SIGNED swag giveaway! Open Int :)

Hey guys, I know I promised this giveaway about a week ago but life go in the way... okay, Assassin's Creed got in the way, too. I bought an Xbox with my sister last week and we've never owned one (or a playstation, or a game boy, or any gaming device) before. So I've been busy climbing roofs and throwing knives at people :P

I love those leaps of faith from spires. Picture found here.

Ahem. Anyway, why this giveaway? First off, because I haven't done one independently of any hop or promo in quite a while. Secondly, thanks to you guys the blog just passed 68,000 pageviews! That might seem ridiculous to some of the bigger bloggers but it means a lot to me, so thank you! :) The amount of followers, commenters, and regular pageviews is something I had never anticipated a year ago! I hope I can keep posting things that will have you coming back! Sorry there haven't been many reviews, I'll try to post at least one next week! I'm also planning on a post with tips for new bloggers, though I feel a bit strange acting like I'm some sort of 'expert' in a position to dole out advice.

Thirdly, I recently looked over the amount of swag I accumulated in the past 2 years or so and realized that I don't really need all of this stuff. Of some signed bookmarks I got about half a dozen, so I might as well give a couple of them away ;)

The deets

• There are 3 swagpacks, 2 of them containing signed things, 1 unsigned but with more items to make it fairer
• One entry per person/household, but you may enter all 3 rafflecopter forms. You can only win once though.
• Open internationally, items to be shipped by me. I'm not responsible for stuff that is lost in the mail.
• All entries will be verified before I pick a winner. You cheat - you're DELETED.
• Winner has 48 hours to respond to my email, after that I will pick someone else.
• I reserve the right to make small changes to the rules/rafflecopter form and/or end the giveaway early.

Here are the pictures of what you can win, you'll find the rafflecopter forms below them at he bottom. Good luck!

Swag pack 1

- signed bookmark for Phoenix by Elizabeth Richards

-signed bookmark for Black City by Elizabeth Richards

-iPhone 4/4S skin for Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake (unsigned)

Swag pack 2

- signed bookmark for Phoenix by Elizabeth Richards

-signed bookmark for Black City by Elizabeth Richards

-signed bookmark for The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton

-bookmark for Adaptation by Malinda Lo (unsigned)

Swag pack 3

All of this is unsigned!!

-Dark Companion by Marta Acosta bookmark

-Dark Companion by Marta Acosta iPhone 4/4s skin

-Fierce Reads bookmark

-The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton pin/button (safety pin on the back)

-Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare cover postcard

If there is any problem with the entry forms or if you have a question, let me know on twitter! @Butterfly_Ghost

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Stacking the Shelves - mixed bunch

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews to showcase the books we got during the week. Those can be bought, gifted for review, borrowed... you name it.


Here's what I got this week:

William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra. Edited by John Wilders.
Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra, A Life
Signed bookmark from Gretchen McNeil


I'm still on the book buying ban but growing ever more sick of it... I'm getting some reading done though, which is good. The books above don't count because they are for a university course on feminity, power, queenship, and glamour and how those concepts interrelate. I'm reading Stacy Schiff's book right now and I like her style a lot so far.
I got the bookmark for being in Gretchen McNeil's Army of Ten. Pity I'm not US-based or I could've done more to support the book and win awesome stuff! But I like signed bookmarks :) There's a design based on the Ten cover on the over side of it but I photographed it this way because of the signature. Which you probably can't see very well in the pic.

However, I did break tha ban after all. I preordered Venom by Fiona Paul because if you did that and signed up, you could get a Venom prequel novella for free. I couldn't possibly resist that...

Also, I got this one from NetGalley because it's on my TBR list and I read some good reviews of it. Also, it was downloadable without formally needing to be requested:

Gorgeous cover, right? You can check out the blurb here.


Also, I'm really sorry for the lack of reviews lately. I hope I can get back into the swing of things next week. I've been reading a lot and I have two NetGalley reviews to write, but I've just been feeling really unmotivated and lazy. Also, university and real life (lots of concerts I'm going to, meaning my evening is full and I have no time to blog) are keeping me busy...

Oh, and while you're here - check out my giveaway for the Spooktacular Hop if you haven't already ;)

Have you read any of the books on my pile? And what was in your haul this week?