Hatchet's Romantic Holiday

Several blogs are running Hathet's Romantic Holiday Giveaway.  The books included are:
To Sin with a Scoundrel  by Cara Elliot
A Touch of Scandal by Jennifer Haymore
Bound to Please  by Lilli Feisty
A Highlander Never Surrenders by Paula Quinn

The following blogs are running this contest.  Check out their sites and enter!

Simply Stacie ends Dec 6th
Maria's Space ends Dec 12th (midnight)
The Book Tree ends Dec 15th
Rex Robot Reviews ends Dec 15th
Hanging with Bells ends Dec 15th
A Bookworm's World ends Dec 18th (6pm EST)
Bibliophilic Book Blog ends Dec 20th
Seductive Musings ends Dec 25th
All About {n} ends Dec 26th
Broken Teepee ends Dec 30th (9pm MST)
Book Hounds ends Dec 30th
The Romance Reviews ends Dec 31st

Larissa's Bookish Life's 3rd Blogoversary!!!

 
First I have to say congratulations Larissa on your 3rd year blogging!  I don't know how I found Larissa's blog earlier this year but it happened.  I have even been quite fortunate to have met Larissa twice this year during her extend US trip.
In honor of her 3rd year of blogging and Christmas, Larissa is having a giveaway.  There will be 3 winners.  Each winner gets to pick 3 books from Larissa's 9 favorite books of 2010 (all of which she gave her top rating in her reviews).  In addition each winner will get an Amazon gift card in the following increments: $20 for 1st, $15 for 2nd and $10 for 3rd.  And she will add an additional winner if she receives 50 new followers.
Stop on over and check out her blog.

Christmas is coming!!!

In honor of the Christmas Holiday.  My Overstuffed Bookshelf is hosting the 12 days of Christmas giveaway!  The giveaway starts December 1st, there will be a new giveaway for each of the 12 days.  So head over and check out the giveaway!

In My Mailbox Nov. 8th

In My Mailbox is hosted by the Story Siren.

Ok, it's been awhile again.  So here's my what has crossed my threshold the last couple weeks.

BOUGHT:

• Styx's Storm by Lora Leigh
• Nightwalker, Dawnbreak & Dayhunter by Jocelynn Drake
• His Darkest Hunger by Juliana Stone
• Entice me at Twilight by Shayla Black
• Haunted by your Touch by Jeaniene Frost, Sharie Kohler and Shayla Black
• Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay
• Personal Demons & Demon Possessed by Stacia Kane
• Drink of Me by Jacquelyn Frank
• Eternal Hunger by Laura Wright
• Firewalker by Allyson James
• Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
• Blood Spells by Jessica Anderson
• Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here by Christine Warren
• Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter
• Blood Trinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon & Dianna Love
• Warrior by Zoe Archer

EBOOKS:

• Blue Moon by Lori Handeland
• The Matchmakers by Jennifer Colgan
• Certain Wolfish Charm by Lydia Dare
• Half Past Dead by Zoe Archer

FROM GIVEAWAYS:

• True Blood comic 1-4 from Tigris Eden
• His Sinful Secret by Emma Wildes from Night Owl Romance
• Living Nightmare: The Sentinel Wars by Shannon K. Butcher from Night Owl Romance
• When Wicked Craves by J.K. Beck from Night Owl Romance
• Deadly Intent by Kylie Brant from Night Owl Romance
• The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller from My Overstuffed Bookshelf
• Torment by Lauren Kate from My Overstuffed Bookshelf
• King of the Unblessed by Michelle Pillow (ebook) from Raven Happy Hour

You could be part of a book

Dakota Banks, author of the Mortal Path books, is running a giveaway.  The winner will become a character in one of her books. and mention you in the acknowledgements of the book.  You will also received a signed copy of the book.  How cool is that!  Also the winner gets to choose a subscription to the Mortal Path series (i.e. you will receive a signed copy of the books in the series on or before the release day. OR a full manuscript critique from Dakota herself.
And just to add a cherry on top, she is doing weekly drawing from all entries for a signed copy of Sacrifice.
Click Here to enter.  Ends December 1st.

In My Mailbox is hosted by the Story Siren.

Ok, so I'm going to try to get show you what have bought or received since last post.

I got the following books free at AAD.  Sorry for the sideways picture but I can't get it upright (drives me nuts).

I bought the following at AAD and they are all signed. YAY!

 

The following books I received from giveaways for the past 3 weeks.

