May's Follower Appreciation Giveaway of Awesome!

No worries, we have lots more Mystery Agent contests coming up. But for this month, we thought we'd change it up a bit and do another Follower Appreciation Giveaway :) We always enjoy giving our awesome followers a little love, and fun goodies of course, and since it's been a while, we thought now would be a great time to do another giveaway.

Now, several of us are trying to get back into writing mode and are having a bit of difficulty. And since our contests generally center on finished manuscripts, today we want to have a little fun (and kick procrastination to the curb), so we thought we'd have fun with our WIPs today :D

We want you to open those WIPs and tell us the first line that you wrote today :D If you don't have a WIP, today is the day to start one! Get those creative juices flowing :)

Le Rules:

1) Leave a comment below, on this post, and share with us a line of your WIP
2) Be a follower :)

Entries will be accepted until 11:59 EST tomorrow, Wednesday May 2nd. The winners will be announced on Thursday May 3rd. Be sure to check back on Thursday to see if you've won. Any prize not claimed by Friday May 11th will be awarded to someone else.

We've put together three awesome prize packs!

Runner Up #1 will receive:

• a $10 Amazon gift card
• a query crit from one of our lovely OA ladies
• a first chapter or 10 page crit from one of our lovely OA ladies
• and a pre-order of Rachel Hartman's Seraphina 

Runner Up #2 will receive:

• a $10 Amazon gift card
• a query crit from one of our lovely OA ladies
• a first chapter or 10 page crit from one of our lovely OA ladies
• and a copy of Jennifer Carson's Hapenny Magick

And one Grand Prize winner will receive:

• a $15 iTunes gift card for an ebook of the winner's choice
• a query crit from one of our lovely OA ladies
• a 1,000 word crit from the awesome Bookshelf Muse (who we'd like to send a huge shout out and thank you to for her generous donation! Thank you so much!!!)
• a copy of Leah Cypress's Mistwood
• and the first four books in Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series

So crack open those WIPs and let us see what you're working on! Good luck to everyone and happy writing!!

(in response to a few comments we've had - yep! Rewrites, edits, revisions, brand new wordage - it all counts! :D )

Follower Appreciation and 1 Year Anniversary Celebration!!

We hit 500 followers recently and to show you all how much we adore you and appreciate you spending your blog reading time with us, we'd like to give away a few prizes :D Here are the deets!

To Enter:

1) You must be a follower
2) Leave a comment on THIS post - and to help pay things forward a bit, we'd love you to share either the title and author of the best book you've read so far this year, or the link to a blog you love to visit - or both! :)

That's it!

We will take entries until 11:59 pm on Wednesday Sept 7th and the winners will be announced one week from today on Thursday the 8th.

And yes, I said WINNERS!! Because we love you all so much, we are giving away SIX fantastic prize packs! Here is what you can win:

PRIZE PACK 1
A Magical World by Michelle Raynor
Tempted by PC and Kristin Cast
a first chapter critique by Michelle
assorted Homework Helper swag 1: bookmarks, pens, calendar magnets, a mouse pad (see pic below)

PRIZE PACK 2
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
a first chapter critique by Katrina
Oliver Awesome "owl on a book" locket (see pic below)

PRIZE PACK 3
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Homework Helpers: Essays and Term Papers by Michelle McLean (signed!)
First Chapter Crit by Kristal
Homework Helpers swag 2: bookmarks, pens, calendar magnets, a mouse pad

PRIZE PACK 4
The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchison
Savvy by Ingrid Law
First chapter crit by Amparo
$10 Amazon gift card

PRIZE PACK 5
Samantha Sotto's Before Ever After with autographed book plate!
Liz Michalski's Evenfall
10 Page Crit by Kelly
A custom banner for your blog or website created by Kristal

PRIZE PACK 6
WTF by Peter Lerangis
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
First chap crit by Lindsay
Homework Helpers T-shirt (see pic below)

(locket in Prize Pack 2)                   (shirt in Pack 6; swag in Packs 1 and 3)

Also! We will be holding another awesome Mystery Agent contest on Sept 15th! We'll post more details soon. Annnd we've added an Events tab to the top margin. Info and links regarding giveaways, Mystery Agent contests, book releases, and any other exciting happenings can be found there :D

Thanks again to all our wonderful followers and good luck to everyone!!!