FOGG (Friends of Geek Girls) Marianne and Judy have a “new” review site included in their already huge romance review site. It’s Aurora and to get the word out about the site, they’re hosting a very cool (and easy to enter) contest: 

We’re having an Aurora Reviews Awareness Promotion – win an Aurora Reviews tote bag and a $25 Amazon/BN.com GC!!

Did you know that The Long and the Short of it now does reviews for Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction?  Did you know we interview a new published author every week?  Did you know we’re actively seeking short (1000 word) juvenile fiction short stories?   

We don’t want you to miss another review or interview or author chat, so we’re holding a contest from now through July 31, 2010 to raise awareness of this new site.  What’s the prize?

A huge Aurora Reviews canvas tote bag “stuffed” with your choice of either a $25 Amazon or BN.com gift certificate!

It’s easy to enter!  Get on entry for each of the following:

• Follow our reviews blog – http://aurorareviews.blogspot.com/
• Follow our interviews/story blog – http://aurorareviewsarchives.blogspot.com/
• Join Aurora Reviews Yahoo group & post a message – http://tinyurl.com/36hupob
• Like us on Facebook -  http://tinyurl.com/yj644or
• Tweet the contest info (and send us the link).
• Blog about the contest and send us the link.

How much easier can we make this for you?

Drawing will be held on August 1, 2010 and the winner notified via email (so make sure you have an email account associated with your entries!).

Questions?  Email us at lasreviews AT gmail DOT com

Marianne and Judy

http://www.longandshortreviews.com

So … what are you waiting for? A little something for everyone. Looking for something to read? Check out the reviews. Looking to break into print? I know they’re looking for story submissions.

At long last, the plot for our next book, as provided by my seven-year-old daughter. Here’s the premise:

A girl has four (!) boyfriends:

• Two strong ones (by which I think she means jocks/athletes)
• Two nerd ones (self-explanatory)

The title for this magnum opus?

Boy Trouble

Yes, I think that (almost) goes without saying.

But seriously, this thing is going to write itself. Write. Itself.

I love this:

Okay, since I work for as a technical writer for a software company, the day job has always been a little geeky. Yesterday, it got a little more so.

Our tech writing compatriots in the Manila branch created T-shirts for all the writers. On the back are haiku-like sayings, based on job/personality (or so I’m guessing). Here’s mine:

I’m not actually sure what this says about my personality, but I like it. Other favorites include:

XML, CSS, CMS, HTML, XHTML, XSL-FO, PDF, TIFF, GIF
Alphabet soup
Makes me nauseous

Not to mention:

The haughty reviewer
Demands to see the document
I send an XML file
He has no viewer
Vengeance is mine

And of course:

Young Jedi tech writer
His mind corrupted with unstructured Frame and the madness of Word
You must unlearn all you have learned

The last gets bonus points for the Star Wars reference. Very talented, our Manila tech writers.

First, thanks to everyone who entered our book birthday zombie/cheerleader giveaway! (Wow, that’s a mouthful–hopefully not an undead mouthful.) Thanks for taking the time to enter and spread the word on Twitter and Facebook. We appreciate it.

So, we compiled all the entries and with a little help from Random.org, now have our two winners. Congratulations to:

Brianna Miller

Susan Pettrone

Brianna and Susan, we’ll be contacting you via email very soon, but if you don’t hear from us, drop us a line at geekgirlx2 @ gmail.com.

But wait, there’s more. Still in need for some great summer reading? The fabulous and funny Rhonda Stapleton is giving away all three books in the Stupid Cupid trilogy. All you have to do is get creative and provide the best “sprained wrist” story she can tell her co-workers (you’ll see what I mean when you visit her blog).