Finale & Announcement!!! The Starflower Tour was so GREAT!

This was my first tour and I gotta say... what a BLAST!! 

I gotta thank all the wonderful reviewers and bloggers who posted thru-out the Tour... and Anne Elisabeth Stengl who wrote amazing Guest Posts!!  All the posts are unique and wonderful:

3 - Anne Elisabeth Stengl - Launch!
3 - Christy's Cozy Corners - Launch!
3 - Letters to the Cosmos - Review
4 - I Am a Reader, Not a Writer - The Kiss by the River
4 - Confessions of a Female Bookaholic - Launch!
4 - Kari's Crowded Bookshelf – Review - The River Calls to Starflower
5 - Aleksandra's Corner - Inspired by Cats I

6 – The Reading Diaries – Review

6 – Bookworm Lisa – Inspired by Cats II

7 – Motality Bites – PAGE reveal by Anne Elisabeth!!!

7 – Unputdownable Books – Inspired by Cats III

9 – Passion and Life – Night Terrors – English & Spanish

10 – A Backwards Story – Imraldera Meets the Dragonwitch

11 – Colorimetry – Review

12 – Getting Your Read On – Love is to be Bound I

12 – Kimberly Krey – Writing Drafts

13 – Christian Novels – Mini Reviews of Goldstone Wood Series

13 – The Reading Diaries – Interview

14 – Open The Page – Love Is to Know and be Known II

16 – Mortality Bites – Review

17 – Literally Jen – Review

17 – Musings of a Reader Happy – Meet the Dragonwitch!

18 – Living a Goddess Life – Review

19 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – Review

20 – Proud Book Nerd – Ismarelda & the Black Dogs

20 – LDS & Lovin’ It – Love – To be bound is to be free III

21 – Fiction Predictions – Tour Finale

Now for the announcement we have been waiting for... WHO WON THE GREAT GIVEAWAY?!

Drum roll, please...

The WINNER of the Grand Prize...

Heather A Titus of Magical Ink

And the WINNER of the 2nd Prize...

Rebekah

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I've included all the Book details below... including links to download Heartless for FREE. Anne Elisabeth is hosting a read-a-long in December, and seriously, what a great way to enjoy the season!!  

Merry Christmas!!

On Tour with Prism Book Tours...

Starflower
Tales of Goldstone Wood #4
by Anne Elisabeth Stengl
Paperback, 400 pages
Published November 1st 2012 by Bethany House

Premise:

When a cursed dragon-witch kidnaps the lovely Lady Gleamdren, Eanrin sets boldly forth on a rescue mission...and a race against his rival for Gleamdren's favor. Intent upon his quest, the last thing the immortal Faerie needs is to become mixed up with the troubles of an insignificant mortal. 

But when he stumbles upon a maiden trapped in an enchanted sleep, he cannot leave her alone in the dangerous Wood Between. One waking kiss later, Eanrin suddenly finds his story entangled with that of young Starflower. A strange link exists between this mortal girl and the dragon-witch. Will Starflower prove the key to Lady Gleamdren's rescue? Or will the dark power from which she flees destroy both her and her rescuer?


About the Author:


Anne Elisabeth Stengl makes her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, Rohan, a passel of cats, and one long-suffering dog. When she's not writing, she enjoys Shakespeare, opera, and tea, and studies piano, painting, and pastry baking. She studied illustration at Grace College and English literature at Campbell University. She is the author of HEARTLESS, VEILED ROSE, MOONBLOOD, and STARFLOWER, with DRAGONWITCH due to release in 2013. HEARTLESS and VEILED ROSE have each been honored with a Christy Award.

Find & Follow:

Facebook

Twitter

Website/Blog

Goodreads

The Dragonwood Series:

Heartless

Veiled Rose

Moonblood

Starflower

Dragonwitch

Get Your Copy:

Bethany House
Barnes & Noble
The Book Depository
Amazon:

Heartless is still FREE to download!!

Barnes & Noble
Amazon:

Join the Christmas Read-along!

Giveaway:

Grand Prize

GRAND PRIZE:  The first four books The Tales of Goldstone Wood: Heartless, Veiled Rose, Moonblood and Starflower + SWAG!  2^nd place is a copy of Starflower + SWAG!

2nd Prize

Enter to win until 12/20. Winner to be announced 12/21. Open to anyone who can legally enter. Winning Entry will be verified prior to prize being awarded. No purchase necessary. You must be 18 or older to enter or have your parent's permission. The winner will be chosen by Rafflecopter and announced here & on Colorimetry as well as emailed and will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is in no way associated with Facebook, Twitter, Rafflecopter or any other entity unless otherwise specified. The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. Void where prohibited by law. 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The Gears behind the Blog

Behind the Scenes...

