Announcement: Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (June 22-26)

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The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop is an event taking place from Saturday June 22nd until (and including) Wednesday June 26th. If you’re a book blogger and you’d like to give away a book to your readers, maybe to show your appreciation or because you have a special celebration, this is your chance to join up with others.

Most giveaway blog hops seem to be directed towards young adult and romance audiences. Those hops are not so ideal if you want to give away more literary books.

This will be the eight Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (there are 3 per year). So far, it’s been a great success, with between 30 and 70 participating blogs every time. It’s time for the next one and I hope you’ll join in. More details:

This event is an opportunity to give away prizes and get more traffic to your blog. You will run your own giveaway (a blogpost on your own blog), but it will be linked up to all other participants via a links list. That way, not just your readers, but also the readers from the other participating blogs will stop by your blog.

You can offer one or more books, a gift voucher (for instance, to Amazon or Book Depository), or anything else related to books and reading. There is no minimum or maximum value that your prize should have.

The only restriction is that if you’re giving away a book, that it should have some literary merit. It does not have to be the most difficult classic ever, but please no romance, urban fiction or YA. Quality thrillers, poetry and non-fiction are fine, as are contemporary fiction, literary fiction and any other genres not in the categories above. If in doubt, please ask!

Further information on the prizes: a book can be new or “gently read”. Your giveaway can be just for your country, for your continent, or word-wide. Offering a book via bookdepository.com is a good way to make your giveaway world-wide (although not all countries are available) as it offers free postage.

Last day for signing up is June 19th. Only sign up if you intend to have a giveaway post up on your blog on June 22nd.

Copy the image to put the button on your blog (e.g., in your sidebar and/or in a blog post), so you can advertise the Blog Hop and attract more participants to make this a big event and/or tell your readers about the event coming up.

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I’ll add your blog to the list with links below once I’ve seen that you’ve filled out the form. You cannot add yourself to the linky list. Last signup day: June 19nd!!

Linky List:

Leeswammes

If you have questions, just ask in the comments, or email me at leeswammes at gmail dot com.

Winners of the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop

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The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop was a great success! Many, many people entered the various giveaways on over 40 blogs. Now it’s time to announce the winner of the giveaway on my own blog.

My giveaway was a copy of Waterline by Ross Raisin, freshly delivered from The Book Depository.

The winner is:

SOPHIA

Congratulations!!

I will contact the winner by email.

Thanks to everyone who took part in the giveaway, whether as an entrant, a participant in the blog hop, or both!

The next Literary Giveaway Blog Hop will be in June. If you want to be sure not to miss the announcement, subscribe to my blog. I may post a few interesting book reviews in the mean time, too!

The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop Starts Here!

This post is a sticky and will stay on top of the page while the Blog Hop is going on.

Scroll down for my newer posts.

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Welcome!

Welcome to the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop!

The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop is hosted by me, Leeswammes. Between now and Wednesday, February 13th, you can hop to 40 different book blogs, all offering one or more giveaways of books or bookish items. All books will be literary (non)fiction or something close to that. Follow the links at the bottom of this post to find the other participating blogs.

My Giveaway

As part of the blog hop I will be giving away Waterline by Ross Raisin, which is one of my favorite reads from last year. Check my review HERE. Entries are open worldwide where the Book Depository delivers.

In this book, Mick is a widower from Glasgow who moves to London to start a new life. But it’s not easy to get and keep a decent job and his life becomes quite desperate. Not a happy book, but very well written. A beautiful literary read.

For other entrants (non-Book Depository), I have a different book, The Reconstructionist by Nick Arvin. See my review HERE. Note that you cannot win this book if the Book Depository delivers to your country. If the winner is from a Bookdepository country, they will get Waterline and if you’re from another country you will receive my gently read copy of The Reconstructionist, which I will send out to you myself.

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To enter

To enter, please read the rules and then fill out the form below. 

The rules:

1. Anyone can enter. You do not need to have a blog.
2. You do not have to be a follower of my blog or become a follower, although if you like my blog I hope you will! You can follow by email or by RSS (see buttons in the side bar on the right).
3. There will be one winner.
4. You need a post-office recognised address where you can receive packages.
5. Fill out the form below. You can enter the giveaway until Wednesday February 13th. I will close the giveaway when I turn on my computer on February 14th (Netherlands time).
6. Note that double or invalid entries will be removed.
7. I will notify the winners by email. The winners need to answer my email within 3 days, or I’ll announce a new winner. I cannot be held responsible for lost packages.
8. That’s it! Good luck and thanks for playing.

Fill out the FORM HERE to enter.

The giveaway is now closed.

 

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Now start blog hopping!

