We’re hooked! I want to thank everyone who participated. You all are so talented and kind, I’m so happy that everyone enjoyed themselves. On Jennifer M. Eaton’s blog she summed up my feelings about blogfests and contests. They are wonderful opportunities to get critiques on your work and meet other bloggers. You can read Jennifer’s post here. And now, I’m happy to turn the bog over to our fantabulous judges at … Click on the Read more…
THE CONTEST IS CLOSED. CHECK BACK ON MONDAY 9/26/11 TO SEE THE WINNERS. THANKS TO ALL FOR PARTICIPATING.
It’s time for another blogfest contest! The summer is nearing its end, kids are back to school, and agents are starting to accept queries again. So how about we kick off the querying process and have a contest to see if you can hook a teen reader? There was such a great response to my book girls’ contest that I thought I’d do one with some talented teen editors at Teen Eyes Editorial Services who Read more…
The winners of the two copies for Karsten Knight’s WILDEFIRE in order of Random.org picks are: Kathryn Packer Roberts & Sophia Chang Yay!!!! *throws confetti* Winners please email me your addresses at brenleedrake(at)gmail(dot)com so I can send your books out. Come back tomorrow for details on my next blogfest/contest. I’m so excited!!
The coffee today is hazelnut creme – yum! I’ve been out of town or in my writing cave for weeks and have completely ignored the blog. Anyway, excuses aside, I have some giveaways and contests coming in the near future. Firstly, I’m giving away a book today. Wait. What’s that? Oh, yeah, I forgot, I’m giving away two copies of Wildefire by Karsten Knight. How can you win one of these awesome books? In the Read more…
http://picture-book.com/content/morgan-gaynin-6 Auntie B’s Book Club Contest Winners I want to thank all of you for participating in such a fun blogfest contest.The girls had a lot of fun and we all learned a lot. The girls enjoyed reading your comments and it rewarded them for their time. Each girl gave each semi-finalist’s entry a rating from 1 to 5 stars (we used gold sticky stars – lots of fun). They weren’t allowed to judge their Read more…
http://picture-book.com/content/morgan-gaynin-6 Auntie B’s Book Club Contest Semi-finals Post 4 Here’s post four for the semi-finals of the Auntie B’s Book Club Contest. I thought blogger would never cooperate, so sorry for the delay with this one. Thank you for all your positive comments and I hope you all got something from this blogfest. Next post, we’ll announce the winner and two runner ups of the contest. So, last up is . . . Sports Read more…
http://picture-book.com/content/morgan-gaynin-6 Auntie B’s Book Club Contest Semi-finals Post 3 Here is the third post for the semi-finals in the Auntie’s B Book Club Contest, and I love reading the girls’ comments. Having teens tell you what they like or didn’t like about your work is such a wonderful gift. I hope you all gain something out of participating in this blogfest contest. If you wonder what this post is about go here for all the Read more…
http://picture-book.com/content/morgan-gaynin-6 Auntie B’s Book Club Contest Semi-Finals Post 2 Here’s the second post of the Auntie’s B Book Club Contest, and I have to admit it has been a lesson for me. I wish you all could have been a fly in the wall and had listened in on the picking round with the girls. They actually fought over many of the stories. If you haven’t a clue what’s going on with this post go Read more…
http://picture-book.com/content/morgan-gaynin-6 Auntie B’s Book Club Contest Semi-finals Post One The girls and I had a pizza night before I went off on my twelve day road trip with my niece’s basketball team. After reading the titles and the pitch lines out loud, each girl took turns picking the stories they would buy in the store by reading just the title and pitch. It took several hours to choose the stories they wanted to read. We Read more…