This holiday season, I have teamed up with 38 of the authors whose work I have edited over the past three years. Together, we’ve accumulated a heck of a lot of prizes to give away to all of you. They include:
Gift certificates to online stores
Books
Laptop bag
Books
Australian gift pack
Books
Vera Bradley purse
Books
Fun promotional items (like the now infamous Samhain coffee mugs)
Books
…and more! (and did I mention books?)
Every day from now to December 12th, I’ll be posting a new contest on my blog to win that day’s prize. Your entry is only good for that day. To win the prize for any other day, you’ll need to come back and enter again.
The grand prize at the end of the 12 days of Holiday Hell Contest is two Kindles, to be awarded to two lucky winners who have entered the Kindle drawings (which are seperate from the daily drawings. Entry into the daily drawings does not enter you into the Kindle drawings).
How do you enter the Kindle drawings? Easy (okay, really it does take a little work). Go to each of these two pages: Kindle 1 & Kindle 2 and follow the rules.
**I have verified that all icons are up and on the authors’ websites, so if you can’t find one, look again!
You’re going to have to visit 17 author websites for each Kindle, find the Kindle graphic and write down the name of the book featured on their graphic. Come back here and fill out the form completely. Actually, that is pretty easy when the grand prize is a Kindle. Two Kindles! In addition to winning the Kindle, you’ll win your choice of one Samhain ebook in Kindle format from each of the 38 authors participating in the contest for a total of 38 books for your new Kindle!
The fine print: You can win one of the daily Holiday Hell prizes and still be eligible to win the Kindle. You must complete the entry form for each daily contest entirely, double checking that your name and mailing address are correct because this is what I’ll use to mail your prize. If your prize comes back to me due to an incorrect mailing address, you forfeit your prize. Prize winners will be drawn before the end of each day following the contest (ie Day 1′s prize winner will be drawn before the end of Day 2) and will be announced on my blog. Kindle winners will be drawn and announced here on December 13th. All prizes will be mailed by December 20th.
Only one entry into each drawing per household/IP address. Duplicate entries will be deleted and entrants will be disqualified.
International entries are welcome and I will mail overseas, but will not guarantee receipt by Christmas as it will go by dolphin due to the obscene cost of shipping overseas.
I reserve the right to modify the rules at any time.
**I have verified that all icons are up and on the authors’ websites, so if you can’t find one, look again!
ETA: I have ALREADY disqualified and deleted two entries because they were not filled out with the cover titles, but with random things. Please realize, any entry I draw as the winner will first be double-checked for accuracy, so all you do by not following the contest rules is to prevent yourself from having any chance of winning at all.
Wow, look at you getting all gifty. COOL!
I think I should start entering (and winning) some contests, don’t you?
Well, poo. I can’t find the one on Dana Marie Bell’s website to save my life. I found the little banner thingy for the contest, but no Kindle graphic with her book cover.
Can anyone help me with the link for Sela Carsen in the Kindle #2 contest? I’ve clicked on the link from both my desktop and my laptop but all that keeps coming up is that it can not be displayed.
I’m having the same problem with Sela Carsen’s website. I’m getting internal server error.
Sela must be having server errors. Maybe the contest overloaded her bandwidth!
Hopefully it gets fixed soon! It’s the only title I need to find for the 2nd contest. I’m still looking for a couple on the 1st contest.
Kristen, On the fist go I couldn’t find the one on Dana Marie Bell’s website either. So, I started looking the for other titles and then went back. I wanted to smack myself when within seconds on the second go I found the title. LOL!
The contest is open for 12 days, so you have plenty of time to enter, no worries!
sounds like fun! I’m excited!
Sound fun, will try to do it tomorrow.
I did find Dana Marie Bell’s …look in… the excerpts…
Sela Carson’s website is down as of 9PM central time.
I can’t find the one for Deidre Knight…eight there isn’t one or it’s Parallel Fire…did anyone find one on hers?
