Day 35: Item 3: SIGNED BOOK

Have you ever visited the Story Siren?

No? Well you should. Kristi runs an amazing book blogging site!

She is on top of the hottest titles and debut authors! Well her generosity does not end with just book reviews and cover shows..she also has a few items up for auction!

We start with this SIGNED COPY of

Daria Snadowsky's

Before this all happened, the closest I'd ever come to getting physical with a guy was playing the board game Operation. Okay, so maybe that sounds pathetic, but it's not like there were any guys at my high school who I cared to share more than three words with, let alone my body.

Then I met Wes, a track star senior from across town. Maybe it was his soulful blue eyes, or maybe my hormones just started raging. Either way, I was hooked. And after a while, he was too. I couldn't believe how intense my feelings became, or the fact that I was seeing-and touching-parts of the body I'd only read about in my Gray's Anatomy textbook. You could say Wes and I experienced a lot of firsts together that spring. It was scary. It was fun. It was love.

And then came the fall.

Day 33: Item 1: SIGNED COOKBOOK + BONUS!

Living in the South lends a great love of rich foods, sweet southern sayings and the love of family! 

What better way to celebrate all of these things than with a SIGNED COOKBOOK by one of the most Southern women I have ever had the honor of meeting in person!

PAULA DEEN

Bid to win a

SIGNED COPY OF

Pool party, bake sale, lunch-box treat -- 
PAULA DEEN has a recipe for every
school occasion.

From the bestselling team that brought you Paula Deen's My First Cookbook comes a cookbook for the busiest families. When the school and work days end, what better way to connect with your family than by cooking in the kitchen? And when the school bake sale calls for volunteers or you need ideas for your sleepover party, Paula Deen's Cookbook for the Lunch-Box Set has the simplest, most delicious recipes for the fun activities that happen all school year long. from SimonandSchuster.com

PLUS

A wonderful set of 2 Wooden Slotted Spoons by Paula Deen

This is the perfect package for the collector or cook! Enjoy these delicious recipes with your family while teaching your kids food safety is fun!

DAY 32: Item 2: SIGNED BOOK PACKAGE + SWAG

Isn't Kristi from Story Siren just awesome! It's like her day on ALL 4 ALABAMA!!!

She is offering up the best package!!!

 A SIGNED COPY 

of Cherry Cheva's 

To Do List:

• Ace SATs
• Ace finals
• Ace AP physics project
• Avoid murdering lab partner
• Submit Yale application
• Resolve possibly evil twin situation

Due date: December 15th
Countdown: 11 days

By the time Kate Larson accidentally fell asleep at three a.m., she'd already done more work in one night than the average high school senior does in a week. Getting into Yale has been her dream for years—and being generally overworked and totally under-rested is the price of admission. But when she opens her eyes the next day, she comes face-to-face with, well, her face—which is attached to her body, which is standing across the room. Wait, what?

Meet Kate's computer-generated twin. Kate doesn't know why she's here or how to put her back where she belongs, but she's real. And she's the last thing Kate has time to deal with right now. Unless. . .

Could having a double be the answer to Kate's prayers? After all, two Kates can do more work than one. Or will keeping her twin a secret turn her dream future into a living nightmare?

PLUS

a SIGNED COPY of

 Megan Crewe's

Cass McKenna much prefers the company of ghosts over "breathers." Ghosts are uncomplicated and dependable, and they know the dirt on everybody... and Cass loves dirt. She's on a mission to expose the dirty secrets of the poseurs in her school.

But when the vice president of the student council discovers her secret, Cass's whole scheme hangs in the balance. Tim wants her to help him contact his recently deceased mother, and Cass reluctantly agrees.

As Cass becomes increasingly entwined in Tim's life, she's surprised to realize he's not so bad--and he needs help more desperately than anyone else suspects. Maybe it's time to give the living another chance...

PLUS

SIGNED SWAG!!!

Day 32: Item 1: SIGNED BOOK

Have you ever visited the Story Siren?

No? Well you should. Kristi runs an amazing book blogging site!

She is on top of the hottest titles and debut authors! Well her generosity does not end with just book reviews and cover shows..she also has a few items up for auction!

We start with this SIGNED COPY of

Daria Snadowsky's

Before this all happened, the closest I'd ever come to getting physical with a guy was playing the board game Operation. Okay, so maybe that sounds pathetic, but it's not like there were any guys at my high school who I cared to share more than three words with, let alone my body.

Then I met Wes, a track star senior from across town. Maybe it was his soulful blue eyes, or maybe my hormones just started raging. Either way, I was hooked. And after a while, he was too. I couldn't believe how intense my feelings became, or the fact that I was seeing-and touching-parts of the body I'd only read about in my Gray's Anatomy textbook. You could say Wes and I experienced a lot of firsts together that spring. It was scary. It was fun. It was love.

