Books by the Bridge 2017 Recap & Giveaway

This Saturday past, I had the pleasure of attend the Books by the Bridge author event hosted by Kat. T. Masen. Located in Luna Park Sydney, Books by the Bridge was a phenomenal day! I had so much fun, met amazing authors, had a fabulous lunch and of course got my books signed, while obtaining more :)

As always, I was joined by my amazing mother who helped me lug a suitcase full of books into the city so I could get my books signed and of course pick up the ones I'd preordered throughout the year.

Located inside the Crystal Palace of Luna Park, the set out was fantastic and of course the whole event was bustling all day long with raffles, giveaways and plenty of book shopping to do :)

I fan-girled something fierce over Alice Clayton who was just super nice and sooooo funny and down to earth. Totally get why her writing comes across so witty and funny--just like the rocking woman herself


With Carmen Jenner, Eden Summers, J.L. Perry, Jay Mclean, Jaymin Eve, Kat T. Masen, Kelly St Clare, Kia Karrington-Russell, KM Golland, Emma James, Nina Levine & Selina Fenech.  

I met so many amazing authors, some of which I'm met multiple times before and love *cough* Carmen Jenner *cough* and some I hadn't but whose books I love something fierce! Was so amazing to see these ladies-they all rock so much!

These are the books I took with me to get signed. All my Alice Clayton books, and a few for future giveaways (Hint....check out the bottom of my post!) as well as my KM Golland books, and Jax by J.L. Perry.

Oh, and I may have had a few to pick up/buy....but just a few ;) Sooooo much bookish goodness!

Some of the pre-orders were just so beautiful, especially Selena Fenech's whose came with beautiful handcrafted jewelry, a satin bag, notebook and beautiful calendar and Jaymin Eve's which came with rocking tote bag and t-shirt.....mind you, I did buy a lot of books from Jaymin LOL

 

And swag! So managed to amass so much swag!

 

Oh, and so many authors had these delicious bookie cookie's to give away. They're cookies, but with pretty book covers and designs on the icing. They're almost too pretty to each, but boy did they taste good. Everyone seemed to have different flavors; chocolate, vanilla, caramel, red velvet, strawberry. Yum! They were so good! 

 

So basically, I had an AWESOME DAY and to celebrate I'm going to be giving away some goodies.

 

Here's what I'm giving away:

Prize 1: A SIGNED copy of Mai Tai'd Up by Alice Clayton and swag pack (INTERNATIONAL)

Prize 2: Swag pack and canvas bag from Books by the Bridge (INTERNATIONAL)

Prize 3: 5x Picture pack with 7 pictures signed by attending authors (Australian only)

 

 

a Rafflecopter giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to Kat T. Masen for organizing this event and for all the people who volunteered and helped make the day such a success. As a reader and a book lover, events like this are so incredible to attend and allow us to focus on the one thing we all have in common....our love of books and reading!

Sydney Author Event 2014 Recap & International Giveaway

On Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the Sydney Author Event at The Ivy Sunroom in Sydney. After missing out on tickets initially, I got lucky when my friend and fellow blogger Michelle from Novels on the Run wasn't able to fly down and kindly sold me her tickets. Man, it would have been great to both go, but thanks for the chance Mich!

As normal with these kinds of events or author signings my partner in crime was my mum. Heading in to the AM session we ended up having a brilliant time. There was plenty of people there to see all the fabulous authors as you can see from the below pictures.

I got to meet some absolutely fabulous authors! I'm I've read and some who are on my massive, never endings, one-day-I'll-get-to TBR list, all of which were really friendly and welcoming I might add. They're great writers, but lovely people too. 

With C.J. Duggan, Belle Aurora, Cassia Leo & Carmen Jenner

With Pepper Winters, Samantha Young and Maya Banks

They were all so lovely to meet and were happy to sign books and anything else you wanted signed. And I made sure to print a bunch of pictures off and take to get signed for future giveaways.

Some pictures of C.J. Duggan, Carmen Jenner, Samantha Young and Maya Banks I took while they were signing.....

I was also super lucky to win a VIP upgrade and extra goodie bag as a Maya Banks VIP which was quite lovely :)

I bought a whole bunch of fabulous books from the attending authors too, all of which are signed to yours truly! Really loved the first Sugartown and Boys of Summer books--can't wait to read the rest of the series. Lots of great reading in my future I think to get through these beauties.

I also managed to snag a whole bunch of other books in the goodie backs the SAE team give away thanks to some very fabulous Aussie Publishers including Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Bloomsbury amongst others. Thrilled to get After by Anna Todd for one thing as I have a copy of the second book in the series for review, but not the first. Oh, and those Kylie Scott books you see there? Yeah, I'm totally squirreling them away to keep for the Fictionally Yours event next year :)

Check out all the awesome swag I managed to collect throughout the event. Plus I got tones of signed pictures from all the authors I'm pictured with for future giveaways!  

Overall the Sydney Author Event of 2014 was a fabulous day out! Even though I've been to tonnes of author signings, this was my first event of this scale with so many authors and publishers gathered in one place. If Saturday was anything to go by, then I can't wait for many, many more experiences like this, starting with Fictionally Yours next year!

And to cap it all off, I have an international giveaway.......

To celebrate the awesomeness that was the Sydney Author Event I'm giving away a goodie bag of swag full of bookmarks, magnets and pictures including some signed stuff from:
-Cassia Leo
-C.J. Duggan
-Pepper Winters
-Samantha Young
-Carmen Jenner
and more, to one lucky follower!

This giveaway is INTERNATIONAL and will end on To enter simply comment below with a way to contact you and how to follow The Rest Is Still Unwritten. Giveaway ends on December 22nd with the winner announced on this post and emailed afterwards!

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WINNER:

MayraWithLove--Congrats!