That was either there isn’t one for Deidre Knight or it’s Parallel Fire…could someone help? or hint?
Ya I’m having trouble with Sela Carson’s link on Kindle #2… it’s the only one I need…
I appreciate you having a contest, but to be honest, this contest is really out there. I enter contests all the time, and I have never seen one this difficult period. Some of these authors sites I have went thru every link twice or more and can’t find the kindle icon period. It should not be so hard. And like another commentor made,a few of them are not easily navigating and I have gotten errors and such.Lose everything I have and have to start over. Whoever wins this thing, more power to you, sweetie, cuz I just can’t justify giving it more time than the hour I already have.
Have a wonderful Holiday everyone!!!
Tricia, I found it last night and wanted to recheck to make sure that I had the right one. (answer redacted–AJ) There where a couple of sites that I couldn’t find it on the first go but when I went back I found them. Either I missed them the first time or they are disappearing and then reappearing.
Come on people! You just gotta keep looking… if you need a break then take a break and come back to it trust me it helps! It’s not that hard… these authors are putting together THIS contest for US and giving a way 2 KINDLES… 2! I’m not complaining what so ever… even if I don’t win I’m still having fun!
OMG y’all!!! I’m so embarrassed!!! What a time for my stoopid server to go wonky on me.
Until I get my site back up and running, I’d hate for folks to miss out on their chance at this contest, so please, please e-mail me and I’ll let you know which cover you need.
My address is selacarsen at gmail dot com.
Again, my most sincere apologies!
Update: I’m back!!
I apologize for the delay, but after a lot of time spent listening to the nice man in Tech Support tap away on his keyboard, I’m back in the game!
Again, I’m so sorry for the inconvenience, but so glad it’s fixed.
Now y’all can play!
Yeah, I finally got the last one. All of them are on the sites. I went through both Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 and was able to locate every one of them. It takes work, but it’s for a free Kindle! You wouldn’t want them to just hand it to you, would you? Well, that would be nice, but they’re not. It’s the fun of the contest. Could someone go through the comments to make sure no one is giving away the answers? Thanks.
I hope you will all understand that I’m going to delete/edit out any answer giveaways. And ignore any griping about how we chose to give away $700 in Kindles, because that would probably be enough to ruin my holiday spirit and make me wonder why I spent hundreds of dollars doing this contest.
Hey there, i have never been to your blog before. how have i missed you? bookmarked you and off to see more!
sorry this is my first contest what exactly does the graphic look like that i need to find?
First time I”ve been here, neat site, bookmarking it.
LOVE the prizes – thankee Santa for the chance to win a Kindle!
I found Dana Marie Bell’s right after I posted that I couldn’t. I find that’s how most things in life work. lol
I think it’s an awesome contest. I don’t see any of the big NY houses giving away this kind of swag.
Hey there, pimped your contest today, AND am trying to find all the baby kindles across the interwebs. One contest down, numero 2 to go! And some are very hard to find (Deidre Knight, you fox, where’d you put that thing?), and I have a bit of eye strain now, lol, but it’ll all be worth it if I win, right?
Great contest. Keep up your holiday spirit.
I found my last one and placed my entry. I found that some where a little harder to find then others. But come on it’s a $350 prize giveaway for each contest.
There were some I had to go back for. It’s like after looking at one site for a while I got a little buggy eyed! LOL!
Hey ANGIE?
Question: Are there any participating authors where the Kindle/cover is found outside of their site? By that I mean, like on Facebook (provided, of course, they don’t use Facebook instead of a site), or in their Yahoo group, which we’d have to join in order to see the clue? I don’t THINK that’s asking for hints, just nailing down the contest conditions.
Oh, and to those that think this is hard and frustrating— IT IS! But I participated in a similar scavenger hunt sponsored by a publisher where each author’s site held a clue for a completely DIFFERENT author. EEK! I completed it only because a couple of clues for the harder ones were posted each day. And by hard, I mean some clues were buried after the jump in LJ entries from months earlier. Holy Crap! Without those clues, I wouldn’t have had a CHANCE! Although, ::whine:: I didn’t win anyhow.
