Thursday, March 25, 2010

250 Followers Contest

Peoples, do you know what? I have 250 followers!!! 259, actually, but 250 made me squee! I know it's been at that number for a while, but it took me a bit to get prizes for this contest.

So what's up for grabs?


Being the first female werecat enforcer isn't easy. Scars accumulate, but I'm stronger in so many ways.

As for my personal life? It's complicated. Choices worth making always are. Ever since my brother's death and my father's impeachment, it's all I can do to prevent more blood from spilling. Now our Pride is under attack by a flight of vicious thunderbirds. And making peace with our new enemies may be the only way to get the best of our old foe.

With the body count rising and treachery everywhere, my instincts tell me to look before I leap. But sometimes a leap of faith is the only real option...

(Summary from goodreads.)

And:

(Not my picture. I only have four bottles to give away. But my pictures isn't as pretty and don't show the gorgeous colour of the nail polish as well. You can see it here if you want to, though. Oh, and with the bottles I have, the handles are silver.)

I wish I had more to give away, but unless you guys want random Saskatchewan library bookmarks, I'm all out of stuff.

There will be four winners chosen.

Winner number one will receive Shift and a bottle of nail polish.
Winners number two, three, and four will each receive a bottle of nail polish.

This contest is going to be *gulp* open internationally until... how about five weeks? Which is *checks calendar because it's 6am* April 29th. Sounds good to me.

To enter:

Leave a comment on this post with your email address. No email address, no entry. I won't go to your profile to look it up or accept any other form of contact. If you aren't comfortable leaving your email address in the comments, you can of course email your entry to me at Laina1312@gmail.com but I ask that you please make the subject of the email "250 Followers Contest".

Extra entries:

+5 A theme in The Dark Divine is forgiveness. Tell me about a time it was difficult for you to forgive someone or post your opinion on why forgiveness is important.
+3 Fill out this survey. You must either use the same name as you're commenting under or include your email address for this to count towards your entry. I'd prefer if you include your email address in case more than one person with the same name fills it out. And you have to answer at least 3 questions, not counting name/email. Also, be honest!
+1 Become a follower through my Google Friend Connect widget. (If you follow through a feed reader such as Google Reader, that's fine, just let me know in your comment.)
+2 Current followers.
+1 Link to this post somewhere. You can do that in a blog post, in your blog sidebar, on Twitter, on a message board, whatever you can think of, but it only counts once per place. A sidebar link and a blog post link do, however, count as seperate entries. Leave a link to that here or it won't count.

Remember, you do not have to do any of the extra entries if you don't want to. You only need to either leave me a comment with your email address or and email me your address to enter. That's it. The rest is completely optional.

And please do try to keep it in one comment. Obviously if you forget something or need to change something in your entry, you can post again, but please don't comment once per entry as that fills up my inbox like crazy and makes me slightly crazy(er).

Quick recap:
Prize: 1st place - One copy of Shift by Rachel Vincent and a bottle of The Dark Divine nail polish. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places - One bottle of nail polish each.
Open to: Everyone!
End date: 11:59pm, Thursday April 29th, 2010. I'll schedule a post for you guys in case I'm not here/exhausted because Thursdays are work days, so you know when it ends.

Okay, so I think that's everything. Thank you guys so much for following me and commenting and everything. You guys are awesome!

Peace and good luck cookies,
Laina

33 comments:

  1. Well, it's always nice to be first. Congrats on over 200 followers.

    E-mail: www.kiera.mcallister@insightbb.com

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  2. Great contest! Shift sounds like something I would really enjoy!!

    +2 Old Follower
    +1 Tweeted http://twitter.com/ssalach21/status/11037027791

    Thanks so much!

    Sherry
    ssalach88(at)gmail(dot)com

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  3. Awesome Contest. It's great that it's open internationally too. Count me in for the contest!! I absolutely love all the other books in the Shifter series. Can't wait to read this one. The Dark Devine looks good too

    Email: spellboundbybooks@gmail.com
    Twitter: Meeka_21
    +1 New Follower

    Thanks

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  4. Great contest and I love the color of this polish. Not to mention SHIFT! Congrats on your followers, I hope you get many more.

    I will never forgive my mom for her treatment of me as a child and later a teenager. I do however think forgiveness is important, but it must be deserved/earned.

    +5 Forgiveness
    +1 New Follower
    +1 Tweeted:http://twitter.com/IntenseWhisper/status/11038247123


    robin [at] intensewhisper [dot] com

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  5. princessashley9@gmail.com

    +2 Old follower :)

    +5 Once this girl poured water on a guy and gave him bad burns. They blamed it on me. It was hard to forgive them cuz everyone thought I was like violent then

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  6. Congrats on the followers - that's so awesome!

    +2 Old follower

    lucidconspiracy[at]gmail[dot]com

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  7. Congrats! I’d love to enter your contest.

    TheFictionEnthusiast AT Live DOT com

    I’m a follower +1

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  8. +1 Tweeted: http://twitter.com/writing_goober/status/11053627155
    +1 New Follower

    scarletsanguinefullmoon@gmail.com

    Lindsay :D

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  9. +2 old follower :)

    readingaddict63@aol.com
    http://addicted2reading4evr.blogspot.com/

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  10. Congrats on 200 followers!

    +5 Forgiveness : My dad and I don't get along. We nod at each other during family events and that's it. He doesn't agree with my life choices (where I went to college, where I work, where I live, etc), but he doesn't understand that it's MY life. While I think forgiveness is important, I also think it takes time. Even if you don't see eye to eye, you can at least agree to disagree.

    +1 new follower
    +1 tweeted : http://twitter.com/Lena1xoxo/status/11098882278

    I tried to fill our the form, but there was no link. Did I miss something? lol

    -Lena
    longhorn08fan(at)gmail(dot)com

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  11. Congrats on the followers!! Please enter me. I am an old follower.

    It is important to forgive someone because if you hold a grudge, it can really mess up your life. It makes one bitter and not willing to love other people.

    I, too, couldn't find the survey link.

    I tweeted: http://twitter.com/Door2Wonderland/status/11100022979.

    Great contest and prizes!
    Kelsey
    krae991@yahoo.com

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  12. Not sure what survey you are referring to, so I couldn't take it.

    Elaine
    email: drkcherry AT gmail DOT com

    I am now following your blog
    I am now following you on Twitter
    I tweeted this contest at: twitter.com/drkcherry

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  13. Lena, Kelsey, and DrkCherry: Sorry!! It was like five am when I wrote this and I forgot to link the survey. It's linked now and here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFBSVm45NG1tdmxvdkxYLUdGS21VVEE6MA

    But if you'd scrolled down, it's also in this post, lol: http://lainahastoomuchsparetime.blogspot.com/2010/03/survey-time.html

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  14. Thanks for the great contest! And congrats on the followers. I am a new follower. I tweeted http://twitter.com/bangersis/status/11121619718
    email bangersis(at)msn(dot)com

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  15. Congrats!

    +2 old follower

    +5 forgiveness is important to moving on. Sometimes you have to let go and forgive so that your life can move forward.

    Raelena
    throuthehaze at gmail dot com

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  16. I have one book from this series! I'd love to enter!

    aleareads@gmail dot comm

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  17. Cool contest. Love the SHIFTER series!
    I posted a link on www.twitter.com/kujo317

    Thanks,
    Karen
    kujo317m@gmail.com

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  18. Awesome contest! Shift is my kind of book and I always wanted a copy for myself! :]

    +3 Filled out survey
    +1 Tweeted contest

    Erin

    little_dhampir@live.com.au

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  19. +5 I think forgiveness is important because when you do, you can move on.
    +3 Filled survey
    +2 Old follower
    +1 Tweet: http://twitter.com/Sparima/status/11256618741

    spav05(at)gmail(dot)com

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  20. Congrats on the 200 and many more to come.

    new follower

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  21. Excellent Contest! I would like to wish you many more followers in the future!

    +5 I was teased a lot in high school. I then met a friend that was nothing like me. We became really close but one day I was in Spanish class with him and my other classmates started teasing me because I was listening to classical music and I was tapping my fingers as if though I were playing it. My friend started joining along with them in the teasing. He claimed that when ever he's with the "guys" he starts acting like a jerk. I came out of that class upset. My other friend had him in a class and he gave her a note to give to me. He apologized, but I had a hard time forgiving him. I eventually did, and he didn't do it again.

    +3 Did the survey! (Completed the survey under the name and email provided bellow)

    +1 New Follower

    +1 Blog post http://sweetladyjess.blogspot.com/2010/03/spring-break-reads-and-contest.html

    +1 Side Bar Post http://sweetladyjess.blogspot.com/

    +1 Tweet!
    http://twitter.com/SweetLadyJess/status/11271074279

    Total extra entries: 12

    Thank you again!

    Jessica Tapia
    jessicatapia_afuel07@hotmail.com

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  22. Hey! Great contest and congrats on the 250 followers. My e-mail is talktojoelle@aol.com

    Let's see....
    +5 - Forgiveness is a funny thing especially when it involves family. My brother cheated on his wife and kids and left them. A few months laster, he went back to them. This was a huge wish of my fathers. Immediately after, my father went into the hospital where he spent his last months. My brother was supposed to come visit him on the night he died...but 'something' came up. Dad died that night and we couldn't get ahold of my brother. We found out days later that he was with his girlfriend...the same girlfriend he had come to the wake and funeral. Yeah...I was angry for a long time. Dad would have been horrified at his behavior. But I finally forgave my brother because Dad would have hated us fighting more. Yep...family is a funny thing.

    I retweeted the contest...but I don't need the extra point:) I just like doing it because you're so much fun to chat with on Twitter!

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  23. I would LOVE to win this!
    Thanks! :D:D:D
    2=I am a old follower

    -Lindsay

    lindsay15photo@gmail.com

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  24. I REALLY love that cover of Shift... and grr, I want some of that nail polish! So far I haven't had any luck in winning them so...maybe I'll get lucky with this contest ;)

    +5 Forgiveness is very important because if you hold on to a grudge you're not letting yourself get past the pain of the past. Even though it's reaaaally hard to forgive someone, sometimes you have to do it. Not for them but for yourself.
    +3 Filled out the survey!
    +2 Current followers
    +1 sidebar link (at www.piratepenguinreads.blogspot.com)

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  25. +3 I filled out the survey :)
    +5 There have been many times in my life were it has been difficult to forgive someone. But after working through it, prayer and good counsel from people I trust I am able to forgive.
    A recent example: My dad and stepmom recently divorced. This was very hard for everyone of course. I am still very close with my step-brother, his wife and their son. While visitng them, my now "ex" step-mom was very unkind toward me and my children. Before the divorce she loved my kids as her own geandbabies. She cared for my little girl when she was a newborn. But now she shuns them. I mean, it's one thing to not like me, because of my dad & her break up, but it's not okay to treat a 3 year old and less than 1 year old with hostility. So this made me very very sad. I was hurt and afraid to go back to visit my step-brother & his wife, even though they are always good and kind to me and my family. After a lot of prayer I decided to try to meet with my step mom to try to reconcile and bring peace. I did my best, but she was still unkind. I have forgiven her. I know she is hurting. And most of all, I know God has forgiven me. That's my little story on forgiveness. :)

    tessnowhite@gmail.com

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  26. Congrats on 200 followers!!

    +1 Follower

    Thanks for making it international!!! :)

    Bianca

    bianca.riot.08(@)hotmail.com

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  27. hollytaylor(AT)optusnet.com.au

    +1 new follower
    +1 Tweet: http://twitter.com/hollyy___x/status/11676732082

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  28. Great contest! I'd love to enter, thanks for having it! :)

    +2 Old Follower.

    Thanks again!
    Corrine
    lostforwords.cl at gmail dot com

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  29. bianca.riot.08(@)hotmail.com

    +2 Old follower
    +1 Tweeted
    http://twitter.com/bianca_riot/statuses/12100941730

    thanks!

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  30. Great contest!
    Email: beaniesama@NOSPAMgmail.com

    +1 I'm a follower via Google Reader ^^
    +2 I'm a current follower
    +1 I have posted a link on my sidebar on my blog, Magic Bean Review: http://magicbeanreview.wordpress.com

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  31. Forgiveness. All of the instances that were hard for me are way too personal to put out on the blogosphere, but I'll link you to the one I have put out there. http://www.twoweekstime.com/2010/02/warning-religious-struggle-talk-ahead.html I'm still working on forgiving these people. I'm trying. It's so stinking hard!

    +3 I filled out your survey.
    +2 Old Follower (may be RSS, I'm not sure)
    +1 Tweeted (I RT'd your tweet, with the RT button that you asked all of us to use once upon a time)

    xx, shesten at iheartmonster dotcom

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  32. Great giveaway! Please count me in =)

    +2 Current follower.

    +1 Tweeted
    http://twitter.com/Sheeredry/status/12823743237

    sheeer.dry@gmail.com

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  33. Congratulations on 283 followers Laina!! Soon it will be time for the 300 followers giveaway ;-) lol

    my e-mail is: stella.exlibris (at) gmail (dot) com

    +1 tweeted here: http://twitter.com/Stella_ExLibris/status/12878673297

    +3 completed the survey

    +5 When I was 14, my mom didn't allow me to go to a party because she deemed I wasn't invited properly (= in writing, or expressly by phone, she thought it wasn't good enough I've been told in person to come by). It was THE party of the year, and I resented her for quite long (but it also provided me with a reason to brood and listen to sappy songs in my darkened room :-) lol). It turned it the party was quite scandalous many people passed out in their own vomit, parents kept telling horror stories for some time what a shocking party it was. So at the end, maybe my mom's intuition wasn't bad ;-) So I forgave her quite soon after I heard all the debauchery that took place that night. (Though I wouldn't ahve drunmk myself unconscious if I would have gone)

    10 entries in total.

    Thank you! :-)

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