April No Foolin' Sweepstakes! :dance:

It's time to start the ball rolling for the next sweep. I was the lucky winner of the Ring in the New Year Sweep & books are still trickling in :w00t: . Who will it be in April? I'll be drawing on the 2nd so you know there'll be No Foolin' when you receive the name.

♥.·:*¨¨*:·.♥

It's that time again, for one lucky person to be showered with books!! Rules are listed below, as taken from previous sweeps.

If you wish to participate in the April No Foolin' Sweepstakes, please sign up by posting here plus PMing me with your name and address. If you only want to send a book, you don't need to PM me with your details, but do mention it here in the thread so I can add you to the list as a sender only.

Full details are below, but in brief the way it works is like this: All names are put into a hat, the first name drawn is the Winner, the second name drawn is the Decoy. All participants except the Winner will get the Winner's name and address, while the Winner gets the Decoy's name and address. They then send one book of their choice to the "Winner".

The deadline for signups is March 31st and I will draw the names on April 2nd and have all PMs sent out as soon as I can after that. And then the fun begins—the Sweeps Winner will find his or her mailbox filled with goodies for weeks to come! :mail:

The Details and Finer Points:

1. As the organizer of this Sweeps, and the winner of the last one, I am exempt from winning and will be responsible for organizing everything and drawing the names. The winner from this Sweeps will then be responsible for organizing the next one, and so on.
   
   
2. If you'd like to enter, please reply in this thread and also PM me with your full name and mailing address.
   
   
3. If you only want to send a book, but not receive, you can sign up as send only and you won't be entered into the drawing for the winner. If you'd like to send only, please reply in this thread, but it's not necessary to PM me.
   
   
4. This is an International sweepstakes so you will be expected to ship overseas depending on where the winner or decoy is located. Please don't sign up if you can't do International shipping as it's not fair to the winner.
   
   
5. On the drawing date indicated above, I will throw all names into a hat (or whatever is handy at the time) and draw TWO names. The first name drawn will be the Winner and the second is the Decoy.
   
   
6. The Decoy's name and address will be sent to the Winner. All other participants, including the Decoy, will receive the name and address of the Winner.
   
   
7. Don't tell anyone the name you received, nor PM the winner to let them know their books are coming, lest you inadvertently discover it's YOU!! The Winner will not realize they've won until their mailbox starts getting flooded with books!! :mail:
   
   
8. The winner is free to do exactly what they want with the books they receive: read them, make them available to others, wild release them, whatever... it's their choice!
   
   
9. All genres are fair game, regardless of if you think the winner will like it or not... though it's often nicer to send them something they'll probably like than not. That's another part of the fun—getting books you wouldn't normally pick up yourself. It really opens the winner up to new stuff. Due to popular demand, the only restriction on type of book to be sent is NO Harlequins and other series romance.
   
   
10. The winner of this Sweeps will take over the responsibility of organizing and hosting the next one, in about 3 months time.
    
    
11. I will make a general announcement on the forum when the winner's name has been drawn and will then start PM'ing all entrants with the info. PLEASE DON'T SHARE THE WINNER'S NAME - LET IT BE A SURPRISE WHEN THEY START RECEIVING LOTS OF BOOKS!!!! :whisper:

Sign-up deadline is March 31st


Participants so far
* send only
still need PM with name and address

*catsalive
*CheriePie
giz-angel
zosime
terra57
terrafreaky
redhot-brat
sejent
CdnBlueRose
cheesygiraffe
Xeyra
Amberkatze
ramson
*camis
*Three
*geishabird
*elsi
*Sunlightbub
luckaye
peachy93722
VeganMedusa
Lemonitsa
GateGypsy
rootmartin
rebeccaljames
oi-reader
Tribefan
candieb
msjoanna
Apolonia
nursiegirl42
nikel27
zzz
BunnyLady
yourotherleft
*boogal
Breeze

Many thanks to CheriePie whose words I stole from the Ring in the New Year Sweep :flower:

:kiss: You're very welcome! I'm hope you're staying on top of all those books and not letting them get the better of ya! :wink: I still haven't caught up registering all the stuff that came in from when I was the winner, though the pile is slowly getting whittled down a little at a time. And that's only the stuff that didn't already have a BCID. :lol:


So anyway, sign me up this round as a Send Only! I couldn't even think of winning again, what with move time coming up in a few months, and until I get caught up on everything else here! :whip:

Me please - PMing you now

I'd like to join in! I'll PM you shortly. :)

By the way, did we ever discover who was the decoy of the sweeps cats won?

Yup, Spiderchic was and I remember she did post about it somewhere, in cat's received book thread I'm pretty sure, but between all the books cats was receiving it was probably easy to miss it. :lol:

I would love to play. Will PM you my info later... must go get dressed for the day now and head to a meeting.

Still hoping to win one of these!

Pming you now.

Put me down as send only please - even though it was over a year ago that I won, I still daren't win again :lol:

Send Only.

I'll be a sender only please!

Sending only -- and this seems to be a popular position to take. I'm guessing other people have very large TBR stacks, too!

I would like to join. PMing you with my info :bananadance:

I want to enter please! :) PMing you now!

Me, please!

I'll PM you now.

Me too Please. PM-ing you my details.

Yay! I love these things! PM on the way :)

Me please.
Send only this time :)

I'd like to enter. Pming you now. :hug:

Yes it was me!! And yes I did post somewhere.....

:spin:

Sign me up, Cats!

Please add me to the list - you have my details .... :giggle:

I'm in. Off to pm you now.

I have everyone to here :)

You'd better add me too. You have my details. :)
I'm a bit embarrassed that the book I sent you for the last sweepstakes hasn't arrived yet - I'm starting to get worried, but it should surely arrive this week.

I'm often surprised how slow post can be between us. Really, it should only take 2 days - one to fly & one to be delivered.

Please add me, and I'll PM you in a moment :)

:pm: to be added!

:grin:

So, there was a new year sweeps, and there's an April sweeps. When are the others? Seems like there's a set calendar...

I'm in! I'll PM you now.

No set calendar - just happens every 3 months or so....... winner organizes the next one and just chooses a date about 3 months from the one they won.....

Add me please. I'm sending a PM now.

I'd love to join. Sending pm :D

Please add me!

Oh what the heck... sure, add me...

I'll sign up as well.

Count me in, I'll send a pm shortly

Add me please!

I have everyone to here.

I would like to enter. pm you with my address. Nicolé

PMing you