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January 20, 2011 | Thursday | 14 Comments
Carina Press executive editor Angela James was on The Marilyn Denis Show this morning, which is a live national broadcast in Canada. Live. Also, national. And LIVE TELEVISION. Wowser! I was trying to watch the live feed but couldn’t get it to work. But no worries: the clip of Angie’s appearance is up on the Marilyn.ca website already! Angie’s segment was all about digital reading devices, and how women romance readers are a driving force in the development of the digital reading market. She demonstrated the different devices, gave a brief overview of the differences between the Kindle, the Sony…
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December 07, 2010 | Tuesday | 3 Comments
Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah, time to award another prize! Thanks to the power of the Random Integer generator, the winner of the Sony Pocket and the case with the onboard light is… Carin who posted at 02:05 PM. Congratulations! Carin, please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing address and I’ll send out your prize! We’ve got two more days - books and digital reading ahoy until the end of Hanukkah. Then, it’ll be time to scrape the wax off the menorahs and put all the Hanukkah tchotchkes away until next year. Thanks for playing and good luck in the remaining…
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December 06, 2010 | Monday | 604 Comments
Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah, there’s a lot of family during Hanukkah, so maybe it’s time to go hide and read. To continue the festive merriment to celebrate reading, both paper and digital, I have a digital reader AND a case with a light - so you can hide in a closet and read. Not that I’ve ever done that, no. Not me! All you have to do to win is leave a comment, and I’ll select a winner each day. These contests are open to international winners, and I will do my best to ship this week, provided people send me…
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October 12, 2010 | Tuesday | 48 Comments
I think of the three Sony readers with the updated touch screens as the Lexus, the Mercedes, and the Hummer. The Lexus, or the Sony Pocket, is slender, trim, comes in pink and is luscious. The Hummer is the Daily and my gosh golly it’s huge. Built like a Zagat’s guide on steroids, with wireless and a touch screen interface and did I mention it’s huge? It’s like a reading sky scraper. The middle one, the Touch, I think of as the Mercedes. And I want to be clear here, the high-end car analogy, which I will absolutely beat into…
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August 19, 2010 | Thursday | 30 Comments
In my Simon & Schuster newsletter for August, there’s a contest for fans of author Kresley Cole to win two autographed books, and a phone call with Kresley to discuss her books. At first my inner 8 year old, who is very shy, got a major case of the tongue-tied EEEEPs and wondered how much of a complete cranking fool of myself I could be if on the phone with a favorite author. Then I thought, well, I’m very fortunate that I’ve been to three RWA signings and two RT signings and have walked up to many authors whose books…
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August 19, 2010 | Thursday | 6 Comments
Holy smoke. More than 500 people entered the giveaway for a Sony Pocket Reader, a case, and two free books. That’s a LOT of people. How can I pick just one? I can’t. I admit it. I can’t pick just one. So… I’ll pick two! I have a red demo model Sony Touch reader to give away as well for a second-place winner, thanks to the nice people at SONY USA. See what all that contest entry madness does to me? MADNESS I tell you. So, let’s pick us a winner! No, two winners! Random.org has chosen: First place: Georgina!…
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August 17, 2010 | Tuesday | 533 Comments
Sony contacted me about doing a giveaway in celebration of the premiere of Eat Pray Love, which hits theatres this week. A Sony Pocket! In sexy silver! With a leather case (that is really a beautiful shade of blue on the outside) and two download codes for both of Elizabeth Gilbert’s books! Woo hoo for digital reading devices! I know many of you are paper reading fanatics - which is absolutely awesome with sauce - but if you’re curious about trying digital reading but haven’t gathered all your pennies into one place to buy one, here’s a chance to win…
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June 29, 2010 | Tuesday | 28 Comments
First: Sony Pocket has a new bundle with case that made me ponder. For $169 you get a Sony Pocket with a special leather cover branded with “Eat Pray Love” and “a code for eBook downloads of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert.” Now, I am all for nice digital reader covers, though Elizabeth Gilbert’s book drove me up a wall and across the ceiling. I thought the paperback might have been retitled as “My Navel: Let Me Gaze At It.” So I don’t necessarily want to cover a Sony Pocket with a leather cover devoted to that…
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December 29, 2009 | Tuesday | 37 Comments
Yesterday I went to the mall to return a sweater and found myself fondling digital readers. It’s really quite risky to take me anywhere, I suppose. Me: Oooh. Sony Style store. Forgot this mall had one of those. Sony Style Store: Look! The Readers are right inside the door front and center. Come and feel the sleek power of my sexy Me: Ok! Sony Pocket: We’ve already been introduced. Me: Yup. Sony Touch: Hayadoin? Me: Good. Sony Daily Edition: Hey baby, wanna stroke my beard? Me: Oh, yes, I do. Me: Hmmm. Hmmmmmm. Sony Daily: Didja see the spiffy home…
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December 17, 2009 | Thursday | 20 Comments
BoB’s Hanukkah contest - wherein BooksonBoard is giving away a Cybook Opus, a book light, and a $25 gift certificate to BooksonBoard to whomever wrote the best book pitch that featured a character named Bob, a Jewish holiday, and a reference to BooksonBoard. By an overwhelming number of votes, and with the laughing confirmation of Kana at BooksonBoard, we announce that The Playgirl Shikseh’s Virgin Dreidel Boy, by Kathlyn, is the winner - Happy Hanukkah Kathlyn! Thank you to all who entered, and if you’d like to experience the virgin drediel boy joy again, her winning entry is reprinted below.…
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December 04, 2009 | Friday | 14 Comments
After reading through 1000+ entries at Words Move Me, I’ve developed an extensive reading wish list (dammit) and have picked the two winners for the Sony Pockets (yay!). Sony USA provided me with two, and without further ado, here are the winners: One Sony Pocket will go to SueSuex for this entry that summed up many, many romances in one scene. And the other will go to Shaina Maydel for an entry from Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces. Winners: please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your name and mailing address, and put Sony Pocket Winner in the subject line. Congratulations -…
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December 03, 2009 | Thursday | 3 Comments
You have until midnight tonight to enter the Words Move Me contest. Just sign in at WordsMoveMe.com, and enter a phrase or section from a book that has rocked your world (romance or not - doesn’t matter). I’ll pick two to win Sony Pocket Readers, and will mail them out as fast as I can get to the post office. Remember: to enter, you must tag your entry with SBTB (you have two other tags to use, though, so don’t worry) so I know how to find it. To have a look through the entries at the Sony site, check…
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November 30, 2009 | Monday | 28 Comments
Sony Style has a very cool page called Words Move Me, where users submit short passages from written works that they find memorable, moving, or personally important. They’ve come up with a rather neat promotion and have asked me to take part in helping spread the word about Words Move Me.
Oh look! A widget! Here are some examples:
So let’s get to celebrating the words that move us and have us a contest!
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