It’s time to announce the winners of my book giveaway, Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind, and I’m so excited (and nervous that I gobbled up my entire day's allotment of Lindt brand milk chocolate truffles in one sitting!) One hundred and seventeen entries! How cool is that? BTW, sorry so late in the morning with this but first I had to do the school run, make my bed, do my exercises and wash the dishes from last night (I could make excuses and say b/c of my personal gimpiness I’m just too darn tired to do dishes after dinner, however, it would be more accurate to say “Who wants to do dishes when everyone else is frolicking about or playing video games or watching reruns of The Office?”) AND I had to type a long list of lurvely names, print it up, cut it into strips which were folded, TWICE, put them all into a hat (actually, it’s a snowman gift bag—so appropo) and give it a few dozen hefty shakes. Phew!! (I can attend to personal hygiene later, right?)
But before I draw names (because, I’m doing this in real time, people, real time, sort of like Jack Bauer but less hawt and way less bloody) I want to mention that the number of books being offered as a giveaway has gone from two to three. I know! I’m so generous (but really, Crash made me do it). So, I will be drawing three pieces of the afore-said twice folded paper.
But before I do that, I want to thank all my bloggy friends for making this book blog tour a success. I actually ran across a blog last night whose bloggist (not a word but I LIKE it!) was relatively new to the blogosphere. She proudly drew attention to her so-far-short list of blogs she stalks—and I was on it! Along with Crash and Sue and TAMN and a few others of my fave funny blogs of all time. Me! In company with them! It made me think that A) this blog tour might have helped make me a teensy bit blog-famous B) my ploy of using the following feature as a carrot in this contest worked out swell and C) I suspect she only added me to her stalk-list because she (mistakenly) thought she had to in order to get an extra entry for a free book which was a very lowering--but appropriate--thought, indeed (and hey, if you recognize yourself, I hope I didn’t get your panties in a bunch! Love you! And, might I add, you have good taste!)
Okay, I’m almost ready to start pulling names out of a hat, er, snowman bag but I want to give one last shout out to the book tour stops (and for the rest of you who put my book cover and link in your blog—bless you to pieces! You can’t imagine what it has been like to be surfing my fave blogs and seeing Miss D in so many of them! What a treat! Best Christmas ever! Thank you so much!) Drumroll please for . . . .
Christine of The Power of Housewife Word of Mouth
Becky of Scripture Mom
Kazzy of Kazzy’s Ponderings
Jami of Superfluous Miscellany
Crash/Debbie of Crash Test Dummies Diaries
Randi of Is It Just Me?
Ladies, thank you so much, you don’t know what it means to me! You all did a fantastic job and I loved it! Love you!
Okay, here I go . . . (putting my hand into the hat) and we have . . (I’m going to tell you the honest to goodness first thought that crosses my mind) . . . Sue Q--way to go, Sue Q, who entered at the very last possible second! Just goes to show being the early bird doesn't always catch the worm. Okay, the next one is . . .Christine of The Power Of Housewife Word of Mouth--well, she DID get quite a few entries what with her inteviewing me and clicking the following button and linking to me, etc. etc. etc. Way to be, Christine! Okay, here I go for the third and last time . . . .T--I have no idea who you are T, I suspect after you leave me your address at write2me@heidiashworth.com, you will run for the hills and I will never see you again, but hey, glad you won! Hope you like the book!
So happy they won! But so sad the rest of you didn’t! If you still want a free book, hot foot it over to ldspublisher, a wonderful site that features three book giveaways every single month. This month Miss D is one of them (a little detail I forgot about when I started my own contest—sorry lds publisher!) Barring that, Miss Delacourt is on sale right now at both Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com for wayyyy cheaper than its cover price of $24.98. They have copies in stock, even though they claim it isn’t “out” yet (and even if they claim some are "used" which can be nothing but an unaccountable lie!)—so they can ship in time for Christmas if warming your tootsies by the fire with a good book is your holiday heart’s desire.
Tomorrow, it’s back to the usual programming . . . I promise (read: try--which is to say, possibly unsuccessfully which should be read as: a venture doomed from the outset) to keep it short. (And did I say thank you?!??!?!)
But before I draw names (because, I’m doing this in real time, people, real time, sort of like Jack Bauer but less hawt and way less bloody) I want to mention that the number of books being offered as a giveaway has gone from two to three. I know! I’m so generous (but really, Crash made me do it). So, I will be drawing three pieces of the afore-said twice folded paper.
But before I do that, I want to thank all my bloggy friends for making this book blog tour a success. I actually ran across a blog last night whose bloggist (not a word but I LIKE it!) was relatively new to the blogosphere. She proudly drew attention to her so-far-short list of blogs she stalks—and I was on it! Along with Crash and Sue and TAMN and a few others of my fave funny blogs of all time. Me! In company with them! It made me think that A) this blog tour might have helped make me a teensy bit blog-famous B) my ploy of using the following feature as a carrot in this contest worked out swell and C) I suspect she only added me to her stalk-list because she (mistakenly) thought she had to in order to get an extra entry for a free book which was a very lowering--but appropriate--thought, indeed (and hey, if you recognize yourself, I hope I didn’t get your panties in a bunch! Love you! And, might I add, you have good taste!)
Okay, I’m almost ready to start pulling names out of a hat, er, snowman bag but I want to give one last shout out to the book tour stops (and for the rest of you who put my book cover and link in your blog—bless you to pieces! You can’t imagine what it has been like to be surfing my fave blogs and seeing Miss D in so many of them! What a treat! Best Christmas ever! Thank you so much!) Drumroll please for . . . .
Christine of The Power of Housewife Word of Mouth
Becky of Scripture Mom
Kazzy of Kazzy’s Ponderings
Jami of Superfluous Miscellany
Crash/Debbie of Crash Test Dummies Diaries
Randi of Is It Just Me?
Ladies, thank you so much, you don’t know what it means to me! You all did a fantastic job and I loved it! Love you!
Okay, here I go . . . (putting my hand into the hat) and we have . . (I’m going to tell you the honest to goodness first thought that crosses my mind) . . . Sue Q--way to go, Sue Q, who entered at the very last possible second! Just goes to show being the early bird doesn't always catch the worm. Okay, the next one is . . .Christine of The Power Of Housewife Word of Mouth--well, she DID get quite a few entries what with her inteviewing me and clicking the following button and linking to me, etc. etc. etc. Way to be, Christine! Okay, here I go for the third and last time . . . .T--I have no idea who you are T, I suspect after you leave me your address at write2me@heidiashworth.com, you will run for the hills and I will never see you again, but hey, glad you won! Hope you like the book!
So happy they won! But so sad the rest of you didn’t! If you still want a free book, hot foot it over to ldspublisher, a wonderful site that features three book giveaways every single month. This month Miss D is one of them (a little detail I forgot about when I started my own contest—sorry lds publisher!) Barring that, Miss Delacourt is on sale right now at both Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com for wayyyy cheaper than its cover price of $24.98. They have copies in stock, even though they claim it isn’t “out” yet (and even if they claim some are "used" which can be nothing but an unaccountable lie!)—so they can ship in time for Christmas if warming your tootsies by the fire with a good book is your holiday heart’s desire.
Tomorrow, it’s back to the usual programming . . . I promise (read: try--which is to say, possibly unsuccessfully which should be read as: a venture doomed from the outset) to keep it short. (And did I say thank you?!??!?!)
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