Blog Awards

Thanks to Vicki @ Reading At The Beach, I have won a blog award.  I have won the Prolific Blogger Award! 

1. Every winner of the Prolific Blogger Award has to pass on this award to at least seven other deserving prolific bloggers. Spread some love!
2. Each Prolific Blogger must link to the blog from which he/she has received the award.

3. Every Prolific Blogger must link back to This Post, which explains the origins and motivation for the award.

4. Every Prolific Blogger must visit this post and add his/her name in the Mr. Linky, so that we all can get to know the other winners. (Click here for the Mr. Linky page.)

I'm passing this on to the following 7 bloggers:
Erotic Romantic Crush Junkies
You wanna know what I think?...
The Book Resort
Smexy Books
Seductive Musings
My Overstuffed Bookshelf
Fiction Vixen Book Reviews

Giveaway: Try Darkness by James Scott Bell

 Ty Buchanan is living on the peaceful grounds of St. Monica's, far away from the glamorous life he led as a rising trial lawyer for a big L.A. firm. Recovering from the death of his fiancée and a false accusation of murder, Buchanan has found his previous ambitions unrewarding. Now he prefers offering legal services to the poor and the under-represented, from his "office" at local coffee bar The Freudian Sip. A mysterious woman with a six year old daughter comes to him for help. She's being illegally evicted from a downtown transient hotel, an interest represented by his old law firm and former best friend, Al Bradshaw. Buchanan won't back down. He's going to fight for the woman's rights.

But then she ends up dead, and the case moves from the courtroom to the streets. Determined to find the killer and protect the little girl, who has no last name and no other family, Buchanan finds he must depend on skills he never needed in the employ of a civil law firm.
 

5 paperback copies to giveaway thanks to Hachette!

 

  Rules:

-You MUST be a follower.
-Leave an email, or email me so I have a way to contact you if you win.
-NO P.O. Boxes
-Only Residents of U.S. & Canda are eligable (sorry!)


Ways to Enter:
+1 follow my other blog here
+2 follow me on Twitter here
+1 put my button on my sidebar and leave the link
+1 follow K&K Blog on Facebook here
+10 become a new SwagBucks follower using my link

LEAVE A SEPERATE COMMENT FOR EACH ENTRY!
(example: if it says +2 but two seperate entries)



Contest Ends February 4th

Save The Books!

It may or may not have come to your attention that Walden Bookstores (a Borders Group Inc. book franchise) will be closing 200 of it's stores this January of 2010.

Where are all those books going???

No, not a wonderful clearence sale. Nope, they're not moving them to a new location or donating them either. What are they doing with them them?

They are throwing them away!

That's right. As in garbage cans and the dumps. How dumb is that? They are tossing brand new, profitable books out the window.. literally. They are not just throwing books away, they are also throwing their money away as well.


Kate, over at The Neverending Bookshelf, gave me an idea. She wrote to the people at Border's Group Inc. and I wanted to too. So, without further ado, here is my letter and under that I will post the conact information in case you guys want to write to them too.


Hello,
     My name is Kayla Johnson. I am a part time college student, a book blogger/reviewer, and, most importantly, a book lover. The other day I found out that, because Walden Books is closing, you are throwing away perfectly good, brand books. I ask, why?
     Would it not be smarter to donate them? I heard you think that it is not worth it. Not worth what? You are throwing away money anyways! Libraries are in need, you could help them and many other local organizations!
    If you didn't want to donate, you could move the books into one of the other book stores owned through the company. (Still, saving you money, not to mention many books!)
    Or, you could put them in storage. Surely you can use them at a later time, could you not?

    Am I saying this just for the hell of it? No. This is in both your best interest and mine. I love books, I find it a complete utter waste to toss them out. I'm sure you love money, and you are tossing it out. Are you seeing the pattern here?
    In case you are a dunce and cannot, I'll just tell you: You are wasting both money and books!
  We are in the middle of an economic drop at the moment, as I am sure you are well aware of. So, why toss more much needed money out the window?
   I am sure that this letter will go to no good. After all, I am just one woman writing one letter to save books. But, even though one cause can be bigger than next, it doesn't mean it shouldn't have time, thought, and help behind it. I can't do much to help this cause, to save those books, but you can. Help me save the books. Please. Where would we be today without them?

