Aaaaand The Winner Is: Tina!

The winner of my 100+ Follower Contest with a total of 122 Unique Entries is someone who had 6 points/entries: 

Tina

http://onemorepage.tinamats.com/

Congrats Tina!

Thanks to The Book Quoter for donating the Prize of $15

You can visit BookQuoter at A Thousand Books with Quotes, a very unique blog.

Thanks to everyone who entered, I've enjoyed visiting your blog and I commented on all the blogs that were linked.

Save the Date! Advance Buzz for Scott Nicholson Blog Tour

Scott Nicholson Kindle Giveaway Blog Tour

 Author Scott Nicholson and Amazon are giving away two Kindles as part of his fall book blog tour from September through November, including a stop here at e-Volving Books on Nov 11th. A Kindle DX will be given away through the participating blogs, and a Kindle 3 will be given away through the tour newsletter. A Pandora's Box of free ebooks will be given away through Nicholson's "hauntedcomputer" Twitter account.

"The digital era coincides with Act II of my career," Nicholson said. "The Kindle has broadened many people's horizons and given readers more power than ever, and this is an opportunity to celebrate them and the book bloggers who spread the word."

Nicholson is author of 12 novels and five story collections, as well as four comics series and six screenplays. His paranormal thrillers The Red Church, Drummer Boy and Speed Dating with the Dead have all hit #1 in the Kindle "Ghosts" category, and his new releases are the sci-fi thriller Forever Never Ends and the multiple-personality romp As I Die Lying.

As a bonus, if Nicholson hits the Top 100 in the U.S. or U.K. Kindle Store during the tour between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30, he will give away an extra Kindle 3 through the blogs. Sign up for the newsletter at scottsinnercircle-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to get daily links to the participating blogs. Winners will be selected at the Watauga County (NC) Public Library in December. No purchase necessary, and the contest is international. Co-sponsored by Kindle Nation Daily and Dellaster Design. 

Details at www.hauntedcomputer.com.

100+ Follower Giveaway - Ends Oct 15

Yay! It is that time again - A Contest and Giveaway!

This is INTERNATIONAL, open anywhere the great Book Depository Folks will ship.
If you live in India, I will ship a book of choice to you (as this is one of the rare countries that doesn't get Book Depo books).

The prize money/certificate is donated by BookQuoter from A Thousand Books with Quotes
www.bookquotes-bookquotes.blogspot.com
This is an award that she was going to gift me (being a super nice person) and I decided to gift it to my fellow bloggers (also being rather nice) - so enter to WIN! There is a decent chance that I will add an ebook prize if the entries get fairly large.

Contest Guidelines:
Must be a follower of this blog

How to Enter:

1. FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW 
2. Winner will ANY $15 Book Depository BOOK OF CHOICE
3. Contest is open to EVERYONE (international, shipping by Book Depository)
4. Contest ends October 15th

Extra Entries:

• +1 Tweet
• +1 Facebook link
• +1 Goodreads Update
  
• +2 Sidebar
• +2 Post
• +2 Add my blog to your Blog Roll

Book Blogger Hop #5 - And the Launch of a Contest! Sep 24-27

This is a weekly event hosted by Jen at Crazy For Books. It's a chance to discover new blogs and to garner new readers for your blog as well. 

This Week's Question ...When you write reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you have read the entire book?

The reviews I write? I don't write too many of them. Most of the time, I try to review it the day I finish reading - or else I put them off for a month, and let myself just marinate in my thoughts about book for a while. I have to do this to prevent my exuberance about reading say, the final book in a series, carry over into my opinion on the book.

Today I'm launching a brand new CONTEST!! *YAY*
Just check out the Contest Post to enter!
Other FREE Stuff this week: Free Story from Neil Gaiman
Posts: Why book publishing needs to Change

The new ebook readers entering the market, price, and benefits for us readers:Multiplying Like Rabbits 

 

Top 10-ish Names for the Catchy Name Contest

While the contest is still running for another 2 days (till Aug 15th), I wanted to put up my shortlist of the best names so far - please vote in the comments. Your opinion counts with me!

