Category: prize winners

Yay winners of CITY SECRETS!

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It’s time to draw the random winners of CITY SECRETS! There were sooo many entries and you guys are all sooo sparkly and amazing that I thought it would be a fun surprise to give away FOUR copies instead of three! Yaaaay! 🙂

I’m soooo excited to announce them!!! Eeeee! 🙂

The winners (all drawn at random) are:

Larah

Claire A.

Cassidy M.

Jamie P.


You’ll all be getting e-mails as soon as this is posted, so check your inboxes!

Cassidy, I’m overlooking your email address (brain is warped from writing!) so I’m sending you your message via YouTube.

The sooner you get back to me, the faster you’ll receive your book. So happy for everyone!

Contest winners

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It’s time to announce the winners of our giveaways! Again, thanks so much to the awesome sponsors. (All winners were randomly drawn from Blogger and LiveJournal.)

Girls Horse Clothes gift certificate:

Tiana S.

The I Love Horses bag:

Adina

English princess T-shirt:

Zoe

Charm clip:

Emily B.

Winners, please email me (jess_burkhart [at] hotmail [dot] com–with your parents’ permission) your name and an address you can receive your prize. Congratulations!

PJ Hoover giveaway winners!

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We have two winners in PJ Hoover’s giveaway!

Cyndi and The Not So Closet Geeks

Yay! Please e-mail me at jessica [at] jessicaburkhart [dot] com by Wednesday afternoon with your address. I’ll pass that to PJ and you’ll get your prize!

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to PJ for stopping by. PJ, you were a lovely guest and please come back!

I’m in crazy editing mode and am making progress on BEHIND THE BIT. When I get in this obsessive mode, I stop reading. I just got a great pile of books (Valiant, The Gargoyle, Rumors) and am so wiped out from my own editing that I just don’t feel like reading. I read zero pages over the weekend–I think that’s a first!

That said, the manuscript progress is exciting and I had a fab weekend!

Good luck NaNoing friends! Anyone got a word count that they want to share? The site has been soooo slow, so I haven’t even listened to Chris’s latest WriMoRadio yet. Off to try it now…

Diary of a Debut Author video and Frenemies winners

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Okay! We have two lucky winners of FRENEMIES! Drumroll…. Sara and Book Adorer! Congrats! You two have 48 hours to e-mail (jessica [at] jessicaburkhart [dot] com) me your name and an address for Alexa to send the book. If I don’ t hear from you within two days, I have to draw a new winner. Thank you to Alexa and check the sidebar for new contests!

Onto other things…

This is a new video that I made over the weekend. It’s almost my one year anniversary in publishing since I got The Call that TAKE THE REINS was going to be a book. So, this video looks back at my year and shows a few things that I love and keep close to me. I hope you enjoy the video! 🙂 (And isn’t my shirt SO TTR appropriate?!)

Whatcha reading now?

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Just a reminder–Kat, I need your name and address by tomorrow morning for the SA Harazin giveaway! E-mail it to me. Thanks!

What is everyone reading right now? I just finished FRENEMIES (ARC) by Alexa Young. Such a fun, good book! Before that, I read Sara Zarr’s SWEETHEARTS. If Sara published a book a month, I’d get each one. 🙂

I’m getting ready to read THE FICTION CLASS, an adult novel, and then I have to see what’s next in my pile.

Share your current read!

The winner of VIOLET BY DESIGN

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All right! We’ve got a winner in Melissa Walker’s Violet contest. The winner…is… WindyCindy! Congratulations! Please send an e-mail to jessica [@] jessicaburkhart [dot] com with your name and address so Melissa can mail your book.

Tomorrow, I’ve got author S.A. Harazin right here with a new contest, so don’t despair if you didn’t win.

I hope you’re all enjoying the different guests on my blog and I’m pretty everyone agrees that prizes are fantastic. 🙂

Prize Winner and Oscar chatter

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The winner in the drawing for the QUAKING prize pack is…Elainareads! Congrats! Please e-mail me your name and mailing address to: jessica [at] jessicaburkhart [dot] com and I’ll send your info to Kathryn.

We’ve got a new interview coming on Friday, so come back then for a new Q&A. Hint: we’ll even get a little political!

Anyone watch the Oscars last night? I thought Jon Stewart was a good host. he made several fantastic jokes and kept the show moving.