For more giveaways (and there are some real treasures out there for grabs) check out these blogs.

Giveaways are worldwide, meaning people from most or all countries of the world can enter, unless mentioned otherwise.

Participating blogs:

Leeswammes The Book Garden Sam Still Reading Candle Beam Book Blog Ciska’s Book Chest Too Fond Alex in Leeds Under a Gray Sky Bibliosue The Book Club Blog Fingers & Prose Lori Howell Rikki’s Teleidoscope Girl vs Bookshelf Lizzy’s Literary Life (Europe) Booklover Book Reviews The Blog of Litwits Reading World (USA/Can) Seaside Book Nook Curiosity Killed the Bookworm The Book Diva’s Reads Breieninpeking (Europe) Giraffe Days Lucybird’s Book Blog Roof Beam Reader

The Relentless Reader Read in a Single Sitting My Diary (Malaysia) Heavenali The Misfortune of Knowing My Devotional Thoughts Nishita’s Rants and Raves Book Nympho Kaggsysbookishramblings Quixotic Magpie Lost Generation Reader BookBelle Under My Apple Tree (USA) Mondays with Mac Page Plucker

Announcement: Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (February 9-13)

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The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop is an event taking place from Saturday February 9th until (and including) Wednesday February 13th. If you’re a book blogger and you’d like to give away a book to your readers, maybe to show your appreciation or because you have a special celebration, this is your chance to join up with others.

Most giveaway blog hops seem to be directed towards young adult and romance audiences. Those hops are not so ideal if you want to give away more literary books (but if you’re interested, I Am A Reader Not A Writer runs frequent blog hops).

This will be the seventh Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (there are 3 per year). So far, it’s been a great success, with between 30 and 70 participating blogs every time. It’s time for the next one and I hope you’ll join in. More details:

This event is an opportunity to give away prizes and get more traffic to your blog. You will run your own giveaway, but it will be linked up to all other participants via a links list. That way, not just your readers, but also the readers from the other participating blogs will stop by your blog.

You can offer one or more books, a gift voucher (for instance, to amazon or bookdepository), or anything else related to books and reading. There is no minimum or maximum value that your prize should have.

The only restriction is that if you’re giving away a book, that it should have some literary merit. It does not have to be the most difficult classic ever, but please no romance, urban fiction or YA. Quality thrillers, poetry and non-fiction are fine, as are contemporary fiction, literary fiction and any other genres not in the categories above. If in doubt, please ask!

Further information on the prizes: a book can be new or “gently read”. Your giveaway can be just for your country, for your continent, or word-wide. Offering a book via bookdepository.com is a good way to make your giveaway world-wide (although not all countries are available) as it offers free postage.

Last day for signing up is February 6th. Only sign up if you intend to have a giveaway post up on your blog on February 9th. I will send you an email with more information and the full linky list on February 7th.

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Copy the image to put the button on your blog (e.g., in your sidebar and/or in a blog post), so you can advertise the Blog Hop and attract more participants to make this a big event and/or tell your readers about the event coming up.

——> Fill out this form <——

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I’ll add your blog to the list with links below once I’ve seen that you’ve filled out the form. You cannot add yourself to the linky list.  Last signup day: February 6th!!

Linky List:

Leeswammes The Book Garden Sam Still Reading Candle Beam Book Blog Ciska’s Book Chest Too Fond Alex in Leeds Under a Gray Sky Bibliosue The Book Club Blog Fingers & Prose Lori Howell Rikki’s Teleidoscope Girl vs Bookshelf Lizzy’s Literary Life (Europe) Booklover Book Reviews The Blog of Litwits Reading World (USA/Can) Seaside Book Nook Curiosity Killed the Bookworm The Book Diva’s Reads Breieninpeking (Europe) Giraffe Days Lucybird’s Book Blog Roof Beam Reader

The Relentless Reader Read in a Single Sitting My Diary (Malaysia) Heavenali The Misfortune of Knowing My Devotional Thoughts Nishita’s Rants and Raves Book Nympho Kaggsysbookishramblings Quixotic Magpie Lost Generation Reader BookBelle Under My Apple Tree (USA) Mondays with Mac Page Plucker

If you have questions, just ask in the comments, or email me at leeswammes at gmail dot com.

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Winners of the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop

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The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop was a great success! Many, many people entered the various giveaways on over 40 blogs. Now it’s time to announce the winners of the giveaways on my own blog.

There were three advance copies (ARCs) of The Death of Bees up for grabs. They were generously provided by the writer, Lisa O’Donnell, who will sign them too!

The winners are:

Daniel M.

