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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Blogoversary Celebration Comes To An End

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Today is the last post part of my blogoversary celebration week! It was a crazy busy week for me but it was a lot of fun and I hope you all enjoyed my posts – I’m sure you all liked the giveaways! 😉 So today is going to be a quick recap and cheers post, and of course, a fabulous giveaway to end an equally fabulous week!

Recap
Have you missed something this week?
-Day 1: Blogoversary Kick Off
-Day 2: Now & Then
-Day 3: FAQ
-Day 4: Author & Publisher Love
-Day 5: Favorite Reads
-Day 6: Blogger Lovin’

Special Thanks
I want to extend a very big thank you to all the authors and publishers who made all the blogoversary giveaways happen, turning this great week into something else altogether!
Thanks SO much Kendare Blake, Rhiannon Frater, Kathleen Peacock, Darynda Jones, Jus Accardo, Helen Keeble, PT Michelle, Bethany Griffin, Michelle Davidson Argyle, Hachette Children’s Books UK, Hachette Book Group Canada, O’Dell Hutchison, Nikki Jefford, JL Bryan, Miranda Kenneally, Mike Mullin, Lara Zielin, Sherry Gammon, MR Merrick, Kelley York, Brigid Kemmerer, Jodi Meadows, Susane Colasanti, Marie Rutkoski, and Lia Habel. You have all made this week incredible!

If you have not read a book by every one of these lovely people, you are missing out!!

Feedback
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Use the form below to give me some feedback! Whatever you’ve got! Bring it! It’s anonymous!
I may regret this later.

Cheers!
Cheers to one year of blogging! Cheers to friends, bloggers, authors, publishers, and everyone who makes blogging worth it! Cheers to great books! Cheers to awful books that keep me warm from the fireplace. And most of all, cheers to more years to come, because I’m gonna be here for a while! 😉
Love. Your. Faces!

Giveaway

To end my blogoversary week, Susane Colasanti, Lia Habel, Hachette Book group Canada, Jodi Meadows, Michelle Davidson Argyle, and Marie Rutkoski have generously offered up copies of some great books and/or swag!

Winner 1
-One paperback copy of So Much Closer by Susane Colasanti (US)
Winner 2
  
-One print copy of Belles by Jen Calonita (CAN)
-One print copy of I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga (CAN)
Winner 3
 -One signed copy of Dearly, Beloved by Lia Habel + swag (US/Can)
-One ARC of The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski + eyeshadow (US/Can)
-Awesome swag from Jodi Meadows and Michelle Davidson Argyle (US/Can)

Giveaway details
There will be three winners as listed above. A BIG thanks to these wonderful authors for this giveaway opportunity!
Day 7 giveaways end on September 29th, 2012
Open to US/Can (check eligibility for each giveaway winner)
Use the Rafflecopter below to enter
*There is 1 Rafflecopter for all prizes; the country you provide in the Rafflecopter will let me know which prize(s) you’re eligible to win*

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Guest post – Lia Habel

Posted by on 02/03/2012 • 22 Comments

I’m excited to have Lia Habel drop by the blog today as part of the Zombies vs Unicorns month here at Xpresso Reads (along with Literary Exploration, YA-Aholic and YA Bookmark). If there was a zombie apocalypse, would you survive? Or would you fall by the hands of zombies? Lia’s here to talk about how to survive a zombie apocalypse, so you can be well prepared (because it’s coming). Before we get started, let’s make sure you know of her book!

Dearly DepartedLia HabelRelease date: October 18th, 2011By Del Rey Books

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Love can never die.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true…

Review: Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel

Posted by on 10/14/2011 • 31 Comments

Dearly, DepartedLia HabelRelease date: October 18thby Random House Publishing GroupFormat: Ebook

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?

The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece…