Hurray for Prizes!

Today is my day to host my friend Tristi's month long giveaway. So.... hop over to her blog and find out how to enter to win mucho prizes compliments of me! Translation: win my Primary books (yes, all 9of them).

Later in the month you'll have a chance to win my novels. Remember, you can read the first to chapters of the two novels here.

http://alisonpalmer.blogspot.com/2010/11/price-of-gold-first-chapter.html
http://alisonpalmer.blogspot.com/2010/11/prodigal-son-first-chapter.html

Good luck!

Merry Month of Miracles

My dear friend Tristi Pinkston is beginning a wild "Merry Month of Miracles" on December 1st. You definitly need to go check out the rules on her blog because there is prize awesomeness happening every single day in December.
Seriously.

Awesome
Prizes
Every
Day

This is one you need to get in on. Plus, little ol' me will be sponsering the prizes on December 11th, so don't miss that day for sure. Ah-hem. :)

And the Winner Is. . .

Okay, that was seriously fun. Note to self: book giveaways are extremely good for my ego. I’ve never felt so popular! :)

On to the winner of Under a Lakota Moon by Deborah L. Weikel:

Marcia Mickelson

Yippee!

Hurray!

And to those of you who didn’t win: take it up with my 8yo. But I’m warning you, he bites when provoked. His brother has the scars to prove it.

Just remember, I’m participating in three different blog tours in September that all come with nice book giveaways. Stop by and leave a comment here to be entered in the drawings. Stop by multiple review/interview stops on the blog route and be entered additional times for every comment you leave.

September 2: Illuminations of the Heart by Joyce DiPastena

September 4: The Route by Gail Sears

September 11 and 24: Saving Madeline by Rachel Ann Nunes

Check my sidebar or their blogs for details. ;)

Adding To My Reading List

My reading list is sort of like a sacred cow in my home. My husband has learned not to ask questions like "why do you want to read all those anyway?" or calculate for me that if I read a book every day I still couldn't get through the entire list in a year. He just sadly shakes his head when he sees me add another entry.

My list is almost always over 400 entries long. I search my libraries and book stores for the titles and generally keep a stack of 10-15 books by my bed at all times. There are probably 3 of those titles that I'm actively reading at the same time.

I jot down titles that interest me, authors I want to look into, and books that have been recommended to me by others. Yes, it's a long list but I'm always happy to add a few more notations because I love the written word in almost any form.

This past week I got to add a few more titles. I love LDS fiction; but, since I don't live in an area that has a huge amount of Latter-day Saints in it, I have to read these books much slower than I would like.

The Whitney Award Finalists have now been announced. I was happy to see how many I had already read and even more excited to read those that I hadn't.

Go check out the list and see where you stand. If you need to, start your own "to read" list. I promise these books are worth the effort.