Millennium Trilogy Giveaway!

It’s been a nice, leisurely weekend for me, so I’m feeling generous.

Because I love Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, I’m giving away a paperback boxed set of the series this week.

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Winners: Sign Language Vintage Alphabet Stamp Giveaway

Thank you to everyone who joined the Sign Language Vintage Alphabet Stamp giveaway!

I just drew the winners on Random.org. The top 3 names on the List Randomizer each win one set of Chronicle Books’ Sign Language Vintage Alphabet stamps.

Each stamp set contains 28 foam-backed rubber stamps (A-Z, the sign for “&” and “I Love You”), a pamphlet explaining the sign language, an ink pad, and a cleaning sponge inside a translucent plastic box.

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Author Feature: Lisa Lim

After reading her debut novel Confessions of a Call Center Gal, I got to know author Lisa Lim a little better.

Here’s a candid interview with Lisa Lim, notes in blue are mine.

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Confessions of a Call Center Gal

After a week of anxious fretting over the havoc that was ensuing on the back end of my blog (I am so glad that’s over, but I’m still paranoid about clicking on that WP 3.1 update mocking me from the top of my dashboard), I was in dire need of a pick me up type of book. I was browsing through my Nook shelves and remembered I had loaded Lisa Lim’s Confessions of a Call Center Gal (available on Amazon, also as a Kindle ebook, with a Nook edition soon to follow).

I fixed myself a mug of steamy milk tea, plumped up some pillows on the divan, and started reading.

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Bookmarked! makes a cameo

A few  weeks ago, I got an email from a reader inquiring if I would be interested to review her new chick lit novel, Confessions of a Call Center Gal, which was released on Amazon this month.

I told Lisa (whom, by the way, I have never met or made any contact with before) that I was okay with an electronic review copy to load on my Nook. I remember downloading the file from her email message and I remember confirming the receipt and telling her I’d read the book within the next couple of weeks.

Fast forward a bit. So I’ve been reading the novel, and today, at lunch, I was halfway through the book when my eyes virtually popped out of their sockets and I nearly (nearly!) dropped my Nook — I couldn’t believe what I was reading!

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