Winner of Destined by P.C. and Kristin Cast

Congrats to Vivien P!

You have won a copy of Destined by P.C. and Kristin Cast!  The publisher will be sending your copy to you shortly!  Thanks to everyone for entering!

Signed Smart Chicks Aftermath Giveaway Winners

First of all, Curlypow and I would like to thank everyone who entered our contest! It was great fun and we have had so much interaction with our followers. We came really close to raeching 200 followers in order to add a 4th book to our giveaway but in the end, didn't quite make it. Not to worry though! We decided to give away a fourth book anyway because you guys are just so darn awesome!!

CONGRATULATIONS!

The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong - Ivy H.

Evermore by Alyson Noel - Latisha D.

Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr - Danna W.

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz - Jamie La R.

All winners have been notified by email and should be receiving their signed books shortly!  Thanks for entering our contest and following The Paperback Princesses!



Update on Smart Chicks Signed Book Giveaway!

Thank you to all of our followers so far in November! I'm happy to announce that we are adding yet another signed Smart Chicks book to our giveaway - Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr!! Keep spreading the word! There are only 2 weeks left to enter. We are now up to 3 winners!! You can enter

HERE

Contest is open to USA and Canada and only until November 28th. You must be a follower to enter!

Smart Chicks Aftermath Signed Book Giveaway



So we've surpassed our 100 follower mark, and are nearly at 125 followers!!  Since we have done a book signing and would like to reward our followers with some great prizes! The best part is that ALL BOOKS ARE SIGNED Here's what's up for grabs -

**The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
Evermore by Alyson Noel
Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
Blue Bloods by Melisa De La Cruz
Tattoo by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Bring on the Night by Jeri Smith-Ready
Mistletoe (a collection of holiday stories with Melissa De La Cruz)

So here's what we are going to do....since we are Canadian, we will start with The Summoning (since Kelley is a Canadian author). Beginning at 125, for every 25 extra followers we get, we are going to add another book into the draw....one winner per book, all chosen at random and up to 7 books to give away. 

UPDATE:  We are now at 150 followers so we're adding another book! We will now draw for two winners for a signed book - Summoning by Kelley Armstrong and Evermore by Alyson Noel.

UPDATE: We are at 176 followers and yet another book to add!!  We will now draw three winners for one of the following signed books - Summoning by Kelley Armstrong, Evermore by Alyson Noel and Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr.  Seems fitting since these three were the 3 main authors throughout the entire tour eh?  GOOD LUCK!!

Rules:

• Please fill out the entry form to win and be a GOOGLE follower.  There are a few extra ways you can get additional entries but you MUST leave your links in order for them to count.  If you tweet, feel free to use - Win signed books by @melissa_marr @AlysonNoel @jenlynnbarnes @jsmithready @KelleyArmstrong @MelissadelaCruz http://bit.ly/cwI9w7
• Comments won't count as entries but are mighty appreciated.
• This contest is open to Canada and the USA (sorry International peeps. We'll have another contest in the future for you!)
• The deadline to enter is midnight EDT November 28th.

The contest is closed.  Thanks for following!



You must be a follower to win and additional entries can be earned if you post elsewhere.  Once we do the draw/draws, all winners will be notified via email.

Smart Chicks Kick-it Aftermath - interview and contest sneak peek

OK followers, so you aren't going to want to miss this one. I'm not sure why it took us so long to get out stuff together but here it is. Get ready for a lengthy post! We went to the Smart Chicks Kick it signing on September 25th. It was the last leg of their tour, the only stop in Canada and we were the ONLY bloggers to get a one-on-one interview with all of the authors!!! I can't even begin to tell you how freaking amazing this was!!

So let's just start with our day...Curlypow arrived at my house and we drove out to Brampton together. I think it took us about 1 1/2 hours to get there. We arrived at around 11:30 for the 2:00 signing and believe it or not, all of the seats were taken. People were already lining up.

These girls didn't manage to get seats but were at the very front of the line up and they went all out in their Smart Chicks attire. They were all very sweet to pose for me and they had Smart Chicks Kick it plastered all over their tanks and bottoms.

This was how the store was laid out. It was like a maze set out for people arriving to get books signed and listen to all of the authors. Craziness. We were stuck in the line and it took us about 2 hours to make it through. Worth every minute though!

