In My Mailbox #14
Monster Slayers-Likas Ritter
The Makeover of James Orville Wickenbee by Anya Bateman-bought used
Bitten by Robert Smith- currently reading
Moon Bear by Brenda Guiberson and Ed Young- Sent by publisher for review
A LIttle Bit of Business
Congrats to @joaneej1982 who won the Keep Calm and Carry on necklace from Hoolala http://fireandicereads.com/2010/05/keep-calm-and-carry-on-necklace.html
@parajunkee who won our Etsy Shop Giveaway http://fireandicereads.com/2010/05/new-etsy-shop.html
and to Zannid and Confrosh who won the Tigerpixie Fantasy Art giveaway http://fireandicereads.com/2010/05/tigerpixie-fantasy-cat-art-giveaway.html.
Please email me your street address with the name of the contest in the tag line, (so it isn’t marked as spam) and we will send you out your prize. If we don’t hear from you within 48 hours a new winner will be re-drawn. Unfortunately, some of our ETSY sellers are reporting rude comments from winners and malicious tweeting. If there is a problem with your prize, or you don’t receive it, please contact us so we can correct the problem. You are getting a gift free from people who have contributed their time and talent so let’s all be mature about it. Those who made donations to Chile relief efforts, thank you! Last week I was able to send two more boxes which brings total boxes sent to relief victims to 42.
As giveaway prizes are shipping from all over the world, so please contact us when you receive your package. I have seen some STRANGE things happen with the mail! Speaking of which, I have sad news that our “Shadow Hills” ARC is missing in action…my personal book which I sent out was either lost or stolen en route, so we have to suspend the tour. I am so sad. The good news is that plenty of other books are still out there on tour being read and reviewed. Take good care of them which includes wrapping them in tissue or bubble wrap before shipping and delivery confirmation 🙂 Thanks to all of our blog readers and followers. ENJOY!
Forks Forest Bookmarks
Today’s ETSY giveaway is straight from Forks, Washington. A set of laminated bookmarks donated by Tena of The Forks Forest
Description
These bookmark were handmade from ferns, moss, and cedar that I gathered from the forest around Forks WA. – the true twilight forest. The small pebble in each bookmark was gathered at First Beach. The violets and pansy were gathered here in Forks WA
This is the perfect way to hold a small piece of the spirit of twilight between the pages of your favorite twilight book. Measures 2 inches by 8 inches and is laminated for strength.
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To Enter to win: leave your name and address below
Happy Book Birthday SEA!
Book Review-The Tension of Opposites
For those two long years, her best friend Tessa has waited, living her own life in a state of suspended animation. Because how can she allow herself to enjoy a normal high school life if Noelle can’t? How dare she have other friends, go to dances, date boys, without knowing what happened to the girl she thought she would share everything with?
And then one day, someone calls Noelle’s house. She’s alive.
A haunting psychological thriller taken straight from the headlines, The Tension of Opposites is a striking debut that explores the emotional aftermath of a kidnapping on the victim, and on the people she left behind.”
Email us if you are interested in reading and reviewing The Tension of Opposites as part of our ARC tour.
Yellow Vespa Photo Print
Today’s giveaway goes along with the passion for photography in the book “The Tension of Opposites.” Browsing photographers on ETSY I came across this fun colorful shop named Snapco…”i like taking pictures. i enjoy the simple beauty of ordinary objects, and capturing an interesting perspective of things that are “lost in plain sight.”
Yellow Vespa photo size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/8″ with polaroidy film border, 4 5/8 x 4 3/8″ without.
details: this original photograph is printed on professional, archival photographic paper with a matte finish. it will be sent in a cellophane sleeve and rigid mailer, for safe travels.
To Enter To Win: a photo print
leave your name and email address below
+1 for visiting and hearting one of her etsy shops
http://www.etsy.com/shop/SnapCo
+1 for tweeting @FireIcePhotos
+5 for blogging or facebooking this contest
+2 for becoming a fan on Fire and Ice on Facebook
+10 for each dollar donated to our Chile relief fund (see right sidebar)
Good Luck!! Contest ends July 9, 2010 and is open internationally
Happy Release Day Raised By Wolves
Eamil us if you are interested in joining the ARC tour. And check out all of our wolfy items in the Etsy shops!!