I have some nitty-gritty blog work to do, so this is yer head's up!!  The funnest "work" is passing out books winnings... so here's some winners!! (below)

I'm figuring out those button-thingies by following Parajunkee's step-by-step instructions. If you want some buttons for yourself, just follow along with those posts. We can teach ourselves html stuff together.  (That's like "follow the blogger with the blindfold on", but it'll be fun, for sure.)

Winner Announcements:

@KatraCass 

won

  

@BookWorm8900 

won

@MarijanaSitar 

won

@lilcrickit

won

  

CONGRATULATIONS, ALL!!!

Winners HERE!

If winners are not announced, do they exist?

It's the falling tree concept. Noise must be made. Bring out the drumrolls....



I give you... Giveaways & Winners...

Jessica of Thoughts at One in the Morning (nice blog name, btw)

  

Beth of Living a Goddess Life

  

Holly of The Sea of Green 

Ariel of The Librarian's Bookshelf

&

Farah of Tumbling in Books

Jenn the Bibliomaniac

Heather of The (Mis)Adventures of a Twenty-Something Year Old Girl

PHEW!!!

That's a LOT of giveaways!!  Obviously, I am the QUEEN of procrastination!!  Don't judge. It's an art form. A dying art form that takes a lot of attention-to-detail to maintain properly.

Showers of Spring Winners!!

There are SO MANY GREAT WAYS OF SAYING RAIN, I had to share!!  Which is time-consuming, which invites procrastination, so...this is late & there you go!!  :-D  My excuses!!

WINNERS of the Showers of Books $5 GC's are:

Alysia * Marla * Veronika * Shayna *

& Sharmaine C who won with her comment:

"Rain is ulan in Filipino. Thanks for the giveaway!"

please, oh, please see below for all the ways to say RAIN!!!!  :-D


I had a blast with the Spring Fling hop... sooo many encouraging pictures and poems and nice thoughts... I simply HAD to get better. I still have a nasty cough leftover, if you can believe that!!

The Winner, who has to choose yer own prize, is...

Sherry!!

And the giveaway for Jade, Jacqueline Gardner's brand new book is finished as well!!  Woop!!

Kenia!!!

I will be emailing all the winners shortly.

I won't post too many winning-announcement posts anymore. Oh, I'll quote everyone without warning, and turn some comments into entire posts!!  But I'm not so organized that I can keep up with all this excitement and talk about it, too. It's more important the Winners get their cool prizes than I come up with witty things to say about it. So... that's my announcement. NO MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS!!

Thx Cayce

Red Headed Bookworm

"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
- Doug Larson

thx, Tina B

Wishing you a bright sunny (no brain foggy) spring filled with lack of allergies, fresh breezes and winning lottery tickets :)
Nice!!!  And to all of us!!!  :-)  Thx, Brenda Callahan


Agnieszka Nashi, I had to laugh!!

 How about baby polar bears sniffing pretty flowers? 
I'm sorry, Tiffany Drew, Wha?!

Happy 10th Anniversary, Dynie!!!

Lol... does this bunny post eating a dandylion?!  thx, Carrie!!

Roses are red, violets are blue, your blog rocks and so do you! :D
WOO!!!!!

Oh, yea!! That cheered me up, Shainers, thx!!!

(__/)
(=’.'=)
(“)_(“) 

Hilarious, Amanda. This one didn't come across my email properly!!  I just found it! Thx!!

There's more... check out all the cheery comments HERE!!!

On to RAIN!!!

These are literal comments. I quote:

