In other news, it appears Lila Fowler is living in Atlanta these days. This pictures was snapped by Anne, a reader who knew we would all be interested. We’re not one hundred percent sure, but we think that looks like a lime green Triumph.

The winner of my latest awesome giveaway is Lorelai! Email me with your address, Lorelai, and I’ll get your goodies sent out ASAP!

Just to let everyone know, I’ve already finished reading the first Sweet Valley University book. Todd sure is a jackass, huh? Recaps will be forthcoming, probably in the next few weeks. In the meantime, you should check out Lorelai’s blog, ABC Not-Just-For-Kids. Join her as she talks about 90210, Lizzie McGuire, Sesame Street and some Australian shows I never heard of but want to see now that I’ve read Lorelai’s recaps.

Congrats again, Lorelai!

Remember that awesome t-shirt I gave away a couple weeks ago? A lot of people asked me where they could buy one and a lot of other people expressed sadness that they didn’t win the giveaway. (Also, I thought it might be fun to make a few dollars on the side.) So I set up a Zazzle store! I was going to go with CafePress, but Zazzle is free and it looks like they have cooler stuff. I only have the one design up right now, but I plan to do more in the future.

http://www.zazzle.com/shannonsweetvalley

Spread the word!

Congratulations, Megan S! If you’ll email your address to me at shannon@shannonsweetvalley.com, I’ll get your stuff mailed out to you ASAP!

I’ll have another similar giveaway coming up very soon. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Because I have the best group of readers in the history of blogdom (and because I want you all to know I haven’t disappeared), I’m giving away more stuff.

I created a couple designs for t-shirts and stuff, and I’m giving away the first batch – a t-shirt, coffee mug and magnet – along with Lila’s Story and Bruce’s Story. Because who couldn’t use a little more Lila and Bruce in their lives?

This is going to work just like the last giveaway. There will be four ways to enter:

• 1. “Like” my Facebook page and share the news about this giveaway with your Facebook friends.
• 2. Follow me on Twitter and retweet my announcement about this giveaway.
• 3. Follow me on Tumblr and reblog my post about this giveaway.
• 4. Leave a comment below telling me if you Facebooked, Tweeted or Tumbled. The comment counts as another entry, so you could get four entries altogether.

No matter what, make sure you leave a comment here so I know how many entries to give you!

Every entry will be assigned a number, and a random number generator will decide on the winner. This contest is open to everyone, no matter where in the world you live.

The giveaway will end Monday, July 12. Good luck!

I’m selling off my Senior Year books on eBay, and I’m also including some other Sweet Valley books that I have extras of. Bidding starts at 99 cents! Click here.

Meanwhile, I’m still working on getting the University books. As soon as I have them all, I’ll get going on some recaps.

I’m also getting some t-shirts, books and other swag together to do some giveaways in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned!

Patty, you have won a $40 gift card for CSN Stores! I’ve sent an email to the address you used to comment on the blog, so be on the lookout for it!

Thank you to everyone who entered, and thank you so much, all of you, for just being such an awesome bunch of readers.

This is absolutely NOT the last giveaway I’m going to do. I have a few more in mind, and they may or may not involve books and/or t-shirts. Who doesn’t love free t-shirts? I will also do a few more TV show posts, so be on the lookout for more updates!

Thanks again to everyone, and a big congratulations to Patty!

I was approached last week by CSN Stores about doing a giveaway, and I thought that would be a really good way to reward my fabulous readers for sticking with me during the recent dark times (I am referring, of course, to the horror of SVH Senior Year).

CSN Stores is offering a $40 gift card, good at any one of their many websites. They’ve got everything you can think of: platform beds, clocks, cookware, shoes, even dog beds for crying out loud. You name it, they sell it. But what I’m really excited about is the board games. Oh, so many board games! From Scrabble to Would You Rather to fifty different kinds of Monopoly.

Nintendo Monopoly, anyone?

Here’s how it works. You have four ways to enter.

• 1. Follow me on Twitter and retweet my announcement about this giveaway.
• 2. Follow me on Tumblr and reblog my announcement about this giveaway.
• 3. Become a fan of my newly created Facebook page and tell your Facebook friends about it via a status update. (I just created this page, so forgive me if it looks a little, well, sparse.)
• 4. Leave a comment on this post letting me know if you tweeted, tumbled or ‘booked, and it will count as an additional entry. If you don’t do any of those things, just say hello in the comments and that will count as one entry.

Your name will go on the list once for every entry. So if you do both 1 and 2 and then leave a comment telling me you did 1 and 2, your name goes on the list three times. When it’s all over, I’ll assign every name a random number, and a number generator will choose the winner.

The winner will be chosen this Friday, June 11, around noonish. Or whenever I wake up that day.

Good luck!

This horrible series has finally come to an end!

Thank you so much to everyone who stuck around. Your encouraging comments kept me going! (And I’m looking forward to that daiquiri, rachierach!)

According to the poll in the sidebar, 189 of you would like me to recap Sweet Valley University next. Before I do that, I’ll be taking a long break while I regroup and read some grownup books. I’ll also be using that time to obtain the SVU books, since I don’t have very many of them. (I will gladly take donations if anyone can bear to part with their copies!)

But don’t go away just yet! I think I have a pretty cool giveaway coming up early next week, and I plan on recapping a couple more episodes of the TV series during my sabbatical. If you want me to notify you when I’m ready to start SVU, drop me an email with “mailing list” in the subject line.

Thanks again to all my readers. Whether you participate in the comments or just read the posts, I appreciate you coming by and I hope you’ll come back for the twins’ college years!