BIR2010 Special Winners

BIR2010 WINNERS

Remember how I mentioned I would award as a surprise those who commented on the BIR2010 giveaways. Well we went thru every posting and counted each and everyones comments.

We have 2 winners. They posted equal amounts of comments. I will send both winners some special swag as a Thank you for taking the time to leave us a comment. 

So now the winners are.......

• MannaB
• Ashley from Ashley's Bookshelf

Congrats and Thank you both for your wonderful comments. 

BIR2010: WINNERS

BIR2010 WINNERS

Hi everyone, Today has finally arrived where you will find out if you won one of the giveaways from BIR2010 on our blog. 

I will list in the order the post came out. We will not be contacting you thru email since when you entered you gave us your address. So this will be the only way to know if you won and on the Best I've Read Blog also. 

Congrats to all the winners! We hope you all enjoy your prizes and if you have time in your day Thank the Author and Publisher as well. 

Remember most of the giveaways will be shipped directly from the Publishers or Authors so expect your prizes sometime after the new year.

Once again Thank you to all who made this a very successful event. See you next year for BIR2011. 

1. Crescendo(1) - Jennifer Danford
2. Crescendo(2) - Khristine Delgado
3. Mockingbirds - Mandy Anderson
4. Sisters Red - Josie Baker
5. The Body Finder and swag - Terra Timmons
6. The Replacement - Amanda Sung
7. Demon's Covenant - Jennifer Shaw
8. The Lonely Hearts Club - Tammy Weisensel
9. Nightshade - Amy Terry
10. Pathfinder(1) - Lindsay Devine
11. Pathfinder(2) - Lexie Hogan
12. Extraordinary - Belle Decouverte
13. Leviathan & Behemoth - Lisa Faber
14. Before I Fall - Laura Kreitzer
15. Clockwork Angel(1) - Marie Kacerosky
16. Clockwork Angel(2) - Sophia Lee
17. The Familiars - Briana McNair
18. Dust City - Samantha Morrison
19. Tyger, Tyger - Barbu Maria Raluca
20. Shadow of the Sun - Marlene Breakfield
21. Heavenly - Asriani Purnama
22. Grace - Laura Henderson
23. Secondhand Charm - Melanie Lynch
24. Anna and the French Kiss - Mabel Delgado
25. Shadow Hills and poster - Alistar Monzon
26. Return to Paradise - Cynthia Garcia
27. The Exiled Queen - Megan Kyser
28. Dark Flame - Donna Smith
29. Once Upon a Full Moon - Patty Kalogeroudis
30. The Scorch Trials - Germaine Dulac
31. Immortal Beloved - Jessica Bravo
32. My Double Life - Minas Tineh
33. Deception - Cathie Veres
34. Matched - Danielle Bateman
35. Shade -  J.L. Jackson
36. Losing Faith - Maria Morales
37. Julie Kagawa Bookplate - Rhianna Walker
38. Firelight - Jenny Connor
39. Amy & Roger's Epic Detour(1) - Angela Loughery
40. Amy & Roger's Epic Detour(2) - Megan Laffoon
41. Character name for Lani Woodland's book - Lucia Yelania Velasco Gutierrez
42. Forgive my Fins - Rosa Shah
43. My Ridiculous Romantic Obsession - Andrea Newkirk
44. Personal Demons - Becky Boyer
45. Chapter book of Secrets and Shadows - Michelle Whitman
46. The Eternal Ones - Holly Hewett
47. Rot & Ruin - Mary Ann DeBorde (M.A.D.)

and there you have it folks. Let's here how happy you are??? 

CONGRATS to the WINNERS! 

BIR2010 Surprise

BIR2010

Here at Once Upon a Twilight we decided as a surprise that we will award the person who commented the most in all the BIR2010 post. So if you left us a comment in each giveaway, get ready for a little surprise in the mail very soon. If we have more than one winner we will count how many and if its less than 5 winners we will send all 5 goodies bags. If we happen to get more than 5 winners than we will pick 5 randomly and send them the goodies. We are just so grateful for all the wonderful comments you left during this event. Hope you all stick around. 

Now don't forget you still have until midnight tonight to enter each giveaway. Just CLICK HERE and it will take you to all the BIR2010 post on the blog. Also don't forget to enter the Grand Prize Giveaways on Best I've Read Blog. US Grand Prize or International Grand prize. 

Once again THANK YOU, GRACIAS, GRAZIE, OBRIGADO, MERCI and DANKE!

BIR2010 has come to a end

So we come to a end today of this Epic event. Best I've read was so much fun and crazy at the same time. Don't forget you have one last giveaway to enter and that is The Grand Prize on the Best I've Read Blog. 

