July Giveaway -- Week One

HAPPY CANADA DAY /
4TH OF JULY WEEKEND!!!

You all make these Reader's Choice weeks so much fun! Love the bookish chats and oodles of new books filling up my handy dandy wishlist book (yes, I have a book!) Makes me want to abandon everything on my TBR list and grab all new! lol Which I won't, of course, but it's still tempting. I'm like a kid in a candy store when it comes to books! So many choices and I want them all! But enough of my nattering, I'm sure you didn't stop by for that. Nope, you've tuned in for the winner announcements, but I'm going to torture you a bit more with quarterly nerdy statistics first: the most popular picks per genre day:

MOST REQUESTED HISTORICAL FICTION

MOST REQUESTED CONTEMPORARY FICTION

MOST REQUESTED MYSTERY / SUSPENSE FICTION

MOST REQUESTED AMISH FICTION

And now onto the good stuff...drum roll, please...rapapapapum...I give you the ...

READER'S CHOICE 

SUMMER BOOKFEST

WINNERS!

HISTORICAL WINNERS

WON BY KAY GARRETT

WON BY TAMMIE EDINGTON SHAW

CONTEMPORARY WINNERS

WON BY LORI SMANSKI

WON BY ELIZABETH LITTON

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE WINNERS

WON BY NORA

WON BY LUCY REYNOLDS

AMISH WINNERS

WON BY CC

WON BY KIM HANSEN

CHRISTIAN FICTION WINNERS

WON BY CARYL KANE

WON BY LADY SNOW ANGEL

GOAL REVIEW WINNERS

WON BY ALISON BOSS

WON BY TRIXI

But wait, it's not over yet! This 'Vanity' category has become a blog tradition. It's where I choose my favourite cover in each genre and then draw from the names of the readers who entered them...a kind of draw within a draw. Here are the cover-love winners:

HISTORICAL 

COVER-LOVE WINNER

(really, a picture speaks

a thousand words. Stunning!)

WON BY TRACEY HAGWOOD

CONTEMPORARY 

COVER-LOVE WINNER

a tie! I couldn't make up my mind

but one represents day and the 

other night so it's kinda appropriate :-)

(Love the blue/teal tones -- screams

summer and since I know it's

PEI it lures me in that much more.)

WON BY JACKIE SMITH

(Love the contrast between the 

silhouetted images and the sunset

background and the twinkle lights

scream festive summery romance!)

WON BY DIANA FLOWERS

MYSTERY / SUSPENSE 

COVER-LOVE WINNER

(Atmospheric! Kinda spooky with

the images fading in and out of

each other.)

WON BY SARAH POOL

WAIT! DON'T GO AWAY!!

We're still not through 'cause we have another Reader's Choice tradition of picking a random # of entries per day and that becomes  the "just because bonus giveaway." If I'm not making sense, all you need to know is that it means more book giveaways! Woohoo! This time to the 33rd entry of each genre day.

HISTORICAL 33RD

WON BY PAM K

CONTEMPORARY 33RD

WON BY LEA

MYSTERY / SUSPENSE 33RD

WON BY PATTY

Phew! That's another Rc wrap up. I'll send winners an email stating their book win, publication date and request for mailing address (or email, if ebook is chosen) so that I have everything read for release dat, Then I'll email you once again when the book has been ordered.

LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT WEEK'S GIVEAWAYS:

SUNDAY

I'm starting something new for the summer,

 inspired by one of Kathleen's goals -- re-reading favourites which will be featured every Sunday and this week it's...

MONDAY

Tis the season of the

Carol Awards Finalists Countdown!

This week we will look at the 

Contemporary Finalists

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY