Contest Winners AND Two HUGE Events Coming Your Way

We have several contest winners from the last few weeks to announce. But FIRST, you need to know about a couple of huge events happening at Bitten by Books this month. This coming Friday will be a special Christmas in July event where you will have a chance to win a $30.00 Amazon.com Gift Card here at our site, and another chance to win a $30.00 Gift Certificate to Pampertini on our sister site Weird Stuff in My Desk.

Plus several other retailers will be offering HUGE discounts, door prizes and more. The details will go up at midnight on how you can win. If you haven’t done so already be sure to pop over to http://weirdstuffinmydesk.com/ right now and sign up for the newsletter there too.

Then on July 28th the Carnival is coming to town, well blog town that is, and it stops here with hundreds of dollars in prizes! Hang on to your hats, because this is going to be a wild ride and a chance to win big! More info on this closer to the date, so STAY signed up on our newsletter!!

Speaking of prizes here’s who won the last few weeks:

From the Linda Wisdom Author Spotlight Event

CrystalGB - A signed copy of 50 Ways to Hex your Lover from Linda Wisdom

Sarah- A signed copy of 50 Ways to Hex your Lover from Linda Wisdom

Ann M. - a $20.00 Amazon.com Gift Card from Bitten by Books!

From the Earl Staggs Guest Blogging Event

Vampire Lady - Free autographed copy of Memory of a Murder

From the Ann Cory Guest Blogging Event

Bram - a $20.00 Amazon.com Gift Card from Ann Cory

All winners have been notified by email.

There are LOTS of ways to win more goodies this week starting tomorrow morning with our Author Spotlight with Nancy Haddock! Remember Yasmine Galenorn will be here Guest Blogging Wednesday morning too!

Brothers At Arms - The Chariot Card by Desirée Lee

This is my latest review. Click on the link below to take a look.


Brothers At Arms - The Chariot Card by Desirée Lee

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Ann Cory is Guest Blogging at Bitten By Books

Hi everybody, Join the fabulous Ann Cory who is Guest Blogging about werewolves and other shapeshifters today 7/16/08 at http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=615

Participate in the fun and be entered to win a FREE $20.00 Amazon Gift Card.

Visit this link now and find out how!

July News and Events from www.BittenbyBooks.com!

There are LOTS of great events happening this month at Bitten by Books! Each event has some kind of giveaway/contest as well as lots of interesting conversation. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter on the right hand side of the website to keep up to date with current reviews and events. There is also a new Events Calendar on the website on the left side, you can click the highlighted date and see what is happening and when.

While you are there take a look at my review for the book The Sweet Flag by Jeanne Barrack:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=595


In other news, be sure to check out our new Vampire Wire News Feed onthe right hand side of the website, Bitten by Books has teamed up with author Marta Acosta to bring you the latest news about paranormal books, movies and TV from her Vampire Wire blog.


Wednesday July 16th author Ann Cory will be Guest Blogging about Werewolves You can read reviews of Ann Cory's work here:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?page_id=58&book_author_id=Ann%20Cory


Monday July 21st author Nancy Haddock will be in the Author Spotlight for an interview and Q&A session all day! You can read the 5 Tombstone review we did of her book La Vida Vampire here:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=28


Wednesday July 23rd author Yasmine Galenorn will be Guest Blogging. Join national bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn as she talks about why she loves writing the sisters so much--what she likes about their characters, why they have the flaws they do, and how she sees them evolving. She will be giving away a set of the first three books in the Sisters of the Moon/Otherworld series: Witchling, Changeling, andDarkling.


Wednesday July 30th author Faith Bicknell-Brown will be Guest Blogging Ebooks vs. Print - The economy is frightening everyone, but what about writers? Will it have a bearing on publishing? Perhaps ebooks will see a spike in sales. Faith Bicknell-Brown discusses the economy vs publishing, ebooks, a fabulous new e-reader hitting the market, and her recent releases of her fiction--including all her pen names--plus, her Avoid Writers' Hell series for writers!

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We look forward to seeing you at all of the events this month!!

The Sweet Flag by Jeanne Barrack

This would have to be one of those books that stays with you long after finishing it. I highly encourage you to read it. Click on the link below to read my review.



The Sweet Flag by Jeanne Barrack

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Sunday was craptastic!

On a sad note, my husband was driving home on Sunday night when a tree branch fell and went through the windshield. We had been having storms with 15 mph winds, hail and heavy rain. So now there is a BIG hole in the windshield, wires sticking out from the inside, the plastic cover for the inside right window is hanging down, the hood has dents a scrapes, and the right side of the car has dents or scrapes or both. There is tree embedded everywhere in the car.

That night I called and started the claim going and talked to a person that I could hardly understand.

I spent the whole entire day yesterday on the phone with our insurance company doing the claim thing again. It is considered a comprehensive accident since another car wasn't involved. I found out that we don't have towing covered or rental coverage. Check your policy people!

Since the windshield was caving in I had to call a tow truck to come get it and take it to the dealership for repairs. I than had to call the dealership to let them know the car was coming and ended up talking to a guy who had to be dumber than a box of hair.

I had been on the phone so much that my cordless battery died and I ended up on the cell phone. I got another call from the insurance company again to ask the same questions again. She also told me that I had duplicate claim. We got that straightened out and she asked me a few new questions. Since he got hit in the head, (he isn’t hurt cuz he has a hard head, lol). Now they have to do a medical claim. Did I mention he is out of town on business and I am doing this all by myself?

So now we sit and wait for the insurance guy to look at my car, (which I was told could take a few days) and wait for the estimate to come back. Once that is finished they can start the repair on my car.

Please check your insurance policies to make sure that you are covered as you should be and not find out the hard way like I did.

Check out this web site!

A few nights ago I was chatting away on a Yahoo chat group that I had just joined when a message came across for a cool web site. Being a big fan of books in general I was excited to see that they reviewed books on the paranormal/horror/urban fantasy. They have both adult and young adult books. As Julia Roberts once said, “Color me happy!”

So while I was checking out the site I also noticed that they have not just reviews but also, author interviews, guest blog spots and some really neat contests.

They not only review paperbacks but also eBooks. As a recent eBook convert, that is so cool! Going through I noticed a few authors that I didn’t even know about. My To Be Read pile is getting way out of hand.

After checking the site for a while and reading the reviews I decided to join. So now I get to review books for Bitten By Books. How freakin cool is that??

Come on over and take a look for yourself.


http://bittenbybooks.com/