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March 31, 2012 | Saturday at 9:55 am | 0 Comments
The DABWAHA Final Four voting is on now!
From midnight to noon CDT, Courtney Milan's novella Unlocked is facing down Karen Marie Moning's Shadowfever. As of right this moment, it is terribly close. Like, every time I reload the page the tally changes - so this vote totally matters. Check your bracket, drive to various WiFI spots, and use your cell phone, folks. Every last vote will matter.
Then, at noon CDT, Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh wil face Julie James' A Lot Like Love. That race will also be close - so your vote counts today! Good luck and keep your brackets strong!
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March 21, 2012 | Wednesday at 1:41 pm | 1 Comments
Last day to sign up for the Second Chance Tournament - voting on the Sweet Sixteen begins tomorrow!
The voting schedule for the Sweet Sixteen is up on the DABWAHA site.
The competition is fierce, hilarious, and friendly. And the audiovisuals continue: Sarah Morgan's son whipped up this bit of adorable for A Night of Scandal ( A | BN | K | S ).
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March 19, 2012 | Monday at 8:41 pm | 8 Comments
First: the DABWAHA Second Chance Tournament is up! Bracket busted? You get a Second Chance! Starting with the Sweet 16, pick your winners - and there's prizes for this tourney, too!
This is a separate contest - your picks in this tourney don't override your picks in the main tourney, in other words. The winner of the 2nd Chance Bracket will receive a Kindle Fire, a $100 Amazon giftcard, and an ARC of Echoes at Dawn, book 5 in the KGI series from author Maya Banks.
2nd place in the 2nd chance will receive a $50 gift card to either Amazon or B&N from Sarah Frantz and Eric Selinger, who are celebrating the publication of their academic collection of essays titled New Approaches in Popular Romance Fiction.
Have a look at the prizes page for more information on what's going to be awarded with each round. And, yes, there is absolutely a "Wooden Spoon" prize for the worst bracket overall, so if your bracket is hopelessly broken, aim low and vote against yourself to try to score that prize.
The second chance…
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March 14, 2012 | Wednesday at 1:13 pm | 14 Comments
The Round 1 Voting schedule has been posted, and voting will be intense for the next two days. The polls stay up for 12 hours each, and the trash talking and vote mongering has already begun. Then, just after the dust settles - Round 2!
Darlene Marshall and Susanna Kearsley's elderly dogs have been trashtalking one another, and they're not up against each other (yet?). Kearsley is not messing around, either: her Twitter avatar is her dog's "Gaze of Hope," and her teenagers not-quite-teenagers helped her book make a video for the DABWHAHA as well:
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March 11, 2012 | Sunday at 9:49 am | 10 Comments
It's Selection Sunday for the DABWAHA!
First, the reader finalists, those voted in by, well, readers, are:
YA: Falling Under by Gwen Hayes Contemporary: If You Hear Her by Shiloh Walker (Bro Magnet by Lauren Baratz Logsted was a close second) Historical: A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal by Meredith Duran GLBT: Hot Head by Damon Suede Category: A Man of His Word by Sarah Anderson Novella: Once Upon a Winter’s Eve by Tessa Dare (edged out Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews by one vote) Crossover: Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning PNR/UF: Radiant Desire by Inara Scott
And now: It's bracket time! There are instructions on how to fill out your bracket online at the DABWAHA site. Please only fill out one bracket. If your bracket is totally shot to hell after the first round, don't worry. We have a Second Chance bracket with a whole selection of really awesome prizes. ETA: And there is also a store online where you can go shopping for the books you haven't read yet, put together by our intrepid intern, Lauren. The store revenues earned go to…
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March 07, 2012 | Wednesday at 12:31 am | 4 Comments
The nomination slate is ready and seven out of eight books have been listed at the DABWAHA site. Why is one missing? Because it's time for you to nominate the book you think should be included that isn't listed right now.
Which book were we insane to leave off? Fire up your browser and head on over to fill out the form to enter your nominations.