Please think on what I have wrote.
Thank you,
Kayla Johnson



Borders Group Inc. Contact Information:

Email:
CEO Ron Marshall - rmarshall@bordersgroupinc.com
CFO Mark Bierley - mbierley@bordersgroupinc.com

Customer Care

Phone:
Borders Corporate Headquarters - 1.800.243.7510 (press 9 for customer care)
Customer Service Center - 1.800.770.7811


Also, here is Kate's (The Neverending Bookshelf's) letter as well, in case you wanted to read or comment.

Giveaway: The Crazy School by Cornelia Read

    Madeline Dare has finally escaped rust-belt Syracuse, New York, for the lush BerkshireMountains in Massachusetts. After her husband's job offer falls through, Maddie signs on as a teacher at the SantangeloAcademy, a boarding school for disturbed teenagers. Behind the academy's ornate gates, she discovers a disturbing realm where students and teachers alike must submit to the founder's bizarre therapeutic regimen. From day one, Maddie feels uneasy about smooth-talking Dr. Santangelo but when she questions his methods, she's appalled to find that her fellow teachers would rather turn on each other than stand up for themselves, much less protect the students in their care. A chilling event confirms Maddie's worst suspicions, then hints at an even darker secret history, one that twines through the academy's very heart. Cut off from the outside world, Maddie must join forces with a small band of the school's most violently rebellious students-kids whose troubled grip on reality may well prove to be her only chance of salvation.

 I have 3 paperback copies of The Crazy School to giveaway thanks to Hachette! 

Rules:

-You MUST be a follower.

-Leave an email, or email me so I have a way to contact you if you win.

-NO P.O. Boxes

-Only Residents of U.S. are eligable (sorry!)

Ways to Enter:

+1 follow my other blog here

+2 follow me on Twitter here

+1 put my button on my sidebar and leave the link

+1 follow K&K Blog on Facebook here

+10 become a new SwagBucks follower using my link

LEAVE A SEPERATE COMMENT FOR EACH ENTRY!

(example: if it says +2 but two seperate entries)

Contest will end February 12th.

Winners will be chosen via random.org and must reply within 48 hours with their mailing info or another winner will be chosen.

Books will be sent out by the publisher.

Giveaway: Corked by Kathryn Borel

    Meet Kathryn Borel, bon vivant and undutiful daughter. Now meet her father, Philippe, former chef, eccentric genius, and wine aficionado extraordinaire. Kathryn is like her father in every way but one: she's totally ignorant when it comes to wine.  And although Philippe has devoted untold parenting hours to delivering impassioned oenological orations, she has managed to remain unenlightened. But after an accident and a death, Kathryn realizes that by shutting herself off to her father's greatest passion, she will never really know him.

5 people will win 1 copy of Corked thanks to Hachette!

Rules:

-Only Residents of U.S. and Canada are eligable (sorry!)

-No P.O. Boxes

-You must be a follower and leave your email address so I can contact you

Ways to Enter:

+1 follow my other blog here

+2 follow me on twitter here

+10 become a new user on swagbucks using my link

LEAVE A SEPERATE COMMENT FOR EACH ENTRY!

(example: if it says +2 but two seperate entries)

Contest will end February 2nd.

Winner will be chosen via random.org and must reply within 48 hours with their mailing info or another winner will be chosen.

SwagBucks

I have been using this site for about the last month now.  Swagbucks.com  I was a bit wary at first, but I really love it!  A lot of these sites seem to have a few major catches, right?  But, this one actually doesn't.

I signed up for it, not expecting to get anything out of it.  But, I was wrong.  (Yep, that does happen every now and then.)

All you do is use the Swagbucks.com search engine instead of using yahoo or google, or whatever else you might be using.  That's it.  Seriously!  You use their search engine, collect some points (or as they call them, Swag Bucks) and then, you go to their little online store, and redeem them! 

I have only used the site for somewhere around a month or so and I already cashed out!  Well, not literally, I mean, I didn't get cash.. But,  I did get a $25 gift certificate to a really yummy local resteraunt, and a signed poster by one of my favorite bands!

Swagbucks.com has all sorts or prizes too.  Trading cards, lots of giftcards (including: amazon.com, J C Penny, Target, Sephora, and a whole load more!) lots of posters to choose from, Xbox (yeah!! A real, name brand Xbox- this does need a lot lot lot of points to get, but it is there in the store) and soo much more.  You don't have to sign up to check out the Swag Store either if you want to just check it out first. :)

I really love this site.  You can sign up for SwagBucks here!


**No one paid me to write this post.  I am sharing this site and information with you all at my own will.  By using my link, you do automatically become my SwagBuck "friend", and any points you find through web searches will also be added to my account as well as yous.**