A Bloomsbury Bonanza

I love my contacts at Bloomsbury publishing. They truly are good to me. (Granted, they’re the only publishing contacts I have right now, so that probably influences my love of them…) They do have an interesting habit, though. I get my catalog, I send off my list of books, I get my ARCs. Then, periodically, I get bonus packages from them. Copies of the books in hardback form. Which is wonderful, except… I don’t want multiple copies of the same book kicking around, I don’t mind keeping the ARCs for future reading, and I can’t bear throwing said ARCs away.

Which means, I’m giving away three Bloomsbury books.

It’s Shannon, Dean and Nathan Hale. Do I need to say more? (I have… as have others…)

“Spunky, headstrong Violet Raines is happy with things just the way they are in her sleepy backwoods Florida town. She loves going to the fish fry with her best friend, Lottie, and collecting BrainFreeze cups with her good friend Eddie. She loves squeezing into the open trunk of the old cypress tree, looking for alligators in the river, and witnessing lighting storms on a warm summer day. But Violet’s world is turned upside down when Melissa moves to town from big city Detroit. All of a sudden Violet’s supposed to want to wear makeup, and watch soap operas, and play Truth or Dare! It’ll take the help of Violet’s friends, her Momma, a few run-ins with lightning, and maybe even Melissa, for Violet to realize that growing up doesn’t have to mean changing who you are.”

“Welcome to New Avalon, where everyone has a personal fairy. Though invisible to the naked eye, a personal fairy, like a specialized good luck charm, is vital to success. And in the case of the students at New Avalon Sports High, it might just determine whether you make the team, pass a class, or find that perfect outfit. But for 14-year-old Charlie, having a Parking Fairy is worse than having nothing at all—especially when the school bully carts her around like his own personal parking pass. Enter: The Plan. At first, teaming up with arch-enemy Fiorenza (who has an All-The-Boys-Like-You Fairy) seems like a great idea. But when Charlie unexpectedly gets her heart’s desire, it isn’t at all what she thought it would be like, and she’ll have resort to extraordinary measures to ditch her fairy. The question is: will Charlie herself survive the fairy ditching experiment? From the author of the acclaimed Magic or Madness trilogy, this is a delightful story of fairies, friendships, and figuring out how to make your own magic. “

All you have to do is leave a comment saying which book(s) you’d like to be in the drawing for before the end of the month — August 31st — at which point, I’ll have the girls do the honors. Good luck!!

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  26. Oooh! Please enter me in the drawing for Rapunzel’s Revenge and How to Ditch Your Fairy!!!! I’ve wanted to read Rapunzel’s Revenge since I found out that Shannon was making the book, but my bookstore doesn’t carry it :(.

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  47. Anonymous says:

    one?…one?…do i have to choose one??=[okok hmmm I pick ummmi pick How to ditch your fairy! that sounds like a really cute book. Enter me please!! oh, and thanks for the contest!Grace L

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