AAaandd.....*DRUMROLL*    THE FINALISTS:

1. Kindle your love for reading                - by Laura @ traveltheages.blogspot.com
2. Flipping Pages                                    - by Deepthi & Sanjeev
3. A Kindle in the Wind                          - by Chandra
4. Reading under the stars                       - by http://avacypher-bookinfinity.blogspot.com/
5. Digital Goddess                                  - by Shy (Tag: "A woman. A Kindle. And tons of Book Reviews")
6. Confessions of a Kindle Junkie            - by Missy @ missyreadsreviews.blogspot.com
7. Geeky Kindle Reviews                        - by Darlyn
8. e-Volving Books                                 - by Gnoe from http://gnoegnoe.wordpress.com/
9. Reading between the lines                    - by Ky @Can't Find a Bookmark
10. Dog Eared or Electric Reader              - by Ky @Can't Find a Bookmark
11. Me-reader                                           - by Gnoe from http://gnoegnoe.wordpress.com/

Of the people who participated,  a lot of votes went to Beyond Words (my suggestion) - though I will still be giving out the winning prize to a real entry.
Just to make this as open as possible - here is the actual form that you and the contestants filled out:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArGJULC_j5pBdGl6TWxBdkJIMi1Hd3FQTVdKZFl2a3c&hl=en&authkey=CMfK-K0J


Go check it out! Its open to view by anyone with the link. Do leave a comment with your choice for the Winner!

Teaser Tuesday #6: Bridge Of Birds

Today's TT is from one of the best books I have read this year: Bridge of Birds, Master Li, Book 1.

It is a fantasy-esque book set in "an Ancient China that never was". Come back here tomorrow for the review!

Taken from a page when the author is describing the importance of the drummer while two swordsman compete in Sword Dancing:

It is said that a truly great drummer is the equivalent of a third sword. Sample gymnasium conversation:

"I hear that Fan Yun has challenged you.Who's your drummer?"

"Blind Meng."

"Blind Meng! Great Buddha, I must sell my wife and wager the proceeds! Orderly, be so kind as to order flowers for Fan Yun's widow."

In other news, I have a Catchy Name Contest! that began yesterday, and will go on through the next 2 weeks. My blogpost above describes the details - I need a new name for the blog :) The winner gets a book via Book Depository, or an Ebook by Ilona Andrews. Also, I will be posting on all the attempts made, so your website would be linked as well.

The Catchy Name Contest!

This book blog is just over two months old now, and I need YOU to help me name it.
I used a place-holder sort of name when I created it, and since I am not the most creative person, I can't come up with anything better now. The best way to do this, is to turn it over to you - my genius reader.
In India, this Naming Ceremony for babies is a very important day-long event, with about 50 people attending and celebrated with prayers, food, friends and family. Thats pretty much the number of reads I'm seeing, so it looks like this is the right time to have my first contest.

Just to give you some starting ideas, I came up with some sample names while in that dreamy state of waking up this morning -

• Kindle Reader,
• Bookworks,
• Beyond Words.

I know you can do MUCH BETTER!

The Winner gets any book of their choice under $10 from The Book Depository.

If you live in a place where they don't ship (like India), prize is the ebook Silent Blade, by Ilona Andrews. This is the first book I purchased for my Kindle :) 

Contest & Giveaway Prizes: Free copies of novels by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Sharon Lee & Steve Miller are the author team behind the classic and ever-popular Liaden Universe®. This series of “adventurous romantic space opera” holds cross-over appeal for both romance and science fiction readers.

To celebrate the release of Mouse and Dragon, Lee and Miller’s thirteenth Liaden novel, the authors are hosting a contest. It’s open to anyone and everyone who has yet to sample a Liaden Universe® novel. They're giving away 36 digital copies of The Dragon Variation.

Not only that, but if you’re a blogger who wants to help spread the word about it, you’ll be entered for a chance to win a $36.00 gift card from Barnes and Noble! And if you’re a blogger new to the Liaden novels (like myself), you can enter both tiers of the contest.

Here is an excerpt from the official announcement at Sharon Lee’s blog:

In celebration of the publication of Mouse and Dragon, the thirteenth novel set in their Liaden Universe®, authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are holding an Expanding Universe Contest! Yes! No less than thirty-six electronic copies of The Dragon Variation will be given away.

The Dragon Variation is an omnibus edition of three Liaden Universe® novels — Conflict of Honors, one of the first modern SFRomances; Local Custom, second place winner of the Prism Award for best Futuristic of 2002; and Scout’s Progress, the first place winner of the Prism Award for best Futuristic of 2002, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice for Best SF Novel of its year, and the prequel to Mouse and Dragon.

That's three complete novels under one cover. No prior knowledge of the Liaden Universe® required. Electronic! In Baen Books’ DRM-free, multiplatform style. This omnibus can be read on your Kindle, your phone, your iPad, your desktop, or other ereader.

To enter the contest, visit the Expanding Universe Post at Sharon Lee’s blog and follow the instructions you see there (it’s easy). The contest ends at "midnight Eastern Daylight Time (4:00 a.m. GMT) Friday, July 16". Winners will be announced on Saturday, July 17, 2010.

Final comment - The first several chapters of the books are available for all to read on the Baen Website - www.baen.com. Baen has to be the best publisher in the genre!