Best Prize Ever!

Several weeks ago, Leah Stewart, one of the many authors that I'm a fan of hosted a contest on her Facebook page. She was giving away several copies of books by several different authors. I posted a comment to get included in the contest, but sadly, did not win.

Then about two weeks ago, she posted another update saying that some of the winners had not claimed their prizes! Really?! Why would you NOT claim FREE books?? Leah posted that we must promise to claim our prize and she would be redrawing winners.

You know where I'm going right... :)

I, of course, swore on my life that I would claim anything that I won. A few days later, I came home from a really crappy run (knee screamed at me for 5 miles), logged in to Facebook and saw:

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH!! You would've thought I just won a gazillion dollars!! To me, I may as well have!! Books are my FAVORITE thing!!!

So right away, I emailed Leah Stewart. Then I read all through her Facebook page trying to identify what I actually won. The next day, she wrote me back and advised that I won 10 copies of each of these books:

• Husband and Wife, by Leah Stewart
• The House on Fortune Street, by Margot Livesey
• The One That I Want, by Allison Winn Scotch
• Love in Mid Air, by Kim Wright
• Diamond Ruby, by Joseph Wallace
• Belong to Me, by Marisa de los Santos
• Pictures of You, by Caroline Leavitt
• Pieces of Happily Ever After, by Irene Zutell
• Girl Trouble, by Holly Goddard Jones
• Disaster Preparedness, by Heather Havrilesky
• After You, by Julie Buxbaum
• The Fury, by Jason Pinter

I haven't read ANY of them! The ladies in my local book club are sooo excited (and really like me a LOT now!) We are set for the next year and no one needs to spend a penny on books!

Tonight, I get home from picking up Andrew from practice and see a box on the front porch, addressed to me, from Harper Collins. YAAYYYY!!

My first 10 books!! If they all come individually (10 books at a time) like this, it's going to be SO much fun! Packages, packages!! Like Christmas all the time!! Now I have to get upstairs to bed... I have a book to read!