Winners of the Holiday Reading Challenge

Okay, okay! It’s taken me a month to recuperate from all the reading and chatting from our Holiday Reading Challenge, held November 24th – January 12th, but I did not forget about our winners.  Thank you all for participating!! So finally after 2441 comments in the various chats & 22,644 page views our winners are: :::drumroll please::: Wait! For those who don’t remember, we did a 7 week reading challenge, with 15 books & 14 authors joining us via our Black Book Chats.  The rules were pretty simple.  (Read. Discuss. Read. Discuss.)  We had some awesome chats, met some... 

Holiday Book Giveaway

Happy Holidays!  In celebration of Kwanzaa, we are featuring the giveaway below, sponsored by Hachette Book Group for our site visitors & RAWSISTAZ members. 3 winners will receive a gift pack of each of the books below: The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini ISBN: 031604993X Mrs. O by Mary Tomer ISBN: 1599952580 Role of a Lifetime by James Brown , Nathan Whitaker , Tony Dungy ISBN: 0446541176 On the Line by Serena Williams , Daniel Paisner ISBN: 0446553662 Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela ISBN: 1600246664 TO ENTER: 1) In the comments... 

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Zane – CONTEST

WIN A COPY by filling out the Contest Entry Form with your complete mailing list. Five winners will be announced mid-week. The long-awaited new novel by ZANE—The Queen of LOVE & SEX! “Throughout the centuries, love has been defined in many ways.  In today’s society, most people relate love to a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction.  They believe that as long as the sex is incredible, then love is definitely blooming in the air.  Too many people confuse lust and sex and end up trapped in toxic relationships.  The world is full of people who remain in relationships that... 

Contest Winners Announced

Okay, so I’m a bit behind in announcing the contest winners, but the results are in!  Thanks to everyone who participated. If you are a winner, please let us know when the books arrive and also take a minute to share your thoughts via Amazon.com, BN.com or one of the other online outlets so others can get IN THE KNOW. And, if you missed out this time around, don’t worry because we will be back next week with a full week of contests in celebration of our 9-Year Anniversary, so be sure to stop back by. Congratulations to the following winners: AUGUST END OF MONTH CONTEST: - Kim (SC) -... 

Contest – Nappily in Bloom by Trisha R. Thomas (Coming out September 15th)

**See below for a special chance to win a copy before the book is released!!** NAPPILY IN BLOOM by Trisha R. Thomas St. Martin’s Griffin, September 15, 2009 Trade Paperback, 288 pages, $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-312-55764-5 ISBN10: 0-312-55764-7 Airic and his famous televangelist wife, Trevelle Doval, make the evening news when Airic is accused of domestic battery and his life is suddenly turned upside down. But when Venus and Jake try to suspend Airic’s visitation rights with Mya, they discover that Airic isn’t willing to go down without a fight. Meanwhile, Jake’s best friend, Legend, turns... 

RAWSISTAZ End of Month Contest

It’s been a while since we’ve had a contest or giveaway on the site, so I wanted to send a special announcement to share the news.  We will have at least one contest monthly on the site (under the IN THE KNOW section) and also via our Facebook Fan Page & our Twitter feed, so check both often and/or subscribe to the RSS feed so you can stay IN THE KNOW. END OF AUGUST CONTEST Five (5) winners will be selected  from the COMMENTS area of the posts from our topics this month to receive a copy of Darkness in the Mirror by Erica Lewis, Putting it Back Together by Rhonda M. Lawson, and...