Just read on the Books We Love Readers group on Yahoo that the Scavenger Hunt contest has been extended and incorporates a membership drive. I was busy all weekend so I didn’t see that things had changed until today. Books We Love (BWL) is a great place to find new authors and new books to …
Tomorrow on Books We Love Reader’s loop at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BWL_Readers we’ll be hosting a grand opening Scavenger Hunt. It promises to be fun. Twenty authors have put up prizes, many of them autographed print copies of their books, including me. A copy of Play It Again Sam is one of the prizes. The answers to the …
As a change of pace from the last entry, here is another bit of humor from my friend, Tracy Farr…. Have you ever given much thought to why a majority of men prefer dogs and a majority of women prefer cats? I have. Not that I really care. But last Tuesday, having nothing better to …
Joe Deshotel, a Texas state lawmaker, filed a bill this week that would create a pilot program designed to pay cash to students at low-performing schools for good grades in core subjects. Freshmen could earn $50 for each “A,” $35 for each “B,” and $20 for each “C” in English, math, science or social studies. …
In celebration of “Read an E-Book Week” there is a lot of buzz around the internet about e-books. Some blogs are offering contests, free books, and lots of other fun stuff. On Charlotte Phillips blog, she has a list of e-books that have received good reviews and might be worthy of a look-see. Check it …
This is a joke making the rounds on the Internet, and it is just so timely I figured it was worth posting here. Enjoy……….. Young Chuck in Montana bought a horse from a farmer for $100, and the farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day. The next morning the farmer drove up and …
I don’t know about you, but I enjoy reading different interviews of authors to find out more about them, their books, and their approach to writing. We all do some things pretty much the same way — sit our butts down in the chair and write — but we all have little idiosyncrasies and rituals …
This was posted on one of the groups I belong to, and I thought, who doesn’t like free books? So let’s all see what treasures we can find this coming week. Just to let you know that we’ll be helping to celebrate Read an eBook Week next week by having some eBooks available to download …
YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS! In celebration of the grand opening of the new Books We Love Reader’s Group at yahoo, BWL_Readers@yahoogroups.com, we’re asking you to get acquainted with some of our authors by participating in a fun scavenger hunt. We promise it isn’t hard. You just have to follow the provided links listed …
I just read this little tidbit of news on CNN news online. It seems the absurd lawsuit — $54 million over a missing pair of pants — just won’t go away: “The District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied Roy Pearson’s “voluminous” petition to rehear his case, attorney Christopher Manning said in a written statement …
