Right now, the odds on winning the second Kindle are better than winning the first. We’ve had a lot more entries for the first Kindle, for whatever reason.
Despite the emails I’ve gotten from people saying they couldn’t find an icon (and just about every author has been named, so it seems different people have problems with different ones), the sheer number of completed and correct entries assures me that they’re all there and able to be found. And one of the authors went and found all of them, for both contests, in an hour, with no help, so I’m doubly assured they’re all able to be found.
The contest will close midnight December 12th Eastern time (I will delete any entries that come in after that, if for some reason I don’t get the forms down at that time), which is just two days from now, so don’t wait much longer to get your entries in. I’ll post the winners on the 13th. Once I post the winners, I’ll be emailing you to ask you to pick which Samhain book from each of the 38 authors you want me to load on your Kindle, so you might want to think about that…just in case you win!
I’ll be mailing the Kindles and all the prizes out next week, once I have all the responses and addresses in place, so the sooner you get back to me, the sooner everyone gets their prize (I’m only taking ONE trip to the post office during this holiday season, lol!)
Good luck!
I twittered Lauren Dane, because I couldn’t find hers. BUT I did find it and before she answered me.
Thanks for the contest! I was fun to see all the different author sites.
Oh, wonderful contest. I so want to win. It was fun searching all the sites.
My favorite re-read of all time is “Mrs. Mike” by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. Such a wonderful love story! After living in Alaska for 6 years, I can really appreciate how rough their life was.
It’s probably because everyone started with Kindle contest #1, and by the time they’re done hunting all around for those icons, they’re too tired to go poking around for contest #2. But SHHHHH! I want to win one of these. Less competition increases my odds. =D
My critique partner discovered her slow (satellite) connection made loading pages on graphics heavy sites so slow she was clicking off the page before the Kindle graphic had loaded. As Angie says, they’re there, just have patience.
some of them were harder to find than others but since I’m an obssessive personality I couldn’t quit ’til I found them all.
BTW the winners get to chose one download from each author from both contests for a total of 38 right?.
One thing that I found while doing both contests (which was fun since I found new authors to read!) is that if you use image blocking add-ons so you won’t have to deal with annoying ads, sometimes the kindle icons won’t immediately show up. At least, that happened to me a few times. I used a different browser, however, and everything showed up just fine.
I never thought I’d find the last one I needed. For some reason it wasn’t coming up on my computer. Thankfully I got my computer fixed before I went nuts. LOL
I am so excited about the Kindle give away. Even if I don’t win I am very impressed with Samhain and I spent so much time on the author pages that I have added lots of new authors to my tbr list. I just wanted to say thanks again for holding such a great contest.
I am glad I found them all too, just next tmie not while I’m very tired, lol.
Some of them were definitely harder to find than others, but I dug my heels in and kept at it because I really want to win a Kindle! I have my fingers crossed and it was great to find out about so many new authors. I now have many books on my wishlist.
I haven’t entered #2, cause I’m going absolutely crazy on Bianca’s site. I swear that damn Kindle icon is not there, LOL. I’ve been looking for freakin’ days.
I ended up having to switch computers mine was apparently too old (nearly 10) and the graphic wasn’t showing up on Alexis’s site. Drove me nuts. Then what’da know it showed, the last one I needed was found!
I’ve entered both now. Thanks Angie and all you authors!
I tried to enter Kindle #2 but I could never get Eve Vaughn’s website to load images and I never heard back from you on the email I sent regarding this. No one could figure out why it wouldn’t load, everyone else didn’t seem to have an issue with her site but no matter which computer I utilized it never worked for me.
I had no problem (I’m Julie R. since I see there are two Julie’s). I thought it was great fun, but I love a challenge. Some were a little trickier than others, but that was the whole point, I would think, from a marketing strategy. It just took a little diligence, but I got to explore the sites more thoroughly to learn about each author and answer that particular question.
It’s kind of odd that you say one contest has more entries than the other. Neither was harder than the other.
Thanks, Angie, for coordinating and hosting all the different contests, including the Kindle ones. It takes a lot of work to get all the authors to donate—now THAT’s diligence
Julie
Oh wow! I just realized after rereading your blog today that the winners also get a book from each author. Duh, I guess you would need something to load onto your Kindle, right? How very generous of them.
Julie R..
Drey, That’s what I thought too about why Kindle 1 has more entries than Kindle 2, even though they didn’t have to both be done at the same time. Julie R.
Ann,
I’m sorry. Had I responded my answer would have been the same as it was to anyone else: it’s there, keep looking. I did not give out any answers to anyone who mailed, and there seemed to be no common thread to which author people had difficulty with, so I can’t even say one author was more difficult than another.
Yep I couldn’t finish the second set because one of the web pages couldn’t be found no matter what I did to try and open it! Oh well. I thought to go back later but I don’t have much time with my 4 month old screamer.