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Official GIVEAWAY winners!

Yay!

It's time to announce the official GIVEAWAY winners in my BANNED BOOKS WEEK EXTRAVAGANZA!

 

Package # 1

George Orwell - Animal Farm

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany

 

George Fitzgerald!!

(You're right; you do always win... Are you Irish or something? ;-P)

 

Package # 2

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany

James Joyce - Dubliners

 

Dina!!  

 

Package # 3

James Joyce - Dubliners

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Liz!!

 

Plus t-shirts, all around!

ILA messed up my t-shirt order, so ladies I'll have to order yours separately. I'll have them shipped directly to you.

 

Addresses, lord and ladies!

 

lisaguidarini@yahoo.com

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!

 

Thanks for participating, all, and honoring NATIONAL BANNED BOOKS WEEK.

 

GIVEAWAY winners announced later today/New blog policies to come...

Thank you to all who participated in the GREAT BANNED BOOKS GIVEAWAY! I'll hold the grand drawing a bit later today.

Second, there are changes coming in the Bluestalking world. The reasons behind it involve demands on my time, a very few aggressive authors and publicists, as well as my desire to change tracks a bit, going back in the direction of the way things used to be. There will still be reviews, but...

Well, I'll be back to talk about that later.

Again, winners will be announced later!

OFFICIAL BANNED BOOKS WEEK GIVEAWAY EXTRAVAGANZA!!

I know it sounded like I said I'd post the giveaway photos on Wednesday but what I really meant to say was Thursday. The misunderstanding is understandable.

 

Here's the Deal:

 

Three GIVEAWAYS, three BOOKS EACH + one t-shirt per GIVEAWAY.

 

The butt kickin' t-shirt every prize package gets:

 

 

PRIZE PACKAGE # 1:

 

George Orwell - Animal Farm

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany

 

Prize Package # 2:

 

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany

James Joyce - Dubliners

 

Prize Package #3:

 

 

James Joyce - Dubliners

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next

 

How You Win:

 

Comment. Comment once and you're in for all the drawings. Specify you want only a certain GIVEAWAY PACKAGE and I'll enter you only in that, though it's a bit silly, when you could triple your chances.

However, you cannot win more than one GIVEAWAY PACKAGE. Once your name is drawn you're taken out of the running for the other two.

The contest runs from now through Sunday, October 2 at midnight Central Standard Time (Chicago).

 

Oh, and caveat, U.S. addresses only. So sorry about that! But I blew my budget on the books and t-shirts. It's not that I don't love you, world!

Hug kiss.

 

GOOD LUCK...

 

 

 

 

Lisa's Grand Banned Books Giveaway

The good thing about writing your own blog is you have sole creative (shut it) control and answer to no one. The bad thing is when life intervenes there's no one to point at and say, "YOU TAKE OVER FOR A WHILE!"

And of course this would have to happen during BANNED BOOKS WEEK, when I'd hoped to do so much.

 

So here's what I'm gonna did. I'm trying to get a few things accomplished today, of the around the house variety, so there's not much room for bloggery. However, since it is BANNED BOOKS WEEK I am going to work up three PRIZE PACKAGES, photograph them, and hope, HOPE to post those tomorrow.

Each package will consist of one of these t-shirts (Eat Sleep Read, the sale of which benefits the Illinois Library Association):

 

 

...and a small pile of books. Because what would a PRIZE PACKAGE mean without books?

You may enter to win one or all three packages but you can only win ONCE.

 

This is my humble contribution to the BANNED BOOKS WEEK observation. I had hoped to do more, but well, you know... I didn't.

'til tomorrow...

 

There But for The by Ali Smith - everyone's a winner!!

Suzanne!

Shari!

Rachael!

 

Turns out all three of you have won a hardback copy of Ali Smith's 'There But for The'!

I opened another package from Random House that was sitting on my office at work. I'll let you guess what it contained.

Yet. Another. Hardback. Copy.

 

 

I've gotten multiple free review copies of books before, but never have the stars aligned so weirdly for any other title. So the three of you may have the hardbacks, and I have the paperback review copy I've already started reading (and marking up).

Suzanne and Shari, I KNOW WHERE TO FIND YOU!!

Rachael, I'll need you to send me a preferred snail mail address to my email:  lisaguidarini@yahoo.com  Currently I have no way of contacting you save via this post.

Congrats all, and thanks for playing!