Roses are Red, Violets Are Blue, Candy is Sweet...Giveaways Too!

 

Hello blog followers, fellow lovers of books, and all things love! Over here at A & C Book Junkies, we are happy to announce that today begins the Valentine's Day! Books with Love Hop. This is a chance for those participating to give away some amazing love filled novels to dedicated book lovers. Valentine's Day is a day sold specifically to those in relationships. Why not give everyone the chance to have a little more cheer in their lives? The ladies over at Good Choice Reading along with  Once Upon a Twilight, came up with a wonderful answer: host a Valentine's Day Blog Hop where each blog involved will be giving away books of their choice. Free books = LOVE!

Our giveaway will consist of one main prize pack, open INTERNATIONALLY, wherever the Book Depository delivers. The contest will run from February 14th (today) until February 16th @11:59pm EST. The winner will be chosen via random.org. 

The winner will have 24hrs to respond to our e-mail. If we do not hear back from the winner within that time, regretfully we will have to choose another winner. All is fair in love and giveaways, right? ;-) 

Enough of the blabber, right? Well here is what we've decided is Valentine's Day worthy:

When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.

When an unexpected inheritance enables Ari to transfer to an elite Manhattan prep school, she makes a wealthy new friend, Leigh. Leigh introduces Ari to the glamorous side of New York-and to her gorgeous cousin, Blake. Ari doesn''t think she stands a chance, but amazingly, Blake asks her out. As their romance heats up, they find themselves involved in an intense, consuming relationship. Ari''s family worries that she is losing touch with the important things in life, like family, hard work, and planning for the future. 

When misfortune befalls Blake''s family, he pulls away, and Ari''s world drains of color. As she struggles to get over the breakup, Ari must finally ask herself: were their feelings true love . . . or something else

Vampires have powers beyond human comprehension: strength that defies logic, speed that cannot be captured on film, the ability to shapeshift and more. But in matters of the heart, no one, not even the strikingly beautiful and outrageously wealthy Blue Bloods, has total control. In Bloody Valentine, bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz offers readers a new story about the love lives of their favorite vamps - the passion and heartache, the hope and devastation, the lust and longing. Combined with all the glitz, glamour, and mystery fans have come to expect, this is sure to be another huge hit in the Blue Bloods series.

All you have to do is enter by filling out the form below:

Don't forget to check out twitter because everyone will be tweeting using the #Bookwithlove. This just helps those from the twitterverse to join in on the Valentine's Day fun. Also, please don't forget to hop along to these other amazing blogs, who are also hosting their own Valentine's Day giveaways.

The Sweetdream Before Halloween Giveaway

 Halloween is definitely one of our favourite holidays so we thought it best to celebrate with all of our favourite book junkies...you! The title of this giveaway took some time and effort to come up with but we really like it. Ashley is a huge fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas, so it was really fitting to have a play on words for our giveaway title. :)
As for the books in this giveaway? Well we are both obsessed with urban fantasy and horror books which made it easy to find some creepy reads for you...

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We are doing things a little bit differently this time around and we are very excited about it! The one difference is that there will be a Young Adult giveaway AND an Adult giveaway! You may enter both of these however you must be over the age of 18 to qualify for the Adult giveaway. We are also giving our winner the choice of books they want from the books that we thought were holiday friendly.

This contest is open INTERNATIONALLY! Only ONE entry per person however you may enter BOTH contests granted that you are over the age of 18. This contest will be open until October 31st, 2010 at 11:59pm (EST). The winner of each contest will be drawn on November 1st using Random.org. Only one entry per person, per e-mail address.

Young Adult Giveaway:  The winner of this giveaway will have a choice of 2 books from the 4 books listed below...

                                     

 To enter the Young Adult giveaway please fill out this FORM.

Adult Giveaway: The winner of this giveaway will have a choice of 4 of the 6 books listed below...
                   

                                            

To enter the Adult giveaway please fill out this FORM.

Good luck everyone!

-Ashley & Christie

The Book Vixen Nightshade Cover Contest

Okay so I loved the idea of this giveaway. But let me forewarn you; I haven't used any type of photoshop since grade 12.

With that, you have been warned :)

Here is the original gorgeous cover:

Rules:

• Open Internationally.
• One entry per person. 
• Entries must be submitted no later than 11:59pm (PST) on Saturday, October 16th, 2010. 
• To submit your entry, post your cover redesign of Nightshade on your blog. Then come back to this post and enter the link to your post in the comments of this post. (Please use the direct link to your post, not the link to your blog’s homepage. In other words, make it easy for Ms. Cremer to find your entry.) 
• One winner will be chosen by Andrea Cremer. 
• Winner will be announced on or around Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 (Nightshade’s release day!).

Prize:
The winner will receive a *signed* finished copy of Nightshade by Andrea Cremer.

Here is my attempt at recreating the Nightshade cover for Andrea Cremer's debut novel:

You should head on over to The Book Vixen's Blog and check out all of the amazing and fantastic covers already submitted!! 

The Book Vixen
Andrea Cremer's Website

-Ashley

BlogFest 2010 Winners!

