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Well you have found a place to do just that. Please come tell us just exactly what you thought of that last book you read. If you hated it, we also have a nifty section of "slamming a book, not the author".
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To those of you who are registering to win a book in our book give-away, you do NOT have to register at this site. Cathy and I have no idea why that box shows up on this page and we hope that soon our webmaster will move it to a less obvious spot! As a matter of fact to do anything around here there is no need to register! Actually there is no way to register! Like I said we have no clue why the box shows up for you, but like they said about the Wizard of Oz, "just ignore the man behind the curtain!"
Congratulations to the January winner of our Book Giveaway
Congratulations go out to Chris L., you've won "Under the Dome" by Stephen King! I will l be shipping out your copy as soon as I receive your address.
Cathy and I both hope you enjoy your book "Under the Dome" and we also hope you don't forget to enter again when our newest Book Giveaway is announced later on today!
Book Giveaway - February 2010
Written by Dianne
Friday, 06 November 2009 13:42
This month's book is the novella "Flirt" by Laurell K Hamilton. This is book number 18 in the very long running series about Anita Blake Vampire Huntress. This book description is from Amazon.com -
"When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long. "
To enter please click on the CONTACT button at the top of the page and send me, Dianne, an e-mail. Easy peasy!
Please note that only residents of the USA and Canada are eligible for this Giveaway. Postage prices prohibit us from sending books outside of this area.
Thank You
Dianne and Cathy
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 February 2010 11:19 )
This and That
Written by Dianne
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:58
Book Gossip
Dorchester Publishing is Sponsoring a Valentine's Book Giveaway!
A good reason to love Dorchester Books and those yummy candy hearts with the cute saying 's that we get every Valentine's Day. Dorchester Publishing is having a contest and giving away 75$ in book.! Dorchester books is sponsoring a contest to promote their new anthology - My Zombie Valentine and all you have to do is to come up with clever candy heart sayings and post them at Dorchester's message board ---> here.
Good luck readers!
1/19/10
One of the Reason's I'm Loyal to Amazon
Here is a little story that cements what I feel about Amazon and how they treat their customers.
I pre-ordered Divine Misdemeanors and when It came I realized I ordered the wrong thing, I had ordered the CD's instead of the book. I hadn't checked the Amazon order follow up e-mail that came (my bad!) I tried to make arrangements to return then but I was having trouble printing the labels I would need to send them back for credit. I re-ordered the book that night and added cash for over night shipping, we had a snow storm but my shipment was still going to come that day so I waited and waited and waited and finally around 6pm I tracked the order for the 53rd time and found out it had been delivered to my doorstep at 5:09 WRONG!!!!! No foot steps in the snow to prove that it had been delivered to me either! Well to make a long story short, I'll leave out the heated (actually tepid) conversation I had with an Amazon gentleman I had that night. Although he did his very best to help me, but it's UPS's problem at that point.
The next day I called Amazon again, and got this wonderful young lady---I explained the sequence of events and I told her I would be buying it (the book) for my Kindle. She understood and sympathized and went ahead and credited my account for the book, AND the shipping and told me that if it did show up I was to keep it with their compliments. Also when I explained about the CD fiasco she (without me knowing) went ahead and had UPS personally deliver me a sticker for the box!
WOW!
Well guess what? It showed up yesterday in my mailbox! Apparently whoever it was delivered to dropped it off. So I have my Kindle edition and the hardcover!
Merry Christmas!
I know that you all know that there are book series that cater to just about anything, and I just found a new one that caters to my obsession with coffee. Have any of you read the "Coffee House Mysteries" by Cleo Coyle yet? I have just picked up my very first one and to add to my pleasure it's a holiday mystery called "Holiday Grind". Ah, mystery and coffee. What great things to curl up with on a cold winters night. There are 8 books so far in the Coffehouse Mystery series.
By the way Cleo also writes another cozie style mystery series set in a bookshop. These are called "The Haunted Bookshop Mysteries" but they are written under her pen name of Alice Kimberly. I haven't read any of these yet, but I think I will be adding them to my Christmas Wish List! Santa Claus IS going to come to my house this year isn't he? I've been a good girl!!!
Did it ever occur to any of us 10 or 15 years ago that the paranormal or speculative fiction genre was going to be such a success? As for me I thought it might be a flash in the pan. Here today and gone tomorrow, And now I am seeing a huge rise in books being written about the Tuatha De Danann or the Sidhe as they've become to be know. what is it about such otherworldly creatures that is so fascinating to us?
