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Wicked Wildfire Read-A-Thon Wrap Up

Wicked Wildfire Read-A-Thon Wrap Up

June 25, 2012 by · 7 Comments

Wicked Wildfire Wrap Up

Wicked Wildfire Read-A-Thon

Bex @ Kindle Fever & April @ My Shelf Confessions

Hey everyone – congrats you all survived our third [and one of our most awesome if I do say so myself] WWReadathon! We’ve had some EPIC moments for this WWReadathon and we want to thank you all for joining us! You all rock our socks off!

Before I get to who won my Summer Scorcher Challenge, let us revisit some awesome moments of the Wicked Wildfire Read-a-thon:

Trending on Twitter for our first Twitter Party!

WWReadathon trending

[yes I'm corny enough I had to take a screenshot LOL] I wouldn’t even have realized it because I use Tweetdeck if Christy hadn’t mentioned it! So props to her for bringing it to our attention! And thanks to all of you who made it happen! You helped make WWReadathon history! :)

 Our next epic moment was born from a single tweet that again came from Christy! She mentioned wanting to be a hermit because she kept getting disturbed from her reading. So for some reason this made me want to write a song [seriously don't ask, I don't even know why this inspired a song/poem either, my brain works in mysterious ways LOL] and I came up with a song that was edited by Bex, and we put a Bonus Challenge up challenging all of the WWReadathoners to SING it for us! Well we only got ONE taker! Who did a seriously EPIC job!

Coral @ Alchemy of Scrawl – view her video HERE

 So thank you all for helping us make WWReadathon history – you all rock so much and it’s been such a blast meeting and chatting with all of you! Stay in touch! :)

We will be sending an email out that will have the full list of winners from the Linky and also dates for the next WWReadathon included, so keep an eye out for that in your inboxes!

*drum roll*

The Winner for the Summer Scorcher Challenge

The winner for my challenge was VERY hard to pick. However, I had to go with the person who tickled my funny bone the most:

Becky @ Book Bite Reviews for her answer:

“Hmm… lets see here. I don’t have a high pain tolerance so these gotta be some great items lol. I would probably douse myself in the highest SPF rated sunblock I could find, then here is where the comedy kicks in. Since I have such a low pain tolerance I would flip over a *CLEAN* metal garbage can crawl under it and shimmy around the (I assume) the parking lot like R2D2 picking up the garbage can just high enough to see an object coming up and then pounce on top of it and obtain the objects lol.

This would be a very long process, but very comical to watch indeed =D”

I agree it would be extremely funny, I couldn’t stop laughing when I came across this entry, and had it in my head  the entire time I was reading other entries – so a very clear winner. I’ll be emailing you shortly Becky, or you can email me, whichever happens first :)

Thanks for joining in our fun! This wouldn’t be such a great event without each and every one of you!

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Bonus Challenge: Sing Us A Song!

June 20, 2012 by · 9 Comments

Bonus Challenge – Sing Us A Song

 

As many of you know Bex @ Kindle Fever and I are hosting the Wicked Wildfire Read-a-thon.  Well inspired by a conversation  that Christy @ Love of Books and I had on twitter, I came up with a song [well I came up with the lyrics, the song is up to YOU.]

That’s right, we have the lyrics and your challenge is to come up with a tune to sing it to, and to record yourself singing it!

*SPECIAL NOTE – You can participate in this challenge even if you are not part of the Read-a-thon! This is open for everyone! :) *

There are benefits to competing in this challenge:

1. Bex and I will love you forever. Seriously.

2. You’ll become famous to all #WWReaders

3. You’ll become a permanent part of #WWReadathon History – from now until forever!

4. You’ll have the honor of singing our WWRAT THEME SONG!

5. You can WIN EITHER a 1/2 pound of fudge from SendFudge.com [if you live in the lower 48 US States] OR a $15 Amazon GC – to be clear if we get multiple entries there will be ONE winner selected for one of these prizes.

“LIKE A HERMIT”

written by April @ My Shelf Confessions, Edited [and laughed at] by Bex @ Kindle Fever

I may not be a crab

 I just want to relax

Is that too much to ask

Chorus:

i wannabe a hermit, a hermit a hermit,

gimme a shell like a hermit

So much silence

I envy that pretty shell

The world can go to hell

Chorus:

i wannabe a hermit, a hermit a hermit,

gimme a shell like a hermit

Wanna grab like a crab

A book off the shelf

Be all by myself

Like a hermit, a hermit, a hermit

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One idea for a tune for the song has been mentioned: Madonna’s “Like A Virgin”  - We’ll leave the tune selection up to you but we look forward to your videos!

This challenge will run from NOW until the end of the WWRAT, Sunday June 24, 11:59 PM EST. So get singing! :)

BE BRAVE :)

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The Fight For Survival Continues Challenge Winner

The Fight For Survival Continues Challenge Winner

February 6, 2012 by · 4 Comments

The Fight For Survival Continues Challenge Winner

Wicked Winter ReadathonI want to thank everyone who participated in our second #WWReadathon! Thank you for helping us rock it out! If you haven’t heard already – we’ve got our next one planned and sign ups are OPEN! So get on that HERE. It’s going to be June 20-24 (we’re going to try the 5 day and see how that goes!) so mark your calendars!

The form for the #WWReadathon is open until midnight EST (tonight) so if you haven’t filled that out – please do so! It helps us a lot in knowing how you felt and to make changes for upcoming readathons. There are also a few prizes to be eligible for if you fill it out!

The winner for The Fight for Survival Continues Challenge -

the one who felled the Wicked Winter  Witch with the most creativity and zest is:

jen7waters

Her strategy can be found HERE.

