Janette Rallison's Blog, page 47

Slayers countdown Revenge of the Cheerleaders give-away

Yes, that magical day that we've all been waiting for is almost upon us. I'll be talking about Slayers at the Hamilton Library in Chandler on the 28th and the book launch will be at Changing Hands on Oct 4. This means I need to get my hair cut, and I probably should find something to wear that doesn't look like pajamas.

But that's another matter. On to the give-away. Today it's a hardback of Revenge of The Cheerleaders.

Leaving a comment on the CJ Hill blog will get you one chance.
Being a follower of the CJ Hill blog will get you another chance.
Announcing this give-away and or posting the cover of Slayers on your blog/facebook/ or twitter and telling your peeps that Slayers is coming out Sept 27 will get you three chances.


Chelsea's school year has taken a turn for the worse. After being dumped by her boyfriend and humiliated at the pep assembly by her younger sister's boyfriend, Rick, she's just concentrating on avoiding any other major embarrassments.

That's when Rick and his band debut their new album, complete with a whole set of songs bashing cheerleaders. Chelsea's humiliation has reached a whole new level now that everyone is walking down the halls singing the words to "Dangerously Blonde."

It's time to make Rick pay. All he wants is to win the High School Idol audition, so he can be on his way to rock star fame and fortune. But with the help of her best friends, Aubrie and Samantha, Chelsea is going to steal his victory right out from under him.

The characters from All's Fair in Love, War and High School are back, only this time it's payback.
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And the extra winners are . . .

Okay, awesome blog commenters, I love you all. I've been doing the give-aways on my other blog. http://www.cjhillbooks.blogspot.com/ Since the new book is coming out under a pen name and the publisher wanted a separate blog for it. It's all very confusing.

But I feel bad people have been commenting on this blog, so I put all the commenters here into another drawing just for you guys and I drew two winners:

Jane Doe

and Heather.

Send me your addresses at jrallisonfans at yahoo dot com and I'll let you choose one of the books I've already done: All's Fair; Life, love; Fame, Glory; or Ex-boyfriend.

But then go to the other blog to leave comments for the rest of the give-aways.

Cheers,

Janette

And the winner is Kathryn Packer Roberts

Send me your address and I'll send you a book.

Slayers countdown Exboyfriend give-away

I can't believe I went to bed last night without posting my new give-away. I have a memory like Dori on Finding Nemo. What can I say?

But here's the day's give-away: A hardback of How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-boyfriend.

Leaving a comment on the CJ Hill blog will get you one chance.
Being a follower of the CJ Hill blog will get you another chance.
Announcing this give-away and or posting the cover of Slayers on your blog/facebook/ or twitter and telling your peeps that Slayers is coming out Sept 27 will get you three chances.

And here is the trailer:

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Slayers Countdown/ It's a Mall World After All

Hey, blog friends. It's time to count down the days until Slayers is released. Time to make dragon shaped sugar cookies!

Here's the deal:

Leaving a comment on the CJ Hill blog will get you one chance.
Being a follower of the CJ Hill blog will get you another chance.
Announcing this give-away and or posting the cover of Slayers on your blog/facebook/ or twitter and telling your peeps that Slayers is coming out Sept 27 will get you three chances.

This is actual math, but I'm willing to do it.

Today's give-away is a paperback of It's a Mall World After All


It's too bad they don't give out diplomas for what you learn at the mall, because I could graduate with honors in that subject. No really. Since I've worked there, I've become an expert on all things shopping-related. For example, I can tell you right off who to distrust at the mall:

1) Skinny people who work at Cinnabon. I mean, if they're not eating the stuff they sell, how good can it be?

2) The salesladies at department store makeup counters. No matter what they tell you, buying all that lip gloss will not make you look like the pouty models in the store posters.

3) And most importantly--my best friend's boyfriend, Bryant, who showed up at the food court with a mysterious blonde draped on his arm.

Yeah, I saw it, and yeah, I told my best friend all about it.

You would think this would mean trouble for Bryant, but you would basically be wrong. Somehow, the evil boyfriend turned everything around, and now I'm the one who has to prove myself! But I will. Even if Bryant--and more importantly his best friend, Colton--keep trying to stop me.



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Slayers Countdown/ Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To Do List

Hey, blog friends. It's time to count down the days until Slayers is released. Don't you just love singing all the Slayers carols?

Here's the deal:

Leaving a comment on the CJ Hill blog will get you one chance.
Being a follower of the CJ Hill blog will get you another chances.
Announcing this give-away and or posting the cover of Slayers on your blog/facebook/ or twitter and telling your peeps that Slayers is coming out Sept 27 will get you and additional chance.

This is actual math, but I'm willing to do it for you.

I'll post a picture and blurb about the book, take comments that day, then choose a winner that night when I go to bed. This is generally pretty late, but you never know, I might change my ways, so post early.

Sept 20th's give-away Hardback of Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To Do List

Here's one of my favorite reviews from Goodread:

I heard my daughter laughing in bed last night and knew that she had snuck the book and was reading by flashlight!!! (I was right) :)

Ah, I love my readers. Here's the official blurb:

A PC school principal turns West Side Story into a comedy of errors.

