Spring Fling Hop Winner!!

Even though I LOVE spring, our pollen count has been high and allergies have rendered me on the puny side these last two weeks. I enjoying gardening, spending time out in the warmth & sunshine, watching nature burst into colorful glory. But MAN ... I look and feel like *Cat-Yak* ;P [but I'm still working on getting our new veggie garden put in - no quitter here, gotta get my healthy eats on!].

SO please forgive me for being on the slow side to post the lucky winner of my giveaway for the recent Spring Fling Hop:

KYLIE is the winner of Oxford Messed Up!!!

Congratulations Kylie, I'll be emailing you shortly for your shipping address :)

Hugs & Thanks galore to all who participated, and stay tuned ... another giveaway on it's way soon~

200 Follower Giveaway at The Book Basement!

Looking for yet another yummy book-lovin' giveaway? Well, my little chickadees - you need look no further than the awesome-possum 200 Follower giveaway currently going on at The Book Basement!!! Not one, not two, ... heck, not even THREE prize packs to pick from but FIVE!!! Eh ma gawd - I like just *drooled* all over my poor keyboard :D

Okay. Off with you now. Click the linky and get those entries in before 1/17/12!

http://thebookbasement.blogspot.com/2011/12/200-follower-giveaway.html

HURRY Epic Giveaway!!

There is one majorly awesome giveaway going on for ONLY THREE DAYS!!
It's called the Paranormal Turkey Tour - you can get the deets here at vvb32reads

AND, because the contest is ALSO set up so that bloggers with comments can win prizes, too, ... I'm asking BIG TIME for you to PLEASE go and leave a comment on Velvet's posting for this tres sweet giveaway tour!!

YOU MUST HURRY! So head on over to Velvet's , READ the giveaway post, COMMENT and then go enter for yourself as well!

Good luck to everybody & remember I *heart* you :)

Giveaway - Bring home *Bedbugs* for Thanksgiving!!

WIN A BRAND NEW COPY OF BEDBUGS FOR THANKSGIVING!!

Seriously, I love Ben Winters. Anyone who's already familiar with Sense, Sensibility and Sea Monsters knows he rocks as an author. His latest little gem - Bedbugs - is one of those horror stories that creeps up on you, bit [bite?] by bit until you find yourself still awake at 2 a.m. determined to finish the book. Cos you gotta. Know what I mean?

Anyhoo - thanks to Eric at Quirk Books I've got a pristine copy for one lucky winner.

Here's the deets:

USA ONLY. Sorry guys, but until I win the damn lottery I'm poor as a mouse. Believe me, I'd make this world wide if I could afford to. Stupid postage $$$.

Contest is open from NOW until Thanksgiving and will close to entries at 11:59 pm on Thanksgiving - November 24, 2011.

All I ask is that you follow me publicly in Google Friend Connect. That's it. Not much to ask in the grand scheme of things, eh?

To enter, leave a comment on THIS post with your first name/alias & email addy so I can contact the winner. ALSO leave your GFC name so I can verify you as a follower.

And per your comment, something besides the generic *thanks* would be nice. In fact, since I'm poor and really DO need to win the lottery, comment with your favorite LUCKY NUMBER [S].

So again: USA ONLY, GFC FOLLOW, NAME/ADDY & LUCKY NUMBER[S].

Not too hard or time consuming. Forget buttons, tweets, hops, skips, dingles and all the rest. No hoops to jump through here [... for NOW. heh heh heh].

Hurry and enter. You know you want some of this. ;D

Mega - Awesome *drool* Giveaway NOW

Heads up, fellow book lovers! In celebration of her 6 month blogoversary - Harpreet Singh is having one beautiful giveaway. Click on the following link to visit her
http://booksforteens6212.blogspot.com/2011/07/100-followers-mega-giveaway.html

Giveaway! Win Nightshade and Last Sacrifice

I just found an awesome new blog and she's having a 200 Follower Giveaway!

