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March 26, 2010
How cool is this? PRINCESS FOR HIRE is in the April/May issue of Girl’s Life magazine! They’re doing a really fun giveaway, that includes a sparkly pink guitar (and a sparkly pink book you might have heard of:)). To enter, click here. Ends April 30.
March 14, 2010
I recently did a podcast interview with KARMA CLUB author Jessica Brody on FREE BOOK FRIDAY TEENS. Go take a listen and enter to win a free book! Actually, check the site weekly to win loads of great teen fiction.
March 10, 2010
It’s intimidating hosting a release contest for a book with PRINCESS in the title. What if someone stumbles upon my little giveaway and expects diamonds? Tiaras? Oodles of Fancy Schmancy? How can I possible live up to those expectations?
Oh I can. And I will.
Because I’m busting it OUT, y’all. I’m offering a prize so epic that princesses, real live princesses, will enter. Few, of course, will win. I’m pretty sure they’ll get over it, though.
Here’s how the game is played:
To enter, you must spread the princessy love because that’s how books are sold. Word of Mouth. And although I have a big mouth, I can only yell so much before I lose my voice. Just ask my family. I’m all about creativity, so I shall let you decide which Word of Mouth (hitherto called WOM) you want to do, but here are some options:
1. My www.princessforhire.com just went live. Swank web design once again delivered The Awesome, and so of course I want the awesome shared. There’s lots of interactive stuff like quizzes and an advice column and the first two chapters can be read (for free!) under the sneak peak section. Check it out (yay! You’re already here!), and tell your friends to check it out via email, blog, facebook, twitter, hand-written letter, carrier pigeon (Nope. That joke will never get old for me.)
2. Speaking of all those cool little social network thingies listed above, that’s a great place share my cover—add it as your facebook or twitter photo because who doesn’t want to be represented by sparkles? Shiny, shiny sparkles.
Hypnotize your friends with the shining. Notice I didn’t capitalize that like The Shining.
That movie scares me, plus there are zero princesses involved.
3. Remember my widget? Can you believe it now has single digits? Are you having a hard time breathing too? No? Oh. Well, post it, share it, email it. Widget that widget up.
4. Pre-order/buy the book. I debated what to do on this. I guess you can send me your receipt, or even a picture of you with the book (oh my gosh, do that! I love book pictures) OR come to one of my signings and just say hi. If you don’t have “proof”, you can also simply comment and let me know you’ve bought it (owning an ARC doesn’t count). This is me using my Stern Voice: I trust you.
5. Once you’ve read the book, review it on your blog, amazon, BN.com, goodreads , ect. Pretend you’re doing a book report in school, except no mobiles or dioramas. Unless you want to do either, in which case you’ll instantly become my new BFF.
6. Old fashioned way: Go tell five people about PRINCESS FOR HIRE. Preferrably five people you think might like PRINCESS FOR HIRE. You choose this option and, again, I’ll just take you’re word you did it. Because when you lie, you make kittens cry.
Maybe you have a better idea, though. Maybe you want to go buy thirty copies of my book, use the bookcovers to make a fashion-forward dress a la PROJECT RUNWAY, then wear the ensemble to an Oscar party. If so, you’re crazy, but I fully support your crazy. I want to marry your crazy.
Then, after you’ve done your thing, pop back to this post and leave a comment letting me know what you’ve done. I’m not doing a point value to any one WOM (although the Project Runway thing would probably equal an automatic win), but I will give one entry for every WOM you do, up to five entries a person. Ah, heck, if you do something really creative, I’ll give you five entries for that one thing. Go wild.
Okay, now that you are salivating (which is decidedly UNroyal, so you really should stop), here are the prizes. And I’m making this international because I have a secret fantasy that I already have a following in Madagascar.
The Grandest of Grand Prizes (over $100 dollars in cash and prizes)
–$30 gift certificate to bookseller of your choice.
–$25 Chevron gift card to use in case your floating bubble is in the shop (and if you can’t drive, you can buy lots and lots of candy. I mean, HEALTY SNACKS)
–A $15 MAC gift certificate so you can buy your own compact to match the one on my cover
–signed copy of PRINCESS FOR HIRE
–10 signed bookmarks to share with your friends
–a tiara (um, not real. But tis shiny!)
–Princess bubbles
–Princess mirror cling
–Princess wand
–candy necklace
–the kitchen sink. Or a picture of my kitchen sink (Hey, remember how I said last week we lost my friend’s keys. In the garbage disposal. It’s always the most obvious place)
But wait, there is MORE. Check it:
–YOUR CHOICE OF
——– a 15 minute phone call with me
——— an appearance by YOU in Princess for Hire Book 2 (meaning I either use your name, or you choose a name. I hope we don’t get too many Ebenezer’s entering)
———-(for writers) a critique of your query letter or first three chapters
Still totally awesome prize
–The other books that you’ll probably like if you like my book prize pack:
SCONES AND SENSIBILITY by Lindsay Eland
IT’S RAINING CUPCAKES by Lisa Schroeder
–signed copy of PRINCESS FOR HIRE
–10 signed bookmarks
–a princess mirror cling
–a candy necklace
Hey, you still won something prize
–signed copy of PRINCESS FOR HIRE
–a candy necklace
–10 signed bookmarks
Why am I so excited about this? I can’t even win. I feel like I need to buy some Mac makeup for myself now, just so the winner and I can be twinners. Contest ends March 31st. I turn it over to you now, folks.
Go forth and PRINCESSIFY THE WORLD!!!! (the world part is supposed to echo).
Hypnotize your friends with the shining. Notice I didn’t capitalize that like The Shining.
–the kitchen sink. Or a picture of my kitchen sink (Hey, remember how I said last week we lost my friend’s keys. In the garbage disposal. It’s always the most obvious place)
Go forth and PRINCESSIFY THE WORLD!!!! (the world part is supposed to echo).
March 4, 2010
So I really wanted to do a book trailer for PRINCESS FOR HIRE. But the only idea I ever came up with involved me in a groundhog costume, and those are pretty hard to find nowadays.
Plus, this is pretty much the most awesome book trailer ever, and KARMA CLUB by Jessica Brody looks super cute. There is some kissing in the trailer, as this is a young adult (teen) novel. Comes out April 2010. Check it.
February 21, 2010
Hey girls! Check out this AMAZING giveaway going on over at the Go girl website. Not only can you win a UK copy of Princess for Hire, but… wait for it… LIPGLOSS.
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