A huge thank you goes out to Cinnamon at A Journey of Books for hosting this fantastic event and spending hours upon hours getting everything set up and in place. We have been overwhelmed and beyond elated with the amount of people who have stopped by our blog, commented, befriended us, and entered our giveaways... Thank You :)

Okay so now to the juicy stuff...the moment you have all been waiting for!! And let me tell you we had over 600 entrants for both giveaways. Give or take a few, that means we had around 650+ entrants for the Paranormalcy ARC.

The winner for giveaway #1 and the following three books: Fallen, Hush, Hush, and Beautiful Creatures is....

True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: Result:380

#380 =Shanise J. (http://camisadomind.blogspot.com)

The winner for giveaway #2 and $15.00 from the Book Depository (book of their choice) is...

True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: Result:171

#171 = Allison (http://the-winfields-7.blogspot.com/)

And lastly but certainly not least, the winner for an ARC of Paranormacly is....

True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: Result:17

#17 = Beth (http://www.maybe-tomorrow.net/)

All of our winners have been picked from random.org.
 Congrats to all of our winners :)

The winners will have 24hrs to contact us via e-mail (we will be sending you e-mails about your win). If we do not hear from the winners within 24hrs, we will have to pick new ones. All e-mails have been sent but there is always room for errors. So please...if you Won and didn't receive an e-mail, contact us at bookjunkies@hotmail.com

This has been such a thrilling and fun experience and we can't wait to do it again. Oh and before you don't forget about our Smart Chicks Kick It! giveaway which is ending Sept 21st and open to residents of the US and Canada Only.

BlogFest 2010!

BlogFest 2010 is now upon us! We are so thrilled to be participating in our very first BlogFest. A big thanks to Cinnamon Brown at A Journey of Books for hosting this amazing Blog love and giveaway! 
So trying to come up with some wicked giveaways has been a challenge. We are new at this, so we are still learning the tricks to be learned from the online book blog community....However, we think we came up with three giveaways that we hope you will all be pleased with. *All winners will be decided via random.org
GIVEAWAY #1
This is our Casters and Angels giveaway. We will be giving away a copy of Fallen By Lauren Kate, Beautiful Creatures By: Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, and Hush, Hush By Becca Fitzpatrick. We hope that the winner of this prize pack will not have read these yet and get them in time for the late September and October releases of the 2nd book for each series. All books will be in hardcopy format and brand new. This giveaway is open to residents of the USA and Canada ONLY! All you have to do is fill out this FORM. 
GIVEAWAY #2
We wanted to be able to do something for our wonderful international people out there so we have decided that the winner of prize pack #2 will receive books from the Book Depository worth $15.00.This is open INTERNATIONALLY.All you have to do is fill out this FORM. 
GIVEAWAY #3
We will also be drawing one lucky winner to receive an ARC of Paranormalcy. As long as you fill out the above forms, you will be entered in this giveaway! US/Canada/International 
Also please don't forget to stop by and say Hello to Gaby at Oh My Books! and see what fabulous prizes she is giving away!!! 
We will announce the winner for each prize once BlogFest is over. The winner will have 24hrs to respond to our e-mail. If we don't hear from those winners, new ones will be chosen. 
Thank you for stopping by and for participating in our giveaways! We appreciate it so much :)
We are also having a Smart Chicks giveaway open to residents of Canada and the USA. You can find that giveaway here: Smart Chicks Kick It! Giveaway 

Our First BookJunkie Giveaway

We have been absolutely thrilled and amazed with how generous, kind, and giving the book community has been. It's a wonderful feeling to know that you share the same likes and passions about all types of literature with people you don't even know. For the short period of time that we've had this blog and our Twitter, we have been astounded with how many giveaways people have had. People are reaching out to others by sharing their favourite books and authors with the world.

In honour of this online book community and our love for reading we have decided to have our first giveaway. We apologize that we do not have anything currently signed or any ARCS to giveaway, but we would still like a chance to share books that we love.

Once we hit 50 blog followers, we will be giving away two place prizes.


First Place: Any book of the winner's choosing from the Book Depository. Total worth $30. That means you can either get one $30 book or up to 3 of your choosing. 
*NEW* This has just been added to our contest. We have amazing followers on our Twitter and we hope to bring some of that love to our blog.

Second Place: The two books we've decided to giveaway  are The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting, which Christie has read and loved. Her review is up on this blog already.

The Body Finder 

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies-or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer-and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself. 

The second book in which we want to share is the paperback edition of City of Glass. We both LOVED the Mortal Instruments series and in honour of the upcoming release of Clockwork Angel, our lucky winner will receive the edition which includes excerpts from Clockwork Angel and City of Fallen Angels. Pretty great right? We hope you think so.

This giveaway will be simple. Once we reach our 50 follower goal, we will tweet that the giveaway will begin. So if you aren't following our twitter account you should, @bookjunkies. Then all you have to do is comment on the blog post that will accompany our 50 follower announcement. Just leave us a comment with your country and e-mail address.

First Place will be open International. If the Book Depository ships there, you can enter once we reach 50+ followers. The second place giveaway will be open to USA and Canada only.

 -Ashley and Christie