So as I was saying, we arrived early, got ourselves together, had a list of questions ready and then waited...and waited...and bought some books to be signed for YOU as a giveaway...and waited some more. The anticipation was just about killing us. The Smart Chicks had flights that had been delayed and needed to stop for lunch. I actually tweeted Alyson Noel on my Blackberry when she said she was in the car, on the way over! When it was our time to finally meet them, it was around 1:30pm. Jennifer Shannon, Marketing Manager for Chapters/Indigo was on-hand to help us out and even took a picture of us and tweeted our interview. What a sweetheart! Author visit officially started at 2pm. We didn't want to take up too much of their time with the interview since they had arrived so late, but we were able to ask them a few questions. Not all of the authors answered every question but we tried to get down as much info as we could.

Do you read genres other than those you write?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes reads about a book a day (OMG) and she will read just about anything.

Kelley Armstrong - She reads just about anything as well but prefers YA, and Historical Adult Fiction.

Melissa Marr had no TV growing up so she read just about anything she could get her hands on.

Margaret Stohl is a science fiction afficando. She likes to read Johnathan Safran Foer, Adult Fantasy and Historical Fiction.

Best fan experience so far on the tour.

Melissa de la Cruz and Melissa Marr both felt that everyone has been so amazing on tour. They were stunned to hear that readers had been getting flights and hotels just to come out and see their favorite authors. The longest commute they heard of was an 11 hour drive!

What inspires you when you write?

Melissa Marr is inspired by both Irish and Scottish folklore. She draws inspiration from personal life experiences and gets sparks from folklore.

Melissa de la Cruz uses her experiences from high school. She was raised Catholic and likes to incorporate myths in and outside of religion.

Jeri Smith-Ready is inspired by music. Songs can tell or recreate a feeling that is inspirational for her.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes is inspired by things in everyday life. She has a background in animal cognition and has spent a lot of time doing research as a human living around monkeys. She used her experience from this research to create the survival background in Raised by Wolves.

We didn't feel comfortable asking the girls to sign our books (ummm...all 26 of them) while everyone else stood in line so we thanked them profusely for the interview and took our places in line....WAAAAAAY at the back, in the stacks where we could hardly hear them speaking. It was still an enjoyable experience though. The authors introduced themselves and told us what they were working on. They gave away some swag and they even played an awesome game created by Sarah Rees Brennan called Marry, Shag or Cliff. You choose characters from their books whom you would Marry, Shag (kiss passionately for those of you who are under the age of 16) or throw off a Cliff. What a great game! I think the general consensus was that Keenan (from the Wicked Lovely series) would be thrown from a cliff by most of the authors.

So here are some tidbits to look for in the future -

Jeri Smith-Ready has written a short story for Eternal - More Stories with Bite an anthology to be released in December 2010


Kelley Armstrong just agreed to extend her YA Darkest Powers series through to 9 books (yay!)

Margaret Stohl + Kami Garcia's Beautiful Darkness release is coming up on October 12th. They started touring right after the Smart Chick's Kick it Tour ended. Unfortunately, Kami was sick and unable to make it to the Brampton stop but we hope she is feeling much better now and wish them both luck with this release. Look for our upcoming post of Beautiful Darkness since we were able to score an ARC!!

Melissa Marr - Wicked Lovely is going to be a movie! Kimberly Peirce is going to be directing and Caroline Thompson will be adapting the novel.

Alyson Noel - Radiance is currently ranked #4 on the NY Times Best seller's list (Beautiful Creatures is #5). She has signed on to do a new series called Soul Seekers out in 2012.

The authors had an extremely full day because after wrapping up the signing, they had to be downtown in Toronto for the Indigo Teen Read Awards. Congratulations to Kelley Armstrong for winning Best Canadian Read - The Summoning!



Here's a picture of all of the books we got signed from the visit. That's 26 books. See the pile to the right? That's for YOU to win. Keep watching for our next giveaway, coming up soon.



Send Sophie Jordan some love!!!

The Paperback Princesses

Sophie

Hey everyone!  We are so thrilled that we are almost at 100 followers in just a few short months.  It has been a blast so far and we wanted to do something fun and reward you, our loyal followers. 

The lovely Sophie Jordan, author of Firelight has sent us some swag to share.  Comment on this post, leave your email addresses and we will draw 10 people who will win a postcard, bookmark and sticker.  You must be a follower!  (after all, it is love for our followers eh?)  Contest is international and ends October 10th.  Spread the love and tweet I love @SoVerySophie and the Paperback Princesses http://bit.ly/aGxdGH @clderwee for 3 extra entries!

