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My Blogroll of Awesomeness

Anne Allen's Blog
Shooting Stars Magazine
Naughty Book Kitties
Teen Book Scene
Teens Read Too
Compulsive reader
Reading Junky
The Page Flipper
Young Adult Books Central
Enchanting YA
What Women Write
A Girl and Her Books
And Another Book Read
She Reads Novels
My Half of the Sky
YA Fresh
Donna's Blog Home
It's Just Life As I Know It
Pages
The Book Scout
Becky's Book Reviews
Chick Lit Reviews
A Good Addiction
Lost For Words
Read Sam, Read!
DeRaps Reads
Steph the Bookworm
There's a Book
The Library Lurker
Once Upon a Review
Reclusive Bibliophile
The Hiding Spot
A Reader's Adventure
The Book Butterfly
Up the Tower of Books
Catherine, Caffeinated
The Worm Hole
Notes of Life
Debs Riccio
Becky's Book Reviews
Queer YA: Fiction for LGBTQ Teens
A Patchwork of Books
Sarah's Book Reviews
Book Chic Club
Amy Reads
Claire King
A Writer in a Wheelchair
Ex Libris
Echoes of a Wayward Mind
Book Pleasures
Teach Mentor Texts
YA Book Shelf
Chew & Digest Books
Elisa Rolle's Journal
Reading Before Bed
Good Books and Good Wine
Dreaming in Books
The Broke and the Bookish
Frazzled Book Nommer
Read. Write. Suffer.
A Patchwork of Books
Harmony Book Reviews
This Little Life of Mine
Melody M. Nunez
Word Harlot
Points West
Bookish Blather
Helen's Book Blog
Roof Beam Reader
Cari's Book Blog
Bookalicious
Emily's Reading Room
The Book Phantom
Maestra Amanda's Bookshelf
Christa's Hooked on Books
Books: A Pathway to New Worlds
Reader's Edyn
Sarah's Book Reviews
Chica Reader
Me, My Shelf and I
Taming the Bookshelf
My Reading Room
My{Reads}Da
Good Choice Reading
Books Complete Me
The Introverted Reader
Random Things Through My Letterbox
The Littlereader Library
Blog It All (Katy Pye)
Chick Lit Plus
Samantha March
Tea and Scribbles Book Reviews
The Book Bag
Storm Goddess Book Reviews
Mrs. Mommy Booknerd's
Jessa Russo Writes
The Bookish Mama
Jersey Girl Book Reviews
The East Village
The Geekery Book Review
Read Along with Sue

 

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Entries from November 1, 2012 - November 30, 2012

Thursday
Nov292012

Holiday Gifts for Readers

Updated on Friday, November 30, 2012 at 8:22AM by Registered CommenterCatherine

I don't know if you've noticed this, but I tend to give a lot of stuff away for free. I think it's because I have so many lovely, faithful readers who I feel deserve the gifts.

This hit me rather suddenly this morning:

If you've followed my blog for a long time, you'll know that a little over two years ago, I closed out a storage space and brought the many, many cartons of books home to my garage. At first, they barely fit. So I started giving some away. I wrote a blog post asking readers to send me a self-addressed, stamped mail bag. And I sent them books. 

Now it's about to be the holidays. The books fit in my garage (barely). But there are still plenty. Stacks upon stacks of boxes. I don't travel and speak the way I used to, and I don't intend to die of old age with books in my garage. So...

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Tuesday
Nov272012

One More Free Day!

In my most recent blog, I said my newest novel When You Were Older would be free yesterday (Nov 26) and today (Nov 27). But it's still right in the middle of doing what it does during a free promotion. It just this morning broke into the top 100 in Kindle Free.

I don't want to rush it.

So we're giving it one extra day. If you don't have your copy yet, you have through tomorrow, Wednesday November 28, to CLICK THIS LINK.

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Monday
Nov262012

When You Were Older Ebook Free

Today and tomorrow, Monday November 26th and Tuesday November 27th, the Kindle edition of my brand new novel When You Were Older is free to US readers.

And it's timed so you can pick up a free copy, then get in on the $75 Amazon gift card drawing if you decide to do an honest review on Amazon.com or your blog. Here's a link to the info on the gift card giveaway, or you can just scroll down to my next most recent post.

Hope you enjoy the book, and good luck!

Wednesday
Nov142012

Gift Card Giveaway

This is two celebrations at once. I'm celebrating the release of my newest US novel, When You Were Older. And, as always, I'm celebrating reviewers. Because, really...where would an author be without reviewers? I'm talking about reviewers with book review blogs, but I'm also taking about readers who go out to Amazon or other bookselling sites and leave their honest thoughts about a book.

Between now and the 22nd of December, I'm going to hold a drawing for anyone who reads and reviews When You Were Older. I'll draw a winner at random on 12/22, and that reviewer will receive a $75 Amazon gift card (just in time for Christmas).

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Monday
Nov122012

Here's What's on Audible

The rise of Audible.com has made a lot of my older audio editions available again. In fact, Simon & Schuster even re-released the unabridged audio of Pay It Forward.

I only just recently found out how many of my titles really are available, so I'm passing the info along for any of my readers who enjoy Audible audiobooks. 

Click any of the images below to go to its Audible.com or Audible.co.uk page.

UK readers have the following titles to choose from:

     

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Friday
Nov092012

Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio

On Tuesday, November 6th, Charley Johnson and I joined Lisa Cypers Kamen for a one-hour segment on Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio. For those of you who don't know Charley, he is president of the Pay It Forward Foundation and the inventor of the Pay It Forward bracelet. He also drives the movement through his website PIFExperience.org.

Now our segment is available as a podcast.

You can find it on the Toginet Radio list of recent podcasts under Tuesday November 6th, or on iTunes.

Or...here's a direct link to download the show.

Hope you enjoy.