Contest

pen4hire on February 3rd, 2012

All but two of the daily winners have been announced. You can see the list of winners here. It has been quite a month. 19 people won a total of 22 books or DVDs in the “daily” drawings. 14 people started e-mail subscriptions to A Traveler’s Library. 2 people won Grand Prize Packages–And HERE THEY [...]

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pen4hire on January 13th, 2012

First, be sure to check back to the Winners page and see some names that have been added. Some won with comments, some with subscriptions and some with Tweets. Get busy with your entries because the stakes just got higher.  Besides the prizes that I am giving away each day in January, there are two [...]

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pen4hire on January 4th, 2012

CONTEST OVER (TODAY, you have a chance to win a copy of Lonely Planet’s Great Journeys, a beautiful book. See more at end of this post.) Bring on the cake! Okay, I could settle for macarons in the shadow of the Eiffel tower.

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pen4hire on November 2nd, 2011

I have continued to give away books in the 25-Free-Book-Giveaway drawings. But unless you have been checking the Winner’s page, you have missed them.  I shipped them all out on Tuesday, and have a few left that I don’t have time to have another drawing for.  So If you would like one of the following, [...]

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pen4hire on September 6th, 2011

Perhaps you have been wondering where all those books are that I’ve been reviewing since our last Giveaway? Travel Memoir, travel guides, travel literature, fiction with a sense of place, travel non-fiction, travel adventure–in short, all those things we call travel books. The usual.  They’re stacked in a box that is threatening to trip Ken [...]

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pen4hire on June 10th, 2011

Saturday, June 11 is the last chance to win a copy of this book. I am the co-author with Charnell Havens, and I will immodestly state that this is a beautiful book that tells a fascinating story of the life and work of a Navajo Artist who lived from 1917 to 1956. The book includes more [...]

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pen4hire on April 6th, 2011

  Destination: Bhutan Books: (To Be Given Away by Random Draw) Married to Bhutan: How One Woman Got Lost, Said “I Do” and Found Bliss, (NEW 4/2011) by Linda Leaming Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth (NEW 1/2011) by Lisa Napoli Two memoirs. One country. I can almost guarantee [...]

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pen4hire on February 4th, 2011

More Wandering the WWW The blog Freelancedom is running a series entitled Why I Write.  I talked about my reasons for writing in a post that went up this week. You may have guessed that it is not to get rich and famous. But my answer may surprise you.

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pen4hire on January 28th, 2011

Destination: Illinois and Oregon Book: The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha (NEW) 2010 Unlike Steig Larsson, author of The  Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, Naseem Rakha understands the demands of fiction.

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