Discovery Girls Cover Creator App Review & App + Subscription Giveaway Ends 5/28th

I remember being a young girl & begging my mother for fashion magazines. I don’t think it was so much about fashion, as much as it was a magazine that I could relate too. For my birthday one year, I received a gift subscription to a teen type magazine. Every month I anxiously waited for the magazine to hit the mailbox. When it came it, I instantly read it cover to cover!

Times haven’t changed much, but content sure has. I try an monitor what my daughter reads to ensure that the teen/tween type magazines are age appropriate for my daughter & what she can relate to.

Not only am I a huge fan of Discovery Girls Magazine, but they have recently launched a Discovery Girls Cover Creator App available on IPhone, IPad, or ITouch. Users can create a their own magazine cover with any photo from their album or take a picture with the camera.

Your favorite tween can use templates or create a magazine cover using their own design with text, drawings, or embellishments. It’s fun, easy to use, & the possibilities are endless. My daughter fiddled with my iPhone to create her own Magazine cover. It takes minutes to use & the photos can be saved to your albums, email to any account, or can be email to Discovery Girls where they can be uploaded to their Covers Made By You section.

The App can be downloaded for only $1.99 BUT Discovery Girls Magazine has graciously offered to give one of my readers their very own Cover Creator by Discovery Girls for iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch® & a complimentary subscription to Discovery Girls magazine!

If your daughter (or favorite tween) hasn’t read a Discovery Girls Magazine Issue before, she will be in for a treat. For the last 10 years, Discovery Girls Magazine has created a forum for girls to help each other and to show their readers that whatever they
might be going through, they are not alone. Discovery Girls Magazine feels it is important to give girls a voice and the opportunity to express themselves.

To Enter the Giveaway: Ends May 28th, 2012 at 11:59pm.
Mandatory Entry: Answer a simple question listed below,

Did you have a favorite tween/teen magazine you enjoyed reading as a young girl? If so, which magazine was it?
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Good Luck!!

Disclosure I was given proper measure to facilitate this review. All opinion are my own & can not be influenced in any way.

Nickel’s: “A Tale of Dissociation” by Christine Stark Review & Giveaway 4/6- 4/20

This Review & Giveaway is done by SaraLee’s Deal Steals & Giveaways.

Nickels follows a biracial girl named “Little Miss So and So”, from age 4-1/2 into adulthood. Told in a series of prose poems, Nickels’ lyrical and inventive language conveys the dissociative states born of a world formed by persistent and brutal incest and homophobia. The dissociative states enable the child’s survival and, ultimately, the adult’s healing. The story is both heartbreaking and triumphant. Nickels is the groundbreaking debut of Minneapolis-area author and artist Christine Stark.
“Christine Stark has crafted a language and a diction commensurate with the shredding of consciousness that is a consequence of childhood sexual abuse. She brings us a wholly original voice in a riveting novel of desperation and love. Every sentence vibrates with a terrible beauty. Every sentence brings the news.”
–Patricia Weaver Francisco, author of Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery
“To be taken into the mind of a child can be an enchanting adventure, but to be taken into the mind of a child who is abused, confused, and taken for granted is a lingering, livid journey. I applaud her fortitude to bring an olden–too long ignored– truth out of the darkness with blazing, innovative light.”
–MariJo Moore, author of The Diamond Doorknob
“In Nickels, Christine Stark, powerfully portrays the story of abuse and its impact on our lives. When this beautifully written and compelling story leaves, you are left wanting more. It’s riveting; a book that will capture you from the beginning and carry you through the end. Everyone should read this book.”
–Olga Trujillo, author of The Sum of My Parts
From the Reflections of America Series at Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com

Learn more at www.ChristineStark.com

Here is my thoughts on the book:

 NICKLES is told in the first person from the view of a 4 year old to start. The writer takes us deep into the dark passages of incest and abuse of a small child from her viewpoint. This was not an easy book to read yet I was compelled to finish it. This book captured me from the first page and I simply could not put it down!

 I cried, not just teary eyed, I mean I actually cried my eyes out trying to explain the book to my husband. It is not for the faint of heart or someone looking for entertainment. NICKLES takes us into the mind of a very small child and we the readers are able to see and feel how she tries to cope with the everyday tortures of abuse. I cannot recommend this for reading by people who have suffered from sexual abuse in their past. It is a dark and tormenting tale.

You can get the book here:  http://www.amazon.com/Nickels-dissociation-Reflections-America-Series/dp/1615990852

Now for the giveaway. The author is kind enough to let me give Two of my readers a chance to win a copy of NICKELS for themselves. Each winner may select printed or eBook (Kindle, Nook, or Kobo) for their copy depending on what they personally prefer. This is open to the US who are 18+. The giveaway will run from 4/6 to 4/20.  To enter just fill out the Rafflecopter form below. There are entries you can do daily for more chances to win. Good Luck & Happy Reading.

To Enter Click on link Below for Rafflecopter Form:

https://www.facebook.com/BloggingBabiesandtheBayou/app_204684816209053

Free Subscription to Better Homes & Gardens (First 7,000)

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As of right now, a little over 4,300 have been claimed. get your before they are all out. First 7,000 will receive their subscription!!

Never pay for a magazine subscriptions when you can get them for FREE!!

Amazon: Save $10 on Kindle e-Textbooks with code ETXTBOOK

Do you know someone getting ready for a new Semester, then check out this offer for a FREE $10 Kindle eTextbook Credit. This is one of my favorite parts of owning a kindle.

Enter the code ETXTBOOK on this page to apply your credit to your account. Make sure you pass this information on your friends going to school. Must be redeemed by Jan. 9th 2012.

New Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

Amazon has announced that today is the start of their Kindle Owners’ Lending Library which is free if you are a Prime Member.

From Amazon:
Dear Customers,

Today we’re announcing a new benefit for Kindle owners with an Amazon Prime membership: the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.

Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free, including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers — as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates. No other e-reader or ebook store offers such a service.

We’re adding the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to Prime membership at no extra cost — Amazon Prime remains just $79 a year, which gives you free two-day shipping on millions of products, plus unlimited instant streaming of almost 13,000 movies and TV shows.

If you’re a Kindle owner with Prime, you can start borrowing books today. If you don’t yet have a Kindle, our all-new Kindle family is available from just $79.

I’m VERY excited about this especially since you can lend as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates, but I’m even more excited about my Kindle Fire being on Pre-Order!!