600 Follower Giveaway!

I am thrilled to announce that I hit my goal of 600 followers during the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop! I actually exceeded it! Total number of followers as of now is 629. WooHoo! I promised a giveaway so here it is.

I will leave this one open until Feb 1,2012 so everyone has time to enter.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by: Laini Taylor

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

By: Laini Taylor

Publisher: Little Brown

Publish Date: September 2011

Source: Bought from Amazon

Exerpt:

AROUND THE WORLD, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

Guest Post by Sheldon Townsend.

I love Books

Guest Post

by: Sheldon Townsend

I love books.  Not just reading them and owning them, but I love books like I love liberty and justice.  The invention of the book was one of the mankind's greatest achievements and I think there can be a direct connection between the Gutenberg press and the freedoms we all enjoy.  Books did two things: they made memory permanent and information democratic.  You could find a book and learn.  You didn't have to find an old person whose memory might be faulty.  And it made knowledge democratic, not the sole domain of the cabal of the lucky few (call them the knowledge 1%) who could afford manuscripts.  Books became cheap and plentiful thanks to Gutenberg.  And people became knowledgeable.  It broke the back of feudalism and the Catholic Church's monopoly on God, both of which ended the dark ages and led to the Renaissance.  This led to the Enlightenment and finally to the liberties those of us in the West enjoy.  It is telling that one of the first thing tyrants want to control is books.  So I love books.  You could say I'm intoxicated by them.

Cover Reveal! Sleepers by Megg Jensen

Introducing the new artwork for Megg Jensen’s bestselling novel SLEEPERS

To celebrate the re-launch of SLEEPERS in January of 2012, Megg is giving it a new cover with artwork from the incredible PhatPuppy.

Synopsis:

An adoptee raised in a foreign land, sixteen-year-old Lianne was content with her life as handmaiden to the queen, until a spell cast on her at birth activated. Now she's filled with uncontrollable rage and access to magic she thought had been bled from her people years ago. Even her years of secret training in elite hand-to-hand combat and meditation can’t calm the fires raging inside her.

Holding on to Heaven by Keta Diablo + GIVEAWAY

This review tour is hosted by: Bewitching Blog Tours

Holding on to Heaven

by: Keta Diablo

Publisher: Keta Diablo

Publishing Date: April 15, 2011

Source: Ebook provided by Bewithing Tours

Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James

Fifty Shades Freed

by E. L. James

Publisher: The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House

Publiscation Date: Jan 19, 2012

Source: Won eARC from Library Thing

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway Hop!

This is my first annual "12 Days of Christmas" giveaway hop! I hope you all enjoy participating in the hop. Remember to follow the links at the end of this post to all of the other wonderful blogs that are participating. Each blog will offer a BOOK RELATED giveaway that will be open throughout the 12 days of this hop.

Lifting the Wheel of Karma by Paul H. Magid

Lifting the Wheel of Karma

by Paul H. Magid

REMARKABLE DEBUT NOVEL BY AUTHOR WHO HAS LIVED EVEN MORE REMARKABLE LIFE

A Modern Tale that Harkens back to the Myths of Antiquity

A Porfound Spiritual Journey of Extraordinary Healing and Redemption

Two winners to announce!

I have TWO winners to announce tonight! First is the winner of the Twilight Journals!

The Year I Became an Author; Guest Post by Cameo Renae + GIVEAWAY

The Year I Became an Author

Well, I thought I’d do a random post on what I learned this year, as far as being an author.

First… I actually became an author. Whoo-hoo! J  

On April 30, 2011, In My Dreams was released. It’s my first novel and is a YA Supernatural Romance / Thriller / Mystery. I decided to Self-Publish, because it seemed like the perfect thing to do at the time. With the finished manuscript in my hands, I just needed to know what to do next… I knew ZERO! I was so clueless about the whole process, but then… I found Amazon.com. They have their own publishing company, which is pretty awesome.

The Healing Art of Writing by Candy Little

The Healing Art of Writing

My writing journey is a bit unconventional from most writers. I never thought much about becoming a writer when I was young. I dabbled with some poetry in high school, but nothing serious. And, once when I had Saturday detention, I filled the two hours by writing a short, horror story about an ax murderer.  After graduation, I got married and started my family I didn’t have time for writing.

That is the prequel my story. The first chapter of my writing career started fourteen years ago when I was twenty-eight years old.