MOAR Winnaz!

Hey gang -- a few more names to add to the winners list. Lucky you! Copies of  A WALK THROUGH A WINDOW and/or FACING FIRE will be jetting to you shortly, depending on the contest result.

Check out the winning blogs here:
From Marsha Skrypuch's Calla.Com blog, the winner is Karen Willsey Bass.

From Helene Boudreau's blog, Lisa triumphs!

Joanne is the winner on Jacquie Pearce's Wild Ink blog.

Still more winners...and more travel to come in the next little while. Stay tuned!

~kc

And the Winnah.....

...as drawn by the pointy claws of Maurice the cat...

....is....



Pissenlit!

Please email kc dyer at telus dot net and she can talk details.

Thanks to all for waxing poetic. A new contest next week !

~Darby

Winner...

....with apologies for the delay in posting.


Launch week activities kept Maurice too busy to help make the draw, but I poured a little milk in a saucer and it did the trick.

He slowed down long enough to declare...




BJ is the winner of a signed novel by the swashbuckling CC Humphreys.

Congratulations, BJ!

Email kcdyer@telus.net with your snail mail address and the book will be yours.

And don't forget -- our Skateboard Limerick Contest (in honour of NaPoMo -- National Poetry Month) is going strong...lots of crash-bang, smach-up entries -- just the way I like 'em!

There is still time to enter. Just drop your skateboard limerick into the comments section of this post (or any other post this week) and your name will be entered into the draw. And if you post a mention of this contest on your own blog -- we'll put your name in twice and double your chances!

Keep boarding!

~Darby

Maurice Purr-sents....

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The Winners!



Good old Maurice. I love to see his face -- it always means good news for someone!


Today we have four winners from new categories and one winner from an older draw who hasn't gotten in touch. Let's start there, shall we?

The winner of the exciting new novel by Micol Osterman is Nora. Now, kc dyer has sent you an email to the address you listed, Nora, but if you didn't get it, please email her back at kcdyer@telus.net and she will make sure you get your book!

This week's winners (at last!) are:

Sleepless Storyteller wins a copy of Jill Murray's new novel.
Llehn wins a copy of a Patricia Smiley novel.
katayoun is the lucky winner of a signed book by Anita Daher.
And the Word Gardner wins a copy of a Diana Gabaldon title.

The special prize winner this week of a copy of A WALK THROUGH A WINDOW and a copy of MS. ZEPHYR'S NOTEBOOK is Tracy.

Maurice sends a whisker rub of congratulations to you all! Please send an email to kcdyer@telus.net with your mailing address and the books will be winging their way to you as soon as possible.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow to read the interview with my final mystery author of Launch Celebration Month -- and to read about exciting plans for my next interviewing odyssey!

~Darby



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Apologies...and Congratulations!

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Before Maurice gets to his job of picking the winners with a twitch of his calico tail, I want to apologize to Jill Murray and all my readers for the typesetting snafu of this morning's post.

The spacing has now been de-wonked and all is back to normal.

Thanks for your patience.



And now...to this week's winners!



Lucky winners please send kc dyer your address at kcdyer@telus.net and signed books will be winging their way to you soon...

James McCann's book goes to H
Vicki Pettersson's novel goes to Pissenlit (*special accolades for your handle, too...)
Micol Ostow's lucky winner is Nora
Robert J Sawyer's jumping jetpacker is A Novel Woman.
Shelley Hrdlitschka's book goes to kayla
Diane Haynes novel goes to MJ

And the grand prize winner of a copy of MS. ZEPHYR'S NOTEBOOK and a copy of A WALK THROUGH A WINDOW is .... Erika Lynn!

Heartiest of congratulations to all!


Now, tomorrow's blog post may come a little late as the scribe has to work all day at a CWC camp -- but it will be up, so never fear. Check back to see our mystery guest then.


~Darby

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Winners!

Here's Maurice* the cat, jumped down off his favourite warm spot on the windowsill, to help share the names of this week's winners.

