Win a complete Jodi Picoult library!

Simon and Schuster Canada is running an amazing giveaway that starts today October 18th.  The winner will receive all of Jodi Picoult's books.  That's a lot of books!  I have read several of her books and I loved all of them.  I love how she deals with difficult issues, but does it with care and grace.  If you haven't read any of her books, you need to go do so immediately!  I think my favorite book of hers is Sing You Home which comes out in paperback today as well.  You can find out more information about Jodi and her books at her website.  She also has a new book Lone Wolf that comes out in February that I cannot wait for.  Go enter the contest!

Giveaways around the blogosphere

The Bibliophilic Book Blog is giving away an ereader or a gift card.
The Trendy Mommy is giving away a Target gift card.

Giveaways around the blogosphere

Saturday Morning is giving away a bunch of stuff.
From the Trees is giving away an Amazon gift card.
Bookalicio.us is having a 2 year blogoversary giveaway.
The Saved Quarter is having a huge blogoversary giveaway.
The Book Kritic is giving away an Amazon gift card.

Giveaways around the blogosphere

Sparkling Reviews is giving away a Nook Color.
My Life with Rats is giving away a TV.
The Nerd's Wife is having an awesome blogoversary giveaway, including a Kindle.

Giveaways around the blogospher

Sparkling Reviews is giving away a Kindle

Giveaways around the Blogosphere

My Love Affair with Books is having a Birthday Affair Giveaway.
The Mom Buzz is giving away a Target gift card
Evoluchun's  is giving away an Amazon gift card
Avery's Book Nook is having her first contest.
Living on Love and Giveaways is giving away an Amazon gift card.

Current giveaways

Debbie's World of Books is having several Buy Books for the Holidays giveaways.
    YA book pack
    Historical Fiction book pack


Bargain Mom is giving away a $100 gift card
Win a Sony Reader- Living on Love and Giveaways

CSN giveaway winner

I had 130 entries for this giveaway and reached 200 followers! Thank you to everybody who entered and is a follower. 

The winner is: #44
Crave to Save

I emailed you and you have 48 hours to respond. If I do not hear back, I will pick a new winner.

Current giveaways

200 followers giveaway - Cladestine Sanctuary 
1000 followers giveaway - Candace's Book Blog  
Win a gift card of your choice- Fun Saving Mom 
1000 followers giveaway- PS Mom Reviews 
Saturday Steals giveaway- I Heart Monster 
Win an Amazon gift card- Extreme Personal Measures 
Win a Target gift card- Living on Love and Giveaways

Giveaway: $45 CSN Stores gift certificate

CSN Stores is an amazing website that has over 200 stores.  You can find everything from nesting tables to fitness equipment.  As a book nerd, I particularly love these tables.  I especially love the drawer in each one.

A few months ago I worked with CSN Stores and did a review on a beautiful bag that I bought for school.  I am excited to work with them again. I am giving one of my readers a $45 gift certificate that can be used for anything on any of their sites.

To enter, just leave a comment on this post.
+1- Follow my blog via Google Friend Connect
+1- Tweet/blog/post on sidebar (1 entry for each one)

This contest will end on Monday, October 4 at midnight.

Current giveaways

Down the Rabbit Hole is having a 100 followers giveaway
e-Volving books is having a 100 followers giveaway
Shooting Stars Mag is giving away a $25 gift card of your choice

Current giveaways

Win an Amazon gift card- Chubby Cheeks Thinks
Win 2 books or an Amazon gift card- K2 +K2 

Win a Kindle!

Bitten by Books is giving away a Kindle as part of the Blogfest giveaways.

Win a Kindle!

Simply Stacie and Luxury Reading are giving away a Kindle.  Go to either of their blogs to enter. 

Current Giveaways

Win one of 3 book prize packs: I Should Be Writing
Win a copy of The deLacy Inheritance: Passages to the Past 
Win an Amazon gift card from GiftZip.com: New Age Mama 
Win an Amazon gift card: Peaches' Reviews and Giveaways 
Blogoversary giveaway: The Bibliophilic Book Blog ( please mention I sent you)

Current giveaways

This is an ongoing list of giveaways around the blogosphere.  I will keep adding to it as I find new ones.

