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June 30, 2006
Is Ginormous a Real Word?
Eh, what the hell? Let's just run with it anyway.
Good morning, lovely Chicklets! It's Lani, and I'm here to say, welcome to July! A month of fireworks and unbelievable humidity. The month in which both our nation, and Pamela Anderson, were born. A month perfect for backyard cookouts, mid-day tanning sessions and...
... oh, dare I say?
Beach reads.
Well, as the unofficial, uncrowned and unverified Queens of Beach Reads, the Literary Chicks are here this month to do something very special for you. In July, we're very busy little writers. We're on deadline, we have kids home for the summer and husbands who will go out and purchase golf carts if we don't watch them verrrrry carefully. Also, we have a big conference at the end of the month in Atlanta to which five of the six of us will be going. :::sniff, sniff, y'all keep Whitney company here at the end of the month::: So, it's just too busy a month for us to properly host a guest, and probably once or twice one or two of us (or five, during the last week) might miss our blogging day, which makes it a big, fat loser month on our end for keeping you, our sweet little Chicklets, properly entertained.
So, we decided to create a mass diversion via The Ginormous Giveaway! Why? Because we love you. So, to show that love, at the end of this month, we will pull the names of six lucky chicklets to receive one of the following:
The Whitney Gaskell Prize Pack: A signed copy of She, Myself & I and True Love (And Other LIes).
The Alesia Holliday Prize Pack: Signed copies of American Idle, Nice Girls Finish First, Blondes Have More Felons, Shop Till Yule Drop and The Naked Truth.
The Beth Kendrick/Killian Prize Pack: Signed copies of My Favorite Mistake, Fashionably Late, and the first book from her young adult 310 series (writing as Beth Killian), Life As a Poser.
The Eileen Rendahl Prize Pack: Signed copies of Do Me, Do My Roots, Balancing in High Heels, and Un-Bridaled.
The Michelle Cunnah Prize Pack: Signed copies of 32AA, Call Waiting and Confessions of a Serial Dater.
The Lani Diane Rich Prize Pack: Signed copies of Time Off for Good Behavior, Ex and the Single Girl, Maybe Baby and The Comeback Kiss.
So, darling Chicklets, you're probably wondering who you have to email to get in on this action? Well, that's easy. Just e-mail us with your name and mailing address (don't forget the mailing address; all entries without one are immediately disqualified) with the subject line "Ginormous is absolutely a real word" and you'll be entered to win! We'll be drawing the names on July 22nd, so be sure to get those entries in before the 21st! Good luck all!
Posted by Lani at 8:57 PM | Comments (16)
Comments
Of course Ginormous is a word! Great contest...I made sure to enter!!!
Posted by: TeresaH at July 1, 2006 6:50 AM
I love this site. I am new though, and want to enter the contest but I am not sure what your email address is. Can someone please help? Thanks!!
BY THE WAY: Ginormous is a word.
Posted by: Paula at July 1, 2006 11:38 AM
I love this site. I am new though, and want to enter the contest but I am not sure what your email address is. Can someone please help? Thanks!!
BY THE WAY: Ginormous is a word.
Posted by: Paula at July 1, 2006 11:38 AM
Ginormous is a word. As is splendiferous, fantabulous and craptacular.
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at July 1, 2006 12:13 PM
It's giveaway@literarychicks.com Just make sure you include your name and mailing address! Good luck! And yep, I am already entered!
Posted by: Sheri at July 1, 2006 2:04 PM
While it's true that both our nation and Pamela Anderson (and me!!!) were born in July, did you know that Pam is actually Canadian?
Oh. I thought that was common knowledge. Yeah, I might need to turn off E! and get outside once in awhile...
Posted by: Beth Kendrick at July 1, 2006 3:58 PM
I don't think I have ever heard the word craptacular before. That is so becoming part of my vocabulary now. Thanks Lauren!
Posted by: Christina at July 1, 2006 4:28 PM
Hey, Paula! Welcome to the L.C! As Sheri was so kind to point out, the e-mail is giveaway@literarychicks.com. But if you click on the link in the word "email" it will pop open an email for you. But you're right, I should have included it. Thanks!
Lauren - I love craptacular! I'm going to have to use that one!
Beth - I did know that Pamela Anderson was Canadian. But, she was also born in July, so she counts. You know who else is Canadian? Kiefer Sutherland. Keanu Reeves. And a ton of Canadians who aren't famous.
Posted by: Lani at July 1, 2006 4:55 PM
Hey Lani, *I* was born in July. On the 8th. And my oldest, Gretchen, was born on the 9th. What a craptacularly fantabulous birthday that was for me. Of course, it was splediferous to be set free from the hospital with my ginormous bouquet of flowers a few days later.
And GREAT contest. I'm all excited! Hey, can past contest winners win again? I got Kayla's book last week and really enjoyed it. Please let her know that she's created a new fan!!
Posted by: dee at July 1, 2006 10:04 PM
The kidlet was also born in July (although he wasn't supposed to come until the end of August).
And I now have all new living room and dining room furniture in July. It is much more ginormous than the house that is holding it, sadly. But I still love it.
Contest has been duly entered as it is *very* exciting. I have never won anything anywhere so am not holding out a lot of hope but, like my mom always says, "You can't win if you don't play."
Posted by: Dia at July 3, 2006 1:56 PM
I use the word ginormous all the time. As well as craptacular. I feel like one of the gang. ;)
Posted by: Sara Dennis at July 3, 2006 2:07 PM
Hello Ladies,
Is Ginormous a Real Word? Well for this giveaway I beleive it is. Wow I would really really love to win this. These books sound really good *Winks* Good Luck All On this wonderful Giveaway *Smils*
Happy Holidays Everyone
Linda.H.
Posted by: Linda at July 4, 2006 9:24 PM
No doubt that's a real word - it'd better be for I've been using it in conversation for a long time now. Have fun! (oh, and I entered the contest!)
Posted by: Sanjay at July 5, 2006 10:36 AM
Linda,
Ginormous is SO a real word :-)
Another real word - fantabulous! (Eddie Izzard said it, therefore it is a word. Someone might have said it before him, but if they did, I don't know it). And apparently, lovely Bill Shakespeare created a lot of words (thousands of them) which are now in common use in the English language. Who knew?
Good luck, everyone, in the contest!
Michelle :-)
Posted by: Michelle C at July 5, 2006 5:52 PM
Dee,
My birthday is 8th July, too!
Happy Birthday for Saturday!
Michelle :-)
Posted by: Michelle C at July 5, 2006 5:55 PM
They update the Oxford English Dictionary every year so if enough people start using the words they will be in !
Bec
Posted by: Bec at July 8, 2006 4:58 AM
