Winners! Winners! Stephenie Meyer Giveaway
Thank you entering the Stephenie Meyer giveaway sponsored by Hatchette Book Group and Twilight Lexicon! The entries are in. I’ve sifted through 3,026 comments left by 892 different people for a grand total of 4,742 entries! Um, wow!! I simply had no idea that it would be this popular!! I’m just giddy with excitement as your excitement was infectious.
Before I reveal who’s won I wanted to take a moment and explain how entries were tallied. I kept track of people by their email address and each address was inserted into a spreadsheet with 11 columns across the top. For each “task” their email address was inserted into the appropriate column. This helped me keep track of who doubled up their entries and I was able to grant that. For those of you who may be panicking because I didn’t become your friend on facebook or myspace to check on your links, no worries. While I did follow all links to verify entries, if I had to become a friend or register for a forum, I trusted that if you sent me the link, well, then, you obviously wrote about the contest.
Once all entries were inserted into the spreadsheet and accounted for (easier said than done, I realize now) I merged all entries into a single column giving each email address it’s on number. Entries were not sorted after each column was brought over so if you had multiple entries they were “spread across the board.”
Winning numbers were determined randomly at random.org and you can see those results here:
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
854 284 1511 1716 2817
Timestamp: 2008-07-02 12:02:38 UTC
Grand Prize:Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
496
Timestamp: 2008-07-02 12:13:17 UTC
Okay, who are the faces behind the lucky numbers??!!!!
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Five winners of one copy of The Host by Stephenie Meyer, a I Heart Ian button, a I Heart Jared button and a Twilight Lexicon Magnet are:
JESSICA!
(there were several, so it’s the Jessica who’s email begins with tstarxxxx@xxxxx.xxx)
Jessica says she hasn’t read The Host yet but it sounds really interesting, is planning on seeing the Twilight movie when it comes out and that it will be great on the big screen. Congrats Jessica!
KELLIAN!
Kellian has already read The Host but now has a brand new shiny cover of her own. She agreed with my review that the caves got a little long but overall didn’t think that the book was too long. She also had three ending in her head and couldn’t wait to see which was correct. Congratulations Kellian!
Yay! I personally was happy to see Jen win because Jen is one of my regular readers! Even though I love all of you newbies as well, it was great to see Jen snatch up a prize amongst the thousands of entries. Check out her blog as well. Jen says she has to get out of the dark ages and win these books because she’s going to be ridiculed at some point. Let’s give Jen a even bigger congratulaions because she is getting married REALLY, REALLY soon. Consider this my wedding present! Congrats Jen!
NAKITA!
Nakita has not read The Host yet, but was planning on it as soon as she could afford it! Guess what? Free is a great price! And Nakita loves science fiction so is sure that she will love The Host. Happy reading Nakita!
MALIHA AHMEND!
Maliha said that my review reminded her of a series she used to read, called Animorphs, in which Yeerks (slugs who could take over the brains of any creature) landed on earth and started trying to take over and a group of kids fought against them. She’s also curious about the love interest between Wanda and Jared. Now she gets to find out for herself! Congratulations Maliha!
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Now on to the big one! Are you ready?! The grand prize winner who is walking away with Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and The Host by Stephenie Meyer, a I Heart Ian button, a I Heart Jared button, a Twilight Lexicon Magnet, and a t-shirt of their choice from the Twilight Lexicon shop is:
LAYDIANA!
Congratulations!! Laydiana says that she will be reading The Host right after she’s done reading the Twilight series, the Breaking Dawn book cover is her least favorite cover but says, “Who cares, the most important is the story that is inside.” The Twilight trailer makes her heart pump every time she watches it, thinks the movie is breathtaking and moving in the right direction, and thinks that Stephenie should come visit in Montreal! Congratulations Laydiana! I’m so excited for you!!