Contest Winners
Congrats to @DarkMotives who won the handstamped necklace http://fireandicereads.com/2010/05/stamped-necklace-giveaway-my-belle.html
Jessica Jones Brown who won a hardback copy of Cassandra Clare’s City of Glass
and @redabelle who won the Alice in Wonderland Teacup necklace http://fireandicereads.com/2010/05/todays-giveaway-goes-right-along-with.html
The following are unclaimed, so let me know… I will re-draw a winner in 48 hours 🙂
Sara at YA Vampire Books-handmade scarf by Chilean Boutique de Josefina http://fireandicereads.com/2010/04/la-boutique-de-josefina.html
Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass book: Anthy
Please email me your street address so we can send out your prize. And all contest winners, drop us a line when your prize gets there. With shipments coming and going from locations all over the world we want to make sure they arrive. Check out all of our international giveaways on the right sidebar! If blogger is stalled and won’t let you comment, email your entry to fireandice.heather@gmail.com.
We were able to ship two boxes of relief to Chile earthquake victims this week…YAY!!! Our goal is to ship out all of the ones we have waiting to go and we have had a request from cities Chiguayante and Talcahuano where people are STILL living in tents since the destruction left them homeless in March. It is winter over there so let’s get them some help. Donate via Paypal heatoddgardner@yahoo.com or purchase from our ETSY stores, HeatherZahnGardner and LittleRedReads where 50% of the proceeds go to Chile. Lots of new items are being added for SEA, 13 to Life and Raised by Wolves which releases today…Every dollar counts and thanks so much!
Mom’s Monday-Shannon Hale Series
Today’s Mom’s Monday book choice is a series by Utah author Shannon Hale. I first picked up The Goose Girl about a year ago at our local library and haven’t put down her writing ever since. The Books Of Bayern take us through the journey of peasant to princess and into the forest where the commoners of the kingdom live. They are full of fairy tale themes and laughs a plenty. Shannon Hale has a gift for spinning stories and has become one of my very favorite authors.
” Shannon’s mother says she was a storyteller from birth, jabbering endlessly in nonsensical baby-talk. Once she could speak, she made up stories and bribed younger siblings to perform them in mini-plays until, thankfully, an elementary school teacher introduced her to the wonder of written fiction. At age 10, she began to write books, mostly fantasy stories where she was the heroine.
She continued to write secretly for years while pursuing acting in television, stage, and improv comedy. After detours studying in Mexico, the UK, and a year and a half as a volunteer missionary in Paraguay, Shannon earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Utah. She was finally forced out of the writers’ closet when she received her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Montana.
The goose girl, her critically acclaimed first book, is an ALA Teens’ Top Ten and Josette Frank Award winner. enna burning, river secrets, and forest born continue the Books of Bayern series. princess academy is a Newbery Honor winner and a New York Times best seller. book of a thousand days received a Cybils award and is featured on several best of the year lists. austenland, a romantic comedy, was her first book for adults, followed by the actor and the housewife. She and her husband Dean co-wrote the graphic novels Rapunzel’s revenge, which was selected by Today’s Al Roker for Al’s Book Club for Kids, and cal
Calamity jack. ” Shannon makes her home near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, with her super-human husband, their young son and daughter, and their pet, a small plastic pig. -Taken from Shannon’s Website
To start off your reading we are giving away book number three in the Books of Bayern…
River Secrets
Razo–short, funny and not a great soldier–is sure it’s out of pity that his captain asks him to join an elite mission–escorting the ambassador into Tira, Bayern’s great enemy.
But when the Bayern arrive in the strange southern country, it’s Razo who discovers the first dead body. He’s the only Bayern able to befriend both the high and low born, people who can provide information about the ever-increasing murders. And he’s the one who must embrace his own talents in order to get the Bayern soldiers home again, alive.
Newbery–Honor winner Shannon Hale returns the reader to the intrigue and magic of Bayern, introduced in her critically acclaimed novels, The Goose Girl and Enna Burning. In River Secrets, readers revisit a world where even those with no special magical skills find in themselves something they never imagined.
To Enter to Win River Secrets: leave your name and email address below
Contest ends July 7, 2010 and is open internationally