Saturday, March 2, 2013

Barnes & Noble Authorpalooza plus a GIVEAWAY!

(scroll down for the giveaway)
Today I was checking out my twitter feed and noticed both Jennifer Nielsen and Jessica Day George tweeting about an event at my local Barnes & Noble, their 2013 Authorpalooza. The event website said it would have over 30 authors and if you have learned anything from this blog, I love me some book signings.
I found out at 11am and got to the store at 12pm, too bad the event didn't start until 1. After wandering around the store I finally got to join the lines for the signing. There were so many authors but no sense of a line, it was a free for all. I got pictures!
I also got a ridiculous amount of books, more than I should have, and I got to talk to a bunch of really nice authors! I was super excited that both James Dashner and Jennifer Nielsen recognized me from previous signings!
Several authors were super nice when they heard about my blog, Cindy C. Bennett, author of Rapunzel Untangled, even wrote down my blog address to check it out later. Again, super excited!
And now for pictures:
Sadly, I only took the pictures at the very beginning so its not nearly as busy and lacks a lot of authors in the pictures.





GIVEAWAY
I am doing my first ever giveaway. But this depends on you, the reader.
At Authorpalooza I got two signed, but not personalized books, along with a bookmark. The books are Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George and Maze Runner by James Dashner. The bookmark is signed by Erik Olsen.

So here are the rules:
1) One entry per person.
2) Limited to U.S. and Canada, I can't afford international shipping currently.
3) This is all dependent on the comments section.
4) Please keep in mind that I will need to be able to contact you if you are a winner.

And this is how it goes.
This contest will run for two weeks. The winners will be selected on March 15th.

The numbers will be made off of the number of unique comments. As in, one comment per person!

At 10+ unique entries I will draw for the Erik Olsen bookmark.
At 20+ unique entries I will draw for Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
At 30+ unique entries I will draw for Maze Runner by James Dashner

If I don't reach those numbers then I will save the remaining prizes for another giveaway.





Edit: I really want to respond to all your lovely comments, but I'm not currently because I want to keep the comments just for entries, to make the giveaway easier down the road.

29 comments:

  1. You're too much fun! I'm glad you had a good time! I didn't realize when we talked about it that it was today. I got to play with puppies and you got to play with books. Sounds like we both had ideal afternoons. lol

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  2. Glad you had fun. Good luck with the giveaway, darling

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  3. I discovered your blog thanks to Jessica Day George on Twitter. Sounds like an awesome idea!

    Cheers for the giveaway :)

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  4. Man I'm sad that I missed something like that. It would have been fun. Times like this I wish I didn't live in Idaho. They don't usually have fun stuff like that going on here.

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  5. What a fun event! Thank you for doing a giveaway. Wish we could get all of those authors to come visit Indiana. :)

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    1. Congratulations, you are the winner of the Erik Olsen signed bookmark. Please email me at stacy.l.medina@gmail.com to claim your prize.

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  6. Yay, a giveaway! Idk if you'll get to 50 buuut it'd be great to win any one of those items! That's super nice of you to do. (: Good luck everyone!

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  7. This giveaway looks awesome! Good luck everyone!
    -eclem96@yahoo.com

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  8. Gonna enter myself before I share the link for everyone else :)

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  9. Are you sure you miss Fairbanks?! I don't remember the last time our B&N had an "authorpalooza." :)

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    1. Congratulations, you are the winner of a signed copy of Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George. Please email me at stacy.l.medina@gmail.com to claim your prize.

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  10. Ahhh I finally saw it! I'll make sure to spread it around~

    xo Lauren
    cattasticks.blogspot.com

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  11. I want to win the Maze Runner, dammit! Let's get this going! Just kidding. It really is awesome for you to do this, Stacy!

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  12. Hi Stacy! Love that your keeping up the awesome I remember from back in the day (chemistry, right after lunch eh?). Very much liking what you've got going, gah nowadays I don't get to do much reading and when I do its a read-four-books-in-one-night. Love the Maze Runner books, and the other book looks fantastic too. I do have to admit I'm on a zombie kick as of late, got any recommendations?
    -Kate H.

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  13. Hi, it's Justine! I really like that you are so into doing reveiws! it's been really helpful in choosing books to read!

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  14. Love the Authors! Wishing sometime in the near future I will be able to attend an event like the one you talk about :) Happy Reading :)
    kknupp2011@hotmail.com

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    1. Congratulations, you are the winner of a signed copy of Maze Runner by James Dashner. Please contact me at stacy.l.medina@gmail.com to claim your prize.

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  15. Hey, that's so rad! I'm excited :))

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  16. I discovered your blog on my twitter. What an amazing blog. I wish I could have been at the author signings. At IRA last year, I stood in line to get several signatures and bought way too many books too!

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  17. Wow, it's awesome you got to attend such an awesome event! My local bookstores rarely host anyone. Thanks for holding a contest!

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  18. Yay! I'm so glad I found this! I'm a huge maze runner fan! :)

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  19. This is so great! And an event like this sounds like a lot of fun! We're not such a small town here - it be cool to find something like this. Glad to read you had fun.

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  20. I wish we had events like this where I live. And I admire your generosity, I know I wouldn't give away signed books so easily. ^_^

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  21. This sounds like an awesome experience! I haven't read either of these books, but they are on my list - let today be my lucky day! :) Thank you for your generosity!

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  22. Found you from a retweet from James Dashner, so glad i found this giveaway, i LOVE the Maze Runner trilogy! Hope to win his signed book, good luck everyone :)

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  23. Loved the entire Maze Runner Trilogy, and great blog, thank you for holding this giveaway! (:

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  24. Sounds like an awesome event! So fun. I haven't read The Maze Runner but I hear it's awesome.

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