{"id":2361,"date":"2010-03-04T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2010-03-04T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:36:02","slug":"odds-and-ends-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/odds-and-ends-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I intended today as an Hook Me: Excerpt Thursday day, but alas it is not. So I&#8217;m just going to do some odds and ends news.<\/p>\n<p>First, I put up a new page on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smittenbybooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The Season <\/strong><\/span><\/a>website titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smittenbybooks.com\/theseason_marketplace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marketplace<\/strong><\/a>. After receiving a request to include an additional bookseller link to purchase books (currently I have direct buy links for all the books on the site to <em>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/em>,<em> Borders, Amazon, Indie Bound, Powell&#8217;s<\/em> and <em>Books-a-Million<\/em>) I decided to do one better and give online booksellers their own page.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;re like me and buy lots of books, this is the perfect reference page for you as I&#8217;ve included a small note to let you know what the savings are for each bookseller. And again, if you&#8217;re like me and also buy ebooks, I have a slew of places where you can purchase your favourite authors in the various electronic format. I used to buy my ebooks in the <em>digital .pdf format<\/em> but after hearing that the iPad would be using the <em>ePub format<\/em>, I switched to that format as I have every intention of getting an <strong>iPad<\/strong> once the kinks from the initial version are worked out. If after checking out the page, you can think of another online bookseller that should be there, please contact me and let me know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Time is winding down to enter to win a <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>$25 Amazon Gift Certificate <\/strong><\/span>simply by answering a question about my debut, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverleykendall.com\/sinsur.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SINFUL SURRENDER<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. If you have the book, just flip to page 304, the answer is there. It&#8217;s that easy. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smittenbybooks.com\/theseason_ad_spring.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for entry details<\/a><\/strong>. March 5th is entry deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and good news on this front. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>SINFUL SURRENDER<\/strong><\/span> was voted <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Borders Book Club<\/strong><\/span> selection in <em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Rockford, IL<\/strong><\/span><\/em> for the month of March. I was ecstatic when I heard. Thank you, ladies. I&#8217;m completely flattered and so happy you enjoyed the book. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have you voted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smittenbybooks.com\/theseason_readerspoll_feb2010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>February Top Pick<\/strong><\/span><\/a>? March 6th is the last day to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smittenbybooks.com\/theseason_readerspoll_feb2010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>cast your vote<\/strong><\/a>. As it stands, the top three ranked are:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Bound By Temptation<\/strong><\/span> ~ Lavinia Kent<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #264dc1;\"><strong>A Midwife Crisis<\/strong><\/span> ~ Lisa Cooke<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Secrets of Sin<\/strong><\/span> ~ Chloe Harris<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Good news. <\/strong>I&#8217;ve found another person to review books for the blog. YAY! Her name is <span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong>Sherry M<\/strong><\/span> and she loves historical and contemporary romance. She&#8217;s been an avid reader for the past fifteen years and the best news is she lives down the street from me. I can literally walk the books over to her to review. How sweet is that? This will be her first crack at actually writing reviews but she has good and strong opinions. I&#8217;m hoping I can have a review from her next week. Welcome Sherry! (Now she has to start following my blog. LOL)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips:<\/strong><br \/>\nDid you know that on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smittenbybooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The Season<\/strong><\/span><\/a> website, if you click <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>THE SEASON<\/strong><\/span> on the top of any page, it will take you to the front page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2361\" data-postid=\"2361\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2361 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I intended today as an Hook Me: Excerpt Thursday day, but alas it is not. 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