Winner! Diary of a Teenaged Girl

Jennifer!  You won again!  YIPPEE!

I’ll put both books in the mail!

Winner! Limelight

Congratulations Dell!

I’ll ship Limelight with the rest of these!

Winner! Leaving Carolina

Congratulations Jennifer!  I’ll ship asap.

Does Challice have anything to send you?

Winner! White Picket Fences

Congratulations Kristi in AL!

I’ll pop it in the mail as soon as I  print out the postage!  Enjoy!

Winner! Thirsty

Congratulations Michele!  Book is on the way.  Did you get your Shadows yet?  If not, I’ll ship together!  Gotta figure out if I have shipped or not.

Enjoy!

Winner! Touched by a Vampire!

Kirstin!  The book is yours!  Of course, I already shipped your other one.  Snort.

I hope you enjoy the book.  I thought it had a lot of good insights that apply to so many areas of fiction.

Winner: You were born for this!

Ok, here it is!  The winning number for You Were Born For This is………

TINA!!!  I’m printing shipping tonight while I’ve got the blasted thing working!  I’ll go out tomorrow in the mailbox!

Argosy Junction Reviews Contest Winners

Ok, so the time has come.  I’ve put this off as long as possible, and like anything that you procrastinate over, it took a fraction of the time I expected.  Either that, or I’m so happy to be procrastinating on something else that I didn’t notice the great heaping gobs of time it did take.  Either way, I’m pleased.

First, I went through my emails and found all the ones about the entries.  Then I went to each blog and counted comments.  I checked Amazon.com for reviews.  I left no name uncounted that I possibly knew of.  If you didn’t email me, well, that’s your fault.  Snort.

So next…  I wrote out a slip of paper for every entry.  Remember,  that each person got an entry for reviewing at Amazon.com, one for blogging, and one for each comment.  As I wrote out the entries, I knew we had odds stacked in favor of Anita.  She had the most comments!  So… I wondered.  Will it follow the odds or will someone defy.  Let’s see, shall we?  We shall!

There are all the names looking so lovely!

Neatly *cough* folded and ready for picking…

The odds were with her!  Anita wins!!!

So now I have to number all her entries and draw again…

And the winner is, comment six!  Congratulations Erica!!!

So, there you have it.  Anita is now (or soon will be)  the proud owner of an Amazon E-certificate and Erica will receive a signed (or not if she prefers) copy of Argosy Junction in her mailbox as soon as I get her address, sign the thing, and pop it in the mail!

Thank you all for your lovely reviews.  I was truly humbled reading the kind things you had to say about my book.  It’s very dear to my heart, but seeing it encourage others really blessed me!

Winner- If God is Good!

Now, I’ll tell ya… this book has been a bit of a thorn in my side.  And, I must ask, if God is good, why must he keep putting thorns in His people’s sides?  I mean, I know I’m in good company.  There’s Paul with the original thorn, there’s David with his loss, Timothy with his stomach complaints, Job and the loss of all his children, Jeptha and the consequences for stupid vows… let’s face it, side-thorns are way overrated.  I’m not into the whole martyr thing, ok?

So, this book comes along, and I have several entrants that I really want to have the book.  And… of course… I don’t get to decide because I use Mr. Random to do it.  I like to be “fair” when possible.  You guys aren’t my kids, so I don’t feel the need to remind them that life isn’t fair so I don’t have to try to be the great equalizer either.  On the blog, however, I do try.  I mean, I don’t have 20 copies of everything to give anyone who happens to read and comment.

So, this time, I did a lot of praying.  They weren’t eloquent petitions of lofty ideals.  Nope.  They ran more to the simple, “Lord, control that generator and let the number fall where You want it.  Yeah.  I asked for Cosmic interference.  Again, don’t sue me, but you can pretend if you like.  So, off I went and MR. Random said…

So, I went to see who won.  Would it be Michele who appreciated the balance offered in the book?  Barbara who wanted to see his comments on Open Theism, or maybe Sarah who has a great respect for Mr. Alcorn…

Alas… God, in His benevolent wisdom, chose …

HEIDI!  A woman who has walked through grief that I can’t even begin to comprehend… and just months ago.  I’ll be reviewing her book this week so you’ll see just how timely this “random” win truly is.  I was sure that Barb would win.  After all, she’s been pounding Heaven and earth (that’d be me btw) with petitions for it.  I know she’s righteous, so I guess James chapter 5 tells us she’s not very effectual.  (How’s that for twisting scripture into illogical conclusions???)

Sorry Barb… better luck Providence next time.  Congrats Heidi.  I’ll ship it soon!  Meanwhile, everyone else… dash on over to Random House and snag your very own copy.  It’s worth every penny.

Winner- Extraordinary!!!

So, it was time for this little beauty.  There were only four commenters on it, so each one had a much stronger chance of winning of course.  I tried to guess which integer Random.org would have chosen, but I was way off.  I chose 1.  It chose…

So……. off I go again… (Cause I’m alwayson the go don’tcha know… hey, that rhymes better than it used to!– quick, name that movie that I just misquoted!)

Voila!  Kathy.  Again, I know a few,  off I went  (I’m really put off by this, aren’t I?   hee hee) to find out which Kathy will be receiving this great book…

And I don’t think I know her.  I don’t recognize this email addy.  So, unless someone has gotten a new one for web use, this is a newbie to me!  If so, welcome to Paradoxology, Kathy!

And, remember… this is the book you’ll be winning…  If you didn’t win, you can always hop on over to Random House and buy yourself a copy.

But wait!  There’s more!  Those who entered this little giveaway can take a deep breath… hold it…. hold it…

Hold it some more….

In addition to the fabulous copy I’ve already given away, I am giving away….

ANOTHER COPY!  Yes that’s right.  Not only will a lucky blog reader win one of these lovely hardcover books, TWO will win.  Yes, thanks to the generosity of Waterbrook’s Blogging for books crew (and my tiny house with no room on the shelf for very many more books), you have a second chance at this book!  Those who say there are no second chances are wrong!  There is no free lunch on this blog (you wouldn’t want it by the time it arrived anyway), but there ARE free books.  Loads and loads of lovely free books all due to the overwhelming generosity of Waterbrook.  (Yes, that is a shameless plug.  It’s my blog, I can.)

So, I hopped over to the random integer people again…  and who did they choose this time????

Yep… number three.  Again, I didn’t pick the right number.  (I thought I’d hedge my bets with sticking to number one.  I’m no gambler apparently.)

Off I went to see who number three is…  I’m just going to tell you btw.  I got tired of copying and pasting.  Sue me.

No don’t.  I just had to shell out 3k for my permanent dentures.  I’m broke.

Number 3 is Bethany.  I suspect I know which one.  I’m off to see…

Yippee!  It is so!  Bethany (you son of a Germanic arch angel you), you won!  I’ll zip it your way asap.

There you have the winners folks.  I do send every book I promise to… I may take a week or three, but I always send em.  You too could win one of these marvelous free books from… (say it with me) WATER BROOK if you just comment on Paradoxology Book Reviews!

How’s that for my commercial?  I liked the “wait, there’s more” myself.  Gave it an air of authenticity, don’tcha think?