Swagbucks: Fun House Swag Code Extravaganza

I love when Swagbucks has Swag Code Extravaganzas!  They are one of the easiest ways to earn SB!  

What are SB you ask? SB are points you earn on Swagbucks, a website where you can get gift cards for the things you do online - I've gotten up to $50 at a time with Swagbucks! What are you waiting for? 

The Fun House Swag Code Extravaganza will be happening Wednesday, September 14th from 7am PDT/10am EDT to 6pm PDT/9pm EDT. All you have to do is look out for the Swag Code notifications, enter the code, and you earn SB (which can be redeemed for gift cards)! There will be 6 Swag Codes throughout the day worth a total of 30 SB

Look for Swag Codes on the following places:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Swagbucks
• Go For The Gold Team Challenge
• Refer & Earn
• Back To School Sale

Sign up here to grab as many Swag Codes as you can and get your first gift card even faster!  I will help by sharing the codes in the comments below.

Swagbucks really works!

I've earned $25 so far this month and have gotten as much as $50 at a time. It really does work! I usually get Amazon gift cards because it's perfect for my e-book habit. :D

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Swagbucks: Come One, Come Three for All

Want to make a quick buck? (or six?)

Then it’s time to try Swagbucks! Step right up, Swagbucks has announced another promotion where you can get a $3 (300 SB) Bonus just for signing up through our site and earning your first 300 SB. Starting thinking about who you can refer because it’s about to pour 300 SB Bonuses for you and your family and friends.

New to Swagbucks? Great! It’s a site where you earn free gift cards for the things you already do online. You get points (called SB) and redeem them for PayPal or Visa cash and gift cards from Amazon, Walmart, Target and other great retailers.  Here’s how to earn your 300 SB in an hour:         

1. Sign up for free through this link
2. Watch a few short clips from Top Sports Headlines, World New Headlines, cooking shows, and the Latest from TMZ and earn 26 SB
3. Take a 5 minute survey for 60 SB and a 13 minute survey for 100 SB. Even if you get DQ’d, you get paid up to five times for a total of 5 SB. 
4. Print a $1 Off Flintstone’s Vitamin Coupon and earn 25 SB
5. Sign Up for Zulilly's free mailing list and earn 50 SB
6. Click through entertainment-focused web content with NCrave for 20 minutes and earn 20 SB. 
7. Install the Hulu App on your phone and earn 24 SB.  

That’s it! You’ve just earned 300 SB (worth $3 on its own) and you’ll get a $3 Bonus for your effort!

Already a Swagbucks member? Here’s how to get your $3 Bonus:         

1. Refer a friend to Swagbucks between Now and Friday, September 30th
2. Your referral earns 300 SB by September 30th (see above!)
3. You AND your referral will both be awarded an additional 300 SB each

That’s it! (the 300 SB bonuses will credit by October 5th) So once again, starting today, send out those referrals, a 300 SB Bonus could come in handy!

Swagbucks really works!
I've earned $25 so far this month and have gotten as much as $50 at a time.  It really does work!   I usually get Amazon gift cards because it's perfect for my e-book habit. :D

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Swagbucks: Midway Team Challenge

What's your favorite part about county fairs? Is it the rides, the food, the games? I love it all!

Starting Monday, September 12th, Swagbucks invites you to participate in their Midway Team Challenge. Pre-registration starts today! How will you contribute? Watching videos, completing surveys, shopping online? These activities and more will help your team get ahead. If you've never used Swagbucks before, it's a site where you can earn cash back on everyday tasks you do online. Now is a great time to join, especially if you participate in the Team Challenge because it's an opportunity to win an extra bonus for trying out the site. 

All members who participate and contribute at least 400 SB to their team’s total will receive an SB bonus in the form of a rebate on their next gift card! I can’t wait to help my team come in 1st place for that 50 SB rebate. 

The challenge lasts until September 16th so log on or make a free account! Pre-registration is open now!

New to Swagbucks? Great! It’s a site where you earn free gift cards for the things you already do online. You get points (called SB) and redeem them for PayPal or Visa cash and gift cards from Amazon, Walmart, Target and other great retailers. Here’s how to earn your 300 SB in an hour:

1. Sign up for free through this link
2. Watch a few short clips from Top Sports Headlines, World New Headlines, cooking shows, and the Latest from TMZ and earn 26 SB
3. Take a 5 minute survey for 60 SB and a 13 minute survey for 100 SB. Even if you get DQ’d, you get paid up to five times for a total of 5 SB.
4. Print a $1 Off Flintstone’s Vitamin Coupon and earn 25 SB
5. Sign Up for Zulilly's free mailing list and earn 50 SB
6. Click through entertainment-focused web content with NCrave for 20 minutes and earn 20 SB.
7. Install the Hulu App on your phone and earn 24 SB.