Now, if any of the authors for this contest happened to want to post a hint or two in an easy to find spot (some already have ::kisskiss::), I’m sure they would win our unending lurve and loyalty.
Just sayin’ ;-D
Found out about the contest at Book Binge today.
Don’t let anyone take your spirit away cause I so love hide and seek contests and you have given us plenty of time to look. Sure I can’t find them all right now but I know I’ll kick myself when I finally do find them.
I appreciate you even giving us a chance to win such an awesome prize. I have an E-reader so I shouldn’t play but you made it too much fun for me not to try
CindyS
Thanks Cindy. I have three ereaders, you can never have too many
Bev, all of the icons are on their websites. I saw them all with my own eyes before the contest started.
Carolyn, lolol. Well, there’s the trilogy, plus the sequel. The 5th one (which I’m reading now) is actually an anthology collection that fills in some side stories that are mentioned in the trilogy, but not expounded on. The 6th is the same characters.
Then, there’s Shadow Queen which releases in 2009, same world, whole new set of characters. I have an ARC, which is the whole reason I decided to re-read and catch up. Plus, it fills my last TBR challenge requirement!
OK. I’ve found all of Kindle #1′s author titles. But I’m lost trying to find Jaci Burton’s and Sloan McBride’s. I’m on a Mac using Firefox… s’pose that has anything to do with it?
Never mind. I found them all.
Found 9 of the ones on the first contest. Think I’ll take a break there and work on the second contest.
Great contest Angie – hard yeah, but worth it!
Do you suppose that because I am on dial-up I can’t find the Kindle on Deidre Knights site? I have looked at every single thing and it’s just not there….if that’s the problem I’ll have to go to a friends house and see if I can find it. Sighhhhhhhhhh
You know what’s REALLY funny about these comments? Most author sites that someone else said they absolutely can’t find the Kindle/cover on are ones I DID find (Yes, including Deidre Knight’s).
But the ones that are giving ME headdesk moments don’t seem to be a problem for anyone else!
Well, at least it reassures us that they CAN be found and Angie isn’t punkin’ us. ;-p
It took a couple of hours but I found them all for both contest. Some were a little harder then other’s to find. Some of the Authors had fun making sure you went through every single link before you found it. I would do that too if I was them. Others, thank goodness made it very easy to find. This was like an Adult version of where’s Waldo. It was fun.
Yeah! I found all of them…the last one was a hard one! Thanks to all who answered my pleas….
Alexis Fleming is a tricky one. I swear, I’ve spent 1 1/2 hours on her site alone. It’s probably just staring me in the face and I can’t see it. Ok, off to look some more! Great contest!
hahah, ok, just checked again and found it. I realized my computer had simply not been posting the graphic. Probably just a connection issue. It was there all along.
WOW what a great contest….Of course I’m two days late, but better late than never…I’m off to finds the icons.
I’m not the only one who can’t find a thing on Jaycee Clark’s site am I?
it took me awhile rae, but I finally found Jaycee’s. It IS there.
The ones I’m having trouble with is Alexis’ as well as Biana’s and Eve’s.
It’s probably my comp not loading all the graphics – but if anyone wants to give a teeny hint – thanks!
That was supposed to read Bianca’s. Sorry
This might be a stupid question, but I honestly am not sure here, and I’ve read the rules three times…
When it says, “Lauren Dane’s book cover,” does it mean the book cover that is on Lauren Dane’s site? Or does it mean the book cover for Lauren Dane’s book (which happens to be on Victoria Strauss’s site)?
Never mind… I got confused, seeing that both authors have books called “Sleight of Hand.” Grrr…. It looks like most of them are their own books anyway.
How does one enter the daily contest? I don’t have time to spend hunting icons. I tried but it was too time-consuming.