Winner Announcement and More Awards

“The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always.” –Cory Doctorow

These months sure roll by quickly. It seems only a few days ago I was announcing the August contest and now it’s time to announce the winner. Since my grandson, Sebastian, did such an excellent job of choosing a winning entry last month, I called on his services again. This time he insisted his rubber lizard help him. I am proud to announce that the lucky winner of a signed copy of The Ride is Michelle Miller from The Book Addict blog for a comment left on August 10th. Congratulations, Michelle!

Shortly before last week’s vacation, Helen Ginger awarded me The B-I-N-G-O Beautiful Blog Award. What a pleasant surprise to read her post and discover my name and blog by the O for “Outstanding.” Thanks, Helen. Be sure to stop by her blog, Straight from Hel, for valuable advice and information on writing and publishing.

I find passing along these awards is getting harder to do because many of the sites I visit already have won every award imaginable. So I’ll repeat my caveat from a previous blog: I’m naming recipients, but I will leave it up to them on whether or not they choose to pass it on. If I’ve named someone who has already received the award, well…give yourself a pat on the back, you obviously deserve it.

B: Beautiful: Patricia of Patricia Stoltey's Blog

I: Informative: Kelly of Author Kelly Moran Blog

N: Neighborly: Morgan of Double M's take on books, blogs, dogs, networking and life

G: Gorgeous: Julie of Julie Lomoe's Musings Mysterioso

O: Outstanding: Gretchen Rubin of the Happiness Project

Shortly upon returning from my trip, I received The Honest Scrap Award from Carol Kilgore of the Under the Tiki Hut blog. Thank you, Carol.

The following is a quote from Carol’s blog: “The award rules are simple - pass the award to seven worthy bloggers who post from the heart, and list ten honest things about yourself.”

Trying to think of ten things about myself that wouldn’t put a reader to sleep is not as easy as it sounds. I decided you were all busy people and could probably use a quick snooze so here goes.

1. I love being a grandmother
2. I find it impossible to keep my writing space tidy
3. I’m an introvert
4. I love movie theater popcorn
5. Though I am about as flexible as a steel rod, I enjoy going to Yoga classes
6. My favorite wine comes out of a box
7. Creepy crawly things terrify me
8. I dislike onions
9. I don’t go often, but I do enjoy kayaking
10. Making lists like this and passing on awards drives me a just little bit crazy

Whew! I did it. Now here are the seven bloggers I've chosen to pass this award to.

Yvonne Walus: A novelist speaks on books, the universe and everything

Cindy: Cindy’s Love of Books

J. Kaye: J. Kaye’s Book Blog

Christina: Christina Rodriguez

Ann Parker: Silver Rush Mysteries

Joanne: Whole Latte Life

K.A. Laity: Wombat’s World

I hope you enjoy visiting these blogs.

Thanks for stopping by.


Tags: Doctorow, Bingo Award, Honest Scrap Award, The Ride, contest winner,

The Ride is Released!

“Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.” – Winston Churchill

My monster has been flung! I received word from Robert Gelinas at ArcheBooks yesterday (August 21) that The Ride has officially been released. I am giddy with excitement and at a loss for words—not a good thing for a writer.

I’ve been told it will take about two weeks for The Ride to appear on Amazon and other bookselling sites and another week after that to make the distribution lists for the brick and mortar stores . However, it is available immediately at a 25% discount from ArcheBooks, http://archebooks.com/.

I am grateful to all of you who entered and offered your encouragement in my Guess the Publication Date I and II contests. The second contest had entries ranging from July 27 through December 16. The grand prizewinner with her August 2, 2008, entry is Mary Beth Hewitt! Thanks Mary Beth for entering the contest. I appreciate your support.

Hopefully, by this time next week I’ll have come back down to earth and will be able to think and write in cohesive sentences.

Thanks for stopping by.

Jane Kennedy Sutton
Author of The Ride
janekennedysutton@gmail.com
http://www.authorsden.com/janesutton

Tags: The Ride, Archebooks, contest, Churchill

Contest Winner and New Contest Announcement

It has been so long since my “Guess the Publication Date Contest” for The Ride that you may have forgotten all about it, but I haven’t. The entries ranged from January 14, 2008 to July 18, 2008.

Although The Ride is not yet ready for release, I am happy to announce the winner. Imagine a drum Roll here…Congratulations Karen Benson!

Karen submitted the entry with a date of July 18th and that is the latest date of all entries received. Therefore, regardless when the book comes out, Karen has the closest guess. So Karen, as soon as I receive the book, I will sign a copy and mail it to you.

A heart-felt thank-you to all of you who entered the contest. I believed The Ride would be available no later than the first quarter of the year. I know many of you were influenced by my optimistic view. My apologies.

For that reason and because I had so much fun receiving your entries, I am holding a “Guess the Publication Date Contest, II.”

The rules are the same. The person coming closest to the actual release day (month, day, year) will be the winner. You can enter by leaving your guess as a comment after this or any of my blogs between today and the end of the month (July 31), which is the last date I will accept entries. Or, if you are not comfortable leaving a comment, simply e-mail me at janekennedysutton@gmail.com. One entry per person, please.

Hurry, get your entries in quickly. Remember to include day, month and year. I also need a way to contact you should you have the winning entry, so please include your address, phone or a valid e-mail address.

Feel free to pass along http://janekennedysutton.blogspot.com/ to your friends and family to let them know about the contest. The more entries, the merrier.

Again, thanks for your support all these months. I appreciate all your encouragement.

I hope I can announce another winner sooner rather than later.

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to receiving your entries.

Jane Kennedy Sutton
Author of The Ride (to be released by ArcheBooks Publishing)
janekennedysutton@gmail.com
http://janekennedysutton.googlepages.com/
http://www.authorsden.com/janesutton


Tags: The Ride, Archebooks, contest, H. Spencer