Too Many Books

Awhile back, Ashley at A Matter of Opinion started working with CSN Stores -- CSN has over 200 online stores where you can find lovely items for your home -- like modern extra tall bar stools or quality, affordable cookware. Or, if you're like me... if you don't cook dinner but are cooking a baby-bean... you can scour the internets for hours and hours looking at CSN Baby. Anywaddle, ( <-- pregnancy sound effect) Ashley has paved the way for me to work with CSN Stores, too -- and I'm excited that I will soon be reviewing a product on my very own little blog! I have been looking for a lamp for the nursery, as hubs and I have very little overhead lighting in our home... so I can't wait to receive the lamp below in the mail from CSN! P.S.  Musings of Amber Murphy is now accepting any and all offers which include gratis-baby-plunder. This is going to look sooo perfect in the nursery. Let there be Lightspi...

Epic August Contest Roni (my favorite fiction groupie) and Julie Cross (another awesome blogger) are giving away a multitude of prizes, tag team style. This week alone, you can win: Hannah Moskowitz's Break Lisa Desrocher's Personal Demons (ARC) A query or first five pages critique from Fine Print Lit's intern, Gemma Cooper A query or first five pages critique from Janet Reid's assistant, Meredith Barnes A query or first five pages critique from agent Suzie Townsend A query or first five pages critique from editor Brendan Deneen Enter here. Enter now (or by Sunday, August 8) so that you'll have a chance to win! Store Your Liquor Also, Ashley over at As a Matter of Opinion... is giving away a really cute winerack. Wanna see it? Cute, right? (And, if you're Simon Larter , don't worry... I'll bet you could substitute vodka bottles instead of wine. A vodka rack. What a novel idea!) So, click here to enter. Or, don't, and I'll...

So, I've been hoarding blog awards like they are leftover Easter candy. (Let's be honest, who hoards candy? I usually eat it all in about 1.5 sittings.) So, I've been hoarding these awards like they are... high school memorabilia, or episodes of LOST on my DVR... or something. Yeah, so I got the Awesomesauce Award from a few peeps. (You know how hard it is for me to refrain from changing this to the awesomespice award, don't you?) It was bequeathed to me by Jen, a new blogger over at Unedited , who inexplicably has amassed 400 + followers in two months. What is her secretspice? I don't know... it must be in her awesomesauce! I also got the awesomesauce love from the lovely and talented sarahjayne at Writing in the Wilderness . (Update: Nicole at One Significant Moment gave it to me today, too! I just went to link her blog to give her another award... see Sunshine, below... and there I was! Spewing awesomesauce. Again.) ;) (Thanks, ladies!) I'm passing ...