Visit Cade at Braintasia Books for a chance to win Nightshade and Last Sacrifice!

PLEASE MENTION THAT MAD REFERRED YA! :D

Hugs & Good Luck Everyone ~

Win Free *Brainzzzzz* at Zombie Girrrl *YAY* !!!

Seriously. If you *heart* brainnnnz as much as I do, especially brains all mashed up in a Jane Austen-styled bun [okay, I know this sounds dirty but it's not, trust me] ... SHUFFLE 'n' SHAMBLE your rotting corpse asap to enter Zombie Girrrl's totally crypt-o-licous contest for a juicy copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. And it even comes with a personal note from Elizabeth Bennet.

How cool is that?!

So do it NOW.

"I COMMAND YOU" (insert hypnotic subliminal-type stuff here) (if this actually works I am SO gonna try *commanding* me some peanut butter fudge for Christmas :D )

Congratulations to the WINNER! Plus a NEW giveaway coming soon!

Just a quick post to announce the LUCKY WINNER

of my first - ever giveaway :D

*******CONGRATULATIONS*******

k-sunshine1977

I'll be emailing the winner shortly, so please check your inbox. And to all the wonderful people who entered, commented, followed and just plain made my day - THANK YOU XXXOOO!!!

Now then. Listen up, ye wee maggots. Auntie M.A.D. has JUST what you need to *survive* another holiday season rife with tinnitus-inducing bell-ringing Santas, fruitcakes the general flavor & consistency of mixed cement, and 8 trillion reruns of A Christmas Story/It's A Wonderful Life/Ernest Saves Christmas/Home Alone.

Seriously.

See, I love the holiday season as much as the next corpse, I really do. But we need to spice it up, don't cha think? So let's REALLY get the ol' heart a' pumpin' and have a HOLIDAY ZOMBIE PARTY!!!

And, I'm thinking a yummy copy of DUST would be a terrific present to some lucky maggot.

So I'm gonna think on this and see what magnificent mayhem I can come up with. AND - Any input or ideas are welcome, or any offers of co-hosting for those that might wish to add a grisly goodie to the pot. Just hollar at me/comment/email.

Let's see what I/We/Us can come up with to commence shortly after Thanksgiving and end sometime between Christmas/New Year's.

Alien Tin Foil Hat Giveaway - The Host by Stephanie Meyer

**CONTEST NOW CLOSED**
I'll be selecting the winner soon and contacting he/she/it via email, so be sure to watch your inbox! The lucky winner will also be announced on a separate post. Thank you guys for visiting me and participating in my very FIRST giveaway. Hopefully more giveaways will be upcoming in the near future (depending on my budget lol).


MY FIRST BOOK GIVEAWAY!!!

In honor of Halloween and all things *other-worldly*, I have a brand new copy of The Host up for grabs.

See, a very good fiend ... I mean friend *cough* ... has bolstered me with the nerve ... *ahem* confidence ... to host (no pun intended) my very own contest. She's helped me time and again to understand some of the ins and outs of blogging, reviewing, technical bs, and all the tedious minutia that comprise this little window to the world called Mary Ann DeBorde Writes (and Reads!).

Without her patient support, I'm sure I'd be drooling in a corner somewhere.

So without further ado, and before I let Bubba from Tiny Trailer Town out of Pitfalls, Illinois pass on the skinny for the giveaway - I want to say:

THANK YOU, VELVET!




"This here be Bubba. Now, I knows you folks been worryin' and wringin' yer hands 'bout them leetle bug-eyed critters flyin' round all over t'place like saucers on steroids, they be.

It were be honest o' me t'admit that I been worried sumthin fierce, too. It be hard e-nuff to keep Six-Toes-Ted's beer cans picked up out o' my yard cos he is the laziest son of a gun I ever did see an' won't pick up after his self no matter if I threaten to tell Maybelle 'bout that time he been flirtin' with that yung gal down at the Dollar Barn like he ain't been married no dang twenty year to the best leetle woman who can bake a biskit like nobody I ever did seen.