A few words of caution: please make sure that the book is published in 2011 - but not late December 2011. Anything published the last week of December 2011 is counted as a 2012 book (we had a mighty discussion about it on our last podcast).
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March 21, 2011 | Monday at 3:18 am | 2 Comments
Ahoy! Is your DABWAHA bracket shot to smithereens? Did you bank on the romance novel equivalent of the University of Pittsburgh and are now in 1156th place? Fear not - Pitt’s going home (ouch) but you get a 2nd chance! It is 2nd Chance Tourney time in Dabwaha-land! Simple as pie (mmm. pie).
What Do I Do?
Step one: Cut a hole in a box. Ha. Kidding!
Step one: Fill out your 2nd Chance tournament bracket - note, fewer choices, more agony!
Step two: hit submit!
How Does it Work?
Same as the regular DABWAHA tournament does: voting for the DABWAHA counts for both tournaments. (But you knew that!)
When is the Deadline?
Deadline to submit your 2nd Chance bracket is 8pm CDT, 23 March 2010.
What Do I Win?
Prizes? Of course there are prizes!
The winner of the 2nd Chance Tourney wins a Kobo reader in the winner’s choice of color, PLUS a $50 gift card to the Kobo ebookstore. Thank you to Kobo for the awesome prize donation!
But wait, there’s more! The absolute worst 2nd Chance bracket wins a iPod Touch, 3rd generation (i.e.…
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March 15, 2011 | Tuesday at 10:49 am | 53 Comments
I had a request for the runners up in the reader nominations for the DABWAHA, so here are the top ten books, with the finalist and the nine runners up as nominated by readers in each category. An asterisk denotes a tie.
YA
1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Finalist) 2. Matched by Ally Condie 3. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater 4. The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong 5. The Duff by Kody Keplinger 6. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly 7. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa 8. The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa 9. Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George 10*. Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead 10*. Forget You by Jennifer Echols
Series
1. Her Best Friend by Sarah Mayberry (Finalist) 2. A Little Consequence by Amy Knupp 3. Marrying the Royal Marine by Carla Kelly 4. LA Cinderella by Amanda Berry 5. The Admiral’s Penniless Bride by Carla Kelly 7. The Vampire’s Kiss by Vivi Anna 7*. America’s Star-Crossed Sweethearts by Jackie Braun 7*. His Virgin Acquisition by Maisey Yates 7*. Poisoned Kisses by Stephanie Draven 7*. A Bride for Jericho Bravo by Christine Rimmer
PNR/SF
1. Magic Bleeds by…
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March 14, 2011 | Monday at 3:24 pm | 18 Comments
It’s time to fill out your brackets for the 2010 DABWAHA tournament of books. If you’re not familiar with it, the DABWAHA is a bracket-style tournament that echoes the NCAA basketball tourney, only instead of college basketball, we’re using reader votes to determine the book of the year. I’ve got a lot of DABWAHA news, in convenient bullet-list format.
The reader nominations are in - and each category is now complete with 8 nominees, one in each picked by readers! I am going to post the top 10 reader nominations in each category - because you need more books to read, right? Right. The complete list of nominees is online, too, in one easy-to-read list. The grand prize for the reader with the winning bracket this year? A 16 g white Wifi iPad! Woo hoo! In previous years, we’ve given away a spa gift certificate for the winning author whose book is proclaimed Book of the Year - this year, we figured authors like iPads, too, so the winning author will also get a 16g white Wifi iPad, as well. Woo hoo x2! Enough prize news, how do we…
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February 18, 2011 | Friday at 5:19 pm | 9 Comments
First, if you haven’t subscribed to The TBR newsletter, you missed our first issue on 14 February.
We’re setting up the next one with more micro-reviews, international readers, and DABWAHA news, so if you’d like to subscribe, you can absolutely join in the fun. We will absolutely not spam you and our goal is to send out only two newsletters per month. I like my newsletters how I like my men: short and intelligently informative.