1. Rain, showers, downpour, cats and dogs, pouring. That's all I can think of while making dinner. lol * Angel tears. * Hmm..precipitation, drizzle, and sprinkling are all I can add! * It has been raining a lot in England the last few days :( It's spitting rain is something I say or drizzling * Deluge and liquid sunshine:) I like liquid sunshine because it's so true - all plants need rain in the spring to bloom. * 'Pair 'em up Noah' downpour! * pouring buckets or pluie (french) * Agua is water in Spanish so that's pretty close! * mist, wetting, drizzle, condensation, water-fall, clouds leaking, sprinkling.... yea, I'm out... * Bucketing it down, or p-ing it down are two that we use quite frequently in my part of the world.I'm in England though - I think, if anything, we should have about a million different expressions for "it's raining" :P * I like the saying, "Don't rain on my parade." Words meaning rain ~ liquid sunshine (my favorite), cloudburst, storm and most of the others are already above. :) * Sometimes it rains so lightly, I call it 'Misting'. * Sprinkles~ Thats a exprecion I use for Lluvia por la Tarde: like, when the clouds open a little just when the sun if falling in the horizon & the all-golden light reflects in the droples of water scatered 'round, so everything is sprinkeled golden & fresh & beautiful. Also, when I was little I used to think that rained when angels, gods or death people watered their plants! Jajaja, I know, wierd, but I swear it made all the sense in the world then, since in La Paz summer is 50-C-degrees hot, with warm rain. Plants in heaven must had been thirsty. * Ame - Japanese for rain * It's raining men! Love that song cause I would love for some hot men to fall out of the sky. Don't really know any other words for rain that haven't been mentioned. * pouring! * Devil's beating his wife- When It's lightening and raining while the sun is shining brightly. A sunshower or sun shower is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining * It's spritzing on the mountains:) * Pluie - French word for rain. :) * It's pouring, the clouds are crying, not snoring Lame I know, but at least I tried - At least I didn't use the same old "the heavens cried." * Phonetic spelling in English "motur" which is rain in Arabic :) * Das ist eindeutig regen. German for "Well, it's officially raining." Regen = Rain * Torrent, or torrential downpour, volley. I remember mizu is Japanese for water but I can't think what rain it at the moment. * "Hujan" is "rain" in Indonesian :) * la lluvia in Spanish * Showers! We get those a lot here :) * Heavy Dew * Déšť is the czech word for rain * Drops, drips,tropical moisture, Let the rain kiss you, Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops, Let the rain sing you a lullaby, The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk, The rain makes running pools in the gutter, The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night, And I love the rain. :-) * Reën is Afrikaans for Rain; Did you know that the phrase "It is raining cats and dogs" comes from the middle ages. They would have thatched roofs and the domestic animals (cats and dogs) would lie atop these roofs for the heat (i guess it would have to be a winter rainfall area where this originated then) and when it was raining heavy enough these animals would then slide off the roofs i.e raining cats and dogs..... literally! * There is a lot of word in french ( belgian) to express all the differend kind of rain^^:: so just a few: Bruiner ( verb); La drache ( noun - strong rain); un crachin ( noun); une ondée (noun); une averse ( noun) * Sleet or teardrops from Heaven :D * Showers, pouring - it's all we seem to get at the moment * Barish (Hindi), Barsaat (Hindi) * sprinkling * Shower.* pissing * Cloud Melt! * Rain to me means something falling...like leaves, water, books, love...anything! * liquid sunshine - LOVE that synonym of rain!! * Money!! We live near a bunch of lakes and the rain keeps them full which brings in business. :) * The sky is spitting * the skies are crying * In Flemish: Regen. :) * Regn - Danish word for rain :) * Precipitating! :) * I say drizzle? * Columbus Sunshine. * Pitter patter of little feet? :o); My dad is Spanish, and if there is a light rain, he says that it is "cheesping". * In Bangla: Rain-> Meg * Lapli is Haitian Creole for rain :) * ploaie=rain in romanian :) I am from Romania * piove in italian; earth milks the sky * clear, wet, moist :) At times light, and at times heavy! * I think this...