Contests & Giveaways in the Writing World - Week of March 25th

Happy Monday and here are some great Contests and Giveaways in the Writing World to make your week  

great!

Check out Lindsay Cummings blog for the giveaway of ARCs of some of the upcoming YA books! What an awesome way to start your week. 5 Days to go to enter!

Candace's Book Blog is reviewing and giving away Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare (the cover is gorgeous!). There will be two winners!

Love Blog Hops? Don't miss this one! Love Is In The Air is hosted by Emma Shortt. Many great giveaways.

Do you enjoy Historical Fiction? Check out Christy English blog for the Q & A with J.A. Coffey the author of HETAERA: Daughter of the Gods. Enter the giveaway to win not only a copy of the novel, but also a gorgeous bronze beaded collar necklace.

Nomi's Paranormal Palace has a guest post by D.N. Simmons, author of urban fantasy series Knights of the Darkness, and an amazing Giveaway of a $50 Amazon Gift Card!

Lori's Reading Corner is hosting a guest post/virtual tour stop and Giveaway by Morrie Richfield, author of Mr. Breeze series, which is inspiration fantasy. The prizes are a $100 Amazon Gift Card or Paypal Cash!


Sparkles and a Stove, a blog by Kathy Penney, is open for April Kindle Giveaway sign up. This one is for writers who blog. Here are the details from Kathy: "I will be taking sign ups from March 24, 2013 through April 3, 2013 and the giveaway will go live on April 12, 2013 and run for 2 weeks. Buy in is $10 for any 3 links except Facebook. Any excess collected beyond the Kindle's value will be used toward offering a second or third gift card prize to make the giveaway even bigger. A great prize to offer your readers!"
Hurry to sign up if interested!

*As always, please contact me for the inclusion of your contests/giveaways into the Monday Contests and Giveaways in the Writing World posts.

Have fun and good luck! 

Also, don't forget to become a follower of this blog to make sure you catch giveaways coming soon!

Contests and Giveaways in the Writing World - Week of January 28th

I'm still feeling under the weather today but determined to get through the day at work and to be productive too. Feeling under the weather on this cold Monday as well? Here are some awesome contests and giveaways to make it a little better!



Heard of the new category - NA, New Adult? Who hasn't?? Are you writing in this category? Then hurry over to NA Alley to check out this contest! You have to have a finished and polished NA contemporary or paranormal manuscript and a query-sized pitch. Only the first 25 entries will be considered, so make sure you send in yours as soon as the contest opens up on February 9th at 10:30 am EST. Three winners will be chosen and will receive full manuscript request!Also a possibility for runners up is still being determined.



All Things UF is running a giveaway of Indigo Awakening by Jordan Dane, along with some character introductions. Sounds great!


Kate Avelynn is making a stop on her blog tour today at Jus Accardo. And not only is she sharing pictures of her characters, but is also giving away some great prizes, including a copy of her book Flawed and swag!


Lady Reader's Bookstuff blog is hosting a giveaway of an upcoming novel by Rita Webb, Playing Hooky. A couple of e-books and a really cool necklace are up for grabs!


Page Turners is hosting the kick-off of the blog tour for Shadows in the Silence by  Courtney Allison Moulton. 3 signed sets of the Angelfire Series are going to be given away!

*As always, please contact me for the inclusion of your contests/giveaways into the Monday Contests and Giveaways in the Writing World posts.

Have fun and good luck! 

Also, don't forget to become a follower of this blog to make sure you catch giveaways coming soon!

Contests & Giveaways in The Writing World - Week of May 21st

It's Monday, yay!!! Oh...wait...It's Monday! Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!

To get the week going in a positive direction, don't forget to check out these cool contests and giveaways.

Oh no, zombies!!!! Save yourself! Better yet, get into the Zombie Craze 2012 with an Epic Giveaway from the Bookish Brunette. There's lost of great "zombie-themed" books to win. The giveaway ends May 31st, so hurry!