Caitlin (The Siren’s Tale). She wrote: “I would love to try and win ‘The Death of Bees’. Even if I don’t win, this book is surely making its way on to my ‘to be read’ list!”

Kristia Miltiadou. She wrote: “Email subscriber. Thank you for the international giveaway!! “

Then we have one winner for the hardback copy of Mrs Queen Takes the Train, provided by Harper Publishers. The winner of this great book is:

LauraC

Congratulations to these four lucky people!!

I will contact the winners by email.

Thanks to everyone who took part in the giveaway, whether as an entrant, a participant in the blog hop, or both! Thanks also to Lisa O’Donnell for arranging the books and to Danielle at Harper.

The next Literary Giveaway Blog Hop will be in February. If you want to be sure not to miss the announcement, subscribe to my blog. I may post a few interesting book reviews in the mean time, too!

The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop Starts Here!

This post is a sticky and will stay on top of the page while the Blog Hop is going on.

Scroll down for my newer posts.

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Welcome!

Welcome to the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop!

The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop is hosted by me, Leeswammes. Between now and Wednesday, October 31st, you can hop to 50 different book blogs, all offering one or more giveaways of books or bookish items. All books will be literary (non)fiction or something close to that. Follow the links at the bottom of this post to find the other participating blogs.

My Giveaways (4 winners)

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Giveaway 1 – The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell (world-wide)

You can win one of three advance copies (ARCs) of The Death of Bees. They are generously offered to world-wide entrants by the writer, Lisa O’Donnell, who will sign them too!

Lisa O’Donnell is from the UK and The Death of Bees is her first book. It’s already out in the UK, and will be published in the USA in January by Harper. And it’s going to be in the Barnes & Noble Spring 2013 Discover Great New Writers Program!

So, this is your chance to get an advance copy of the book before everybody is reading it. 

I loved reading this book and my review is HERE.

Description:

“Hazlehurst housing estate, Glasgow, Christmas Eve 2010. Fifteen-year-old Marnie and her little sister Nelly have just finished burying their parents in the back garden. Only Marnie and Nelly know how they got there. Lennie, the old guy next door, has taken a sudden interest in his two young neighbours and is keeping a close eye on them. He soon realises that the girls are all alone, and need his help — or does he need theirs?

As the year ends and another begins, the sisters’ friends, their neighbours, and the authorities — not to mention the local drug dealer, who’s been sniffing around for their father — gradually start to ask questions. And as one lie leads to another, darker secrets about Marnie’s family come to light, making things even more complicated.”

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Giveaway 2 – Mrs Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn (USA only)

I’m very pleased that Harper publishers are sponsoring the giveaway of a hardback copy of Mrs Queen Takes the Train! This is such a fun book. My review is HERE.

This is William Kuhn’s first novel, although he has written several other non-fiction books, biographies.

Description:

“After decades of service and years of watching her family’s troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain’s Queen is beginning to feel her age. She needs some proper cheering up. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories—the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh.

Hidden beneath a skull-emblazoned hoodie, the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace into the freedom of a rainy London day and heads for King’s Cross to catch a train to Scotland. But a characterful cast of royal attendants has discovered her missing. In uneasy alliance a lady-in-waiting, a butler, an equerry, a girl from the stables, a dresser, and a clerk from the shop that supplies Her Majesty’s cheese set out to find her and bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal.”

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To enter

To enter, please read the rules and then fill in the form below. 

The rules:

1. Anyone can enter. You do not need to have a blog.
2. You do not have to be a follower of my blog or become a follower, although if you like my blog I hope you will! You can follow by email or by RSS (see buttons in the side bar on the right).
3. There will be four winners. Three will each receive a signed ARC of The Death of Bees (world-wide entrants), one will win a copy of Mrs Queen Takes the Train (US entrant).
4. You need a post-office recognised address where you can receive packages.
5. Fill out the form below. You can enter the giveaway until Wednesday October 31st. I will close the giveaway when I turn on my computer on November 1st (Netherlands time).
6. Note that double or invalid entries will be removed.
7. I will notify the winners by email. The winners need to answer my email within 3 days, or I’ll announce a new winner. Neither the sponsors or me can be held responsible for lost packages.
8. That’s it! Good luck and thanks for playing.

Fill out the FORM HERE to enter.

The giveaway is now closed.

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Now start blog hopping!

For more giveaways (and there are some real treasures out there for grabs) check out these blogs.

Giveaways are worldwide, meaning people from most or all countries of the world can enter, unless mentioned otherwise.

