sendup 4

So here's my week...

Books:

read and finished:
Absolute Kingdom Come
Superlovin' by Vivi Andrews
The Silence of Medair by Andrea K. Host
Voice of the Lost by Andrea K. Host

started/continued reading:
Debris by Jo Anderton
Coldfire by Kate Elliott

Received/Bought:

Kindle
Driving Mr. Dead by Molly Harper
Thread of Death by Jennifer Estep
Desperate Measures by Candice Hern
Kismet's Curse by Cate Rowan


Print:
Absolute Kingdom Come Hardcover Gorgeousness of Love

Review:
The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells (signed!)
Chrysanthe by Yves Meynard
Dragonswood by Janet Lee Carey
Superlovin' by Vivi Andrews (digital)
Bound by the Mist by Lisa Kumar (digital)
Whispers in the Shadows by Heather Beck (digital)

From Paperback Swap:  
When Harry Met Molly by Kieran Kramer
Dukes to the Left of Me, Princes to the Right by Kieran Kramer

DVDs:
Defying Gravity

Lesson Learned This Week: Kingdom Come still has the ability to make me cry just by being awesome.  Mark Waid and Alex Ross I love you.

Books Tours: Remember, follow along on Lisa's book tour for the Scavenger hunt!

January 30: Damaris at Good Choice Reading (Teenage Garage Sale)
January 31: Alex at A Girl, Books and Other Things (Review: Torrent)  
February 1: Heather at Proud Book Nerd (Author Interview)
February 2: Yara at Once Upon a Twilight (Review: Tributary)
February 3: Amanda T at Diary of a Book Addict (Character Interview: Gabi)

Big Contest: Crossing the Stream contest!

Here’s how it works:
Each individual author involved is running a contest on his/her own site. The specific details vary from author to author; the contest I run on my site might be very different than the one on Ari Marmells’s site, or Paul Kemp’s site.

However, each contest has a few details in common. Specifically, each of us will select two winners from the contest on our own site. Each of those winners will receive one signed book, free, from the author whose contest they won. So, for instance, if you win here, you’ll win one of my books. If you win on Paul’s site, you’ll win one of his, etc.

But… that’s not the big prize. Once the contests have ended, all the authors involved will get together and choose one single “super-winner” from all the entries on all our sites combined. This one lucky individual will receive a signed book, free, from each and every one of the authors involved.

Yep. Somebody out there’s going to win over a dozen free books.

You can only enter each author’s contest once, but you may enter multiple contests. So you could enter here, on Matt’s site, on Jason’s site, etc. Heck, you can enter on everyone’s site, if you want. (And even if you aren’t selected as the “super winner,” you might win more than one of the individual contests. You never know.)

You can find a complete list of the authors involved, as well as links to their sites, below.
Ari Marmell
Aaron Rosenberg
Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell
Nathan Long
Scott Oden
Joshua Palmatier/Benjamin Tate
Matt Forbeck
Jason Bradley Thompson
Elaine Cunningham
Paul S. Kemp
Eugie Foster
Keith Baker
Jon Sprunk
Steve Savile
Howard Andrew Jones
Kevin Hearne
Katharine Kerr

Fun Stories from the Week

Tor.com: Leap Year Meet-up in NYC (going), e-book announcement Some of the Best, Lost Girl LOVE and Game of Thrones Season 2 Trailer

Entangled Publishing February Wishlist: Do you have something they can sell?

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Author Jordan Summers, The Line between Reviewing and Bullying...