Winners!!

Thank you to everyone who entered our Gratitude Giveaways!  Emails have been sent to both winners, and they each have three days to respond before new winners will be drawn.  :)

Jaidis won the signed copy of Kiss Me Deadly 

Nadinax won the signed copy of Soulless 

Gratitude Giveaways! Two Books! Two Winners!

CLOSED!

Thank you to everyone who entered! 

Nadinax won the signed copy of Soulless

Jaidis won the signed copy of Kiss Me Deadly

Thank you for stopping by to check out our Gratitude Giveaways!  We are giving away two signed books - Kiss Me Deadly and Soulless!  You can enter to win both giveaways by filling out the form below.  [Open to US followers only.  Contest deadline = November 28th at 11:59 pm PST.  Extra entries for following us on twitter (+1) and helping spread the word about our giveaways (+2).]

Enter to win Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love signed by Becca Fitzpatrick!  Kiss Me Deadly is an anthology featuring stories by thirteen fantastic YA authors (including Becca Fitzpatrick, Maggie Stiefvater, Carrie Ryan, Sarah Rees Brennan, Diana Peterfreund, Michelle Zink, and Rachel Vincent).  Becca Fitzpatrick signed this book for us at Wordstock & you can read our full event report here.

  

Enter to win a signed copy of Soulless by Gail Carriger!  Soulless is the first book in the awesome Parasol Protectorate series.  We had the pleasure of meeting Gail Carriger at a fun sci-fi/fantasy event last weekend & she is absolutely delightful!  If you like steampunk, historical fantasy, or paranormal mysteries, then you will definitely want to check out her Alexia Tarabotti novels!

There are over 175 blogs participating in the Gratitude Giveaways blog hop hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer!  Be sure to check out the links below!

Flower Friday - Cosmos

Cosmos

This week's featured flowers are - Cosmos!  These tall flowers are extremely easy to grow from seed and come in a wide variety of colors. Their foliage is airy and fern-like, so they make a very pretty backdrop for shorter flowers.  Cosmos are drought-tolerant, love full sun, bloom from mid-summer until first frost, and re-seed quite freely.  They thrive in poor soil conditions, and require almost no care.  Most Cosmos flowers have a light floral scent (with the exception of the 'Chocolate' variety which is famous for its a chocolatey vanilla fragrance), and they make beautiful cut flowers in wildflower arrangements.  To learn more about about Cosmos, check out the Cosmos page at Dave's Garden, the Cosmos page at Wikipedia, or the Cosmos page at WildflowerInformation.org.

A brief blog update:

Sadly, I killed our laptop about two weeks ago, so the whole family is currently sharing our ancient (and painfully slow) PC.  The good news is that accidental damage is covered by our service plan (which is very fortunate since I managed to crack the screen and bend the power-supply pin).  But the bad news is that because I managed to destroy multiple parts of the laptop, it has to be processed through two separate service centers before making its way back to us.  *insert major laptop withdrawls here*  I really miss being able to keep up with all the bookish, blogish fun, so I am counting down the minutes until we get our laptop back.  But in the meantime, I will continue checking in and posting from our dinosaur-like PC as much as possible.
 

In happier news, we had the opportunity to meet Suzanne Collins last Sunday (so exciting!), and this weekend we plan to attend another awesome book event featuring several authors (including Gail Carriger and Ilona Andrews), so we'll have a couple of fun event reports to share as well as several reviews to catch up on in the coming weeks.  Plus, we can't wait to give away some fabulous signed books during our Gratitude Giveaway, so be sure to check that out on Wednesday (11/17).

Happy Reading!  :-)