A winner! And more snowflakes

Keep checking the sidebar--I'm updating the links daily to take you directly to the snowflake posts. You'll probably discover some great new blogs, too--I know I am!

And congratulations to Alexia, who won my book giveaway this month. One copy of The Noah Confessions will be headed out to her tomorrow.

My snowflake post, on D.B. Johnson (yes, that D.B. Johnson) will be coming up Thursday...stay tuned!

Pay it Forward Book Exchange--October

This month I'm giving away a copy of The Noah Confessions, which I reviewed (scroll down) for The Edge of the Forest last month. It's a young adult novel that explores the importance of history and family, and the difference between privacy and secrets.

For those of you who weren't paying attention last month, here are the details on the Pay It Forward Book Exchange, as originally described by Overwhelmed with Joy (whose idea it was):

Most all of us love to read and get “new-to-us” books, right? And if you’re anything like me, you love winning things (what a rush), not to mention getting fun stuff in the mail! So here’s what this book exchange is all about:

1) Once a month I'll pick a book to give away to one lucky reader (you don’t have to have a blog to enter). It may be a book that I’ve purchased new or used, or it may be a book that someone has shared with me that I really like. It’ll probably be a paperback, just to make things easier, but no guarantees.

2) Details on how you can enter to win will be listed below.

3) If you’re the lucky winner of the book giveaway and you have your own blog I ask that you, you in turn, host a drawing to give that book away for free to one of your readers, after you’ve had a chance to read it (let’s say, within a month after you’ve received the book). If you mail the book out using the media/book rate that the post office offers it’s pretty inexpensive. If you're a non-blogger who has won the book, please consider donating the book to your local library or shelter after you're done with it.

4) If you’re really motivated and want to host your own “Pay It Forward” giveaway at any time, feel free to grab the button above to use on your own blog. Just let me [that would be Overwhelmed] know so I can publish a post on my blog plugging your giveaway and directing my readers your way!

Leave me a comment by next Monday, October 15, if you want a copy of The Noah Confessions. And check out all the other great PIF book offers at Overwhelmed by Joy.

More free books

Overwhelmed with Joy is hosting another Pay it Forward book exchange, and this month she's giving away two books, both of which I want: Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Even though I want to win one of them--and therefore should be trying to keep the number of entries down--I want you to have a chance, too. So go on over and check it out!

Then come back here next week, when I'll be giving away The Noah Confessions, by Barbara Hall.

We have a winner!

And the lucky recipient of a copy of John Green's fabulous An Abundance of Katherines is Paige! Paige, send me your address (my email's over there in the sidebar) and I'll put it in the mail to you tomorrow.

Pay it Forward Book Exchange--September

Last month I gave away Looking for Alaska--so this month, in honor of John Green's visit to Virginia later this month, I'll give away his other YA novel, An Abundance of Katherines. Katherines is a fabulous novel about an ex-child-prodigy and his quest to develop a formula to predict how relationships will end. It's terrific--you'll love it. And you can have a free copy, if you leave me a comment. How great is that?

For those of you who weren't paying attention last month, here are the details on the Pay It Forward Book Exchange, as originally described by Overwhelmed with Joy (whose idea it was):

Most all of us love to read and get “new-to-us” books, right? And if you’re anything like me, you love winning things (what a rush), not to mention getting fun stuff in the mail! So here’s what this book exchange is all about:

1) Once a month I'll pick a book to give away to one lucky reader (you don’t have to have a blog to enter). It may be a book that I’ve purchased new or used, or it may be a book that someone has shared with me that I really like. It’ll probably be a paperback, just to make things easier, but no guarantees.

2) Details on how you can enter to win will be listed below.

3) If you’re the lucky winner of the book giveaway and you have your own blog I ask that you, you in turn, host a drawing to give that book away for free to one of your readers, after you’ve had a chance to read it (let’s say, within a month after you’ve received the book). If you mail the book out using the media/book rate that the post office offers it’s pretty inexpensive. If you're a non-blogger who has won the book, please consider donating the book to your local library or shelter after you're done with it.

4) If you’re really motivated and want to host your own “Pay It Forward” giveaway at any time, feel free to grab the button above to use on your own blog. Just let me [that would be Overwhelmed] know so I can publish a post on my blog plugging your giveaway and directing my readers your way!

OK, so--if you want An Abundance of Katherines, drop me a note by September 18, and I'll randomly select one lucky winner.

OH! And I seem to keep forgetting to post this, but John Green will be speaking at the University of Richmond's Keller Hall on Thursday, September 27, at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public--so come and hear him speak!

Pay it Forward Winner

This month's winner, of a copy of John Green's Looking for Alaska, is toknowhim, of the blog, To Know Him.

Drop me a line with your mailing address and I'll get it out to you soon!

And, thanks for playing, everyone. I'll have another book in September. Maybe even another book by John Green. (No promises, though. I have a lot of great YA books, especially, so I'll find a good one.)

Edited to add: OK, Kim of toknowhim has already won too many books this month! (What a problem to have...) So instead, the winner is Kathleen Marie, of The Open Window. Kathleen Marie, drop me a line!

Get a Free Book!

OK, I'm in. I'm joining the Pay it Forward Book Exchange, initiated by Overwhelmed by Joy. All the cool kids are doing it: Caroline, cloudscome at A Wrung Sponge, Kelly from Big A, little a, and now me. What a great concept! Here's the deal: I get a lot of books, one way and another, and after I've read them I don't always need to keep them around. So once a month (or so) I'll give one away. Just leave me a note in comments that you want to enter, and next week I'll draw a name out and send the winner the book. Easy-peasy, right?

Here's how Overwhelmed describes it:
Most all of us love to read and get “new-to-us” books, right? And if you’re anything like me, you love winning things (what a rush), not to mention getting fun stuff in the mail! So here’s what this book exchange is all about:

1) Once a month I'll pick a book to give away to one lucky reader (you don’t have to have a blog to enter). It may be a book that I’ve purchased new or used, or it may be a book that someone has shared with me that I really like. It’ll probably be a paperback, just to make things easier, but no guarantees.

2) Details on how you can enter to win will be listed below.

3) If you’re the lucky winner of the book giveaway and you have your own blog I ask that you, you in turn, host a drawing to give that book away for free to one of your readers, after you’ve had a chance to read it (let’s say, within a month after you’ve received the book). If you mail the book out using the media/book rate that the post office offers it’s pretty inexpensive. If you're a non-blogger who has won the book, please consider donating the book to your local library or shelter after you're done with it.

4) If you’re really motivated and want to host your own “Pay It Forward” giveaway at any time, feel free to grab the button above to use on your own blog. Just let me [that would be Overwhelmed] know so I can publish a post on my blog plugging your giveaway and directing my readers your way!

OK? So, this month, I have a copy of John Green's fabulous, Printz-Award-winning Looking for Alaska to give away. (If you live in Central VA, by the way, he's coming to speak at the University of Richmond at the end of September.) This is a terrific YA novel, an astonishing debut novel by a writer who has a great career ahead of him. So let me know if you want a copy and I'll be sending one out in a week.

(I got this promotional copy from his publisher, Penguin, by the way. I'll probably have a few more Penguin books to give away in the future, too.)

Again: leave me a comment by August 16, and you could get a copy of Looking for Alaska.