In the last issue was The Magic DABWAHA Form: this year we’re having readers choose one book per category. Want to nominate your favorite book? The entry form for nominations is online. Please note the following rules for data collection purposes: the book nominated can be digital or print, but please, wherever possible, use the ISBN number for the PRINT edition to minimize duplicate entries. The book MUST have a publication date of 2010. No exceptions, no reprints.
We’re still working on building everything for the 2011 DABWAHA, but if you’re curious, have a look at some of the prizes already offered for this year. Thank you much-and-a-lot to our prize sponsors!
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April 08, 2010 | Thursday at 7:00 am | 3 Comments
Congratulations to Larissa Ione, whose book Ecstasy Unveiled won the 2010 DABWAHA! Larissa will receive a $200 gift certificate from Jane and Sarah for a spa near her home - all the better to relax after all that vote mania!
And big congratulations to the bracket winners!
To bracket champion Pamela Sinclair: an Apple iPad and a $100 GC for ebooks to fill up the new ebook reader from AllRomance eBooks and OmniLit. WOO HOO!
And to the worst bracket: TT Thomas wins for finishing in 845th place, and will receive a selection of books from the Oddshots bloggers, Meljean Brook, Patrice Michelle, Jill Myles, Ilona Andrews and Nalini Singh.
In the Second Chance Tourney, we have prizes to award as well!
Manda Collins wins an Amazon Kindle courtesy of Samhain Publishing.
Tegan Schwartz wins a prize package for being a randomly chosen non-winning bracketologst, and will receive from author Jennifer Estep a $50 Amazon gift card, a copy of Spider’s Bite and an e-ARC of Web of Lies - and bookmarks!
And finally, Larissa Ione offered a prize to one of the non-winning brackets who chose her book to…
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April 07, 2010 | Wednesday at 7:09 pm | 4 Comments
Did you vote? How could you not? Go on over and vote in the DABWAHA Championship Round!
Larissa Ione’s Ecstasy Unveiled is up against Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville - paranormal vs. male/male romance?! It does not get any more awesomer than that. So get it on until 10PM EDT when the polls closed and many, many winners are announced.
UPDATE!
Larissa Ione would like to add a prize to the buffet, and who are we to say no? One random person who predicted that Ecstasy Unveiled will win a Demonica tote bag with a mug and the first four books in the Ecstasy series, signed by Larissa. Why? “I think it’s so cool that anyone actually put Ecstasy Unveiled in their bracket to win (even I didn’t!) so I’d like to send one random person who predicted EU would win a prize.”
Have you voted yet? Go on! Vote!
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April 04, 2010 | Sunday at 1:22 pm | 1 Comments
Bang a gong, it is on: the Final Four voting is on now at the DABWAHA blog. Prizes and bragging rights are on the line. So head on over and vote - then trash talk like it’s all on the line, cause it is.
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April 04, 2010 | Sunday at 1:22 pm | 2 Comments
Bang a gong, it is on: the Final Four voting is on now at the DABWAHA blog. Prizes and bragging rights are on the line. So head on over and vote - then trash talk like it’s all on the line, cause it is.
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March 23, 2010 | Tuesday at 6:04 pm | 1 Comments
Round two of the 2010 DABWAHA is over - and our winner is Mary Kennedy. Congratulations, Mary! EMAIL ** Email me with your mailing address, please, and we’ll hook you up with your prize.
The prize? Oh yeah - it’s hot awesome.
The Round 2 prize is being provided by author Maya Banks (thanks Maya!) and includes a $50 GC to Amazon or BN (reader’s choice) and a book package that includes signed copies of Sweet Surrender, Sweet Persuasion and Sweet Seduction and an ARC of The Darkest Hour.
And don’t forget - if your bracket is shot to hell by all those pesky upsets and those Briggs vs. Briggs or Singh vs. Singh matchups, you can still compete for fun and awesome prizes in the Second Chance Tournament. The winning bracketeer is going to get a brand new Kindle from the fine folks at Samhain.
Jennifer Estep, author of the new Elemental Assassin series, is contributing a $50 Amazon gift card, a copy of Spider’s Bite and an e-ARC of Web of Lies? And matching bookmarks, of course. Because you can never…
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