Are:

1. Ronnica
2. rachel
3. Sheri
4. Kristi Valiant
5. Ramya

Winners-please email me at jenlaw77(AT)earthlink(DOT)net with your complete mailing address. The books will be send directly from the publisher!

My Friend Amy is asking bloggers to answer two questions about blogging, in honor of Book Blogger Appreciation Week. I’ve answered them below.

What is one thing you wish you knew about blogging when you started or what advice would you give a newbie blogger? What is your best blogging tip?

How addictive it can be! Not just posting on my blog, but reading other blogs! Seriously, though the book blogging community is great! I’ve made tons of new friends, done a lot of networking, and have come in contact with a number of great publicists. I’ve been introduced to some pretty amazing books as well. So for all you new bloggers–visit other blogs, post comments. Don’t fret too much about the design of your blog (ok, I’m being a total hypocrite…how many times have I changed my layout!). In time, your blog will get a pretty static chain of followers.

So, my fellow book bloggers! How would you answer the questions above. Post your answer in comment and you will be entered into a contest to win an autographed Tess Gerritsen The Keepsake bookmark!

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
• Please avoid spoilers!

Here’s my teaser:

“She decided that whatever else he might be, he did not seem to be a malicious person. And there was nothing in the PI she had done that would indicate he was a vicious bastard who abused his girlfriends or anything like that.”

Taken from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.

Share your teaser!

Congratulations, Carol! You are the winner of the Lori Andrews contest. I’ll be contacting you directly to obtain your mailing address. Stay tuned for next week’s contest–5 paperback copies of Almost Moon by Alice Sebold!

Ti from Book Chatter and Other Stuff tagged me for a fun meme

Here are the rules: I am going to list three categories of books. 3 MUST Read Books, 3 Keep Your Eyes on These, and 3 Look For These Soon. Keeping with the theme, I am going to tag at least 3 bloggers. They should put these same lists on their blog but SUBTRACT one book from each list and ADD one of their own. Then they should tag at least 3 more bloggers. It will be fun to see how the lists change as they go around the blogosphere. Please come back to this post and leave a comment so I can see how the lists are changing.

Since this is Book Buzz…please keep your lists to titles released in 2007-2009.
So, here goes…[asterisks are next to my additions]

3 MUST Read Books:
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
*The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry

3 Keep Your Eyes on These:
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
*The Keepsake, by Tess Gerritsen

3 Look For These Soon:
The Prudent Mariner, by Leslie Walker Williams
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
*The Fire by Katherine Neville

3 Tags to keep this meme going:
No More Grumpy Bookseller
Bookish Ruth
Redlady’s Reading Room

Are:

Julie P.
Gwendolyn
Anonymous

I will email each of the winners. Winners will be able to pick which one one of the three books available.

I used list randomizer to determine the winners. Here is the list that was generated:

Julie P.
Gwendolyn
Anonymous
Bella
Bobbi
Sherri
Lenore
Becca
Bella
Yan
Monie G.
Anne
Vickie
Theresa N.
Penny
Wendi
WindyCindy
Tammy
Carol
Bobbi
Anne
Mari
Hersheyskisses
PopinFresh
PopinFresh
Monie G.
Janel
Wendi
Vickie
Ramya
Cindy