JenWriter’s Monthly Book Giveaway for April 2008
Each month, I run a book giveaway for the readers of this blog. Why? I love books, and I want to share the ones I love with as many people as I can. This month’s book giveaway is Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.How to […]
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I decided to make a list of my top ten favorite writers. It changes somewhat over time with discovering new writers, getting into different genres, and whatnot. But here it is, my top ten favorite writers as of March 2008.
1. J.R.R. Tolkien. Gollum scared me when I was a kid, but it made the story […]
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This post was contributed by Cappy, a regular, guest contributor on this blog. Cappy is a fellow aspiring novelist, and she is hard at work on a children’s novel while she also studies for her masters degree. Her favorite authors include Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling.
December 8. 2008.
If you’re a fan of […]
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JenWriter’s Monthly Book Giveaway for February 2008
Each month, I run a book giveaway for the readers of this blog. Why? I love books, and I want to share the ones I love with as many people as I can. This month’s book giveaway is To the Nines by Janet Evanovich.
How to Enter
In order to enter […]
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Yesterday, over 300 bloggers rallied in order to promote the new release of the paperback version of The Liar’s Diary by Patry Francis.
Why did over 300 bloggers, writers, agents and artists rally for this promotion? The author is currently battling cancer, a nasty cancer. She does not have the ability to promote her own book […]
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Wow. For some time, I have been meaning to read A Great and Terrible Beauty, the first in a trilogy, by Libba Bray.
What genre is this novel? It’s YA, but it didn’t really feel YA. It is fantasy, mystery, suspense, romance and slightly horror all bundled together. It is a novel that doesn’t really fit […]
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I have a confession to make. I am a bibliophile.
As an extreme lover and collector of books, I have issues every time I try to leave a bookstore. I have a large pile of unread books on my coffee table that represent the next five or so books that I would like to read. In […]
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One of my Christmas presents was a novel by Jody Lynn Nye called An Unexpected Apprentice. Before reading it, I read a few reviews about the book. Some were praising while others immediately dismissed it because it completely copies The Lord of the Rings.
I still wanted to give it a try because the premise of the novel sounded […]
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Congratulations to David, the winner of this month’s book giveaway, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest. I was very pleased to see so many interested in winning such a great book! I hope that you will stop by next month to see what book will be up for grabs […]
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This is a reminder to everyone that today is the last day to enter the January 2008 Book Giveaway. This month’s book is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. If you’d like to enter, please go here for more details. The giveaway closes to entries tonight, January 15, at 7pm EST, at which time a winner […]
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