We Thank all those who took the time to read all the special post and those who entered the giveaways here on Once Upon a Twilight. The biggest Thank you though goes to ALL the Authors and Publishers that contributed these wonderful prizes for our followers. You all made this Epic! 

Now to all those who have entered or still have to enter the giveaways. You will have until December 15th at Midnight to enter. Then on Monday December 20th we will announce all winners. Please note that the prizes will probably not arrived until next year sometime in January or later. Many of the prizes are being shipped directly from Author or Publisher and with The Holidays right around the corner you can understand. So if you have any concerns because you haven't received your prize wait till at least the beginning of February to contact us. 

So I hope everyone had a great time and will see everyone again next year! 

BIR2010: Secrets and Shadows Limited Edition Chapter Book Giveaway

BIR2010

Welcome back one last time to the BEST I'VE READ 2010! BIR2010 that ran from December 6th through December 14th. This will be a annual event and this year it was compromised of 9 blogs. Each day each blog had multiple post and giveaways happening each day. 

We end BIR2010 with a special giveaway. Shannon Delany is the Author of 13 to Life and Secrets and Shadows. We picked 13 to Life as part of The Best I've Read for this year. The Giveaway however is a special Limited Edition prologue plus 1st Chapter book signed by author of Secrets and Shadows. 

13 to Life
Author: Shannon Delany
Published by St. Martin's Griffin
Website: http://www.shannondelany.com/

Book Summary: (from Goodreads) Everything about Jessie Gillmansen’s life changed when her mother died. Now even her hometown of Junction is changing. Mysterious dark things are happening. All Jessie wants is to avoid more change. But showing a hot new guy around Junction High, she’s about to discover a whole new type of change. Pietr Rusakova is more than good looks and a fascinating accent—he’s a guy with a dangerous secret. And his very existence is sure to bring big trouble to Jessie’s small town. It seems change is the one thing Jessie can’t avoid…

Secrets and Shadows
Author: Shannon Delany
Published by St. Martin's Griffin
Website: http://www.shannondelany.com/
Release Date: February 15, 2011

Book Summary: (from author's website) The supernatural stakes are higher than ever now that more than just werewolves prowl the town of Junction--friendships will be formed, choices will be made and allies may become enemies...

Nothing's simple when you run with werewolves. Jess Gillmansen thinks she's seen it all but her eyes are about to be opened to even more danger and a reality far more paranormal than she's suspected.

To Enter:

• We loved for you to follow our blog
• Fill out the FORM
• Giveaway(s) is US only 
• We ask that you help spread the word of course
• Stop by all the blogs in this event. 

BIR2010: Rot & Ruin Giveaway

BIR2010

Welcome to back to the BEST I'VE READ 2010! BIR2010 will run from December 6th through December 14th. This will be a annual event and this year its compromised of 9 blogs. Each day each blog will have multiple post and giveaways happening each day until its over. Then on the last day there will also be a Grand Prize Giveaway on the BIR2010 Blog.

Are you ready for some more, well how about Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry giveaway.

Rot & Ruin
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Published by Simon & Schuster
Released: October 5, 2010
http://jonathanmaberry.com/

In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.

To Enter:

• We loved for you to follow our blog
• Fill out the FORM
• Giveaway is US only 
• We ask that you help spread the word of course
• Stop by all the blogs in this event. 

BIR2010: The Eternal Ones Giveaway

BIR2010

Welcome to back to the BEST I'VE READ 2010! BIR2010 will run from December 6th through December 14th. This will be a annual event and this year its compromised of 9 blogs. Each day each blog will have multiple post and giveaways happening each day until its over. Then on the last day there will also be a Grand Prize Giveaway on the BIR2010 Blog.

Here is another favorite of the year The Eternal One by Kirsten Miller. 

The Eternal Ones

Author: Kirsten Miller
Publisher: Razorbill/Penguin
Release: August 2010
http://www.theeternalones.com/
http://www.kikistrike.com/

Book Summary (from Penguin): Haven Moore can’t control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother’s house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was.
In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves, before all is lost and the cycle begins again.

To Enter:

• We loved for you to follow our blog
• Fill out the FORM
• Giveaway is US only 
• We ask that you help spread the word of course
• Stop by all the blogs in this event. 

BIR2010: Personal Demons Giveaway

BIR2010

Welcome to back to the BEST I'VE READ 2010! BIR2010 will run from December 6th through December 14th. This will be a annual event and this year its compromised of 9 blogs. Each day each blog will have multiple post and giveaways happening each day until its over. Then on the last day there will also be a Grand Prize Giveaway on the BIR2010 Blog.