Friday Finds

Hey everyone!

I've been searching the web for all interesting booky things and here is what I've found

Becca Fitzpatrick, author of the Hush Hush series has released the name of her third book title - Tempest!   Can't wait for Crescendo to come out on October 19th.

Gayle Foreman is going to release a new book called Where She Went.  It is the follow up to If I Stay (sooo good).  I will be posting this one on a Waiting for Wednesday closer to the release date (April 2011)

Eva's book Addiction had a super-cute post with this video!  Great find!  I LOVE it!!

Do you ever follow Chapters/Indigo on Facebook?  You should.  It seems that most Friday afternoons they have author interviews.  I've chatted with Sara Shepard, Lesley Livingston and Maggie Stiefvater!  It's so cool!  Not very busy either so I'm sure they'd love more participants.  Just log into your Facebook account, search for Chapters Indigo Music & Books Inc. and follow their announcements.  They have been featuring some fab authors recently to build up momentum for the Teen Read Awards taking place on Saturday Sept 25th.

**Gushing and jumping up and down starts here**
Speaking of Chapters/Indigo....CASSANDRA CLARE AND HOLLY BLACK ARE COMING TO TORONTO!!!  Yay!!  Curlypow and I have already made plans to attend their signing on November 5th at the Queensway Chapters store.  I'm even taking the day off so we can get good seats!! 
**End gushing and jubilation dance**

Contests (I'll slowly be adding to this list this weekend) -

Flipping for all Ages is giving away a $75 GC to CSN open to both USA and Canada.  Contest ends Sept 30.

Flipping for all Ages is also giving away a copy of Scars open to USA and Canada.  Contest ends Oct 3rd.

Christinabean's Friday Finds

**yes, the title of my post is Friday Finds and it is quite obviously not Friday but I had a pretty long day yesterday so for now, we'll just pretend...** (It's my blog and I'll say what I want to, say what I want to, say what I want to....)

I am always on the lookout for a good blog that reviews books I might enjoy introduces new books that are coming out. I love author interviews, the occassional character interview, book reviews, book trailers and contests. Lately, there have been many fantastic contests in the Blogsphere that I'd like to share. I'll be posting some of them on the Massive Contest sidebar and some on our Contest and Giveaway page.

So our first Giveaway called Cozy up with a Good Book ended yesterday.  Up for grabs was a copy of Wings and a pair of hand-knit socks.  The draw has been made and the winner will be announced shortly!

Everyone once in awhile, I will be posting my Friday Finds. They could be contests, interesting websites or tidbits that I've just come across for the week. For instance, have you checked out Time's Top 50 websites of 2010?

Carrie Ryan has a new book coming out, third in her unconsecrated (aka, zombies) series.  Curlypow wrote up a nice post about Book#2 Dead Tossed Waves recently if you'd like to check it out.  The third book in the series will be The Dark and Hollow Places. 

Ivy Hawthorn is offering up a great contest for Firelight by Sophie Jordan.  Contest is open to both Canada and the USA.  Deadline is Sept 7th.

Read for your Future is a great site with lots of contests to enter.  You might want to check it out!

Did you know about Free Book Friday?  A new SIGNED book given away each week!  Don't forget to check out the teen giveaway as well!

Reading Teen has a giveaway Saturday called Second-hand Saturday.  Make sure you read the instructions because they tend to ask for different things each week.
Enjoy your weekend!

Contests and Giveaways

We're still new to the Blog community but we have been keeping an eye out on some amazing Contests and Giveaways.  Here are just a few.  I've tried to highlight ones that are only International.  I'm always sad when there are so many great blogs that I follow and they have these amazing contests but are only open to the USA.  (Sigh....I guess shipping does kind of stink, doesn't it?)  Have you seen any good contests lately?

This is a biggie....Flipping Pages for All Ages is having a GREAT contest for hitting 500+ followers.  Congratulations!

Reading for Teens has a giveaway every Saturday!

Bree Despain, author of Dark Divine is offering up some huge reads in this contest - Bree's Book Bag Blowout (signed and unsigned copies)

Win a signed copy of Girl Parts by John Cusick compliments of Chick Loves Lit

Win a copy of Girl Parts by John Cusick compliments of Chick Loves Lit! Click here to enter!