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March 31, 2012 | Saturday | 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 | 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 | 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…
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March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | 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 | 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…
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March 07, 2012 | Wednesday | 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…
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March 21, 2011 | Monday | 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…
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March 15, 2011 | Tuesday | 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…
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March 14, 2011 | Monday | 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…
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February 18, 2011 | Friday | 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?…
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February 03, 2011 | Thursday | 14 Comments
Last year, Jane from DearAuthor and I formed The TBR, where we aim to build your To-Be-Read list one good book at a time. The TBR administers the Save the Contemporary campaign, an iPhone app, as well as the DABWABA, our tournament with an improbable name, better known as the March Madness Tournament of Romance Novels. Now, we’re joining to write a newsletter that will contain book news, mini reviews, alerts about upcoming contests (such as that fabulous DABWAHA, which we’re putting together now), and information that would be of interest to you as a romance reader. Want to sign…
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May 05, 2010 | Wednesday | 40 Comments
Hooray, it’s here! The TBR, an iPhone app for the romance reader looking for the latest reviews, content, and free romance reads. The app is a first for romance readers and romance bloggers, and is a joint venture of Smart Bitches Trashy Books and Dear Author. The app features the most recent reviews from both sites, as well as a feed of the full content. Best of all, it includes free reads from some of the best writers in romance fiction. We’ll be kicking off our free reads section with a full length Harlequin novel from Jill Shalvis, which we’ll…
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April 08, 2010 | Thursday | 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…
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April 07, 2010 | Wednesday | 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…
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April 04, 2010 | Sunday | 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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