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I wish that every single one of you could have been winners! It breaks my heart that so many entered and so few are chosen. I will be emailing the winners sometime by the end of today to get addresses, etc., so watch your inboxes. In the meantime, I’ll either be passed out on the family room floor while my two little boys run around wrecking the house or I’ll have managed to get up the energy and meet my playgroup at the park but be wondering if it’s okay to hire a babysitter during the day so I can take a nap. Seriously, you guys wore me out. But I was as anxious as you were to find out the winners.
Things of note:
- If you didn’t win a copy of The Host, hop on over to my blogging friend Tracy at Bookroomreviews and enter her contest for another chance. You have until July 19th to enter!
- If you would like to participate in a group read of The Host (I am!) then head on over to Becky’s Online Reading Group where we are discussing The Host for July. We’re about to start and what better time to read it then with some new friends?
- Or, if you’d like to simply purchase a copy of any of the books by Stephenie Meyer, support this blog by purchasing it through my Amazon store.
- If you like reading reviews, check out my Book Bloggers Book Reviews database for more reviews of The Twilight series and The Host. It’s a great resource to find book reviews from bloggers like myself.
- Make sure you stick around and pop in from time to time. Better yet subscribe to my feed via a reader or email. I read the Twilight series before I had this blog and I hope to reread them and write reviews. Hopefully, before Breaking Dawn comes out which I’ll definitely be reviewing.
- I’ll also be putting up another book giveaway this week of two books I reviewed this past month but didn’t realize I had two copies of each in the house (a result from having to many books that you can see here). No jumping through hoops this time. Entering will me simple as telling me that you’d like to win.
I guess that’s it! Congratulations again to the lucky winners!
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Aww.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 pmCongrats to those who won!
congrats winners
on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pmCongratz to the winners!
on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 pmNatasha – Yay! Thanks so much! I’m glad I can start my married life by climbing out of the dark ages and reading Stephenie Meyer! I’ll still have to hit up Twilight, but I’m sure they have that at Half Price Books. I was afraid someone was going to come to my blog say “and you call yourself a book-lover!”
I’m sure that Brian will love that shortly after we come back from the honeymoon he’ll lose me to “The Host”…
on July 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pmcongrats winners
on July 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pmcongrats to everyone and thanks sweetie for posting my contest:)
on July 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 pmCongrats to the winners! Natasha, you deserve a babysitter AND a nap.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 2:07 pmOH MY GOD ! ;X
Im so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much, Im overjoyed.
I am grateful for the grand prize, and wanted to thank you Natasha for holding this contest so we can have a chance to win some great books.
Your kids should be a priority so take your time emailing me.
Have a good day!
on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pmCongrats to the winners! As for Natasha, you deserve a big break:)
on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:45 pmCongratulations to all the winners!
Natasha, did you almost fall out of your chair when you realized you had over 4000 entries?
on July 2nd, 2008 at 5:17 pmHey congrates too all! ENJOY!!!
on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 pmYay! Congrats to the winners! Natasha, really, take a break, go to the spa, whatever it takes to make you feel relaxed. :]
on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 pmAwesome! My friend won!
Congratulations to everyone too!
Guess I’ll be making a visit to Barnes or Borders
I’ll be up for any future giveaways.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 8:46 pmCongratulations to all the winners. I’ll try not to be TOO jealous!!
Thanks again Natasha for the wonderful contest!
on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 pmCongrats to the winners! And thanks to you Natasha for an amazing contest. You’ve taken the blogging world by storm!
on July 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 amCongrats to the winners…too bad it’s not me! LOL I am starting The Host!
on July 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 amCongrats to all the winners! AND a big thank you for holding such a great contest!
on July 3rd, 2008 at 12:11 pmWow that’s a lot of entries. Must have taken you forever!!
Congrats to the winners.
on July 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm*sigh* no winning for me. ah well. at least i had a chance to win =]
congrats to all the winners!!!
on July 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 pmCongratulations to the winners! Thanks, Natasha, for hosting such a fabulous contest.
on July 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pmCongratulations to all the winners!!!!
Thanks again for hosting such a fabulous contest!!!!
on July 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pmAww, well that’s a bummer.
on July 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pmBut congratulations to the winners!