Cool giveaway: Paperback Dolls Give Back & Kindle Fire giveaway

So, as many of you know, I love great giveaways.  Right up there with great coupon deals and reading blogs as ways to pass my time.   I tend not to talk about it much in my blog because it's not really what this blog tends to be about (emo posts and random bits of writing are way cooler - uh-huh), but every once-in-awhile there is a giveaway that I feel like I should share.  Because it's awesome.

paperback dolls give back + Kindle Fire giveaway

"For every new follower Paperback Doll’s acquires during this 17 day contest, Day has teamed up with her local Half Price Books and Dollar Tree Store and will donate 1 children’s book or toy to Operation Christmas Child or Toys for Tots charity. We hope we are able to give lots of books and toys to children all over the world this holiday season! As a special “thank you” to all of our readers we are giving away a KINDLE FIRE tablet and donating books and toys to charity. To participate simply enter below. Already have a tablet? You can still help by sending monetary donations securely via paypal."

Enter here.

books, books, books...

I just finished my last deadline story.  Well, almost.  It's in the hands of someone to read over one last time, but pretty much done.  Now I can read like crazy.  My vacation has begun and I don't have many plans this holiday season.  So I can curl up in front of my fireplace with a blanket, hot chocolate and lots of books. I've got a pile from the library I need to get through and a few books I purchased that I haven't gotten to yet.  And over the past two weeks, I've found out that I've won a few different books from various sites like Book Hounds, Bitten By Books, and My Overstuffed Bookshelf (I know I'm forgetting a site and I totally apologize!  My mind has ceased to work!). 

Is there anything better than books and getting lost in reading?  I love writing and creating my own worlds and characters, but there is something so perfect about a good book.

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Today's Reverb 10 prompt:

December 23 – New Name. Let’s meet again, for the first time. If you could introduce yourself to strangers by another name for just one day, what would it be and why? (Author: Becca Wilcott)

It's such a funny thing because for most of my young life into my late teens, I wished with all my might for a different name.  There were a lot of girls my age with my name and definitely not with the spelling I used.  My mother's explanation that both my sister and I were named after a Jane Austen characters (see was obsessed with Jane Austen, which is why I probably am too) didn't mean much to me.  After all, my sister's name was normal and there were plenty of those brushes-with-insert-name for her.  Not so much for me.  And that damn lady on Romper Room never saw me in her magic mirror.  Jens and Michelles and Amys, yeah, but never me. 

My name was the bane of my existence.  And then I don't know what happened.  It stopped being an issue.  I stopped wishing my name were different and came to love my name.  It's a part of who I am.  It's the first word I think of to describe myself.   Maybe I'm just a bi-polar name person, swinging from hate to love, but I wouldn't change my name.  I wouldn't want a different name for a day.  A different job?  A different perspective?  Sure, but I'm keeping my name.

Two Very Cool Giveaways from Flying Giggles & Lollipops

As I've said in the past, while I have a great love of the awesome giveaways that so many bloggers sponsor, I tend not to promote most of them as that would be all I did.

That said, right now Flying Giggles & Lollipops has TWO great giveaways that end tonight.



The blog has joined forces with Sears to offer up a $ 500 gift card to Sears to be used as you deem fit.  You can here. 

The other big giveway is a KMart $ 500 gift card, again to be used as you deem fit.  You can enter here.

Remember:  this is the last day to enter as both of these giveways end tonight at 11:59 PST.

Rachel Caine & Bitten By Books

So one of my favorite authors, Rachel Caine, has a new book out, Ghost Town, and to celebrate it, Bitten By Books, one of my favorite book blog sites, is running a contest!  So go share your favorite parts of the Morganville series thus far and enter to win an IPad.  You have until November 10, 2010 to enter.

If you haven't read any of Rachel's books, I highly recommend them.  She not only writes the Morganville series, but a few other great fantasy sets as well.  I highly recommend her stuff.

Link to Bitten By Books contest:  http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=32545

Rachel Caine's Website:  http://www.rachelcaine.com/

help out some cool blogs if you can

Some of my favorite blogs have set up Open Sky stores and are competing in a contest, where the winner receives $5000 based on most sales during the month of October.  It's not too late to help them out.  And if they do win, they're planning to giveaway $ 250.00.

The Open Sky Stores:

Survey Junkie's Open Sky Store
Simply Stacie's Open Sky Store
Little YaYas' Open Sky Store
Review Retreat's Open Sky Store
One Little Mister's Open Sky Store

For more information on the contest, check out this post by Survey Junkie.

The holidays aren't that far away and if you see something in the stores you like, you'll be helping fellow bloggers out.  And, as a thank you, these five Open Sky stores have a fabulous giveaway going on right now where you can win $20 Target & $32 Bangle Bracelet. To enter visit http://bit.ly/9ubTFe
And now I must go do actual things with my day.

It's not too late - Borders Kobo E-Reader Giveaway

Just a quick post that it's not to late to enter Two of a Kind's giveaway, sponsored by Borders, of the Kobo E-Reader.  The giveaway is runs until 11:59pm on October 29th.  And the only main requirement to enter is to visit Border's site and share your favorite feature on the Kobo E-Reader.

Go check it out here!

huge book giveaway

Because I ingest books at a rapid rate, I felt the need to share this!




You have until October 13th to enter! Eight different genres of books to choose from in each package! So head on over, fellow bibliophiles!

Fall Blogfest is here!

Blogfest 2010 is underway.  It's running today through September 12th and it's full of tons of giveaways!  Not only that, but it's a great way to discover new blogs to add to your blog roll.  And to make it easy for everyone to keep track of the sites they've visited and such, there is a tracking site.