дождь means rain in russian. * I'm also in Oregon and and sometimes there's just "wet air" too dense to be fog but not heavy enough to be a mist. * Rain, Rain Go Away Come back some other day! * cats and dogs! * Shower, drizzle, storm, spitting, pouring downpour, angel tears,deluge, misting are all I can come up with. The phrases that come to mind are "It's raining cats & dogs", "The devil is fighting his wife", and "Angels are crying". * spanish - Lluvia * βροχή (vrochi) -- Greek for Rain. * Most of the English words I know about rain are said, so I will offer you something else:  vihm = rain  Now you can guess which language it is. * "The water cycle is continuing! Who said we're lacking water?!" Yes, a direct quote! xD * Misting. It's not quiet a sprinkle yet just sorta misting. Ame = Rain in Japanese =) * no chance of rain (which has been our forecast for over a year) * God's urination * One of my friends from college and I used to call it "plipping" when it was a bit heavier than a drizzle, but more sporadic than actual rain :) * Rain in polish is deszcz! Too much rain is za dużo deszczu. We get too much rain in Florida. * Deluge (I was listening to an audio book earlier and the reader pronounced it really oddly). *In Filipino, "rain" is "ulan." * "Ame" <--Japanese * Downpour * Pioggia= rain in Italian ; Fa l'acqua a catinelle= it's raining cats and dogs; Diluvia= heavy rain * "Ulan"..Pilipino word..:) * Being formerly from Michigan, I'm going to go with 'thin snow'. Every inch of rain equals 10 inches of snow...just be glad it is rain! * Lol, het regent pijpestelen, is Dutch, for heavy rain. Miezer is another word for when you can't really say it is raining, but it not really dry either. * i am seriously in disadvantage here.. i'm number 70+.. Rain = Bi (in korean), Yǔ (in chinese), pluvia (in latin), regen (in dutch), pioggia (in italian), F̄n tk (in thai), mvua (in swahili) * Rain Kissed! * My father always said-It is raining cats and dogs!! * Sunshowers; It's a grand soft day - Irish; It's raining old women and sticks - Welsh * The sky is crying.... * How about, it's drip-dropping outside? A creative way of saying it's raining, I hope? * Дождь, ливень is rain in Russian :)  * Dribble, Drencher, Monsoon * The clouds have opened, pelting, rainfall, Scotch mist, * 雨 The character for rain in both Chinese and Japanese, but they have different pronunciations. Ame(あめ) in Japanese and Yǔ in Chinese. * kinda hard this late in the game lol BUT I'll toss in AINRA ... pig latin for rain hehe * der Regen = rain in German * Cloud Drippings * The angels are crying. * I would call it cat-and-dog weather. * Gods tears. Regenen is the Dutch word for rain. The Portugese word is chover or chuva. Pissing down is another one I have heard from some old gentlemen down here in the south! * Heaven sweating from its labors. Earth cleansing. soft crystaline peltings, watery diamond sheets * Well all the English words I know are already said so I'm going to give you the Bulgarian word for rain and that is: "Дъжд". * April showers bring May flowers. God's spitting us (and bowling when there's thunder). The sky is falling... * dewdrops from heaven... * Lietus - that's 'rain' in Lithuanian:) * Evaporation in reverse. * Alright, I see you got "deszcz" which means rain in Polish. What about drizzle? It's "mżawka" in Polish. Or maybe a downpour? It's "ulewa". :) * How about cloud sweat? would that be re-vaporation? LOL * Wet stuff * Liquid Life that Falls from the Sky? Not sure if anyone else said that but I got tired of reading all the comments lol. * Cloudburst! haha It's a synonym, I looked it up :) * How about a Torrent? I can only think of forms rain can take on. Such as hurricanes, monsoons,and storms- It's storming out!. And the ASL way of saying rain. You would hold your hands up in front of you with your fingers spread (they represent the droplets of rain) and you would sweep them downwards quickly several times to mimic the rain falling. * chuva - rain in Portuguese :) * Rain = Hujan (Bahasa) * Shower! * Rain is ulan in Filipino. * Angel tears. * Drizzle * Pitter patter :D i heard that discribe rain before lol!! XD thanks for the great giveaway!! * Its spitting outside. =) * Don't know if you have any of these yet but I found this online: rain in Danish is regn, regne * rain in Dutch is regenen * rain in Finnish is sade, sataa * rain in French is pleuvoir, pleuvois, pluviale, pleuvez, vaser * rain in German is regnen, Regen * rain in Italian is pioggia, agitarsi, piovere * rain in Latin is pluvia * rain in Norwegian is regn * rain in Portuguese is chover, chuva * rain in Spanish is lluvia, llover * rain in Swedish is regn, regna * Heaven's Tears * My sister gave this suggestion: Torrent of descending moisture. * someone said Precipitating! :) I always say it's participating. * "It's pretty wet out there..." * niar is rain backwards. * Sleet. Some also use "It's wet outside." * Rain in Greek is vrohi. * Rain in Tamil : Mazhai * Rain in Hindi : Barisa * what about the rain in songs :) "it's raining men" * or this one Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It reflects the tranquility of the pouring rain * Cloudburst, in Filipino drizzle is "Ambon" :) * Dazd = rain in Slovak. (missing the accents) * cloudburst * Not necessarily that it means rain, but my favorite type of rain is a sun shower. There's just something almost magical about it raining while the sun is still shining. Also, I love seeing the rainbows during sun showers. * chubasco, aguacero (in Spanish) * Lluvia - Rain in Spanish! * down-poring * Sade = Rain in Finnish :) * 비 [bi] in Korean. Do you know that there's an actor/singer who's name is Rain/Bi? He's Korean :) * sprinkling * Teardrops from the clouds. <3 * 강수량 - Korean for "precipitation" * precipitation * It's coming down in buckets.

