WIN A BAG O' BOOKS THRU 9/15 + NEWS & WINNERS!

Well, it has been a busy few weeks for me. Here's what's been going on lately in the world of Kerri...

• I received some troubling lab work results which resulted in some emergency testing on the new baby. After much panic and even more praying, I'm happy to report that everything looks fine and we've also discovered the "identity" of the newest member to our family clan. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winner of my Baby Bonanza contest. To be announced SOON! There's still one week left to enter See this post for details. (http://kerribookwriter.blogspot.com/2009/08/baby-bonanza-contest-girls-vs-boys.html).
• Last week, I've suffered a computer crash and have been in recovery hell. Things are looking up now and I give all the credit to Mozy Home Back up! If you do not have an online back up service I highly recommend Mozy (www.mozy.com). They were sent from heaven...I feel sure of it. Particularly since they saved 15 completed manuscripts and 4 or 5 others in various stages of production from being lost in cyber hell.
• Also last week, I sold 2 Christmas novellas to Whispers Publishing to be released in December AND I sold my very first Young Adult Romance book to Class Act Books! Woot!
• Check out the pic of me wearing my brand new RWA Pro pin as well...I've cut most of myself out of the pic due to the fact that I feel incredibly un-photographable these days. Can anyone say "preggo-potamus"? Anyway, I'm an official "PRO" now and next I'm striving for "PAN" status (that's like playing for the Majors)!
  
• Last but not least, I received my beautiful new cover for Soul Searcher check it out on my website here (www.kerrinelson.com). Also, see the wonderful author review quotes that I've received! Stay tuned for details on a huge release party and blog tour that are in the works for this month!

Don't forget about my ongoing TextNovel book that you can read for free (posted chapter by chapter at www.textnovel.com). I just added a new chapter today and I want to encourage everyone to send your friends and family over there to check it out and VOTE.

I've had so much fun giving away my Box O' Books recently that I'm keeping up the trend. This week, I'm giving away a Bag O' Books (check out the photo above). A Michelin backpack comes stuffed chock full of books galore! What do you have to do to win?

Just vote and/or subscribed to my story at TextNovel.com OR refer someone to the site to vote/subscribe! You get one entry for each vote and one entry for each subscription. If you refer someone you get 5 entries per referral! Just be sure to post a comment and tell me the username that you used or that your referral used to vote so that I can verify the votes!

This Bag O' Books will be given away on or around September 16th! So you have 2 weeks to get the votes rolling. Need instructions on how to vote? Here are the step by step instructions:

1. Go to http://www.textnovel.com
2. If you don't already have an account, you need to register.
3. Then you can search for my book either via pen name (Kerri Nelson) or book title (Courting Demons).
4. Once you click on my story, you need to click the "thumbs up" circular button in order to get me a vote.
5. If you are feeling extremely generous, please click on the little "cell phone" emblem and this will make you a "subscriber" of my story. STILL TOTALLY FREE! They are only supposed to send you an e-mail to let you know when a new segment is up.
6. You're done. No need to try and vote again but keep coming back if you want to see what happens to Paisley and her rat fink cheating hubby!

Now, I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone for all the encouragement, support, votes, comments, and referrals in this contest. I truly appreciate every single one of you!

Lastly, without further ado...I've calculated all the entries from last week's Box O' Books giveaway and we've drawn a winner at random. The winner is....drum roll......

SiNn! Woot! Congrats! Please send me your snail mail information to kerribookwriter AT yahoo.com (replace AT with @).

Don't miss the Bag O' Books or the Baby Bonanaza Contest still rocking along! Be sure to come back next week for the Soul Searcher party details!