As you may remember, I am celebrating the launch of my new book A WALK THROUGH A WINDOW by interviewing as many blogging authors as I can get to speak with me. If you'd like to share in the celebration from afar, you can click on the title and buy the book. Or better still, you can win a free book by adding your comments to each blog post. At the end of each week in March we are making a big draw....so without further ado -- let's get to it!

And the winners are:

A signed novel by Nikki Tate goes to Diana Dang.

A signed copy of Lois Peterson's Meeting Miss 604 (and a bag of wine gums) goes to Kathy C.

A signed copy of The Young City by James Bow goes to MJ.

A signed copy of The Runaway Princess by Kate Coombs goes to Paradox.

A signed copy of The Kids Book of Canada's Railways by Deborah Hodge goes to Steph Su.

A signed copy of Acadian Star by Hélène Boudreau goes to kayla.

A signed copy of Daughter of War by Marsha Skrypuch goes to H.


And the grand prize of a copy of A WALK THROUGH A WINDOW and a copy of MS. ZEPHYR'S NOTEBOOK goes to nhertel85.

Winners, please send an email with your name and snail mail address to kc dyer at telus dot net, and (as my executive assistant) she will send all the books to their respective winners.

Thanks to everyone for playing along...and don't stop now! The celebration continues with more authors and give-aways ....every day for the rest of the month. Stop in tomorrow and see who is on tap.

~Darby





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We have our First Week Winners!

This is Maurice. To find out how to pronounce his name, how he got his name and why this isn't the ACTUAL Maurice, you'll have to head on over and listen to kc dyer's LONG (and apparently funny to only she and her sister, so why bother?) explanation on her blog.


Maurice is here for one reason only. He has brought me the names of the winners of this week's book prizes.

And he even has a SURPRISE Prize under one paw.

More on that, later.


Let's get to the winners, shall we?

Mystery author #1 this week was Jacqueline Pearce. The winner of Jacquie's book DISCOVERING EMILY is....Erika Lynn. Congratulations, Erika!

Mystery author #2 was Tanya Lloyd Kyi. The winner of Tanya's book GREAT CANADIAN GIRLS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD is....Diana Dang. Go Diana!

Mystery author #3 this week was Donald Calame. The winner of and advanced reading copy of Don's new book SWIM THE FLY (plus a limited edition swim cap!) is....Steph Su. Hooray Steph!

Mystery author #4 this week was Linda Gerber. The winner of an advanced reading copy of Linda's new book DEATH BY DENIM (which, I might add, _I_ have not even read yet!) is ...Kayla. Way to go, Kayla!

Now -- remember that SurPrize that Maurice has under his paw? It is a copy of A WALK THROUGH THE WINDOW, the amazing new story by kc dyer, starring MOI, also known as Darby the Magnificent. Apparently kc dyer is feeling generous, because she is also throwing in a copy of her last novel, MS. ZEPHYR'S NOTEBOOK, which is not starring, MOI, but I do have to admit is not a bad read.

And the winner of that special Paw Prize is....ca2ajs. And a very cryptic name that is, too. What shall we call you for short? Ca? CJ? Regardless -- congratulations to you ca2ajs!

Now, lucky winners, to claim your prizes, please email kcdyer at telus dot net (running the whole thing together and replacing the 'at' with an @ and the 'dot' with a .) with your mailing address, and she will send the signed copies of the prizes to you forthwith.

Meaning right away.

Maurice (pronounced Morris -- which you would know if you'd read kc dyer's blog by now) and I, the Magnificent Darby, will be drawing for more prizes NEXT Friday. In between now and then, I will have interviews with seven (count 'em, SEVEN) more astonishing and generous authors, who will be sharing copies of their books for our draw.

So make sure you tune in every day to read the interviews and get a chance to win some amazing books. Just leave a comment on the interview post of the author whose book you'd like to win, and your name will be entered into the draw.

It's that simple!

Today's mystery author -- just in case you need reminding -- was Nikki Tate, and you can still leave your comment on her interview to be eligible to win one of her novels.

Do it -- you'll regret it if you don't!

See you tomorrow.

~Darby

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