Giveaways

Winners of the Birthday Celebration and the Sourcebooks Subscription to Discover a New Love

Winners of the Birthday Celebration and the Sourcebooks Subscription to Discover a New Love

I had a great time reading the comments to the Dear Author Is Six post.  We have some great new content that we will be producing in part due to the comments including a Dear Author Book Club, more If You Like posts, a collection of post creating a romance canon for each sub genre(…)

Winner of the Kindle Fire for December 2011

Winner of the Kindle Fire for December 2011

The winner of the December electronic reading device is DM. The first commenter in December was Jia (334792) and the last one was Anonymous (342603). According to mysql database, the comments started at number 334792 and ended at 342603. Using random.org and those numbers, the winning comment number was 337694 and that was a comment made by(…)

Winner of the Kindle Touch

Winner of the Kindle Touch

The winner of the November electronic reading device is Kaetrin. The first commenter in November was Las and the last one was Angie. According to mysql database, the comments started at number 322059 and ended at 334713. Using random.org and those numbers, the winning comment number was 325979 and that was a comment made by Kaetrin on(…)

Winner of the Sony PRS-T1BC

Winner of the Sony PRS-T1BC

It’s a little late, but I’ve picked the winner of the October comments who will receive a Sony PRS T1BC. Remember that I unboxed this device for a review, but all the pieces are intact and it still has the plastic around the edges which I did not review because I wanted to give the(…)

THE BITE BEFORE CHRISTMAS scavenger hunt

THE BITE BEFORE CHRISTMAS scavenger hunt

Updated:  We had 334 entries and Random.org says that the winner is 225 who is Morgan Baby.  The winner’s email address is provided to Avon and they should be in touch with you shortly.   Today Avon and Dear Author are giving a holiday gift to the readers of Dear Author in celebration of the(…)

Guest Author Post: Cover Art Development by Joan Swan and Pamela Palmer

Guest Author Post: Cover Art Development by Joan Swan and Pamela Palmer

When Joan Swan contacted me and asked if I was interested in an author guest post, I replied that I would be as long as it wasn’t promotional in nature. She reached out to author Pamela Palmer and together they have presented this piece on cover art. *****   As with everything in the publishing(…)

ARC Giveaway of Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook

ARC Giveaway of Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook

Updated: The winners are as follows. 1) Sarah O. 2) Lobo 3) Natalie 4) Jennifer K 5) JK Coi 6) SeaGrace Did you love “Iron Duke” like the DA Reviewers? (reviews here and here with a bookchat here) Were you anxious for the sequel, “Heart of Steel”, featuring Yasmeen and Archimedes? Were you thinking of driving to(…)

REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY: The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY: The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

UPDATED: The winners of the giveaway are: 1) SeaGrace 2) Eilis Flynn 3) Julie L. 4) Robyn B. 5) Amy K 6) Maggie 7) Elizabeth56 8) DarcyO 9) Maili 10) Lindsey Please send me your snail mail address at sunita at dear author dot com. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you Sourcebooks!   Dear(…)

J.D. Robb Scavenger Hunt material

J.D. Robb Scavenger Hunt material

Update:  Our clue time period is coming to an end.  Please go to FreshFiction at 12 pm EST for the next clue. Good luck! We are participating the New York to Dallas blog scavenger hunt.  To enter, you will need to “LIKE” the Facebook JD Robb Official Fan Page in order to view the scavenger hunt information(…)

ACE/ROC 2011 Fall Preview and Giveaway from Anne Sowards

ACE/ROC 2011 Fall Preview and Giveaway from Anne Sowards

Update:  Our winners are as follows:   1) Lauren 2) md 3) sarah mayberry 4) Sara M 5) Jikie 6) Mary Beth 7) Brandy 8) Marty 9) Jacqueline Cook 10) Ann 11) shelley 12) margaret whelehan 13) Patrice 14) JenM 15) SarahM 16) Pamk 17) RachaelM 18) Tae 19) Seema 20) Teresa Warner 21) Julia(…)

Avon Books Celebrates Liz Carlyle and Loretta Chase with a Vera Bradley Tote + Backlist Bonanza

Avon Books Celebrates Liz Carlyle and Loretta Chase with a Vera Bradley Tote + Backlist Bonanza

Updated:  Our three winners are  1) Connie Fischer who won the Liz Carlyle package 2) misty who won the Loretta Chase package 3) Jess who won the tech package.   Thanks to Avon for sponsoring the giveaway. Avon is sponsoring a giveaway for the Dear Author readers to celebrate authors Loretta Chase and Liz Carlyle.(…)

Kindle 3G Winner and Changes to Dear Author

Kindle 3G Winner and Changes to Dear Author

On Sunday we started a giveaway asking for input from DA Readership and we really appreciate the comments. Not all of the suggestions are things that we can undertake to improve today, but they provide aspirational goals for the site. However, there are some changes we can implement right away. First, though, our winner. Winner(…)

Kindle 3G (with Special Offers) Giveaway

A month or so ago I announced that we would start giving away one ebook reader a month to the DA readership as a thank you for using the affiliate code links to buy stuff at Amazon and other retailers.   (You can find those in our sidebar)  ——> Today is our August giveaway. To(…)

May, June, July, August Pocket Preview (and Giveaway)

May, June, July, August Pocket Preview (and Giveaway)

Update: The winners have all been contacted and asked to fill out this form: Winner list: 1) Tracy 2) Joder 3) Billie 4) Heather 5) Kelly in Hockeytown 6) Nicole Strain 7) Kim in Hawaii 8) Sally Wilburn 9) erin 10) heatwave16 11) Diana 12) Kim 13) Nicole Zoltack 14) romsfuulynn 15) Andreea C. 16)(…)

2011 Spring Giveaway from Signet/NAL

2011 Spring Giveaway from Signet/NAL

Signet/NAL emailed me and wanted to offer up a spring preview of its April through June books and they offered to give away titles to our readership.  We’ve had a number of giveaways (and I suspect more in the future) so we are planning to run these Sunday afternoon.  Yay for free books. Update: Why(…)