Monday Musings May 31, 2010 and We Have Surpassed the 500 Follower Mark

Since it's still a holiday weekend for me I will make this short since my hands are still dirty from digging in my garden (finally). It won't be as big as it usually it but that's ok I'll still have the basics- tomatoes, green peppers, zucchini, other assorted squash and pumpkins.

Plus I have my berries and grapes and my flowers. It's still a lot even if I'm only putting in about half the number of plants that I normally do- I just don't have the time for a huge garden this year.

I have some deadlines that I hope to keep.

Plus my first born graduates this Thursday, woo hoo. We signed him up for college this past Friday and he's so excited. I'm excited. Yet it's all kinda surreal. My boy is done with high school- where did the time go? (sniffles, wipes away a tear)

Anyway I'm off to sniffle and cry into my garden, maybe the tears will add that something special to the dirt for fabulous veggies this year.

BTW we have surpassed the 500 Follower Mark so I will be picking a winner as soon as I get the chance, probably tomorrow sometime.

The winner will be announced Wednesday with all the other contest winners.

Cross your fingers everyone. Good luck to all my loyal followers who have been here for ages and to the new ones who have joined us. I hope you enjoy reading the reviews, author interviews and author guest blogs along with all the book giveaways and of course my random ramblings and musings.

Free Book Friday 500 Follower Giveaway

Here's everything in the prize pack except the Vampireology book, I forgot to put it in the picture then when I tried it wouldn't fit

So we're in the home stretch now for the 500 Follower Giveaway.

At the time I am typing up this post we're up to 480 followers-

that means only 20 more to go so...

this is the last set of books that I will be adding to the prize pack

Here's what I've just added:

My Zombie Valentine, an ARC of Desire for Me by Robyn DeHart, an ARC of Barely a Lady by Eileen Dreyer, and Tainted by Brooke Morgan

Here's what was already in the 500 Follower Prize Pack

A brand new copy of Vampireology, a slightly used copy of Death's Daughter by Amber Bensen

and a slightly used copy of

A Flash of Hex by Jes

A Fang-tastic Books tote bag and t-shirt, signed copies of my books Eternal Desire and Insatiable, Blood Ties Season 2 DVD set, Blood Price by Tanya Huff, Sins of the Flesh by Caridad Pineiro, Mr Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange and Marked by Passion by Kate Perry.

I also have a stack of author swag including: postcards, bookmarks, trading cards, stickers and buttons (some of this stuff is signed). I have stuff from Lara Adrian, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Michele Hauf and several other authors.

To enter this giveaway you have to be a follower of Fang-tastic Books through google friend connect and to earn extra entries visit this orginal post and leave a comment

http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/2010/02/500-follower-giveaway.html

You can also earn +2 entries by leaving a comment on this post telling me what you think of the prize pack-

Is it a good selection of books and vamp swag?

I tried to throw in a bit of everything- lots to read, a DVD set to watch, a tote to carry your stuff in, even a t-shirt to wear, the only thing I didn't include was something to eat or drink and if you're a vamp...well you can grab a nibble anywhere :-)

Thanks to all of you who are loyal followers, be sure to spread the word - let me know if you post links to the contest anywhere and you'll get an extra entry for each link.

Remember-one lucky follower will win everything shown above!

Good luck to all who enter!

More Books Added to the 500 Follower Giveaway

Here's what I've added to the 500 Follower Prize Pack

A brand new copy of Vampireology, a slightly used copy of Death's Daughter by Amber Bensen

and a slightly used copy of

A Flash of Hex by Jes

Here's what was already in the 500 Follower Prize Pack

One lucky follower will win: A Fang-tastic Books tote bag and t-shirt, signed copies of my books Eternal Desire and Insatiable, Blood Ties Season 2 DVD set, Blood Price by Tanya Huff, Sins of the Flesh by Caridad Pineiro, Mr Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange and Marked by Passion by Kate Perry.

I also have a stack of author swag including: postcards, bookmarks, trading cards, stickers and buttons (some of this stuff is signed). I have stuff from Lara Adrian, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Michele Hauf and several other authors.

To enter this giveaway you have to be a follower of Fang-tastic Books through google friend connect and to earn extra entries visit this orginal post and leave a comment

http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/2010/02/500-follower-giveaway.html

Monday Musings: May 3, 2010

I made it through the weekend alive...barely.

Having a house full of ten and eleven year old girls is exhausting...and loud. Thank goodness the rain held out until very early Sunday morning so the girls could play outside Saturday evening. They played soccer and we did a hayride through the woods (minus the hay) and my oldest boy and some friends had a blast scaring the girls along the ride by jumping out from behind and under trees (all in good fun). We also had a little bonfire (first of the season). It was fun. I think my Fairy Berry thoroughly enjoyed her birthday party. She received alot of Twilight/New Moon (we also watched the movies) gifts and I got her the first two books of the Vampire Diaries series (along with clothes, games, and art stuff). She was happy (but now wants all the books in the series).

This week is my oldest's senior prom and of course Mother's Day and hubby's birthday (on Mother's Day). To avoid crowds I think we're going out to dinner during the week then on Sunday we'll just get pizza or something low maintenance so no one has to cook.

This week at Fang-tastic Books we have Maree Anderson , Lisabet Sarai, and Vicki Lewis Thompson, plus I'll be announcing the winners for a lot of open contests this week and I'll be adding to the book pile for the .

I am adding a new feature to my column in Night Owl Reviews Magazine called SQAI- Super Quick Author Interviews. I'll be asking authors quick answer questions like "Please sum up your book in two sentences or less" and "describe your heroine in three words".