I've already discovered some great new book blogs (because I can never add too many books to my to-read pile) and can't wait to spend the rest of the evening perusing the blogs and giveaways. 

What's that about writing?  Oh, yeah, um...I'll get back to you on that!

Very Cool giveaway - $200 Follower Giveaway

The lovely blogs:  Kelly's Lucky You, Little Yayas, My Wee View, & Simply Stacie

I'll just let them sum it up in their own words:  Welcome to the $200 Follower Giveaway Tour!!

This special giveaway event is hosted by Simply Stacie, Little Yayas, My Wee View and Kelly’s Lucky You.

We have an extra special prize in store for our followers today and are bursting to tell you all about it! Think of it as our way of saying “Thank You” to all our followers!

One lucky follower is going to win $200 USD paid via Paypal.

 

In my opinion:  not only is it work it for the giveaway, but each of these blogs is full of great posts with reviews and other giveaways.

very cool giveaway of Bissell Proheat 2X Pet Deep Cleaner

I think this is a great giveaway to share and I could also use the extra entries as a gal with three cats that love to shed everywhere they can.  I swear they do it on purpose sometimes.  "Oh Mare, look, you just cleaned the living room.  I shall now go rub up against every piece of furniture and clear rug."

The lovely Kim of What Is That Smell? is hosting a giveaway of a Bissell Proheat 2x Pet Deep Cleaner.

You can enter the giveaway here.

three things for the day

1)  work is insane.  so much to do, so little time.  I'm always impressed by people who have it so together, able to balance work, personal, etc so well.

2)  On a whim, I decided to enter the current young adult novel I'm working on into a contest.  Round 1 was based on the first line of the piece.  I was in the top thirty for round one, so now I get to move onto round two - summary of the novel.  I'm a little intimidated by summaries and titles.  It's always the small things that throw me.  I shall overcome though.  I'm going to do this.  (And maybe beg y'all to vote for me).

3)  Since I have nothing real to offer today as every thought seems to be seeping out of my pores before it can become coherent, I shall share a cool giveaway.

A very cool contest in a double trouble sort of way.

Two amazing sites are giving away a Zuvo Water Filtration System! That is a $299.99 value!

First stop by One2Try's giveaway.  And earn and extra entry if you head over to Midday Escapes to enter her giveaway of the same thing.

With so much gunk going into our water, a giveway like this is one I can't recommend enough.  Of course, I'm hoping I win it.  Hee.

Swagbucks

I just discovered Swagbucks.  Any pointers from those out there who use it?  It seems a bit like MyPoints from what I've seen thus far.

Anyway, if you're interested, I'd love if you use me as a referral.

two cool contests from two cool websites

 Again, I try to limit the blog posts I make about giveaways, usually utilizing twitter and such for that, but some of them are especially cool to me and I like to share.



Survey Junkie is running a giveaway where you can win a bag from Twisted Orchid, home of very cool bags. If you're a lover of purses and bags like me, be sure to check out the giveaway.




Next we have Review Retreat with a giveaway of $ 100.00 gift certificate to ATGstores to be used for whatever your heart contents.  Awesomeness.


Check them out!  And good luck (not too much luck though - it's been too long since I got a new purse into my greedy little hands)

Cool giveaway for readers & writers!

Valerie K of the I Should Be Writing blog is running a very cool contest - a massive birthday extravaganza for both writers and readers.  Some great things are up for grabs and highly recommend rushing over there and entering.  The giveaway ends on June 10th, so make sure to get over there and sign up. 

a must giveaway to share

Sticking with the sleep is my favorite thing in the world (yes, I'm selfish and it does top world peace), I feel the need to share a link to a contest from Mom Start.  It's a chance to win one Select Sleep Number Comfort Bed from Select Comfort.

I mean, you could win this...

Need I say more?  Go enter here.

who doesn't want happy sleeping time - giveaway link

I'm the first to own that i'm a crazy giveaway entering fool.  Maybe it's because I'm so poor at the moment that as a girl who loves shopping this is the next best thing.  That said, I usually don't blog about most of them because it's not really what I want this journal to be about.  So I keep the ones to a minimum, to the ones that I think are super-dooper cool for beyond twitter and such.  (Aka:  warning my lovely twitter people- intermixed with my random thoughts are often giveaway tweets!)

Today is one of those giveaways I want to share because it's one that I think anyone could enjoy.




One2Try is running a giveaway to win a True Silver Mattress Pad by Select Comfort.

Go check it out and sign up.  I can't speak for the rest of you, but sleep is my favorite thing.  And that means I love great bed products. 

Good luck!  But not too much luck, I still want a fighting chance!

a cool contest from Broken Teepee

Cool giveway going on over at Broken Teepee.   It's a $100.00 gift certificate to ATGStores.com, which I'll admit that I had never heard of before reading this entry at BT.  But isn't that one of of the great things of the internet?  discovery of new wonderful shops and toys.

Spring giveaway from MisfitSalon...

 

Great site with great book reviews.  I'm not sure it's a surprise that I'm a huge bibliophile and follow many book blogs, always on the look out for new reads to add to my book collection.  I want to have one of those old movie huge libraries one day.

Also, be sure to check out MisfitSalon's current giveaway to celebrate spring. Free books, my friends. Free books and fun reviews.

I Heart Monster Giveaway Fun

I Heart Monster is having a big extravaganza of giveaways to celebrate their birthday.  That means lots of chances to win lots and lots of books.

Not only do they have great reviews of books for the avid reader, but chances at free books.  Who can pass that up?