Win a copy of Hourglass by Claudia Gray

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Win a copy of Hourglass by Claudia Gray

CONTEST: One lucky commenter will win a brand new copy of Hourglass, the third novel in Claudia Gray's Evernight series. Be sure to include your email address so I know how to contact you.

Extra entries:

+1 Commenting on my review of the series HERE.

+2 Commenting on my interview with Claudia, HERE.

+1 New followers

+2 If you're already a follower

+1 Linking to my contest on your blog, twitter, etc. Include links. (up to 5)

+3 For posting about my contest on your blog. (Must be actual post)

+2 Add me to your blog roll

+3 for referring someone to the contest

+3 for being the person referred

This contest is open internationally! It will end April 15th at 11:59 pm Eastern time. Winner will be announced April 16th. Good luck and happy entering!

36 comments:

robin_titan said...: I'm very curious about this one! :)

lcintocable[a]gmail[d]com; March 23, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Marianna said...: I haven't read the series yet, but the books do sound very good!

+2 old GFC follower

patronus89013 at yahoo dot com; March 23, 2010 at 10:39 PM
elizabeth said...: +1 Commenting on your review
+2 Commenting on your interview
+2 old follower

pirate_pony2 at yahoo dot com; March 23, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Shelley Watters said...: Can't wait to read this series!

shelleykuklish at yahoo dot com

+2 already a follower
+3 posting about contest on blog
+1 linking to the contest on my blog http://shelleywatters.blogspot.com/2010/03/awesome-contest-held-by-susie-townsend.html

You're already on my blog roll, do I get the +2?; March 23, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Martha Lawson said...: This one sounds good. I'd love to read it. Please enter me for a chance..

+2 Old follower.

mlawson17 at hotmail dot com; March 23, 2010 at 11:53 PM
Lisa R said...: +2 "AND THE BAND PLAYED ON", by Randy Shilts was a life changer

+1 I like that Bianca is not a pushover or weak character

+2 Add you to my blog roll

+2 already a follower on GFC-Lisa Richards

+3 blogged
http://lisaslovesbooksofcourse.blogspot.com/p/more-recent-giveaways-throughout-land.html

+1 tweeted-alterlisa
http://confessionsofawanderingheart.blogspot.com/2010/03/win-copy-of-hourglass-by-claudia-gray.html

+1 Facebook-Lisa Ann Richards 2 seconds ago
http://confessionsofawanderingheart.blogspot.com/2010/03/win-copy-of-hourglass-by-claudia-gray.html

alterlisa AT yahoo DOT com

http://lisaslovesbooksofcourse.blogspot.com/

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(='.'=) Happy Easter from Bun!
(")_("); March 24, 2010 at 12:14 AM
Bianca said...: I have not read the series but I've heard wonderful thing! And the MC shares my name! YAY

+2 old follower

infinitemusic19 at gmail dot com; March 24, 2010 at 12:59 AM
buddyt said...: Please enter me in the giveaway.

+1 commented on your review
+2 commented on the interview
+2 existing Follower.

(International entry)

Thanks

Carol T

buddytho {at} gmail DOT com; March 24, 2010 at 5:19 AM
Laura Pauling said...: It's gotten so much attention, I can't wait to read the first one!!!; March 24, 2010 at 8:09 AM
xxsquigglesxx said...: Please enter me!

+2 old follower
+1 tweet: http://twitter.com/squiggles87/status/10992283097

xxsquigglesxx(AT)GMAIL(DOT)com; March 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM
tetewa said...: +1 I'm a new follower, count me in! tWarner419@aol.com; March 24, 2010 at 2:56 PM
Kelsey said...: I'm a new Google follower.
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/Door2Wonderland/status/10994377485.
I was referred by Abigail at http://allthingsurbanfantasy.blogspot.com.
I added you to my blogroll: www.thedoortowonderland.blogspot.com.

Thanks for the great contest!
Kelsey
krae991@yahoo.com; March 24, 2010 at 3:32 PM
van_pham said...: +1 Commented on the review of the series
+2 Commented on the interview with Claudia
+2 old follower

thanks for the giveaway!

Van P.
Littopandaxpress(at)yahoo(dot)com; March 24, 2010 at 4:24 PM
Aimee said...: Hi Suzie!

+2 Already a follower
+3 Posted about your contest on my blog
+2 Added you to my blog roll

And I found out about your contest through Suzette Saxton.

You can see my post and blog roll here: www.aimeeswindow.blogspot.com

Thanks!!!

aimeebussard@gmail.com; March 24, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Llehn said...: I'd love to play please!

+2 old follower

lesly7ch(at)yahoo(dot)com; March 24, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Crystal Cook said...: I'm so excited for this book!

+3 I was refered by Suzette Saxton from her blog Shooting Stars

+1 comment on your review

+2 comment on your interview

+1 new follower

I'm excited I found your blog and this is such a fun contest :) thanks!

crystalcookart(at)live(dot)com; March 25, 2010 at 12:14 AM
throuthehaze said...: +1 Commented on review

+2 Commented on interview

+2 already a follower

+2 blog roll:
http://throuthehaze-reads.blogspot.com/

Raelena
throuthehaze at gmail dot com; March 25, 2010 at 5:48 PM
Sarah N Fisk said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; March 25, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Marjorie said...: Count me in!