That’s it! You’ve just earned 300 SB (worth $3 on its own) for your effort!

Swagbucks really works!  

I've earned $25 so far this month and I've earned almost $500 in the last 3 1/2 years!  It really does work!   I usually get Amazon gift cards because it's perfect for my e-book habit. :D

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Spotlight & Giveaway: Always You by Ruth Roberts

Always You by Ruth Roberts

After tragedy strikes, Diana Mathison finds herself back in her home town of Magnolia Falls, sharing custody of her baby sister with her step sister. Reeling from the death of their parents, the three sisters have to learn how to lean on each other and live life without their two pillars of strength. Diana is full of doubts in her ability to raise a little girl and run her father’s law firm. The last thing she needs is to have Zack Connelly back in her life. The last time she let him in she ended up hurt and broken hearted.

Zack has given up on true love. It’s not for him and it’s certainly not with Diana Mathison. He came back to Magnolia Falls to heal after losing his sweet wife and their unborn child at the hands of a drunk driver. Hannah never had a chance at the love and happiness she deserved, therefore neither should he. His life plan is to take care of his sister and niece for as long as they need him, and to be the best veterinarian the town has ever had. That’s enough for him…or is it?

Excerpt:

She leaned against the counter and began filling them out. “How much do I owe you?” She asked.

“Dinner,” he replied.

She looked up at him with a raised brow. “Excuse me?”

“You owe me the dinner you promised me ten years ago, with interest I’d say you owe me somewhere around one hundred dinners.” He put his elbows on the counter between them and leaned towards her, bringing their faces close together. “I’m free Friday if you want to start chipping away at that debt.” He tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

She stood up straight and pushed the completed forms toward him. “That should do it.” She gathered up her purse and keys she had set on the counter. “I’ll thank you now for the puppy because at two in the morning when it has me up with its whining and howling, I will be anything but thankful. In fact, I will probably be cursing you.”

She smiled, but it didn’t quite have the same flash as before, and he felt a web of disappointment she hadn’t responded the way he wanted her to. But he wasn’t planning on giving up that easily. “You’re welcome. And if you need any help at two in the morning or just want the satisfaction of knowing I’m not getting any sleep either, call me.”

“I just might do that. See you around, Zack.”

“Sure thing,” he said as she walked through the door.

She stopped, turned around, and leaned against the door jam. A smile touched the corners of her lips. “Dinner’s at seven. Don’t be late.”

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Author Ruth Roberts

Romance novelist Ruth Roberts lives in the Big D, where city life abounds but the wide open spaces Texas is famous for are within easy reach. Her books transport readers to the glittering life of high-society, while making the characters normal, fun people we would all like to have as friends. She loves reading, writing and Gilmore Girls. She and her teenage daughter call themselves the real life Gilmore Girls. Her very own romantic hero of twenty years is her greatest inspiration and support.

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Ends 9/30/16

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Blog Tour Schedule

September 6th
I Am A Reader – Spotlight
Pentatwine – Spotlight
Bloomfield of Thoughts – Spotlight
Katie’s Clean Book Collection – Spotlight

September 7th
Fiction Dreams – Spotlight
Hearts & Scribbles – Spotlight
3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, & Sissy, Too! – Spotlight
Cassandra M’s Place – Spotlight
LeahSay’s Views – Spotlight

September 8th
Wishful Endings – Spotlight
Christy’s Cozy Corners – Spotlight
Curling Up With A Good Book – Spotlight
Min Reads and Reviews – Spotlight
Kindle and Me – Spotlight

September 9th
Rockin’ Book Reviews – Spotlight
Tifferz and Her Sisterz Book Reviewz – Spotlight
Mel’s Shelves – Spotlight
The Avid Reader – Spotlight
Why Not? Because I Said So! – Spotlight

September 12th
Cuzinlogic – Spotlight

September 13th
My Crafty Zoo – Spotlight
deal sharing aunt – Spotlight
Pretty Opinionated – Spotlight
Smiling Book Reviews – Spotlight
Diana’s Book Reviews – Spotlight

September 14th
Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’ – Spotlight
Tianna Holley, author – Spotlight
Turn the Page Espinola E – Spotlight

September 16th
Susan Heim on Writing – Spotlight
Gustosa Giveaways – Spotlight
Heidi Reads… – Spotlight
books are love – Spotlight
Simple Wyrdings – Review

Review: Burning Proof by Janice Cantore

Burning Proof by Janice Cantore

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

ABOUT THE BOOK

After months of investigating the brutal homicide of a young girl, Detective Abby Hart finally has the evidence she needs. But when the arrest goes terribly wrong, Abby begins to doubt her future as a police officer. As she wrestles with conflicting emotions, old questions about the fire that took her parents’ lives come back to haunt her.

