The Best Reader:
twitter party

This holiday season, get Entangled Under the Mistletoe!
Entangled Publishing is hosting its very first blog hop and with over 50 authors participating, all of whom are signed with Entangled Publishing, this is your chance to win a ton of fantastic prizes from your favourite authors!
The hop runs from December 7th to 14th, and make sure to visit all these authors’ blogs during that week!
You really don’t want to miss these giveaways.
The authors participating in the hop are:
Links have now been updated. They go to the direct page where the giveaway can be located. Diane Alberts
Rachel Harris
Ophelia London
Lisa Burstein
Nicola Marsh
Jenna Bennett
Barbara DeLeo
Sarah Gilman
Chloe Jacobs
Kate Avelynn
Aleah Barley
Candace Havens-
Tiffany Allee
Natalie J. Damschroder
Robin Covington
Coleen Kwan
Karen Erickson
Crista McHugh
Patricia Eimer
Roxanne Snopek
Taryn Elliott
Michelle McLean
Melissa Bourbon Ramirez
Victoria James
Annie Seaton
Boone Brux
Robin Bielman
Lisa Kessler
Christine Warner
Jus Accardo
Rosalie Lario
Stacey Kennedy
Robyn DeHart
Laura Kaye
Cari Quinn
Stephanie Draven
Paige Cuccaro
Katee Robert
Bronwen Evans
Rita Oberlies
Nina Croft
Marisa Cleveland
Michele de Winton
Jennifer Shirk
Amy Andrews and Heidi Rice
Ros Clarke
Rachel Lyndhurst
Hope Tarr
Aimee Carson and Kate Hardy
Sara Daniel
Lea Nolan
Abby Niles
Jane Kindred

In celebration of it, there will also be a #EntangledUndertheMistletoe Twitter Party!

Yes, that means more giveaways!

If you’re a fan of the holidays, believe me, you want to be a part of this.

We have loads of fun stuff planned for the party so, join us!

Date: 7th December, 2012 (Tonight).

Time: 9pm EST.

Hash-tag: #EntangledUndertheMistletoe

What: We’ll be asking fun holiday themed questions and each question has prizes to be won!
Answer right for a chance to win some of the many fabulous prizes!

Where: Follow the instructions below!

1. Go to http://tweetgrid.com/party
2. Fill in the the hash-tag as #EntangledUndertheMistletoe
3. Fill in the hosts @entangledpub
   @thebestreader
   @babsbookbistro
   @anjanavasan
4. Enter your twitter handle, follow the tweets, answer the questions
   and you may just get lucky!

We're holding the party TONIGHT, October 24th at 9:00 PM EST — 6:00 PM PST.
It's a Twitter Party! If you plan on coming to the party (PLEASE DO!) here are a few tips for how to join and follow it all.
You may be asking yourself…
Why come to this shindig anyway? Well, because Halloween ROCKS, and because we are giving away tons of prizes! We have 10 swag packs. Each swag pack contains swag (obviously) and a book. We will announce the title of one book during each trivia question so everyone knows what's up for grabs. How do I win these packs of awesomeness? It's easy! As many of you have noticed, Lisa and I have been hosting authors all month and those authors have been sharing stories. If you have read those stories, you are one step ahead of the rest! Lisa and I will have 10 trivia questions pertaining to particular stories that have been posted on our blogs (5 for Lisa, 5 for me). All you have to do is go to the link, find the answer, and TWEET! But, be sure to include the hashtag #HauntedHalloween or we won't see it and it won't count.

How do you know who wins? Everyone will be tweeting answers like mad!! This is true. Lisa and I used Random.org to pick 10 numbers last night. Those numbers were listed next to each question. They go from 1-40. We will count the correct answers as they show up in our feeds. Once we hit the number generated by Random.org for that question, we have our winner!
Will you tell us who won? Because, obviously, I plan to WIN! Yes, we will. We are alternating questions so after we get the winner, we will then announce it while the other person gets ready to ask their question.
What do I do once I win? If you win, please email one of us at alifeboundbybooks @ hotmail. com or TheBestReader @ hotmail. com with your mailing address AND twitter name! We will have your twitter name written down; however, if you'd like to tell us which trivia question, that will help.
But I live in (insert country name here), am I eligible to win? We always try hard to include international giveaways during any event. Unfortunately, the swag packs will not be international this time around, sorry about that. However, we are opening this up to anyone with a US/Canada mailing address only.
What if I just want to hang out? Is there something to do? Of course! We are inviting each and every author from the Halloween event to stop by and join us. You can chat with them, ask them questions, share spooky stories, anything! We will be asking questions every 10 minutes so you'll have plenty of time to chat in-between questions.
Okay okay, I'm in. So, how do I join you all? It's easy! And here is a step-by-step tutorial if you'd like to use TweetGrid. We will be using the hashtag #HauntedHalloween.
Go to www.tweetgrid.com/party You should see this screen
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Under PARTY HASHTAG, put in #HauntedHalloween
Under PARTY HOST(S), put in @TheBestReader, @BoundbyBooks Separate each name with a comma!
Under YOUR USERNAME, put in, well, your username!

