For those who didn’t win but would still like a copy, or who are unfamiliar with this books, click the link to read my review of CJ Darlington’s Thicker Than Blood. You can order a copy via my link on that review, or visit CJDarlington.com and enter her weekly(?) contest to try to win a copy there.

Well, Fiji water is sponsoring a give-away on An Apple A Day’s healthy food product review blog. Fiji is giving away a year’s supply of 24 bottle cases of their 500ml bottles of water in increments of 1 case per month for 12 months. So, if you’d like to win free Fiji water for a year, go ahead and enter. 3 ways to win.

Check out my NaNoWriMo blog for contest details. You want to. There’s coffee and candy involved. I almost kept some of it.

Otherwise, still prepping two professional blogs for launch… Fingers crossed, because I may be entering one into Blogging Idol 2. What’s that you say? I only want to win for the $1000 cash? Why, yes, yes I do.

Since I’m doing NaNoWriMo, I wanted to have enough posts to last the month at the new blog (in the health niche, more later) while I’m pounding out 50,000 words of fiction.

Don’t worry, though, most of my posting here are inspired because I’m writing. Instead, I’ve been building websites, which made fodder for my affiliate marketing blog.

So, please don’t be too mad at me. I am being productive! And social. Just… not so much here. Though, I did have another novel idea and… No, should finish the current one first. *sigh*

That’s a good thing, right? Well, not really. If this Act passes, every company, no matter how small, will be subject to huge registration fees (at minimum, $2000 a year, with a maximum of $12,000) and reams of paperwork for every change, no matter how small.

So, to spread the word about this, I’m giving away a tube of vegan lip balm and a bar of vegan soap from my favorite hand crafted soap maker. Please visit that link to see contest details.

You’ll want to hurry, though, as the contest ends October 1st!

As I was compiling the information, I found out about the FDA Globalization Act of 2008. This Act could put most or all small and micro cosmetics businesses out of business by charging exorbitant registration fees ($2000 yearly minimum, up to $12,000) and forcing loads of paperwork to be filled out for every change made to each product no matter how small.

In order to spread the word about this legislation, I’m hosting a contest on my lens for vegan skin care products, the prize of which is 1 tube of vegan lip balm, and a bar of vegan soap from my favorite supplier. The deadline is October 1st, so head on over and check out the rules!

Apparently the FDA are being barstuds again, and are trying to shut down micro businesses by charging outrageous registration fees and filing ridiculous amounts of paperwork.

So I’m hosting a contest to spread the word about the new legislation, and to show off my new favorite lip balm and soap provider.

The prize? A lip balm and soap from my fave supplier. I have an absolute mad love for this lip balm and soap (currently have: CranGrape lip balm, Coffee and Kahlua lip balm, Turkish Mocha cold processed soap, and she just sent me Chai Tea lip balm AND soap as free gifts with my purchases).

So if you want to enter to win vegan lip balm and soap, follow the link and read the directions. Then, follow the directions.

Anyway, the winner is Shauna Roberts, who is also having a book giveaway (deadline is 11pm Pacific time on Saturday, September 20th- so hop on over and have a look).

So Shauna, if you send a mailing address to WordVixen [at] gmail [dot] com, I’ll ship the book out to you on Saturday. Congratulations, and I hope you enjoy it.

Stay tuned, because I have a much cooler contest coming up…

So I offer you now, Goddess For Hire by Sonia Singh. I have a thing for Indian (as in Asia Indian, not Native American Indian) clothes, culture, food, music, movies… not necessarily in that order. Of course I couldn’t pass up a chick-lit from the perspective of, and based on, a 20 something Indian woman, now could I? And the young woman being Kali reborn? Um, duh! By the way, I wrote a Writers Review of Goddess For Hire back in 2007.

DaRules:

Da Rules:
Simply drop a comment on this post stating that you’re entering. No links are required, but always appreciated. Also, you have to be willing to give me a mailing address that accepts packages. It doesn’t have to be your mailing address, but it does have to be a real one, and I’ll need it by midnight Eastern time on Friday, or you’ll have to wait an extra week for shipment. (don’t worry, I’ll include my email on the announcement)

Winners of previous give-aways are still welcome to enter! And, I’m willing to ship world-wide.

Entries are cut off Thursday night at midnight Eastern, and I’ll draw and announce the winner on Friday.

I decided to give the fantasy books another week or two to cool off while I wait for my bloggy friends that are moving to get settled. So instead, I bring you….

Two Christian novels. These are more or less what’s considered “general” or “romance”, but are a bit more niche than that, but a little difficult to pin point.

The Parting is about a young Amish girl in the 1960′s, finding love, forgiveness, and Christ… More or less in that order.

Monday Morning Faith is about a librarian who falls in love with a Doctor who has a heart for missions- and she doesn’t.

Hmm… If I can sum these up in one sentence, why can’t I do the same for my book?

Anyway.

Da Rules:
Simply drop a comment on this post stating that you’re entering. No links are required, but always appreciated. Also, you have to be willing to give me a mailing address that accepts packages. It doesn’t have to be your mailing address, but it does have to be a real one, and I’ll need it by midnight Eastern time on Friday, or you’ll have to wait an extra week for shipment. (don’t worry, I’ll include my email on the announcement) If you only want one of the books, please state which one you want, and if you win I’ll draw again for the other book.

Winners of previous give-aways are still welcome to enter! And, I’m willing to ship world-wide.

Entries are cut off Thursday night at midnight Eastern, and I’ll draw and announce the winner on Friday.