Now I gots t' worry bout them aliens an' theys fancy schamncy flyin' saucers they parade round in tearin' up my sheet metal an' I just got the dents hammered out last month after that bad hailstorm we done had.

Plus the widder Smith ain't been seen in a week an' t'tell you the truth I swear on my Ford pickup it be so, that I am thinkin' them dang bugly aliens done stole her clean to Mars, they did an' prolly proud of it!

Honest t'gawd.

Watch out, folks is all I'm gonna say for here on out. Them fugly bug people will get in yor head and steal yor brains gone ... jes like them dang zombeez. If'n it ain't one thang it's a'nother.


So here's the deal I done thought up-

To help folk out with t'alien invasion I think you need to enter to win The Host by Stephanie Meyer. It be a good read an' you might larn sumthin'.

{SORRY FOLKS, BUT THIS HERE GIVEAWAY BE OPEN TO USA ONLY!}

* YOU GOTTA FOLLOW THIS HERE BLOG IN GFC FER YOR ENTRIES TO COUNT. Cos we don't want no alien critters sneakin' in here to steal our brainzz.

* Then leave yor NAME/alias and email in that comment thang so we kin get ahold o'you if'n you win

*An' fer one EXTRA entry - send that nice gal Mary Ann a picture of a tin-foil hat, granny's old metal colander like we done used below, or whutever you thank will keep yor brains safe from fugly bugly critters an' zombeez, too. Jes leave the picture link in a SEPARATE comment.



*An' fer one MORE entry - leave a comment at that Velvet gal's site (vvb32reads) an' head on back over here to tell us about it in another SEPARATE comment. If you want to tell her how much you like ol' Bubba here, that is fine as moonshine in May!

So you can be gettin' yorself a total of 3 entries, jes be sure to put each entry in a separate comment. I be thinking that's it, then.

Oh, an' one more thang. This here contest will CLOSE at 11:59 p.m. on November 10th, central time. So don't mess around, git on it. You know you want some o' this.

THE WINNING ENTRY WILL BE DRAWN BLINDFOLDED OUT O' GRANNY'S COLANDER ON NOVEMBER 11TH OR SUM THIN' LIKE THAT, I DO BELIEVE.

Bubba out ~

Beam Me Up, Scotty!

HIGHLY IMPORTANT LATE-BREAKING TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED *ALIEN* DISCLOSURES THAT I JUST MADE UP:

Whilst my previous alien post presented a rough list of what many serious ufologists consider to be *benchmarks* suggestive of actual close encounter experiences, I felt it pertinent to present further information that is SO highly secretive it is known only to myself and the rather large dust bunny languishing behind my refrigerator.

Now, being as how this material is so astonishingly informative and, let us say ... *controversial* - you may wish to print out several thousand copies of this post and distribute them freely among your co-workers, door-to-door solicitors, or other people you really don't like. Notice I used Christmas colors which means this post will also make a wonderful addition to those typical mind-numbling-ly boring family *newsletters* that people love to enclose in otherwise pleasant Christmas Cards. I mean, who really looks forward to hearing about Uncle Ed's latest hemorrhoid removal?

No need to thank me, but feel free to send me expensive fruit baskets, imported fudge, or cashmere sweaters as a small token of your undying gratitude. No C.O.D., please.

Ahem. Okay. Here we go -

Fact 1: There are no such things as "Alien Abductions"
Freakin' duh. I mean, who's gonna abduct an alien, for cryin' out loud? And where you gonna keep it anyway, in the basement next to the leaky freezer? That'd go over real well when the kiddies head downstairs to play Halo.

Fact 2: There ARE, however, such things as "Human Abductions"
According to the latest statistics compiled by the prestigious research assistants at the International House of Galactic Pandemonium & Pancakes, as many as 3 zillion Earthlings are abducted every week - especially if they have a middle name such as Bob, June or Bell. [E.g. Leroy Bob, Betty June or Mary Bell.]

