Giveaway Time!

As promised, I'm posting today with my first giveaway of 2011! Many of you know that my book, The Lipstick Laws, debuts in April of this year. 2011 is a very special year for me, so in turn, I want to give back with an extra special giveaway:

One Lucky Winner Will Receive:
1 - $25 Amazon Gift Card
1 - $10 iTunes Gift Card
1 - signed ARC of The Lipstick Laws
Lots of Lipstick Laws swag (including signed & unsigned bookmarks, stickers, temporary tattoos, magnets, wax lips, etc.)
Lipstick & gloss from ELF Cosmetics
1 - Signed bookmark from Carrie Harris (my friend & author of the awesome upcoming book Bad Taste In Boys)
Class of 2k11 swag (bookmarks, stickers & postcard)
KidLit Authors Club Bookmarks








Entry Details
All you have to do to be entered once to win is:
1) Follow my Blog
2) Leave a comment saying why you'd like to win an ARC of The Lipstick Laws.
It's that easy! If you'd like extra entries to increase your odds of winning the prize package, you can do any or all of the following:

+1 - Tweet about this giveaway
+1 - Mention on facebook
+1 - Add my giveaway to your blog sidebar
+2 - Write a blog post about this giveaway or The Lipstick Laws
+1-10 - Vote for The Lipstick Laws on any of THESE GOODREADS LISTS. you'll get one extra entry per vote, up to ten total per person. Previous votes do not count.

**You can earn up to 15 extra entries (16 total) if you do all of the above**

Please add up all of your extra entries and leave the total number of entries along with your comment. I will be verifying your extra entries, so if you'd like to leave links, that's great!

This giveaway is open to international participants & the winner will be chosen at random and announced on February 14, 2011 - Valentine's Day! Good luck!

Upcoming Giveaway, Interview & Fabulously Fun Art

Eek! Okay, I realize that I haven't posted in two weeks... to make up for this, I plan on hosting a contest/giveaway on my blog next week. Check back on Monday (the 24th) for the details.

In the meantime, please link over to my recent interview at Tori Scott's blog HERE. While you're there, make sure to check out Tori's full website - she's fabulous!!

Speaking of fabulous, take a look at this AWESOME poster art that an early reader (Vickie over at Coma Calm's Book Reviews) made for The Lipstick Laws at Glogster.com:



Isn't it awesome?!?! I LOVVVVVE it! <3 Thanks again, Vickie, for making my day with this fantastic art!! You can also check out Vickie's review of my book HERE.

Hope to see you all for my giveaway starting on Monday! :)

Happy New Year & Lipstick Lowdown #3

Happy 2011 everyone! I was absent from the blogosphere for the last couple of weeks during the holidays. I had a lot of fun and I hope all of your holidays were fabulous & that 2011 will be an amazing year for us all!

Now to my second bit of blog business. Today is January 4th! Do you know what that means?!?! It's my birthday tomorrow! Do you know what else?!? It's exactly THREE months until the official release of The Lipstick Laws! Yay! To celebrate & help me count down, I'm posting about all things lipstick on the fourth of every month up until April. For today's post, I've found this lipstick tutorial. I know, I know... you wouldn't think you'd need a tutorial to put on lipstick correctly...but apparently applying red lipstick is more difficult than one might think. Check out these tutorial tips:



Not quite sure why this lady says she has blue in her skin?? Perhaps she's part smurf? Regardless, I think it's a pretty good tutorial. Although I should confess that I'm more of a lip gloss girl. If you read The Lipstick Laws, you may shy away from red lipstick as well.

I hope you'll come back next month for Lipstick Lowdown #4!