This hop features books with paranormal, supernatural, science fiction or space travel element or books that have something to do with the moon or have a moon on their cover.
My Giveaway 1 copy of Everlost by Brenda Pandos (Paperback to US only, Ebook Internationally) PLUS $25 Amazon Gift Card.
Everlost
With one kiss, Tatiana has discovered a love for a man she’d hated—the prince of Natatoria. Through the botched rescue attempt by her father against this union, an army of rebels has revealed their identity and intentions—treason. When the King is fatally injured, Azor takes things into his own hands. No one is safe as mers are forced to take sides. Betamers take the blame, including Tatiana’s family’s closest friend, Badger, and the punishment is death.
Caught between the bond and her true feelings, Tatiana, the future Queen, must overcome the promise to fight for what’s right and uncover the truths of the past or all will become Everlost.
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$25 Amazon Gift Card
Author Brenda Pandos
Wife, Mother, Author,Computer Whisperer, Web/graphic designer,Chocolate connoisseur,Sister, Daughter, Aunt,Friend, Fun & Games Coordinator, Saved by Grace, Geek, Housekeeper, Laundress, Cook (occasionally), Chauffeur, Gardener, Nurse, and much more... not in that order.
Each of these blogs is hosting a giveaway as part of this hop. I will have the linky accurate and clicking through directly to giveaways on Friday morning.
You may allow the winner a YA book of their choice.
If you a giving away a gift card your post must spotlight at least 1 young adult book.
This hop has a limit of 6 possible entries. Only 1 can be mandatory and other must be optional. Be aware that many people do not have a twitter or facebook account. If your mandatory entry requires to follow you on twitter or like you on facebook you are automatically excluding people who may want to enter. Tweet once a day is NOT allowed.
Your blog & giveaway must be family friendly. If you have steamy book covers in your header or sidebar you will be deleted from the linky. I should be completely comfortable viewing your site with my husband or any one of my 5 children sitting by my side. If in doubt please ask. I've been a little lax in the past but beginning with this hop I will be much more strict. For the most part I only judge a book by its cover but if I get a specific complaint about the content of a book (erotica for example) I will remove the giveaway from the linky.
Your giveaway must be specifically for the hop.
If you are using rafflecopter... Set the rafflecopter to begin accepting entries on JANUARY 28th and to stop accepting entries on February 5thth. Use caution when using weighted entries. If you mark a task as being worth +10 that counts as 10 entries and will get you deleted from the linky list. Please see these examples: (Correct Rafflecopter - Unacceptable Rafflecopter).
To sign up to host a giveaway add your blog to the linky with your shipping info in parenthesis following your blog name. If you forget I assume you are shipping to the US only and will add (US) after your blog name.
Do you have books sitting on your bookshelves that you've read but will never read again?
How about books you've started but just couldn't get through?
Review copies you've accepted but have never read? Christmas & the New Year are just around the corner! It's time to make room for new books!
Join me in the November
"Clear Your Shelf" Giveaway Hop!
November 12th to 18th
Yes this starts in just 10 days away!
This is your chance to clear out your overflowing bookshelf and pass some of your books on to other book lovers. Time to pass on those books that just weren't for you or the review copies that you are never going to get read.
Hop Rules
You can offer just one book, a few books or a box of books.
You can have 1 winner or multiple winners.
Please include the linky & hop image in your post
No gift cards, you need to give away books from your own bookshelf
Your site must be family friendly (no steamy book covers or images)
NO Ebooks, no shipping from amazon or other book sellers.
Your post needs to be up by noon Eastern Time on Monday, November 12th - It's ok to put your post up anytime after noon on Sunday.
Please keep the way to enter your giveaway simple. Please no long list of dozens of things people can do to enter.
This hop features fairy tales & books with happy endings.
HOP RULES: 1. The Happily Ever After Giveaway Hop Images needs to be part of your post.
2. Include the linky list with all the participating blogs at the end of your post OR link to I Am A Reader, Not A Writer & Murphy's Library.