“There is proof.” PI Luke Murphy can’t stop thinking about what Abby’s former partner, Asa Foster, mumbled just before he died. When he uncovers a clue to the murder of Abby’s parents and his uncle, he’s reluctant to tell Abby, despite his growing feelings for the beautiful detective.

A decade-old abduction case brings Luke and Abby together, but will his secret tear them apart?

MY REVIEW

Review: Missing by Lisa Harris

Missing by Lisa Harris

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Nikki Boyd Enters the Deadly World of Counterfeit Drugs to Find a Missing Woman

Nikki Boyd isn't usually called in on homicides; her forte is missing persons. But when a case with two murdered and two missing pops up on a quiet suburban street, she's ready to start the investigation and find missing homeowners Mac and Lucy Hudson. When the first clues lead her to the boat of her friend Tyler Grant--and another dead body--Nikki must untangle what ties Tyler to the Hudsons. The clues pull her into a deadly maze of counterfeit drugs and a killer who will stop at nothing to silence anyone who threatens his business--including Nikki.

Christy Award-winning and bestselling author Lisa Harris puts readers right into the action in this fast-paced thriller that will have them turning pages long into the night.

Blog Tour Review: God Bless Us Every One by Eva Marie Everson

God Bless Us Every One by Eva Marie Everson

My rating: 3 1/2 of 5 stars

Charlene Dixon---called Charlie by family and friends---is devastated at the recent loss of her job.

For the last five years, the twenty-seven-year-old has blossomed as the activities director of an exclusive all-girls school. But when a misunderstanding with the headmistress leads to a pink slip right before the holidays, Charlie packs up her dreams and returns to her grandmother, Sis, who raised Charlie as her own in the mountains of North Carolina.

When Charlie arrives---broken and confused---Sis immediately puts her granddaughter to work behind the scenes of the local school's Christmas play, A Christmas Carol. Charlie prickles at working with Dustin Kennedy, the drama teacher and her old crush from schooldays, but is even more put out at that the choice of the Dickens' classic for the holiday performance. When she discovers her estranged father's involvement her world turns on its head once more. But when Sis and Dustin encourage her to take a deeper look at the story behind A Christmas Carol, Charlie learns about trust, faith, and forgiveness and the needs of people in their own community.

I liked the way this story gives you some background on A Christmas Carol.  It's pretty neat to learn more about Dickens.  And I liked the fact that there are themes of reconciliation and forgiveness. The romance between Charlie and Dustin was refreshingly without controversy.  (Most of the time there has to be some big misunderstanding in the story...lol.) However, for some reason I just couldn't connect to this book.  My impression of this book was that it felt a little rushed in some spots and disjointed in others.  And I didn't understand why she called her grandmother "Sis".  It threw me off quite a bit.  I guess it was just a nickname but I believe her grandmother's name was Esther and I just never saw the connection.  

All in all, this is quick short read with a sweet romance and great themes of reconciliation and forgiveness.

*Thanks to Litfuse for a complimentary copy of this book for review purposes. I was not required to write a positive review and all opinions stated are my own.*

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Eva Marie Everson is an award-winning speaker and author of The Road to Testament, Things Left Unspoken, This Fine Life, Chasing Sunsets, Waiting for Sunrise, Slow Moon Rising, and The Potluck Club series (with Linda Evans Shepherd). She is the president of Word Weavers International, Inc., a member of AWSA, ACFW, RWA, the director of Florida Christian Writer's Conference, and the contest director for Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer's Conference. She and her husband make their home in Casselberry, Florida.

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August Clash Champ: Congrats to One Thursday Morning and T.K. Chapin!

Congratulations to T.K. Chapin

and his novel

One Thursday Morning

for taking home this month's Clash crown!

About the book:

Running not only for her own life, but that of her unborn baby, Serenah moves across the country to a little town outside of Spokane Washington called Newport. It's here she'll begin to build a new life and go by a different name in the hopes of staying hidden from her abusive husband John. Can Serenah find happiness in her new life? Or will the past eventually catch up to her?

