The prize for the August Monthly Giveaway was left up to you guys! I gave you all the choice of five books and let you vote for which one you wanted to win. That meant that the winner of the giveaway will get the most popular book as their prize!
At the beginning it really looked like Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon was going to be the winner. Then Dying Bites by D. D. Barant took the lead! However the winner now, with the poll ending, is Cape Storm by Rachel Caine!!!!
So now we know the prize! We can pick a winner!
So the winner is...the subscriber with the email starting with -
vanillaglitter!!!
Congratulations!
Please contact me via email - Amberkatzes_book_blog at gmx dot eu within the next 7 days to claim your prize. Your claim will go quicker if you send me your address straight away.
I will pick a new winner if a prize isn't claimed. If you email me and don't get a reply within 48 hours please post on the blog letting me know. Some email gets eaten by my spam filter.
So the poll and contest have closed and it is time to pick some winners! Seeing as there were 110 votes there will be two winners picked. The first winner will win the book with the most votes and the second winner will win the book that came second in the poll.
So first lets see how many votes the books got!
5th place -
Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby 13% (14 votes)
4th Place -
Spell Games by T.A. Pratt 14% (15 votes)
3rd Place -
Ghost of a Chance by Kate Marsh 17% (19 votes)
2nd Place -
Surviving Demon Island by Jaci Burton 23% (25 votes)
1st Place -
Doomsday Can Wait by Lori Handeland 34% (37 votes)
So the two winners of the contest will be getting either Doomsday Can Wait by Lori Handeland, which was the winner of the poll! Or Surviving Demon Island by Jaci Burton which came in second.
So who won?
The randomiser has spoken and the winner of Doomsday Can Wait is -
Pam P
And the winner of Surviving Demon Island (which is actually signed by the author - Lucky winner!) is -
Chris J
All the winners should contact me via email - Amberkatzes_book_blog at gmx dot eu within the next 7 days to claim your prize. I will pick a new winner if the prize isn't claimed. If you email me and don't get a reply within 48 hours please post on the blog letting me know. Some email gets eaten by my spam filter.
Also I would like to say thank you to everyone who voted in the first poll here on Amberkatze's Book Blog! I think I will start adding a weekly poll to give you all something to have your say about ;)
For some reason this week I haven't got an author interview and contest for you all! Maybe it was my oversight or just because nobody sent their interview questions back? Who knows! However I decided that whatever the reason there is no need for you guys to go without. So there is a contest this week with a little bit of a difference.
To enter the contest you have to vote in the poll (in the sidebar ---> ) and comment letting me know which new release you are looking forward to at the moment. You can post more than one book if you can't decide but to have a valid entry you must mention at least one book you are looking forward to.
No New Release = No Entry.
When you vote in the poll choose carefully!!! The book that gets the most votes will be the prize!!! So if you do win you may end up with a book you didn't vote for!
Earn another entry for each place you link this contest on the net. Make sure you add links here for me to confirm your entries!
You can also earn extra entries by emailing your friends about the contest. Just make sure you send a copy of your email or receipt to me at Amberkatzes_book_blog at gmx dot net.
If there are more than 100 votes (I have set the poll to allow one vote per person...and hope it works!) there will be a second winner who will win the book with the second highest vote. If there are more than 500 votes a third who will win the third highest voted book. So encourage your friends to come vote.
All three books have been read and reviewed on Amberkatze's Book Blog sometime over the last month. They are all registered on Bookcrossing.com. You do not need to be a Bookcrosser to enter the contest but please note that there will be an ID number inside the book. I don't expect anyone to sign up to Bookcrossing or journal the book to enter the contest. I register all my books.
The contest will stay open until Sunday 17th of May 2009 4pm CET and the winner will be picked by a randomizer. Entrants should check back to see if they have won. I do not hunt down winners and will pick new winners for any prizes not claimed within 7 days.
If you are claiming a prize, have emailed me and have not heard back before the 7 day limit is up then post a comment here on the blog. Your email may get sucked into my spam filter.
The prize for the August Monthly Giveaway was left up to you guys! I gave you all the choice of five books and let you vote for which one you wanted to win. That meant that the winner of the giveaway will get the most popular book as their prize!