3. You giveaway must be for a fairy tale or a book with a happy ending. You can allow the winner to choose a book of their choice that fits this criteria.
4. Keep It Simple!! Keep the way to enter your giveaway as simple as possible. All entries must be able to be done on one visit to your blog - Entries such as tweet once a day are NOT allowed (tweeting once is fine). You must turn off word verification/CAPTCHA if you are requiring more than one comment for entries - If you are concerned about spam then enable comment moderation. No long lists of things for people to do. If you have more than a dozen possible entries you will be deleted from the entry.
5. This must be a giveaway specifically for this hop and must run only the 6 days this hop is scheduled. 6. Your blog & giveaway need to be "family friendly". To sign up to host a giveaway just add your blog or website to the linky below. Please include your shipping information after your blog name.
I'm co-hosting this hop with Tiffany from For Those About to Read. YA Mythology Hop October 26th to November 4th.
When Tiffany approached me about this hop initially I only thought of 3 books I had read based on Mythology... The Percy Jackson series, The Goddess Girls Series & Destined by Jessie Harrell. After a quick search I realized that I've read dozens of books based on mythology.
For those struggling to come up with books for a giveaway here are some lists to get you thinking:
Deadline to Join: October 19th. *Tiffany is running this hop so reminder emails will come from her.
Rules:
1.) The "YA Mythology" Hop Button-- or Image-- must be a part of your giveaway post.
2.) You must either include the linky list with all participating blogs at the end of your giveaway post OR link to the giveaway hop page of one of the hosts. (This is so your followers can easily see and enter all of the giveaways!)
3.) Your giveaway prize must be a YA book (no gift cards!)
4.) No gift cards!
5.) Please try to keep your giveaway rules as simple as possible! No more than 4 entries allowed.
6.) Your giveaway may only run on the same days as the Hop (Oct. 26 – Nov. 4).
7.) Please keep your giveaway visibly to your followers throughout the entire hop by posting a link or a button to it at the top of your blog in the sidebar.
8.) Family friendly sites only please
To join this hop please add you blog to the linky below.
Giveaway Hop - Each of these blogs is hosting a giveaway as part of this hop. The hop "officially" starts at midnight tonight but blogs will be posting all through out the day today.
Hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer & Reading Lark
Hop Rules:
For this hop you must feature a book that has something with fangs, fur or fey in it.
Your blog & giveaway must be family friendly (no steamy book covers)
Hop image & linky need to be part of your post
Post must be live by 12:01 am EST on October 2nd
1 mandatory entry all other must be optional. If you have a long list of things for people to do to enter you will be deleted from the linky.
Offering a book of choice is allowed (as long as it's a book with fangs, fur or fey in it)
To sign up to host a giveaway add your blog or website to the linky below. Include your shipping info in parenthesis following your blog name.
WIN AN EREADER!! Ereader Group Giveaway Participants - These blogs have all chipped into provide 1 lucky winner with a brand new Ereader of their choice (up to $200).
Hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer & Katie @ Mundie Moms
June 29th to July 5th
You must host a giveaway on your site, you are responsible for obtaining a prize for giveaway and taking care of the shipping charges.
You must giveaway something a reader, author or blogger would enjoy.
Your giveaway post must include the hop image & linky (or links to the host's sites if you can't get the linky to work).
Please only 1 mandatory entry - all others must be optional - Keep It Simple! No long lists of things for people to do. If you have dozens of things for people to do I will delete your blog from the linky.
Your post must be live by 12:01 EST on June 29th. (That is 9 pm June 28th if you live in California)
The giveaway must be specifically for this hop.
Your site must be family friendly - no erotica or 18+ sites. Your site & giveaway must be free of steamy images and book covers. If it would embarrass me to have my teenagers see it, it can't be on your site.
It is your responsibility to check the linky on June 29th to be sure you are still on the linky and that your link is accurate. Please send me a direct link to your post when it goes live.
If you are using Rafflecopter set it to begin on JUNE 28th and to end on JULY 6th. Do not use the Point Values +4, +5, +10 or +25.