This already unsettling figure becomes much higher if Miller, Bud Lite or Boone's Farm has been ingested, - often resulting in what is known in Ufology as...

Fact 3: MISSING TIME (*How to Get Away with being 2 Hours Late to Anything*)
Sure, it's hard to prove. That's the BEAUTY of 'missing time'! Late for work? Missing time. Late for Betty June's poetry recital at the Senior Center's Annual Stewed Prunes Festival? Missing time. Is your life in ruins because you were supposed to be at the Chapel getting married at 8 a.m. and now it's 10:15 AND how the hell are you gonna explain this one to your humiliated fiancee, her uppity sister who drives an electric car all over town, ... and NOT to mention that you reek like a brewery and are missing all the one dollar bills out of your wallet?

Darn that ol' missing time! ;D

Fact 4: The Alien/Human Hybrid Family Unit (or Leave It To Betelgeuse). Sadly, according to some of the most renowned researchers in the field, it is a sobering truth that just about everybody on the face of this planet has, unbeknownst to them, an Alien husband or wife with whom they have produced enough fugly bug-eyed kids that even the Galactic Child-Support System cannot process all the paperwork.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but all I can say is that you do NOT have an alien SPOUSE tucked away in the vast recesses of your subconscious cellar. Nope, sorry to tell you this - because what you DO have instead is an Alien user who thinks so little of your reputation that he/she/it has not even bothered to make it legal. Face it, these guys are just players and there's no way your EVER getting invited to Christmas dinner at their house/starship.
Plus, they're ALREADY married but their alien spouses don't understand them the way that YOU do. Capeche?

So there you have it. The truth hurts, but someone had to spill the beans. I like to think that in some small way, by posting this, I've given back to society and we'll all be better off for it in the end.

Speaking of END - watch out for those Aliens and their pesky a.n.a.l. probes! :O

I'll leave THAT one for Bubba at Tiny Trailer Town to handle.

So stay tuned for an alien themed giveaway coming up REAAAAAAALLLY soon!

This is your Commander Salamander, signing off.

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October Trix-N-Treatz EVENT

Harken up, all you brazen book lovin' maladapts!!!

One of my very best blog buds is hosting a wickedly awesome MONTH LONG event with tons of gruesome giveaways, interviews, interactive mayhem & ghostly goodness galore!

CLICK HERE to visit Doctor Viii and check out her schedule of activities.

Just a word o' warning, my wee charnal chums:

She's starting the month off with a bang! First one the list is *The Carnivale* ...

brrr. Brave I may be with zombies, vamps & shape shifters.

But!

Carnivals scare the beejeezis outta me.

Truth.

Especially creepy ones ...

I'd rather face a horde of slathering werewolves than a crowd of evil, cheesy-face clowns.

Ugh.

Dolls, too. With those fixed, glassy eyed stares. :0

PS. Rumor has it that sometime during the month aliens may be involved!?!

We'll have to check in with Bubba and the good folk at Tiny Trailer Town in

Pitfalls, Illinois to get the skinny.

Might even be a giveaway ...

So grab the tin foil and start making those anti-alien hats, boyz n' ghouls!

And while you're waiting to see where the nefarious space-pirate-people-grabbin' bug-eyed evil Greys are headed next, drop in at Velvet's for a helluva good time.

Tell her Bubba sent you!

Watch THIS Space

~ : COMING SOON : ~

My very FIRST ever EVER

GIVEAWAY

Are YOU, my foul little fiends

of Literary Perdition,

drooling to win your weight in

Gold, Jewels, and Rare First Editions?

Yeah. Me, too!

HOWEVER...

If you DO have a yen

to ***WIN***

SOME kind of bookish loot -

Perhaps a grisly novel,

or a chiclet oh-em-gee Read,

or just what-e-vah

I've unearthed

from within the deepest bowels of

M.A.D.'s Tome Tomb ...

stay tuned!