Jessica’s Reading Room is 10 Years Old!
Who would have thought my little blog would see its 10th birthday!?!?! That’s right: Jessica’ Reading Room is 10 years old today!
A lot of life has happened in that ten years and a lot of reading! I still enjoy reading and sharing my thoughts with you! I don’t have the largest number of followers, but it is not about that. It’s about sharing the book love! I wish I could be more active on Facebook and Instagram, but working over 40 hours a week can and is tiring! And lately my reading of physical books/ kindle has dropped in the past couple of months due to currently watching True Crime documentaries. You can thank The Crash on Netflix for that: I totally went down the rabbit hole with that one and watched as much as I could as the Netflix documentary was just not giving the whole story.
But back to reading…You may have seen on Instagram or Facebook but I got some very exciting book mail this week. The first novel of author JD Barker’s prequel trilogy of the original 4MK trilogy comes out in September and I received this wonderful package. Many thanks to JD Barker and his publisher Hampton Creek Press for the #bookmail!
This is a trilogy about a serial killer! The order of the trilogy is:
The Fourth Monkey
The Fifth to Die
The Sixth Wicked Child
I have only read the first two in the trilogy, and I will need to reread them so I can read the third before I get to the prequel: The First Scarlet Door. I had gotten the 4MK trilogy on Audible earlier this year in anticipation of this new book, but now having received an arc (advanced reading copy), I think my reading for the next couple of months has been decided for me!
And now………..GIVEAWAY TIME!
I will be doing a giveaway that will be on both Facebook and Instagram.
**I do have to keep this to USA only, but there will be two winners!:
The first winner will have their choice between a $20 giftcard to a online bookstore of their choice OR bookmail!
The second winner will receive the item that the first winner did not select.
The bookmail will consist of signed copies of books and books I may have read in the past. These copies are NEW.
**Winners will have to be comfortable with giving me their email or home address. Once used for the purpose of gifting the gift I will discard your personal information.
Here are the books I will be gifting: All but Isolation Junction are YA. It’s kind of funny how my first genre of choice is Thrillers, yet there are no thrillers in the giveaway…
Isolation Junction by Jennifer Gilmour (I gave four stars and it is based off of a true life escape from domestic abuse situation).
Before You Wake by Cheyanne Young (I gave this one 5 stars and it is a retelling of the movie Sleepless in Seattle. It is also SIGNED by the author!
The Years Between Us by Cheyanne Young (This one is SIGNED by the author!)
Band Geeks by Lara Hope Hayes (This one is SIGNED and she is a local to me author!)
The Chaperone by M. Hendrix (I gave this one 4.5 stars, and this is a hardback copy. This is like a YA version of The Handmaid’s Tale, and I really hope that one day the story will continue!)
There will be posts on both Facebook and Instagram for you to enter and details will be given there!
***Now, you can get a head start on the giveaway by leaving a comment on this post! I know it looks like you might not be able to but you are. You may not see your comment right away as I have to approve comments before they are posted due to extreme spam.***
Winners will be announced on THURSDAY the 23rd!
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Happy 10 years to me and let’s hope for 10 more! Happy Reading everyone!
Happy July 4th!
Happy July 4th! Enjoy today with whatever you do! I hope it includes some kind of reading…
Yesterday I was off for the 4th as working for a county since the holiday is over the weekend, we got Friday too. Even better…. This started stay-cation for me! That’s 10 days away from the daily work grind!
Beware of Scammers Pretending To Be This Site
Always be aware of scammers out there pretending to be someone else! Now this is apparently happening with scammers pretending to have something to do with this site: Three times this month I have been contact by authors emailing jessica@jessicasreadingroom.com that they received an email that they were not sure was me. I hated to have to tell of them that it was not me! And I really don’t think there is a way to prevent this. Here are the emails they forwarded. Please note that I have redacted the author’s name and their book, but kept the scam email addresses visible to be seen:
Scam Email on April 2nd:
Scam Email on April 14th:
Scam Email on April 21st:
**This is just for April and who knows how many authors have been contacted from a scammer pretending to be me. These were just the three authors who were kind enough to give me a heads up on this. I also have no idea how long this has been going on. My site is far from being a website with huge numbers that this scammers is saying.
Please always be aware of scammers! And if **I** am to email you it will come from jessica@jessicasreadingroom.com.
Take care and be careful out there!