Here we bring you a giveaway for Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers. 

Personal Demons
Author: Lisa Desrochers
Published by: Tor Teen
Lisa Desrochers' website: www.lisadesrochers.blogspot.com


Book summary (from goodreads.com): Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholic girl with a bit of a wicked streak. She's spent years keeping everyone at a distance—even her closest friends—and it seems her senior year will be more of the same...until Luc Cain enrolls in her class. No one knows where he came from, but Frannie can't seem to stay away from him. What she doesn't know is that Luc works in Acquisitions—for Hell—and she possesses a unique skill set that has the King of Hell tingling with anticipation. All Luc has to do is get her to sin, and he’s as tempting as they come. Frannie doesn’t stand a chance.

Unfortunately for Luc, Heaven has other plans, and the angel, Gabe, is going to do whatever it takes to make sure that Luc doesn’t get what he came for. And it isn't long before they find themselves fighting for more than just her soul.

But if Luc fails, there will be Hell to pay…for all of them.

To Enter:

• We loved for you to follow our blog
• Fill out the FORM
• Giveaway is US and Canada
• We ask that you help spread the word of course
• Stop by all the blogs in this event. 

BIR2010: Becca Wilhite Interview/Giveaway

BIR2010

Welcome to back to the BEST I'VE READ 2010! BIR2010 will run from December 6th through December 14th. This will be a annual event and this year its compromised of 9 blogs. Each day each blog will have multiple post and giveaways happening each day until its over. Then on the last day there will also be a Grand Prize Giveaway on the BIR2010 Blog.

We start the last day of BIR2010 with a interview from Becca Wilhite author of My Ridiculous Romantic Obsession. 

Once Upon: How would you describe My Ridculous Romantic Obesssions to someone who has not read your novel yet?

Becca: This is a shameless romantic comedy, heavy on the comedy. Sarah, our completely clueless heroine, tries to hide her penchant for reading trashy romance novels, but the voices in her head won't let her forget what a "real romance" is supposed to be. So when Ben comes on the scene, Sarah has a hard time fitting him (and herself) into her little fantasy world.

Once Upon: What are you reading now?

Becca: I just started "Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, and so far, it's excellent.

 Once Upon: Are there any authors (living or dead) that you would name as influences?

Becca: I think any writer takes away something from every book she's read. So there are loads of authors that have influenced me - even if it's so I say "I will NEVER write like that guy." But mostly, I love to soak up great writing and try to recreate my version of it. I love Miss Jane Austen, and I can't get enough of Pride and Prejudice. I read it at least once a year (and possibly keep an emergency copy in my purse). Also, I adore Sharon Creech. Plus, I may kneel at the feet of Kate DiCamillo, because she is so incredible diverse, and everything I've read by her is stunning.

Once Upon: What is the book that most influenced your life and why?

Becca: Wow. You ask hard questions. That is almost impossible to answer, because there are so many influential books. I'll pick one, though, because you asked so nicely. "Les Miserables" has made me look twice before I condemn anyone. It has made me rethink my distaste for flowery, Romanticism-style language. And it has one of my favorite lines ever: "They spoke in loud voices about everything, and in whispers about something else." (Also, spawning excellent musical theatre is a sure way for me to like you.)

Once Upon: Give us 3 good to know facts about you. Be creative.

Becca: 1. I don't think of myself as terribly creative. I am learning to rethink that mindset, but it's a hurdle for me. 2. I love butter. And ice cream. And white bread. And I'm a bit of a snob about all of it. 3. I love to teach, and the more school visits I do, the more I remember that I love kids - even other people's kids.

Once Upon: Who is your all time favorite fictional character?

Becca: If I could revert to the 12-year-old girl inside me, I'd be madly in love with the lemon-haired Rudy Steiner from Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief." (Oh, who am I kidding? I'm already a little in love with him, even without the time-travel.)

Thank you Becca for taking time out to awnser our questions.  

My Ridiculous Romantic Obsessions
Author: Becca Wilhite
Published by: Shadow Mountain
Website: http://www.beccawilhite.com/

Book summary: Sarah Howard's first year at the university is everything and nothing she expected especially when a very cute boy named Ben in her Art History class starts to show interest in her.

Sarah feels like she's an average, normal, everyday girl. So, when Ben (to whom she secretly refers as Adonis because she thinks he could be a Greek god) begins to take interest in her, Sarah is in denial. For one thing, last year she was deeply crushed and humiliated by Jesse James a guy who she thought liked her.

