NRSVampChick’s Countdown to Halloween!

It’s almost one of my favorite times of year! Excuses to dress up all kinds of fun, decorate everything with things that I like, and spread the love of all things paranormal! Of course there is much more to Halloween than this, but if I explained all of that now, what would I talk about over the next month? Lol.

I figured my lovely blog readers would love this time of year as much as I do, so I want to spread the Halloween love! I know lots of you around the globe don’t celebrate, but why not at least share in the virtual fun! :D

So during the month of October we will have other bloggers, authors, crafters, and other twitter friends stopping in to help with interviews, guests posts, reviews, giveaways & more all month long! There will be something happening every day, so you’ll want to check back often or you might miss out.

I’ve used a whole lot of exclamation marks in this so far, but I can’t help it, I love Halloween!!!

Oh, and I made a button! I hope you all like it. It was an experiment. Lol. :)

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Stay tuned to find out more & to see a schedule of the treats I have planned!

So I did pick my winners, you all want to know who they are? Lol!

Yeah, so I had two contests that ended the first week of August. I didn’t forget about them & I did pick the winners. They have both been notified & I’ve heard back from them.

The winner of the ARC of Double Cross by Carolyn Crane is…

Patti (Book Addict) @ Book Addict

 

 

The winner of their choice of Mind Games or a pre-order of Double Cross by Carolyn Crane is…

Aria @ Aria’s Dark Musings

Congrats to you both! Thanks everyone for participating! It was so much fun and Carolyn was a blast to work with as always!!

 

Announcement for all prize winners:

For those of you that haven’t received your prizes that come from me from any previous contests, they are ALL on their way to you now (unless it’s a pre-order lol). Sorry for the delay. Those in the US should be getting them in the next few days. International people it may take a bit longer, and I’m SO sorry. Let me know if you don’t get anything soon though, because you all should.

Once Upon a Read-a-Thon Possible Reading & Day 1

Today through Wednesday, July 14th, is Once Upon a Read-a-Thon hosted by Pure Imagination, Reading Angel, and Candace’s Book Blog. To find out more info, you can go HERE and to sign-up go HERE! Some amazing prizes are going to be given away as well! You can check those out HERE.

I was lucky enough to be asked to host a mini challenge for the Once Upon a Read-a-Thon, so make sure if you’re participating, you stop by on Wednesday and check that out!

Now this is a 3 day read-a-thon, so sleeping will be needed at some point no matter what. You can read as little or as much as you like, and take part in as many of the challenges as you wish (especially mine ;)), but I will make one recommendation for this. If you’re going to try to stay up and read as long as possible, you might want to chill on the coffee and processed sugar. I’d go with tea and maybe fruit for snacks w/ natural sugar. Those seem to keep me going longer than about anything else when I need to stay up.

On to my reading choices. I’ve got a nice pile of books sitting here waiting for me ranging from young adult to adult, urban fantasy to paranormal romance, romance to steampunk, and whatever else my heart desires. I’m sticking to shorter books so that I feel like I’m accomplishing something during this read-a-thon. I also have a few ebooks and audiobooks ready in case the mood strikes. So hopefully I’m prepared.

Here’s my list of books I’ll probably choose from:

• Hunger by Barbara J. Hancock
• Avalon Revisited by O.M. Grey
• The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
• Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Wiengarten
• Blue Bloods by Melissa de le Cruz
• Take Me If You Dare by Candace Havens
• Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe by James M. Ward
• A Season of Eden by J.M. Warwick
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
• Blood Vice by Keith Melton
• The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman
• Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine (audiobook)
• Superstition’s Desire by Lisa M. Campbell (ebook)

I’ll update this post later today as I read! Wish me luck!

Oh, and those of you that have participated in read-a-thon’s before and who want to share tips for others, please do so!!

I’m at Darkly Reading Today!

Stop by Darkly Reading today! I’m over at her blog and we’re both talking about our favorite firsts! Come by and tell us one of yours and you can win a book from the book depository!

While you’re there, check this out:

She is having a giveaway for her favorites. The winner gets to choose from the favorites list, and for every 50 additional followers she gets, a new winner will be chosen that gets to choose from the favorites list or the bday bash list! Open to wherever the book depository delivers until July 5th! GO HERE to find out more and to enter!

Favorite Firsts

Birthday Bash

Revamp! hehe

After my crazy week, all I wanted was a nice project to dive into for a day or two. So, now's as good of a time as any to redo my layout the way I've been wanting to have it done for a while now. Also, this will give me time to set up my first contest that I planned to do! So hopefully sometime this weekend I'll be able to have all the changes finished and my contest ready to go!