The BIG Giveaway

Up for grabs this time around, I have a whole smattering of goodies for ya! And the goodies are as follows:

*mouse pad from Book Club Girl with the Betty Smith quote: 'The world was hers for the reading' on it
*Food, Inc., edited by Karl Weber (finished paperback)
*Gone to Green by Judy Christie (ARC) (I LOVE this book!)
*The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James (ARC)
*The Sword of Medina by Sherry Jones (ARC)
*Crush by Alan Jacobson (ARC)

And what do you need to do to be entered into this super awesome giveaway? There are several ways to gain entry into this one. Please pay attention to the details as I will not enter folks who do not participate in one of the following:

1. Visit: http://marcblatte.com/. Leave a comment here relaying some bit of information you learned from the site.

2. Leave a comment on one of Marc's blog posts: http://marcblatte.com/blog/.

3. Follow Marc on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MarcBlatte.

4. Listen to Marc's interview with Linda Wertheimer on NPR and leave a comment here noting something you found interesting from it.

If you do one of the above AND tweet the giveaway as well, you will receive 2 entries. Please remember to use @OnlinePublicist in your tweet. A tweet without doing one of the above will not be entered. Feel free to enter more than once! This giveaway is open internationally and will close Monday, July 20, 2009 at midnight, CST, with the winner being announced on Tuesday, July 21, 2009. If the winner does not contact me to claim the prize within 7 days, it will go to the next person from the Random.org list.

Good luck and thank you for participating!!

Beautiful Photography Book for Review

Visions of America: Photographing Democracy
by Joseph Sohm
Publisher: Visions of America, LLC (Jan. 25, 2009)
Hardcover, 312 pages
ISBN: 978-0970795717

Visions of America addresses a single question: How do you photograph democracy? After all, democracy is an “idea” and not something one can easily wrap one’s lens around.

But photographing democracy is indeed what Joseph Sohm has done in this epic journey across the 50 states. To capture this country’s incredible diversity, Sohm framed his national work as George Seurat might a pointillist painting.

With each photograph, an individual dot was applied to his American canvas. Spanning three decades, tens of thousands of images were assembled in what becomes a compelling mosaic. Sohm takes us on an insightful journey down the back roads and byways of the U.S., which ultimately leads to a deeper understanding of who we are as a nation.

Visions of America is a sweeping portrait of life in the American democracy, a portrait that shows us the United States. With a foreword by legendary travel writer, Paul Theroux and lyrics by two of America’s most distinguished songwriters, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Visions of America is a work of historic significance.

Joseph Sohm is a Photo-Historian. He has published 50,000 times in National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC, History Channel and MSNBC. His photographs appear in President Clinton’s My Life and his Presidential Library, in Bill Mahr’s Real Time, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and on John Grisham's "King of Torts" and NBC's "Concert For America."

To receive a review copy, please send a request via email to: onlinepublicist [at] gmail [dot] com. This book is available for US mailing addresses only.

Dating shy?

Screw Cupid: The Sassy Girl's Guide to Picking Up Hot Guys
by Samantha Scholfield
Publisher: The Experiment
ISBN: 978-1615190003
Paperback, 240 pages, September 2009

Description: Screw Cupid is a dating manual for every woman ready to take her dating life into her own hands. Samantha Scholfield has many years of dating experience, and she developed and refined the techniques and strategies that she reveals here via hard-earned trial and error, consulting and collaborating intensively with hundreds of other women (and many men), and by marshalling the best of the extensive pickup advice that already circulates among men.

The result: perfectly calibrated guidance on initiating a conversation—anytime, anywhere—and getting right to a date, all without the guy knowing he’s being picked up.

Scholfield's book will have you alternately laughing out loud and taking notes. Her techniques are accessible, fun, and work in any situation!

Limited copies available, so email me now to secure yours: onlinepublicist [at] gmail [dot] com. I am looking for reviews to post the final week of August, first week of September.

Happy reading! :-)

BEA Giveaway #3

The winner of the Children's books is:

List Randomizer

There were 24 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Cfulcher

Congratulations!! Please forward me your mailing address to onlinepublicist@gmail.com and I will get those out to you right away. I have some other posts I would like to get out this week, so I will be taking a break from giveaways this week, but will be back with another one soon!

BEA Giveaway #3

**THIS CONTEST HAS NOW ENDED. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ENTERED!**

I'm a little late on getting this one posted, (Sorry for that!) but here is the Children's book giveaway I'm featuring this week:

Snappy Sounds: Surprise Party!
Reading level: 4-8
Published by: Silver Dolphin Books

Baseball Hour (this copy is autographed!) Reading level: 9-12
Published by: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb Here's how to enter:

You will be given one entry for every mention, with link, you make of the contest on Twitter. Please use @OnlinePublicist in your tweet!

If you do not have Twitter or would like additional entries, every mention, with link, made on your blog or other online outlet will give you an extra shot at these amazing titles! Please comment with links below.

The contest is open internationally! The winner will be chosen Friday, June 26, at 12am CST, and announced in a post on Friday.

Many thanks and GOOD LUCK!! ;-)

BEA #2 Giveaway Results!

Is this just as exciting as American Idol, or what? Ok, I may be reaching with that one. But just a bit.

There were a lot of multiple entries with this one, which was exciting to see. I went through all of the emails, Twitters, posts and mentions, made a big old list, plugged it into List Randomizer and here is the winner of the YA Giveaway:

List Randomizer

There were 42 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. DebWorldOfBooks

Congratulations, Deb!! I already have your mailing address and will get these out right away! :-D Have a wonderful weekend, all, and tune in next week for the Children's book giveaway.

BEA giveaway #2

**THIS CONTEST HAS NOW ENDED. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ENTERED!**

Time for another great BEA Giveaway!! This week, the spotlight is on YA titles and they are: (click on link to read book description)

Tombstone Tea (ARC) by Joanne Dahme
published by Running Press Teens

The Hunting, Book 1: Z.Rex (ARC) by Steve Cole
published by Philomel Books

Uncle John's Under the Slimy Sea Bathroom Reader for Kids Only by Bathroom Readers' Institute.

Entry for this contest will be slightly different than the previous. You will be given one entry for every mention, with link, you make of the contest on Twitter. Please use @OnlinePublicist in your tweet!

If you do not have Twitter or would like additional entries, every mention, with link, made on your blog or other online outlet will give you an extra shot at these amazing titles!

Instead of commenting with links, I ask that you email them to me: onlinepublicist@gmail.com. The winner will be chosen Thursday, June 18, at 12am CST, and announced in a post on Friday.

Many thanks and GOOD LUCK!! ;-)