Sixteen year-old Jessica dreams of Hollywood fame, and when Jordan moves into her small town, she dreams of him too. He's a movie star's son, and hey, he's gorgeous to boot. Jordan has always wanted to get out from the shadow cast by his superstar father, but now that he and his mother have moved so far away from LA, how can he get his divorced parents back together? Jessica convinces Jordan the way to get his father to come for a long visit is to be a part of the school play. And if she's "discovered" in the process, all the better. Things go wrong when she lets Jordan's secret identity slip, and grow even more disastrous when the principal tries to change West Side Story into a gangfree, violence-free, politically correct production.

In the same romantic and sharply witty spirit of Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws, Janette Rallison delivers another comic gem that teen readers are sure to love.

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Slayers Countdown/ Life, Love & the Pursuit of Free Throws give-away

Hey, blog friends. It's time to count down the days until Slayers is released. You all have your Slayers decorations up and your greeting cards sent, right?

**special note, I'm checking the list of followers on the blog, so make sure you are officially following on CJ's blog. The address is: http://www.cjhillbooks.blogspot.com/

Here's the deal:

Leaving a comment on the CJ Hill blog will get you one chance.
Being a follower of the CJ Hill blog will get you two chances.
Announcing this give-away and or posting the cover of Slayers on your blog/facebook/ or twitter and telling your peeps that Slayers is coming out Sept 27 will get you three chances.

Todays give-away is a paperback of Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

For some reason, blogger will not let me upload the cover. (Shakes fist at the technology demons who have cursed me again.)But here is the cover blurb:

Going head-to-head with your best friend is never easy, on the court or off.

Josie loves hottie Ethan Lancaster, the captain of the basketball team, but she never can do or say the right thing in front of him. So how can it be fair that Ethan is only interested in her best friend, Cami, when Cami isn't even trying for his affection? Or is she?

Cami dreams of winning her basketball team's coveted MVP award, and earning the chance to take the court during a special halftime demonstration with WNBA star Rebecca Lobo, but her best friend, Josie, is a better player. So how can it be fair that Josie is a shoo-in for the honor if she is barely interested in basketball in the first place and isn't even trying to be the best? Or is she?


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Book a day giveaway/Count down to Slayers

Hey, blog friends. It's time to count down the days until Slayers is released. You all have your Slayers decorations up and your greeting cards sent, right?

Here's the deal:

Leaving a comment on the CJ Hill blog will get you one chance.
Being a follower of the CJ Hill blog will get you two chances.
Announcing this give-away and or posting the cover of Slayers on your blog/facebook/ or twitter and telling your peeps that Slayers is coming out Sept 27 will get you three chances.

This is actual math, but I'm willing to do it.

Here's the blog address for you to go to so you can win an awesome book:

http://www.cjhillbooks.blogspot.com/


I'll post a picture and blurb about the book, take comments that day, then choose a winner that night when I go to bed. This is generally pretty late, but you never know, I might change my ways, so post early. I will try to contact you through your email, but if you don't have a contact through your blogging identity, you'll have to check every day to see if you won something.

Here's the schedule--you will notice that I am already behind, considering that I wanted to give away Slayers on the 27th. Yes, this is a reflection of either the difficulty I have with math or my general disorganization. I'm doubling up on the last day because of this.

Sept 18th paperback of All's Fair in Love, War, and High School

Sept 19th paperback of Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

Sept 20th Hardback of Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To Do List

Sept 21st paperback of It's a Mall World After All

Sept 22nd How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-boyfriend

Sept 23rd Hardback of Revenge of the Cheerleaders

Sept 24th paperback of Just One Wish

Sept 25th paperback of My Fair Godmother

Sept 26th Hardback of My Double Life

Sept 27th Hardback of My Unfair Godmother and a Hardback of Slayers


Sixteen-year-old Samantha Taylor is used to having things go her way. She's head cheerleader and has all the right friends and a steady stream of boyfriends. But when she tanks the SATs, her automatic assumptions about going to college don't appear to be so automatic anymore. She determines that her only hope for college admission is to win the election for student body president. Unfortunately, with her razor wit and acid tongue she's better suited to dishing out insults than winning votes.

When she brashly bets her classmate Logan that she can go two weeks without uttering a single insult, Samantha immediately realizes that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. And when her current boyfriend dumps her, less than three weeks before the prom, it couldn't be a worse time to be forced to keep her opinions to herself. Finding a new boyfriend will be a challenge now that Logan shadows her every move, hoping to catch her slipping back into her old ways. Samantha is determined to win the election and find a dream date for the prom, no matter what it takes. After all . . . all's fair in love and war (and high school!).

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Another Slayers give-away

I thought I'd give my blog followers a heads up. You can enter the Goodreads giveaway for Slayers at:

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway

Then go to the fantasy link on the righthand side. Right now it's on the second page.

I'll be starting my book-a-day give-away on Sept 17th (Or 18th if I forget, you know how I am . . .)

And here's a couple of reviews:

"Bold, imaginative, and very, very exciting! This is the best new Dragon mythology I've read in ages. Awesomely good stuff."

- James A. Owen, author and illustrator of HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS

"enjoyably campy"--Kirkus

I have to laugh at the Kirkus review because the book is set at a summer camp. I wonder if they intended the pun. Probably not. Kirkus isn't known for their sense of humor.

And the winner is Wendy Jones

Send me your address and I'll get the ARC off to you.

And everybody else--don't despair I'll be doing a ten day long book a day give-away starting on the 17th . . . or the 18th if I forget, which is highly possible.

Oh, and by the way, a lot of you were right. I'm standing by the column, fourth from the right.