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 new friends and added even more books from our guest authors to our reading lists.
Prizes were to be awarded to the 4 people 5 people who read the most books and participated in the most discussions with our guest authors. We also had special author prizes. (*I added an extra winner for both the chatters & the authors.)
Okay…here goes…
PRIZES & WINNERS
1st Place – $50 Amazon.com (or other bookstore) gift certificate — Sharon
2nd Place – gift pack of books — Jaime
3rd Place – gift pack of books — Angelia
4th Place – gift pack of books — Linda
5th Place – gift pack of books — LaDena
Please send your complete name and mailing address to us at info [at] rawsistaz [ dot ] com to claim your prizes.
AUTHOR PRIZE - The 2 authors 3 authors who brings the most active participants to their chat will win 3 months of FREE advertising on RAWSISTAZ.com for any month of 2010 (alternating between Top Shelf, Side Bar & Book Trailer ads).Â
Winners: Shelia Goss, Dyanne Davis & Beverly Jenkins
*Also, as a treat for our ALL our participating authors, we would like to offer you a free one month ad. Just send the book cover for your latest book (or upcoming book) attached to the email and include the book title, release date, your website address and the requested month(s) you’d like the ad to run on the RAWSISTAZ.com website in the BODY OF THE EMAIL MESSAGE to: advertise [at] rawsistaz [dot] com with HOLIDAY READING CHALLENGE in the subject line. We will add it as either a TOP SHELF or SIDE BAR ad for any remaining month in 2010.
Yayyyyyyyyyy! Congrats, congrats to our winners!
Readers, please be sure you email your mailing info to the address above so books can be mailed next week.
Authors, please send your information for the ad as indicated above.
And thank you ALL for making the Holiday Reading Challenge a success!
-Tee
Congrats to all of the winners! The Holiday Reading Challenge was awesome! I was exposed to some new authors and new genres. The chat sessions with the authors were PRICELESS! Tee, you outdid yourself with this. I look forward to us doing this again next year!!
WTG ladies!!!!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE free boooks !!!! Thanks Tee and to all who participated !!!! This was AWESOME !! Lets do it again LOL
WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to all the winners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really enjoyed the challenge…now it’s time for another one.
It sounds like I have a few volunteers here…ROFL. We do have plans to do them at least twice a year, so it should be fun!
CONGRATULATIONS everyone! The Challenge was fun! I look forward to more.
Tee, thank you!!!! This news has made my day!
Congratulations to all the winners. A a great big old thank you to all you ladies who are the reason for my screaming, YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Thank you for chatting with me.
I love winning things. Thanks again Tee and the rest of you.
Dyanne
Congratulations to authors and readers. A big thank-you to Tee for bringing all of us together.
Hugs,
Francis Ray
Tee. Thanks so much. You and your ladies are the best. Hope you do this again, soon. Special thanks to all the readers who showed up and showed out. We authors are nothing without you. B
yayayayay!
Way to go…thanks for sharing and discussing.
Congrats to all the winners. I liked the idea. I just wish I knew earlier. Next, I will be prepared. I stop by this site more often now.