Shannon's Sweet Valley High Blog

I have giveaway winners!

T-shirt winners are:

• Commenter Melissa
• Commenter Cyprienne
• Facebook user Rachel Slavin
• Tumblr user starluxury
• One of my fave bloggers, Fear Street (who, by the way, is doing a horror-related post every day this month because October is awesome)

And the lucky winner of one hardcover copy of Sweet Valley Confidential is my good friend Megan at Trapped in the Attic. (And please go check out her blog if you want some hilarious V. C. Andrews snark.)

Thank you so much to everyone who entered! Winners, send your mailing addresses to me at shannon@shannonsweetvalley.com. Your shirts will ship directly from Sarah at St. Martin’s Press because she’s amazing. Big thanks to her for making this giveaway possible!

Today is a special day: the trade paperback edition of Sweet Valley Confidential is now available! To help us celebrate, our good friend Sarah at St. Martin’s Press is letting me give away FIVE Sweet Valley Confidential t-shirts!

As if that weren’t enough to make your Tuesday afternoon, I also have an extra hardcover copy of SVC just chilling on my bookshelf, and I figure this is as good a time as any to give it away.

I want to make this is easy as possible, both for you guys to enter and for me to keep track of. So here’s what you can do:

1. Reblog this post on Tumblr. Everyone who shows up in my feed as having reblogged it will get an entry.
2. Retweet this tweet on Twitter. Everyone who retweets gets an entry.
3. Go to my Facebook page and share the link I put up. Everyone who shares the link gets an entry.
4. Leave a comment on this post and tell me you want in!

So, you can potentially have four entries. I’ll announce the six winners on Thursday morning!

When I heard Children of the 90s was looking for guest bloggers, I knew I had to jump all over that. Children of the 90s is one of my very favorite blogs and I’m always excited to be a part of it. (You might remember the Glamour Shots awesomeness I took part in a while back.)

Since I was clearly quite fashionable in the 90s, I decided to write about my favorite clothing item: Umbro shorts. You can read my post here. After you get totally blown away by me and my Umbros, check out the rest of the Children of the 90s blog. I promise, you will not regret it. And while you’re at it, make sure to follow Children of the 90s on Twitter and Facebook.

We have a giveaway winner! Commenter Liz, by virtue of an Excel spreadsheet and a random number generator, you are the winner of a copy of Sweet Valley Confidential and a really awesome t-shirt!

Thanks to everyone who participated, and I hope you all enjoyed Sweet Valley Confidential day! We’ll return to our regular Sweet Valley Twins posting schedule next week.

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!