A Fanatic's Book Blog is giving away books of your choice.
Extreme Personal Measures is giving away an Amazon gift card.
Like Mother Like Daughter is having a 50 follower giveaway
Take Time to Smell the Roses is giving away $50 cash.
Gift Zip is giving away a prize of your choice. Tell them I sent you.
Mom's Focus Online is giving away an Amazon gift card.
Books Complete Me is having a 200 Follower giveaway
Bloody Bookaholic is giving away a bookshelf
Thanks Mail Carrier is giving away an Amazon gift card
Queen of Happy Endings is giving away your choice of book.

Current giveaways

Mommy Minded is giving away a Target gift card.
Ice Fairys Treasure Chest is giving away an Amazon gift card.
Freebie Spot is giving away an Amazon gift card.
Deals 4 Dummies is giving away a Visa gift card.
Mint Green with Envy is giving away an Amazon gift card.
Simply Stacie is giving away Her Fearful Symmetry.
My Life with Rats is giving away $400.
Health, Beauty, Children and Family - vote for her daughter's idea and win a gift card of your choice.
Stir Your Tea is giving away $100 worth of books.

Current giveaways

Here is a list of some current giveaways.

Just Jennifer Reading is giving away Backseat Saints.
Health, Beauty, Children and Family is giving away a gift card of your choice.
Adventures in the Land of Choo Choos is giving away a Visa gift card.
Couponing to be Debt Free is giving away a gift card to Plastic Jungle.
Not So Blog is giving away a Cracker Barrel rocking chair.

Roast Mortem by Cleo Coyle Release Party Mega Giveaway

LRC's Roast Mortem Publication Release Party Mega Giveaway

WHAT:  A Party To Celebrate the Release of Roast Mortem by Cleo Coyle

HOSTED BY:  Lori's Reading Corner

WHERE:  Book Blogs Across The U.S.A 

      WHEN:  August 3 - 16, 2010

Roast Mortem (Coffee House Mystery) by Cleo Coyle

Clare Cosi, manager and head barista of the landmark Village Blend coffeehouse, has perfected the pulling of steaming hot espressos. But can she keep New York’s Bravest from getting burned?

After the firefighters of Ladder Company 189 pull Clare’s friends out of a blazing café, she happily comes to their rescue. As a favor to the men, Clare visits their firehouse kitchen to teach them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But as she gets to know these fearless few, more than their coffee turns out to be hot. Somebody’s torching cafés around the city, and firefighters are beginning to die in suspicious ways.


Believing the two events are related, Clare investigates, staking out a five-borough bake sale and sniffing out clues in the pizza joints of Brooklyn. Then her detective boyfriend, Mike Quinn, is pulled into the fire of a false accusation and Clare is desperate to put out the flames. But will she be able to come to Mike’s rescue before someone tries to extinguish her?

"Coyle's strong 9th Coffeehouse Mystery pays tribute to New York City firefighters." ~ Publishers Weekly

A Note from Cleo Coyle

My husband and I have been living and working in New York City for over twenty years. Our Coffeehouse Mysteries—a unique blend of crime, romance, humor, and action—are set here, too, around a landmark Greenwich Village coffee shop called the Village Blend.

Through eight books now, our quirky town has fueled us with strange-but-true ideas for characters and plotlines from criminal to culinary. For the ninth entry in our series, we drew inspiration from yet another local source: New York’s Bravest.

It’s hard not to admire New York firefighters (and I’m not even going to flash you with the annual hunks in hardhats calendar). Oh, sure, they can be as cranky and crazy as the rest of us. After all, most of them actually like running into burning buildings. But I think of them more as knights in bunker gear.

