Zumaya Publications (where I am the submissions editor and an author) is having a month long scavenger hunt. It’s easy and fun to play, so put on your thinking caps and limber up your typing fingers. 😉
There are prizes to be won, and winning them is easy. At the bottom of this post is a list of Zumaya authors. On each of their websites you’ll find the answer to a question. Collect the answers to those questions, then go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M7C7DFG and fill in the answers. Now, a contest wouldn’t be any fun if it was too easy, so we’ve added some book and author-related trivia questions just to challenge you.
There will also be daily and weekly trivia contests, so keep an eye on Twitter and the Zumaya page on Facebook, or visit our company blog Zumaya Tales at http://zumayatales.wordpress.com/.
We had so much fun last year with a smaller version of this contest in conjunction with a chat we decided to expand it, gather some terrific prizes and give lots of people a chance to win them by running the event through the month of September.
A number of our authors have donated those prizes, and they are all related somehow to their books. How they’re related, we aren’t going to tell, beyond maybe a hint or two. We don’t want to give away all our secrets.
Once again, the way the contest works is that a group of Zumaya authors are hosting a collection of links on their blogs. There will be a question about themselves or their books, and a link to where you can find the answer. Visit all the blogs, collect the answers to all the questions, then go here, and complete the contest form.
Take your time—the Zumaya Trivia Scavenger Hunt will run through the entire month of September. You can see photos of some of the great prizes we’re giving away at http://pinterest.com/ekburton/what-do-these-have-in-common/ and http://on.fb.me/RAZ0e9. Who knows—there might even be a few books and ebooks tossed into the mix before we’re done. We’ll definitely be giving away at least one ereader, but we’re waiting for all the new models to come out before we pick those.
And remember, there will also be daily and weekly trivia contests, so keep an eye on Twitter and the Zumaya page on Facebook, or visit our company blog Zumaya Tales at http://zumayatales.wordpress.com/. If you haven’t liked the Zumaya page on Facebook, now would be a good time. We’ll also have a chat at Coffee Time Romance and more on 4 September to launch, and a couple of hangouts on Google+ over the next four weeks.
There is, of course, no purchase required, and your private information will remain between you and Zumaya. Unless we’re authorized to do otherwise, it will all be deleted when the contest ends. While we’d love it if you sampled our wares, our goal with this contest is to get to know as many people as we can, and to let them get to know us. So, welcome and have fun!
My question is: Who are two of the people mentioned in DAISY’S DIARY on my Riewriter website? The answer can be found here. If you right-click that link, you’ll be able to explore my site in a new page or tab then move on to the next participant for the next question.
Here are the links to the participants:
Rie Sheridan Rose 
9/10/12
Another gap with no posts. Sorry about that. I seem to have pinched a muscle in my back right about my left shoulder blade, and it has made doing much of anything painful. Since I am left handed, it really is impinging on my work. All varieties of it.
I haven’t punched the coloring books yet, because I am a bit paranoid about messing them up. If I can get my shoulder to behave, I’ll try tomorrow.
I did do something cool on Friday. My mother gave me a recipe that I think turned out pretty well. It’s simple enough that anyone can do it:
1 Cake mix — any flavor
1 12 oz soda — any flavor
Mix them together and pour in a 9X13 cake pan.
Bake at 350 degrees until the center of the cake springs back to the touch — about 30 mins.
That’s it. I frosted mine, but I am not sure that was a great idea. Next time I will try it without the icing.
I used Mountain Dew and a Lemon Supreme cake mix. My mother used Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper and chocolate cake. If you try it, let me know how it turned out!
That’s enough typing for now. Going back to solitaire that I can play with my right hand…