If any authors would like to take part in an SQAI please email me and I'll send you a list of questions: eroticroxanne @ yahoo. com

Readers, do you have any ideas for quick interview questions you would like to see authors answer? If so please post them in the comments or email them my way.

I am creating a list that authors will be able to choose from. I hope to get quite a few ,that way authors will have some fun choices for the SQAI's.

Well, that's all for now. Let's hope this is a great week.

Contest Reminders

Nothing new to add today but I wanted to remind everyone about the contests that are still open here at Fang-tastic Books.

The Uprinting Canvas Print giveaway has not received much action- this is a print you make. You can upload any image you want and have it printed on a 16x20 canvas and it is all free. The canvas and shipping are free and all you have to do is upload an image. Easy as pie.

My t-shirt design contest is a flop, one entry. If no one else enters I might just cancel it. One entry does not a contest make.

And the 500 Follower Giveaway is still open, 101 more followers to go. Where's all the followers? I think I am going to add another book to the pile today. Maybe that'll help bring them in.

Vampire Ball and 500 Follower Giveaway

last year's ad

Vertigo Theatrics just announced today that this year's Flint Vampire Ball

will be Saturday October 16, 2010

Mark your calendars, I hope some of you can make it this year

Other quick news, I've added another book to the 500 Follower Giveaway Stack: Marked by Passion by Kate Perry

500 Follower Giveaway

So far here's what is in the 500 Follower Prize Pack

One lucky follower will win: A Fang-tastic Books tote bag and t-shirt, signed copies of my books Eternal Desire and Insatiable, Blood Ties Season 2 DVD set, Blood Price by Tanya Huff, Sins of the Flesh by Caridad Pineiro, Mr Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange and Marked by Passion by Kate Perry.

I also have a stack of author swag including: postcards, bookmarks, trading cards, stickers and buttons (some of this stuff is signed). I have stuff from Lara Adrian, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Michele Hauf and several other authors.

To win all you have to do is be a follower but if you want extra entries and a chance to close this contest faster then you can do these:

+5 entries for commenting on this post

+5 entries for blogging about this contest

+5 entries for including a link to this contest on your blog, twitter, or Facebook

+5 entries for adding my link back button to your blog

+5 for being a @RoxanneRhoads Twitter follower

+5 for becoming my friend on Facebook

Please include your contact info in comment along with added up entries and links to your posts

Contest is open until we reach 500 Followers then a winner will be chosen

Until 500 Followers is reached new items will be added to the prize pack from time to time

Books added May 5, 2010

Here's what I've added to the 500 Follower Prize Pack

A brand new copy of Vampireology, a slightly used copy of Death's Daughter by Amber Bensen

and a slightly used copy of

A Flash of Hex by Jes

Monday Musings February 15, 2010

I am a little late posting this today since the kids are home from school and I didn't have to get up early this morning.

So how was every one's Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year? Year of the Tiger! Rarrgh...

Hubby and I went to dinner and to the movies. While everyone else was cramming themselves in to see Valentine's Day and Dear John we watched The Wolfman.

The cinematography was great and it was a well made movie...but there wasn't a lot of acting. To me most of the movie consisted on a wolfman rampaging around killing mindlessly. It was a brutal, vicious, bloody slaughter on the screen...repeatedly. I suppose that is what a true horror movie is but I expected more. I know it was based on the original Wolfman, even gave a nod to a Werewolf in London with him rampaging around and running across the rooftops in London.

So I guess The Wolfman was OK but I was disappointed by several things. First of all let me repeat what was great- the set, the filming, the makeup, the creepy Victorian era feel and the crumbling manor house with it's creepy gardens and the dark and brutal insane asylum, wow all very atmospheric- everything was well done and not cheesy. The whole tone of the movie was dark and had the true Gothic horror feel.

However what I would have loved to see more of was acting, especially from Benicio del Toro. He was cool and aloof in the beginning and didn't struggle enough with the beast inside him later. I wanted more struggle, more character.

Anthony Hopkins did an excellent job as usual.

And the love story? That was a joke. Seriously. The whole premise was "only love will save him". The love story was chopped and slaughtered with everything else. There was no love, no progression, just I don't know...it didn't work for me.

OK enough with my Wolfman review.

This weekend I also got to watch the first two episodes of True Blood... finally. I found it to be quirky, funny, strange and possibly addicting. I now await the second DVD from Netflix. I definitely must see more.

So onto this week at Fang-tastic Books. Author Courtney Breazile will be here for a guest blog tomorrow, Thursday Ann Cory will be here and Friday Judi Fennell will be here for a guest blog and giveaway.

The numbers of followers for Fang-tastic Books is growing remember that one of my goals for 2010 is to reach the 500 Follower mark here at Fang-tastic Books. So far I'm over halfway there.

Once I reach 500 Followers I am holding a contest which is open to all followers. I'm even offering international shipping.

Until I reach 500 Followers I am adding goodies to a Fang-tastic Books tote bag. If that gets filled up I'll grab a box to add goodies to that too.

So far the giveaway prize pack contains: A Fang-tastic Books tote bag and t-shirt, signed print copies of my books Eternal Desire and Insatiable, Blood Ties Season 2 on DVD, a copy of Blood Price by Tanya Huff, and a lot of promo goodies from various authors including bookmarks, postcards, pins, stickers, trading cards and more. Plus I have a stack of books I'll be sorting through to add to the prize pack.

So please spread the word and make sure to add yourself as a follower if you are not already.