Every day, these men and women beat back a new fire monster, rescuing citizens from the jaws of its wreckage. Their firehouses look like castle strongholds. Even their symbol is a knightly one—the Maltese Cross. “Every firefighter works in courage,” states the FDNY, “a ladder rung away from death, willing to lay down his life for you.”

Now that’s the stuff of heroes and (crazy or not) heroes inspire writers. In fact, the very idea of running into a burning building to save an innocent victim struck me as the perfect analogy for what Clare Cosi does in our Coffeehouse Mysteries.


A divorced single-mom in her forties, Clare is a coffee shop manager by day, an irrepressible snoop by night. When something is wrong, she considers it her mission to right it—and arson that leads to murder is as wrong as it gets.

At the start of Roast Mortem, an unknown arsonist begins torching cafés around the city. When an FDNY ladder company comes to the rescue of Clare and her co-workers, she returns the favor by rescuing these fearless few from some seriously bad coffee. Then her new firemen friends begin dying in suspicious ways, and Clare finds reason to believe their deaths are connected to the “Coffee Shop Arsonist.” Unfortunately, an overly-flirtatious member of the FDNY stands in her way. This strapping captain clearly has something to hide. But as Clare starts to dig deeper, someone threatens to extinguish her.

If you've never read a Coffehouse Mystery, don't let that stop you from picking up a copy of Roast Mortem. You can certainly enjoy it as a stand-alone novel. If you’ve been a fan of the series, this is one you won't want to miss because this is more than just another murder mystery for Clare Cosi. The events of the story trigger highly personal consequences that keep her reeling until the very end.

Read with joy!
~ Cleo



CLEO’S TASTY RECIPES

Like Cleo’s previous Coffeehouse Mysteries, Roast Mortem has a culinary theme and includes delicious recipes of foods mentioned in the story. CLICK HERE to get a sneak peek at the book’s recipe section, partly inspired by some firehouse kitchen favorites.

And speaking of firehouse kitchens, Cleo invites you to meet some real FDNY firefighters as they prepare the most important meal of the year—Thanksgiving Dinner. (Video courtesy of YouTube)


WIN FREE COFFEE!

Sign up for Cleo’s FREE
E-newsletter and you will be entered in all of her weekly coffee drawings. Just send an email to VillageBlend@aol.com that says “Sign me up”

To find out more about Cleo

or download her free bonus recipes, visit her virtual coffeehouse at: Coffee House Mystery

Praise for Cleo Coyle’s
Coffeehouse Mysteries…

“Clare and company are some of the most vibrant characters I've ever read. Coyle is also a master of misdirection and red herrings. I challenge any reader to figure out whodunit before Coyle reveals all”
—Mystery Scene

Starred review. “Coyle's Coffeehouse books are superb examples of the cozy genre because of their intelligent cast of characters, their subtle wit, and their knowledge of the coffee industry used to add depth and flavor to the stories...Highly recommended for all mystery collections.”
—Library Journal

CLICK HERE to read Roast Mortem’s

Prologue and First Chapter.

Bonus excerpt below…

First came the sound, a monumental whoosh followed by a hissing roar. The white-hot concussion rippled through the air, the cafè's front window exploded outward, and the blast washed over me.

My eyes had been at keyhole level while I worked that stupid, stubborn lock, and the force of the firebomb knocked me right through the doorway.

Sprawled on my back on the debris-strewn sidewalk, I turned my head, stared at the carpet of glass shards. Blood was pumping through my system so fast I could barely recognize voices yelling, a car horn beeping.

I was unhurt. Small scratches maybe, a few bruises, a little bleeding—big deal—I was okay otherwise, and I focused on throwing off the shock.

Wheezing and coughing, I got back on my feet. Smoke rolled out of the cafè, the noxious fog billowing upward in a succession of black, misshapen balloons. I scanned the sidewalk for my beer-filled barista.

“Dante!” I shouted, rushing back to the doorway. “Dante!”

Flames painted the cafè’s walls, spilling their colors onto its tables. The searing light in the urban night would have been beautiful if it weren’t so deadly.

