Back to the Books Hop

Welcome to the Back to the Books Giveaway Hop. This giveaway runs September 1-7, 2012. Please fill out the form below. Five winners will be chosen. Those five winners will be able to pick any of the eBooks I wrote (excluding the co-written eBooks). I will send winners a code for Smashwords where you can pick from any format for your eReader.

You have to like my Facebook fan page for your first entry (this is just liking the page, you don't have to friend me). You can get up to 4 more entries by following or friending me on the websites below for a total of 5 entries.

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Bad Ideas - Monday Mom Post

One of my daughters got a towel bag as a present. That's what I call it because I have no idea what it is actually called. I thought it was a good idea at first...

It's a beach towel that folds itself into a bag with a strap. That way you can actually stuff your bathing suit and goggles (or whatever) into the bag and throw it over your shoulder. Cool. No extra bag to hold everything needed.

Until my daughter stashed it into her room for days...used it another time...stashed it in her room again...repeat, repeat, repeat. I found it one day, pulled the towel out, and was disgusted by the huge black mold spots. OMG! I asked her why she was continuing to use the towel and she said she thought it was dirt!!!! EW!!!! I tried bleaching the thing, but no luck, so it's gone on to a better place now.

This is just one of those ideas the inventor didn't think through. Many kids just don't think about things like mildew and mold. And I never realized it was missing out of the wash.

Winners Announced

The winners have been picked and posted on Rafflecopter. Scroll down to see. I've also sent an email to the 5 winners to pick a book. Congratulations to the winners and like I said stay tuned because I'll be having another giveaway soon!!!

Winners

I know!!! Don't yell at me!! I promise to get to the winners tomorrow (Saturday). I have been SO busy this week with back to school stuff. But as of tomorrow afternoon, it should slow down. I will pick winners tomorrow.

Thank you all for entering!! If you don't win, stay tuned, another giveaway will be coming up soon.

Last Days of Freedom Giveaway Hop

Welcome to the Last Days of Summer Giveaway Hop. This giveaway runs August 17-22, 2012. Please fill out the form below. Five winners will be chosen. Those five winners will be able to pick any of the eBooks I wrote (excluding the co-written eBooks). I will send winners a code for Smashwords where you can pick from any format for your eReader.

You have like my Facebook fan page for your first entry (this is just like the page, you don't have to friend me). You can get up to 4 more entries by following or friending me on the websites below for a total of 5 entries.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Signs In Your Yard - Monday Mom Post

There are people in the neighborhood that place signs in their yards with their children's names on them. Some even have a year or grade under their name. Most of them seem to be sports related. Maybe you've seen them? Maybe you have one? A giant baseball that says FRED 2012. So, now anybody going by your house knows that you have a son named Fred, that he's old enough to play baseball, and young enough not to care that you have his name on a sign in the front of the house.

What a magnet for a kidnapper! Seriously! Think about it. Some crazy guy (or gal) driving by sees that you have a son or daughter around the age they'd like. Now, they know the kid's name as well.

Smart. Really smart. Great advertising! Hey kidnapper! Yeah you!!! I've got a 7 year old boy who loves baseball. Come and get him! His name is Fred!!

You won't find one of those in front of our house. And I urge you to think about it before putting one in front of your house.

New Website and New Release

Now that the blog hop is over I can brag about my new website and new release!!!

I decided I better go ahead and purchase my domain name before any crazed fans out there did :) So I did that and then found a place to host it. Then I had to figure out how to set it up. Thankfully my husband is pretty good at that kind of stuff and what he doesn't know he can learn. I couldn't have done it without Lizzy Ford and her husband. They taught us a few things!! It was definitely a learning process. Still is.

I do plan to blog, but I'm not sure where it will be. I can move it over to wordpress and have it attached to my site or continue on here. I haven't decided yet.

Here's the site!!! http://www.taliajager.com

If anyone has any opinions or advice, let me know.

Next up, my new release with Julia Crane: Dark Promise (A Between Worlds Novel). This is book one of a series about faeries.

Rylie has it all - great friends, dream boy, loving family. But on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, her perfect little world shatters. A stranger claiming to be her real mother appears with a dark secret: Rylie is a faery whose powers will be unleashed on her birthday. Captured and forced into a new life, Rylie struggles to keep everything she loves and discovers a terrifying truth: some promises cannot be broken.

                                     

Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008QI80MS

Barnes & Noble - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-promise-julia-crane/1112301582?ean=2940014996471

We're hoping to have book 2 out around the 2012 holidays.

Summer Splash Winners!!

Congratulations to Chrystina Williams who won the $10 Amazon eCertificate and a copy of one of my eBooks.

Also congratulations to the following four winners who will each get a copy of one of my eBooks:
Catrina Barton
Tobi Helton
Trianna Hyde
Kaci McClellon Verdun

Look for emails from me shortly to pick your book.
All winners must respond within 72 hours or forfeit their prize.
Thank you to everyone who entered and make sure you check back. I will be participating in another blog hop very soon.