From the best-selling Inspirational Christian Romance Author T.K. Chapin comes a story of love, faith and passion that will keep your fingers turning the page to see what happens next. 

One Thursday Morning is book one in the Diamond Lake Series by T.K. Chapin.

What Voters had to Say:

Thank you T.K. Chapin for providing real life in your books.

I really like books by T.K.Chapin, Because he writes with a theme of religion and hope. I especially like One Thursday Morning.

Excellent story. I have also read Friday Morning. Good story line Makes me feel like I am at the Lake with them.

T.K. Chapin, I was enticed by the beautiful cover and description of the novel,  One Thursday Morning.  Can't wait to read it. 

I love your stories. Very enjoyable, heartwarming and inspiring. Keep them coming,

I enjoy finding new authors and found T.K. Chapin's writing adding to my authors' list.

I think "One Thursday Morning" by T. K. Chaplin will be one popular book.  I love the plot and can't wait to read it.

I love to read and discover new authors. T.K. Chapin is quickly becoming a favorite! He tackles tough topics, and tells the story in such a way as to keep you interested. Ups and downs, twists and turns, T.K. knows how to keep the plot line tight and the story believable and uplifting.

Sounds like a good book. I hope you have a great career!

Keep writing.  It helps me escape my everyday life.

TK - love your writing and your interest in your reader's lives.

 I love TK CHAPIN books!

Have a blessed week, everyone!

From your friends at Clash of the Titles!

Review & Giveaway: Night Night, Farm by Amy Parker

Night Night, Farm by Amy Parker

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Moo moo, cows!
Baa baa, sheep!
When the sun sinks low down on the farm, the animals are all tuckered out from the day’s adventures. Join these adorable farm animals in pajamas as they say night night to the farm, to their mommies and daddies, and to God.
Your little ones will sleep until the rooster crows knowing that the God who made them loves them too.
Night night, farm!

What a very cute book! All about the farm animals going night, night. The piggies, the cows, the owls, the kitties. Vibrantly colored with adorable farm animal babies and a cushy hardback cover, this book is perfect for the little ones. Simply worded and easy to read. Each page has a different animal with the different sounds they make. Fun to read to a little one and have them repeat the noise each animal makes. My mother-in-law, who has taught the 2-3 year old class for over 10 years, gave her hearty approval to this book! ;)

*Thanks to FlyBy Promotions and Tommy Nelson Publishing for a complimentary copy of this book for review purposes. All opinions stated are my own.*

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Amy Parker’s children’s books have sold more than 800,000 copies including two Christian Retailing’s Best award-winning books and the bestselling A Night Night Prayer. She lives outside Nashville with her husband and two children.

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Prize - One lucky winner will receive a copy of Amy Parker's Night Night Farm published by Thomas Nelson.
Ends Friday 9/9/16 at midnight.

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• Enter below for your chance to win a hardback copy of Night Night Farm by Amy Parker. Get bonus entries for tweeting about the contest after you enter (I wrote the tweet for you to make it easy to share) and for following the other prompts.
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• This giveaway is in no way associated with Facebook, Twitter, Rafflecopter or any other entity unless otherwise specified.
• Giveaway was organized by Rachel from Smiling Book Reviews and sponsored by Propeller/FlyBy Promotions and Thomas Nelson. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.

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Review: Chasing Fireflies by Taylor Dean

Chasing Fireflies by Taylor Dean

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

From the Power of the Matchmaker series:

My sisters think I’m crazy.

But, I’ve never forgotten the mysterious woman from my childhood who told me Paul is the name of my one true love.
She told me to search far and wide for him.
I haven’t stopped looking ever since.

When I stumble across an article about a successful American entrepreneur named Paul who lives and works in China, I’m intrigued. When the opportunity to teach English in China presents itself on the same day, I know it’s not a coincidence.

It’s destiny.

My sisters say I’m chasing a dream.

Just like the fireflies we tried to catch on the warm summer evenings of our youth, the dream seems beyond my grasp. Will my quest for the elusive Paul always be just short of fulfillment?

My sisters tell me it’s a fool’s errand.

Until I remind them of the day we saw the Red Bird.
The memory silences them.
The Red Bird Incident remains inarguable—and proves my search for Paul is not a silly fantasy.

I will find Paul . . . I will.

***This book is part of a multi-author project that features one recurring character—Pearl, the matchmaker—but it is a STAND-ALONE novel.***