“Dante! Answer me!”

Smoke stung my eyes. I gritted my teeth, swiped at my cheeks, peered harder into the chaos.

Up front, the heavy marble espresso bar counter appeared undamaged. But in the rear of the shop, the embroidered fabric that had masked the utility room was a raging curtain of flame. Finally I spotted him—or, rather, his big, black Diesel boots—sticking out amid a cluster of overturned tables. Taking a deep breath (and praying to God it wouldn’t be my last), I went in....

Roast Mortem: A Coffeehouse Mystery

Now Available in Hardcover

from Berkley Prime Crime

How the giveaway will work

I've decided to try this little experiment where we will cross promote this giveaway across the blogosphere while at the same time spreading the word about the release of Roast Mortem. If this is the success I hope it is, I will be be hosting at least one per month and maybe two.

Lori's Reading Corner will be the Grand Hostess for this giveaway.  All U.S.A. book bloggers out there are welcome to join. Each blogger will host the same contest on their site. After your contest is set up you will come back here and place a link to your contest in the Linky below. 

Non-bloggers -- enter each contest from the links below.

You MUST be a follower of both Lori's Reading Corner and of Lori on Twitter - @lorisbookblog to host this contest.   

You MUST use the same promo info in your contest as I have here, including linking to Cleo's site, Coffee House Mystery.  The design lay out is, of course,  up to you. 


You MUST collect the following information from the entrants in your contest ~

         * Name
         * Email address
         * Mailing address (so that the prizes may be sent right out)
         * Mailing to the USA ONLY ** NO PO BOXES
         * 18 years or older

         * You may also include the option for additional entries for such things as ~ following your blog, following my blog, following you and/or me on Twitter, signing up for Cleo's newsletter, or following Cleo on Twitter or Facebook.  (Links must be left to verify tweets,blogs etc. An example of one of my forms with some of these items may be found HERE).

Each person may enter the contest ONE time per blog (although if you add the additional entry options, they could have up to X amount of entries just on your site.)  HOWEVER they may enter the contest on as many blogs as they wish in order to increase their chances of winning.

When the contest is over, each host will choose one person from those that have signed up on their blog and come back here to my blog. I will have a google document set up where each host will then put their name, their blog name, and the email and mailing address of the entrant they chose to be a finalist to win one of six (6) amazing prizes.  AND, don't you hosts worry - there is a GRAND prize,  just for one of you!!  The blog hosts will have 72 hrs to submit their entrants before the winners are chosen.

PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES     

MEGA Prize ~ awarded to one HOST of the giveaway

• $100 gift card to online bookseller of his or her choice
• 1 Personally inscribed copy of Roast Mortem (Coffee House Mystery) by Cleo Coyle   
• 1 Firehouse Cookbook 
• 1 Gimme! Coffee 12 oz Latte cup and saucer
• 1 Bag of Cops coffee (regular or decaf, their choice!)

 Grand Prize ~  awarded to ONE entrant

•  $50 gift card to online bookseller of his or her choice
• 1 Personally inscribed copy of Roast Mortem (Coffee House Mystery) by Cleo Coyle    
• 1 Firehouse Cookbook
• 1 Gimme! Coffee 12 oz Latte cup and saucer
• 1 Bag of Cops coffee (regular or decaf, their choice!)

 Runner-up Prize ~  awarded to five (5) entrants

* 1 Personally inscribed copy of Roast Mortem (Coffee House Mystery) by Cleo Coyle   
* 1 Firehouse Cookbook
* 1 Gimme! Coffee 12 oz Latte cup and saucer
* 1 Bag of Cops coffee (regular or decaf, their choice!)



To enter my giveaway fill out this form.
+1 for following Lori's Reading Corner.
+1 for following my blog.

Win $200 cash!

Simply Stacie, My Wee View, Little Yayas, and Kelly's Lucky You are holding a great contest.  They are giving away $200 CASH to one lucky winner.  You can enter here.