Well, we know how much you ALL love free stuff, especially FREE BOOKS, so be SURE to mark your calendars for the Bitten by Books BOOK Blog Carnival event! The carnival starts at 8:00 am Central time Monday November 3rd and lasts ALL WEEK and ends on Saturday November 8th at 11:59 pm Pacific time.

The winners will be contacted and announced sometime the week of the 10th. You will have to give us some time to sort through all of the hundreds of entries. Thanks for your patience on this.

Unlike the Haunted Bloggy Carnival, this one is ALL about books and book related items! We have some great prizes coming your way. Here’s a sampling of just a few of the prizes our blog will be offering up next week. Post here and tell us if you think you can make it next week some time. It is a smaller carnival, so it should be a breeze to do your entries.
Since it is a Book Carnival, it will be hosted by our sister site Bitten by Books. Here’s the link for a sneak peak at the prizes: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=1680

Hey everybody,

I went to the book store again last week and picked up a few more new releases to ease the bulge in my wish list. LOL

First up is Playing with Fire (Silver Dragons, Book 1). Katie MacAlister has got to be one of my favorite paranormal and regular chic lit authors. She is hilarious! The second book I had to grab is Gone with the Witch (Triplet Witch Trilogy, Book 2). Anette Blair is yet another very funny author to be sure.

These next two books are ones that I have not read anything by the authors, so am really looking forward to getting to know their style. Both books look really entertaining. Which is a plus in my book (no pun intended). First is 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover by Linda Wisdom. This next book, is completely new to me, it wasn’t even on one of my many wishlists! The Brass Bed by Jennifer Stevenson.

Check these titles out and pick up your copy today so we can read and review them together!

****Updated 5/10/08: Thank you to everybody who participated! All FIVE GC’s have been sent via email. Enjoy!

Hurray Hurray the 5th of May!

Monday is here, and I have a VERY special limited time offer for you.

When you make a purchase of 10 books or videos at ONE time this week (5/5/08 through 5/9/08) from my half.com store, you will receive a FREE $10.00 Gift Certificate to either Amazon.com OR half.com (your choice).

There are only FIVE gift certificates up for grabs so you HAVE to be one of the first 5 people who order. That means you must HURRY.

What to do:

• Visit my Half.com Store (seller name *racoo*)
• http://shops.half.ebay.com/racoo_W0QQmZbooksQQsellerZQ2aracooQ2a
• Choose and purchase 10 books from MY store
• Email me AFTER you make your purchase and provide me with the list of the 10 books you ordered from MY store, your half.com userID, full name, mailing address and the email to where you would like your GC sent.

Remember only the first 5 people who order 10 books will be eligible. If you don’t email me with ALL of the requested info, you will not receive your Gift Certificate because I will have NO way of confirming you.

RULES: All 10 books must be purchased at ONE time from the link below from my half.com store. Limit one Gift Certificate per household/person. Void where prohibited by law. Valid for US purchases only as half.com does not ship internationally. Please note that ALL 5 Gift Certificates will be sent out via email on Saturday 5/10/08. If you have ANY questions about this Giveaway, email me before you order at: racoo.smith @ gmail.com (no spaces). ONCE the five people have been determined, I will post here in my blog http://weirdstuffinmydesk.com at the top of this post that the gift certificates are gone. Books purchased from other sellers are NOT eligible.

Here is the link to my half.com store with books from my private collection. PLEASE NOTE half.com does NOT ship outside the US at this time.

http://shops.half.ebay.com/racoo_W0QQmZbooksQQsellerZQ2aracooQ2a

Please forward this post and help spread the word!

HUGS, Blessings and a beautiful week to all!

–
Blessings,
Rachel
http://weirdstuffinmydesk.com – Honest E-tailer and Book Reviews!
http://www.fragrantsoul.com
Tap Into Your Fragrant Soul!

Well, I just got back from Barnes & Noble *groans* and got out of there for just under $55.00 bucks this time. The member card saved us five bills (of the one dollar variety) and some change. So I bet you want to know what you have to look forward to seeing here in the coming weeks for review….

I picked up several NEW releases. Rogue (Werecats, Book 2) by Rachel Vincent. Lady & the Vamp (Immortality Bites, Book 3) by Michelle Rowen. The Accidental Werewolf by Dakota Cassidy. I also found two new (to me) titles that I hadn’t heard of before. Blue Is For Nightmares which is book one of four in the Stacey Brown Series by Laurie Faria Stolarz which I found in the YA (young adult) section. Last but not least, La Vida Vampire by Nancy Haddock.

These books are now a part of the Weird Stuff In My Desk Bookstore. The bookstore is filled with most of the books I have read over the last two years. So, if you want to see what I have been up to since retiring from my last business and what I like to read, please check it out! My preference is to read books that are in a series. I just hate it when the story ends. LOL You may need to know that I am a bit obsessive about my series, so the store is laid out with the books in ORDER of where they fall in each series. There will definitely be more added over the next few weeks. I have read a TON of books. Who knows, maybe I will even get around to reviewing them all.

I am pretty backlogged right now on book reviews, so just a peak at what will be coming up in the next couple of weeks. These are books I have already read that need to be reviewed.

• The Darkest Kiss (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 6) (4/29/08 release)
• Black Magic Woman (Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation)
• Happy Hour at Casa Dracula (Casa Dracula Series, Book 1)
• Midnight Brunch (Casa Dracula Series, Book 2)
• One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, Book 2) (4/29/08 release)
• The Housewives tarot: A Domestic Divination Kit with Deck and Instruction Book

Hi everybody,

It is book day again! This is a great time to pick up a few great titles from me. A big thank you to Amy at Charming Sam for creating this groovy new banner for my bookstore!

I went through the other day and lowered prices AGAIN on several titles! Once these are gone, they are gone.
They come from my personal collection and there is only one copy of each title available!

Please take a look at my half.com store and purchase hard to find/rare
books from my private collection. PLEASE NOTE half.com does NOT ship
outside the US at this time.

http://shops.half.ebay.com/racoo_W0QQmZbooksQQsellerZQ2aracooQ2a

There are a very few unique titles up for purchase on my amazon store
as well. Be sure to check them out!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/shops/index.html?ie=UTF8&sellerID=A10K1JMIPOWD0I

The more books you buy, the cheaper shipping is. You save a lot if you
buy several from me at a time.

HUGS, Blessings and a beautiful weekend to all!

Rachel Smith
http://weirdstuffinmydesk.com/
http://www.fragrantsoul.com
Tap Into Your Fragrant Soul!