Fall Release Six Title Contest

Hello everyone. I have amazing contest news for you all! As a thank you to all of our followers and for our 300, 500, and 1000 follower milestones, Kari from A Good Addiction, Sandy from Pirate Penguin Reads, and I have teamed up to bring you guys another amazing contest full of hot fall release titles. Up for grabs to six different winners:

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

Firelight by Sophie Jordan

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Matched by Ally Condie

Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers

Torment by Lauren Kate

Rules and Details:

There will be six winners- one for each title. First place gets first pick and on down the line. There will also be additional winners for swag packs.

All books will be preordered finished copies through Book Depository. These are not ARCs and will not be shipped until release.

This is international as long as Book Depository delivers to your country.

Fill out this FORM to enter. Comments are welcome but you cannot enter through comments. The comment form is the same on all three blogs- please enter through only one blog. Multiple entries will be deleted.

Contest ends August 8, 2010 at 6 pm CST.

How to Wear Your Hair - Morgan Gantt - and a Giveaway.

Ever Wonder…

why a certain hairstyle looked fabulous on a celebrity or your best friend and awful on you? The shape of your face is the single most important factor to choosing a hairstyle.

Come along as Author, Morgan Brooke Gantt takes you on a journey to determine your face shape and then understand the BASIC guidelines to work with your stylist to identify the “Hair Dos” and the “Hair DON’Ts” for your face shape!

It’s all here in a fun and easy guide, LOADS of pictures and celebrity matches for each face shape. Learn How to Wear Your Hair so you’ll look like the pros!

(Synopsis taken from author's website)

Title: How to Wear Your Hair: Hair Dos and Don'ts for Your Face Shape

Author: Morgan Gantt

Author Website: How to Wear Your Hair

Genre: Non-fiction, Hair Styles

Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises

Publication Date: June 22, 2010

My Rating: 5/5

This book is unique in the fact that it explores different hair styles for different face shapes. Each person's face is unique and while one hair style looks good on someone else, it might not necessarily be the style for you.

There is a chart at the beginning of the book that will help you determine easily, which shape your face takes. This book is visually impacting as you get to see the pictures that show you which styles best highlight your features, and those that don't. You also get to see what style of bangs works best with your face shape, to help make your hair style work for you. With every chapter there is a wrap up summary stating what to look for in a hair style, pertaining to your face shape. There is also a list of celebrities with each chapter, so you will know who also shares your face shape.

Overall, I found the book visually appealing, and very informative. It is laid out easily and gives clear instructions or tips on what to look for in a hair style to accentuate your face. Now I know why certain cuts I have had in the past did not work for me. This book is definitely a gem!

Disclaimer: This book was sent to me free of charge in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Brenda for sending me this book to review.

Brenda, on behalf of the author, has graciously offered to host a giveaway of the book, as well as a free consultation to several lucky winners. All you need to do to enter the contest is email a picture of your best, or worst hair style to howtowearyourhair(at)sbcglobal(dot)net. Thank you Brenda for allowing me to host this giveaway for you.

• Contest is open to US/Canadian and International residents.
• One Autographed Copy available for those in the US.
• One E-Copy is available internationally.
• Contest ends Friday July 9, 2010.
• Please email your best/worst picture in to howtowearyourhair(AT)sbcglobal(DOT)net.
• When emailing, please reference that you are entering the contest hosted at Lost for Words. Thank you. :)
• Only 1 picture per entry. Thank you.

Also, just so I know how many of you are entering, if you could please comment on this post, that would be great. It won't give you any additional entries, but it's more for my knowledge as I won't be seeing the pictures you send in. They are going directly to the author and Brenda. (It'll give me a rough idea of how many people have entered the giveaway.) Thank you, and feel free to tell all of your friends about the giveaway! :)

Post edited to reflect that an E-Copy of the book is now available internationally.

Another Contest?

Hey everyone, I hope you are all having a great day! Anne, on behalf of Forge, is offering up 2 books for a giveaway, so I'm hosting another contest. (Thank you Anne!) The books are First Daughter and Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader. You can find my review of First Daughter HERE if you want to find out what it's about. (Spoiler free.)

Rules:

1. Contest will end at 5pm EST on April 30th, 2010. Winner will get both books.
2. Contest is US/Canada only. (Sorry to those who are international.)
3. Once the contest has ended, I'll either use Random.org or make my cat choose the winner. (She loves playing with paper... so long as she doesn't eat the slip of paper before I can read it that is.) ;)
4. I will email the winner, then they will have 48 hours to get back to me. If I don't hear from them, I'll pick another winner. I will then pass the information on to Anne and she will mail out the books at that time.
5. Please leave an email address that I can reach you at! :)
6. Only one entry per person, and please feel free to tweet the contest, sidebar it, blog about it etc. Thank you. :)

Contest News!!!

Hey all, I'm blogging today to bring to your attention the most phenomenal contest news ever! Kari from A Good Addiction, and Eleni from La Femme Readers both hit milestones this past week. Kari reached 400 followers and Eleni reached 800 followers!! How awesome is that?! Okay, so you might be saying, big whoop-di-doo right now... but that, though amazing, wasn't the only news that I was going to tell you about... They have teamed up to deliver an amazing giveaway. All books that they have listed are the finished copies of said book. They will be ordered through The Book Depository so this contest IS open internationally (as long as your country is listed that is). So without further ado, here is the list of books up for grabs.

• Linger - Maggie Stiefvater
• Spirit Bound - Richelle Mead
• Dark Touch: Shadows - Amy Meredith
• The Tension of Opposites - Kristina McBride
• Sea - Heidi R. Kling
• Rules of Attraction - Simone Elkeles

Rules

1. You can enter from either Eleni's or Kari's blog, you don't have to go to both blogs to enter.
2. You need to follow BOTH of them to be eligible for the contest.
3. You can gain extra entries for tweeting, making a blog post, posting the contest on your sidebar, OR you can gain additional entries for following their affiliates. Aww love the affiliate love! :D (If you decide to follow 5, you get 5 entries etc).

How awesome is that?? Go over HERE to enter their contest!! :)

Congratulations to both of you for reaching 400 and 800 followers respectively!

Good luck to all of you who enter their combined contest!

Contest over at Library Lounge Lizard!

Check out the contest hosted by Darcy over at the Library Lounge Lizard. You can win a signed copy of In A Heartbeat by Loretta Ellsworth!


It looks really good, and I love the cover for this book! Go over and enter! :)

Contest, Contest, Contest!

Hey everyone! I've decided to have a contest. We just finished the book Break by Hannah Moskowitz for our book club. (The link for the book club is here.) It was an excellent book, and I decided that I'd give my copy away to entice more people to read her work. She is an excellent author!
Of course, there are rules... but only a few! :)

1. You need to be a follower of this blog. (I'll check!)
2. Unfortunately this is only open to the U.S. and Canada. (Sorry to those who are international, I hope to have a contest later (once I hit 100 followers?) that will be available to everyone!)
3. This contest will run until February 12, 2010.
4. To enter you must comment on THIS post. 1 entry per person. Feel free to leave an email address and I'll email you if you are the winner!
5. I will use random.org to decide on the winner. I'll announce the winner on February 13th and the winner then has 48 hours to get back to me with a mailing address. (Okay, I think I've said "winner" enough in the last 2 "rules".) :)

Good luck, and Happy Reading! :)