She's determined not to get burned again. But in her heart of hearts, what she really wants is a Jane Austen kind of romance. Ridiculous, right? That kind of romance doesn t exist anymore . . . or does it? Sarah is smart and fun to be around and even pretty, despite her Medusa-like red curls. She even plays the guitar. (So does Ben!) Yes, Sarah is everything Ben has wanted. He's crazy for her, but Sarah is just not getting it. She's playing hard to get, and if she s not careful, she s going to lose a real hot gentleman -- her 21st-century Mr. Darcy.

To Enter:

• We loved for you to follow our blog
• Fill out the FORM
• Giveaway is US/Canada 
• We ask that you help spread the word of course
• Stop by all the blogs in this event. 

BIR2010: Tera Lynn Childs - An Epic Story

BIR2010

Welcome to back to the BEST I'VE READ 2010! BIR2010 will run from December 6th through December 14th. This will be a annual event and this year its compromised of 9 blogs. Each day each blog will have multiple post and giveaways happening each day until its over. Then on the last day there will also be a Grand Prize Giveaway on the BIR2010 Blog.

Here is a Epic Story written by Tera Lynn Childs author of Forgive my Fins. 

An Epic Story

While I am thrilled to be included in the Epic Best of 2010 YA Event, at first I was a little nervous. When I hear the word "epic" the first thing that springs to mind are the great epic poems of the ancient world. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. Virgil's Aeneid. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Massive volumes that tell great heroic tales and journeys. That's a pretty intimidating group to be lumped in with. There is no way my books compare to Homer.

But then I fell back on my academic training and did a little research. I looked up the word in the dictionary (totally word geeky, I know). Turns out that, in addition to epic poetry, epic can also refer to something that is "beyond the usual or ordinary" and, well, I feel a lot more comfortable with that. Usual and ordinary are boring. I'd much rather go beyond that, into the realm of unusual and extraordinary. Mermaids are definitely unusual and extraordinary.

Then I read even further into the dictionary entry (feel free to shake your head in shame at the depths of my word geekery). Going back to the very roots of the word epic, coming from the Latin epicus, from the Greek epikos (I love anything Greek), from epos meaning word. Turns out, the huge and exciting and empowering word epic can trace is ancient roots back to the word for word. Epic means words. That intimidating term that seems to carry such weight and expectation had very humble beginnings.

Keeping things in perspective is always a valuable practice. Instead of being intimidated by the epic label, now I feel inspired. Like the word epic itself, I can hope that one day my words will transform into something beyond the usual and ordinary and maybe one day will become truly epic.

Forgive My Fins 
Author: Tera Lynn Childs
Released June 1, 2010
Published by Katherine Tegen Books 
http://www.teralynnchilds.com/

Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it’s not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you’re a normal teenage girl, but when you’re half human, half mermaid like Lily, there’s no such thing as a simple crush.

Lily’s mermaid identity is a secret that can’t get out, since she’s not just any mermaid – she’s a Thalassinian princess. When Lily found out three years ago that her mother was actually a human, she finally realized why she didn’t feel quite at home in Thalassinia, and she’s been living on land and going to Seaview high school ever since, hoping to find where she truly belongs. Sure, land has its problems – like her obnoxious, biker boy neighbor Quince Fletcher – but it has that one major perk – Brody. The problem is, mermaids aren’t really the casual dating type – when they “bond,” it’s for life.

When Lily’s attempt to win Brody’s love leads to a tsunami-sized case of mistaken identity, she is in for a tidal wave of relationship drama, and she finds out, quick as a tailfin flick, that happily-ever-after never sails quite as smoothly as you planned.

To enter the giveaway for Forgive my Fins- CLICK HERE

BIR2010: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour Giveaway

BIR2010

Welcome to back to the BEST I'VE READ 2010! BIR2010 will run from December 6th through December 14th. This will be a annual event and this year its compromised of 9 blogs. Each day each blog will have multiple post and giveaways happening each day until its over. Then on the last day there will also be a Grand Prize Giveaway on the BIR2010 Blog.

Here we bring you a great giveaway. We have 2 copies to giveaway. 

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour 

Author: Morgan Matson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Released: May 2010
http://twitter.com/morgan_m

Book Summary (from Simon & Schuster): Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew--just in time for Amy's senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she's always known toward her new life. Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy's mother's old friend. Amy hasn't seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she's surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she's coming to terms with her father's death and how to put her own life back together after the accident. Told in traditional narrative as well as scraps from the road--diner napkins, motel receipts, postcards--this is the story of one girl's journey to find herself.

To Enter:

• 2 copies - 2 winners
• We loved for you to follow our blog
• Fill out the FORM
• Giveaway is US only 
• We ask that you help spread the word of course
• Stop by all the blogs in this event.