Congratulations to borntobewild13, who has won any one of Jennifer Rardin's books. Drop me a line to let me know which book you want and where to send it, and I'll send it out straightaway.

Thank you to everyone who entered or who just felt the need to comment on Ms. Rardin's passing.

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Edit: The giveaway portion of this post is now closed, but please feel free to leave comments about Ms. Rardin and her books if you feel so inclined.I'd like to interrupt Banned Books Week and take a moment to remember Jennifer Rardin. You may remember the shock last week when she passed away suddenly and a few of us book bloggers decided we'd ( Read more... )

Just a reminder to everyone that as Banned Book Week (Sept 25-Oct 2) is coming up fast, so is our Banned Book contest, the prize for which is a whole package full of awesome. All it takes to enter is a short review of a book that's been challenged or banned (or a long review, if that's what you prefer) which you can either send to me or put up on ( Read more... )

Banned book week is coming up, which is awesome. Not awesome that books get banned, but awesome that we get a week to celebrate the freedom to read what we want. This year, banned book week is from September 25 to October 2, and I'm planning a big old party at that time ( Read more... )

I'm sure you've all been waiting anxiously to hear the final results of the Sarah is alive and also we support POC on book covers and geez could this title get any longer? contest. Well, according to the ever accomodating random.org, our winner is:

edgyauthorCongrats! Zip us an e-mail or a private message through lj with your mailing address, and we'll ( Read more... )

Also known as the Sarah Is Alive Contest! Or so I've been told by a certain person around here. That fact remains to be proven, though!

For those who haven't seen this post about Cindy Pon's novel Silver Phoenix (shame!) go take a look! For those that have and are interested in the book, here is a chance to win a copy of your very own*!

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The time has come (the walrus said) to reveal the winner of our very Canadian contest. Courtesy of author Sean Cummings, I have one signed copy of Shade Fright, and it's about to be sent to lindenfoxcub. The question was about what sort of Canadianisms people wanted to see depicted in fiction, and lindenfoxclub had quite the list:

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This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who participated.

So I'm sitting here, staring at this shiny new copy of Shade Fright. It's signed by the author and still has that new book smell, so there's clearly only one thing to do: CONTEST TIME!


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All the aspiring authors out there may want to check out the "Dear Lucky Agent" contest, which starting today is taking submissions from unpublished middle grade and YA novels. Entries are judged by a literary agent (Jennifer Laughran of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency) and prizes include a 25-page manuscript critique. After all, just like ( Read more... )

Well, the rants are in, so it seems only fair to announce the winner. When presented with the incredibly offensive book The Girls Guide to Gaming
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