Holiday Let's Make A Deal Preview

Tomorrow (Dec 20th) winners for the 2010 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway-A-Day will be announced. Those winners will get to play my version of Holiday Let's Make a Deal.

Here's how it will work:

12 winners will be announced tomorrow, one for each of the 12 days (and prizes). Once each winner has confirmed their participation, they will get the option of keeping the prize they won, or picking one of the below mystery prizes. Just like the Let's Make A Deal game show, the prizes could be a lot bigger, about the same, or even a smaller prize. But you'll have to take the chance...

There are all sorts of hidden mysteries behind these boxes. Each one has a prize assigned to it, but it will not be revealed until the winner has picked. Hidden underneath this wrapping you may find the following:

• A Box of 6+ Young Adult ARCs and assorted books
• A Box of 6+ Elementary/MG ARCs and assorted books
• One of 5 more holiday/Christmas books
• Duplicates from the 12 days prizes
• and more...

I'll leave you to let your imagination run wild, but remember that all the contests end tonight at midnight, so you'll want to enter while you still can!

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12 Day of Christmas Giveaway-A-Day Roundup (and some hints!)

Here for your convenience, is a link to all 12 contests for the 2010 Giveaway-A-Day. These contests are all open internationally, and will remain open for two more days until 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on December 19th.

For your greatest chance to win, enter as many of these as you can. Remember, even if you don't like the prize for that particular day, you will have a chance to trade it in for a different mystery prize later. So the more you enter, the greater your chances.

Also remember that you have 2 wild cards to use if you don't know the answer for a particular day. If anyone wants to know how many wild cards they have left to use, or if you want to change a wild card to a guess, email me at shadygladeATmailDOTcom and let me know.

And since I know a few of these were harder than others, I'm going to give you a little hint. The least three entered contests were Day 7, Day 9, and Day 11. I have two clues, each of which apply to two of the three contests. It's up to you to figure out which clues apply to which contests and guess the title from there. To make it fair to those of you who guessed right before the clues, anyone who's guess was correct and entered before now is getting an extra +1 entry for those three days.

Clue 1: Two of the above mentioned contests have "Princess" in the title.
Clue 2: Two of the above mentioned contests are fairy-tale retellings.

And as a general clue, all 12 covers picked for these contests are related to the blog in some way. How they are related is up to you to figure out. :)

And here for your entering pleasure, is a link to all 12 contests. Remember that winners will be announced on December 20th, and only have 24 hours to claim their entries, so make sure you all check the blog or your email on December 20th!

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A Quick Contest Update

We're one week into the Great ARC Giveaway, with just under 3 weeks left to enter.

Right now we're sitting at about 70 entries shy of adding another winner to the pot.

So how do you boost those entries numbers? If you've already entered, wonderful. If you haven't entered, what are you waiting for? And don't forget you can still earn extra entries, whether or not you've entered already.

The easiest way to gain extra entries is to leave comments, but here's a reminder just in case you need it:
+1 For every comment made during the contest period
+3 For posting the Holiday Bookmark Swap button on your blog or website(it's in the right sidebar)
+5 For posting about the Holiday Bookmark Swap
+1 For linking the contest
+2 For posting about the contest

Good luck to everyone!

Don't Forget To Enter!

Today is the last day you can enter my contest for a copy of Star Crossed: Gemini Night. Head over to the contest post to enter (if you haven't already). Winners will be announced sometime tomorrow.

Also, this is the last week of October, which means it's the last week for you to gain entries into October's Comment Contest for an ARC copy of Suzanne Weyn's Empty. Every comment you post on the blog this month gains you one entry, so comment away if you want to win!