Day 18: Item 5: HUNGER GAMES INSPIRED NECKLACE

The wonderful Charity Jackson of  THE MEADOW on Artfire.com & Etsy.com 

is offering up a gorgeous Hunger Games Inspired Necklace:

We Met Up At Midnight

Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

Wear a necklace of rope side by side with me

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree

This necklace makes me think of Katniss, and all shes been through in her life....

This Hanging Tree necklace is composed of a 1-5/8 inch circular tree pendant, in antiqued brass. A midnight moon adorns the sky, with a smoky gray glass pearl. They hang together, from an antiqued brass, 18 inch chain that closes with a lobster clasp.

Materials Used:

gray glass pearl, brass tree pendant, brass chain and findings

PLEASE check out Charity's other items - they are wonderful!!! 

Visit her shop The Meadow

Day 18: Item 4: SIGNED BOOK

He did not stop at one copy guys!

The very generous and so kind John Karle of St. Martin's Press has donated 

another SIGNED copy of

Summer Rental

by Mary Kay Andrews

This book releases on June 7, 2011

From Amazon.com

Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction….

Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Julia—whose caustic wit covers up her wounds--has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life.  And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world…though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what they each of them needs.

Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though he's hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything he's ever cared about.

Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run. Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity.  Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants; can they also provide what she needs?

Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness.   Five people who each need a sea change, and one month in a summer rental that might just give it to them.

About the Author

Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah Blues.  A former journalist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.  Visit www.marykayandrews.com

Day 18: Item 3: SIGNED BOOKS

This Southerner just keeps a smile on my face at all times!

 Rick Bragg has gifted us with some more copies of his books. For today's post we are offering 

TWO SIGNED FIRST EDITION HARDBACKS

of

The Prince of Frogtown 

by Rick Bragg

Yes you read that correctly! TWO copies! 

One for you and a gift - or two for you, we won't judge ;o) Also if the winner would like one personalized we can arrange that as well!!

Rick Bragg is an American author and journalist known for his non-fiction books, especially those on his family in Alabama. He currently resides in Alabama. Bragg won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996 for his work at The New York Times. 

Day 18: Item 2: ARC

From the ever so delightful Joanna Volpe of the Nancy Coffey Literary Agency we have this wonderful ARC of:

by Erica O’Rourke

Everyone has secrets. Even best friends.

Mo Fitzgerald knows about secrets. But when she witnesses her best friend’s murder, she discovers Verity was hiding things she never could have guessed. To find the answers she needs and the vengeance she craves, Mo  – quiet, ordinary, unmagical Mo – will have to enter a world of raw magic and shifting alliances. And she’ll have to choose between two very different, equally dangerous guys – protective, duty-bound Colin and brash, mysterious Luc.

Two guys. Two destinies. One wants to save her, one wants to claim her. Which would you choose?

A dark, delicious, and funny YA Paranormal, due out June 28^th from KTeen

From her Blog:

Erica O'Rourke lives outside Chicago with her family, including two very bad cats.

She likes coffee, denim, naps, and sushi.

She hates fish, bridges, and talking about herself.

Day 18: Item 1: SIGNED BOOK + SWAG

The amazing and talented 

T. Lynne Tolles

is offering up some awesome packages of her books!

First lets start with:

a SIGNED copy of 

Blood of a Werewolf

Check out the Blood of a Werewolf Book Trailer

PLUS!

2 of THESE BOOKMARKS!!!

(don't worry they will pop up again soon ;o) )

PLUS!

2 TRADING CARDS!!!

OH MY! WHAT A PRIZE!
*THESE CAN SHIP INTERNATIONALLY!!

From her website:

All my life I’ve been fascinated with vampires, werewolves, witches and monsters. Maybe it was all those late night ‘Creature Features’, or maybe I’m just a bit odd. Either way, I just can’t put a good vampire or witch book down - magic, goth, wizards, and fairies - they’re all good. 

I never intended on being an author. It had never my life’s dream to write or be published, but after reading a stack of books in June and July of 2009, I got an idea. ‘Hmmm. I wonder if I could write a book about vampires? There’d have to be vampires, werewolves, and maybe some witches just to make it interesting.’ 

And just to talk myself into it, I thought it might be a good way for my teenage daughter to see that if you set your mind to something, even a goofy old mom could accomplish something. Three weeks later ‘Blood of a Werewolf’ was complete.

That’s when I got the bug. I couldn’t stop. Can you say ‘addiction?’ Immediately I jumped into ‘Blood Moon’ finishing it in late August 2009. ‘Blood Lust’ was finished in early November 2009. The fourth book ‘Bloodstone Heart’ was completed in mid May.