And then came the fall.

Day 31: Item 2: SIGNED BOOK + SIGNED SWAG + BONUS

The absolutely lovely Kelly Creagh is offering up a WONDERFUL package!

a SIGNED COPY of her book

Cheerleader Isobel Lanley is horrified when she is paired with Varen Nethers for an English project, which is due—so unfair—on the day of the rival game. Cold and aloof, sardonic and sharp-tongued, Varen makes it clear he’d rather not have anything to do with her either. But when Isobel discovers strange writing in his journal, she can’t help but give this enigmatic boy with piercing eyes another look.

Soon, Isobel finds herself making excuses to be with Varen. Steadily pulled away from her friends and her possessive boyfriend, Isobel ventures deeper and deeper into the dream world Varen has created through the pages of his notebook, a realm where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life.

As her world begins to unravel around her, Isobel discovers that dreams, like words, hold more power than she ever imagined and that the most frightening realities are those of the mind. Now she must find a way to reach Varen before he is consumed by the shadows of his own nightmares.

His life depends on it.

PLUS

SIGNED SWAG

PLUS AN AWESOME BONUS!

Kelly will do a character sketch in the book!!

As a child, Kelly would hold elaborate one-kid plays for patient relatives, complete with song, dance, and over-the-top melodramatics. Then, whenever Mom or Grandma called for a break, she would venture outside to slay dragons, run from make-believe ghosts and create magical feasts for fairies out of mud and pinecones.

In the third grade, Kelly wrote her first book titled Pink Lettuce, a story about a young girl who comes to the aid of her mad scientist neighbor, helping him to return his potion-pink lettuce patch to its original green and leafy luster.

Kelly holds an undergraduate degree in Theatre Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Today, she finds true joy in transcribing her dramatic daydreams onto the stage of the blank page. When not writing or curled up with a good book, Kelly can be found teaching, learning and performing the ancient art of Bellydance.

Day 30: Item 1: BOOK + GOODIE PACKAGE

The adorable and lovely Susan Gregg Gilmore is offering up a yummy prize package!

A SIGNED copy of  

 

PLUS 

A True Southern POUND CAKE

Yep - you read it correctly! Baked with Susan's own loving hands and delivered to your door!

*Please note that this wonderful package will not deliver until August, when the book comes out in paperback!

Susan Gregg Gilmore was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1961. She began her writing career at the University of Virginia as a reporter for the school’s award-winning newspaper, The Cavalier Daily.

After graduating in 1983, she assumed a secretarial position with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

A year later, she entered graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, earning a Master of Arts in American Studies. She remembers asking a favorite professor about pursuing a writing career, and he told her she needed to live life first.

So she did.  She married in 1985 and with her husband, Dan, has now raised three daughters.

She has made hundreds of cupcakes for bake sales, chaired school book fairs, volunteered in inner-city schools and taught Vacation Bible School all the while writing for papers including the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor and the Chattanooga News-Free Press.

While on staff at the Free Press, Gilmore wrote a weekly column about parenting in the South.

Her first novel, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, is rooted in summer vacations spent with her paternal grandmother and grandfather, a revival-bred preacher, who after church on Sundays, always took his granddaughters to the Dairy Queen.

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen (Shaye Areheart Books/Crown/2008) was called a “stand-out coming of age novel” by NPR’s Alan Cheuse and was a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) 2009 Book Award Nominee.

Her second novel, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove (Shaye Areheart Books/Crown/2010), was recently named a 2010 SIBA Summer OKRA Pick.

Gilmore currently lives in Chattanooga with her family.

Day 29: Item 2: SIGNED BOOK

Well, guys it just so happens that a lovely friend of Courtney has decided to part ways with a beloved SIGNED book...

This book was given out at an event in Arizona (yes this is the same event Courtney attended in Arizona for Project Book Babe & yes they got into tons of fun, friendly, and authorly trouble out there ;o) ). There were some amazing authors in attendance and Stephenie was one of them!

This is the mass market paperback movie edition

Day 29: Item 1: SIGNED BOOK PACKAGE

What a wonderful book package! Bid on your chance to win a 

SIGNED COPY of

 Michelle Zink's Prophecy of the Sisters is the first in an amazing trilogy!

Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents’ deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets.

Lia and Alice don’t know whom they can trust.

They just know they can’t trust each other.

PLUS

a SIGNED copy of 

Guardian of the Gate - book 2!

If you have not read the first two books in this awesome trilogy then this is the auction for you! Begin the journey and wait for the stunning conclusion on August 3, 2011!

Michelle Zink lives in New York with her four children.