Books I bought...

 

 Really tired, spent the weekend in New York at NY Comic Con.  Had a blast!  Got some of my books autographed by authors I knew would be there.  I also ran into some bloggers.  I'll have to add some pictures later.  And if I feel up to it, I'll actually type out the books from above.
I will post pictures of books I got a Comic Con soon.

In a slump

Sorry, I have been in a bit of a slump.  A week ago today, I had to put my dog down.  She just turned 17 so she was really old.  You would have thought it would have been easier with how old she was.  I had gone away for the weekend and she was in the kennel.  They called on Sunday and told me she wasn't herself.  I planned to pick her up Monday after work because I wasn't home in time to pick her up on Sunday.  Well they called and said she wouldn't even sit up.  So I went right away.  Seeing her suffer and slowly dying ripped my heart out.

Anyway, I have been reading but having been posting much and that's saying something since I don't post much as it is.  I still haven't posted my goodies from AAD nor have I posted what I've bought or received for 2 weeks.  I promise I'll get back to it.
Thanks for reading.

In My Mailbox is hosted by the Story Siren.

Ok, this week I received the following books from giveaways:

• Insatiable by Meg Cabot from Reading with Tequila blog
• Clockwork Angel ARC by Cassandra Clare from Reading with Tequila blog
• Beyond the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy from Book Faery glog
• Strange Attractions by Emma Holly from Writerspace
• Blood Lust by Zoe Winters from Larissa Ione's blog 

This week I bought:

• Sexy Beast VIII by Kate Douglas, Kathleen Dante & Devyn Quinn
• Come Hell or High Water by Michele Bardsley

I'll post what I got from AAD 2010 later.

Authors After Dark 2010

First I was a little bummed because I confused the dates of this event with a college reunion.  So I never registered for the event.  I wish I would have but I was able to attend for the day on Saturday.  Unfortunately the day passes don't include the meals so I didn't get to eat with the authors.  But other than that it was awesome!  This was the first authors convention of any type that I have attended so I didn't know what to expect.  The authors were all very nice, the panels were interesting and gave you the chance to ask the authors questions related to the topic and their books.  I met authors I haven't read before and will be adding them to by wish list.  The author signing was also on Saturday.  The nice thing about the signing is you were permitted to bring pre-purchased books in to have them signed.  A lot of events, from what I have heard, require you to purchase the books at the event.  Don't get me wrong they did have books to purchase, so I was able to buy some of the books I was interested in.  And you could get them signed.  I got to meet JoJo from JoJo's Book Corner and Larissa from Larissa's Bookish Life.

Ok, so here are some of my pictures from this event.

Leanna Renee Hieber and me

Jacquelyn Frank and me

The Vampire Panel from left to right: Jess Haines, Caridad Pineiro, Rosemary Laurey/Georgia Evans, Susan Hanniford Crowley, Joey W. Hill and Samantha Somersby

My apologies to Kris Norris, Mia Watts, Bronwyn Greene & Brynn Paulin the pictures I took of you were blurry so I didn't want to post them.

Later this week I will try to post the what I bought or won at AAD 2010!  Can't wait for next year.

In My Mailbox

Ok, so since I'm just starting this book blog and working on getting things started.  I figured I would start with In My Mailbox.  In My Mailbox is hosted by the Story Siren.

Since this is my first post, I figured I would show you what I've gotten the last 2 weeks.

Immortal Sea by Virginia Kantra

Atlantis Betrayed by Alyssa Day

Chains of Fire by Christina Dood

Vampire Trinity by Joey W. Hill

Immortals: The Gathering & Immortals: The Calling by Jennifer Ashley

Immortals: The Awakening by Joy Nash

Ok the remaining pictures I can't get to upload so that they will be rightside up so I'm just going to type the rest.

Purchased the following books and anthologies by Kate Douglas:

Wolf Tales

Wolf Tales X

Sexy Beast IV

Sexy Beast V

Sexy BeastVI

Sexy Beast VII

The following books I won in giveaways:

Giveaway from Kate Douglas:

Hellfire by Kate Douglas

Nocturnal anthology containing Kate Douglas

Giveaway from Kelly Gay:

Dangerous Desires by Dee Davis

Demon Possessed by Stacia Kane

Killing Me Softly by Maggie Shayne

Darkest Edge of Dawn by Kelly Gay

Thanks ladies for the awesome books!

Thanks for stopping by!