Participating blogs:

Leeswammes Read in a Single Sitting Ephemeral Digest My Devotional Thoughts Devouring Texts Tony’s Reading List Nishita’s Rants and Raves Too Fond The Parrish Lantern Kristi Loves Books The Book Club Blog Sam Still Reading Silver’s Reviews (USA) Bibliosue Heavenali Under My Apple Tree Misfortune of Knowing Lena Sledge’s Blog Lost Generation Reader Seaside Book Nook The Relentless Reader Rikki’s Teleidoscope Monique Morgan That READioactive Book Blog kaggsysbookisahramblings Ragdoll Books Blog Kate’s Library The Book Garden Uniflame Creates Curiosity Killed The Bookworm

Ciska’s Book Chest The Book Divas Reads Alex in Leeds Simple Clockwork Bluestalking Fresh Ink Books Sweeping Me Giraffe Days Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book (USA) Books Thoughts Adventures emmalikestoread Colorimetry Page Plucker Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity 2606 Books and Counting Book Nympho She-Wolf Reads The Little Reader Library (Europe) Booklover Book Reviews Dolce Bellezza

Announcement: Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (October 27-31)

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THE Giveaway Blog Hop has STARTED

To win books, go HERE

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The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop is an event taking place from Saturday October 27th until (and including) Wednesday October 31st. If you’re a book blogger and you’d like to give away a book to your readers, maybe to show your appreciation or because you have a special celebration, this is your chance to join up with others.

Most giveaway blog hops seem to be directed towards young adult and romance audiences. Those hops are not so ideal if you want to give away more literary books (but if you’re interested, I Am A Reader Not A Writer runs frequent blog hops).

This will be the sixth Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (there are 3 per year). So far, it’s been a great success, with between 30 and 70 participating blogs every time. It’s time for the next one and I hope you’ll join in. More details:

This event is an opportunity to give away prizes and get more traffic to your blog. You will run your own giveaway, but it will be linked up to all other participants via a links list. That way, not just your readers, but also the readers from the other participating blogs will stop by your blog.

You can offer one or more books, a gift voucher (for instance, to amazon or bookdepository), or anything else related to books and reading. There is no minimum or maximum value that your prize should have.

The only restriction is that if you’re giving away a book, that it should have some literary merit. It does not have to be the most difficult classic ever, but please no romance, urban fiction or YA. Quality thrillers, poetry and non-fiction are fine, as are contemporary fiction, literary fiction and any other genres not in the categories above. If in doubt, please ask!

Further information on the prizes: a book can be new or “gently read”. Your giveaway can be just for your country, for your continent, or word-wide. Offering a book via bookdepository.com is a good way to make your giveaway world-wide (although not all countries are available) as it offers free postage.

Last day for signing up is October 24th. Only sign up if you intend to have a giveaway post up on your blog on October 27th. I will send you an email with more information and the full linky list on October 25th.

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THE Giveaway Blog Hop has STARTED

To win books, go HERE

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Copy the image to put the button on your blog (e.g., in your sidebar and/or in a blog post), so you can advertise the Blog Hop and attract more participants to make this a big event and/or tell your readers about the event coming up.

——> Fill out this form <——

It’s too late to sign up… officially. But, if you really, really

want to join in after all, just email me!

leeswammes at gmail dot com

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THE Giveaway Blog Hop has STARTED

To win books, go HERE

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I”ll add your blog to the list with links below once I’ve seen that you’ve filled out the form. You cannot add yourself to the linky list.  Last signup day: October 24th!!

Linky List:

Leeswammes Read in a Single Sitting Ephemeral Digest My Devotional Thoughts Devouring Texts Tony’s Reading List Nishita’s Rants and Raves Too Fond The Parrish Lantern Kristi Loves Books The Book Club Blog Sam Still Reading Silver’s Reviews (USA) Bibliosue Heavenali Under My Apple Tree Misfortune of Knowing (North America) Lena Sledge’s Blog Lost Generation Reader Seaside Book Nook The Relentless Reader Rikki’s Teleidoscope Monique Morgan That READioactive Book Blog kaggsysbookisahramblings Ragdoll Books Blog Kate’s Library The Book Garden Uniflame Creates Curiosity Killed The Bookworm

Ciska’s Book Chest The Book Divas Reads Alex in Leeds Simple Clockwork Bluestalking (USA) Fresh Ink Books Sweeping Me Giraffe Days Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book (USA) Books Thoughts Adventures (USA) emmalikestoread Colorimetry Page Plucker Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity 2606 Books and Counting Book Nympho She-Wolf Reads The Little Reader Library (Europe) Booklover Book Reviews Dolce Bellezza

If you have questions, just ask in the comments, or email me at leeswammes at gmail dot com.

 

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THE Giveaway Blog Hop has STARTED

To win books, go HERE

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