Thursday, June 17, 2010

Birthday Extravaganza Winners!

It's time to announce the winners! WOW! I had a TON of entries! Picking the winners was a lot of work this time because the Contest Winner Picker is down and Excel hates me. Boo! At the close of the contest I had 498 followers, which means that both the 400 and 450 follower bonus prizes were triggered. Anyway, here they are!


Grand Prize
My Fave Books of 2010 So Far

WINNER: TV AND BOOK ADDICT

2nd Reader's Prize
Choice of ANY pre-order from my wish list:

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
The Replacement by Brenna Yovannoff
Glimmerglass by Jenna Black
Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
Sister's Red by Jackson Pearce
Fixing Delilah Hannaford by Sarah Ockler

WINNER: MARIA GUAJARDO aka GABY

400 followers Prize
Choice of ONE of my Favorites of 2009

WINNER: ROBIN K

450 Follwers Prize
International Winner so Choice of ONE of my faves of 2009 or 2010

WINNER: LALE

Writers Grand Prize
Choice of:

A 30 page critique
Writing The Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Brown and Dave King

OR if you don't want a critique

Writing The Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Brown and Dave King
The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
Write or Die - Desktop Edition (works on both PC and Mac)

WINNER: HEATHER FEASEY

2nd Writer's Prize
The You Can Write A Novel Kit OR if you'd rather, 30 page critique
WINNER: I did not hear back from the first winner so the new winner isMELISSA (at I Swim For Oceans) SHANNON

Congrats to all the winners and thank you to everyone who entered and spread the word! It made my birthday that much more awesome this year!

Winners, I will email you, if I don't get a response by the end of the day Monday, June 24th, I will pick a new winner. If you don't hear from me, check your spam filter and/or email me at valeriekwrites at gmail dot com!

8 comments:

sRy_ said...

congrats to all winners!! :)

Gaby G said...

Yay!! I'm so excited!

Lale said...

Wow! Today was absolutely terrible, and then I got this in my inbox... I'm considerably more cheerful. :) Thank you!!

Unknown said...

Oh my gosh!! How exciting!!! Congrats to everyone :D I shall email you right now! Yay! Thanks! :D

Unknown said...

YAY! Thank you so much for hosting this. I can't wait :)

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Heather

Melissa said...

Congratulations to all the winners and happy birthday Valerie!

Shannon O'Donnell said...

Congrats to all of the lucky winners! It was a great contest, Valerie. :-)

Shannon O'Donnell said...

Yay! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! :-)