Giveaway at Sinfully Tasty Reads

Sinfully Tasty Reads blog is giving away an ebook by Laura Stamps.  I'm so excited!  Laura Stamps has been on my TBB pile.  They are giving away Sex Magick the first book in the Rune Witch series.

Check out this giveaway by clicking HERE.

BlogFest 2010 giveaway

If you haven't checked out any of the blogfest participants yet, you MUST check out Bitten By Books.

They are giving away a Kindle!  How awesome is that!  Check out the contest, stay for the fun!

BlogFest 2010

Check out all the blogs participating in BlogFest 2010.  To get a full list of particpating blogs click HERE.

Alpha Trailer

A few months ago, I read the Shifter series by Rachel Vincent.  I am anxiously awaiting the upcoming release of Alpha the final book in the Shifter series.  Here is the trailer for Alpha!

1027+ followers and Bday giveaway at Larissa's Bookish Life

I'm not even sure how I found Larissa's blog but I can tell you she was the first book blogger I found.  Well in celebration of her followers and her birthday, Larissa is having a huge giveaway celebration.  The giveaway runs until October 11th.  So check out her blog and her giveaway by clicking HERE.

New giveaways

Until I figure out how I'm going to work this blog, I will continue to post about giveaways currently taking place. So here are some awesome giveaways.

500 followers giveaway at Ex Libris blog ends 9/13- click HERE

Over at Just Another New Blog the following 2 giveaways are going one:

• 5 copies of Seduced by a Highlander by Paula Quinn ends 9/6 HERE
• 5 copies of Sin Undone by Larissa Ione ends 9/13 HERE

Book Hounds Blog giveaways

Larissa Ione is doing a blog tour for last installment in the Demonica series, Sin Undone.  If you haven't read this series, you are missing out.
Mary over at BookHounds blog is giving away Sin Undone.
To check out the giveaway click HERE.
Another giveaway going on over at BookHounds is Seduced by a Highlander by Paula Quinn.  I haven't read this series yet but it is on my to be read pile.  If you would like to check out this giveaway click HERE.
Thank you Mary for the awesome giveaways.

Celebrating followers at Reading with Tequila Blog

Jennifer over at Reading with Tequila blog is celebrating her blog followers with a giveaway.  She started the giveaway with 1000 followers and 3 winners.  The first winner will get to pick 3 books from the below list of books, the second winner 2 books and the third winner 1 book.  For each additional 50 followers she will add a new winner.  She has already reached 1050 followers so an additional winner was added and is close to 1100 followers.  To check out this blog and the giveaway by clicking HERE.

The Books

Eat Prey Love by Kerrelyn Sparks

Alpha by Rachel Vincent

Bitten to Death by Jennifer Rardin

Double Cross by Carolyn Crane

Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan

Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews

Driven to Ink by Karen E Olson

The Grimrose Path by Rob Thurman

An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

Witch and Wizard by James Patterson

Blameless by Gail Carriger

Sacrifice by Dakota Banks

Demon from the Dark by Kresley Cole

Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad

Feed by M T Anderson

Hunger by Michael Grant

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Masques by Patricia Briggs

Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione

The Vampire's Bride by Gena Showalter

Vampire Week at Blog with Bite

This week is Vampire Week over at Blog with Bite, they are having a great giveaway.  Check out the blog and the giveaway by clicking HERE.

A giver that keeps on giving

Sabrina from About Happy Books Blog is awesome.  She regularly gives blood and is using her money from her blood donation to give away a book to one of her followers.  Check out her blog and her giveaway by clicking HERE.

Yes I'm a freak

My one friend tells me I'm a freak whenever I win a new book.  I love giveaways so I guess I am a freak. I have another great giveaway for you.  Sara at Babbling Flow blog is having an awesome ARC contest.  8 different ARCs available.  Check out the contest by clicking HERE.

Yet another great giveaway

A Fanatic's Book Blog is currently running the "You Choose" giveaway.   The more followers the more prizes.  Check it out by clicking Here.

Another great giveaway

Ok, I haven't read the Soul Screamer series but I have read Rachel Vincent's Shifters series.  She is a great author.  Jessie Harrell from The Daily Harrell blog is giving away the Soul Screamers series.  To check out this giveaway click Here

Giveaway by Bookhounds

Still trying to get a blog up an running.  Haven't really gotten into it yet.  But in the mean time here is a great giveaway you should check out.
BookHounds is giving away 5 Romance books.

Check out the giveaway by clicking Here

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