I commented at your review of the series and at your interview with Claudia Gray.

I also linked to the contest on my blog (in an actual post about the contest):
http://www.marjorie-digest.blogspot.com
http://marjorie-digest.blogspot.com/2010/03/suzie-says-win-hourglass.html

MarjorieLevine(at)aol(dot)com; March 26, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Susan Fields said...: This whole series sounds great!

I commented on your review (+1)
I commented on your interview (+2)
I'm a new follower (+1)
I added your contest to my sidebar (up to +5) http://www.susanfieldswriter.blogspot.com
I've added you to my blog roll under Agents (+2)
I was referred by Sharon Mayhew (+3); March 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Susan Fields said...: Oops - forgot my email:
ssfields(at)charter(dot)net; March 27, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Alyssa Kirk @ Teens Read and Write said...: +1 Commented on review
+2 Commented on interview
+2 already a follower
+3 for being the person referred - I was referred by Suzette Saxton

+8 Total; March 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Alyssa Kirk @ Teens Read and Write said...: Forgot my email - whoops.

demonicattractions@gmail.com; March 27, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Aik said...: I'd love to enter! Thanks!

+1 Commented on your review of the series

+2 Commented on your interview with Claudia

+2 If you're already a follower

+1 Link to sidebar:
http://aik-friendsnfamily.blogspot.com

+1 Link to twitter:
http://twitter.com/aikchien/status/11562944127

+3 For posting about my contest on your blog.
http://aik-friendsnfamily.blogspot.com/2010/02/happy-cny-compilation-of-international.html

+2 Added you to my blog roll
http://aik-friendsnfamily.blogspot.com

+3 for being the person referred - I was referred by @alterlisa

Total: 16

aikychien at yahoo dot com; April 3, 2010 at 9:32 PM
Janet Johnson said...: I love contests. It was fun to learn about a new series. :)

+1 New follower
+2 Commenting on interview
+3 for being person referred. I was referred by Suzette Saxton

rjljohnson.janet[a]gmail[dot]com; April 4, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Stella (Ex Libris) said...: Thanks foe making this giveaway international!!

+1 I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/Stella_ExLibris/status/11691411294

+1 spread the word on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&story_fbid=116404785036621&id=100000899165880&ref=mf

+2 old follower

+1 commented on your review (Stella (Ex Libris))

+2 commented on your interview (Stella (Ex Libris))

Thank you!

stella.exlibris (at) gmail DOT com; April 6, 2010 at 6:25 AM
jmspettoli said...: Thanks for the giveaway!

+1 Commented on review
+2 Commented on interview
+1 New follower
+1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/jmspettoli/status/11705004477

spettolij AT gmail DOT com; April 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Spav said...: Great giveaway!

+2 Old follower
+1 Tweet: http://twitter.com/Sparima/status/11739070459
+3 Blog Post: http://fictionkingdom.blogspot.com/2010/04/international-contest-sunday.html
+2 Blog Roll: http://fictionkingdom.blogspot.com

spav05(at)gmail(dot)com; April 7, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Sheere said...: Enter me please!

+2 If you're already a follower
+1 twitter
http://twitter.com/Sheeredry/status/11966700288

+1 sidebar
http://todoesfacilsi.blogspot.com/

+2 Add me to your blog roll

sheere.dry@gmail.com; April 10, 2010 at 9:47 PM
Emmagan said...: Enter me!

+1 new follower

greendaygirl2009(at)gmail(dot); April 14, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Elizabeth said...: +1 Commenting on my review .
+2 Commenting on my interview
+1 New followers
http://elizabetcerna.blogspot.com/
+1 Linking to my contest on your blog
+3 For posting about my contest on your blog.http://elizabetcerna.blogspot.com/2010/04/confessions-of-wandering-heart-contest.html
+2 Add me to your blog roll
http://elizabetcerna.blogspot.com/

elizabethcerna2011@gmail.com; April 14, 2010 at 5:50 PM
jellybelly82158 said...: +1 commented on review
+2 Commented on interview
+1 New Follower on Google Friends
jellybelly82158; April 14, 2010 at 9:07 PM
jc said...: Enter me please, I'm a new follower. Thank you.; April 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Latoya Alloway said...: +1 New Follower. I would love to read the book. Please pick me.; April 15, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Anne J said...: +1 comment on review of series
+2 comment on interview
+1 new follower
ajolly1456 at gmail dot com; April 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Marjorie said...: So who won?; April 17, 2010 at 1:35 AM

Five Random Things About Suzie

1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.

2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.

3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.

4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.

5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?

quotes

金不一定閃
流浪者不都迷路

"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I fancied you'd return the way you said
But I grow old and I forget your name
I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost

"Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

"For deadly secrets strike when understood
and lucky stars all exit on the run:
never try to knock on rotten wood,
never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power."
William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND

"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Confessions

Tuesday, March 23, 2010