Winning Announcements

Winners are pilin' up around here!!

I get these grandiose ideas of how I'm going to announce winners... but then time just keeps slippin' away!!  Better to pass out the goods than make a huge hoopla about it!!  (Maybe?!)

I'm very excited to announce the following winners:

Cricket is the winner of the Fairytale Giveaway Hop and Of Poseidon!!

As in Cricket of Little Library Muse!!

And I have two Of Poseidon swag winners:

Abria 

& 

Michelle of The True Book Addict

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

But wait!!  There's more!!!

I have three winners for Kindle copies of The White Lilac, thx to author Christina J Adams!!

            1 - Alicia
            2 - Kiki
            3 - Bookworm Sarah

I have two winners for print copies of The Kingdom on the Edge of Reality, thx to Tribute Tours, Gahan Hanmer & Colorimetry!!

            1 - Abigail of The Story Factory Reading Zone
            2 - Alison


...if anyone's paying attention, I still haven't announced the Showers of Books winners, yet. I rec'd sooooo many great words for RAIN, that I simply must share!!!  So, time-consuming awesome post pending!!!!

Winning Update!! What's up with all the clicking?!

I'm just curious... how many of you have entered one of those super-duper, massively long, click-til-yer-dizzy giveaways?!

I've entered TWO so far, so the torture I've participated in so far equals the pay-back.  Ha!

I don't know about you, but my thoughts start going 'round in circles something like this:

hey! there's one I already follow
click
click
click
click
at least I don't have to type my name over and over
click
it took me forever to think of copying and pasting that one time
click
click
did I miss one? *back up* *check* click
click
click
I really should clean the house
click
instead of click
click
but what if the NEXT click is the winner?!
click
click
click
click
this is totally stupid
click
click
I'm just going to stop
click
click
on the very next one!!!
click
click
click
oh, hey!  there's the END!!
click
click
click
click
and there's a BONUS 10pt click!!!!  Sweet!!
click
there.  That's all the Facebooks.  Should I do the Twitters today or tomorrow?
Tomorrow.

jajajajaja  Ok... that was as exciting to write out as it is to enter a long giveaway!!!

I'm a little torn, to be honest. The prizes on those big giveaways are too good to pass up, you know?  And somebody's gotta win... why not me?!  On the other hand... it is a lot like torture.

It helps a LOT for me when I'm participating at a blogger I already (pretty much) trust. You know?   I HOPE that my blogger friends know who they're hangin' out with. It adds a bit of confidence to the sudden expansion of FB & Twitter followage. 

I mean, I know the bloggers I'm hookin' up with for the book blasts - they're all awesome and I'm so happy to follow 'em, anyway. I'm paying attention to that sort of thing, big prize or no!!

This is in response to a comment I rec'd which cracked me up... after I'd just left a similar on another book blogger's site. *snort*

BexApr 24, 2012 08:18 PM

I'm going to suffer from carpal tunnel after all of the liking! :-)
Thanks for the giveaway.

This is probably a possibility. Lol. Just... it's not my fault, ok?!


Now for announcing winners to the giveaways that are all mine to award:

The Winner of the No Strings Attached Giveway Hop

And the recipient of Graceling by Kristin Cashore is 

louise!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!

I'm sending you an email!

The Winner of the Small Blogs, Big Dreams Giveaway gets to choose from one of my recommended books!!  :-D

Everyone left their recommendations in the comments... so if anyone anywhere is wondering what to read next, there's yer go-to list!!!!  I should move 'em all to a page... entitled Recommended Reading, or something.  Hey... cool idea!!

First, the winner is...

Angelya!!!


as in Angelya of The Oaken Bookcase!

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Thank you to EVERYONE following Colorimetry!! 

You're a WINNER!!

Announcements!!

  

We have a WINNER for the Autism Awareness Giveaway Hop!!!

Andreea!!

You have won

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We also have a WINNER for the Friday the 13th Blog Hop!!

Froggy from Froggarita's Bookscase!!

You have won

Your choice of hauntingly beautiful book!!!!

Congratulations!!!

Finally... I zipped back to some November posts and found a familiar face...

Janiera, 

did you know you were one of my earliest followers?!

As a small token of my THANK YOU to all the great followers of Colorimetry, I am giving you $5 gift card to Amazon as the 

Not-So-Random WINNER of the day!