Valenduckie: It’s a Wrap!
Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:22
Before Syb fires me for being the worst Contest Duckie ever (I admit it, I’m Wordpress challenged, or as Syb said, I have bevnical difficulties), I wanted to send some luv out.
I hope all of you had as much fun during Valenduckie Week as we did. Our Guest Cupids and all you “honorary duckies” created sooo much fun and mayhem! HUGE THANKS to all of you for joining us– YOU made it a party for US, too. (I have to admit that enticing Phil Gigante to come play with us made me as giddy as my 5th grade self was with The Monkees.)
And kudos to our duckie wrangler, Sybil. All those techie hiccups with the new template were worth it because Valenduckie Week showed us that Syb’s vision of a magazine style site was spot-on. The mayhem and craziness were safely contained within the Events box while Reviews and Ponderings each had their own spotlights without getting lost in the Valenduckie mayhem.
If you haven’t done so yet, check our Guest Cupid posts to see if you’ve won a prize. Look to your right… see the sidebar? Click on the names to read the Valenduckie stories from our Guest Cupids. Many of them also held contests, so click on the word “Winner” next to their name to see who scored some Valenbooty.
Want to browse through all the posts? When you go back to the front page, look at the title of this section– “BUZZ, GUESTS, and EVENTS – click for index” -OR- the “Category”/ “Guest & Events” drop-down box at the bottom of the right sidebar. Click on them to scroll through everything in that category. Or look down at the bottom of this post. See the blue “tag” that says “Valenduckie”? Click that to browse only the Valenduckie posts. (BTW, those methods also work to browse our Reviews and Ponderings, too.)
You remember all those prize packs o’ books that our Valenduckie Surprise winners won? Well, I want to shower some duckie love and thanks on the people that made those prizes possible.
Our two Purple Prose Challenge winners, Sharmi and Little Lamb Lost, have picked a couple of good ones from Samhain, who gave them each a choice of any ebook download…
Berkley will be sending the winner of our Valenduckie Surprise #1, Katiebabs, the following:
Also from Berkley, the winner of Valenduckie Surprise #3, JSL, will receive…
Valenduckie Surprise #2 winner, Azteclady, will receive her books courtesy of Harper Collins (Avon, Avon Red):
Our Mission imPossible winner, Becky, will receive:
From Dorchester (mailed separately)
Courtesy of Jo Goodman, SIGNED by Jo Goodman
Courtesy of Avon Red
Courtesy of Kresley Cole, SIGNED by Kresley Cole
Courtesy of Bantam Dell
[Oh, btw, if Syb is crazy enough to keep me on as the Contest Duckie, be prepared for spontaneous outbursts of "SYB! I wanna give something away!"]
azteclady says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
Thank YOU, guys, for throwing this party–it’s quite the shindig! *grin*
And thank you to all the guest authors–you guys are cool indeed.
Katie says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
Congrats to everyone, and thanks for letting me win something, too
This looks like hours upon hours of work and love for the genre, way to go!
Btw. I always forget to say it, but this picture is beyond cute. Okey, I am going to search my landladie’s cats now, need someone to cuddle.
Sybil says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 am
LOL katie we did debate about next time if we needed to put a limit on how many times a person could win because you were won three times! I think fate was trying to make up for all the contests you can’t enter.
In fact we had a few people win twice and about 5 or so winners outside the US.
I think we are really lucky because so many authors and publisher are willing to ship outside the us. Not to say I don’t understand not being able to – when TGTBTU is picking up the cost we go back and forth.
And yeah the amount of time is a touch boggling. And everytime I do this I swear next time it will be easier. better planned… more thought out… less shiny…
Oh did you know it is a leap year this year! Something that happens once every four years really should have a par-tay! yes?
BevQB says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
Isn’t that the day that women can propose to men (traditionally speaking, of course)?
I say we turn the site over to the cover models and have a Festival of Mantitty. A Celebration of Headless Chests. A Conga Line of Cockpuppets. Oh, and kilts– a Kiltacular. YES! Just think of the prize possibilities!
;-p
Sybil says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
le sigh
even on the off chance I were to let you and gwen have a festiv… le sigh ::shakes head:: I don’t think any of the prize possibilities are legal.
katiebabs says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
BEST V-DAY ever!
Thanks ladies.
Christine says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Congrats to all the Valenduckies winners!
As always, Sybil, the contests were great fun.
Thank you for the entertainment (and enlightenment in some areas! lol)
Danny says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Big congrats to all winners.
Thanks for such a fun party
Sybil says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Hope you got some new books to love in there katiebabs!
Thanks Christine! I procured most of the prizes, other than the Round Robin, the geninus behind how the prizes were used to ensure the highest levels of mayhem go the the mad plotting of bev & pig.
And the Round Robin – which is pretty much what kick started this whole par-tay – we owe to the evol genuis of THE EC Sheedy. Who should be back to guest with us in May. She just might not know it yet. I keep forgetting who I have informed of my mad plans or not
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azteclady says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
*standing ovation and eternal gratitude to the duckies*
Ladies, you know how to put a shindig together!!!
JSL says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Thanks for holding all the contests – and congrats to all the winners!
Little Lamb Lost says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Thanks for all of the grand fun!
Gwen says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
**ahem**
kim h says:
February 24th, 2008 at 12:09 am
wtg winners
was there a winner pciked for Jaci?
lisabea says:
February 24th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Thanks ladies! I do believe that a good time was had by all.
BevQB says:
February 24th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Kim H, yep we did, you can find the winner here.
Oh crap… now we need a Gwen to English translater. That “**ahem**” of hers could have multiple meanings, some could be “hee-hee, Gwen, you are EVOL” and some could be “ruh-roh, weez in truble NOW”.
Gwen says:
February 24th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
::cough::hours of work on pics::cough
Lis says:
February 24th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Congrats to all the lucky winners
Christine says:
February 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Well, then thank you to Bev and Teddy for your mad organizational skills!
Thanks to the authors for their contributions…..
And of course a thank you and thumbs up goes to Gwen for your mad picture skills!
Did I miss anyone?
Jane says:
February 24th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
You guys sure know how to throw a party. Congrats to all the winners.
Sabrina jeffries says:
February 24th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Thanks for the wild party, all of you! Now go take a rest and read for a bit!
Lynne Connolly says:
February 25th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Thank you for having me! That was so much fun, can we do it again sometime?
My winners haven’t contacted me yet, but I do have your books waiting for you!
sharmi says:
February 25th, 2008 at 9:45 am
That was so fun! Thanks for the great party and all those opportunities to win such great books!
Laura K says:
February 27th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Thanks for everything. So glad I found your blog!