It should looks like this, only with YOUR twitter name on the bottom section.
Click on, JOIN THE PARTY! and you are almost ready to go.

You should see something like this. The first section will include ALL tweets with the hashtag #HauntedHalloween.
The second section will include ALL tweets sent by Lisa or I. This helps because it makes sure you can see the questions and they don't go flying down the feed.
The third section will have your name so you will be able to see all tweets sent by you, or directly to you. You're not done yet!
Before it will let you tweet by using the TweetGrid, click on LOGIN (located directly under the tweet section at the top).

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Once you give TweetGrid access to your twitter account, you should be ready to go! It should automatically add #HauntedHalloween at the end of each tweet so you won't have to type it in over and over.
Things to remember!

Tweet using the hashtag #HauntedHalloween

You can find Jessica on twitter: @TheBestReader
You can find Me on twitter: @BoundByBooks
If you have any questions, feel free to email or leave a comment.
Have FUN!
We hope to see you there! Good luck to everyone!

Thanks to author Emma Michaels for posting this a while back about TweetGrid!

For the last couple of years we've hosted a FUN and EXCITING and INTERACTIVE Twitter Party and this year we're doing it again! We wouldn't miss this for the world! Here's some info about the event and not to worry, we'll be posting another reminder later this week.
YOU are Invited to:

The Haunted Halloween Twitter Party of 2012! #HauntedHalloween
Where: Twitter! Duh!: P

When: THIS Wednesday night, October 24th 2012 at 9:00PM EST, 6:00PM PST.

How long will it run: Until it's OVER!

Who will be there: We'll, @TheBestReader (Jessica) and I, @BoundByBooks will be there with a few of our friends (YOU) and some authors too!

We've also invited all the authors from this years event and we except they'll be visiting us here and there for the Party!

Will there be PRIZES: YES! There will be trivia questions that everyone can answer to WIN some AMAZING STUFF!!!

We're Excited are YOU? See you there!

Just a reminder for the Twitter party tonight!! Some amazing authors will be there so feel free to ask them questions about their books, projects, or Halloween plans.: )
How it works:
Trivia Questions
We will have 6 trivia questions. Each question will have a link that takes you to a post (here or at Lisa's blog) and the answer can be found on that specific post. If you have read the Haunted Halloween posts we have had so far, you have a head start and may already know the answers.
In order to pick a winner the participating authors have chosen a number. The tweet that matches that number, with the correct answer and using the hashtag #HauntedHalloween WINS a book!
Please pay attention to the shipping rules for each trivia question. Some will be US only, US/Canada, or International. We will let you know before each question.

Swag/Candy prizes
We are giving away 5 swag/candy bags during the party. They contain swag from a lot of great YA books, Halloween candy and fun stuff, and a special treat from Nancy Holder! Some Wicked mints from Disneyworld! Cool huh?
These packs are open to US/Canada only. In order to enter to win one, all you have to do is tweet"TRICK OR TREAT" and the #HauntedHalloween hashtag sometime during the party. At the end of the night we will be picking random tweets (through random.org) and those people will be the winners!

Make sure you follow @TheBestReader @BoundbyBooks
and that you use the #HauntedHalloween tag for EACH TWEET! That way we can see it!

and enjoy the party!: )

It’s a Twitter Party! As part of our Haunted Halloween Event, Lisa and I thought it might be fun to host a party on twitter. We’ll be giving away books, swag and more. Some will be given away at random and some via trivia. Many of the authors who have submitted stories and donations to our event will be dropping in to say hello and hang out.
We’re holding the party on Thursday, October 14th at 9:00 PM EST. We’ll be there for at least an hour, most likely longer and we invite anyone and everyone to come by, say hello and enter to win!
To become a random winner all you need to do is tweet using our hashtag #HauntedHalloween. The more you use the hashtag during our party, the more chances you have to be a winner!!
All contests will be open to US or US and Canadian residents only. We will let you know during the party who each giveaway will be open to.
You can find me on twitter: @TheBestReader
You can find Lisa on twitter: @BoundByBooks
Curious what were giving away at the Twitter Party? Well, lets just say that the books are newly released OR will be released soon! Plus swag and Halloween candy!
If you have any questions, feel free to email or leave a comment.
So, come by… Hang out, join in, enter to win and most of all, have FUN!
We hope to see you there! Good luck to everyone!

Contest Update

Story due by 10/8. USE GOOGLE for details. EXTENDED- Due 10/15

Cover due by 10/8. USE GOOGLE for details. EXTENDED- Due 10/15
Also — I wanted to let everyone know that we have extended both our Story and Cover contest deadline date until Oct. 15th. We wanted to give anyone who needed a little more time a chance to enter. So, if you were wanting to enter, now is your chance! Looking forward to everyones story and cover!

*Additional swag has been added to the prize packs!

Voting will begin Sunday, October 17th!
Good Luck to you all!