To sign up to host a giveaway add you blog to the linky. Please include your shipping info in parenthesis following your blog name (US) (US/Can) (INT) - if you don't include shipping info I will assume you are shipping to US only and edit the linky for you.
April is Autism Awareness Month. To help spread the word about Autism we are hosting a giveaway hop.
Each participating blog is hosting a giveaway. You will find lots of variety among the prizes. Some of the blogs are giving away prizes that relate to autism, other blogs are giving away gift cards or other prizes and posting information about autism to help make others aware.
I know the causes and treatment of autism can bring controversy. The point of this giveaway hop is simply to make people more aware about the subject by sharing information and experiences.
This past summer found us taking a trip to Arizona to meet with Dr. Cindy Schneider from C.A.R.E - Center for Autism Research and Education. It was not a cheap trip but well worth if for us. I'm a big believer in alternative treatments and found Dr. Schneider's knowledge to be invaluable.
I've got a wonderful book to giveaway today. Anyone who is a parent of a child with a disability or works with a child with a disability is sure to benefit from the ideas in the book!
(dis)Abilities and the Gospel
Each day, parents and Church leaders struggle to teach individuals with special needs. Using real-life stories and a touch of humor, this inspiring book guides you to teach effectively, overcome communication barriers, and build strong relationships with people of all ages with disabilities. Discover each person's ability to learn and grow as you help them feel like a valuable part of your life.
Giveaway Details
1 ebook copy of (dis)Abilities and the Gospel by Danyelle Ferguson
Open Internationally
Ends April 17th
a Rafflecopter giveaway
More than 75 Blogs are each hosting a giveaway to help people become more aware of autism, it's causes and possible treatments.
The 2nd Annual Midsummer's Eve Giveaway Hop will take place from June 20th to 26th
Thanks to Uniquely Moi Books for co-hosting.
Each participating blog will host their own giveaway. There is no requirement on the minimum or maximum value of your giveaway. It's up to you to decide. You can giveaway anything you would like as long as it is family friendly. It does not have to be a book or gift card but should be something a reader, author or blogger would enjoy.
* Both your blog and your giveaway must be family friendly * (No steamy covers/images or erotica)
Please keep your giveaway simple - No more than 5 possible entries per person.
(1 mandatory & up to 4 optional)
To participate please add your blog to the linky with your shipping info in parenthesis following your blog name: (Int) (US/Can) (US)
Welcome to the Charity Hopping Around the World Giveaway Hop
March 30th to April 4th
Hosted by: I Am A Reader, Not A Writer Reading Away the Days Reading a Little Bit of Everything
Purpose: To promote a charity that you support.
Without a doubt my favorite charity is LDS Philanthropies/Latter-day Saint Charities!
Latter-day Saint Charities helps people become self-reliant and improve their quality of life through initiatives such as clean water, health, and food production. Latter-day Saint Charities also relieves suffering by providing life sustaining support during emergencies.
Humanitarian Aid Fund
When a disaster occurs, Latter-day Saint Charities sends food, clothing, medical supplies, and other emergency relief assistance to help victims with urgent needs. Advance planning, extensive storage of essential items, and an extensive worldwide network of volunteers, allow a swift response when disaster strikes. These volunteers, working cooperatively with other relief agencies, help ensure that 100 percent of all donations are distributed directly to those in need.
Clean Water
Working with local community leaders, Latter-day Saint Charities (Humanitarian Services) provides access to clean water with wells and other water systems where no such service is available.
Volunteers from the village provide labor to install and maintain the wells to ensure their long-term operation. Local contractors are employed, and a local site supervisor is appointed to ensure the work is performed as agreed. Each village establishes a water committee to oversee the maintenance of the facilities.
Involving the community helps local people feel an ownership of the project, an important cultural consideration in the long-term use and proper maintenance of the water supply.