Congratulations to her! Again thanks for all of you for participating, these #WWReadathons would not rock if you weren’t joining us! A big thank you to all our challenge hosts – thanks for helping make this a great experience for everyone!

Once the form has been closed (midnight tonight EST) we’ll go through and figure out the winners and announce them shortly! 

We hope you’ve had as much fun as we have – and that you’ll join us for our next adventure!

Rock on and read on!

<33April & Bex

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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner! I Mean #WWReaders :)

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner! I Mean #WWReaders :)

November 5, 2011 by · 18 Comments

Winners

Wonderfully Wicked Read-a-Thon

 

We want to thank all the participants of the Wonderfully Wicked Read-a-thon so much! We had so much fun and all the feedback that was provided was very encouraging and helpful! We’ll definitely be taking it into account for our next read-a-thon – which we’re working on figuring out dates for.

I’m sure everyone is dying to know who won what! So let’s get to the good stuff, shall we? :D

But first let me say for sure that you guys all ROCK! #WWReaders 4 Life! :D

 

Once again I want to thank Harper for providing so many books for the Read-a-Thon, we appreciate it! If you win, please show them some love by reviewing the book either on your blog, Goodreads or Amazon – or all 3! :D

The numbers correspond to the number on the original Linky from the sign up page (here.)


78. Vicky @ Books, Biscuits & Tea – Japanese Cherry Blossom Spooky Gift Set

                    L. A. Mental    

 

Winners of a Set of 3 Books:

LA Mental by Neil McMahon, Lost in America by Colby Buzzell, and Irma Voth by Miriam Toews

50. Danielle – set of 3 books

63. Diana @ Little Miss Drama Queen –  set of 3 books

97. Melissa @ My Chaotic Rambling – set of 3 books

118. Grace @ Books Like Breathing – set 3 books

Winners of a Set of 2 Books:

LA Mental by Neil McMahon and Irma Voth by Miriam Toews

39. @Alishbookshelf – winner of set of 2 LA Mental and Irma Voth

73. Eden – LA Mental and Irma Voth

95. Cynthia @ The Wytch’s Mirror– winner of LA Mental and Irma Voth

Winners of 1 Copy of Irma Voth by Miriam Toews

24. Jennifer Mathis – winner of Irma Voth

42. Bekka @ Pretty Deadly Reviews – winner of Irma Voth

49. Memrie @ darkangel88 – winner of Irma Voth

51. Beckie @ Bittersweet Enchantment – winner of Irma Voth

66. Michelle @ The True Book Addict – winner of Irma Voth

71. Jenn @ A Book and a Latte  USA – copy of Irma Voth

76. Pabkins @ Mission to Read – winner of Irma Voth

96. usage @ birth of a new witch – winner of Irma Voth

Winners of 1 Candle and 1 PocketBac Sanitizer

5. Nat @ Besotted with Books – candle, sanitizer

9. Marie @ Ramblings of a Daydreamer – candle, sanitizer

33. Gaby @ Oh My Books! – candle, sanitizer

41. blackwolf – candle, sanitizer

85. Claire @ Project to be Read – candle, sanitizerz

Winner of 2 Bookmarks, Stickers & 1 Pocketbac Sanitizer

84. Carla — PocketBac Sanitizer, 2 bookmarks & stickers

Thanks so much everyone! If you see your name on the list, email me with your mailing address. If you haven’t contacted me in the next day or so I’ll email you but please don’t make me hunt you down – it’s going to be a lot of work already to mail everything out :D

And if anyone wants to be a dear and chip in for shipping costs – even a dollar or so would be great, can email me, or use my email address fireflywishes22@gmail.com for Paypal <33

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WWReadathon Prizes!

WWReadathon Prizes!

October 23, 2011 by · 5 Comments

I know everyone is excited to see what we have has prizes. Please forgive my horrible pictures – I am not a good photographer and the light in here is poor at best LOL Also, we have an entire box of books that’s at my house right now that I can’t take pictures of.

I have to start out by saying Thank You to Danielle at Harper for providing an entire box of books which include:

7 Copies of LA Mental by Neil McMahon
4 Copies of Lost in America by Colby Buzell
15 Copies of Irma Voth by Miriam Toews

That’s a lot of books!!

Then – here we go with the really bad pictures, (might be scary, good thing is a Halloween themed Read-a-thon! LOL)

AKA

That’s right we have an entire gift set for one lucky winner!

 

 

 

 

 

And here we’ve got a bunch of lovely candles that smell awesome and look SO cute!

Then we’ve got a bunch of lovely Halloween themed hand sanitizers, which also smell amazing!

 

That middle picture is of two bookmarks and a pack of stickers (Halloween cats!) The white bookmark with the butterflies is a signed bookmark for Losing Faith, signed by Denise Jarden the author!

The other is also a bookmark for Angeline Kace’s Descended by Blood with Mirko on the front and Jaren on the back :)

So that’s the prizes! I hope you’re all as stoked as we are, we had fun putting them together, and we can’t thank Harper enough!

If you’ve had fun during the Read-a-thon and would like to pitch in a little for shipping, it would be very helpful and appreciated, especially since we’ve got 26 books to ship plus everything else :D If you’re interested in making a small donating (even a dollar is great!) you can donate through paypal my email is: fireflywishes22@gmail.com OR you can email me for more information.

We’ve had so much fun and Bex and I are definitely going to be rocking a Read-a-thon again, so stay tuned to our blogs for more details, although they will be after Christmas for sure!  If you didn’t catch it, we’re all going to try to stay in touch through the hashtag: #WWReaders

 

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