England's Queen Elizabeth is marking her 60th year of reign this year. Romance at Random is celebrating the event with the Diamond Jubilee blog hop! You can win up to 26 prizes by hopping through the participating blogs (over 70). How fun is that?!

The amazing Indelibles are hosting a Summer Beach Bash! You can win lots of new fun summer releases loaded into a brand new Nook Simple Touch or Kindle Touch! Hurry to check out this blog hop! The contest closes on Thursday, May 24th!

Say congratulations to Carrie Butler, who's celebrating the 1st Blogiversary of So, You're A Writer... with fun prizes.

More great Giveaways and Contests to come in two weeks!

*As always, please contact me for the inclusion of your contests/giveaways into the Monday Contests and Giveaways in the Writing World posts.

Have fun and good luck!

Contests and Giveaways in the Writing World

 
Yep, it's another Monday and a whole work week ahead...Fear not! There's plenty of wonderful contests and giveaway going on in the Writing World this week to keep you cheerful and looking forward to the rest of the week! Here's a list of some of them.

Twitter Sized Pitch Contest from Tina Moss - win a critique of the first five pages of your ms from Tina Moss and Super Agents Frances Black and Jennifer Mishler of the Literary Counsel (Tina's and my agents!!)

Channeler's Choice Release and Tour Plus Giveaways from the wonderful Heather McCorkle! - Come celebrate Heather's release and check out her blog tour. Enter to win great books! And don't forget to come by my blog for the interview with Heather herself this Thursday, March 1st!


March Madness Agent Contest from Operation Awesome! - If you  have a ready ms, you can't miss this one! This month, they are looking for novels in the following genres: YA contemporary/realistic fiction, YA sci-fi or light fantasy, Adult Literary Fiction, Magical realism, Dark Mystery and Literary Horror. The prize is a full manuscript request! You can't beat that.

3000 Thank yous & Giveaway from The Bookshelf Muse! - This unbelievable writer resources blog is celebrating reaching 3000 followers, and the giveaway include many great prizes, so don't miss out!

Sins of the Son (Grigory Legacy #2) by Linda Poitevin Giveaway by Goodreads!

Birthday & Blogoversary Giveaway by Kristina Ebert - check it out and congratulate the author!

More great Giveaways and Contests to come next week!

Have fun and good luck!

And the Winner Is...

The winner of the "Celebrating 100th Blog Post" Giveaway is...

 Mike Dachuk

Mike, congratulations! You will be receiving an email from me with the details.

Thank you all for participating!

Celebrating 100th Blog Post!

I have passed my blog's one-year anniversary awhile ago. However, since the beginning of my blogging journey wasn't as active as the last half a year, it was more important to me to celebrate my 100th blog post. And it happened today!!

To celebrate, I'm doing  a Giveaway for a $20 on-line gift certificate to Amazon.com or B&N.com. This is my thank you to all you amazing wonderful and gracious readers who inspire me every day to keep blogging and hopefully bring a little inspiration to everyone who comes by the blog.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Please look below for the Giveaway rules and how you can gain more points. Winner will be announced Monday, February 20th.

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Good luck!

Wonderful News - Signed with Agent!

Today, I’m extremely happy to share some wonderful news with you. I can barely sit still, I’m so excited! Ok, ok, I won’t keep you waiting any longer…my awesome writing partner Tina Moss and I just accepted representation from the Literary Council, led by the agent team of Frances Black and Jennifer Mishler! (Ok, give me a second, I have to squeee just one more time…ok, I’m good now).  Fran and Jennifer blew us away with their enthusiasm and zeal about working with us.

There’s much work ahead but this is a major step for us on the road to getting published. We’re looking forward to working with Fran and Jennifer and we’re hyped to start working on our next book.

We appreciate everyone’s support and to celebrate our news, we’re both doing a giveaway – a $10 gift card to Amazon or Barnes & Noble. All you have to do to enter my giveaway is leave a comment below. for extra points, follow the instruction below . If you do any of these, please tell me in the comment exactly what you did, and include your email. I will contact the winner next week. Check out Tina’s post and giveaway here.