Humanitarian Food Production
Millions of children eat one meal a day because they don’t have enough food. LDS Charities helps families reduce disease related to malnutrition and increase productivity and self-sufficiency with home food production and nutrition training
Neonatal Resuscitation Training
Our volunteer medical teams provide resuscitation training and equipment to doctors and their assistants in countries where newborn mortality is high. These newly trained medical personnel in turn train other doctors and medical personnel. As a result, thousands of newborn lives are saved. Each project team may work with up to 15 organizations in one country per project. These organizations may include pediatrician associations, midwife organizations, hospitals and clinics, and other community health organizations. Each facility is provided with simple equipment that is used in the resuscitation process.
Mobility (wheelchairs, artificial legs, etc)
Latter-day Saint Charities (Humanitarian Services), working in partnership with local organizations that serve the disabled, distributes about 40,000 wheelchairs each year in 70 countries. Those who have witnessed a disabled person receiving a wheelchair for the first time report that the joy and tears of gratitude shown by the recipient are often overwhelming.
Vision Treatment Training
Our response to the enormous problem of preventable/reversible blindness is to train local, qualified medical personnel to perform eye surgeries and provide equipment that is essential to the procedure. Working with local, established medical facilities in developing nations, Latter-day Saint Charities organizes training seminars led by certified ophthalmologists who volunteer their time as trainers. Ultimately, those trained are able to serve hundreds or even thousands of patients over time. Each year we carry out training projects in about ten developing countries.
Thanks for taking a minute to learn more about LDS Philanthropies/Latter-day Saint Charites!
100 Blogs are each Spotlighting their favorite charity & offering a giveaway. This hop officially starts at midnight tonight so plan to come back tomorrow to see the featured charities and enter the giveaways.
Sign Ups for the My Favorite Reads Giveaway Hop
Hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer & Rachelle's Writing Spot
June 1st - 6th
Hop Rules:
You must host a giveaway on your site, you are responsible for obtaining a prize for giveaway and taking care of the shipping charges.
You must giveaway one or more of your favorite reads - favorite read of all time, favorite read so far this year, a book by a favorite author, your favorite classic or favorite young adult book, etc. You may allow your winner to choose from a list of your favorites.
Your giveaway post must include the hop image & linky (or links to the host's sites if you can't get the linky to work).
Please only 1 mandatory entry, all others must be optional. Keep it Simple! NO LONG LIST OF THINGS FOR PEOPLE TO DO TO ENTER.
Your post must be live by 12:01 EST on June 1st or you will be deleted from the linky. Your post can go up anytime after noon EST on May 31st.
The giveaway must be specifically for this hop and can only run from noon on May 31st until midnight on June 6th. Please do not close your giveaway early. It is fine to wait until the morning of June 7th to close your giveaway and choose a winner.
Both your site & your giveaway must be family friendly - no erotica, 18+ sites or steamy covers or images.
To sign up to host a giveaway add your blog to the linky with your shipping info in parenthesis following your blog name. (US) (US/Can) (Int)
The Kick Butt Characters Hop is Hosted by Good Choice Reading & I Am A Reader, Not A Writer.
The dates for this hop are March 23rd - 28th.
This hop features the best Kick-Butt Characters in Young Adult Books.
I have 2 great giveaways today.
Giveaway #1 My ARC of Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Open to US only
Shatter Me
Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior. In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting asThe Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel—with a paranormal twist—that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel.
Giveaway #2 A Crismson Frost by Marcia Lynn McClure Paperback open to US only, Ebook available Internationally
A Crimson Frost
Beloved of her father, King Dacian, and adored by her people, the Scarlet Princess Monet endeavored to serve her kingdom well-for the people of the Kingdom of Karvana were good, and worthy of service. Long Monet had known that even her marriage would serve her people. Her husband would be chosen for her-for this was the way of royal existence. Still, as any woman does-peasant or princess-Monet dreamt of owning true love-of owning choice in love. Thus, each time the raven-haired, sapphire-eyed, Crimson Knight of Karvana rode near-Monet knew regret-for in secret, she loved him-and she could not choose him. As an arrogant king from another kingdom began to wage war against Karvana, Karvana's king, knights and soldiers answered the challenge. The Princess Monet would also know battle. As the Crimson Knight battled with armor and blade-so the Scarlet Princess would battle in sacrifice and with secrets held. Thus, when the charge was given to preserve the heart of Karvana-Monet endeavored to serve her kingdom and forget her secreted love. Yet, love is not so easily forgotten.
