January Winners Announced

The Tiger’s Wife: Joni Seymor of Inventive Travelware. Joni won because of good Karma.  A new reader, she not only commented, but she also announced the Ten Best Travel Books post on the Inventive Travelware Facebook page. Congratulations, Jonie. (And check out the interesting luggage tags on her web page.)

Lonely Planet’s Great Journeys: Unfortunately the first person chosen for this prize did not respond to my e-mail within 48 hours. So I drew again. And fortunately for Kristen Gough, who writes about kids and food at My Kids Eat Squid–She won! Kristen is a faithful commenter and Twitterer. Congratulations Kristen.

Railroad Stations.  Connie Cornelius who hails from Phoenix and has a tour company, won America’s Great Railroad Stations. (sorry, I don’t link to commercial sites, but I’m sure you can find her if you google.) More good reader karma here, as Connie has become a subscriber (there’s a trend her–it pays to subscribe), tweeted, commented and has even “liked” the Quincy Tahoma Facebook page. Thanks and Congratulations Connie!

Love In a Nut Shell and A Trick of the Light audio books go to Linda Style, another Arizonan–is there a trend here?  Linda writes romance novels and was recently featured in USA TODAY! We’re proud that she’s become a regular reader and valuable commenter.

Comfort and Joy, that very funny British novel, will be bringing joy to Jeanine Barone, a fellow travel writer who is a loyal supporter. Jeanine won with a Tweet! You can catch her off-beat places and experiences at J, The Travel Authority. I am a big fan of her writing and the little-known places she shares.

Parisian Postcards goes out to Idaho to Richard Mussler-Wright, the most faithful of commenters, and also a subscriber. Yep! being a subscriber gets you an automatic entry every day. You just need to tell me one time that you want to have your subscription count. That’s because some people, believe it or not–don’t like to win things!

Casablanca DVD Set: NO WINNER YET. We did not receive a response from the first winner, and so have sent a notice to a 2nd person. PLEASE respond within 48 hours when you get a notice that you won, or I’ll have to draw again.

Good Graces: Deborah Robinson, who blogs as KoloaDeb at California Dreaming, didn’t respond in time to win the Great Journeys book, but kept on commenting, and tweeting and won this time around.

I-95 Books: Claudine Jalajas says she was planning a trip on I-95 with her family, so the gift is perfect for her.Claudine makes beautiful jewelry and blogs about her crafts and family.

The Perfect Suspect by Margaret Coel. Marcia Mayne, who blogs about travel from her part-time home in Jamaica, won this one. You can read her delightful travel blog, Inside Journeys.

Building a Fire (Cherokee art and life) will be shipped to Alexandra Grabbe, the innkeeper at Chez Sven on Cape Cod, a Green B & B. She blogs about Wellfleet, innkeeping and the environment at Chez Sven Blog.

Culture Smart China and The Song of the Silk Road go to Deborah Ryan, who won the books with a tweet (@FollowMe Travelr). You can read Deborah’s words at her travel/life blog Follow Me Traveler.

The Portuguese, A Modern History, will be enticing  Casey Barber to travel to Portugal. If she books passage, you can bet she’ll come back and tell us about the food at her wonderful food blog Good. Food. Stories. 

Seeking Sicily, will similarly be tempting Meredith Resnick to travel to Sicily. Meredith writes about psychology, adoption issues and she asks deeply intelligent questions in interviews with writers about writing at one of my favorite under-appreciated blogs on the web, The Writer’s Inner Journey. (Disclaimer: she interviewed me once, but I loved her blog even before that!)

Lights, Camera, Travel, goes to writer Mariam Marcutt. You can see the two books she and her co-author have published at their website. I love all my readers, of course, but Mariam is one of those very special readers–a new subscriber!  Thanks for subscribing, Mariam.

Etruscan Places will go, appropriately I think, to the author of European Travelista–Debbie Beardsley. Perhaps it will inspire her to explore Etruscan Italy.

On the Road to Babadag goes to a new reader this year–Davis Keeler. If you happened to miss some of his terrific comments, do a search for his name and see what he has to say.  You can also read more of his writing at his blog, Elsewhere and Elsewhen. Congrats and keep those great comments coming, Davis.

P.O. Box Love (Waiting for reply)

Meanwhile, the GRAND PRIZE WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED.

Thanks to everyone who played, and I hope that you’ll stick around and help us celebrate a bunch of good books and movies that inspire travel during 2012.

The photo used here is from Flickr with a Creative Commons license. Click on the photo for more information.  Disclaimers regarding prizes can be found on the original post about the prize offering.

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