The dresses were elegant and gorgeous! My favs in Cojo style:

Helen Mirren. Very red and in your face.
Marion Cotillard. Gorgeous back in that dress.
Jennifer Garner. Does she ever look bad?
Nicole Kidman. She wears pregnancy so well.
Saoirse Ronan. Her dress was one of the few that wasn’t black or pastel. Lovely!

The men looked dashing, too. McDreamy in particular…

My question throughout the show–why didn’t anyone fix that obviously slippery area by the mic when women in six inch heels were walking across the spot?

Show highlights: Marion Cotillard’s acceptance speech, Jon Stewart allowing one of the writers of “Falling Slowly” to come back on stage, Amy Adams performing, Diablo Cody winning for best original screenplay for Juno, whoever decided to make Heath Ledger last in the tribute
montage and Cameron Diaz making everyone laugh and cheer when she bumbled “cinematography” and got her attitude on.

Worst moments: Ellen Page losing, the numerous odd montages, no Brad Pitt in sight and no extremely outspoken speeches about current affairs.

What did you think of the Oscars? Disagree with my best dressed?

Winners and NaNoEdMo

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We have winners in Beckie Weinheimer’s contest!

Will…. Miss Information and Britlitfantwin email your addresses to me ASAP? Send those to jessica [at] jessicaburkhart [dot] com. Congratulations!

Thank you for stopping by, Beckie. Your interview was so much fun! 🙂

Onto other things, March is the start of…NaNoEdMo! I signed up over at the site to pledge to spend 50 hours in March editing a novel. Want to join me? Em promised to sign up and I’m looking for more to join in. The group is a LOT smaller than NaNoWriMo, but it’s growing.

Okay, I’m off to research. Anyone going to NaNoEdMo with me?

Winners, Red Hills Horse Trials and more

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While the rest of the country is watching the Super Bowl (major yawn!) I thought I’d post tonight instead of tomorrow. This week is going to be crazy.

Keri’s contest is now closed and we have winners. Keri generously decided to give away TWO copies of SCREWBALL and two softball charms. Thank you, Keri!

Drum roll, please….

Nicole B and Emma


Congratulations! Please email me jessica [@] jessicaburkhart [dot] com with your names and mailing addresses.

Keri, you’ve been a fantastic guest and please stop by for your next book!

Onto other things…

The Class of 2k9 is officially taking applications. If you’d like one, send an email to theclassof2k9 [@] hotmail [dot] com. We’ll get you one ASAP. If you’re not sure what the Class is, check out www.classof2k7.com and www.classof2k8.com for the details.

Also, the guest this week is author of CONVERTING KATE, Beckie Weinheimer. Beckie will be here on Friday with a Q&A and a giveaway. The schedule’s changing next week, as noted in the sidebar, and we’ll have Christine Norris here on Monday.

I spent the weekend editing my YA and wow, what a mess. You’d think after three drafts you’d say, “Hey, looking good!” No. Maybe I’ll say that after this edit. The plot is fine, but I think I crossed out every other sentence on my printed draft and wrote RW (for rewrite) in pink.

On Friday, a friend reminded me that the Red Hills Horse Trials (a huge international eventing competition) is coming to town in mid-March. I’ve never been and if I’m in town that weekend, I’m SO going! It would be the perfect chance try for a couple of interviews and to do a write up of the event for magazines. I applied for a Red Hills press pass, so hopefully my application isn’t too late. If you get a press pass, you get special access to the cross-country course and a chance to go into the stables. We’re talking former and current Olympians for the US Equestrian team at this event. So exciting! Even if I don’t get a press pass, I hope to go and take tons of pictures and a few minutes of video for the multimedia section of my Website.

Happy Super Bowl watching! 🙂

Get Well Soon Winner

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We have a winner!

The Book Muncher

Please email me at jessica [@] jessicaburkhart [dot] com with your address. Thank you, Julie, for stopping by! You were a fantastic guest and please consider coming back when you have a new book.

There’s no author Q&A and giveaway this Friday, instead, on Monday (2/1) Keri Mikulski is visiting and she’ll have great prizes.

Is everyone enjoying the author Q&As? If so, I’ll consider scheduling more through the spring. I’m learning a lot and am archiving the visits on Blogger’s sidebar.

Tomorrow, I turn the big 2-1 so I’ll be blogging about a look back before I turn legal! 🙂