My bookshelves are overflowing and reality has hit me hard. At most I will be able to read another 100 books this year and listen to another 100. I have hundreds of books on my to read list and more books are released every week. I decided to organize this spring cleaning giveaway hop as the perfect chance to clean my bookshelf and share some wonderful books with others. I spent an afternoon going through all the books on my shelf and I have a huge box of books I need to pass on to others.
These books are review copies I have already read, books that I have two copies of, books that were sent for review that have been on my shelf too long, books I won in giveaways, books that I started but never finished... basically great books that are in need of a book review & a new home.
Many of these books have already been read and reviewed but some of them have not yet been read. It is really truly hard for me to part with the review copies that I have not yet read. I accepted these books because I WANT to read them. Unfortunately there are just too many books I want to read and not enough hours in the day for me to read them all. If a book has been on my shelf for several months and I haven't gotten to it I feel it is only fair to pass it on to someone who has time to read and enjoy it.
About half of these are ARCs the other half are finished copies. Covers are often different than the image featured below.
There will be a lot of winners. All winners must have a US mailing address. I've budgeted $75 to pay for shipping. I'll keep selecting winners until I hit my shipping limit.
Random Winner #1 - This will be a completely random winner. I will submit all entries to random.org and have it choose a winner. That winner will receive their choice of any 10 books listed below.
Random Winner #2 - Also a random winner - They will receive 5 books of their choice from the remaining books.
+1 Bonus Entry if you share this giveaway and leave a link (facebook, twitter, etc.)
Additional Winners
I'm unsure how many additional winners I will pick but there will be at least 5 more winners who will receive up to 10 books each. To enter simply tell me which books you would like to review, why you are interested in them and where you will post your review. Don't tell me you want any and all of them. I'm looking for reviewers who have an interest in specific titles and are committed to read and review those titles if they receive those books. By entering you are committing to review the books in a timely manner and ensure that you post a review in at least 2 places (your blog, amazon, goodread, barnes & noble, etc.) I will use the random.org to select winners, if any of the books they would like to review are still available they will be sent.
Final Winner - The final winner will receive all the remaining books - To enter you must have a use for the books. Do you work in a small library or at a community service organization that is in need of books? Do you have a good use for the books? To enter this final giveaway just tell me what you would do with the remaining books if you win them. I will use random.org to select a winner from all eligible entries.
I will be shipping out a total of 100 Books!
Spring Cleaning Giveaway 100 Books
Get out a pencil and paper and write down the titles you are interested in because you will need a list of at least 10 books you want to win when you enter the giveaway.
Audiobooks:
Printed Books (paperback, hardcover or ARC)
To Enter the giveaway please follow this blog however you would like (GFC, Email, Linky Followers, Facebook, Twitter, Networked Blogs, RSS, etc.) and fill out the form below. There is +1 bonus entry if you share the giveaway on facebook or twitter and leave a link.
I ended up picking 18 winners and spent $85 on postage today!
Winner for Giveaways #1 - Kayla Beck (10 books of her choice)
Winner for Giveaway #2 Thalia (7 books are headed her way)
ADDITIONAL WINNERS: Emily K
Amber P
Laura D
Katie P
Jinky S
Becky W
Mary Ann W
Lisseth T
Megan R
Vicki N
Jane C
Stephanie H
Sarah B
Angela H
Sandy S
Audrey - 2 books of her choice plus the remaining books
There are over 100 other bloggers clearing their shelves. Visit their blogs to enter their giveaways.
I will be hosting some sort of a spring cleaning/clear your shelf type hop every 3 or 4 months. Sign up to join me in the next one which will run from June 15th to 20th.
